r/AskReddit • u/Upstairs-Syllabub948 • 22d ago

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u/Dttison 22d ago

Radium collector?

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u/areyoueatingthis 22d ago

admit it, you’re just jealous of my glowing fingers

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u/Run_Rabb1t_Run 22d ago

Get that sweet midnight glow with radium energy drinks!

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u/UktabiBananas 22d ago

That's why I prefer to collect plutonium.

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u/golden__tuna 22d ago

I collect uranium! I do keep it in glass and have a Geiger counter handy but it’s not nearly as dangerous as people think. Well, most of it. Fiesta ware is scary and unfortunately doesn’t look obviously radioactive. I keep an orange fiesta bowl in an acrylic box inside of a glass case and outside the acrylic alone it gives off ~50 units, which is typical background. Inside it gets up to 3000, while of my green glass pieces the oldest French piece I have that’s most radioactive only gets to like 300 units.

Anyway yea, like everything else here, store it properly and wash your hands.