title: Ultraviolet Light and Fluorescent Minerals: Understanding, Collecting and Displaying Fluorescent Minerals
author: Thomas S. Warren
description: This book has been prepared to meet the often-expressed need for a broad and accurate introduction to the fluorescent-mineral hobby. The subject matter is intended to complement, rather than duplicate other recent texts on mineral fluorescence and differs from them chiefly in offering information not only on the minerals themselves but also on the nature of ultraviolet light, the lamps used to produce it, and useful techniques for collecting, learning about, and displaying fluorescent minerals. The agents that cause minerals to fluoresce and those that act to prevent it are explained as well. Some of this information has never before been presented in non-technical fashion and thus may be of interest not only to beginning hobbyists (our intended audience), but also to more advanced collectors.
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  DAVID CYCLEBACK
  ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT 
  AND ITS USES
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  Ultraviolet light and its uses
  1st edition
  © 2018 David Cycleback & bookboon.com
  ISBN 978-87-403-2198-2
  Peer review By Dr Catarina Amorim DPhil (Immunology), MSc (Science Communication).
  Linacre College, Oxford University
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  ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT AND ITS USES
  Contents
  4
  CONTENTS
   
  About the author 
  7
  1 
  Introduction 
  8
  1.1 
  Introduction to book 
  8
  1.2 
  Safety precautions 
  9
  1.3 
  Acknowledgments 
  9
  2 
  What is ultraviolet light? 
  10
  2.1 
   Introduction to the nature of ultraviolet light and light 
  10
  2.2 
   The different categories of ultraviolet, including blacklight 
  13
  3 
   Your first tool for this guide: a blacklight 
  15
  3.1 
  The blacklight 
  15
  3.2 
  Buying your blacklight 
  16
  3.3 
  Quiz questions 
  18
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