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What is the most interesting thing I could do with this?
by cylinder 13y ago
What is the most interesting thing I could do with this?
- Osmium 13y agoWouldn't use uranium, because as another poster mentions it's more a novelty and there are better materials you could use, but you could make your own cloud chamber to observe radioactive decay with the naked eye. Makes for a really cool science demonstration :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pewTySxfTQk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pewTySxfTQk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber
- ryusage 13y agoTest your geiger counter, it sounds like. I think that's about it.
- nyarlathotep 13y agoMake a hardware RNG that's truly random by detecting the interval between decay events :)
- telephonetemp 13y ago> detecting the interval between decay events How do you do that?
- nyarlathotep 13y agohttp://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/hardware3.html http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/hardware3.html HotBits already has implemented the idea
- ChuckMcM 13y agoThere isn't a whole lot you can do with it, you are basically getting a rock. You can show it is radioactive by running a geiger counter across it. Interestingly enough the old rare earth mine in Nevada, back when it was closed and essentially "abandoned" had a variety of radioactive materials in its tailings (the most common being Thorium) we did a science trip once to grab some and figure out the various isotopes in it. If you put it in an air tight container you can collect Radon.