Comment on Anon hates aluminum

KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• bi_tux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  it’s even glow in the dark!

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  • Liz@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t you be lying up in this thread! Uranium is very boring looking. Just another grey metal.

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    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      well yes but also uranium dissolved in glass is fluorescent Image

      and uranium salts are bright yellow Image

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      • Liz@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can get loads of pretty uranium colors in solution. I love me some chemistry, where the answer to the question “what color is it?” is preceded by “well it depends on the oxidation state…”

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      i mean technically, if you refine uranium into plutonium, and then isolate plutonium 238. It does glow.

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    • bi_tux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      but it glows in fallout );

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    plutonium 238 moment.

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