How Harmful Would It Be To Have A Real Periodic Table With Radioactive Elements?

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Gizmo j

Gizmo j

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I have this glass Periodic Table that has all the elements except the radioactive ones.

I would love to have one WITH the radioactive elements but was wondering how Harmful the elements would be to your health.





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biostud

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This |--------| harmful.

Probably not more than taking a flight across US. But maybe don't sleep with it in your underpants.
 
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dullard said:
It would be practically impossible to build. The half-life of some of those elements is just too short. By the time you built it, it would no longer contain what you wanted it to contain. Read the table caption here:
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Yeah, I reckon they started cheating, adding more-and-more elements to the periodic table by creating new ones in reactors that would only last a few minutes or even seconds before decaying.

Clearly it was all just in order to be able to keep selling updated periodic tables for school chemistry classrooms., to keep Big-Periodic-Table in profits.
 
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brianmanahan said:
chernobyl level of harmful
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You know that isn't gonna deter him. He will read about all the stuff that says how the radiation isn't that harmful in minute amounts and get a real radioactive periodic table from a chinese or russian seller anyway. I just hope that he keeps that periodic table a safe distance away from his little bags of "future gizmo baby" seeds. The world needs more gizmos.
 
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Fanatical Meat

Fanatical Meat

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Gizmo j said:
It's not like people are going to eat it!

Wouldn't it be safe behind glass?
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Nope, I am no physicist. I know there are certain ridiculously radioactive substances out there. I would guess they’d be dangerous in a small amount to anyone living even remotely close to you.
Fairly simple read right here.

What is the Most Radioactive Substance in the World?

The most radioactive substance in the world is thought to be ununpentium. Other candidates for the most radioactive substance...
www.allthescience.org www.allthescience.org
Many of these things are better off in your imagination than hands.
 
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igor_kavinski

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Yeah. Watch any nuclear disaster movie.

Hell, watch the HBO mini series Chernobyl. I watched I think just two episodes and couldn't watch more. It was HORRIFYING!
 
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I see it was covered but I was going to post about the Momelements that are gone in a flash to some other state or dimension. That is after they perforate your liver with a cosmic shiv.
Polonium is my favorite. 600 median lethal doses in a grain of salt.
 
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igor_kavinski said:
Yeah. Watch any nuclear disaster movie.

Hell, watch the HBO mini series Chernobyl. I watched I think just two episodes and couldn't watch more. It was HORRIFYING!
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You should try and finish it - I thought it was a fantastically well-made series. Only trouble is I googled to see how accurate its description of the lead-up to, and nature of, the accident was (particularly the explanation of the event given in the court-room scenes), and just entirely confused myself, ending up less clear on exactly what happened - and why the thing went boom - than when I started.
 
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