The Staticmaster. It is an anti-static brush of American manufacture. It uses a sealed source of polonium 210.
It's super efficient, it really repels dust. Seen in a salon at the Palais des Congrès but not or more imported, I believe:
http://www.2spi.com/catalog/photo/statmaster.shtml
It still exists, website:
http://www.amstat.com/solutions/staticmaster.html
There are replacement cartridges from 250 to 1500 µcuries ...
Not necessarily dangerous, like the sleeves of butane gas lamps, but on sale on Ebay (probably HS):
http://cgi.ebay.com/STATICMASTER-3C500- ... 2560daa310
nuclear battery, portable small
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Interesting, here are the 2 photos of the ebay link before they disappear:
Crazy, when was that?
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium_210
Say to see Leo as you are in research and that you seem to know these "objects using radionuclides which surrounded us" (cf links here: https://www.econologie.com/forums/le-nucleai ... 10675.html ) you don't want to make it a subject? It can be fun!
Crazy, when was that?
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium_210
In addition to the space sector, polonium 210 is also used in antistatic applications, such as certain brushes for materials sensitive to static electricity, although β sources are generally preferred because they are much less dangerous. It is indeed very volatile - it loses 50% of its mass in 45 hours by only being heated to 55 ° C (its melting point is 254 ° C), possibly by disintegration on the atomic scale. induced by its very strong α activity, which has the effect of maintaining it at a high temperature - and assimilated by living organisms due to its chemistry similar to those of tellurium and bismuth: it has been shown that certain microorganisms are able to methylate polonium using methylcobalamin, in the same way that they can methylate mercury, selenium and tellurium. [4], [5]
Polonium 210 is known to the general public for having been used to eliminate Alexandre Litvinenko in 2006.
Say to see Leo as you are in research and that you seem to know these "objects using radionuclides which surrounded us" (cf links here: https://www.econologie.com/forums/le-nucleai ... 10675.html ) you don't want to make it a subject? It can be fun!
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Christophe wrote:Crazy, when was that?
Say to see Leo as you are in research and that you seem to know these "objects using radionuclides which surrounded us" (cf links here: https://www.econologie.com/forums/le-nucleai ... 10675.html ) you don't want to make it a subject? It can be fun!
The StaticMaster already existed in the mid-70s. Given its price and the half-life of polonium 210, it was a great scam!
OK for the subject, I'll see that. There have been lots of things: treatments for skin diseases at the beginning of the last century, (the treatment was successful but the patients died! ), radioactive lightning conductors: they are being eliminated little by little but several tens of thousands are still in service, a certain number have disappeared, stolen for perhaps reinforcement ... : http://www.dissident-media.org/infonucl ... erres.html
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