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From: rzh@lll-lcc.UUCP (Roger Hanscom)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Crystals (was Re: wireless electricity)
Keywords: crystal catwisker razor blades galena
Message-ID: <2464@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 16:56:50 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, LCC, Livermore Ca
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In <3569@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> georgep@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (George Pell) writes:
   [edited for brevity]
>Does anyone know of a source for galena crystals?  A person I 
>bumped into at a book store was looking for one, and I called
>around.  Seems that the last source known to Portland Radio
>has stopped making them.

>Am I the owner of the last galena crystal on earth??

>geo
>(only 40 and counting)

I doubt it!!  One can find galena by the ton, unless something is
done to it to alter it from its natural state to that of a
"semiconductor".  Try a store that deals in minerals or "nature".

        roger         rzh%freedom.llnl.gov@lll-lcc.llnl.gov
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