exploding wirewound resistors

"Pure" hydrogen chloride is a gas at room temperature

You might be able to get a cylinder of it, if you knew where to ask.

It gets into the flesh and rots it. The fluorine chemists in the Melbourne University chemistry department were an unhealthy-looking bunch with a sepa rate lab up on the roof where they weren't likely to poison anybody.

Part of their emergency kits was a bunch of hypodermics loaded with some ca lcium salt which had to be injected into any fluorine burn, to lock down th e fluorine as insoluble and innocuous calcium fluoride. They weren't suppos ed to inject it themselves, but to take it over to the university hospital. The kit also included a colour re-print of a Lancet article on what happen ed if you weren't quick about - I never saw it but it seems to have been de signed to frighten the doctors into doing the right thing quickly.

I don't think we lost a graduate student when I was there.

I didn't say that it was.

But can run 10x as fast, uses much less dynamic power, and, done right, has far less jitter.

Our high-voltage pulse generators use floating BNC outputs, transformer coupled. That help for really long-distance ground loops.

There are no panaceas. You've got to think.