I think Nancy may be able to help me here, working at Pixie Dust Industries :)

>>Are there any books on this subject, I'd like to learn more about it :)
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>>>Sure I can explain it. The smoke is electrically charged with all 1's. When it is inside the chips the chips use it whenever they need a 1. But if the smoke gets out, then the chips have no more 1's but only 0's so they stop working correctly.
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>Nigel,
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>No books that I know of, but there are some songs, "Smoke gets in your eyes" and "On top of old smoky".