Timeline for Metal that glows when near pieces of itself
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| Aug 21, 2019 at 1:20 | comment | added | Richie Frame | @Mark Europium is a common component in glow paint, combined with strontium aluminate to absorb radiation and emit it at a slower rate, including UV light, also it tends to glow white or green, rather than the blue desired here, which you get from silver doped zinc sulfide. Tritium would be a poor choice here, due to chemical properties and short life, a better option would be Nickel-63, which decays to copper | |
| Aug 19, 2019 at 1:22 | comment | added | menecio | Ideally, the alien matter would be something that can be used to make swords and such by the denizens of the planet. It being metal is not a requirement. Thank you for your contribution to my question! | |
| Aug 19, 2019 at 1:10 | comment | added | Mark | Europium compounds fluoresce when illuminated by ultraviolet light, but I'm not seeing anything about it spontaneously glowing. | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 16:40 | history | edited | Lambert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 18, 2019 at 16:17 | history | answered | Lambert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |