Smoke Detector and Glow Powder Sprinthariscope

[mocatz187]

Cancer scare. Scary stuff!

[holycrapapie]

Would ZnS:Cu react to beta particles?

[eekcage]

3:30 onwards is mega funny with cc transcribe audio on (for a laugh) great hack example to take to the next level

[phrog1337]

Americium, Americium, Americium. lol

[Blinkwing]

lol, bothare noobs

[AScannerClearly]

If your camera was only picking up a few speckles after 10 minutes, out of the about 30,000 that should be made per second, then I think the camera was really picking up "hot pixels" caused by the photons of the weak gamma rays that Am-241 emits, and probably had 0 to do with alpha particles.

Nice explaination though. =)

[Blinkwing]

@AScannerClearly to catch those decays you have to put off a filter from the digital filter of the camera

[micheal676]

i remember doing this lab my freshmen year in college. in intro to nuclear engineering class. fun and harmless lol. but kinda fun