Time to rant about the ranting about some of the recent videos.... again!
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Fran says she enjoys using the geiger counter recreationally. Recreational geiger user! 🙂
You might be able to test for mercury in those bulbs by breaking one open under water and adding some appropriate indicator. NileRed did a mercury cleanup video a while back showing the process of reclaiming elemental mercury from lab waste. He might know how to detect minor amounts of Hg if it's present.
I thought this was about amplifier feedback – degeneration. Instead it is about your response to degenerates.
I love it when Fran goes quantum on us. 🙂
Well said, Fran. I work with radioactive material in my job and as a hobby (gamma spectroscopy). Like anything else, you treat it with respect. The problem is most folks get their knowledge from pop culture or half-baked "sciencey" websites and don't bother digging into the math and physics behind it all. OMG, that's far too much work!!
If nothing else, remember time, distance, and shielding. Keep those things between you and the questionable item – whether it's a radium clock dial, grandma's orange Fiestaware, or a Coleman lantern mantle – and you'll be okay. Invest in a low-range Geiger counter, such as a Ludlum, not a war-range CD survey meter off eBay, and learn about your environment. It's fascinating stuff.
I Heart my Geiger Counter Too!
There was a telephone used here in the uk by a company for its customers in the 60,s it was called the trimphone, this phone was quite stylish but its rotary dial was backlit with tritium.a bit safer than radium and they were recycled to extract the tritium later on as many were concerned over there end of life disposal.
This may have already been posted but I was just was just watching a old of Mission Impossible and the Teleregister indicators was used as a prop.
Mission: Impossible.
Season 2 | Episode 25
RECOVERY
Paul Shipherd, a defector from the U.S., has been put in charge of dissecting
a SAC bomber fail-safe at the Vatzia Institute. The IMF must steal the fail-safe
and recover Shipherd.
A U.S. bomber crashes behind the Iron Curtain. Its Fail-Safe device,
however, failed to self destruct. A brilliant U.S. scientist who defected
to the unnamed country is supervising efforts to take the device apart,
which will yield valuable information about the entire U.S. defense system.
The IMF must recover the Fail-Safe device and abduct the scientist.
As part of the plan devised by Phelps, Rollin and Cinnamon will
pose as U.S. scientists on a tour.
There are converters that make pulse dial DMTF dial. I have seen people demonstrating them here on youtube.
Just for grins, I once devised a radiation dose unit based on the radioactivity from the Potassium-40 in a typical banana. I called it a "Chiquita," and one Chiquita (Cq) is equivalent to 13.184 Becquerels (Bq). Great video, and I heartily second the notion of getting a Geiger counter and doing some exploring … you might be surprised at what you find.
Nucyalus??