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 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.