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		ordu on July 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inside the Three-Way Race to Create the Most Widel... > Using a crystal made of purified geranium, a semiconducting material, the rectifier could convert AC to DC I like this typo.

Terr_ on July 19, 2024 | [–]

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

cybervegan on July 19, 2024 | | [–]

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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