Book review: Electronic Circuits for All
... Diode D2 is designed for instantaneous discharge of capacitor C2 when the “correct” code is dialed. ...
may be misinterpreted to mean that a special diode got designed for the circuit. More likely though, the word “in” or — lengthier — “into the circuit” is missing between “designed” and “for”, the diode being a dead common 1N4004 (!) as revealed by the referring schematic.
In another place I saw two diodes, three resistors and a capacitor described as a “chain of elements” when a “network” is probably meant. Here, a case of hyper formal language which is not wrong per se but really unwanted and possibly confusing as there is no such thing as a chain structure in that circuit.
All’s not well with the layout or pagination either. The index at the end if the book proved erratic on three of ten terms I was trying to find information on.
That said, once you are accustomed to, and aware of, the occasional oddity with the tech-language

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