Metallophile
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Radiophobia?
Is Uranium glazed dishware actually dangerous?
High School evacuated after student brings uranium-glazed plate
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Only if it hits you really hard.
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phlogiston
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| Quote: | | "Right away I just wanted the kids to be safe," Bonuomo said when asked about her reaction. "I don't want the kids ever to think they're not safe."
She also thought of her family and her husband, but, she said, "I knew we were going to be OK |
Ironically, their extreme overreaction probably made the kids feel a lot more unsafe than warranted.
They should have used the opportunity to teach kids about radioactivity. I'm assuming some of the teachers at that school teach physics. The
overreaction is a pretty sad indicator of the level of knowledge of the teachers there.
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Texium (zts16)
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So ridiculous. My high school chemistry teacher brought in her own Fiestaware plates to show to the class.
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Fyndium
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I'm not sure where this madness leads into. In 20 years, we see reactions into things that we just purely laugh even at today's standards.
It appears that even the hazmat guys don't have knowledge about hazardous materials, hence they consider all materials hazardous and destroy them just
in case.
Like said in another topic, sodium carbonate has an irritant sign on it, hence being hazardous material.
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aromaticfanatic
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Jesus Christ, I am very conscious about chemicals (my biggest thing is contamination of other surfaces) and probably could be considered to have a
small bit of chemophobia but this is just ridiculous. They made it seem like he brought an angry vial of phosgene into class or something. Pure
insanity.
Oh and to answer the question, as long as you're not inhaling the dust from the broken glass or eat off of the glass (you probably could eat off of it
but if you scratch the glass and create some powder you would ingest that powder, likely not enough to do much but you just generally want to avoid
what you can) then you would be perfectly fine.
[Edited on 11-1-2021 by aromaticfanatic]
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Twospoons
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Do you supposed they've checked for Americium based smoke detectors yet?
Helicopter: "helico" -> spiral, "pter" -> with wings
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ShotBored
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This actually made me lol. I needed it this morning. Thank you sir.
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MadHatter
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Laughable
That's my opinion of this paranoia.
In 1970 we used uranium glazes
for pottery in 7th grade art class.
From opening of NCIS New Orleans - It goes a BOOM ! BOOM ! BOOM ! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !
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Texium (zts16)
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Worth clarifying though, this was in 2013, so there are still some good chemistry teachers out there even though hysteria
surrounding chemicals has been becoming more common. Don't lose all faith.
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aromaticfanatic
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On another note, I attended an NHS (worthless organization in my opinion, too many people in it) induction and a kid wore goggles..... to light a
plain candle.... I have no idea if this was an attempt at being humorous as he didn't wear the goggles when he lit other candles but it made me cringe
to the depths of my soul. The entire "show" they put on was the most uncomfortable thing I have ever sat through. I do not recommend it. I was in fact
so zoned out listening to mind numbing speeches and acts of humiliation that the curtain behind them began slowly moving in a wave like pattern.
Amazing how boredom and cringe can simulate psychedelics huh?
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