Re: Xenon flashlight bulb bypass capacitor?

From: John Woodgate (jmw_at_jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:44:50 +0000

I read in sci.electronics.design that Guy Macon <_see.web.page_@_www.guy
macon.com_> wrote (in <10vnh8nis3p7835@corp.supernews.com>) about 'Xenon
flashlight bulb bypass capacitor?', on Sat, 29 Jan 2005:
>John Woodgate wrote:
>
>>Xenon lamps and halogen lamps are not at all the same thing. Xenon is a
>>dense inert gas, which allows a higher filament temperature to be
>>achieved without excessive evaporation of the filament. Halogens are
>>highly reactive elements, and in a tungsten lamp set up a transport
>>mechanism whereby filament atoms that escape from the bulk filament are
>>returned to it.
>
>(Smacks self in the head) D'oh! I have no idea why I gave an answer
>appropriate for Iodine after reading the word Xenon. Brain fart, pure
>and simple. (hangs head in shame)
>
If it had been krypton, you would have been just one position out in the
Periodic Table.

Table, of course, is quadrivalent, so the formula for the Periodic Table
is Table(IO4)4. 

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