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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5745 on: April 25, 2014, 06:45:46 PM »
241Am is only an alpha emitter. Simple paper or tinfoil wrapping (foil is overkill for alpha particles, unless maybe they were ultra-high energy coming from a dedicated accelerator, even then I doubt more than a bare few would make it through)

But paper is quite sufficient to block the alpha radiation coming from those small ion sources.I've heard some rumors that some kinds of smoke alarm, perhaps older ones, are actually based upon neptunium, and not just as a daughter isotope from the decay of 241Am.

Not sure if its true, but damn, I'd just love to find some of those in my lab-scavenging endeavors.

They are not that hot I have some fiestaware that's a lot more radioactive 
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5746 on: April 25, 2014, 09:57:08 PM »
Uranium glass I presume?

Once I eventually manage to save up enough money to build the cyclotron/synchrotron I have my heart set on, I'm definitely going to have to get hold of some 238U and some beryllium to set it up as a neutron source, using the 'tron to produce an alpha particle beam, make some thin carbon plates for use as a moderator to slow the neutrons liberated by bombarding the beryllium down to thermal energies where they can be then captured by the depleted uranium targets.

(aiming of course for 239Pu and neptunium :)
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5747 on: April 26, 2014, 03:20:41 AM »
I bought a used book at Amazon. I love it that you can sometimes find books for £0.01.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5748 on: April 26, 2014, 06:13:08 AM »
Uranium glass I presume?

Once I eventually manage to save up enough money to build the cyclotron/synchrotron I have my heart set on, I'm definitely going to have to get hold of some 238U and some beryllium to set it up as a neutron source, using the 'tron to produce an alpha particle beam, make some thin carbon plates for use as a moderator to slow the neutrons liberated by bombarding the beryllium down to thermal energies where they can be then captured by the depleted uranium targets.

(aiming of course for 239Pu and neptunium :)

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5749 on: April 27, 2014, 11:35:30 PM »
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5750 on: April 28, 2014, 05:33:35 AM »
I bought a used book at Amazon. I love it that you can sometimes find books for £0.01.

Offer $0.01; it's cheaper. :tard:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5751 on: April 28, 2014, 10:51:50 AM »
A   mannequin head
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5752 on: April 28, 2014, 11:48:10 AM »
A   mannequin head

Selling hats?

I have a headless torso. :zoinks:


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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5753 on: April 28, 2014, 12:22:42 PM »
A   mannequin head

For practicing to apply make up?
I can do upside down chocolate moo things!

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5754 on: April 28, 2014, 12:24:02 PM »
A   mannequin head

Selling hats?

I have a headless torso. :zoinks:

There is romance in the air. 

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Anyone having a pair of legs laying around?
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5755 on: April 28, 2014, 01:30:02 PM »
For selling and displaying hats and helmets but also for pranking :zoinks:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5756 on: April 28, 2014, 02:34:34 PM »
For selling and displaying hats and helmets but also for pranking :zoinks:



Who's that young lady you are hiding?   :laugh:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5757 on: April 28, 2014, 05:05:20 PM »
For selling and displaying hats and helmets but also for pranking :zoinks:

That's awesome. Are those its boobs in the background?

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5758 on: April 28, 2014, 05:50:17 PM »
For selling and displaying hats and helmets but also for pranking :zoinks:

That's awesome. Are those its boobs in the background?

Yes :2thumbsup:  I have a hand also :green:
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #5759 on: April 28, 2014, 06:26:41 PM »
A   mannequin head

Selling hats?

I have a headless torso. :zoinks:

There is romance in the air. 

 :eyelash:
 :bounce:

Anyone having a pair of legs laying around?

Celticgoddess does. ;)

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