Recent content by tinacoolman17

I don't necessarily want the answer, but I would like to know how to solve this sort of problem...

Calculate the number of grams of sulfuric acid in 1 gallon of battery acid if the solution has a density of 1.26 and is 38.5 sulfuric acid by mass.

I feel like splitting an atom would be easier. lol.

agh, I can't get my hands on a Geiger counter--that would have been perfect too. My teacher said that there is a very easy way to get a reaction, but she won't tell us what it is... we could use the smoke detector, but we can't get it to go off consistently. We have to have the whole Rube...

Oh thank you! I was always told that a microwave had something to do with nuclear reactions. For the Geiger counter--what could be emitted from the source to make the needle move. I am kind of bad at physics, I apologize. lol.

I am designing a Rube Goldberg machine and I am trying to incorporate a nuclear reaction. I do not want to split an atom or anything, but I do need something other than a smoke detector or a microwave to use. Is there any household or common object/device that uses a nuclear reaction? :confused: