At 12:00 am 26/11/2005 -0500, you wrote: > Now Mr. WholeHam, if you're not nice I might do a search on > the vortex list and see who else uses some of the unique features > of your posts... I am legion, of course, or so it seems to > the internet.
Talking of searches, I was interested to find that a hohlraum is a piece of scientific equipment. ============================================ Definition of hohlraum A laboratory device to produce blackbody radiation. Consists of a closed metal tube, blackened on the inside, with a narrow slit cut into one of the flat ends. On heating the tube the radiation escaping from the slit is virtually identical with that expected from a blackbody. ============================================ One learns something new every day on Vortex 8-) Frank Grimer