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- From: Stan_Gruszka@mindlink.bc.ca (Stan Gruszka)
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Re: Glow Cubes
- Message-ID: <18847@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:08:04 GMT
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- > Mark Robert Thorson writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <72240@cup.portal.com>
- > Posted: 23 Dec 92 04:04:46 GMT
- >
- > Org. : The Portal System (TM)
- >
- > I remember reading about these things. I believe the phosphor was
- > incorporated into an aerogel, with the tritium applied as a gas
- > soaking the block. Sounded neat to me. As I recall, the big
- > advantage is much higher light output than traditional tritium-based
- > light sources. I remember about 20 years ago Edmund Scientific used
- > to sell light sources which were capsules of tritium gas internally
- > coated with a phosphor. I wish I had bought one now, but of course it
- > would
- > have decayed considerably by now (the half-life of tritium is about 5
- > years).
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- For the sake of accuracy ... the half-life is 12.3 years.
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