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May 26th,1930. Dr. James E. Ives, Treasury Department, United States Public Health Service, Room 1-123 "C" Bldg., 16th Seventh St. S.W. Wash. D.C. Dear Dr. Ives: In answer to your letter of May 23rd, I am glad to advise you that we manufacture several different grades of luminous material. The only difference in these various grades is the amount of radio-active materials they contain. The base material in all instances, namely the phosphorescent zinc sulphide is the same. The radioactive paterial is incorporated with the phosphorescent zinc sulphide by wetting the sulphide and adding the radium, as the chloride or bromide, after which the radium is fixed as a sulphate and the mixture dried and screened. I trust that this gives you the information desired. Sincerely yours, Vice President HHBarker:RH

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