Weapon grade Uranium is hard to come by, sure, but depleted uranium 238 is standard in pretty much every chemical lab. And the thing about depleted uranium is that it only radiates alpha particles, which are harmless unless you swallow the source, or press it right against your skin.
Well if you paint your nails and teeth with Radium you might live a little while and glow in the dark. Sadly, 1920s Radium raves are a thing of the past.
I searched the names of dangerous elements in hopes that the governement would think I'm up to something. Just a joke on my part, didn't really think it would work (it did). I am now good friends with a member of the FBI
@wspol624 I'm not very sure about it. I have eatten some uranium and thorium minerals, and I still here. Highly radioactive minerals by the way. Something about 80 microsieverts.
@b1912313 During Project Manhattan, Doctors injected patients without consent with tiny amounts of plutonium, some died while others lived with horrible boils, tumors, sores and aching muscles and bones. I can't believe people lived at all!
@Kingportable Sperm isn't a single compound. It contains various things, including DNA. That's the same as asking the chemical equation of a chicken egg or a piece of wood.
ehehe i know its offtopic but till 2025 i think germany wants to shut down all nuclear powerplants lol, cant imagine where they will get energy from? ohh right they import it from china ^^ lulz
@softilol that's because at this precise moment they are already researching an alternative to nuclear fission power plants - and that is nuclear FUSION power plants.
@b1912313 That's a very incorrect statement. Depleted uranium is used as the penetration element in tank shells and as part of the armor employed on modern tanks due to its hardness. It's widely used as weights (as the video said) as well. Basically anything that needs to be hard or heavy and people aren't going to lick it can be made from uranium.
@OOZ662 Well, I didn't say that uranium is used solely in atomic bombs. I know that uranium have many other uses, but it is not very common. Most of the population won't be able to see a tank (especially an uranium bodied tank), DU bullets and stuff alike. This would explain the cause for some people relate uranium directly to atomic bombs. This happens because it is much common for them to have "contact" with uranium as a material for bombs. That is what the TV tell em'.
Uranium (U) is radioactive and poisonous, but it's not as radioactive as naïve people may think. Radium (Ra) is over a MillionX more radioactive than U, and Americium (Am) is about 3.5X more radioactive than Ra. I collect many kinds of radioactive materials, not just U. I do have U-238 metal, U chemicals, and U ores.
Distance, Time of Exposure, and the Amount of Radioactive Material are 3 basic things they should know. Understanding Half-Life, Decay Products and Decay Modes are important too.
@KarbineKyle Uranium 238 must not be the radioactive component posing the radiation threat. As you might know, Uranium absorbs the natural gamma radiation half a million times better than water. That's why Uranium is also used as radiation shielding. So if you have uranium particles on or in your body, its not the Uranium that will hurt your genome. It's the absorbed radiation around you which will do that. As another effect you get poisoned by the Uranium itself.
@MillyVanillification i know radiation is villainized, but i still wouldnt want to work and live around DU, but the difference between weapons grade, fuel grade, and even moderately concentrated ores are still more hot than the depleted element. even abandoned Ur mines, and DU have a uSv level i want no part of, pripyat background is equal to 20 to 40 xrays an hour, sendai is close ot that now i believe. you make a very good point.
Actually, the radioactivity of depleted and non-depleted uranium is about equal and in both cases U-238 accounts for most of the radioactivity. He gets it a bit mixed up at the end.
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa look at his hair at 1:20 WOW lol was like HOLY SHIT get a haircut.. I LIVED in an area where uranium wasn't controlled very well place called ElliotLake google it ElliotLake Uranium tailings.
@behnamasid Because people think that uranium is dangerous. Uranium is not dangerous. I ate uranium for breakfast today, and probably, I'll do that again, unless that I run out of uranium. Well, that would be a very very bad situation. I cannot run out of uranium, because it generates energy for me to live.
@behnamasid nah nah im sry just being rly stupid xp but what r those unknown chemicals though? all my teacher told me is that they are man-made chemicals?
..........1:58 .......... ".....Which is why it is only very large and rich countries, have been able to afford to make nuclear weapons."
Not if you have a guy like Abdul Qadeer Khan in combination with the Chinese department of defence to help countries like libya, iraq and iran to be able to produce nuclear weapons by 'just' reproducing designs handed to them on a plate.....
Very fascinating documentary: 'BBC - The Nuclear Secrets'
@TheLordZixx It won't become U-238. You can bombard it with neutrons, but it will fission. U-235 do not become U-238. Oh, by the way, there isn't depleted U-235. We call depleted the U-238, wich is not fissionable.
@cassiavc aaa I'm so confused XD well I what I was hearing (proven to be wrong) they were saying something about the uranium in the little jar with the oil... but I am clearly not a scientist.
@TheLordZixx Uranium must be kept in a recipe with oil because if it is not, it will ignites in the air. And be ignite, I really means that it will became fire, i think.
@cassiavc U-235 is dangerous to hold on your hand, U-238 is not radioactive to harm you but it is slightly dangerous if you make contact with it for long peroids of time. if you accidentally throw U-235 at another lump of U-235 ahh then boom
@oOoxelAoOo To glow in the dark strictly requires only a luminous surface (skin, in this case). The old radium-based luminous paint, applied to the surface of the skin, would work (and probably kill you - look up Radium Girls). To glow on the outside from contamination inside would likely require a body saturated with actinium, promethium, Pu-238 or Cm-242 (something with a half-life of months to decades) that would boil you before you had a chance to die of radiation poisoning :-(
@BillyGatesHabbo what do you mean? Uranium is the key to our world's energy sources. It is WEAKLY RADIOACTIVE!! People know nothing about it they just believe what everyone else says about how horrible it is when in reality its NOT!! Do research if you do not believe me, for I have
@Blazerelf The Radioactive material is there whether we use it or not. The fact is, nuclear power doesn't "create" radioactive waste, the radioactivity is already in the material whether we use it or not. Look at all of the waste produced by fossil fuel burning. these pollutants are a significant contributor to lung cancer and health issues in general. You can be a hundred feet from a pile of nuclear waste and be fine, but you can never escape the fossil fuel pollution that is in our atmosphere.
True, Uranium enrichment doesn't create any new radioactive material. But when you look at the waste produced by a fission reactor it contains a whole bunch of isotopes and elements that simply weren't there originally.
The protons and neutrons of U-235 get rearranged to produce different materials, some of which are very much more harmful than the original.
Unfortunately, they are often not as useful to us as U or Pu hence the term "waste".
For me it comes down to an uncontainable gaseous waste (fossil fuels) vs., solid, and thus containable nuclear waste.
The fission fragments you describe are very dangerous, especially I-131, as we are currently holding our breath over in Japan and its 40 year old nuclear reactor build RIGHT NEXT TO AN OCEAN in a seismically active area (WTF?)
Unfortunately ppl don't understand that reactors of today's design are amazingly safe, and the nuclear industry will suffer now
@omgiwaswrong Just letting you know, the elements created when U-235 is split (when it becomes u-236) it becomes very radioactive and harmful isotopes (well I don't know if they're isotopes or just really heavy nuclei) of krypton and barium.
Why do people fear uranium? It is WEAKLY RADIOACTIVE, and has a half life of over 4 BILLION YEARS? Why does the public believe it is so horrible? It is the reason why nuclear fission power is not expanding, becuase the public has false pretences about it when, in reality, it is the key to our future when natural gas and fossil fuels deplete.
@samgee2007 Oh no it wasnt! It was discovered in 1789 by Klaproth, a german chemist i believe. Uranium is named after the planet Uranus which was discovered in 1791 so its name couldnt possibly have been there since the 7th century. Silly muslim trying to rewrite history.
Normal uranium's half-life is so long that its radioactivity is weak enough to be functionally harmless...why the apprehension and overly elaborate storage?
@1RadicalOne Yes, it's half-life (T 1/2) is long, but it's during this time that it is decaying and releasing particles (alpha, beta) that if they go into (and through) you that it can cause serious harm.
The longer the half-life, the less frequent particle emissions are (obviously). Say you have 100 atoms of U238 and 100 of Sr90.
In the uranium, only 2.2x10^-8 atoms decay per year.
In the strontium, it is 3.47 atoms that decay per year.
Granted, total decay of an atom can have multiple emission events, but the rate of emission is still extremely low in U-238 compared to the strontium, and indeed, near all radioisotopes.
@IchFresseTitanJa Depleted Uranium slugs. One type of shell fired from the American M1 Abrams Tank. Very dense, great at penetration with a fraction of the radiation of normal Uranium... but still radioactive. It's mostly a rod of depleted uranium fired from the tank in the form of a sabot.
@Zbrock104 Maybe the Abrahams rounds stay intact after impact but the GAU 8 Avenger´s 30mm rounds are more likely to disperse during impact creating a radioactive heavy metal dust. The US army´s safety advises when encountering DU on the battlefield´re like maximize distance, minimize exposoure, cheers if you live there..
@IchFresseTitanJa Also in 30 mm PGU-14/B API (API: armor-piercing incendiary) machine cannons fired from the Fairchild Republic ground support plane. After impact it creates a fire of ~1000k enough to create UO3 which is in turn a relatively reactive state.
It sure would be cool to see something glow after being affected by this element anyway. Even though only 2% of depleted uranium is fissile, I would still like to point out it has caused the death and disability of plenty of iraq and afghanistan vets. not to mention the birth defects and the other victims.
@SoldatSolutrea I believe that a lot of that was caused by oxides and contamination from dusts with depleted uranium, they mentioned in the videos that Uranium is highly toxic, even if the radiation isn't affecting you the toxicity of the Uranium can.
I have 5 grams of U-238 metal, and some Uranium chemicals, like Pitchblende, (Uranium Dioxide), Ammonium Diuranate, and Triuranium Octoxide... I have them sealed under glass ampoules with low-pressure argon gas, to prevent oxidation... I collect and study radioactive materials. It's fun, just have to be careful...
to formatdyskuc: United Nuclear sells Uranium Metal Chunks (U-238), it's quite expensive. 5 gram samples are currently $40. You can only buy 2 at a time per customer. If you take it out of the argon seal pouch, it will oxidize. It's good to have a glove box like this one, even though it doesn't have to be that large. Also, they sell ores, doped marbles, and isotopes, but it usually takes along time to arrive. They are a chemical company. A lot of nice stuff they have is usually out of stock...
@KarbineKyle Unfortunately, it's impossible to buy anything radioactive in Poland since we're in European Union. They will stop the package on the first border of EU and it will cause BIG problems for me (suspected for making dirty bomb and other terrorist stuff). But for contrast: watch?v=vacqtYO8TXM on Youtube. Drunk man has stolen radioactuve cobalt!
rubbish you can buy uranium in the EU even radioactive uranium. The uranium you need to make a nuke cannot be bought anywhere in the world not even the russian black market lol.
you have to make it/enrich it. I think you get a bunch of ore, somehow make it gas, then send it though alot of centifuges and you get the heavier uranium thats radioactive. Then you blow the world into smithereens
Uranium containing glass is called "vaseline glass" and has a pretty green fluorescence in UV. Bright orange uranium containing ceramics used to be quite common in coloured dinner plates("fiestaware").
The Earth's crust contains on average 3 ppm of uranium; that means if you were to go outside and collect a tonne of rocks you'd expect to find roughly 3 grams of uranium. Phosphorous containing fertilizer used on food crops can have as much as 100 ppm of uranium.
Love the hair. When I grow old, I m going to have mine just like that. That and get my name legally changed to baby Einstein :)
plopsywhopsy 3 days ago
Out of curiosity how on earth do u get your hands on all these various molecules of Uranium ? Arnt they strictly controlled?
hugo199410 1 month ago
@hugo199410
Weapon grade Uranium is hard to come by, sure, but depleted uranium 238 is standard in pretty much every chemical lab. And the thing about depleted uranium is that it only radiates alpha particles, which are harmless unless you swallow the source, or press it right against your skin.
ArtypNk 1 month ago
I want that gu ly with the crazy hair to my teacher!
DCskater21397 1 month ago
that dude has a fucking perm lmfao.
badexperiment 2 months ago
... But will it blend?
jleer1 2 months ago 3
how the fuck does that screensaver travel through screens?? look at it around 1:55
ege1993 2 months ago
@ege1993 A software that can connect two screens together, pretty normal thing.
TheSteady0 2 months ago
Chuck Norris can make radioactive things stable he just tells them not to decay and they listen.
pug6666 2 months ago
Well if you paint your nails and teeth with Radium you might live a little while and glow in the dark. Sadly, 1920s Radium raves are a thing of the past.
yevonator88 2 months ago
68 japs
avor 2 months ago
I honestly thought there was supposed to be nerd comments here :P
Ryant1011 4 months ago
oh god what happened to you hair, who would do this to you. Thumbs up if you were sent here from the yogpod sips gate episode
DazNoobs 4 months ago
this is the boogie man
elmoroxmysox1000 4 months ago
Chuck Norris teeth are made from depleted Uranium.
NANOFORGE 4 months ago
@NANOFORGE You kidding? His teath are made of depleted Jesus.
PaxusJKL 4 months ago
@PaxusJKL Lmao, that was pretty good.
NANOFORGE 3 months ago
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FlashXX97 4 months ago
yep we're ALL experts on uranium now
donnyab 5 months ago
i always imagined Uran as that stuff you see at the simpsons intro XD
LethalMetalHead 5 months ago 25
@LethalMetalHead That's supposed to be Plutonium xD
Boultonnn 4 months ago
@Boultonnn i know xD
figuered it out a few days ago c'x
LethalMetalHead 4 months ago
@LethalMetalHead I think that is supposed to be plutonium.
Northcodedotno 3 weeks ago
I searched the names of dangerous elements in hopes that the governement would think I'm up to something. Just a joke on my part, didn't really think it would work (it did). I am now good friends with a member of the FBI
Nomis095 6 months ago
@wspol624 Yes, very, it leaves a dust trail when fired, and vaporizes on impact! :D
LeftoverJedi 7 months ago
@wspol624 Also the fact that it poisonous even when not radioactive, don't forget that. :D
LeftoverJedi 7 months ago
@wspol624 I'm not very sure about it. I have eatten some uranium and thorium minerals, and I still here. Highly radioactive minerals by the way. Something about 80 microsieverts.
b1912313 7 months ago
@b1912313 During Project Manhattan, Doctors injected patients without consent with tiny amounts of plutonium, some died while others lived with horrible boils, tumors, sores and aching muscles and bones. I can't believe people lived at all!
NeddyRedux 5 months ago
@NeddyRedux Well, I would not survive plutonium... xD
b1912313 5 months ago
so uranium weighs a lot? i wonder what its like to pick up a small amount and feel heavy
ronniepage 7 months ago
What is the chemical equation of a sperm?
Kingportable 8 months ago
@Kingportable Sperm isn't a single compound. It contains various things, including DNA. That's the same as asking the chemical equation of a chicken egg or a piece of wood.
OOZ662 6 months ago
ehehe i know its offtopic but till 2025 i think germany wants to shut down all nuclear powerplants lol, cant imagine where they will get energy from? ohh right they import it from china ^^ lulz
softilol 8 months ago
@softilol that's because at this precise moment they are already researching an alternative to nuclear fission power plants - and that is nuclear FUSION power plants.
here you can learn more: /watch?v=Rn04nIby-gY
you're welcome!
TheMacyp 6 months ago
@TheMacyp hmm yea interesting, i saw show on TV,...
softilol 6 months ago
67 people forgot to close the main-port refill valve.
wookidoo 8 months ago
When I Think Of Uranium I Think Of Atomic Bombs
xInfected27x 8 months ago
@xInfected27x uranium is usually used in atomic bombs. it doens't have much other uses than bombs.
b1912313 7 months ago
@b1912313 really? what about in Nuclear reactors, hmm?
PowderedAsh 7 months ago
@b1912313 That's a very incorrect statement. Depleted uranium is used as the penetration element in tank shells and as part of the armor employed on modern tanks due to its hardness. It's widely used as weights (as the video said) as well. Basically anything that needs to be hard or heavy and people aren't going to lick it can be made from uranium.
OOZ662 6 months ago
@OOZ662 Well, I didn't say that uranium is used solely in atomic bombs. I know that uranium have many other uses, but it is not very common. Most of the population won't be able to see a tank (especially an uranium bodied tank), DU bullets and stuff alike. This would explain the cause for some people relate uranium directly to atomic bombs. This happens because it is much common for them to have "contact" with uranium as a material for bombs. That is what the TV tell em'.
b1912313 6 months ago
My favourite element is... THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE!!!
ElMostroBloggeante 9 months ago 125
@ElMostroBloggeante nice one :D
CaIrOOMaLi 4 months ago
@ElMostroBloggeante 100th tumbs up
renamorcen 2 months ago
@renamorcen That was... a big surprise...
TheStrosso 2 months ago
@ElMostroBloggeante i like the 5th element.
coldlogic1 4 hours ago
Uranium (U) is radioactive and poisonous, but it's not as radioactive as naïve people may think. Radium (Ra) is over a MillionX more radioactive than U, and Americium (Am) is about 3.5X more radioactive than Ra. I collect many kinds of radioactive materials, not just U. I do have U-238 metal, U chemicals, and U ores.
Distance, Time of Exposure, and the Amount of Radioactive Material are 3 basic things they should know. Understanding Half-Life, Decay Products and Decay Modes are important too.
KarbineKyle 10 months ago
@KarbineKyle Uranium 238 must not be the radioactive component posing the radiation threat. As you might know, Uranium absorbs the natural gamma radiation half a million times better than water. That's why Uranium is also used as radiation shielding. So if you have uranium particles on or in your body, its not the Uranium that will hurt your genome. It's the absorbed radiation around you which will do that. As another effect you get poisoned by the Uranium itself.
MillyVanillification 9 months ago
@MillyVanillification i know radiation is villainized, but i still wouldnt want to work and live around DU, but the difference between weapons grade, fuel grade, and even moderately concentrated ores are still more hot than the depleted element. even abandoned Ur mines, and DU have a uSv level i want no part of, pripyat background is equal to 20 to 40 xrays an hour, sendai is close ot that now i believe. you make a very good point.
carpetmonk 9 months ago
Actually, the radioactivity of depleted and non-depleted uranium is about equal and in both cases U-238 accounts for most of the radioactivity. He gets it a bit mixed up at the end.
TheMasterminding 10 months ago
I am impressed by somebody who says they have a favourite Actinide.
mutinyonthekitkat 10 months ago
@mutinyonthekitkat How are you surprised? My favourite one is thorium and I can't see what's so special about having a favourite actinide.
Prstvlkkrtek 9 months ago
Its not really dangerous.."drops the bootle"...oh shi...
SolidKrycha 10 months ago
Any metal which oxidises readily in air is pyrophoric when finely divided.
douro20 10 months ago
Whose anium?
artman40 10 months ago
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa look at his hair at 1:20 WOW lol was like HOLY SHIT get a haircut.. I LIVED in an area where uranium wasn't controlled very well place called ElliotLake google it ElliotLake Uranium tailings.
ElliotLakeCanada 11 months ago
@ElliotLakeCanada lol my grandpa lives there and ive been there its nice
XxtekiexX 11 months ago
Oh, by the way, uranium looks like carbon.
cassiavc 1 year ago
i feel smart now:p
123woodbridge 1 year ago
@MarkGronan1988 Type PRIZE before youtube
95nwot 1 year ago
Why is this the most popular element?
behnamasid 1 year ago
@behnamasid Because people think that uranium is dangerous. Uranium is not dangerous. I ate uranium for breakfast today, and probably, I'll do that again, unless that I run out of uranium. Well, that would be a very very bad situation. I cannot run out of uranium, because it generates energy for me to live.
cassiavc 1 year ago
@behnamasid nah nah im sry just being rly stupid xp but what r those unknown chemicals though? all my teacher told me is that they are man-made chemicals?
VgendAirsoft 1 year ago
i want him to be mah grandpa so i can ask my "why" questions :D
VgendAirsoft 1 year ago
@VgendAirsoft Ask em to me! :D
cassiavc 1 year ago
@cassiavc then "why" do people refer to uranus as "your Anus?" XD
VgendAirsoft 1 year ago
@VgendAirsoft Because people say Uranus wrong.
toddissofullysick 1 year ago
@toddissofullysick Then why is this scientist guy kick-ass ?? o.O try and answer that?!
VgendAirsoft 1 year ago
@VgendAirsoft Geez, you are not very polite.
cassiavc 1 year ago
wtf is wrong with the guy screensaver XD
enjoythesummer92 1 year ago
..........1:58 .......... ".....Which is why it is only very large and rich countries, have been able to afford to make nuclear weapons."
Not if you have a guy like Abdul Qadeer Khan in combination with the Chinese department of defence to help countries like libya, iraq and iran to be able to produce nuclear weapons by 'just' reproducing designs handed to them on a plate.....
Very fascinating documentary: 'BBC - The Nuclear Secrets'
Powerslider 1 year ago
Can anyone tell me how U-235 when it is depleted it becomes U-238?
TheLordZixx 1 year ago
@TheLordZixx It won't become U-238. You can bombard it with neutrons, but it will fission. U-235 do not become U-238. Oh, by the way, there isn't depleted U-235. We call depleted the U-238, wich is not fissionable.
cassiavc 1 year ago
@cassiavc aaa I'm so confused XD well I what I was hearing (proven to be wrong) they were saying something about the uranium in the little jar with the oil... but I am clearly not a scientist.
TheLordZixx 1 year ago
@TheLordZixx Uranium must be kept in a recipe with oil because if it is not, it will ignites in the air. And be ignite, I really means that it will became fire, i think.
cassiavc 1 year ago
@cassiavc yeah I knew that much, but somewhere during the video I must've lost attention and heard the wrong thing :P
TheLordZixx 1 year ago
PS:. I wanna kill me self. Can I eat uranium to die?I have ate thorianite, but it doens't seems to be effective, since I still alive.
cassiavc 1 year ago
Alright. What is the name of the guys from the video?
cassiavc 1 year ago
uranium! radioactive trash!!!
firetippy 1 year ago
Its Albert Einstein II !!!
Scroby21 1 year ago
Idea for another video: How about chemical elements and compounds that glow in the dark?
dajwilkinson 1 year ago
Strawberrys grow great with depleted uranium!
mironyuk 1 year ago
there are actually 3 naturally occurring uranium isotopes
U-238 99.2742%
U-235 0.7204% Be careful with this one!
U-234 0.0054% (very rare isotope) 246,000 year half life
revrunnertech2772 1 year ago
@revrunnertech2772 Why be careful with U235? I mean, is it more radioactive then U238? It is fissionable, but it won't fission in my hand. Will it?
cassiavc 1 year ago
@cassiavc U-235 is dangerous to hold on your hand, U-238 is not radioactive to harm you but it is slightly dangerous if you make contact with it for long peroids of time. if you accidentally throw U-235 at another lump of U-235 ahh then boom
revrunnertech2772 1 year ago
@revrunnertech2772 U-238 is toxic, so it is the U-235. But you say that U-235 is more dangerous than the 238 because it is more radioactive, right?
cassiavc 1 year ago
@cassiavc yes
revrunnertech2772 1 year ago
what university is this?
dcallstar51 1 year ago
@dcallstar51 watch the video it says at the end The University of Nottingham
StationXXrama 1 year ago
@dcallstar51 university of nottingham
lynkynpark86 1 year ago
cool fro!
hparker223 1 year ago
Nice vid! I like it! But are you really sure about 0,2%? Doesn't it still been dangerous?
cassiavc 1 year ago
the old man looks like edarem
TheBrokenlifekid 1 year ago
don't mess with uranium, it'll make your balls fall off and turn to sprouts.
simyan2008 1 year ago
RADIO-ACTIVE HAIR!
behnamasid 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
that old guy is a fag
ando213211 1 year ago
@ando213211 you just called him a cigarette
zoelola9898 1 year ago
@zoelola9898 you dont get its and inuendo...
ando213211 1 year ago
@ando213211 Yes actually I know that. But in the UK a fag is a cigarette.
zoelola9898 1 year ago
@zoelola9898 makes sense
ando213211 1 year ago
@ando213211 :)
zoelola9898 1 year ago
I wonder just how contaminated with radioactive isotopes you'd have to be to glow in the dark.
oOoxelAoOo 1 year ago
@oOoxelAoOo To glow in the dark strictly requires only a luminous surface (skin, in this case). The old radium-based luminous paint, applied to the surface of the skin, would work (and probably kill you - look up Radium Girls). To glow on the outside from contamination inside would likely require a body saturated with actinium, promethium, Pu-238 or Cm-242 (something with a half-life of months to decades) that would boil you before you had a chance to die of radiation poisoning :-(
dajwilkinson 1 year ago
@dajwilkinson I know, was just a silly question.
oOoxelAoOo 1 year ago
@oOoxelAoOo In view of the "do you glow in the dark?" brigade, I thought it quite a fair question - hope my answer is similarly fair.
dajwilkinson 1 year ago
@dajwilkinson Now that was bad!
cassiavc 1 year ago
Who is UraniumTV?
techsmartliving 1 year ago
is uranium at all toward the alkali side of the ph scale? how fascinating
MrRedeyedJedi 1 year ago
I like the periodec table...it so interesting...
vsramsey 1 year ago
periodic tie. now that my friends, is a true chemist
Procrastinationn 1 year ago
YELLOW AND GREEN PIXIE DUST!!
takishan 1 year ago
It's Bogeyman!
NOT Boogyman, its not going to breakout in to a fucking dance as soon as you open the jar.
TheTVLicence 1 year ago
Its quite a disappointment they didn't play around with the uranium, of course, its fully understandable. hah.
RythmEmotions 1 year ago
@BillyGatesHabbo what do you mean? Uranium is the key to our world's energy sources. It is WEAKLY RADIOACTIVE!! People know nothing about it they just believe what everyone else says about how horrible it is when in reality its NOT!! Do research if you do not believe me, for I have
rhcp4565 1 year ago
@rhcp4565 if your uranium is so good as you say,whats with the nuclear waste leaft over ? would rather prefer eolic,wave and solar energy
Blazerelf 1 year ago
@Blazerelf The Radioactive material is there whether we use it or not. The fact is, nuclear power doesn't "create" radioactive waste, the radioactivity is already in the material whether we use it or not. Look at all of the waste produced by fossil fuel burning. these pollutants are a significant contributor to lung cancer and health issues in general. You can be a hundred feet from a pile of nuclear waste and be fine, but you can never escape the fossil fuel pollution that is in our atmosphere.
thunderbird321 1 year ago
@thunderbird321 Gotta disagree on that my friend.
True, Uranium enrichment doesn't create any new radioactive material. But when you look at the waste produced by a fission reactor it contains a whole bunch of isotopes and elements that simply weren't there originally.
The protons and neutrons of U-235 get rearranged to produce different materials, some of which are very much more harmful than the original.
Unfortunately, they are often not as useful to us as U or Pu hence the term "waste".
omgiwaswrong 1 year ago 7
@omgiwaswrong
For me it comes down to an uncontainable gaseous waste (fossil fuels) vs., solid, and thus containable nuclear waste.
The fission fragments you describe are very dangerous, especially I-131, as we are currently holding our breath over in Japan and its 40 year old nuclear reactor build RIGHT NEXT TO AN OCEAN in a seismically active area (WTF?)
Unfortunately ppl don't understand that reactors of today's design are amazingly safe, and the nuclear industry will suffer now
mdma4life 9 months ago
@omgiwaswrong Just letting you know, the elements created when U-235 is split (when it becomes u-236) it becomes very radioactive and harmful isotopes (well I don't know if they're isotopes or just really heavy nuclei) of krypton and barium.
Stewey1000 6 months ago
Why do people fear uranium? It is WEAKLY RADIOACTIVE, and has a half life of over 4 BILLION YEARS? Why does the public believe it is so horrible? It is the reason why nuclear fission power is not expanding, becuase the public has false pretences about it when, in reality, it is the key to our future when natural gas and fossil fuels deplete.
rhcp4565 1 year ago
@rhcp4565 was mean the half life it means the radioactivity will go away in 4 billion years?!
PlayActiv 1 year ago
@rhcp4565 because people are stupid....duh
physicsbugga 1 year ago
Don't you dare speak ill of the professor. I'll hunt you down and experiment on you.
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boipinoi604 10 months ago
E99 is featured in the game Singularity.
ronaldli5 1 year ago
One thing that bugs me about Uranium is that it is used to make the orange glaze used on some fiestaware. It's like lead glaze, but worse!
Desmaad 1 year ago
these videos answer alot of questions ive learned alot from them
williepie 1 year ago
Uranium was discovered by muslim scientist way back in 7th century! Thats why the name is still stay there!
samgee2007 1 year ago
@samgee2007 And who was this muslim scientist?
AgentCROCODILE 1 year ago
@samgee2007 Oh no it wasnt! It was discovered in 1789 by Klaproth, a german chemist i believe. Uranium is named after the planet Uranus which was discovered in 1791 so its name couldnt possibly have been there since the 7th century. Silly muslim trying to rewrite history.
DeaconSwayne 1 year ago
@DeaconSwayne Sorry, Uranus was discovered in 1781.
DeaconSwayne 1 year ago
@samgee2007 No it wasn't your dead wrong.
rhcp4565 1 year ago
Normal uranium's half-life is so long that its radioactivity is weak enough to be functionally harmless...why the apprehension and overly elaborate storage?
1RadicalOne 1 year ago
@1RadicalOne Yes, it's half-life (T 1/2) is long, but it's during this time that it is decaying and releasing particles (alpha, beta) that if they go into (and through) you that it can cause serious harm.
Idtelos 1 year ago
The longer the half-life, the less frequent particle emissions are (obviously). Say you have 100 atoms of U238 and 100 of Sr90.
In the uranium, only 2.2x10^-8 atoms decay per year.
In the strontium, it is 3.47 atoms that decay per year.
Granted, total decay of an atom can have multiple emission events, but the rate of emission is still extremely low in U-238 compared to the strontium, and indeed, near all radioisotopes.
Which is why the extreme caution puzzles me.
1RadicalOne 1 year ago
I don't like how you downplayed the effects of depleteted uranium.
When used in munitions, such as those used in Iraq, This oxygen-reaction causes the uraniium to be vaporised into the environment.
L00NGB00W 1 year ago
where does this older scientist teach at? I wanna go to that univercity to learn his views.
eLpeach 1 year ago
Is it possible to make a bullets out of uranium?
IchFresseTitanJa 1 year ago
@IchFresseTitanJa Depleted Uranium slugs. One type of shell fired from the American M1 Abrams Tank. Very dense, great at penetration with a fraction of the radiation of normal Uranium... but still radioactive. It's mostly a rod of depleted uranium fired from the tank in the form of a sabot.
Zbrock104 1 year ago
@Zbrock104 Maybe the Abrahams rounds stay intact after impact but the GAU 8 Avenger´s 30mm rounds are more likely to disperse during impact creating a radioactive heavy metal dust. The US army´s safety advises when encountering DU on the battlefield´re like maximize distance, minimize exposoure, cheers if you live there..
0PsycoDad0 1 year ago
@IchFresseTitanJa Also in 30 mm PGU-14/B API (API: armor-piercing incendiary) machine cannons fired from the Fairchild Republic ground support plane. After impact it creates a fire of ~1000k enough to create UO3 which is in turn a relatively reactive state.
PLZ correct me if i´m wrong but this is INSANE!
0PsycoDad0 1 year ago
It sure would be cool to see something glow after being affected by this element anyway. Even though only 2% of depleted uranium is fissile, I would still like to point out it has caused the death and disability of plenty of iraq and afghanistan vets. not to mention the birth defects and the other victims.
SoldatSolutrea 1 year ago
@SoldatSolutrea I believe that a lot of that was caused by oxides and contamination from dusts with depleted uranium, they mentioned in the videos that Uranium is highly toxic, even if the radiation isn't affecting you the toxicity of the Uranium can.
ghostid 1 year ago
I had almost forgotten my love of chemistry till I stumbled on these videos. So glad to see them! Too many interests...so little time... :(
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theBunnyboy 1 year ago
in the future we will discover new elements every day ..
XcominoX 1 year ago
0:18 "com nitrogênio seco livre de oxigênio" in the captions or else you'ld have a quick conflagration on hand, Uranium is pyrophoric.
Sorry, I read portugese but don't write enough to be understood.
ChrisC2I 1 year ago
i smoke uranium, its good sh1t.
Denusch 1 year ago 24
man, this guy must make some serious bank...
rondallaboy01 2 years ago 27
its a university
ParkourJayy 1 year ago
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ok babe,i didnt mean to offend ur boyfriend dude
F1L5 2 years ago
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I drink Uranium for breakfast every morning, b!tchessss!
I'm badass.
EezyMacaroni 2 years ago
Molten uranium would melt right through you
samn100 1 year ago
yet it hasn't happened yet.
I'm a man of steel; I'm made out of titanium...you can call me Titanic.
not only do I drink Uranium for breakfast, but I mix it with mercury to make some sweet oatmeal.
I Am Bad to the bone.
EezyMacaroni 1 year ago
lol ur funny
samn100 1 year ago
chomp down some sulfur while youre at it
ShredByDeath 1 year ago
@EezyMacaroni Where do you get the hardened toilet bowls?
0PsycoDad0 1 year ago
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1. get a life(I am scared you are looking after shit)
2.get a hair cut
3. stop worring have a holiday.
F1L5 2 years ago
1. He is a professor at a university
2 He has done. You should have seen him in the 1960s
3 He is a teacher (13 weeks paid holiday per year)
You fail at criticism.
MattOGormanSmith 2 years ago 54
@MattOGormanSmith Did someone criticize the professor? Met him at a lecture series in Ireland. What a legend!
ironnica 1 year ago
@F1L5 shut up. do you have anything else to do with your life?
gnrfanatic141414 1 year ago
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No home made atomic bombs?
:(
BlackRaptor31 2 years ago
I'll stick to Rhodium.
Shriner66 2 years ago
Holy-Terrorist:>uranium235 is proton=92 neutron=143
*=> this equation protonnnic 143 + 92 = 235
*=* very impressive.
Agentoxedo07 2 years ago
uhh, he put gloves over the gloves....
zombieX111222333 2 years ago
I have 5 grams of U-238 metal, and some Uranium chemicals, like Pitchblende, (Uranium Dioxide), Ammonium Diuranate, and Triuranium Octoxide... I have them sealed under glass ampoules with low-pressure argon gas, to prevent oxidation... I collect and study radioactive materials. It's fun, just have to be careful...
KarbineKyle 2 years ago
@KarbineKyle Where did You got metallic Uranium from?
formatdyskuc 2 years ago
to formatdyskuc: United Nuclear sells Uranium Metal Chunks (U-238), it's quite expensive. 5 gram samples are currently $40. You can only buy 2 at a time per customer. If you take it out of the argon seal pouch, it will oxidize. It's good to have a glove box like this one, even though it doesn't have to be that large. Also, they sell ores, doped marbles, and isotopes, but it usually takes along time to arrive. They are a chemical company. A lot of nice stuff they have is usually out of stock...
KarbineKyle 2 years ago
@KarbineKyle Unfortunately, it's impossible to buy anything radioactive in Poland since we're in European Union. They will stop the package on the first border of EU and it will cause BIG problems for me (suspected for making dirty bomb and other terrorist stuff). But for contrast: watch?v=vacqtYO8TXM on Youtube. Drunk man has stolen radioactuve cobalt!
formatdyskuc 2 years ago
rubbish you can buy uranium in the EU even radioactive uranium. The uranium you need to make a nuke cannot be bought anywhere in the world not even the russian black market lol.
LecceDiPane 2 years ago
you have to make it/enrich it. I think you get a bunch of ore, somehow make it gas, then send it though alot of centifuges and you get the heavier uranium thats radioactive. Then you blow the world into smithereens
bestSVMS 2 years ago
you really want to be sure its depleted
bestSVMS 2 years ago
i would think so
but it depends on the grade of that uranium in that ore that defines how radioactive it is.
kuff351 2 years ago
if uranium is radioactive is it stil safe even if its just stil inside the ore? like an uranium ore?
shinigami815 2 years ago
Uranium is very weakly radioactive. The most significant danger with uranium is the chemical toxicity; it's about as dangerous as cadmium or lead.
Bound in a matrix of glass or ceramics it's perfectly safe to use in dentures or dinner-ware.
soylentgreenb 2 years ago
Uranium containing glass is called "vaseline glass" and has a pretty green fluorescence in UV. Bright orange uranium containing ceramics used to be quite common in coloured dinner plates("fiestaware").
The Earth's crust contains on average 3 ppm of uranium; that means if you were to go outside and collect a tonne of rocks you'd expect to find roughly 3 grams of uranium. Phosphorous containing fertilizer used on food crops can have as much as 100 ppm of uranium.
soylentgreenb 2 years ago
I watched this video when it had 238000 views. Was very awesome.
Righty101 2 years ago 3
That's very interesting!
I'd like to know if uranium reacts with water as strong as sodium or potassium does!?
chemiealex 2 years ago