Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used Laser

Re:Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used ... by ordu on Thursday July 18, 2024 @07:43PM (#41000793)

> Using a crystal made of purified geranium, a semiconducting material, the rectifier could convert AC to DC

I like this typo.

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Re:Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used ... by Terr_ on Thursday July 18, 2024 @08:07PM (#41000910)

If you write down the exact line and column and ask them to look at it, would that make it an index of reflection?

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Re:Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widely Used ... by cybervegan on Friday July 19, 2024 @11:19AM (#41007365)

Yeah I saw that too - I'm sure they meant gerManium, but it's cool to think I could turn my geranium plant into a transistor! Of course, it would be a PNP transistor - Pink N Pretty.

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