On April 13, Peter Joules wrote:
> > http://www.neurotica.com/sem/images if you're interested. The blown
> > tungsten lamp filament pics are filament-1.jpg and filament-2.jpg.
>
> That's amazing. I take it that the crystals had grown on the filament
> during the life of the bulb had they? Does anyone know the mechanisn for
> this?
It is my understanding that those crystals grew during the
"flameout" of the filament.
I spent a solid six hours one night going over that filament. I
wish Polaroid 550PN film wasn't so damn expensive. I need to build a
digital imager for my microscope.
-Dave McGuire
Received on Fri Apr 13 2001 - 15:21:25 BST