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Old 01-02-2012, 08:20 PM
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You guys are describing 2 different phenomena here. 'Blue glow' on the glass of good tubes of any type are actually stray electrons striking the glass, which gives the blue light we see. The purple glow is gas ionization between gun elements, they look completely different.
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