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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Bob kb8tq writes:

>I think it’s safe to say that the interaction between the ammonia and whatever the 
>structure is made of will be exciting on a number of levels. Corrosion is only the first
>item on a very long list ….

Just stick with a single metal and keep water away, and you should
be fine, with the footnote that amonia tends to disassociate and
the hydrogen goes into or through metals.

The simplest solution might be a dielectric-lined waveguide.

That may indeed have been what they did, because those were a
hot field of research around the same time, largely drive by AT&T
projection that they would need to install a cross-continental 2"
wave-guide using carrier frequencies up to 100 GHz to keep up with
traffic.

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