Re: Uranium toning and printing

On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 10:29 PM, Robert W. Schramm wrote:

> All isotopes of uranium are radioactive. And, therefore all uranium
> compounds are radioactive. The reason for this is the neutron-proton
> ratio, but that is another story. U-235 is the fissionable isotope of
> uranium used as fuel in nuclear reactors and in making atomic bombs.
> Natuaral uranium is mostly U-238 with some
> U-235 in very small amounts. U-238 can be placed in a nuclear reactor
> and exposed to a strong neutron flux therein where it is transmutted
> into Plutonium 239 which is a fissionable material and can be used as
> a fuel for a nuclear reactor or for making a nuclear weapon. An atomic
> bomb is just a very, very fast nuclear reactor running with no
> controls.

To which PhotoGecko replies:

Now THAT's alternative process!

--any idea of the guide number on that flash?

I hear it contact prints in a nanosecond.

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>> From: bobkiss@caribsurf.com
>> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> Subject: RE: Uranium toning and printing
>> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:16:58 -0400
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>> HI AGAIN!
>> Again, I am asking for confirmation. I thought that one isotope
>> of Uranium (the one that was used for most uranium compounds for sale
>> to we non governmental mortals) was stable and non radioactive and the
>> other was unstable and radioactive. I seem to remember 235 and 238.
>> Is it that one cannot get a pure sample of the stable isotope so any
>> compound containing uranium would have traces of the unstable isotope
>> and be slightly radioactive? Otherwise compounds made of the stable
>> isotope shouldn't be radioactive at all. Si? No? Forse?
>> CHEERS!
>> BOB
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Received on Wed Nov 19 22:50:01 2003