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The is uranium glazed??? Hot damn I almost didn't want to leave Edit: 73 comments
@predrag I know of such things as "Berlin", and "Train stations", but if you get more specific I'll be like Homer backing into the bush... @alastc haha I was just making a joke about the station being on Berlin's U8 line, but being lined with uranium (U-238, as on the periodic table).  @predrag @alastc @whalecoiner @gigabecquerel Most jokes have a short half-life. This one, on the other side...  @predrag @alastc @whalecoiner @gigabecquerel Damit, just counted, we have to remove one station from the U8 line, then there are 23 stops.  @number137 @alastc @whalecoiner @gigabecquerel ah well I guess we need to combine the U2, U3, and U8 (in that order) somehow. Also probably need to acquire some neutrons, because U238 won't fission without absorbing some first.  @gigabecquerel @blangry Are you going to visit Oranienburg? I always wondered what's left of the Doramad factory. @gigabecquerel @blangry bought loads of Uranium glass when I was in Berlin, proper luminous on UV @lexplt @gigabecquerel @blangry Uranium isn't very radioactive (or it wouldn't exist, it has no stable isotopes)   @gigabecquerel Did you just happen to notice this or did you find out another way? I can't find it documented online _at all_! @gigabecquerel Fantastic. Super curious how widespread this is on the U-Bahn, I find it hard to believe it was just used in one station. Will absolutely be visiting that station after CCC camp later this year! @jonty There were (or still are) some tiles at the potsdamer platz (the red line at the ceiling), but that's in the old part of the station which is currently locked out for construction.  @jonty @gigabecquerel I found a stray reference to Rosenthaler standing out for it, so it's probably at least used way more there than elsewhere. But the architect did like 70 stations in Berlin (1910s-30s), so it wouldn't be too surprising if a few more used such glazes in smaller places. Most orange stations I can think of are distinctively 70s though. @HeNeArXn @gigabecquerel "Vibrant colors of orange, yellow, red, green, blue, black, mauve, etc. were produced" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_tile I am amused by the concept of vibrant black @gigabecquerel That's a berlin station, right?! I think I recognise it and I see an SPD poster. @ttpphd Yes, exactly! @gigabecquerel yeah, super cool. Well Hot, I guess and I appreciated your "Hot damn" in your toot! @gigabecquerel damn and I thought our subway system was noxious!! @gigabecquerel wow didn't know it was a thing! thanks! (btw, is that dangerous?) @piks3l life is about learning!  @gigabecquerel so, if the station were to collapse, or demolished and all the tiles piled up...would that cause a critical radiation event? @gigabecquerel @strahlenschutz fuer mehr Informationen zur Strahlenbelastung von Farben, Fliesen und Ubahnstationen? :) @gigabecquerel i wonder what would be the effective dose you absorb if you commute and wait inside the station for ~10 minutes every day @gigabecquerel worse: how about a person (e.g. homeless person) sitting or sleeping close to the walls several hours a day? @eichkat3r @gigabecquerel Would most likely be less dose than sitting outside for the same amount of time.   @gigabecquerel quite 'normal' building material.π https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_tile @gigabecquerel @raimue People like you are the reason I fell in love with Twitter. Welcome to the Fediverse. Glad I found you.  @gigabecquerel That must be why Berlin is so... berlin (yes, you can use that as an adjective). @gigabecquerel @daniel According to this article from 2007, Berlin's city officials seem to be aware of this, but deemed the radiation neglectable ("belanglos"). https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/bleibende-werte-1545553.html |
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@gigabecquerel I see plenty of cut tiles. That must have been fun.