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Originally Posted by knc1
[...]The real danger is from atmospheric oxygen.
If you do everything submerged in a bowl of oil (baby oil, mineral oil) -
there will be far fewer surprises (until you take things out of the oil). [...]
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But it is always such a hassle to clean all that mineral oil off your SCUBA gear when you are done. 
And before you ask, yes, I *am* a certified SCUBA diver (and certified in many other things as well, part of what keeps me alive, besides my thirst for knowledge, novelty, discovery, recognition, and mobileread karma points).
And my software runs inside machines all over the world, handling things you touch almost every day, and I had an "Industry-Wide Reputation", and my (real) name is recorded inside two Mars rovers -- but one of them got stuck and is now of severly limited utility...