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A nice Thorium-coated kerosene-lamp mantle from the brand "Aladdin", available ... Posted by: JeremyBechen
Video duration: 166 seconds A nice Thorium-coated kerosene-lamp mantle from the brand "Aladdin", available at your local hardware store. I bought mine at Ace Hardware. Hundreds of these, purchased by a man named David Hahn, were used as a Thorium source while Hahn was a teenager. He had purified the Thorium from them to 1000+ the levels found in nature. Related: thorium, 232, gas, lantern, lamp, mantle, radioactive, radiation, alpha, beta, gamma, particle, ray, david, hahn, geiger, gammascout Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment |
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Uranium Glass Posted by: JeremyBechen
Video duration: 71 seconds This is a small sample of my china cabinet's small collection of Uranium-doped glass. It isn't measurably radioactive; more on that in the video. But it glows a brilliant fluorescent green under a UV Light. Check out my website for a brief history and further discussion of Uranium glass: http://jeremybech en.bravehost.com/rad ionuclide_collection /uranium/Uranium_Gla ss.shtml Related: uranium, glass, depression, carnival, antique, radioactive, radioactivity, radiation, 238, alpha, particle, blacklight, uv Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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Americium 241 Posted by: JeremyBechen
Video duration: 174 seconds This is a video showcasing a tiny Americium-241 matrix from deep inside a common household smoke detector. I advise you not to repeat this demonstration without the proper safety equipment and knowledge. If you've got questions that I didn't cover in the video (of which there are many), feel free to ask me about them. Comment-form is fine, but if it's extra-long, use a private message. Related: americium, 241, radioactive, radioactivity, geiger, counter, smoke, detector, ionization, ion, gammascout, rem, mrem, sievert, alpha Display Video Comments | Hide Video Comments | Add Comment Latest comments made on this video:
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By: southernrain1000. on 03 Nov 11, 23:06:08
I think the first clue that it would be radioactive would be the word THORIUM. You didn't record the ambient radiation, duh. And, more importantly, is it at a dangerous level? I doubt it. Did you know that you may have green colored glass in your home? now that is radioactive? It was Uranium oxide and legal until 1948 to use to color glass. So, if you have an old glass antique, it may be spitting out a bit of radio waves. I would not recommend breathing in the smoke from these mantles.
By: psycronizer. on 24 Oct 11, 04:34:52
what ?Only if you place it next to one of those starter cartidges for neon lights because they have Polonium which interacts with?? the Thorium... ha ha what the hell are you on about? polonium? where is the polonium? are you talking rubbish or are you actually serious?...if so...explain...I've never heard of polonium in any form inside a neon transformer
By: iToasterman. on 24 Jun 11, 05:37:15
True?
By: antiprotons. on 24 Jun 11, 05:10:45
It isn't gamma or beta, but the specific radioactivity? of the source which is the problem. My potassium salt, which I eat, emits beta radiation. I can detect 73 CPM from my can of potassium salt too. lol It is not just the radiation, but the amount and the time.
By: HexamineSmoke. on 18 Jun 11, 19:40:10
It's the radiation from the burnt mantle dust which is the? danger.
By: antiprotons. on 01 May 11, 07:33:41
lol Good job! I always wanted to run my GM over a latern mant. but I? never got the chance.
By: JeremyBechen. on 07 Apr 11, 12:32:08
It's a GammaScout handheld dosimeter.? The units it's displaying in the video are millirems, but it can also be set to display microsieverts.
By: macgyver2210. on 05 Apr 11, 04:10:55
what meter are you using? what units are those? readings in?
By: iToasterman. on 04 Apr 11, 11:22:49
no were near as dangerus as gama :s ganma knifes are worse....?
By: iToasterman. on 26 Dec 10, 17:56:30
Alpha in small doses is harmless. beta and gamma are dangerus... avoid contact with? gamma and beta rays at all costs unless you like radiation pois0ning
By: AltitudeWarrior. on 01 Dec 10, 21:31:30
Only if you place it next to one of those starter cartidges for neon lights because they have Polonium which interacts with the? Thorium... ha ha
By: walkbla99. on 24 Nov 10, 08:03:28
lulz?
By: kalfass. on 14 Nov 10, 18:05:11
cest des manchons? pour lampes aladin distribuer par pelam
By: vmelkon. on 22 Aug 10, 14:07:32
I guess they use zinc? oxide or calcium oxide. Can anyone confirm?
By: plutoniumiscool. on 29 Jun 10, 03:05:04
Most people think that these? mantles only contain a trace amount of thorium. The truth is that the ash can be made of almost pure thorium dioxide ;)
By: erjohnson227. on 20 Mar 10, 02:50:45
the number is a cummulative average over a certain time? i.e. a minute, the longer the sample time, the more accurate the average. eventually the level will become reletively constant when the sample interval is reached
By: KarbineKyle. on 22 Feb 10, 09:26:32
Nice! 5/5! Nice Gamma Scout! It measures alpha, unlike mine. Most don't. I don't have any thorium mantles. I collect radioactive materials. Inhalation is usually the worst. Also, lot of people take radiation too serious. The strongest source I have so far is a Radium disc, and it emits ~1milliSievert/hr of radiation, measuring beta? and gamma ONLY. It PEGS the needle on my CDV-7006b on X100 mode with the beta shield open. Ra-226 decays by alpha to Rn-222. The T-1/2 of Ra-226 is ~1602 years.
By: KhmerD0g. on 23 Nov 09, 13:50:08
why is the number increasing? shouldn't it be constant??
By: JaksProductions. on 30 Aug 09, 20:37:51
subbed m8 ;)?
By: crazybeavers155. on 25 Aug 09, 04:06:03
ok thanks for telling me and i dont eat? lantens =P
By: JeremyBechen. on 24 Aug 09, 16:53:10
Well, if the mantles are Coleman, odds are they're not radioactive. And even if they were radioactive, there wouldn't really be anything to worry about unless you suddenly take up the habit of eating lanterns. :P BTW, my regular gas camping lantern's mantles don't exactly smell pleasant when I burn them, I? think it just works that way, and some start out pink because of a coating of silk on the outside.
By: crazybeavers155. on 24 Aug 09, 16:08:22
my lantern is a compact lantern idk if it by Coleman but the glass says schott suprax but i use Coleman Mantles the top of the Mantle it was pink but when i bruned the Mantle it trun pink after bruning it it trun? wite. when i burn the Mantle it stinks
By: JeremyBechen. on 23 Aug 09, 22:17:53
I doubt any of the alpha or beta? radiation would pass through the glass. And the gamma radiation that comes as a byproduct of alpha emissions and of some of Thorium's daughter decay products would not even be a noticeable change above background "cosmic" radiation.
By: JeremyBechen. on 23 Aug 09, 22:16:40
The only time they're really going to hurt you is if you happened to eat them. :P And even then, they wouldn't be doing much. Odds are, your lantern probably doesn't even have radioactive mantles. Most are specifically marked as non-radioactive, and I don't think Coleman even makes radioactive mantles anymore. The box the mantles come in will ALWAYS have some sort of warning on it, or maybe even in it.?
By: crazybeavers155. on 23 Aug 09, 19:48:36
so can those Mantles harm us because now i fel like breaking my? lantern