radioactivity on polaroid - an attempt to x-ray a dead mouse

i tried to x-ray a dead mouse / dead mice using sources of:
- caesium 137 (beta and gamma source)
- strontium 90 (beta source)
- barium 133 (x-ray soure)
- uranium 238 (alpha, beta, hard + soft gamma source)

further on, the following sources were used on the autoradiography:
- radium 226 (as vintage radium watch)
- throium 232 (as thorianite ore and as welding rod)
- lead 210 (needle source)
- uranium 238 (as pitchblende uranium ore)
- lead 214, bismuth 214, polonium 214 (as traces from daughter nuclides of radium / radon in irradiated charcoal)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• autoradiography
• autoradiographie
• radiography
• radio
• graph
• x-ray
• roentgen
• exposure
• radiology
• polaroid
• caesium
• strontium
• barium
• uranium
• americium
• trinitite
• atom
• nuclear
• physics
• radioactive
• radioaktiv
• radioactivity
• radioaktivität
• zerfall
• radioaktiver
• decay
• ionizing
• radiation
• gas
• radon
• detection
• detecting
• kernspur
• dosimeter
• gamma
• scout
• gammascout
• geiger
• counter
• zähler
• mouse
• dead
• maus
• animal
• kill
• rat
• ratte

[juraj4electro]

what about using small (pointlike) and stronger gamma source, or using some rock and collimate its rays using pinhole in some lead plate or using lead cyllinder+some shielding for rest of radiation so rays that are aiming a target not much prependicular to it will be just absorbed by cyllinder and they will not blur resulting picture? Or you could make a thinner slice of the mouse and put a source on it, maybe the closer is source and target to a photo the less blurring...

[bionerd23]

@juraj4electro

yeah, a collimator would be a good idea. that's how they do it in nuclear medicine, too... then again, that's very hard to DIY, as lead is a seriously annoying material to work with. it's soft and possible to cut easily, but drilling holes into it is a right b*tch. would have to melt it and cast it into a collimator form...

[Doppelbuckel]

Why should the cole be radioactive from lying next to watch dials?

[bionerd23]

@Doppelbuckel

because of radon in the decay chain. it's radon is a radioactive noble gas and thus, capable of "moving". radon itself is radioactive, too. thus, the daughter nuclides get trapped in the activated carbon. watch?v=gN_b-rmq1c4

[skullkruncher14]

Why are you touching radioactive material?

[bionerd23]

@skullkruncher14

because i can.

[projectdurden]

cool, i live in Japan, near Tokyo. I am trying to get a geiger counter. i don't trust the government over here. anyone know where I can get one that will test the air?

[626hunters]

@ruhs1992 she's German if I'm not mistaken idiot

[TheAfroninga]

Where in the hell do you get this stuff?

[ruhs1992]

Why did you post this online? You talk like a retard and didn't do anything cool.

[modgemtb]

perhaps if you made a lens from a radioactive substance for a camera then put the baby mouse on the lens take a photograph?

[Msieeeeen]

00 6 how the mouse fall ^^ lol

[MarcusLKF001]

@bionerd23 Oh god that reply is so epic in many ways

[tapout320]

How are you not dead yet?

[Kodachi123]

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