Geiger counter and Am-241

[mbthepixelkiller]

thumbs up fpr GU81

[barbalote2]

nice counter!



[ema576]

its not a fucking microgram is a microcurie

[vmelkon]

@ema576 How much does the americium weight?

[onthecuttingedge2005]

could you take a piece of glow in the dark material and place it over the 241Americium to see if it excites the Phosphor and causes it to self illuminate, I want to see if alpha is better than beta to self illuminate a glow in the dark object or phosphorescent compound

[XTwina]

@onthecuttingedge2005 It doesnt work. I tried it, but you cant do this with alphas.

[WolfmanAF1]

fake

[omegalab]

What is fake?

[Andy861993]

@omegalab her Brain is a fake :D

[transistorbrater]

I think that this is not a Am241 source, as polonium9 says, alpha particles from an Am241 source reach not more than 3cm !

And at the end of the video you can see, that the source looks like a small glass bead.

This is a sign for a Radium-226 source, check wikipedia !

If I am right the Smoke Detector was an old RFT Smoke Detector, Type 70121 .

[omegalab]

This is Am241 from a smoke detector. The detector's table says this, not i.

[polonium9]

i have heard that geiger mp3 before and not on this video, alpha particles can only reach a certain distance and further is that there is very weak beta so i do not believe this video. sorry

[dwarfer777]

maybe this video IS the origin of that mp3

[batlin]

Jack Bauer: ...Where is the Sentox nerve gas?? WHERE IS IT!

*loud breathing*

[lucaeroteam]

no gamma  rays :D

[Stefnir94]

Just don't lick it.

[Tapepsi]

That is one old geiger counter.

[officerspot]

Good thing most of the radiation seems to be Alpha decay which can be easily blocked. Just be careful with that stuff.

Best of luck :)

[batterez]

Just stick notebook paper infront of your face.

[Isosphere]

Methinks the distance at which the counts start

buzzing is too large. Must be some mixture of

stuff on that disk.

[nitrex]

Nice video, i have about two discs of Am-241 from Smoke detectors. I am an element collector so i got almost everything , well not everything but almost.

[omegalab]

Well, you can find many types of isotops at unitednuclear, but the site ships only to US :(

[nitrex]

Actually i can get a friend to ship it which isn't actually the problem.

[darappah]

finally someone demonstrates alpha emissions from americium :)

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Wow... I think that's a conclusive demonstration !

Did you rip the Americium from a smoke detector ?

The geiger counter looks like ex-military kit.

[omegalab]

Yes, this was a smoke detector. The counter is 46 years old, and was used by hungarian military, but this counter was not able to give audible sign, so i done it to make sound. The counter can show max 5rads/h (~ 50mSv/h). I have uploaded a few new pictures of him, see the link on details.