[time-nuts] Re: ammonia, cesium, masers, etc.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Sep 21 07:14:33 UTC 2021


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Dana Whitlow writes:

> My dad worked in the absorption air conditioning field using ammonia and water,
> and he once told me that ammonia-water was hell on aluminum copper points, or
> even aluminum tubing that had impurities in the form of tiny copper flakes in it.

An aluminum-copper volta-cell developers just shy of one volt, so no surprise there...

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