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Dan Vizine
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Public Service Announcement - Uranium
I am in no way connected to the following wesite, but after a drought that seemed interminable, United Nuclear finally has Uranium metal back in
stock. It's only the second time in my history of checking that it's been there. So, for those interested in U while it can still be traded, $20/g
shipped is a good deal. You do have to buy at least 3 grams, though.
[Edited on 14-4-2014 by Dan Vizine]
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blogfast25
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Get it now before they get raided again! 
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MrHomeScientist
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One step ahead of you! I would have had it yesterday but nobody was around to sign for it. Should be in today!
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blogfast25
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What do you plan to do with it?
Insert photos here.
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copperastic
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dang it. My dads at work so i probably wont get any. By the way its jumped to 50$.
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Dan Vizine
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Fret not Copperastic,
The price didn't jump. It's $49 for a min of 3 grams plus $10 postage (give or take) so that's $20/g in lots of 3 grams, or, $60 if you prefer.
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aga
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Strange. I would like some, but cannot understand Why.
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HgDinis25
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I would definitely love to get my hands on some, but I'm in Europe.
Oh, btw, by reading this post, this video popped in my head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRdZouC7CRo&list=UU8rrF2J...
Just posted it out of curiosity...
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copperastic
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Oh yeah Dan. I didn't read close enough.
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MrHomeScientist
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Got my 3g of uranium metal today! Here are some photos for your viewing pleasure.
  
Photo 1 is fresh out of its packaging - it's shipped in a sealed, argon-filled pouch inside a plastic bottle. Photo 2 is after depositing it in its
display vial filled with mineral oil. Photo 3 is another angle, where you can see that from some angles at least, it's actually quite shiny. Looks
like pretty good quality metal! It's also amazingly dense; about the same as mercury!
I don't have any plans for it, though. I wanted it as a display sample for my element collection. If anyone knows of any particularly interesting
experiments to perform, though, I'd be interested to hear them!
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Bezaleel
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Video - quite irresponsible to neutralise an acid uranium solution with carbonate outside of a fume hood, if you ask me. Personally, I really don't
want any aerosoles in my environment of an element that is both highly toxic and radio active.
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hyfalcon
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I would be willing to bet that that's pure 238 so it's not really radioactive. It takes a good concentration of 235 before the sample becomes
dangerous. Toxicity aside of course. I'm like you though aerosoles of any kind floating around needs to be contained in some way.
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HgDinis25
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Actually, in my opinion, it is best to work outside with a good respirator than in your fume hood. The aerosoles outside could be easily dissipated by
wind and atmosphere (and the quantities would be to small to make any environment impact) and you would always be protected by a mask. Now in you're
fumehood, you could start to get tiny amounts of residue there, something I wouldn't like.
But, like hyfalcon stated, it's probably the common 238 anyway, already present in a lot of rocks, in small quantities. I wouldn't call it more
dangerous than mercury.
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Pyro
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first:
then:
and finally:
good enough blogfast?
EDIT: at Hg's request this has turned into a political statement 
[Edited on 16-4-2014 by Pyro]
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HgDinis25
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Pyro, you could also include some pics of the fission chamber and your neutron donator. Also, be sure to post afterwards pictures of the explosion
site.
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deltaH
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Actually, it shares a near identical density to gold or tungsten, both of which are far denser than mercury, but don't go getting any funny ideas now
[Edited on 16-4-2014 by deltaH]
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MrHomeScientist
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My mistake, I thought mercury was ~19g/cm3. It is indeed almost identical to gold in density.
By the way, that graphic of the "ground zero ocean" is absurdly big. The Chixulub crater from the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs was nowhere near
that big, so nothing manmade could even come close to that. A crater like that almost seems like an event that'd make another moon...
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HgDinis25
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MrHomeScientist , feel the power of a good expensive nuclear weapon xD
Now seriously, probably he used 4 or 5 in strategic places to whipe off the peninsula...
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Quote: Originally posted by Bezaleel  | | Video - quite irresponsible to neutralise an acid uranium solution with carbonate outside of a fume hood, if you ask me. Personally, I really don't
want any aerosoles in my environment of an element that is both highly toxic and radio active. |
This nut has been discussed earlier. It gets much worse as the video goes on.
@Pyro: what's your point and what is the first photo about? MrH S is correct about the size of that fictitious crater.
| Quote: Originally posted by HgDinis25 | | But, like hyfalcon stated, it's probably the common 238 anyway, already present in a lot of rocks, in small quantities. I wouldn't call it more
dangerous than mercury. |
MrH S: does the sample come with a specification? Natural uranium is not particularly dangerous either. Beware as always of particulate matter.
[Edited on 16-4-2014 by blogfast25]
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The Volatile Chemist
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Funny, their site's down now. Bob Lazar probably got himself arrested again...
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Pyro
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the first picture is money as you would need shitloads of money to realize this, the last pic is more of a joke.
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The Feds are now frantically browsing receipts, cop copters at the ready to apprehend customers. Run, Mr H S, RUN!
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They came back online around 5 AM this morning. Have not checked to see if they still are.
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" Richard Feynman
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Dan Vizine
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They are online and selling U as of 10 PM EST Thursday.
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I have to give in a bit to Blogfast's post... I would be concerned to order from a company that has a history of being raided. We all may know how
benign U238 is, aside from its heavy metal potentials, but in this regard it is about the same order of dangerous as Lead; However, if they were
raided again, and the Feds saw who purchased the Uranium, regardless of how benign it may be in our minds, I'm quite sure they will come pounding on
your door as well, simply because it is Uranium, and that word alone scares the living daylights out of them.
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