The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Just Post@lemmy.world · 5 months agoIs this... safe?lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up1312arrow-down16
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minus-squarepiecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·5 months 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 Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoWell all I know is I could see my keychain glow in the dark and it claimed to be uranium.
minus-squarepiecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agohttps://sciencenotes.org/do-radioactive-elements-glow-is-radiation-green/
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI guess whatever is in it isn’t uranium then. 🤷
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. 🤷