Re: MnCl2 solution for MRI experiment - UK supplier?

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:44:10 +0000, Gareth Jones <gsj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in <csdul21js7olcgo68ntqdc9gkd0iipqntu@xxxxxxx>:
On 18 Nov 2006 07:12:44 -0800, "gilak" <bkasmai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was planning to prepare MnCl2 solutions with different concentrations
as reference material for measuring T2 relaxivity values for various
makes and models of 1.5-T MRI scanners. I was hoping that I could do
this on a DIY basis but now that I know MnCl2 is a poison I would
rather pass it on to the people who can deal with the health and safety
issues. It is not worth the hassle.

I can see your point, I'm just curious about the comment made by the
other poster (Dr. Reid I think) that:

I'll toss in http://www.avocadochem.com/ (as I work there!), and we have 9
grades.
*BUT* if you are not an appropiate business then don't even bother.
Absolutly no chemical supplier in the UK will supply a private individual.

I assumed he was saying no chemical supplier in the UK would supply
anything to a private individual (which is, in general, what I've
found to be the case). Rereading, he may have just been talking about
MnCl2.

Chemicals in general, as the avocadochem chap confirmed[1]. It's
all part of the general Big Brother/Nanny state that the UK, in particular,
is turning into. Ooh, chemicals! You can make drugs with them! And
trrrist bombs! Ban the lot of 'em!

An education-support group in my building has gone so far as to
produce a booklet (and DVD?) proving that many of the classic bangs-and-
stinks experiments that most teachers think are now banned on
health-and-safety grounds are, in fact, not proscribed at all. The government
doesn't have to ban them, just create a general atmosphere that That Surely
Can't Be Allowed!

If anyone knows of a chemical supplier who will supply private
individuals with chemicals (not hazardous ones) I'd love to hear about
them.

[1] Sorry, I inadvertently snipped the attribution.

--
Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
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