Comment on Anon hates aluminum

• 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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      • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        wouldn’t that be postceded

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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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