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Amazon.com is selling Uranium Ore (amazon.com)
20 points by abhishekdelta on Oct 10, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 18 comments


It's so low-radioactivity that it's license exempt. The warning labels are just for novelty.

You probably have a more radioactive americium source in each of your smoke detectors than in that entire jar.


Here's another classic. A 55 gallon drum full of personal lubricant: http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Natural-Water-Based-Lubricant-...


I mean, it's just rocks from the ground right? "Radioactive Ore Sample (NORM) Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials"

amazon comments are gold though.


What is the most interesting thing I could do with this?


Wouldn'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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber


There 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.


Test your geiger counter, it sounds like. I think that's about it.


Make a hardware RNG that's truly random by detecting the interval between decay events :)


> detecting the interval between decay events

How do you do that?


http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/hardware3.html

HotBits already has implemented the idea


If you really want to get on the NSA's list, pick up this Thermite Kit:

http://www.skylighter.com/mall/product-details.asp?id=2540


That is great stuff! :-)


I just love how it's categorized under "Occupational Health & Safety Products."

Does this mean I can list my chloroform under the "Cosmetics" category too?


The reviews are where the real fun is at.


Might I recommend you also add a banana slicer to your cart?

http://www.amazon.com/Hutzler-571-Banana-Slicer/dp/B0047E0EI...


And now I'm probably on some watch list.


I'm really enjoying the comments.


"I bought this to power a home-made submarine" :P




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