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Slanderer posted:I'm still annoyed they say that tritium capsule keychains are illegal because they're "toys", but tritium gunsights and compasses are totally fine because ???. Tritium illumination is insanely useful for so many things too (such as attaching them to your tent's zipper pull so you can find it in the dark) I bought some tritium capsules back in November from this place https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=105_34&products_id=994. They came with a keyring attached, thought it's not shown in the picture on the web site. Looks like they're sold out now though.
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Mar 2, 2023 20:38
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I'm sure I've got a tritium keyring somewhere. Probably stuck in a drawer somewhere but I remember having it for years and years and it still glowed (not brightly, but enough to find in the dark). e: Yeah, like these. Which still seem to be perfectly legal in the UK. https://edcgear.co.uk/collections/tritium-glow-fobs
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Mar 2, 2023 21:11
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https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1630790985243406336?s=20
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Mar 2, 2023 21:13
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rqwocltiIy1r0uzl6.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odlRp1vpsXk
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Mar 2, 2023 21:16
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"Customer declined all repairs"
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Mar 2, 2023 21:21
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Mar 2, 2023 21:23
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raspurtin posted:I bought some tritium capsules back in November from this place https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=105_34&products_id=994. United Nuclear is a site that some of my friends were convinced was a fed honeypot. It feels like buying anything from them will put you on a watch list.
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Mar 2, 2023 21:25
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https://i.imgur.com/K2mL9BZ.gifv
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Mar 2, 2023 21:39
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I remember this bit from Half-Life 2.
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Mar 2, 2023 22:06
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I got some tritium keychains for my partner for this last Christmas. I always get her something glowy… I’m honestly not sure where to go from here next year lol. Anyway, I bought two of these: https://tritiumkeychains.com/product/mega-tritium-fob-extra-large-tritium/ They came via Singapore Post in a couple of weeks. She LOVES them. She said it makes it so much easier to find her keys in her cavernous purse which is awesome. And yeah, it’s probably overpaying… but total $65 via PayPal for an awesome gift (2 of them) is a steal in my opinion
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Mar 2, 2023 22:13
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Is there any notable radiation risk from those? They look pretty cool and I bet my wife would like it for the same reasons.
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Mar 2, 2023 22:16
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BlackIronHeart posted:United Nuclear is a site that some of my friends were convinced was a fed honeypot. It feels like buying anything from them will put you on a watch list. Nah, they are a safe place to buy some neat stuff. But they do keep rerecords by law of what they sell and to whom. Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Is there any notable radiation risk from those? They look pretty cool and I bet my wife would like it for the same reasons. Nope. They are an https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=105_34&products_id=994 They last about 10 years or so. Tritium and Europium is being used in place of Radium for extremely long lived glow in the dark items. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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Mar 2, 2023 22:19
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Tritium is a low energy beta emitter, alpha emission would require it to gain a proton.
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Mar 2, 2023 22:21
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CommieGIR posted:Nope. They are an Alpha emitter and do not emit any significant amount of radiation, That is... a bit of a tall order for tritium... e;f;b
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Mar 2, 2023 22:22
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Tunicate posted:Deuterium is a beta emitter, alpha emission would require it to gain a proton. You mean Tritium.
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Mar 2, 2023 22:22
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Tunicate posted:Deuterium is a beta emitter, alpha emission would require it to gain a proton. True, my bad: Tritium is a Beta emitter, but its so incredibly weak it really won't penetrate far and most certainly won't penetrate human skin. quote:While tritium has several different experimentally determined values of its half-life, the National Institute of Standards and Technology lists 4,500 ± 8 days (12.32 ± 0.02 years).[7] It decays into helium-3 by beta decay as per this nuclear equation:  I was mixing up Radium's Alpha decay pattern with Tritium which is a beta decay.
CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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Mar 2, 2023 22:23
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fun party game for little kids. can play jump rope.
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Mar 2, 2023 22:25
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Cythereal posted:I remember this bit from Half-Life 2.  I instinctively started looking around for an oil drum and a chunk of plywood
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Mar 2, 2023 22:29
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United Nuclear has been selling tritium keychain things for like 20 years, i don't see how they could be illegal
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Mar 2, 2023 22:33
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BlackIronHeart posted:United Nuclear is a site that some of my friends were convinced was a fed honeypot. It feels like buying anything from them will put you on a watch list. Oh poo poo, and I bought all that uranium for my backyard breeder reactor too...
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Mar 2, 2023 22:37
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CommieGIR posted:Nah, they are a safe place to buy some neat stuff. Holy crap, I didn’t know they were that much $ at UN… seems like I got a deal then. The keychain itself is really nice looking metal. I got one green and one blue which are the colors they said glow the brightest. I just looked at them again and they’re brighter than I thought they’d be. In a fully lit room all I have to do to see them glow is cup my hands around them a little. I’m going to have to get some for myself lol
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Mar 2, 2023 22:43
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`Nemesis posted:United Nuclear has been selling tritium keychain things for like 20 years, i don't see how they could be illegal My (limited) understanding is they're illegal to sell without a specific license, which they don't generally give out for "frivolous" items, not that they're illegal to own.
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Mar 2, 2023 22:46
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senrath posted:My (limited) understanding is they're illegal to sell without a specific license, which they don't generally give out for "frivolous" items, not that they're illegal to own. Tritium keychains and Tritium is legal to own. Its not legal to SELL without a special license. There are also limits to how much of it you can stockpile, the same applies to Uranium. You can legally own non-enriched and natural uranium, but you are legally limited by the NRC General License to own less than 7kg. And you are not legally allowed to modify it (i.e. crush up Uranium or or Uranium metal and extract it.) Hell, you can legally own Yellowcake if you so choose, as long as its pre-enriched. (Yellowcake Uranium usually being the first steps after pulverizing and chemically extracting the Uranium from ore before its combined with Hydrofluoric Acid for enrichment) Hell, you can buy old Tritium exit/safety signs on ebay. I have one, they are neat, still glows well too. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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Mar 2, 2023 23:20
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Is there any notable radiation risk from those? They look pretty cool and I bet my wife would like it for the same reasons. The only radiation risk would be if you broke it open and drank it. BlackIronHeart posted:United Nuclear is a site that some of my friends were convinced was a fed honeypot. It feels like buying anything from them will put you on a watch list. To be entirely fair, they sell enough poo poo that most normal people would think are illegal to have that it would be a pretty good guess. Given you can buy enough lab glass to Break your Bad, samples of basically every element with a halflife longer than a year, enough radiation sources to calibrate the lab grade radiation meter you also bought from them, and authentic can-of-sunshine nuclear glass, I can think of a few agencies that would be interested in knowing who bought certain items from them. P.S. Trinitie is rad and everyone should own a piece.
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Mar 2, 2023 23:37
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Years ago, I had a Static Master record cleaner that used Polonium-210 to ionize the air above the record and make the dust easier to get off. Worked pretty well. I see they're still available, but hellaciously more expense than they used to be.
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Mar 2, 2023 23:44
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Deteriorata posted:Years ago, I had a Static Master record cleaner that used Polonium-210 to ionize the air above the record and make the dust easier to get off. Worked pretty well. Rad records cost a bit more, ‘tis true.
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Mar 2, 2023 23:58
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Nah most records have a little over 6 rad
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Mar 3, 2023 00:06
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I've had enough radiation at this point that the atomic tickle from a tritium keychain in my pocket is not going to matter.
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Mar 3, 2023 00:15
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yeah afaik the only radiation danger from one of those is if you like, chewed it up and swallowed it, and even in that case the swallowing a mouthful of broken borosilicate glass covered in phosphorus is still the more harmful thing
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Mar 3, 2023 00:23
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Is this an autoflogger at a BDSM party?
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Mar 3, 2023 00:24
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Thanks for the answers. I went ahead and ordered one. Was gonna order two but the subtotal was 66.60 and I just couldn’t do it. Edit:vvv Yeah I meant total. Don’t want that evil on me. Or my credit card statement. Flash Gordon Ramsay fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Mar 3, 2023 |
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Mar 3, 2023 00:25
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Thanks for the answers. I went ahead and ordered one. Was gonna order two but the subtotal was 66.60 and I just couldn’t do it. This was actually the total to ship (to Colorado at least). Not sub total.  
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Mar 3, 2023 00:40
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:
Power move. Did he take it in good humour?
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Mar 3, 2023 01:23
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raggedphoto posted:My wife is in week 14 of recovery from foot surgery, a tendon had to be tied back together after dropping a kitchen knife on her foot. A two second mistake has put her out of work for 4 months and required surgery + months of PT. I was cooking dinner tonight, whipped out the ol kitchen knife as usual, remembered your story, and slowed the gently caress down. Wishing her a full recovery.
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Mar 3, 2023 02:52
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:The truck lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, turns its wheels trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that Because it weighs 200 loving tons.
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Mar 3, 2023 02:58
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All you need is a very, very, very long lever.
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Mar 3, 2023 03:10
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Mozi posted:All you need is a very, very, very long lever. Or a fuckin Forklift Certified Dermatologist. 
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Mar 3, 2023 03:45
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I gifted a united nuclear tritium keychain for my brother who works in nuclear medicine, he taped a couple of dosimeters to it for fun and estimated "roughly 3 cGy/year at the surface" from bremsstrahlung x-rays.
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Deteriorata posted:Years ago, I had a Static Master record cleaner that used Polonium-210 to ionize the air above the record and make the dust easier to get off. Worked pretty well. Holy crap you had one of those? Applied Science did a video about how bonkers it is. To create it, they shoot some poo poo at it that transmutates the inside to Polonium 210. That way it’s never exposed to air… I’ll see if I can find the video
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