SAFE! EXCITING! INSTRUCTIVE!

Seriously, cloud chambers as toys? Neat :)

http://www.retronaut.co/2010/05/nuclear-toys/

Al.

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I remember way back, in grade school, I had some pencils from one of the places my dad used to work. The place was Martin Seynour Paints, they long since have gone out of business. The pencils had a plastic cap on them, and it said on the pencil, Actual Sample of Uranium Ore, the start of our atomic future, or something to that affect. Sure enough there was what looked like sand / dirt in it and it was uranium ore. I remember in high school putting some in a cloud chamber in chemistry class and it was radioactive, we seen pretty decent alpha and beta from it. The pencils were made in the early 1950's, way before they fully realized how 'unhealthy' it probably was to be carrying that stuff around with you.

But as one of the comments on that link you provided says, could you imagine trying to send something like that through the post office today what would happen? Wow.

Aaron

could you imagine trying to send something like that through the post office today what would happen?

Yah good point there. Those things I am sure are coming with a ton of paperwork etc etc and won't be cheap. What I probably should have said, is just shipping one without all the government 'intervention' if they just opened up a package for whatever reason and found some of that stuff, no documentation or anything.

You would probably have a lot of explaining to do.

Aaron