World's Fair Irradiated Dime 1964-1965

You eat it.....thinking he's the professor you're the guinea pig sort of situation going on there.....not eating and butt bugger for nothing. BTW I am a Federal certified food handler....as such don't eat any year old butt burgers.....or any other vintage meats not kept under refrigeration. Unless salted and smoked......as even salted meats can get worms in it .

 

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Was there supposed to be anything different about these dimes apart from them costing more than 10c? I cannot remember if there are short half life isotopes of silver or copper that might make the coins mildly radioactive, or if there were I doubt if they would get such a heavy dose that some radio-isotopes might be created.

Funny thing was, if you wanted something radioactive, a bucket of rainwater was all you needed. Atmospheric testing of A-boms was either recently stopped or still current and rain was several times the background level if you checked it with a Geiger counter.

 

Eh just go buy some of this:

"Radioactive Red" Fiestaware by Homer Laughlin
The glaze was made with uranium starting back in the 30's. The production of this color was haulted during WWII and then was made again well into the 60's, I believe. I had a physics teacher in high school that had a little bowl he would use to demonstrate his geiger counter with. I told my mom about it and it got her started in collecting the stuff. She has 300+ pieces in varying colors now.

 

But, but, but, does that include Spam??? I thought that was impervious to age. Seriously, if all the "bugs" were killed, what could happen to it? It was still pink and looked fresh, not that I was eager to eat it though.

 

The only kind of exposure to radioactivity that would make another substance radioactive that I know of would be to bombard something with neutrons. This can and will produce isotopes that are radioactive and usually short lived. Otherwise, radiation comes from radioactive substances themselves through shedding, etc.

 

Spam come in a can.....good forever....still don't care for any.....it's big in Hawaii as they consume more of it then anywhere else .

 

I can remember wearing a thermoluminescent dosimeter, or TLD is what we called it, for measuring ionizing radiation. We also wore a pocket dosimeter to monitor our exposure in high radiation areas and during certain events, we would also wear neutron film badges.... but it was safe and only had minor risks because my govt told me so when I entered the nuclear program. They said it was just as safe as being a carpenter or electrician.

 

The number 6 and number 10 most hazardous jobs in America? Gee, thanks!

 

Hey, more protein, and fresher.

 

.....and five years into the program the correct answer to the long term effects of ionizing radiation was changed to "cancer and genetic risks" instead of relatively safe such as working as a carpenter or electrician.... as I visited the radiation (Neutron) exhibit at the World's Fair I never imagined that 18 years later I would be working on nuclear reactors for a living....

 

Next time I get spanked for getting off a coin Topic in here I'm just going to refer to this thread. in the spirit of the current conversation though, I saw the other day that NASA scientists are now predicting that if you were to tone a US junk silver coin in a black hole for 10 to the 42nd nanoseconds not only will it develop a full rainbow DMPL patina, but also melt your eyes out of their sockets unless you wear those cardboard 3D movie glasses.
Hugs and fishes,
Bill

 

However, you need to be careful because the play changes significantly if it turns out there's already a man on third...

 

In teaching a class, I mentioned "depleted" uranium used for ammunition. Asking if any students had used it, I once got a guy who said he had and that the Army issued those disposable polyester gloves to be used while handling it.