Re: barium titanate doorknob caps

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

uhhh... Barium salts are, in fact,  toxic, except for some ones that are
used in GI x-rays.. Essentially, it's a heavy metal, and like lead, etc,
it's moderately toxic.  I suspect that the Barium stuff for x-rays is a not
particularly water soluble salt (perhaps it's chelated?).  Barium Chloride
and Barium Nitrate (the two that I've used...) both come with big "Toxic"
stickers on the bottles, unlike most of the other Chloride and Nitrate
salts.

I think that Be is more toxic (and carcinogenic, at least, as the oxide).
Ba is just an acute poison...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: barium titanate doorknob caps


> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
> > Keep in mind though that Barium anything (salts, oxides, nitrates etc)
are
> > very toxic.
> >
> > --jeff
>