On 9 March 2014 09:01, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> wrote: > Much earlier, someone decided that the power unit for the 650 was of a > convenient height for drying socks. A Selenium rectifier blew out.
Not a pleasant smell (the rectifier; no comment on the socks), as anyone who's been near a cooked one will know. There are easily found refs to the increasing horribleness and persistence of the smell of certain organic sulphur, selenium, and tellurium compounds (and the near impossibility of ever knowing what compounds of the next element down the column in the periodic table - polonium - might smell like. Of course working up the column instead, DHMO doesn't small bad at all. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
