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Europium based Glow Powders

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Hon1nbo
Sat Mar 20 2010, 09:20PM Print
Hon1nbo Registered Member #902 Joined: Sun Jul 15 2007, 08:17PM
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Hi all,
I recently received some Aqua Europium based glow powder from United Nuclear and have been playing around with it, and so far it has proven a lot better than other types of glow powders I have used.

I also was looking into getting some liquid for use in a crude dye laser, but after hearing about someone making coca-cola Lase, I started to wonder: can a powder based solution lase? I doubt it could, but I do wonder.

even if it cannot lase, which would not surprise me, I want to make some solution anyways for fun to see what all I can do, but it is hard for me to tell if this stuff would be safe in alcohol.

I mainly got it for artistic purposes (paint a canvas with it, and draw on it in real time for performance art) but I'd like to know what all I can do with it.

-Jimmy
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EEYORE
Sat Mar 20 2010, 10:02PM
EEYORE Registered Member #99 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 06:10PM
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I use it as a night light!
Matt
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IntraWinding
Sun Mar 21 2010, 08:02AM
IntraWinding Registered Member #2261 Joined: Mon Aug 03 2009, 01:19AM
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Find out what it's made of, perhaps from the material safety data. I doubt it will glow in solution though.
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Conundrum
Sun Mar 21 2010, 11:32AM
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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incompatible with water. i also tried it with silicone and nada.
it does however work well in Epoxy and Shapelock.

maybe mix into some cyano based UV glue and make a thin plate of it? just a thought.

btw it works best if thoroughly dried in an oven before use to drive out all remaining absorbed water.

EDIT: or vacuum evaporate?
-A
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mikeselectricstuff
Tue Mar 30 2010, 10:21PM
mikeselectricstuff Registered Member #311 Joined: Sun Mar 12 2006, 08:28PM
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If you haven't already, check out glow powder with a blue (ex blu-ray) laser.
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Hon1nbo
Wed Mar 31 2010, 03:00AM
Hon1nbo Registered Member #902 Joined: Sun Jul 15 2007, 08:17PM
Location: North Texas
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mikeselectricstuff wrote ...

If you haven't already, check out glow powder with a blue (ex blu-ray) laser.

that was the first thing I did, and it was pretty dang cool!

as for using a solution, I know that some solution is supposed to work, I just don't know exactly what but I decided to just use it for the Canvas Performance Art that I planned on originally
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Conundrum
Sat Jun 05 2010, 12:26PM
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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spin coat it (use the long cure epoxy) onto a flat sheet?

-A

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