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If Theodore Gray (the eccentric millionaire co-founder of Wolfram) doesn't have a plutonium sample in his famous periodic table, I really doubt there's any avai
by perihelions 2y ago
If Theodore Gray (the eccentric millionaire co-founder of Wolfram) doesn't have a plutonium sample in his famous periodic table, I really doubt there's any available for sale in the US, outside of NRC-regulated places. He'd had found one by now, if one existed.
Is it possible someone confused plutonium with polonium? That's the Occam's razor here.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoApparently this was the offending Plutonium purchase. https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale?srsltid=AfmBOoo5jE4XtGHbjpsQJSPgZ4FHlVh60CME-cbJPs1cuBf5S8AWsYfk https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale?s...
- perihelions 2y agoI'll be eating my hat, then; this thing is indeed real, https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/analysis-of-soviet-smoke-detector-plutonium/ https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/analysis-of-sovi... ("Analysis of Soviet smoke detector plutonium" (2017)) (and HN thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13616574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13616574 ) That analysis says these contained about 40 μCi of Pu-239, or 0.7 mg.
- mmooss 2y agoHow do we know?