![]() The samples (except gases) weigh about 0.25 grams each, and the whole set comes in a very nice wooden box with a printed periodic table in the lid. At some point their American distributor sold off the remaining stock to a man who is now selling them on eBay. Up until the early 1990's a company in Russia sold a periodic table collection with element samples. Here is the company's version (there is some variation between sets, so the pictures sometimes show different variations of the samples): Or you can see both side-by-side with bigger pictures in numerical order. You can see photographs of all the samples displayed in a periodic table format: my pictures or their pictures. I have two photographs of each sample from the set: One taken by me and one from the company. To learn more about the set you can visit my page about element collecting for a general description or the company's website which includes many photographs and pricing details. Max Whitby, the director of the company, very kindly donated a complete set to the periodic table table. They sell a very nice element collection in several versions. It was donated by the extremely kind Max Whitby of the The Red Green & Blue Company, which sells a complete collection of elements. In fact, it was in the very last group of elements I was able to acquire to complete my collection. I mean really, where's the fun in that? Here's a picture of the set: It even proudly claims to contain "no dangerous or explosive chemicals". Modern chemistry sets are pretty wimpy, but I have to say that, aside from the uranium ore and the radium, this set is pretty tame as well. I'm listing the strontium bottle mainly because I don't have any other good samples of strontium yet.Īccording to the book's table of going rates for these things, I got a good deal on the chemistry set, though it is not in perfect condition and is missing some components. It's an "ATOMIC ENERGY" set (that kind of thing was big in the '50s), but it also includes an assortment of standard-issue chemistry set chemicals. This bottle is from a 1950's chemistry set I got on eBay after consulting this trusty reference book about radioactive collectables. Strontium chloride from old chemistry set. Not to be confused with our tritium glowing samples, which use the radioactive decay of tritium to glow for 10 or 20 years without any external input whatsoever. I got a sample of three different colors on eBay: The seller offers larger quantities and different formulations besides what he sells on eBay. It definitely works very nicely in that capacity, and can be charged in just a few minutes under fluorescent light. It's a very good glow-in-the-dark material, of the type you expose to light to charge up. This is strontium aluminate activated with europium. But like cobalt and cesium, its name is unfairly tarnished by a few bad isotopes: Ordinary strontium is not radioactive, nor is it especially toxic. Strontium is an element that sounds scary, probably because of its association with nuclear fallout. My periodic table poster is now available! Facts, pictures, stories about the element Strontium in the Periodic Table
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