What radioactive things can be found in the op shop or antiques store

[The Aussie Boy]

Could anyone make a list of radioactive things that are found at the op shop or antique store (Plutonium I'm looking for you and I have sent you some stuff on the PMs)


kind regards
Harry

[Plutonium]

Sorry for the late reply,
 I haven't logged on for quite a while.
The list of radioactive stuff you can find in antique shops is quite large. There are lots of things that have Uranium, Thorium, Radium, Promethium and Tritium.
  The best place to see what people have found is in a facebook group all "Radioactive Minerals and Objects".

[Clarky]

Smoke detectors use radioactive material.
 

[Plutonium]

Smoke Detectors typically have Am241.  Some of the collectable ones from USA had Radium in them. But the real winners are Russian smoke detectors which contain Plutonium 241.
They can often be found for less than $50usd, but recently a USA element dealer was selling them for $5000usd each, set in resin to people who didn't know better.

There is a lot of Uranium Glass out there with it's typical Green glow. There is also yellow vaseline Uranium glass. Some rarer versions are blue, pink and brown.
Uranium glaze pottery. It's often cream colour and glows green under UV light.

Thorium gas lantern mantles, thorium camera lenses, thorium glass plates and thoriated welding rods and vacuum tubes. 

Radium clocks, watches, aircraft dials, as well as a whole range of quack devices like revigators.  I've even found a Radium hair brush from the 1920's.

And there is a huge list of minerals that are radioactive and quite a lot more that are verifiable by their activity. Like a lot of mexican minerals are active.