Uranium is safe compared to this...

In this vial, is a concentrated form of uranium called sodium diuranate (Na2U2O7), and it's extremely radioactive. What's kind of weird is that this little box, is even more radioactive, but it isn't filled with a bunch of pure radioactive material, and it's just some old watch hands. However these watch hands, are painted with something called radium, that's 1000000x more radioactive than uranium.

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[RJ-kbqf]

“It’s kind of scary that people used to wear these around” *has a whole box of them in his house*

[bendkok]

You know you're in trouble when the Geiger counter makes a continuous tone.

[thesupremeduck]

"Hey Beavis, he said urinate."

[mendonesiac]

RIP to the women tasked with painting those watch dials

[Slushboy]

What's even scarier is that if consumed the body thinks it's just calcium and sends it directly to your bones where it literally decomposes your bones from the inside out.

[uproductions]

“It doesnt sound very happy” the tombstone reads

[cameronburke]

My grandparents both moved to England from Ireland and both worked in a factory making watches and speedometers and things like that in the 50s and 60s. The met each other there and returned home to have a family together. They both worked a lot with radium and uranium paint. Sadly both of them would eventually die of cancer decades later.

In college I was studying a module on medical physics and in it we were taught about radium watches. Our lecturer showed us some pictures of a factory in England manufacturing these things and in each picture I saw a woman who looked like my aunt and a man who looked like my uncle. It was my grandparents.

[will_beats]

“And it’s extremely radioac-“
*eats it*

[GeographyFacts]

What’s even scarier is that that’s concentrated uranium compared to some radium paint

[OfficiallySnek]

Even scarier is the fact that the amount of radium found there is absolutely miniscule

[ZhaojuEphastine]

It's pieces for the Big Fucking Guns before the 9000th one

[UncleRussian.]

RIP the Radium Girls, that was a terrible situation and feel really bad for them

[flydumbah]

"i can test this by putting a geiger counter near it..."

Fucking thing flatlined my guy...

[thegoober]

“sodium diuranate”
the Uranus of chemistry class

[ZeL-iqsf]

Next video: extracting radium from old watch hands and making glow paint with it

[catlover]

If you want to learn something a little disturbing, look up the radium girls. Basically, in the early 1900 there were a few watch factories that hired young girls to paint watches with luminous paint. However, the brushes were so small that, to get the brushes thin enough to paint, they needed to keep licking the bristles every few strokes (similar to licking a thread before putting it through the eye of a needle). The paint was made with radium. The people in charge of the factories knew this and handled the paint with proper care, but actively encouraged the girls to use their lips to keep the brush sharp.

[maymkn]

You know it's dangerous when NileRed doesn't taste or sniff it.

[SULXZ]

"This is extremely radiocative"

*proceeds to open it*

[petermacmillan]

Crazy that people were putting radium not only in things like watch dials to make them glow, they also put it in toothpaste and stuff.

[mr.j]

Imagine if the radiation level was 71 less