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SETTANTAxOTTANTA: Anni 50-60. Arriva il kit atomico per bambini, erede del piccolo chimico. È definito uno dei giocattoli più pericolosi · 70 80

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  Buongiorno, oggi vi parlo di un regalo particolare.
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  qualcosa di utile o almeno originale ai propri
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  figli e parenti più piccoli, cosa c 'è di meglio
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  di un bel kit atomico? No, non stiamo scherzando,
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  nei primi anni 50, a poca distanza, from the
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  end of the war and above all from the dramatic
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  phases that saw the protagonists and the bombs
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  of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic kit for
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  children became a dangerous reality. The idea,
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  which we do not know well how to define, of the
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  atomic kit came to Alfred Carton Gilbert, inventor,
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  athlete, magician and in this case also toy producer.
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  Gilbert affirmed that toys were the basis of
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  the formation of a solid American adult and many
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  of his were designed to have an educational role
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  and that was the era that was in circulation.
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  of laboratory boxes for chemical reactions such
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  as the famous small chemical still on the market
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  even in Italy taking advantage of the favorable
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  situation alfred carton gilbert did not have
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  problems proposing in 1950 his very particular
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  and disturbing atomic kit called atomic energy
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  lab a real nuclear laboratory in miniature the
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  purpose of the kit that would today make us shudder
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  was in fact to allow children transformed into
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  small scientists on the arms of enrico fermi
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  to create watch nuclear and chemical reactions
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  using radioactive material. In an elegant red
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  suitcase, between accessories and various substances
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  and the image of a young man trying to experiment,
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  the atomic kit offered three inquisitive notebooks
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  with today's eyes. The first was a book of instructions,
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  while the second was a comic book story entitled
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  How Dagwood Splits the Atom. The protagonist
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  of the adventure was the character of Dagwood,
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  little known in Italy and born from the pencil
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  of Shik Yang. In the story, Dagwood, together
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  with his blonde wife Mandrake and Popeye, Iron
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  Arm, explained the structure of the atom and
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  how to create a chemical reaction. The third
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  book, instead, introduced the use of uranium.
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  The atomic kit, in fact, in addition to lead,
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  uranium, zinc and polonium, also offered small
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  containers with toxic and radioactive metal dust.
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  The atomic package contained a scintillation
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  eyepiece, which mounted a zinc sulfide lens.
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  With a small amount of uranium and radio, the
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  lens turned into a fluorescent screen due to
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  the decay of radioactive elements. Between a
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  Geigel -Müller calculator with batteries to measure
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  radioactivity and the electroscope, which allows
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  you to see how much radiation emanates from the
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  source you are using, the part of the Leonessa
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  was made by the Nebbia -Wilson camera, the device
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  that was mounted of a transparent sphere, allowed
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  to look at the traces left by the very fast alpha
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  particles. The Atomic Energy Lab had a short
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  life, in fact, it came out on the scene in 1951
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  after less than 5 ,000 units were produced. In
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  the USA it was sponsored by the government to
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  make people understand the benefits of using
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  nuclear energy and to involve young people to
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  study engineering and science. The mini laboratory
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  was taken from the market not so much for the
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  danger that at the time happened to Malaparte,
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  as for the cost 50 dollars, prohibitive for most
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  American families. In reality, the radioactivity
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  emitted by the substances contained in the atomic
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  kit was really modest. The same creator, Alfred
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  Carton Gilbert, guaranteed the safety of his
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  invention. that did not prevent it from being
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  defined years later as the world's most dangerous
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  toy. A few years ago, a scientific magazine declared
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  that the exposure to the radiation that gave
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  this game was nothing more than the equivalent
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  of a daily dose of UV rays in the event that
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  the radioactive material was never extracted
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