Could this Soviet cap badge be radioactive?
The red color fluorinates and my Geiger counter detects increased radiation
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Here you should first mention how much more it radiates than the environment and whether it is not background noise.
If a color in the black light has nothing to do with radioactivity and otherwise it would be rather unusual for this badge if it really contained radioactive material.
The badge is probably from a normal Uzchanka and they are still sold today.
Many years ago, I had a wristwatch and an alarm clock, the hands of which glowed at night, so that you could also read the time in the dark. Radium-226 was used for this purpose. This is forbidden today. Of course, I don't know if your Soviet star could contain such stuff. Does the star shine in the dark?
When it shines in the dark and a Geiger counter strikes, which actually serves to measure radioactive particles… you might even come to that it is radioactive 🙄
Do not understand the meaning of the question. You've got a Geiger counter that seems to hit. Geiger counters are used to measure ionizing radiation. So if he's knocking out, it's gonna be radioactive.
If your violin counter indicates an increased radiation, it is radioactive. That's the meaning of a Geiger counter to show something like that. If this comes from the color, you cannot know. Does this really shine in the dark?
The color lights under black
Only if the color *without* black light (UV) would shine permanently could it be concluded that it reacts to radioactive radiation.
That's all different, black light is uneven darkness.