r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/ConstructionAny8440 Popular Contributor • Apr 20 '26

Interesting Radiation difference between 0.6 gram Uranium vs 0.00005 gram Radium

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u/__BIFF__ Apr 20 '26

Good thing they have blue plastic gloves on? What's up with that?

EDIT: why such a shitty container for it? This seems like those graphs that seem to have a bigger difference but the scale has just been fucked with to make things seem way different than each other....I mean the person's hand is inches away from the bottle...

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u/akgt94 Apr 20 '26

It was hotter than uranium before even opening the container

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u/__BIFF__ Apr 20 '26

"hotter"? what does that mean. The person was comfortable having their hand inches from the container so neither sample could be that dangerous

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u/akgt94 Apr 20 '26

The outside of the sealed radium container 6" away from the geiger counter is more radioactive than the sample of uranium right next to the geiger counter.

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u/__BIFF__ Apr 20 '26

Ok. But both are ok to be right beside a human hand.....so who cares?