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[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Looks like it's being lit with a black light

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

I don't know if this is real, but real uranium glass just glows (although it is not this brightly unless the light is fairly low). I have a tiny bit on a keychain somewhere.

I used to keep it in my pocket as my normal keychain and joke that it would stop me from having kids.

It apparently didn't.

[-] piecat@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Not quite,

Radioactive substances don't actually glow visibly themselves...

Uranium glass fluoresces under UV, and tritium vials and radium paint contain phosphers that convert radiation to visible light.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorescence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Well all I know is I could see my keychain glow in the dark and it claimed to be uranium.

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