[NJARC] Fluorescent coating on eye tubes

[michael s christiansen]

Very interesting! Have any of you been up to North Jersey to the Franklin
Mining Museum or the Sterling Hill Mining Museum? They have really great
displays of different types of fluorescing minerals which are basically
only found in North Jersey (I believe). I have been to both places a
couple times.  Mike Christiansen
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:45:32 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Nick Senker
<ns539 at earthlink.net> writes:
> Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
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> A great photo of willemite, the mineral used to make eye tubes 
> fluoresce can be seen at 
> http://franklin-sterlinghill.com/franklinminerals/index.shtml This 
> is where Alan B DuMont obtained the mineral for his development of 
> eye tubes in 1930 (see 
> http://home.pacbell.net/philbert/tuning_eye/tun_eye.htm click on 
> 'construction' and 'history' ).
> Nick Senker
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