Accessing Selenium salts
Accessing Selenium salts
Hi All
My Senior Science teacher has asked me to get some Selenium salts.
I have looked in Serrata and Westlab catalogues without success.
Any ideas? Please
Judy
My Senior Science teacher has asked me to get some Selenium salts.
I have looked in Serrata and Westlab catalogues without success.
Any ideas? Please
Judy
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Re: Accessing Selenium salts
Taken from Volume 2 page 217 CSIS
Selenium powder, teacher only, class 6.1 toxic
Highly toxic by all routes of exposure. Avoid inhaling or contacting fine particles with skin. etc etc etc Why would you use it, but sorry this is not much help.
I would ring Serrata, they would know more about this Selenium Powder.
Good luck
Selenium powder, teacher only, class 6.1 toxic
Highly toxic by all routes of exposure. Avoid inhaling or contacting fine particles with skin. etc etc etc Why would you use it, but sorry this is not much help.
I would ring Serrata, they would know more about this Selenium Powder.
Good luck
Regards Labbie
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Lab Manager/Lab Tech, mind reading etc etc
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Re: Accessing Selenium salts
My Senior Science teacher was absolutely flabergasted when I asked her what someone would need Selenium salts for in Senior Science.
She could not think of any dot point in the sylabus to which it would bear any revalence.
In 12 years of getting pracs for Senior Science no one has ever asked for it.
I have no idea where to get some and my question would be "is what is learnt from it worth the expence of getting it?"
She could not think of any dot point in the sylabus to which it would bear any revalence.
In 12 years of getting pracs for Senior Science no one has ever asked for it.
I have no idea where to get some and my question would be "is what is learnt from it worth the expence of getting it?"
Re: Accessing Selenium salts
Thanks fibreweb and Labbie - sounds like pretty good reasons for not finding them.
Judy
Judy
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Re: Accessing Selenium salts
ChemSupply have selenium in several forms. Selenium, black, powder; selenium dioxide; selenium standard solution (in nitric acid); and selenium mixture. The last two specify for determining nitrogen. Now if you can only get your teacher to figure out which one it is that he wants you might be able to order some in. However it is not up to you to do the thinking for your teacher. Selenium dioxide has a UN number and is Class 6, selenium standard solution has a UN number and is Class 8.
Lyn.
Lyn.
Re: Accessing Selenium salts
Thanks Lyn and also fibreweb and Labbie
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Please see attached. Some involved.
Judy
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Please see attached. Some involved.
Judy
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We are all with you Judy, your letter hit the heart hard. Life has not been kind to you. You have done so well, wish I could help you more.
Regards Labbie
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Re: Accessing Selenium salts
I had a look at my picture periodic poster from ANSTO and it shows anti-dandruff shampoo for Selenium.
Hope that is of some help
Hope that is of some help
Re: Accessing Selenium salts
Watch the spoof movie "Evolution", where Head & Shoulders Shampoo saves the world, because of it's selenium content. We actually showed it (once) at the end of term, with a question sheet!
Cheers, K
Re: Accessing Selenium salts
yep! Anti-dandruff shampoo is a source of selenium..
and I'll give you a tip - a lot of vets prescribe a selenium shampoo for dogs that have skin allergies. I have given up paying extra money for the vet product and buy the old fashioned dandruff shampoo instead, and I have found it is BRILLIANT at a flea wash!
shows how toxic it is when those little jumpers curl up and die and drop right off the hair..
AND my dog doesn't have dandruff
and I'll give you a tip - a lot of vets prescribe a selenium shampoo for dogs that have skin allergies. I have given up paying extra money for the vet product and buy the old fashioned dandruff shampoo instead, and I have found it is BRILLIANT at a flea wash!
shows how toxic it is when those little jumpers curl up and die and drop right off the hair..
AND my dog doesn't have dandruff
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Re: Accessing Selenium salts
Kinda scary thinking about what we put on ourselves without really knowing... So glad I don't use this product!