Re: Radium Chloride Wanted.
Bill McMurtry ( weber@powerup.com.au )
Wed, 04 Feb 1998 12:23:08 +1000
At 18:08 3/02/98 -0700, you wrote:
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave <gravman@netinc.ca>
>To: KeelyNet-L@lists.kz <KeelyNet-L@lists.kz>
>Date: Tuesday, February 03, 1998 5:52 PM
>Subject: Radium Chloride Wanted.
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>>Where can Radium Chloride be purchased from?
>>
>>Dave.
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>It requires a license. Depending upon where you live, the license is either
>issued by the State Health Department or the NRC (National Regulatory
>Commission). The rules have changed in this country greatly since the 1930's
>when radium chloride was used in luminous paints as well as medicinal uses.
>Today, it is highly controlled and very hard to get ahold of. One of the
>conditions of the license is that you provide financial assurance or a bond
>for the disposal costs involved relative to your possession of the material.
>
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>Paul Brown
>
Hi Paul and all,
Radium certainly is scary stuff. What is the active constituent in the glow
in the dark paint you buy from novelty shops - you know, hold it up to the
light, glows in the dark? You can buy this as a powder also.
While we're on the subject of chemistry, does anybody know what the clear
part of a Lava Lamp consists of ?(not the old patent brew of propylene
glycol). I assume its around 70% water but the remaining 30% is a mystery.
Bill.