Is it legal for me to purchase a used radium watch? If so, where can I find one? If I had one, how hazardous would I be to the people around me, if at all?
posted by rtimmel
on Apr 29, 2013 -
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Can you identify what this truck is carrying? A truck towing two trailers, each with 4 cylinders. Marked radioactive. (photo inside)
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posted by MiG
on Jun 26, 2011 -
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I want to give some
trinitite as a Christmas gift. This involves transporting it across state lines. Am I going to run into problems?
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posted by kagredon
on Dec 3, 2010 -
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I'm trying to find a Japanese short film about two guys in a sushi restaurant who try to out-order an older man. There's no dialogue and it was weird and quite funny, finishing with a radioactive wasabi show-down.
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posted by ninazer0
on Nov 5, 2010 -
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Where can I get some small quantities of radioactive materials for science fair type projects?
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posted by neuron
on Mar 3, 2009 -
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I remember reading a true story online about an accidental death in a physics laboratory during the early studies of radioactivity and nuclear physics experiments. I think it involved a clumsy physics student who accidentally dropped a brick of radioactive material onto a stack of these bricks which set off some sort of chain reaction. Can someone find this story online for me?
posted by Paul KC
on Dec 9, 2008 -
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My friend was just diagnosed with
Graves Disease and the doctor decided it was so serious he should immediately get radioactive iodine treatment, and he was given a 16mCi pill today. So, apparently, he is very radioactive right now, and would set off Homeland Security terror alerts in airports if he walked through.
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posted by extrabox
on Feb 21, 2006 -
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Are there any animals that have evolved a use for radioactivity? If so, what ways is it used? If not, why has this not happened?
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posted by 0bvious
on Nov 23, 2005 -
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