Kaistar R&D (16)

Kaistar R&D is a company that specializes in extremely high purity metals and alloys, which they make to order in their unique high-vacuum e-beam furnace. If you are a researcher in need of that kind of thing, give them a call. If you are an element collector looking for small buttons of pure metals, you're in luck: They have a collector's division. Click on the "Krdnet Supplies" tab on their website to see their current element offerings, or check out their eBay store. I visited the company in the summer of 2004 with Oliver Sacks and wrote up a story about it, which includes photographs of the incredible furnace used to produce most of the samples they sell.

Click any element tile below to get the full entry for that element, or click on the sample picture to go directly to the description of that sample.

Text and images Copyright (c) 2010 by Theodore W. Gray.
Titanium
Titanium Crystal bar
3D3D
Crystal bar.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 6 August, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 1"
Purity: 99.995%
Titanium
Titanium Water jet sign

Water jet sign.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 15 October, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 12"
Purity: 99.99%
Zirconium
Zirconium Crystal bar
3D3D
Crystal bar.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 29 October, 2004
Text Updated: 4 May, 2007
Price: $150
Size: 5"
Purity: >99.99%
Zirconium
Zirconium Etched button 1
3D3D
Etched button 1.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 29 October, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 1"
Purity: >99.99%
Zirconium
Zirconium Etched button 2
3D3D
Etched button 2.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 29 October, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 1"
Purity: >99.99%
Niobium
Niobium High purity button
3D3D
High purity button.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 6 August, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 0.75"
Purity: 99.99%
Niobium
Niobium Crystal ribbon
3D3D
Crystal ribbon.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 6 August, 2004
Text Updated: 4 May, 2007
Price: Donated
Size: 2"
Purity: >99.995%
Molybdenum
Molybdenum High purity button
3D3D
High purity button.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 6 August, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 0.75"
Purity: 99.995%
Hafnium
Hafnium High purity button
3D3D
High purity button.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 6 August, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 0.75"
Purity: 99.99% (excluding Zr)
Tungsten
Tungsten High purity button
3D3D
High purity button.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 6 August, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 0.75"
Purity: 99.995%
Tungsten
Tungsten High purity button, broken
3D3D
High purity button, broken.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 6 August, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 1"
Purity: 99.995%
Tungsten
Tungsten Single-crystal button
3D3D
Single-crystal button.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 6 August, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 0.4"
Purity: 99.999%
Tungsten
Tungsten Single-crystal button, melted
3D
Single-crystal button, melted.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 6 August, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 0.4"
Purity: 99.999%
Tungsten
Tungsten E-beam furnace cathode
3D3D
E-beam furnace cathode.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 6 August, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 0.4"
Purity: 99.95%
Tungsten
Tungsten Water jet nozzle

Water jet nozzle.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Kaistar R&D
Acquired: 6 August, 2004
Price: Donated
Size: 4"
Purity: 80%
Tungsten
Tungsten W
3D3D
W.
Source: Kaistar R&D
Contributor: Theodore Gray
Acquired: 29 October, 2004
Price: $165
Size: 1.25"
Purity: 99.99%