Reddit won't let me upload the image of it, but it is roughly 2.5 cm, and its from Luciteria. A sick sample, but I never really get around to putting ice to it.
Pure White Phosphorus contained in an ampoule and encased in Lucite.
At around 7 bar chlorine can exist as a liquid at room temperature.
Only about 1ml of bromine. One of my favorite elements out of the 79 pure samples I own. With very gentle heat this ampoule can “rain” bromine
Got some more interesting items - this one I especially love.
Around 50mm long, 9mm in diameter and weighs almost 35 grams. Would recommend to anyone wondering what element to get.
Also, it's my first actual hafnium sample! Before that, I only had a gram of turnings and a plasma cutter nozzle assembly.
Always just thought that silicon was a pretty cool metal with its luster and weight, so this is a really nice sample from Luciteria.
Originally bought from JDchemist in good condition.
Now that 10 years have passed, some phosphoric acid has accumulated, and a really acrid odor is slowly leaking out of the vial.
I've got no plan for resolving this cause it's only 1 gram and I'm not well versed in the chemistry of phosphorus.
If you're gonna buy RP buy it in an ampule so it will last long-term.
In your opinion what is the most premium feeling element? not about price, but how it feels to hold it and the texture.
Some more of my unique samples I have, from here on I’ll prob just post individually cause some are kinda lame.
Sources:
Teflon cube - Luciteria
Liquid chlorine- Backyard Science 2000
Bromine - eBay seller
Iodine - JDChemist (granular) & Luciteria (pellets)
Ammonium bromide and cesium iodide - Onyxmet
Apparently, Theodore Gray has a sample of polonium deposited on gold foil. Does this look real? If the container holding it broke, or even worse, you touched it, would you be in serious danger given the lethal dose is around 50 nanograms? Finally, wouldn't this sample not last very long given the half-life of 138 days?
I'm looking to try to buy 1.5"(38.1mm) unengraved cubes (I already have tungsten and titanium) but after hours of searching I've only managed to find a copper, aluminum, and iron cube. The remaining ones I'm hoping be able to find and purchase are chromium, molybdenum (maybe), bismuth, and zinc. Is it likely I might just have to get them custom ordered/machined? My only concern is the price being very high for the custom ones.
Here's a podcast about how Luciteria started and the business of selling elements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3YMSldKCxg
Hi fellow collectors!
I finally got in some new element cubes again:
Arsenic
Cesium
Mercury
Gadolinium, Terbium & Dysprosium
Antimony & Tellurium
I’m really happy with the looks of all in general, except for the antimony. The engraving of this cube is different from all other cubes ordered at Luciteria, and therefore doesn’t really fit in with the rest of the cubes. Maybe in the future I’ll have to order another one with the original engraving style.
I love the looks of both cesium, with its golden hue, and mercury. Mercury is much heavier than the cesium cube and it is honestly a bit frightening holding such fragile glass cube filled with mercury.
The arsenic cube is in perfect shape, because it’s glued to the bottom of the ampule to prevent damage during shipping.
