Uranium in Fossils? Testing My Radioactive Megalodon Tooth!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I'm going to have to check out that uranium mining museum next time I'm in Grants.

[@allRadioactive]

Definitely it’s worth a visit!

[@Fresh-sy3lw]

You know you watch too much radioactive Drew when you recognize the little picture next to your comment and it doesn't say your name but you got it right anyways lol

[@leonardmichaelwrinch446]

I’ve got a radioactive shark tooth that is 400cpm

[@pak7524]

Interesting! I will hope to see more detail about uranium fossil 👍🏼 🦖+☢️=❤️

[@allRadioactive]

Maybe I’ll be able to film some content inside the natural history museum in Berlin and get a chance to measure the fossils there. This would be super cool and interesting!

[@trash0]

I was in USA this time last year and called into this museum. It's only small but well worth the visit. I also picked up some nice radioactive dinosaur bones from the desert out near Green River UT. Meg teeth especially those found in North Carolina are usually radioactive.

[@allRadioactive]

That’s an awesome find! I still have a bunch of content to make from my trip to states and I can’t wait to share it here

[@brfisher1123]

Excellent! I’ve been waiting for someone to also take note of these fossil megalodon teeth often being slightly radioactive and doing gamma spectroscopy on them even since I’ve discovered my fossil megalodon tooth being radioactive back in 2021! Not scary but pretty interesting that these things that people love collecting can be radioactive! ☢️ ☢️

[@allRadioactive]

Yes! I knew about them being potentially radioactive for a while but where I live we don’t have that many megalodon teeth so when I saw one that was spicy during my trip to US, it was an instant buy for me

[@goldcoastmotors37]

I will have to check with the megalodon tooth and RaysID at home. Never had the 💡

[@allRadioactive]

Looking forward to hearing the update after your measurements :)

[@JonackFilm]

An this is so interesting 🎉

[@radioactive.findings]

I saw similar souvenirs in Sardinia, Italy. I quickly tested them with my Raysid but didn't detect anything radioactive (I didn't have much time). It seems that the region where these fossils were found might play a role.

[@allRadioactive]

@@radioactive.findings yes definitely! Unfortunately I forgot to ask where did the tooth came from…

[@janisalnis6422]

there is uranium in Estonian shale minerals that are sediments. Some people sau that as uranium is heavy it should sink to the bottom of the see. The chemistry is that in aneirobic cinditions uranium salts become insoluble. Aneirobic conditions happen because od bacteria digesting fossils.

[@T.Tagges]

I really didn’t think they’d let a Geiger counter through TSA

[@goldcoastmotors37]

It‘s no problem at all. Sometimes they have questions, but never had issues.

[@allRadioactive]

I never had any problems and there are no reasons why they would stop it from passing (unless you have attached check source or something like that). A few times I have forgot to turn off my Terra-P alarms which would get triggered by the X-rays at the airport but after a quick explanation to the security they actually got positively interested in the topic of radiation being higher when flying in an airplane.