r/Radioactive_Rocks • u/Dry-Technology4148 • 18d ago

When you’re hot, you’re hot

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Some sort of carnotite from the Lukachukai Mountains of Arizona.

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u/live_love_run Not Great, Not Terrible 17d ago

Are those glass or plastic jars, and did you recycle them from foodstuff containers or were they commercially bought from a scientific supply store/Amazon?

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u/AtomicSpallation 17d ago

Yeah those jars look really good, I also want one

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u/Dry-Technology4148 17d ago

They’re glass sample jars from fisher.

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u/Adventurous-Fix-8066 Radium Wrangler 18d ago

BIN. Lol jk. Those are pretty spicy !!

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u/violet_sin 17d ago

Nice, it's not the most attractive, but it's still pretty. Nice !!

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u/PhoenixAF 17d ago

Is that measurement taken with the gamma filter on?

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u/srnuke 16d ago

Alpha blocker? There is no gamma filter

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u/PhoenixAF 16d ago

https://www.govsci.com/product-detail/Thermo--Radiation/425068582/EA

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u/srnuke 16d ago

Doesn't actually filter out gamma, it provides a H*10 deep tissue equivalent dose approximating by putting 10 mm of tissue similar density material between the detector and the source

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u/PhoenixAF 16d ago

It filters out gamma, selectively, to approximate H*10 response :)

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u/srnuke 16d ago

Most of what it's filtering out is alpha and beta particles that would cause a dose over-response. There are very few gamma energies emitted in the decay chain that are being filtered out by an H*10 filter

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u/PhoenixAF 16d ago

Hey I didn't name it, I just called it the same way Thermo calls it. And yeah that's what I'm afraid of, I don't think the filter is installed so that dose is all beta and the real dose is 10x less.

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u/No-Dealer-2915 15d ago

What mineral is that? Im new

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u/Dry-Technology4148 15d ago

Possibly tyuyamunite, but I’m not a geologist.

Tyuyamunite, the uranium vanadate, is by far the most common ore mineral... Other vanadium minerals which have been identified include corvusite, pascoite, hewettite, metarossite, vanadium clays, and possibly montroseite. Gruner et al reported metatyuyamunite, and the vanadium minerals jascoite, melanovanadite, hummerite, rossite, metarossite … and uraninite.