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Anyone know the premise of this PCB assembly note?

The assembly note states: Bake bare PCBs in a clean and well ventilated oven prior to assembly at 125*C for 24 hours. Why is this necessary?
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Optimizing product tests?

I'm currently working for a company where I design and implement an automated test program to test our products. Currently our tests take quite a bit of time (several minutes per unit) and need to ...
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What are the primary industrial uses of gallium and germanium in electronics?

After the "neon shortage" struck I asked What are the ways in which semiconductor-grade neon is critical for manufacturing? and the answer(s) turned out to be quite informative. Al Jazeera's ...
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