Hot Pepper!
This is a vintage Fiesta salt/pepper shaker that known for the radioactive uranium containing glaze.
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Background radiation, Australia
Background radiation recording at Bunbury, Australia
This is an updating graph of background radiation in my home town in Western Australia. It is updated 6 hourly. It runs whenever I have my Geiger counter on. Typically the background is about 60 counts per minute (CPM).
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Tritium
Tritium tubes have radioactive tritium gas and a phosphor which glows constantly. Tritium is hydrogen with two neutrons. It is radioactive with a half life of 12.3 years.
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Geiger Counter
A Geiger counter measures various types of ionising radiation such as Gamma rays. Shown here with antique Uranium marbles that were bright due to some fluorescence.
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