radioactive camera lens (thorium 232)

they’re on ebay now and then though, i’ve checked. i suggest you to create and save a search (need to be logged in to do this, of course), which you can set to notify you of new “gamma scout” auctions every day.

Awesome! 5/5! I have some Thorium containing minerals, and a gemstone (2. 17 cts, cut & polished) called Ekanite. It’s dark olive-green, and transparent, but it gives off a substantial amount of radiation, and I have a Terra-P dosimeter. I wish I could afford a Gamma Scout, I can’t find a single one on eBay. . . Nice Video! I love to study things like you do! I like the element Thorium, it can be used for so many applications!

i want to do wat u do

lolz

. . . a shield for highly radioactive substances, as it is much heavier than lead and thus, a better radiation shield. uranium is only mildly radioactive, having a half time of 4. 5 billion years.
. . . a lovely color for glass and ceramics.
. . . a collector’s item! =)

Nuclear bombs
Nuclear power

Depleted uranium can be used as balance weights for aircraft or ships

Also, for armour piercing rounds for tank guns. Because it’s self sharpening, if it breaks, it will usually break sharp, unlike other potential tank round elements, which will break blunt.

Depleted uranium is also pyrophoric. Which means it spontaneously burns, which from a military stand point, is a good thing to do once you’ve penetrated the armour of your target.

It’s also relatively cheap

wat can uranium be use for pleas tell me since i saw that vid of a uranium mine

lol, yes – dont.
it’s an illogic language – more illogic than english, though all ‘natural’ languages are illogic to some extent. plus, you dont need it in many places in the world. if you’re not planning to live in a country where german is the primary language, i’d rather take spanish or french if i was you.

oh, its a very small amount. that is amazing!!

I’m taking German this fall, any tips?

i am referring to the amount of SPACE that is required to store all that stuff, if you still didnt get that. not the radioactivity. like, you know, one cubic meter of uranium ore takes up one cubic meter of space in a room! isnt that amazing?

nope! i like my radioactive stuff!! i use a radium clock next to my bed!! i am fine, i learned that from you! dont be scared, i will not blame you at all!

lol, well i hope you have a room at least the size of a basketball playing field, then.

I went to my optometrist with my geiger counter because they have a display of antique glasses and found three pairs that were radioactive.

i keep the minerals near the cat (to cure her) and all the rest is in my room!! hell i wear a radium watch!

awesome!

You’re so lucky that you found a thoriated lens. I’ve been looking for one for ages now!

jeez, i hope you do have a shed or something for all the stuff you’re collecting, especially your mineral collection is already larger than mine!

i saw one of those lenses on a kodak at an antique store!! now i REALLY want one!! i will hopefully get it today! and if not, then sometime in the next week!!

nee, eher nicht. . . mein temperament ist etwas mit mir durchgegangen als ich gemerkt habe, dass da eine thorium-linse drinsteckt. . . deswegen war das eher ein auseinanderreissen als ein auseinanderbauen.

because that’s the only radioactive material that was used in camera lenses.

yep, those are so called film dosimeters. . . little badges e. g. nuclear scientists or doctors working in nuclear medicine carry.
and you’re right, the film does get exposed by the thorium in the lens; but the amount of radiation is too small to cause any real fog or whatever in a short time. if you just took a few photos and then left the film in the camera for weeks before using it up, fogging of the film material happened frequently, though!

but yeah, i’d need more than one lens for that though. . . and to be honest, as long as i only have one, it’d be kind of a shame to destroy the ‘work’ thorium did in decades.

hmmm, sounds plausible, yeah. . . maybe it’d be interesting to know if sw or lw UV is needed, or a very specific wavelength. would be interesting to have three equal lenses; leave one in a dark box, leave the other under blacklight (lw UV), put the other into sunlight, each at the same exposure per day. a fourth with sw UV would be even better.

Bekommst du die Kamera auch wieder zusammen so dass sie auch einwandfrei funktioniert?