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To: Neocon who wrote (105521)	7/15/2003 11:57:54 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Neocon; Re: "I cannot find a reference I thought I had seen to finding some of this material on the black market, so I guess I conflated expressions of anxiety with positive assertions like the one above, for which I apologize. Still, there are numerous assertions that the material was of value on the black market." You say there are numerous assertions that there's a black market value for it. Well duh. There's a white market value for it as well. Uranium would be a useful metal even if it weren't radioactive as hell. It's used as a coloring agent in glass. Here, buy some yourself: search.ebay.com If you know enough about the glass business, you would know that uranium is sought after by glass and ceramics artists as a coloring agent. Here's a reference from the best ceramics reference on the web, with formulas showing how to use uranium in your ceramics projects: digitalfire.com You would have to know the ceramics / glass community better to find someone playing with the stuff, but the above reference should give you far more evidence that this exists than you used to get us involved in the Iraq quagmire, LOL. Hell, there's a pipe-bomb making subculture in the US, why would anyone suppose that the art community wouldn't play with uranium. Also see: ... Josef Reidel is usually credited with inventing uranium glass in 1830 under the names Annagruen for yellowish-green uranium glass, and Annagelb for yellow uranium glass, naming them after his wife Anna Maria. His factory at Dolni Polubne in Bohemia, made these kinds of glass from 1830 to 1848. In 1838 the Choisy-le-Roi factory in France was producing uranium glass. In 1843 the French glassworks, Baccarat, started making uranium glass, which they called cristal dichroide and also introduced an opaque apple-green version which they named chrysoprase. ... glass-time.com In addition to its use in glass, uranium can be used as a replacement for lead in ammunition. This makes the ammunition much more dense and hard and gives it better penetration capabilities. This is not a proscribed use of the metal and is legal (as far as international law goes) all over the planet. Learn more about where uranium comes from. It may scare you, LOL: sric.org -- Carl