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This is my element collection so far. Does anyone else do anything similar? If anyone know places to get pure element sample please let me know. Il also post close ups of any sample you want.

>> No.3302300
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>2011
>not having radioactive elements

>> No.3302322

>>3302285
Did you really feel it necessary to waste a cardboard coin flip on a post-1982 penny? (Zinc)

>> No.3302333

oxygen from decaying H2O2

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>>3302322
Its not a penny. They make a series of coins made from various elements

>> No.3302395

>>3302363
>spent $5 on 2 cents worth of copper
>laughingwhores.jpg

>> No.3302403

This is pretty neat.

>> No.3302412

Aren't there a whole bunch of elements that only exist for a split second in time?

>> No.3302418

>>3302412
Yes.

>> No.3302436

>>3302412
Basically he has no hope of obtaining anything above uranium(I'd be surprised if he obtained that due to legal reasons). Apart from americium, he's never going about 92.

>> No.3302441

>>3302436
never going over*

>> No.3302486

>>3302436
Anything over Uranium i have no hope of getting in a visible amount. For all the very short lived isotopes (actinium francium ect) I have uranium ore because it will contain trace amounts of those elements

>> No.3302503

>>3302486
You can get americium from smoke alarms. Although the isotope decay is alpha and it has a short half life(430 years). And there's only a few micro grams in each detector. Still a source of synthetic elements

>> No.3302508

Not having oxygen....

wat.jpg

>> No.3302571

>>3302508
There is oxygen in the oxygen spot

>> No.3302678

What is that in the plutonium area?

>> No.3302721

That's not Francium sitting right there, I don't believe that you have that, sorry.

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>>3302503
>Americium has a short half-life

Mfw 430 years

>> No.3302743

Might be able to get cadmium from old red paint. Also, buy a box of borax for boron.

>> No.3302747

>using currency for elements

They're never pure. Pennies made after 1982 are mostly zinc

>> No.3302748

>>3302738
430 years is pretty short in comparison to most naturally occurring radioactive isotopes.

>> No.3302746

>>3302678
I would like to know where to get plutonium as well.

>> No.3302776

>>3302748
But for his cool little collection, that is long enough. Even if he does make it an heirloom, it's not going to last 430 years before a dumbshit breaks it.

>> No.3302788

I like it OP. Keep it up and fuck the haters.

>> No.3302789

>>3302746
Your local nuclear plant might give out samples if you keep bothering the workers enough.
Once you start getting "death threats" from employees, you're golden.
They will give you a lead box with dust inside.
The dust is plutonium.

>> No.3302797

>>3302747
scrap off the surface of the penny on an abrasive surface to remove the copper and you'll get pure zinc.

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>>3302678
>>3302746
Its trinitite, the glass left over from the first atomic bomb tests. The red was caused by copper wiring from the device
>>3302721
Its uranium ore so at any given point it has a few atoms of francium
so that sample was really close to the center of the explosion and has traces of plutonium

>> No.3302812

>>3302571
but it's not pure

>> No.3302820

>>3302747

>Not seeing earlier posts in thread

>> No.3302999

So, you ruberbanddude?

>> No.3303003

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bFXTStkWPw

>> No.3303006

>>3302999
What makes you say that?

>> No.3303026

Uh what is in your tube for francium?

>> No.3303065

>>3302999
So im guessing you saw my video before you found this thread?

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Way to go, OP, Keep it up.

Read "The Radioactive Boy Scout" by Ken Silverstein, about a kid who collected radioactive elements to make a crude reactor. He got Americium by dismantling quite a few smoke detectors and Thorium from a large quantity of gas lantern mantles, the kind used in Coleman lanterns. He burned them and extracted Thorium from the ash. The story is pretty incredible, especially when the haz-mat team shows up.

>> No.3303162

unitednuclear.com for pure uranium. They used to have thorium metal pieces but I think they ran out of that.