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RE: Radon Gas: A Potentially Harmful Guest in Your Own Home

in #steemstem7 years ago (edited)

Some of the older glasses used Uranium (up to 25%) so check any old glassware! But it sounds like you would have to be just about over a mineable deposit of Uranium Ore to be too concerned.

Funny thing was I was just only just recently watching Cody's lab over on youtube where he refined Uranium metal (at home) from ore he found fossicking in Colorado. That guy is crazy!

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You'd be surprised. We did our study in the suburbs of Canberra and found elevated levels in lots of the homes we tested. Not enough to be a health risk in the places we looked, but more than youd expect all the same. Its mainly geology though. You don't have to be quite a uranium deposit, but if the geology in your area is the right (wrong?) type then you'll find it.

Ahh the days of being a graduate uni student door knocking in the suburbs asking people if you could put a radiation testing device in their kitchen :) I don't miss those at all !