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March 24, 2006

UV Black Light Pen — Episode 3: 'Can be used to view uranium marbles'

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Hey, your guess is as good as mine.

From the website:

    Black Light Pen

    This pen comes with a black light in the cap and writes with "invisible" ink.

    Can be used to write secret messages, or to view uranium marbles.

    Works very well for travel!

$5.

[via Shawn Lea and everythingandnothing]

You know, I've been thinking — maybe it's not really Milla Jovovich running around in those spray–painted–on outfits in the new movie.

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It could be Shawn Lea in her other life.

I mean, come on: has anyone ever seen Shawn Lea and Ultraviolet in the same room?

I rest my case.

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Comments

They don't actually mean a marble made from uranium; they should have said uranium glass marbles. Uranium, or "vaseline" glass coloured by uranium oxide, which makes it slightly radioactive, and also makes it fluoresce impressively under UV light. The cheapest uranium glass is marbles; they're a good science toy along with a decent UV light. I don't know whether this pen uses a true near UV LED or just one of the older purple-with-a-bit-of-UV ones. You can get the good UV LEDs in small flashlights from various places these days; http://www.photonlight.com/ has them, for instance.

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Elements/092/index.html

Re Ultraviolet: Apparently it was gutted in the editing room, and is pretty crap in its cinematic form. Much better in the extended DVD version which we presume will be out at some point.

Also, it has nothing to do with the quite good British miniseries of the same name...
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0169501/
...except they've both got vampires in 'em.

Posted by: Daniel Rutter | Mar 25, 2006 9:32:24 AM

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