Wouldn't use uranium, because as another poster mentions it's more a novelty and there are better materials you could use, but you could make your own cloud chamber to observe radioactive decay with the naked eye. Makes for a really cool science demonstration :)
There isn't a whole lot you can do with it, you are basically getting a rock. You can show it is radioactive by running a geiger counter across it. Interestingly enough the old rare earth mine in Nevada, back when it was closed and essentially "abandoned" had a variety of radioactive materials in its tailings (the most common being Thorium) we did a science trip once to grab some and figure out the various isotopes in it.
If you put it in an air tight container you can collect Radon.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 61.7 ms ] threadhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pewTySxfTQk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber
How do you do that?
HotBits already has implemented the idea
If you put it in an air tight container you can collect Radon.
You probably have a more radioactive americium source in each of your smoke detectors than in that entire jar.
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amazon comments are gold though.
Does this mean I can list my chloroform under the "Cosmetics" category too?