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Fluorescent Paint: "Arizona Orange", "Horn Silver Blue-Green", "Franklin Green" and "Sterling Hill Red" - UVc

 

FOV: 5" wide

 

Home made fluorescent paint made with synthesized fluorescent minerals combined with white glue and water and painted on charred wooden blocks. The glue fluoresces blue under UVa (something I didn't realize until I'd painted the blocks).

 

Contains:

Willemite (FL+PHOS Green >UVc)

Calcite (FL Red >UVc)

Sphalerite (FL+PHOS Orange, Blue-green >UVabc)

 

Shown under UVc light.

 

Key:

WL = White light (halogen + LED)

FL = Fluoresces

PHOS = Phosporescent

UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)

'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"

 

Obtained from the basement lab.

 

..Fluorescent Art\Fluorescent Paint\Blocks

 

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Uploaded on July 29, 2013
Taken on July 29, 2013