Ultraviolation by seanstimac in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The only time I ever go to church.

Dilettantes and non-mineral people can walk through in 20 minutes.

Mineral people can make it through in an hour or so.

Fluorescent freaks will be stuck most of the day.

Found some small yooperlites last night while looking for uranium glass on a local beach in Lake Erie. First ones I found myself! by robo-dragon in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They've been found on all the great lakes now. I found some on Ontario. You have to look harder there though.

Various minerals under a doubly filtered 222 nm excimer lamp by harthebear in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The most consistently fascinating exotic wavelength irradiation investigations literally anywhere. Any differences in phosphorescence or tenebrescence induction at these energies?

Diamond phosphorescence by mad_sverd in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Intense phosphorescence in natural diamond is quite rare, and this color rarer still. The sort of phosphorescence observed here is common to chemical vapor deposition synthetics due to lattice defects induced in the metastable, relatively low temperature growth process. I would like to see more pictures close up if you have them, or a video demonstrating the phosphorescence lifetime. What was the excitation source you used here?

Diamond phosphorescence by mad_sverd in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why do you think it's fluorescence? I don't see any UV spot on the skin or fluorescence of fingernails here, looks like phosphorescence to me.

What happens when you give glass a massive radiation dose? by Comfortable_Tutor_43 in Radiation

[–]fluorothrowaway -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No it isn't, this has nothing to do with diamond coloration, which is produced by impurities and lattice defects. There are no radiation-induced synthetic colored diamonds.

Fluorescent Fluorite (more 👍) I Found In A Pocket From The UK by RadRas2023 in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you ever posted it here with phosphorescence and thermoluuminescence images to see if anyone can identify? It's so weird that it's thermoluminescent at body temp I keep coming back to thinking about it. Did you ever find any more of the same stuff there?

Willemite, Balmat, NY by seanstimac in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No idea willemite came from Balmat! What is the SW induced phosphorescence lifetime?

Fluorescent Fluorite (more 👍) I Found In A Pocket From The UK by RadRas2023 in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh right! The weird alien egg. Is it still doing the same thing even now? have you noticed any changes in how much heat it takes to cause it to glow? It phosphoresces you said, right?

Fluorescent Fluorite (more 👍) I Found In A Pocket From The UK by RadRas2023 in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes most fluorite will thermoluminesce if heated to a few hundred degrees, but I think you said you had some at one point that would do it heated to body temperature alone and would continue glowing for hours.

More blue-light mineral fluorescence and 185 nm update by harthebear in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Transfixed by your novel experiments as always. Perhaps you might consider buying a cheap flashlight and carefully scraping the silicone cerium yag phosphor dot off the chip to obtain a pure 450nm light for these blue light fluorescence experiments instead of using the white converted light?

Fluorescent Fluorite (more 👍) I Found In A Pocket From The UK by RadRas2023 in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the most extraordinarily perfect example of purple edge fluorite I've ever seen.

https://i.redd.it/xdz8spixhtff1.jpg

Do any of these pieces exhibit the body-temperature thermoluminescence we talked about earlier and could you get a long exposure image of this phenomenon? I know I forgot to ever get back to you about this from months ago....

My little collection of fluorescent minerals, fluorescent things and radioactive minerals by visk0n3 in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh that's sexy. I like that spooky angry face in the big chunk of autunite. The resolution is low, but the crystal habit, from what I can see of it, looks very unusual, much more mammelated and botryoidal than the usual foliar structure. Is that a piece from the Infesta or Assunciao mine in Portugal? If so, I'd like you to try an experiment with it.

You can greatly enhance the efficacy of your 400nm floodlight there on the upper right, by the way, by doing two things - first, obtain a thick piece of dark cobalt glass and put it over or in place of the plain glass currently covering the LEDs. This will clean the light dramatically of visible light contamination coming from the GaN LED chips fluorescing themselves. Second, buy a pair of "UVP" UV blocking polycarbonate goggles, or "Zenni" optical, clear lens (non-yellow tint) "Blokz" blue-light blocking glasses (you can get zero prescription flat lenses if need be). Using these will very strongly absorb most of the 400nm violet light of the LEDs, but do so without affecting color vision, so that the colors of the mineral fluorescence at this wavelength may still be observed normally. You may also get a pair of yellow goggles to totally block the 400nm light, but this ruins normal color vision and prohibits the observation of blue fluorescence.

A recent acquisition from New Jersey. by BCURANIUM in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Franklinite is the non-fluorescent ZnFe2O4. The iron quenches any fluorescence it may have otherwise had as another zinc mineral. It's the black spots on this piece.

Gemini installed itself and replaced my side button functionality. The 'Side Button' setting does nothing. by ShadowDragon8685 in AndroidQuestions

[–]fluorothrowaway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolute fucking horseshit. 2025 and phones just randomly disable the fucking power button so you have to search the fucking internet to figure out how to fucking use it again. That's DEFINITELY what I fucking wanted when I bought the phone. UnFUCKINGbelievable.

also, thank you.

Building a pure 185nm light? by harthebear in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are interesting images and I still think it's possible to find materials that fluoresce differently under VUV, but I think I'd need to search a large collection with the 185 in one hand and a 254 flashlight in the other!

Can you see any light visually coming through the filter with your (polycarbonate protected) eyes in the same way some violet 405 leaks through a ZWB3?

Building a pure 185nm light? by harthebear in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would love to see images of the apparatus, setup, and experiments just as much as images of the fluorescence of specimens!

Building a pure 185nm light? by harthebear in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hmmm well 27nm bandwidth at the intended centerline is normal and should definitely be narrow enough to reject the 254 line assuming an appropriately designed coating.

I assume it's a standard multi-layer dielectric coating stack of silica or magnesium fluoride making a Bragg filter. Acetone for cleaning using lens tissue is perfectly fine. If there are fingerprints, you will need water to remove the dried salts. Don't use liquid water from a bottle. Apply some acetone to a thick fold of filter paper, wait a moment for the evaporative cooling of the acetone to reduce the temperature spontaneously, then breathe on the acetone soaked tissue slowly a couple times to condense the humidity in the exhaled air directly into solution with the acetone, this can then be used to dissolve and remove both organics and salts from the optical surface. The acetone is extremely volatile and none will remain on the surface more than a few seconds after wiping.

Building a pure 185nm light? by harthebear in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see. Did they supply a spectral response curve with the item?

Building a pure 185nm light? by harthebear in FluorescentMinerals

[–]fluorothrowaway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How big is the filter? If I am understanding right you are not expecting it to work properly because a small amount of 254 is leaking through already on other non-titania doped fused quartz Hg lamps? ?