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Uranium Glass Marbles?

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So you think the metal will fluoresce? :-/

Btw, there were some threads about these marbles quite some time ago...
 





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you may have to wait a while for unitednuclear, though, as they just moved their location to Minnesota, and still haven't unpacked everything yet...
that said, I have bought from them in the past, and they do offer quality stuff. Never bough any uranium though.
 
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Shameless-plug ;D
If you only want a couple of marbles for your "laser-kit", instead of a whole bag-full, I make and sell "vials" which each contain (2x)-5/8" diameter Uranium-marbles, along with GITD-end-caps which will produce a nice after-glow too.
http://mysite.verizon.net/grall/darkhorsecustom/id47.html

Stonetek sells them too, in both crackled and clear:
http://stonetek.org/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=78

I have been including bonus-"loose" uranium-marbles in some of my shipments for some-time, see the begining of this thread:
http://www.laserpointerforums.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1217829875 ;) .
They are really a lot of fun.
Obligitory warning!!- Do be sure to watch for stray reflections, the beam will bounce everywhere, especially from the crackled-version.
DH
 

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Greenhorn said:
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What about pure uranium metal?!
-Mark
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I recently purchased a 1oz. piece of U-238!  Expensive, but I couldn't pass that up!  I'll be getting it soon.[/quote]

Oh, that is SO awesome! Please keep us posted on this, I'm really excited to hear how it goes! Maybe if it's cool enough, I'll buy some of my own.

-Mark
 
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Hi all,

I just bought the last 3 lots on ebay. I am willing to sell in pieces once I get them. Let me know :)
 
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rocketparrotlet said:
[quote author=Greenhorn link=1225337223/0#15 date=1225435764][quote author=rocketparrotlet link=1225337223/0#14 date=1225347536]
What about pure uranium metal?!
-Mark
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I recently purchased a 1oz. piece of U-238!  Expensive, but I couldn't pass that up!  I'll be getting it soon.[/quote]

Oh, that is SO awesome!  Please keep us posted on this, I'm really excited to hear how it goes!  Maybe if it's cool enough, I'll buy some of my own.

-Mark[/quote]

I'm sure a refracting substance, like glass, or various crystals of uranium compounds, would fluoresce better than the pure metal. I don't even know if pure uranium DOES fluoresce. But when I get it I'll post some pics or something. It is somewhat reactive to oxygen, so I won't want to keep it out of its package for too long. Maybe I'll spray it with some kind of laquer.
 
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Cyparagon said:
[quote author=Greenhorn link=1225337223/0#15 date=1225435764]I recently purchased a 1oz. piece of U-238!  Expensive, but I couldn't pass that up!
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Um... why?  :-/[/quote]


Because it was there.

Peace,
dave
 
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Got my marbles in today.  They're not quite what I was expecting (they're not cracked), but still cool nonetheless.  All marbles have a BR  shining through them (~30mW I'm guessing), and the last one also has a 50mW green...but I bet you can't tell.

I ordered a set from someone else today which are cracked, but the guy says he won't ship until Friday!!!

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Is this safe to play with. Radioactive materials are not very healthy as far as i know.
 
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ahh, the radium girls. Truly a sad story of corporate cover-ups. Well worth the time reading, for anyone interested in such things. Also note that the marbles contain probably at most 2% uranium; that's what gives it its distinctive color.
Also called Vaseline glass...I like the cake platters available on eBay :-D
 
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amihov said:
Is this safe to play with. Radioactive materials are not very healthy as far as i know.
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Yes. Natural uranium had very low radioactivity. You will NOT get radiation poisoning from uranium marbles. You also won't from a solid piece of U-238 like the one I'm getting. The half-life is 4.5 billion years - very low - and the particles emitted is non-penetrating.

Now, eating a soluable uranium compound, like uranyl nitrate, would be very, very bad, but not so much because of its radioactivity, but because it's a poisonous metal, like mercury or lead. But if you did ingest it like that, the radioactivity certainly wouldn't do you good, because the radiation, low and non-penetrating as it is, would still be in extremely close proximity to living cells.

And like the other poster said, I got it because it was there. ;D
 
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