YT2095
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a rare specimen to Share with you all.
my latest Element addition, I think it`s beautiful and so I wanted to share it with you all, it`s 5 years away from being 100 years old!
and for scale:
I already have plenty sodium metal, but This... Wow! 
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DrP
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Is that sample of sodium a foil YT? Id love some sodium for my (very poor) element collection.
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Wow! It looks very pure! does the label say "February 1913"?
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Where the fuck did you find that? Incredible.
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It would seem a German sample would be labeled " Natrium". Maybe it was obtained in Germany and labeled in English? Just curious.
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YT2095
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@ DrP; it solid metal you can see close to the bottom of the vial where it`s solid, that foil looking surface is about 1/4 test tube dia thick.
@ Nerro; yes it`s Feb 1913 
@ iamthewaffler: ebay but Very expensive (worth it though).
@ Mr.Wizard; I have no idea, the picture that you see is exactly as it is.
[Edited on 24-1-2008 by YT2095]
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YT2095
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Dr.P a side View for you:
[Edited on 24-1-2008 by YT2095]
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Beatiful
Absolutely beautiful!
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Very nice!
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YT2095
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the label doesn`t say February 1913 as I thought, it Does say Germany 1913.
and just above the paper label saying Sodium on the vial "Na" is etched into the glass, you can Just about make this out in the second picture in this
thread.
either way, it`s see out 2 World Wars intact!
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I was going to buy that on ebay UK, yet it just ended a day or so ago? The post must be very quick in England (never lived there for any period of
time, so I wouldn't know!)
Very nice, you got what I wanted but was too worried about shipping to get!
Neither flask nor beaker.
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DrP
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Its a very cool sample - especially with it's history. How much did it cost?
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woelen
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YT, what a fantastic collectors item you have over there. That is the kind of things which is really beautiful. Also very beautiful to know that this
metal is almost 100 years old and still so shiny. It at least proves that ampouling in glass (provided it is done properly) is a great way of keeping
very sensitive chemicals in good condition.
The shipping also is amazingly fast. I know that seller from other auctions (I also have quite a few things from this guy) and sometimes he is REALLY
slow (> 2 months before something is shipped, after sending multiple not always so kind mails). You're a lucky guy  .
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YT2095
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Indeed!
in fact I had no idea it was the same guy that took the best part of 6 months to deliver my potassium carbonate under his old account name.
when you told me I half expected it to BE 100 years old when I received it!
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