The Picard Maneuver to Just Post • 1 month agoIs this... safe?imagemessage-square86arrow-up1322arrow-down16
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minus-square@piecatlink13•1 month agoNot quite, Radioactive substances don’t actually glow visibly themselves… Uranium glass fluoresces under UV, and tritium vials and radium paint contain phosphers that convert radiation to visible light. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorescence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence
minus-squareFlying Squidlink0•1 month agoWell all I know is I could see my keychain glow in the dark and it claimed to be uranium.
minus-square@piecatlink1•1 month agohttps://sciencenotes.org/do-radioactive-elements-glow-is-radiation-green/
Not quite,
Radioactive substances don’t actually glow visibly themselves…
Uranium glass fluoresces under UV, and tritium vials and radium paint contain phosphers that convert radiation to visible light.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorescence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence
Well all I know is I could see my keychain glow in the dark and it claimed to be uranium.
https://sciencenotes.org/do-radioactive-elements-glow-is-radiation-green/
I guess whatever is in it isn’t uranium then. 🤷