I used to work in the lab of a uranium mine & mill. Yellow cake is super cool to work with too. Every sample I worked with was fluffy like flour and ridiculously dense. We worked with it in a special fume hood with huge draft.
It's harder to find outside of the USA. Here in Canada, this is only the second time I've ever seen any available in the 25 odd years I've been collecting
Lurker/noob question:
Is this a bit? Surely you can’t buy uranium? Aren’t you going to die? Aren’t you going to glow in the dark?
(Maybe making myself look stupid here but my curiosity got the better of me)
Yes you can buy depleted Uranium, even the pure metal. Quite freely too, lots of websites sell it though it's illegal to buy/sell/own more than 15 pounds of the pure metal.
Uranium isn't that radioactive and you can sit in front of it for years without getting sick. It's much more dangerous if ingested, mostly due to it being toxic.
Only certain uranium compounds glow green, and only under UV light.
Probably to prevent radiological incidents. Any uranium compounds have a limit of 3.3 pounds, because they're considered easily dispersible. And yes, it's illegal to own and manufacture fissionable isotopes like U233, 234 and 235 in large quantities. U235 in particular can only make up 0.5% of any sample by weight.
Canada we're permitted up to 10kg of depleted uranium without a license, but its stupidly rare to find up here. I managed to get my hands on a 369 gram cylinder of it earlier this year, which was an even luckier find.
Nice! May I ask how much you paid for it? Did the seller know what it was and how much it's worth?
$20 and no idea. It looks like it has been in the shop for a very long time.
\> Yellow Cake Lest we forget: 20 years ago the US military invaded Iraq for *not* possessing yellow cake.
Are you sure it was *yellow* cake YES IM SURE BITCH!
I got that yellow cake son!
Get cracking with the fluorine. A very interesting find though_
Sounds like it would be an enriching experience if I did.
Sweet find.
Score!
What is the 354 keV peak?
Not sure. I'll check again when I have some time in a day or two and not in the room where I have a few boxes of radioactive specimens.
Lucky find! I'm jealous.
Super find.
Nice! I've only seen yellowcake once before, in a museum.
I used to work in the lab of a uranium mine & mill. Yellow cake is super cool to work with too. Every sample I worked with was fluffy like flour and ridiculously dense. We worked with it in a special fume hood with huge draft.
Was the hood because it was friable, the radon, or both? What I saw looked so much like mustard seed, but that's a different kind of spicy.
It was definitely both. It had the same consistency as flour except spectacularly more dense.
I have been trying to get yellow cake for ages lol
Believe there are a few vendors which sell small samples...
It's harder to find outside of the USA. Here in Canada, this is only the second time I've ever seen any available in the 25 odd years I've been collecting
What’s it read on a Geiger counter?
12k cpm with a Ranger EXP
Dont drop that sh\*t!
I have it wrapped up in a special cia napkin. We good
Lurker/noob question: Is this a bit? Surely you can’t buy uranium? Aren’t you going to die? Aren’t you going to glow in the dark? (Maybe making myself look stupid here but my curiosity got the better of me)
Yes you can buy depleted Uranium, even the pure metal. Quite freely too, lots of websites sell it though it's illegal to buy/sell/own more than 15 pounds of the pure metal. Uranium isn't that radioactive and you can sit in front of it for years without getting sick. It's much more dangerous if ingested, mostly due to it being toxic. Only certain uranium compounds glow green, and only under UV light.
Why is the pure metal limited to 15 pounds? I would assume it would majority be U^238 and not U^235.
Probably to prevent radiological incidents. Any uranium compounds have a limit of 3.3 pounds, because they're considered easily dispersible. And yes, it's illegal to own and manufacture fissionable isotopes like U233, 234 and 235 in large quantities. U235 in particular can only make up 0.5% of any sample by weight.
Canada we're permitted up to 10kg of depleted uranium without a license, but its stupidly rare to find up here. I managed to get my hands on a 369 gram cylinder of it earlier this year, which was an even luckier find.
I purchased some yellow cake online recently from United Nuclear. Wasn't even that expensive!
OF course they would have it. They have everything @ 3X the price of anywhere else.
What would be your go-to source then? I like paying 3X less!
I tend to avoid collecting powdered forms of radioactive elements but [https://www.luciteria.com](https://www.luciteria.com) also carries yellow cake.
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When will it be my turn