<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you all very much for sharing your experience and kind suggestions! Stay well.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,</div><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Fubo Rao, Ph.D. </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Materials Research Laboratory</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">The Grainger College of Engineering<br>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>104 S. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL 61801<br>Office: 217-244-6202<br>Email: <a href="mailto:frao@illinois.edu%0b" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">frao@illinois.edu<br></span></a></span></p></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:43 AM John Nash <<a href="mailto:jcn8004@rit.edu">jcn8004@rit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">We also had a user depositing MgF2 routinely in our e-beam evaporator. Before letting them use this material, we completed a safety/process review together and confirmed that we didn’t anticipate any problems.<u></u><u></u></p>
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