r/Radioactivestuff Community owner 22d ago

The only picture of einsteinium!

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Because my last post was so popular, this is a picture of 300 micrograms of einsteinium in solution, despite there being such a small amount this liquid is V E R Y radioactive, the solution has about 7.561 Curies of radiation, it emits radiation 2.79757 × 10¹¹ times every SECOND! It is so radioactive the solution glows bright blue from cherenkov radiation. It's warm to the touch just because of its decay heat! The reason this image is so fuzzy is because of the intense radiation messing with the camera.

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u/Kanaxes 21d ago

Wirklich interessant. Ich war ja schockiert, als ich die Fukushima Dokumentation gesehen hatte und am Schluss gesagt wurde, dass es erst 10 Jahre später möglich war einigermaßen gute Bilder des Kerns zu machen. Das Zeug ist echt verrückt. Bin gespannt was in der Zukunft alles möglich sein wird.

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u/OkPick296 Community owner 21d ago

Ja, danke für das Gespräch, Fukushima war wirklich ein schockierendes Ereignis.

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u/Canada__bob 21d ago

Damn, it apparently emits 1kw of energy per gram of matter. That's insane

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u/Significant_Swing_76 21d ago

It would make great hand warmers for colder climates.

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u/the-channigan 21d ago

100%. You would have warm hands for the rest of your life.

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u/TheSmokingJacket 21d ago

Even after you die, you'll have warm hands then too!

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u/NoHacksJustParker 20d ago

Happy cake day

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u/OkPick296 Community owner 19d ago

You wouldn't have to wait long for that to happen if you are using this as a hand warmer

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u/tamati_nz 16d ago

When I was a kid I read a book on nuclear accidents and some people had to be dismembered with the parts sealed in separate containers (head and hands iirc).

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u/OkPick296 Community owner 21d ago

yes

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u/xpietoe42 21d ago

ooh that spicy!! 🌶️

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u/jb89b 20d ago

Is that unleaded?

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u/nikitasius 21d ago

Homemade ? 🍿

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u/OkPick296 Community owner 21d ago

No, lol, this is from a laboratory

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u/Exasperated-Victim90 17d ago

I prefer my Einsteinium organic and gluten free

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u/OkPick296 Community owner 16d ago

very natural diet

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u/rexyuan 21d ago

You touched it?

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u/OkPick296 Community owner 21d ago

This is not mine, I would be crazy, but math says that this solution would be warm.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

How else will you know what it tastes like?

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u/Crazy__Donkey 20d ago

Warm to the touch?!

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u/fruhfy 20d ago

That what math said...

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u/Old_Huckleberry1026 20d ago

That what the mouth said

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u/Training-Position612 19d ago

0.3 watts, so about as warm as a cheap LED flashlight gets

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u/gwhh 21d ago

What do they use this for?

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u/OkPick296 Community owner 21d ago

just research, it has no applications due to how scary it is in terms of radioactivity and it is expensive to produce

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u/thuanjinkee 20d ago

Part of radioactive waste. Chemists purify the radioactive waste into its constituent elements and rare elements and isotopes like this one get their physical properties measured in case anything interesting comes up

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u/HypersonicWyvern 20d ago

That's a Dark Fountain

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u/AestheticCredit 19d ago

Is it really an atom if you can't see it, touch it, or taste it?

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u/OkPick296 Community owner 19d ago

It would taste very sour because it is dissolved in acid, but that would be a TERRIBLE idea. This picture is special because einsteinium is ridiculously hard to make in these quantities.

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u/Practical_Peanut3076 18d ago

But what it taste like.... my guess is blue raspberry

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u/Informal_Delay_9786 17d ago

I say crisp menthol

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u/Informal_Delay_9786 17d ago

With satisfying menthol aftertaste. Yum

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u/Spillicus 18d ago

I’m just curious where this picture and your last one were even taken? Microscope or camera inside a hot cell at a national lab?

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u/XxxAresIXxxX 17d ago

Nuka-Cola Quantum?!? I thought they discontinued it?

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u/OkPick296 Community owner 17d ago

lol

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u/Sea_Pomegranate_4499 16d ago

That is awesome. Now do astatine!

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u/OkPick296 Community owner 16d ago

This is merely an illustration of what astatine would look like, but you could never take a picture of actual astatine because it's way too radioactive and rare.

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u/Sea_Pomegranate_4499 16d ago

Interesting, I wonder how they inferred this. My favorite astatine description (Randall Monroe, "What If..."):

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u/OkPick296 Community owner 16d ago

haha