Fwd: UF

[Daniel Levy]

Dear all
Several people seem interested by uranyl formate. I can't get it in europe 
but I tried the trick of Dr. Berriman described in the publication and it 
works perfectly.
Daniel
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>Subject: UF
>Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:01:08 -0400
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>Hi Daniel
>
>Say did you know you could make it yourself from UA?
>
>I couldnt get any in New Zealand -- and the imports considered uranium 
>very non-Green. So I followed some method I'd seen years before where UA 
>was exchanged to the citrate.
>
>I published my adaption and it is in the above. Try it out -- by varying 
>the amount of Formic acid you dissolve the Uranyl (hydroxide?) pellet in I 
>found I could get above even 20% solutions -- or instead have 2% Uranium 
>with minimal formic and get much higher pH -- I gave Steve Fuller some 
>images of Semliki stained with it and the surface lattice was quite 
>icosahedral -- UA trips the spikes with the acidity in the short time it 
>takes to stain them.
>
>If you have and a favourite acid invent your own stain !!
>
>Bon chance     John

Dr. Daniel Lévy
Institut Curie
UMR CNRS 168
11 rue P.M.Curie
75005 Paris, France
Phone:00 33 142 34 67 81
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Email:daniel.levy at curie.fr 
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