Blu-ray rock and mineral fluorescence thread!

[rocketparrotlet]

I just tried touching my ruby while fluorescing it with the blu-ray, and it didn't even feel warm.

What power blu-rays are they using for these rubies you are talking about?

-Mark

 

[nvmextc]

I can't show a video because my camera just sees the violet to much, and goggles don't help at all. But I found a piece of rock on a construction site and bits of it glow bright orange/yellow, the rock is just some rubble from a construction site, so many different thing are in it, but one little patch has speckles that glow under BR and are unnoticeable without the light. It was a very strange find, I was bored at lunch and pointing at the ground and suddenly looked like I hit some gold, lol.

 

[suiraM]

I just tried touching my ruby while fluorescing it with the blu-ray, and it didn't even feel warm. What power blu-rays are they using for these rubies you are talking about?

Did you put the ruby in a laser cavity?

 

[rocketparrotlet]

[quote author=rocketparrotlet link=1227575076/0#16 date=1229642742]I just tried touching my ruby while fluorescing it with the blu-ray, and it didn't even feel warm. What power blu-rays are they using for these rubies you are talking about?

Did you put the ruby in a laser cavity?[/quote]

I don't even know what a laser cavity is!

-Mark

 

[mrbear]

I haven't done much UV experimentation with my rock collection, although my buddy owns a big store in Santa Monica.

You need a darkened room to really see it. Visible light will pretty much overwhelm any UV effects.

Also, there are different results for short & long UV. I'm guessing that Blu-Ray lasers are operating in the long UV wavelengths. You can find UV flashlights on the web pretty easily, but the short UV ones aren't cheap, and they can be dangerous to the eyes, skin, etc.

 

[rocketparrotlet]

I haven't done much UV experimentation with my rock collection, although my buddy owns a big store in Santa Monica.

You need a darkened room to really see it. Visible light will pretty much overwhelm any UV effects.

Also, there are different results for short & long UV. I'm guessing that Blu-Ray lasers are operating in the long UV wavelengths. You can find UV flashlights on the web pretty easily, but the short UV ones aren't cheap, and they can be dangerous to the eyes, skin, etc.

[rant]Blu-ray is not UV.

UV=ultraviolet (ultra=beyond)
Blu-ray=violet

So how can blu-ray (violet) be beyond violet?[/rant]

-Mark

 

[randomlugia]

I haven't done much UV experimentation with my rock collection, although my buddy owns a big store in Santa Monica.

You need a darkened room to really see it. Visible light will pretty much overwhelm any UV effects.

Also, there are different results for short & long UV. I'm guessing that Blu-Ray lasers are operating in the long UV wavelengths. You can find UV flashlights on the web pretty easily, but the short UV ones aren't cheap, and they can be dangerous to the eyes, skin, etc.

Have you ever seen blu-ray pics??? I've always seen it called "near UV". I gues in a way blu-ray would be extremely long UV, but so would green. :