TIL we can legally buy safe tritium vials as keychains

https://www.mixglo.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html

Today I learned that it is illegal to sell tritium in the us but it is not illegal to buy it in the us...so here is a website selling tritium trinkets that come from taiwan!

They are like glow sticks that last for 10 years, it is perfectly safe unless maybe you were drinking liquid tritium for a few weeks.

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MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The power of the sun....in the palm of your hand....

thyristor@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 1y
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ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 1y (6 replies)

They are like glow sticks that last for 10 years, it is perfectly safe unless maybe you were drinking liquid tritium for a few weeks.

Now there is nothing I want to do more than drinking the forbidden heavy water

Misseuse@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1y

Deuterium is heavy water. Tritium is morbidly obese water

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I want to mix it with lube for a freaky radioactive sex party with me and my hand.

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 42 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y

Did.....did you not notice the username?

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Mmmm heavy…

AtariDump@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1y (5 replies)

it is perfectly safe unless maybe you were drinking liquid tritium for a few weeks.

Don't tell me what to do! I do what I want!!! Also....unrelated.....but I think I'm going to go lie down for a bit.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Big Carol/Cheryl energy 😄

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

If Carol/Chyrol/Charlene were a real person, I'd absolutely fall in love with her......probably as she burns my house down.

AtariDump@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

confuser@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 1y

Name checks out

Shadow@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 1y

I've have one on my keychain for years, it's great. Not visible during the day, but just bright enough at night to make them easy to spot.

FireTower@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Since when is it illegal to sell tritium in the US? Gun companies selling tritium glow in the dark sights all the time.

confuser@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1y

Actually now that you mention it I think you are half right after looking into it more.

It does seem like it is actually heavily regulated and not necessary illegal, but I guess this would mean illegal for unlicensed people to sell.

If I had to guess most sellers in the us with tritium in their products aren't selling tritium but rather selling procured items with tritium and thats probably a legal workaround for that.

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Other gadgets as well. For instance, this knife. (Plug.)

AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Not even a big knife guy and I love these posts.

confuser@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Ooh do you work for glow rhino?

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Certainly not.

In fact, no knife or gadget manufacturer has yet seen fit to pay me to shill their stuff. Which is a bummer.

toynbee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I used to work with someone bearing the last name of "Leatherman." They similarly lamented their lack of association with the company sharing their name.

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The Leatherman tool company is indeed named after its creator's last name, which is also of course "Leatherman."

I know we all like to joke about that Tim Apple guy calling the shots and fucking everything up all the time at the iPhone-and-computer company, but the owner and founder of the Leatherman Tool Group is literally Tim Leatherman.

toynbee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Oh, sure, many companies are named after their founder's surnames - I didn't mean to suggest I doubted that. I just meant that the Leatherman I knew was unassociated.

The "Tim" fact is pretty funny. Thank you for the information.

confuser@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

Ohh I think I got confused when you mentioned plug, I guess you meant linking to your post

randombullet@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1y

I have the glowrhino prybar on my keychain for 4 years now.

It's actually one of the more useful thing I've kept on my body.

MNByChoice@midwest.social · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Aren't there tritium gun sights?

shalafi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I have a few.

otacon239@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

I have one of these that’s about 6 or 7 years old at this point and still glowing alright. Pretty neat little things!

thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

I love the one on my keychain — usually forget it’s there until I’m somewhere so dark that it suddenly it lights up the entire door handle.

user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 1y

Description of how tritium smells like by Cody's Lab: https://youtube.com/shorts/PvRP3Jor19M

ByGourou@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y

I had one a few years back but my necklace broke and I lost it. It was neat, I should get a new one.

Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I have one on my keychain. I can always find my keychain in the dark…