I am not confident that there are sources of these metal isotopes at any reasonable quantity. Actually, you might ask why they are available at all? Who needs Ni62, etc. without the others except for research labs perhaps? My guess is that another research lab produced some for their internal project and would be happy to recover some of their costs by selling it to another user. Do any of the isotopes of Nickel have a special purpose in medical or industrial applications? If not, then no one has gone to much trouble seeking a way to separate them out.
I suppose that even in the situation we are discussing, it will not be important to follow up on this potential market. That does not mean that it is not possible to do with the proper incentive. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Aug 1, 2013 5:31 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Some comments by me at Mats Lewan blog David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: Jed, is it possible that you found the cost of laboratory pure nickel isotopes instead of industrial grade? Is there such a thing as industrial grade monoisotopic material? I do not know of any industry that uses such things, except the people making nuclear weapons and reactor fuel. They don't use nickel. We all know what they use. Anyway, I think it was Jones Beene who found a recent price list. I saw one many years ago, for various elements. I don't recall which one. I converted the prices from yen to dollars and thought I must have accidentally added a couple of zeros. - Jed
