• @bi_tux
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      27 months ago

      it’s even glow in the dark!

      • Liz
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        57 months ago

        Don’t you be lying up in this thread! Uranium is very boring looking. Just another grey metal.

        • @[email protected]
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          37 months ago

          well yes but also uranium dissolved in glass is fluorescent

          and uranium salts are bright yellow

          • Liz
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            47 months ago

            You can get loads of pretty uranium colors in solution. I love me some chemistry, where the answer to the question “what color is it?” is preceded by “well it depends on the oxidation state…”

              • Liz
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                17 months ago

                The answer to the question is preceded by the phrase. Yeah, it was tricky grammar but I didn’t feel like trying to come up with a more clear phrasing.

                Anyway, as in “Well, that depends on the oxidation state. Aqueous +2 would give you…”

        • KillingTimeItself
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          17 months ago

          i mean technically, if you refine uranium into plutonium, and then isolate plutonium 238. It does glow.

        • @bi_tux
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          17 months ago

          but it glows in fallout );