• @bi_tux
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    28 months ago

    it’s even glow in the dark!

    • Liz
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      58 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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        38 months ago

        well yes but also uranium dissolved in glass is fluorescent

        and uranium salts are bright yellow

        • Liz
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          48 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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              18 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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        18 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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        18 months ago

        but it glows in fallout );