Bad, bad, bad idea. Those lamps are wide spectrum Mercury lamps. You would need 
a filter anyway. 

Just use the right wavelength. 365nm is invisible to the eye and eye safe. My 
355nm laser is almost completely invisible, only when it strike a target and it 
fluoresces do you see it. 

There are 365nm LEDs, they are not cheap but the longer the wavelength you get 
from 365 the cheaper they get. 
http://www.mouser.com/search/refine.aspx?Ntk=P_MarCom&Ntt=161382735

-Jerry

> On Oct 10, 2014, at 11:53 PM, Nathan McCorkle <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Jerry Biehler <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> Uv B is not eye and skin safe. 
> 
> If Paul would be able to project the UV-B onto something he wanted to excite 
> (not kids, something that would fluoresce), with some non-reflective UV 
> absorber behind... I wonder if that would be OK. They sell those bulbs for 
> reptiles, which lots of kids probably have in their rooms... but if they've 
> got it in a glass case that would likely block the UV.
> 
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