Uranium-238 vs. Uraninite (and Natural Background) Radioactivity

[kjah11]

lol sounds like a gameboy xD

[riotpoliec]

Its like playing tetris.....

[TheCaptainLulz]

Ive got 11 pieces that size or bigger in one container. Better split em up I guess. Mine also have a high thorium content and Ive got 5 uranothorites, bet those would bury the needle.

[carllexicon]

@TheCaptainLulz I'd say so! You REALLY do need a dosimeter. Did you know uraninite crystals are supposedly rarer than diamonds?

[TheCaptainLulz]

@carllexicon I didn't know that, wow. theres one tiny hole at a road cut where I get them at where theyre absolutely beautiful, some have a few facets on them even. Not a tiny bit of metamict around them at all. Theyre in a pretty salmon coloured calcite, but because of this I can dissolve the urananites (which dont react with HCl) right out without damaging them. I think they stay so good there because theres more than a bit of thorium in them too.

[TheCaptainLulz]

If youre ever in bancroft ontario give me a shout and Ill show you where I dig em out.

[darkdjo]

Very surprising !

[carllexicon]

Good!

[PageRob]

Cool! Neat comparison.

[carllexicon]

Thanks...I hope it was surprising.