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22 points by benbreen on Sept 25, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


If you're interested in the chemistry of Uranium, here's a do-it-yourself guide. The uranyl compounds are what fluoresce:

https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/uranium-chemistr...


there are also thorium lantern mantles.


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Oh, you're totally right. I thought I read the whole thing but somehow I skipped over that part. Deleted my comment.


But.... linear no threshold, right? /s


Oh, you and your fancy-pants-scientist jargon!




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