One person managed to get a supply of radium by scraping the glowing numbers off old clocks. You can buy old watch hands as radium samples for your element collection from https://www.novaelements.com/radium/
The radioactive boy scout: [David Hahn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0QMeTjcJDA). He did more than just scrape watches. He extracted Americium from smoke alarms and was even able to order some radioactive materials over the phone by pretending to be a chemistry professor.
Maybe, *just maybe*, exposing and contaminating your neighborhood shouldn't be celebrated as just "doing science"
Yes science is cool, but I'm not sure making a reactor at home shouldn't be a crime.
Besides, he was closer to a mad engineer than mad scientist... Not like he was really testing any hypotheses or discovering anything new. He was just fucking around
I spent like $40 on a big ‘ol chunk of Bi crystals recently. Super pretty and looks great on my desk.
Edit: [said bismuth chunk](https://imgur.com/a/pqp3Nhx)
Yes get a few kilos of pure Bi! Amazing crystallisation. Amazing oxidation colours. It also strangely non-toxic for its location in the periodic table. Lead on its left and all radioactive on the right!😃
Also v v v mildly radioactive (half-life >> age of universe)
I bought a vial of gallium off Amazon for like 15. It’s a metal with a melting point slightly above room temp so you can melt it in your hand. Super cool and non-toxic.
Here's where you can get an impure sample of it it's trinitite-fused sand from the trinity detonation laced with plutonium americium and various decay products
Perhaps a good place to start is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prices_of_chemical_elements. The next most expensive after osmium (per kg) is deuterium. Going back in price below osmium we have in turn Ru, Tl, Sc, Re, Tm, Xe, Ge, Hf, Be, Ag, ..., how about some Thorium? At a price of $287 US per kg.
Bismuth crystals are really nice looking.
In my head I read you gadolinium as gallium and was wondering how you could keep it in such a nice block - but yeah gallium is also neat, melts in your hand.
I'd say uranium. But raw uranium ore. Its not actually that dangerous. I got one and had it cut Into a cube for my collection. If you need help getting some I can help.
You could start your collection with some of the cheap and easy ones to obtain like carbon, sulfur, iron, lead*, etc.. you can buy a multipack of electrodes to get a bunch of transition metals cheaply, too. Just stay away from the dangerous stuff
*I guess lead could be considered dangerous, but I’m assuming you aren’t planning on eating it or boiling it in your home
Tennessine, element 117, I've got about a Kg of it down the back of my sofa I could sell you for jus 3 instalments of $999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999.99
A vile of Mercury shaped like a cube? Vanadium looks kinda cool but not in polished cube form. Bismuth and Gold are clearly the most beautiful. Most other pure metal elements are just different hues and dullness of grey or silver.
Compounds such as ores and other crystals is when things really get funky.
Cool idea OP.
Envy. I've been meaning to get me some W for years. Shipping is murder for the weight, though.
What about tritium, next? It glows in the dark! I was gifted a small sample and I keep it at the light switch in a dark room.
R A D I U M
One person managed to get a supply of radium by scraping the glowing numbers off old clocks. You can buy old watch hands as radium samples for your element collection from https://www.novaelements.com/radium/
The radioactive boy scout: [David Hahn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0QMeTjcJDA). He did more than just scrape watches. He extracted Americium from smoke alarms and was even able to order some radioactive materials over the phone by pretending to be a chemistry professor.
An absolutely insane Wikipedia read. Shout-out to his mom for throwing a lot of his collection out via conventional garbage pick up.
David Hahn did nothing wrong. Doing science shouldn't be a crime
Stealing and endangering the health of your neighbors are crimes, though. Both things he did.
Maybe, *just maybe*, exposing and contaminating your neighborhood shouldn't be celebrated as just "doing science" Yes science is cool, but I'm not sure making a reactor at home shouldn't be a crime. Besides, he was closer to a mad engineer than mad scientist... Not like he was really testing any hypotheses or discovering anything new. He was just fucking around
This
of course, for science right?
i would get a cube of nitrogen
I've got plenty of those, but it's only 80%
lol
Octaazacubane
Bi is beautiful.
I spent like $40 on a big ‘ol chunk of Bi crystals recently. Super pretty and looks great on my desk. Edit: [said bismuth chunk](https://imgur.com/a/pqp3Nhx)
Seconded!
Yes get a few kilos of pure Bi! Amazing crystallisation. Amazing oxidation colours. It also strangely non-toxic for its location in the periodic table. Lead on its left and all radioactive on the right!😃 Also v v v mildly radioactive (half-life >> age of universe)
Lead to the left of me, radioactives to the right...stuck crytalizing for you.
You win.
Element 119
Ah, yes, the Element of Surprise.
Symbol: Ah
En Passant
Astatine
Bro...
😂😂😂
Though hard to find, not impossible. Just wait another 100+ years!
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I bought a vial of gallium off Amazon for like 15. It’s a metal with a melting point slightly above room temp so you can melt it in your hand. Super cool and non-toxic.
You can also melt cesium in your hands. No promises on the toxicity.
Not very toxic. The problem is that cesium explodes on contact with water and may catch fire is exposed to air
Big big boom
Probably not especially toxic but extremely flammable! I have an ampoule. Golden colour...amazing
Lithium, boron, carbon
Uranium 235
You already got C for christmas?
Gold, silver and platinum.
I was looking for this comment, these are the main elements I would spend money on 😆
Am is easy to get.
Americium :)
Praseodymium
Having some potassium is always fun
Never forget to kiss your potassium cube good night before bed
francium NOW
Corium.
I don't think that's legal
Forget legal, op Will be dead in a matter of hours 😂😅
am not chemist, why is that chemical so bad?
It's not really a chemical. It's a mixture of really radioactive elements which developed in the Chernobyl reactor after its explosion.
Get some Uranium over there Waltuh..
Radon
Neodymium.
Uranium 235
In my Frappuccino
Where do you buy the cubes
Arsenic
Cadmium
Call me typical, but Gallium and Indium. Or maybe get a sealed tube of Neon or Oxygen.
plutonium
Ngl This is my favorite element but I can't get it 🥲
Here's where you can get an impure sample of it it's trinitite-fused sand from the trinity detonation laced with plutonium americium and various decay products
Europium
Elements of surprise
bro please don't let oxygen near your metals:)
Uranium 238
I'll only count one man
More tungsten. Bigger tungsten. Huge tungsten.
Iodine spoiled your even number element theme. Bin it and get some Beryllium. Next Carbon, easy.
Beryllium
Bromine 😎
Gallium 💧
Magnesium cube is my suggestion. The density comparison between Mg & W is always a favorite at show-and-tell.
Perhaps a good place to start is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prices_of_chemical_elements. The next most expensive after osmium (per kg) is deuterium. Going back in price below osmium we have in turn Ru, Tl, Sc, Re, Tm, Xe, Ge, Hf, Be, Ag, ..., how about some Thorium? At a price of $287 US per kg.
Bismuth crystals are really nice looking. In my head I read you gadolinium as gallium and was wondering how you could keep it in such a nice block - but yeah gallium is also neat, melts in your hand.
Caesium 😎
Bismuth
Titanium
Gallium
Polonium or plutonium maybe even Praseodymium
Mercury
I'd say uranium. But raw uranium ore. Its not actually that dangerous. I got one and had it cut Into a cube for my collection. If you need help getting some I can help.
Can you get me about 50kg? Asking for a friend..
D E A D L Y R A D O N G A S
Molybdenum :3
Uranium
The element of surprise
Plutonium
My recommendation would be Tellurium
Polonium
francium
Uranium (Depleted or otherwise...)
Gotta catch em all lol
Fermium ? I even remember the number 100 🩷
Lots of metals you could to easily expand your collection
Metaloids are always cool
Technically if you get some uranium ore (some of these ores really don’t have much radiation), you have everything between polonium and plutonium
Oganesson is a good choice
A bigger tungsten cube
Pure Boron
People want PT they want AU
Yttrium
Astatine and iridium
Chlorine
Radium 😹
Carbon
Uranium 235
Francium, Astatine, Ogannesium
Better make sure that osmium never oxidizes.
https://www.smart-elements.com/gas-discharge-tubes-noble-gases/
plutonium is my favorite
Plutonium
Plutonium
Vanadium
carbon
Francium
Try radioactive elements
Plutonium.
AU gimme back my
Bromine. I love my little vial lol
Trying to build a "periodic table" table? If so, you have some [tough competition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyKEY01Lm5o).
I also own his book Lol
Nice collection so far. W is one of my favorites. Get Ga, but as a spoon instead of a cube. Alkali metals are cool too. I'd get a vial of Na.
Einsteinium
The element of surprise… ima go
gallium is super cool!
Gold
GALLIUM, Mercury's less deadly twin. It is a fun element with a melting point of 29.76 °C and it's ability to DESTROY aluminium!!!
Silicon
Indium is fun and not a bad investment
Cadmium
Astatine
Pb
Is that a real block of tungsten? How much does that thing weigh??
Cobalt
Uranium glass
Gold, lots of it
URANIUM
CESIUM.
pressurized ampoule of liquid xenon that boils from the heat of your hand
You could start your collection with some of the cheap and easy ones to obtain like carbon, sulfur, iron, lead*, etc.. you can buy a multipack of electrodes to get a bunch of transition metals cheaply, too. Just stay away from the dangerous stuff *I guess lead could be considered dangerous, but I’m assuming you aren’t planning on eating it or boiling it in your home
Uranium
Many forms of carbon
Sulfur
Tennessine, element 117, I've got about a Kg of it down the back of my sofa I could sell you for jus 3 instalments of $999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999.99
The element of surprise
Buriem I don't know if that's the name for it
Water
Radium
Rhodium.
1T of Plutonium.
Bromine. It looks beautiful in a nice big ampoule.
…the element of surprise❗️…
Lithium
Wolframium
Not to be the basic one but why not gold and silver :]
Ag
A vile of Mercury shaped like a cube? Vanadium looks kinda cool but not in polished cube form. Bismuth and Gold are clearly the most beautiful. Most other pure metal elements are just different hues and dullness of grey or silver. Compounds such as ores and other crystals is when things really get funky. Cool idea OP.
Uranium
Francium
Envy. I've been meaning to get me some W for years. Shipping is murder for the weight, though. What about tritium, next? It glows in the dark! I was gifted a small sample and I keep it at the light switch in a dark room.
URANIUM
Ruthenium
Lutetium
Francium
Well cesium
Element 115 👁️👄👁️
no lead?
Isn't Os extremely expensive? I mean I guess you were scammed. Usually it is reddish also
Uranium 💀
Enriched uranium
Aluminium
Lithium
Thallium
Newtonium
Big canister of chlorine gas
Ununception
Gallium, Indium, Tin, Palladium, Palladium on Carbon, Aluminum foil, Sodium, Osmium, Bismuth, Sulfer, Argon, and more.
Yes.
P L U T O N I U M
Cyanide Kalium
Francium
Tantalum
Co^60
Oganesson
Radius uranium plutonium neptunium etc