Comment by perihelions
1 month ago
If Theodore Gray (the eccentric millionaire co-founder of Wolfram) doesn't have a plutonium sample in his famous periodic table, I really doubt there's any available for sale in the US, outside of NRC-regulated places. He'd had found one by now, if one existed.
Is it possible someone confused plutonium with polonium? That's the Occam's razor here.
Apparently this was the offending Plutonium purchase.
https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale?s...
I'll be eating my hat, then; this thing is indeed real,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13616574 )
That analysis says these contained about 40 μCi of Pu-239, or 0.7 mg.
How do we know?