As a
computer engineering student, I'd have to say this is a
truism. Anyone who has been through an
electronics lab has probably had an
experience with what I learned in my first lab
class to call "
Releasing the Magic Smoke". It's the
magic smoke which causes the
ICs and
transistors to function. Indeed, you first see smoke,
then it stops functioning. (Usually. Sometimes the
smoke is
delayed.)
Now I have to figure out how
exploding transistors and
sweating transistors fit into the
picture.