Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:56 PM 4/24/97 -0400, you wrote: >At 10:37 PM 23-04-97 -0700, you wrote: >>For those of you that were interested, I found some. Anybody still >>interested in making uranium toner, I found a source of uranyl nitrate >>[UO2(NO3)2*6H2O]. It's $74.30 per ounce. $218.45 for 125 g. It's a little >>steep but I can get it if you want some. e-mail me privately. >> >>Jim >> >Thats sounds rediculously high. Uranium is not a very rare element. Why >should Uranyl Nitrate cost so much? When I was an undergraduate, I can >recall seeing a bottlle of the stuff in one of my physics labs. It wasn't >treated any differantly than other of the chemicals that were there, but >based on the above price, that bottle must have been worth about $1,000! > >Dan C. > > Don't ask me... there's a huge handling document with it and it has to be shipped to an approved lab. I have access to an approved lab. I suspect the EPA nazi's have driven up the price because of documentation, special handling, etc. Also this is laboratory grade stuff. As I said in a previous post, the ordinary stuff is "unobtaniun." When I was in college, we played with mercury. We coated coins, made barometers, etc. Now, if you spill a drop of Hg, the hazmat team will throw you in jail, burn your place to the ground, etc... As I said, the price is what Mallinckrodt Chemical, Inc. gets for it. It probably has no bearing on the actual manufacturing cost. Jim