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5020582 No.5020582 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /sci/, could I make glowing light of sorts by putting a radioactive material ( ~ 50g uranium perhaps?) in a scintillation counter, or other liquid which creates light from alpha radiation? I figure the uranium will not be too bad for my health since it releases alpha particles. And would the liquid be lit constantly, or would the uranium not release enough particles for the light to be constant?

>> No.5020602
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5020602

>25mm
>1 in

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>>5020602

>> No.5020614

bump niggaz

>> No.5020619

Not a new idea. You can buy little tritium-based perma-glowsticks for your keychain on deal extreme. Same idea, radiation hits a flurophore and releases light.

>> No.5020645

>>5020619
Seconded. We have them in Australia. They go for at least a few decades.

>> No.5020736

Thabks for the feedback, but I would enjoy building my own, and maybe a little larger than a glow stick. Any ideas how?

>> No.5020786

>>5020736
Get a shitload of those tritium lights, put them all in a large translucent ball, hang the ball from the ceiling, curse every time you have to put a black garbage bag over it when you want to put the light out.

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>>5020786
Best idea I've heard all day.