On Sun, 19 May 2019 13:24:18 -0700, tabbypurr wrote:

You can eliminate all those with glass, vacuum & getter. Then you find
one day that the getter is oxidised & the bulb contains hydrogen.

I was under the impression that glass was impermeable even to omnipresent
hydrogen. Or is there a path via where the base pins protrude?



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