Uranium Chemistry (2008)
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Uranium Chemistry (2008)
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#2Jeez, his back patio must be crazy radioactive.
For those at home, you probably don’t want to be grinding up large quantities of uranium ore on your back porch with zero PPE and no cleanup methodology at all.
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#3Jeez, his back patio must be crazy radioactive. For those at home, you probably don’t want to be grinding up large quantities of uranium ore on your back porch with zero PPE and no cleanup methodology at all.
The problem isn't so much the uranium, it's the radium that is present in the ore in secular equilibrium. During the carbonate precipitation it is separated as radium carbonate. It's worrying that the word "radium" doesn't show up once in the whole text.
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#4...because you never know when some yellowcake will come in handy?
In all seriousness - is there a practical application to producing uranium in one’s kitchen?
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#5...because you never know when some yellowcake will come in handy? In all seriousness - is there a practical application to producing uranium in one’s kitchen?
You might wish to get into the pottery business. Uranium glazes give striking oranges and reds. If you are into decorative glass, uranium salts give beautiful yellow and green shades. And it's fluorescent!
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#6Jeez, his back patio must be crazy radioactive. For those at home, you probably don’t want to be grinding up large quantities of uranium ore on your back porch with zero PPE and no cleanup methodology at all.
Uranium isn’t all that radioactive, though.
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#7...because you never know when some yellowcake will come in handy? In all seriousness - is there a practical application to producing uranium in one’s kitchen?
You might wish to get into the pottery business. Uranium glazes give striking oranges and reds. If you are into decorative glass, uranium salts give beautiful yellow and green shades. And it's fluorescent!
That fluorescence will kill you (depending on how you handled it).
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#8...because you never know when some yellowcake will come in handy? In all seriousness - is there a practical application to producing uranium in one’s kitchen?
You might wish to get into the pottery business. Uranium glazes give striking oranges and reds. If you are into decorative glass, uranium salts give beautiful yellow and green shades. And it's fluorescent!
It also apparently leaches out in contact with acidic foods.
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#9> I add bleach, stir, and repeat, dodging the cloud of chlorine gas wafting out of the bucket.
and he lived to write about it...
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#10Just don't try to fly anywhere in the USA for a while after playing around with this stuff.