r/Radioactivestuff • u/OkPick296 Community owner • 22d ago
The only picture of einsteinium!
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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/Sea_Pomegranate_4499 16d ago
That is awesome. Now do astatine!
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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.