[time-nuts] Rubidium Cells for Sale ?!

[Ed Palmer]

On 2019-05-07 10:00 AM,

Bruce Griffiths<bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz>  wrote:

> As expected the seller doesn't know, but offered 2 cells for the price of one if further info on the cells he's offering can be provided.
> Determining the cell filling would likely be somewhat interesting/challenging.
> Absorption spectroscopy using a tunable ECDL comes to mind to sort out the Rubidium isotopes present.
>
> Bruce

Would it be possible to drop the cell into an existing standard and see 
what happens?  Is it likely that cells are interchangeable, assuming 
they're the same type (resonance, filter, or integrated)? Could you 
replace a resonance/filter pair with an integrated cell?

Ed