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Getter Rainbow...

Patterns in the "getter" of a large vacuum tube.The getter is usually some highly reactive metal like cesium, which is added to a vacuum tube as a thin coating on the glass.It reacts with ("gets") any remaining oxygen in the tube...

 

p.s. see Alan Sailer's comment below...

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Uploaded on September 29, 2011
Taken on September 29, 2011