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Thallium metal "value"?

Dennis SK - 30-3-2012 at 07:22

Hello all.

Thallium metal are for obvious reasons quite hard to find or buy.
Its very expensive at chemical suppliers (arround 5-8000 USD/kilo in ammounts of 100grams or more)

But "in the real element collector world" how much would you charge for lets say 1 gram or 10 gram samples?

Hope to get some fair price suggestions :)

- Dennis SK

neptunium - 7-8-2014 at 11:41

according to metallium they sale 2.3 g for 95 USD! thats off the chart ridiculous !
Tl is a very hard to come by element and it may be best to isolate it yourself from its salt.
although very toxic it shouldnt be impossible to conduct an electrolysis ....

here is the link http://www.elementsales.com/pl_element.htm