Brainiac Science Abuse - Alkali Metals

[RNACLunchbox]

lol my teacher showed us this in class...little did he know it was fake >:)

[Megamanforever]

@RNACLunchbox huh

[sylontuk]

No metal on Earth does that in amounts so small.

[drakelowc]

I dislike this stupid show, this is bad science at ts absolute worst.

[ralphymousey]

Francium is radioactive and is so reactive that it is almst impossible to find a pure sample as it reacts with other elements or just decays.

[spikelimbo]

dear santa ...

[1stsmosh]

This is not fake...this is all real.

[ApolloWasReal]

@1stsmosh Yes, they're real detonations of C-4 explosive.

[saywaaaaaaaaaah]

There is only a couple onces of Francium in the whole world, and the most stable isotope has a half-life of 22 mins, and its actually less reactive than cesium.

[janssen70]

I believe this is possible.

At chemistry lesson they showed us a video while a guy is putting it in a glass jar and the jar just shattered. and the bit of metal was just a scrape

[gammaray850]

hammond, why are u doin this crap instead of presenting top gear

[lolbomb1234]

i didnt know richard hammond was on this show

[FizzWolf]

We saw this in science! =P

[egosumultimaton]

the only reason they cant use frananium is because theres only 22g of it on earth...but it would be so much fun if there was more!!!!!

[Dalmako]

What is the name of the song of the first minute?

Thanks

[Dalmako]

What is the name of the song of the first minute?

Thanks

[tidmouthmilk12]

and 2:21 jon sounds like he said

'clean arse'

[tidmouthmilk12]

hold cursor on 0:14 and keep presing it sounds like 'eat the shit'

[Gumpa2]

the rubidium also reacts with the air.....

u just have to drop this piece into the target

[Gumpa2]

i wanted to see rubidium.........

[bdriz16]

DAMN I wanna see Francium in water.

[rysnyper50002]

Top gun music?

[dudemonkeydan]

Not an acid man.

[blo0red]

ahahahaa brainiac staged that explosion, that is fact. this also proves that science is boring and has to be tarted up with explosions, moronic presenters and slutty models to keep people watching it.

[rachelsashasmith]

Wow! The only reaction I've seen in real life was Magnesium & Oxygen, and it didn't go well, but...WOW! I'm so glad I found this!

[Celeb132]

we watched potassium and it wasn't on a vid! It was real life!

[jordanbbuu]

OMG!BOMB!!!

[Ceefax100]

so francium+fluorine=armageddon?

[Risentful]

francium only has a half-life of 4.5 minutes, which means it will only be around for that long.

[Teqo7]

There is only 550gram francium in the crust of earth :)

[Corneliustheamoeba]

This was staged. They planted explosives under the bathtub. They admitted it. Case closed.

In reality, such a small amount of Cesium in such a large amount of water wouldn't even produce the explosion that Braniac staged for RUBIDIUM. It does definitely react violently in water, but in order for Cesium and Rubidium to blow up the bathtub as they did in the video, you'd need a much larger mass of those elements.

[sheepnote]

@Corneliustheamoeba We watched this in my science class. I'm going to challenge my teacher :D

[Thrallsbuddy]

@Corneliustheamoeba exactly , 2 grams of rubidium dont do this shit. id say a good cube of 7- 10 centimeters as side (although i am not sure as to its power , i have only see potassium being tested)

[Thrallsbuddy]

@Corneliustheamoeba and it goes off instantly , forgot to say, ass we see potassium ignites real fast , imagine these " violent" guyz

[Tigerheart01]

How Alkali metals respond to water is true here. Bleach is not water, that's why it didn't work.

[shiman6d]

on mythbusters, they were trying to blow down a brick wall with sodium. so nothing is proved wrong.

[jjjmanyo]

Mythbusters proved fake...

[Deluxeta]

Brainiac IS fake. And it's staged...

[KEngel1021]

I did an experiment breaking a glass vial of one gram of Rubidium metal in a pan of Chlorox Bleach and it wasn't anything like this. This was proved to be fake by Theodore Gray on his website.

[will01r]

this is true but different qualities give different results this is just very high quality material

[Tryce14]

Mythbusters proves nothing...they fucked up their experiment so badly... they broke the ampules above the water... here the rubidium and cesium react with water while being covered by 2 feet of it... This makes huge difference.

[nebonit]

to give you an idea of what francium would look like imagine the same explosions as cesium only it is in air. woth no water to make the explosion

[timetravler4977]

mythbusters didnt use disolving vials..smashing vial and disolving thers a big deifference..

[KodierungHerz]

Busted

[Spikero2]

Even though it was on G4 and had nothing to do with video games (just like 80 percent of its programming today), it still stands as my second favorite science show...

[CreatureRelm]

This is Fake, Mythbusters Busted this.

[mahirharoon]

@CreatureRelm

well , but myth-busters said nothing about rubidium and caesium they only busted myths about potassium and sodium just for safety reasons but anyway they think about safety more than these guys

[ninman58]

@mahirharoon They used 500 grams of potassium in an enclosed funnel. 2 grams of cesium in a giant open bathtub would not do that. It would react violently but not like that. If such a small amount could create an explosion like that, why don't the army make bombs from it?

[leonChm]

if they could just use uranium....

[downloadattachment]

uranium doesn't react in water

[ian38018]

brainiac is the best programe ever!!!!!!!

[mxgms]

is so fake!

[nerflover242]

mate, to fake that u would need more explosive that could fit into the tub....

[darknovablast]

Have you ever seen Francium explode?

[bsam20uk]

Brainiac faked the whole thing with theatrical bombs, they admit it themselves. Actual experiments show that the more reactive metals give a smaller explosion. Reason - the explosion is caused by hydrogen, and the more reactive metals have higher atomic weight so each gram produces less hydrogen. This sham has nothing to do with science.

[mynameisjeanclaude]

I WANT SOME!!!

[360Naruto]

They Mythbusters experiment had a flaw. In this video, with the glass made to dissolve in water, the entire surface area of the alkali metals would be exposed, but for the Mythbusters experiment, they cracked the vial open, leaving only a small area to be exposed at first.

[bestSVMS]

rhubidum is not a alkli metal

thats what i think they said anyway

and to produce that big of a explotion

you would need like a water bottle size piece of francium

[Braksis8]

Wrong, rubidium (atomic number 37) is an alkali metal residing, of course, in the first column of the period table.

[chromecrescent]

if you had a water bottle of francium you would be very rich, and if you reacted it with water you would a small scale nuclear explosion with radioactive fallout

[bestSVMS]

i dont think francium is radioactive

and it wouldnt be like a nuclear explosion

and ive seen litte vails of it for like 125$

a waterbottle size would be worth millions

[chromecrescent]

francium is indeed radioactive and it's more expensive then you say it is, and if you had enough of the stuff you could do a nuclear fission explosion

[cosmiccoolgirl]

Woah, that's a scary thought, interesting fact though

[nfldkillboy]

they just busted this crap on mythbusters... go home brainiac .. u suck!

[sciencenerd1616]

i love brainiac and mythbusters

[nfldkillboy]

meee tooooooooooo

[bennemann]

The way Mythbusters did it is different. It was not the same amount of metal, nor did their vial dissolve in the water, wich yelds a bigger surface for the water to react with the metal, and thus a bigger explosion.

[hunterelf]

BUSTED ! LOL

[bennemann]

The way Mythbusters did it is different. It was not the same amount of metal, nor did their vial dissolve in the water, wich yelds a bigger surface for the water to react with the metal, and thus a bigger explosion.

[belus92]

I f to dupy!

[JacKn1feSugarTrucK]

Mythbusters destroys Braniac.

[PinoyBoyp]

omfg this is fake the myth busters tried it out iwth 20 grams and it only made a cloud so thast means 2 grams is barely anything

!

[uscVictory5]

those videos may have been boring but at least they weren't fake!

[krislover69]

jrc418 & rebelquietly101 are right

these guys just have movie effects on their side

[rebelquietly101]

JRC is right, Mythbusters just completely owned Brainiac... sort of. I suppose you could blow up a bathtub with alkali metals, assuming you drop about 10 lbs. of rubidium in there. A few grams won't do much of anything and it's pretty clear to me that Brainiac used pyrotechnics to exaggerate the 'explosion'.

[jrc418]

fake mythbusters just proved it

[Tryce14]

mythbusters proved nothing because they fcked up the whole experiment

[ValveOilOnFire]

where can you buy cesium?

[tu4eva]

Argos, it's only 1 quid mate.

[Shakleton42]

And for the idea of francium, I can say that there is a very good reason that "they" "would not let Brainiac have" a sample of that metal. That is, that it is highly radioactive with a maximum half-life-time of ~ 22 Minutes. Due to that reason there is never more than ~ 20 g of francium in the world. It can be synthesized, but not enough to get wheightable amounts. So no chance on that.

There is a video around on YouTube that is labeled as a francium bomb test but simply shows an H-Bomb test.

[Shakleton42]

And for the idea of francium, I can say that there is a very good reason that "they" "would not let Brainiac have" a sample of that metal. That is, that it is highly radioactive with a maximum half-life-time of ~ 22 Minutes. Due to that reason there is never more than ~ 20 g of francium in the world. It can be synthesized, but not enough to get wheightable amounts. So no chance on that.

There is a video around on YouTube that is labeled as a francium bomb test but simply shows an H-Bomb test.

[Shakleton42]

Sorry to disappoint you, but this video is a fake.

Rubidium and caesium don't actually produce enough hydrogen gas (That's the thing that makes the bang and not the metal itself) to cause explosions of this magnitude.

When the Brainiac-Team figured that out, they simply put explosive charges in the bathtubs and fired them off.

Sorry Brainiac, for once, you disappoint me.

[xXxNecromancerxXx]

You are wrong.

Try it, and let's see if you survive :)

[Shakleton42]

Ok, you know, there is this story about the Goiânia accident, the last time, when private persons got hold of ceasium. That stuff is friggin' radioactive as well. Reults: 249 contaminated people, 4 dead, 84 houses evaccuated, 7 got pulled down. A whole district had to be avaccuated during the process. Look it up, if you want.

[bennemann]

The caesium there was a radioactive isotope, but the most common and stable isotope of caesium is not radioactive. People sell vials of caesium on ebay all the time, it's an interesting element to have since it can turn into what looks like liquid gold just by being in contact with body heat.

The only real danger of caesium is if you break it's ampole.

[PinoyBoyp]

xXxnecromancerxXx ur retarded of course you'll survive becuase it doesn't even explode the mythbusters tested it and 20 grams only made smoke so that means 2 grams can't even do anything....the only time you'll die is if u inhale smoke but u can't die from and explosion becuase there ain't an explosion thats gonna happen

[xXxNecromancerxXx]

Yes ok. I've tested it in reality and this is true.

It is not my business what you trust or not, I know I'm right :)

[PinoyBoyp]

soz dude i thought u said that it would acually explode but u said that the guy was wrong so soz man and ya its true tis vid is fake

[MrNgMichael]

hes right!

[j4ck50n93]

Imangine 1 tonne of francium, caesuim (sorry if spelling is wrong) or rubidium in the ocean, THAT WOULD BE A BOMB.

[csustudent209]

Is there any trace of it left? Say someone goes into a pool, and drops one of these in there. So it creates the SPLASH, would you be able to go back to the body of water left, and test it to figure out what metal was dropped? Maybe by pH? How about francium, do you have any vids with francium?

[brainiacstore]

yeah I'm pretty sure you can test the remaining water and find out what metal was dropped. the reaction displaces a hydrogen ion from water and replaces it with the metal. for example after dropping sodium in, you would find sodium hydroxide in the water. with caesium it should be caesium hydroxide.. and so on

[csustudent209]

@brainiacstore, Science RULES!

[natyso]

yeah...francium is radioactive. good luck

[FizzWolf]

@csustudent209 Yeah there is some but only a tiny bit and it's to valuable (if they found more) to use on a show to entertain people.

[watafug]

@csustudent209

francium is radioactive and is subject to radioactive decay. 1 gram would probably be enough to do some serious shit, but its not possible for "non-authorized" persons to obtain. Besides you probably would have lost a good deal due to radioactive decay.

Would love to see it though.

[chooseit2]

@csustudent209 no videos of francium, theres something like less that 100 grams of it in existance at any 1 time on earth

[Thrallsbuddy]

@csustudent209 francium is extreemly rare, and hard to "make" , no chance to waste a good amount for this shit

[StarshineXC]

@csustudent209 There are very few videos of francium , Because its

highly radioactive and can only be sustained for 22 minutes. Francium is a rare metal as only 120g of it can be found at anyone time in the earths crust it breaks down into astatine radon and radium

[SONBoomer]

Francium is really rare. So rare that science barely knows more than nine or ten francium particles that are floating out there in space...