Xanax
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Some nuclear chemistry!
I have got som funny substances and have 2 experiment at the time!
In both experiment you will need neutronium-radiation (n-radiation). We got this through mix Americium-241 with Beryllium-9. I normaly keep this
substanses away from each other, because I've no protection agains n-radiation.
Experiment 1
In this experiment, we are going to split atoms. We beams n-radiation to sticks with Thorium-232. The following reaktion is:
Th-232 + n --> Th-233 (T½ = 22,3 minutes) --> e- (β-radiation) & Pa-233 (T½ = 27,0 days) --> e- (β-radiation) &
U-233
U-233 is a fissionable isotope. And then, you can build your own nuclear reactor! But it is fairly boring because I've no turbines or somthing which
can generate electricity. It only gets warm and send out som boring radiation, which is boring to be contamineted by!
Experiment 2
In this experiment, we are going to produce a substanste, which has been discussed the latest week. We beam n-radiation agains a piece of Bismuth-209.
And the reaction which follows is:
Bi-209 + n --> Bi-210 (T½ = 5,01 days) --> e- (β-radiation) & Po-210
And then, Polonium-210 can be used for example to poison ex russian agents, or just put in sombodys food, just as a practical joke!
And then I have som Uranium and Thallium too, but have not found out some fun use for this. The Uranium is simply harmless, it is only uranium-ore in
the form of glass-balls. But the Thallium is so damn toxic som I don't care to open the glass-ampoule!
STRÅLNINGFARA = Radiation Danger
Americium-241 = Americium-241
Torium-232 = Thorium-232
Vismut-209 = Bismuth-209
Tallium-205 = Thallium-205
Uran-malm = Uranium-ore
Beryllium-9 = Beryllium-9
[Edited on 3-12-2006 by Xanax]
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unionised
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Do you know how toxic Be is?
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Compact Beryllium is harmless- look at Theodore Gray's Beryllium samples.
Fortunately, you won't make nearly enough nuclear isotopes and neutrons to do you any harm. Otherwise you won't be as lucky as with your Ricin
extraction.
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12AX7
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Rather hard to make visible (maybe milimole) quantities of anything through low-level nuclear chemistry. The physics lab at school has a neutron
howitzer
consisting of, I'm told, 3 Ci of pluotonium (alpha source, which we calculated to be in the neighborhood of 50-100g) plus some amount of Be, resulting
in
some neutrons. A bunch of plastic (PE or acrylic or something) and a steel casing keeps the radiation inside. Samples can be irradiated to perform
neutron
absorbtion spectroscopy. But yeah, that's 1.11 x 10^11 reactions per second, of which a small percentage tunnel into the beryllium and split off
neutrons.
Constrast this to the massive 6 x 10^23 of Avagadro's number: it would take millions of years to induce a visible amount of reaction, and that's if
you change
the plutonium core every couple ten thousand years. You would have to have a couple moles of americium (which don't get me wrong, I'd love to see it,
I mean actually see it, it would glow bright blue!) to transmute even a few milimoles of thorium, in the process burning probably a few centimoles of
beryllium.
Much easier to just burn the americium in an ordinary nuclear reactor.
Tim
Edit: formatting. Your picture is way too wide...
[Edited on 12-3-2006 by 12AX7]
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Berylliosis is caused by inhaling beryllium dust, it is the only hazard and is otherwise a harmless material.
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The range of an alpha particle in Be is practically zero so, to make best use of it, the Be in neutron sources is very finely powdered and mixed with
the alpha source. (The Americium would be finely divided too for the same reason).
This would make it perfect for inhalation.
Under the circumstances, I think the toxicity of the Be would be more of an issue than the neutron flux generated in any "home brew" rig, and possibly
more of a problem than the americium too.
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neptunium
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what happened to Xanax? his experiment are pretty cool did he/she got busted or what?
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Quote: Originally posted by neptunium  | what happened to Xanax? his experiment are pretty cool did he/she got busted or what?[/rquote
Based on his post I would say that there was no actual experiment in the offing. It looks like fantasy nuclear chemistry, a la David Hahn.
If he had posted a credible calculation of what sort of activation (or exposure) is possible with an a smoke detector source/beryllium radiation
source then I would believe he wasn't just blowing smoke.
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Dornier 335A
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Xanax must be the Swedish guy famous for having tried to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen... He was busted indeed, I followed the whole thing on
the largest Swedish forum (flashback.org). Here is a link to his blog: http://richardsreactor.blogspot.se/ Start from the bottom to get the whole story.
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