Radioactive or not?
Hello, I have a stone at home that I was given as a gift. It looks like the pictures, but when you look on the internet it sometimes says that it could be a radioactive stone and sometimes you find a stone that looks exactly the same and is not dangerous. Can someone explain this to me and how do I know if it is dangerous?
Then put a picture of the stone you have here.
At each gymnasium there are devices for measuring radioactive radiation. There you can easily find it by a physics teacher.
Ask an expert or measure radioactivity with a Geiger counter. I don’t see many other possibilities.
You can’t say if you haven’t seen your stone.
Either you’re holding the rock in front of a Geiger-Müller-Zählrohr (handy devices are available at Amazon) or you’re waiting for the consequences of any radiation sickness. First method is less painful.
However, costs more in the short term;)
Go to the Environmental Agency in your city. They give free small violin counters.
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Here I give you a few phrases so you can structure your text legibly.
I’m sure you don’t have a bad eye.
You can check it with a Geiger counter.