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It's called a spinthariscope and you can still buy them, although they now use thorium or apparently americium and no longer something so ungodly nasty as polonium.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2568:_Spinthariscope
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u/Background-Wafer-548 1d ago
It's called a spinthariscope and you can still buy them, although they now use thorium or apparently americium and no longer something so ungodly nasty as polonium.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2568:_Spinthariscope