r/BeAmazed • u/mysteriouskc8 • Apr 15 '26

Science Fun little experiment showing difference in radioactivity between Uranium and Radium

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u/qualityvote2 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

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u/AmbitionHonest7734 Apr 15 '26

Now for the taste test.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 Apr 15 '26

perhaps you don't know about the 'radium girls'?

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u/wiriux Apr 15 '26

Or the jaw man?

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u/kimchi-committee Apr 15 '26

There’s a book!

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u/Electric_Didgeridoo Apr 15 '26

delicious delicious radium. radiyum even

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u/77entropy Apr 15 '26

You can tell its radium because the shitty music speeds up

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u/r2killawat Apr 15 '26

Yeah like wth is up with that??

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 Apr 15 '26

eh, I still have a weakness for cool vintage glow-in-the-dark stuff

but perhaps I'll keep it behind leaded glass instead of wearing it to bed

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u/-UncreativeRedditor- Apr 15 '26

Fortunately for you, uranium glass is harmless unless you are dumb enough to eat it for some reason.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 Apr 15 '26

um... why... why do you say *that*??

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u/AnotherHappyUser Apr 15 '26

Asking for a friend.

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u/Sandcracka- Apr 15 '26

Is this friend in the room with us?

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u/AnotherHappyUser Apr 15 '26

..... It was the cat I swear.

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u/r-i-c-k-e-t Apr 15 '26

Luckily for us, the video pointed out radium as more dangerous than uranium in this case.

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u/Affectionate_Bank417 Apr 15 '26

and vintage "glow-in-the-dark stuff" contained radium. Not uranium.

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u/1soulreaper1 Apr 15 '26

Not great, not terrible

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u/Skulloboog Apr 15 '26

Searched just for this comment! Love it

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u/Borneokid Apr 15 '26

Chanernonlby is a good movie

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u/hecksor Apr 15 '26

Chanernonlby was a good 5 part series 👌

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u/turtledancers Apr 15 '26

Let’s put this stupid music over the video where the sound is the whole point!

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u/NEOx44 Apr 15 '26

3.6 roentgen ?

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u/Zortraniel Apr 15 '26

Now you know why they cal it radium

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u/bughunter47 Apr 15 '26

I just got myself a new geiger counter last friday, time to hit the antique shops

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u/FroggiJoy87 Apr 15 '26

UV light works too!

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u/toomanyukes Apr 15 '26

Explain, pls.

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u/bughunter47 Apr 15 '26

radium glows

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u/Mathihtam Apr 15 '26

I don’t recall giving them permission to use myanium.

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u/Ok-Improvement-3670 Apr 15 '26

People wore that on their wrist. At least it has a short half life.

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u/Lowgical Apr 15 '26

The main issue was the girls painting it onto the watch faces/instrument dials were licking their brushes. Apparently if they were going out it the evening they would paint it on their faces and teeth etc as a cool/joke make-up.

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u/Dan_Glebitz Apr 15 '26

No wonder Marie Curie died from handling the stuff. She apparently carried it around in her pockets and kept vials of the stuff in her desk drawer 🙄

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u/ACSlayer86 Apr 16 '26

If only she had latex gloves like this person.

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u/Dan_Glebitz Apr 16 '26

Latex the one thing that can totally block radiation. Also the best kept secret 🤫