Death Plants and Radiation A experiment with uranium marbles

My experiment on a Epipremnum Aureum plant using uranium marbles.

Marbles can be found here
http://www.unitednuclear.com/marbsm.htm

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Epipremnum Aureum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epipremnum_aureum

Please leave comments or suggestions on how to make this experiment better I will also try to answer any questions the best of my ability.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Radiation
• Marbles
• Plantts
• Experiment
• Uranium
• Epipremnum
• Aureum

[Muzikcurezdapain]

hey, i just have an idea to throw out. i plan on trying this some time soon. what if you radioactivley charge a plant directley with radiation but in a small dose and then add an electrical current to that which is the exact atomic mass and number to sunlight being added (possibly a plasma simulator). whould that make it so the plant could possibly sustain all normal features while grouwing at a normal rate? just privatley msg me if you have any idea. and please, do not steal it.

[zelkuta]

umm... could please clarify? I am so confused with what your trying to say.

[voidengineer]

I imagine your results are mostly due to the soil being sterilized of beneficial organisms.

[msnakias]

@Muzikcurezdapain test it out. maybe a nobel prize is waiting for you

[magicstix0r]

@voidengineer 600CPM isn't going to sterilize anything.

[SelkitFox]

Er, I should clarify my earlier comment regarding point #3; Take your soil from the same source, as a homogenous mixture, not share your control's soil bed with your variable group's soil bed. That would kinda defeat the purpose. Better yet, go hydroponic or aeroponic to rule out micro-organisms in the soil altogether and focus on the subject at hand in a more controlled environment.

[SelkitFox]

Here's a few suggestions for improving the experiment;

1) Repeat with cuttings from a plant that can reproduce by cuttings. Genetically identical. Use at least ten plants; Five control, five variable-group.

2) Find an optimal measure of water, then stick to it.

3) Plant them in the same soil-bath, to rule out different micro-organism cultures

4) Use only artificial lighting at a pre-determined optimal level.

These steps should weed out unwanted variables and refine the experiment.

[willavr]

@bombikid They are glass with +/- 2% U238 (DU) oxide. The DU causes a green color, especially under UV light.

[RaduBiscuite]

song please!

[bombikid]

are they really made of uranium??? I thought they were fluorescent plastic balls.

[DreamPharaoh]

It would be interesting if you were able to get some of the sunflowers from around Chernobyl that have the radiation eating extremophile-bacteria on them and extract the bacteria through culture and use it on irradiated plants and see if some mutation effects are negated. Strange idea but I was interested to see the abilities of this bacteria for maybe helping exposed victims.

[sharpezor]

what what would happen with a marijuana plant

[saintveil]

@metalini - There a a lot of interesting plant battery (earth battery) videos on youtube. 1.7 volts output and powering step up circuits to over 1KV to power florescent bulbs and strings of hundreds of LEDs. Professor Dr Stiffler calls it "near infinite lighting".