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Adding a radioactive check-source, like a thorium welding rod, may produce some interesting results. ;)
by Toast_ 9y ago
Adding a radioactive check-source, like a thorium welding rod, may produce some interesting results. ;)
- lucb1e 9y agoPeople often bring up bananas as everyday radioactive objects. Would they even show up if you hold one next to the tank?
- Toast_ 9y agoI think you'd have better luck with potassium salt, but trying different things out is the fun part.
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoI've a cheap Geiger that can detect alpha, beta, and gamma. Bananas do nothing that my detector can measure.
- gus_massa 9y agoFrom https://xkcd.com/radiation/ https://xkcd.com/radiation/ * Eating a banana: 0.1 µSv * Background daily dose: 10 µSv The calculation is probably more complicated, but as a back of the envelope estimation I expect that a banana increase the background radiation in a 1%: So it will be difficult to measure with a cheap equipment just counting the number of detections. [If your device can measure the energy of the particles, perhaps you can see some peak?] [If you log all the event for a day, with and without a banana, perhaps the 1% difference is statistically significant.]
- danesparza 9y agoI'm curious -- what kind of interesting results should we be on the lookout for?
- Toast_ 9y agoMore whispy-lines. https://youtu.be/ZiscokCGOhs?t=1m36s https://youtu.be/ZiscokCGOhs?t=1m36s
- danesparza 9y agoI gotta admit that is pretty dang cool. Thanks for the video!
- Toast_ 9y agonp. Nuclear science is pretty cool.
- al2o3cr 9y agoWe had a chunk of old-school Fiestaware for demos in the physics department; lots of short-range clouds boiling off the surface in the cloud chamber. Glazed with natural uranium oxide... o_O
- Toast_ 9y agoIt's crazy to think about how many radioactive sources we come into contact on a day-to-day basis. I mean, thorium toothpaste was a thing. http://biohazard1780.tripod.com/id53.html http://biohazard1780.tripod.com/id53.html