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Yes, actually $30k per gram!
To put that into perspective: if you think gold is worth a lot, it's around $40.70 USD per gram as of now (April 28th, 2016)
That puts tritium's value at 737 times more than our precious gold!
So this stuff has been around for quite a while as a constant light source, and I thought I'd check out a tiny amount to see what it's like. Picked up two tiny 0.65*6.6mm vials, one green and one blue, for ~$6 each. These tubes have an insanely small fraction of a gram of tritium, and is probably more comprised of the phosphor that makes it glow rather than the actual tritium itself.
Tritium itself is a radioactive isotope, but a quantity this low will most likely produce less radiation than your cell phone, although since it does have a radioactive signature it was given a customs check. Lucky for me, it looks like it went through.
Check it out!
Here are the containers it came in:
Compare to a standard Aixiz focus ring:
The glow they produce:
Blue on the left, green on the right
It was really hard to get the shot of them in the dark, I had to add a bit of light to give my camera something to focus on. So, a bit washed out, but not entirely inaccurate at all.
They glow more than an un-charged GITD object, but less than a charged GITD object. A bit in the middle.
To put that into perspective: if you think gold is worth a lot, it's around $40.70 USD per gram as of now (April 28th, 2016)
That puts tritium's value at 737 times more than our precious gold!
So this stuff has been around for quite a while as a constant light source, and I thought I'd check out a tiny amount to see what it's like. Picked up two tiny 0.65*6.6mm vials, one green and one blue, for ~$6 each. These tubes have an insanely small fraction of a gram of tritium, and is probably more comprised of the phosphor that makes it glow rather than the actual tritium itself.
Tritium itself is a radioactive isotope, but a quantity this low will most likely produce less radiation than your cell phone, although since it does have a radioactive signature it was given a customs check. Lucky for me, it looks like it went through.
Check it out!
Here are the containers it came in:
Compare to a standard Aixiz focus ring:
The glow they produce:
Blue on the left, green on the right
It was really hard to get the shot of them in the dark, I had to add a bit of light to give my camera something to focus on. So, a bit washed out, but not entirely inaccurate at all.
They glow more than an un-charged GITD object, but less than a charged GITD object. A bit in the middle.
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