Just got this lil keyring in the mail today...it is awesome! Its the blue "crystal" looking thing I'm talking about. The keyring has a small amount of Tritium gas inside a phosphor coated glass tube, and it glows in the dark. Whats special is that it doesnt need electricity or light exposure...and works for 10 years.... Very good for finding keys in the dark is this actually somehting newish or am I just being slow with the technology these days?
Wish I had some tritium. That's very cool. Now it just needs some Z factor so it can get onto the Z keys which consist of only the original key, and the immobiliser.
Hmm...z-factor... Just hope it doesn't mean that the keyring will break down and need expensive parts to fix it all the time...
Hmm Tritium, isn't that what Doc Oc in Spiderman 2 needed to create nuclear fushion? Dude you may have the key to a sub 10 second Zed
I think you're right. Tritium is an isotope of Hydrogen. Hydrogen is normally structured as 1 proton and 1 electron. Deuterium is the first radioactive isotope of Hydrogen, also possessing 1 neutron in its nucleus. The oxide of Deuterium is nicknamed "Heavy Water", which some of you may have heard of as the substance the Nazis were interested in in their quest to build a nucklear weapon. Tritium is similar but with 2 neutrons. The radiation Tritium emits as it decays (loses neutrons) is too weak to penetrate human tissues, but will cause some fluorescent substances to glow bightly, and so is useful in devices like that keyring. The glow effect should last many years.
Tritium has a half life of 12.3 years which is quite short sufficient for a The beta radiation emitted is quite week so is unlikely to even escape the container let alone penetrate soft tissue. Even if it managed to it has very low ionisation potential so would be quite harmless, especially considering that we are exposed to tritium on an almost daily basis. It does look quite effective though
Re:I think you're right. Tritium is an isotope of Hydrogen. Ummmmmm am I the only one that cant understand you.....just because you drive a zed doesnt mean you can speak Japanese to us So does that mean I can have fancy mutant powers? Nice, ten for me please *cyclops*
Got it off eBay...look for "GlowRing" they're not very cheap though, comes in 3 colours. I asked the guy who I got it from and he cant offer a discount unless I order over 100 in 1 go....maybe I should set up a shop..haha
