I've been doing some "real" research this afternoon.
Firstly - presumably you've heard about this:
Well, I thought OsO4 is probably nothing too nasty - so I turned up this:
To decipher that I turned up this:
and
so we're safe at 0.006mg/cu m. So how many cu m in a tube carriage 4eg
By my reckoning 144 cu m in a victoria line carriage
So that means, to achieve a concentration of 0.012mg/cu m 1.728 mg
Surely it must be hard to come by - being a member of the platinum type elements? (see how much I've learnt today).
Apparently it's used in university albs as a fixative for samples for electron microscopy by aberdeen, bristol, oxford,
glamorgan, the ich at ucl, imperial. It's also an industrial catlyst.
ship to the uk - with preferential pricing for orders of 30 grammes and above. The cost is about $33 per gramme. $946.50
would buy you 30 g which, according to
www.xe.com comes out at £515.27. Of
course you probably need some kind of permit.....
So £515 would buy you 30000mg OsO4 which, iirc is 17,361(.111111) victoria line carriages worth.
I love the internet - it's so educational!! This is the first time I've enjoyed maths since primary school ("Osama
is a despot with a grudge against the west. Osama has $20,00 dollars. OsO4 costs $33 per gramme, fertilizer costs $5 kilo...)
Yours, planning to walk home,
Emma :>