A Florida Man in the 90's made a homemade atomic bomb with paint scrapings from clocks and old chemistry kits specifically because he couldn't do it with the newer stuff.
Radium cannot sustain a chain reaction because it isn't fissile. You would need to split about 31 billion atoms every second just to power a tiny 1-watt LED bulb. Chain reactions are important for bombs.
I got a glow-in-the-dark skeleton-print apron at Joann's a few years ago, and that mf is BRIGHT. I'll be painting or doing something in the kitchen, step outside for a moment (say, to take trash to the dumpster) and then upon stepping back inside from sunlight to a more 'comfortable low-light' indoors environment, be reminded that indeed yes my silly skeleton apron GLOWS.
I also got some of the culture-hustle glow powder for mixing with pigment, and similarly, that shit puts out some LIGHT when it's charged. I like to mix it with clear acrylic and apply it to patches and such to hide secret glow messages or features (eg, light-up eyes).
Yeah, my partner's mom bought a pyjama for our daughter without realizing it was glow-in-the-dark, and it's crazy how bright it is. Makes it easy to spot her at night though!
Similarly my sister got us a really big set of glow-in-the-dark stars that included a giant moon, and if I hold a book close to it when it's "fully charged" I can actually read it, and I've woken up a few times at 3 AM with the stars still mildly glowing.
Unless you forget the shirt does that and only remember when you stumble in the bathroom with the lights off and get fucking jumoscared looking in the mirror
I do have a full collection of the Nintendo Pikmin plushies, one of them glows in the dark, and since the live in my bed, it has startled me in the middle of the night
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u/Digit00l 2h ago
Glow in the dark is fairly disappointing