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From: thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: boiling water with mains current (was Re: Zap, fry, and sizzle)
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Date: 27 Feb 90 03:09:46 GMT
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> Also, steam vaporizers, usually used in a sick child's room, operates
> like this.  There are two bare electrodes inside that boil the water.

In the one which was used when I was a child, I remember my mother having
to take the thing apart and clean it because it kept getting caked with
metals and salts from the water.

                         - tom
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