ahhh neutron capture you ever try this experiment .i was going to do it with MnO2 but i never got the chance . if you did tell me the results. BTW i have downloaded portal 2 after seeing your videos funny stuff.
Fr. Michael DeLisle Lyons, SJ of Detroit, Michigan supplied beryllium to the US Government for the initiators of our nuclear weapons from 1945 until his death in 1974 from Chronic Beryllium Lung Disease (Berylliosis). For the rest of the story Google "WWJ, A Jesuit and the Bomb," by me (Jeffrey Allan McQueen . . . Fr. Lyons' nephew).
Hi there. In another video you showed a piece of americium from a fire detector. The gamma radiation of americium was pretty low. I wonder if you place the beryllium in front of the americium, if you get a noticeable increase in gamma radiation.
After I posted this message, I came accross another movie you made (Update on the neutron experiment - uFoR3aADZXk), where you actually claim you were not successful in generating gamma radiation from an americium source, using beryllium foil. You forgot your own experiment??
it was about neutrons, not gamma radiation. gamma radiation is electromagnetic radiation with a very short wavelength / energy - a photon, a quantum of energy (same as visible light). neutrons are particles, hadrons (that are also part of atoms nuclei).
NICE! I have a sample of Be (~1 gram) in a spherical form. It is VERY TOXIC, esp. if Be dust is inhaled. Be "tampers" are used in nukes when firing "neutron pulses", in uSeconds! It's great to use as a neutron spallation experiment, if you have a powerful alpha emitter, i.e. Ra-226, Am-241, Cm-244, or Cf-252. I must say, you are so ambitious, tenacious, & obviously VERY intelligent! You have quite an imagination, and that's hard to find these days. SO many "radiation ignorant" people these days.
I would also like to add that if you want to irradiate silver, which I want to do, I have most of the materials. The silver I have is to thick, but I can acquire foil. I wanted to also try Gold (Au) too, and see if I could get a result from that. When I can someday, I'll try to irradiate Au! Also, Paraffin is a great material to slow neutrons down (thermal neutrons). Just thought I'd add that, but I'm sure you know that! I wish I could meet you someday! We'd be like the Marie and Pierre Curie!
actually, they make model boat propellers out of beryllium copper. They even warn you that when balancing them (where you have to sand some material away), to wear a respirator. I wonder who really does that....
I know I could, if I had felt the need to balance mine.
Doesn't all light weight atoms (aluminium, carbon, etc.) release neutrons when hit by alpha particles? Though not as effective as beryllium or lithium...
yeah. aluminum / aluminium is supposed to work okay, too, though the neutron yield would be much, much lower that with beryllium... beryllium seems to be ideal.
Its stable so i like it. Its a pretty (tiny) shet.
Peace of. Just tell me please, how to test food contaminated a little bit of cs137 sr90 etc, love you. Does Da GAMMA SCOUT make it up? I love Germany too
I've googled all around, but cannot find a decent source of this metal. United Nuclear has been out for a while, a helpful pointer on where to get some would be nice. :)
well, i guess its impossible to tell without having it. i'd look at the sellers reputation, especially if he sold Be before. when you have it, well... all i could do is compare it to other pieces of Be on the internet and also compare its weight against an equally thick slice of aluminium, which resembles its density and is rather specific for beryllium.
Okay, thanks for the tip. I'm fairly familiar with the other light metals so I can easily tell. You're a terrible influence by the way, sparking my interest like this!
Beryllium is very plentiful in chemtrails all arround the world. Just look outside and watch those planes releasing it every day by the tons. They cause lung cancer and thyroid cancer. Great stuff!
For neutron safety, one of the best things you can use to sheild against them is boron. Put some paraffin blocks up and some zip-lock bags full of borax behind them, and it should be an effective neutron sheild... or just melt the paraffin and mix the borax in with it and it'll be just as good, but then that paraffin will be useless as a moderator for experiments then.
Well, the problem with the neutrons produced by Be is that they are of particularly high energy. It has something to do with it's low Z number (atomic number). As for why I'm concerned, neutrons created by Be killed two great chemists a while back because the radiation coming from their experiment was particularly hard. Make sure you really know what you're doing. Also, one of them was using paraffin and apparently, he didn't set it up properly. Also, be careful about induced radiation!
now that's interesting, do you have a link to that? i wonder what happened exactly. also, i bet they had a lot of neutrons; i'll have ONE per second as absolute maximum, if my predictions are right.
oh well, some kinda immediate death by neutrons sounds much more appealing than slow death by induced cancer, as everybody is predicting i will get from touching mercury.
Hahah, cancer from mercury. Well actually, cancer would prolly be less painless compared to acute radiation poisoning which is what you'd get from exposure to neutrons. It's not a pretty sight...Plus too, I dunno if even one per second is safe. Unless you're doing it outside, I wouldn't suggest creating neutrons. Unless of course you're enriching uranium, in which case I think the UN might get a little angry =D
well, it depends on how many fast neutrons, i guess - if enough, i'd just be unconcious / dead in no time at all. some exposure that leads to a 'walking ghost phase' and then a horrible death wouldnt be so nice, but at least you'd be dead in max. a few weeks; final-stage cancer is suffering about the same, but for LONGER, even MONTHS of horrible torture (i know that because my mother died of cancer).
Ah, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah neutron radiation in general is just not something fun to be around.
Also, I think I mentioned this already, but be mindful about where your neutrons are going. You have all that uranium in your room and you'll be getting three neutrons for the price of one of the uranium gets hit.
yeah, i will be careful that the neutrons dont strike any uranium; though nothing all that noticable SHOULD happen, in theory, i think its 'better to be save than sorry'. even with no sustaining chain reaction, free neutrons flying around are, as you said 'not fun if around'. they'll just decay in 20 minutes, but not if new neutrons are produced and the chain reaction is self-sustaining... as i said, this cant really happen with uranium ore, but i'll make sure im on the safe side.
i just checked my book, it's from the german authorities and for scientists and very 'scientific' indeed, plus it's up to date.
it says that Be-9 and Ra-226 (0.1 uCi) are a 'simple to produce neutron source' and that 'the dangers of this source are less from the very low numbers of released neutrons, but more due to the toxicity of radium and especially beryllium itself'.
of course it's a different story if you just use watch hands OR if you have some insane 1 Ci source of Ra226 or the like.
oh yeah, also... what about cosmic radiation and stuff? its not like absolutely NO neutrons where around us and only i would produce them. there are quite a few neutrons present at all times. also, people are legally allowed to build fusors - fusion reactors - at home, which releases neutrons as well. hmmm....
but yeah... the US military says 80 Gy of neutron radiation causes death. i am nowhere near Gray; im not even at picogray with my small amount of neutrons, i guess.
also, i'll aim them at some silver foil, NOT at uranium, as i am a little worried this ending up in something bad happening - also, im not sure if the produced plutonium would be legal to own in the quantity i'd produce, and as i dont want to get into trouble, im staying away from such experiments. :-P
What exactly does radiation do to a human body? a living organism in general? All your talk about how horrible a death from radiation is made me very curious! I guess I should just look it up.
yes, good idea - go to wikipedia D_o_T com and look for RADIATION SICKNESS, i think that is a very good start! then you can start looking for ionizing radiation in general and see the difference in danger to a living organism between the different types of ionizing radiation. :-)
wow you seriously could make a little reactor, thats soo fucking cool!! look up the first nuclear reactor called a "breed reactor" the thing was basically what some people would call "free energy" it was a very efficient reactor by the use of fast neutrons that allowed for the more efficient conversion of radioactive matter to energy, thus in the end there was little or no nuclear waste which made nuclear power better, all nuclear reactors today are "slow neurtron" power plants, makes u wonder
ive have had several people warn me of the dangers of breathing beryllium dust when i pulled apart some magnetrons,although im now mislead as to wether its in the ceramic insulation or alloyed with the copper.
to my knowledge, in industrial appliances, beryllium is included in copper alloys and does not produce dust (unless grinded etc.). for example, there are golf clubs made out of beryllium-copper alloys; and they're not dangerous to touch / hold either, of course. :-)
thanks for the heads-up; i will be careful. i heard neutrons are considered as dangerous as alpha decay *inside* the body; well, sounds reasonable, as neutron activation could turn stuff inside me radioactive, too.
Where did you buy this at?
AllAroundBang 1 month ago
oh yes this element is used to be used for the making of lasers
NYWAORCANZ 6 months ago
I heard this is an elelment to invest into in the near future
NYWAORCANZ 6 months ago
ahhh neutron capture you ever try this experiment .i was going to do it with MnO2 but i never got the chance . if you did tell me the results. BTW i have downloaded portal 2 after seeing your videos funny stuff.
wowggscrub 9 months ago
I really hope you did this video with a dust mask on your face!
ElMirc 10 months ago
u can also use aluminium to get a neutron source
TeenageIronman 1 year ago
you are more brave than I. beryllium is my favorite element but it gives me the heebee jeebees.
onthecuttingedge2005 1 year ago
also, if you are cut by the beryllium the wound will not heal, the beryllium will suppress the immune system. very nasty stuff.
onthecuttingedge2005 1 year ago
thank you very much for your contribution to youtube and my knowledge of abstract elements.
vevenaneathna 1 year ago
Fr. Michael DeLisle Lyons, SJ of Detroit, Michigan supplied beryllium to the US Government for the initiators of our nuclear weapons from 1945 until his death in 1974 from Chronic Beryllium Lung Disease (Berylliosis). For the rest of the story Google "WWJ, A Jesuit and the Bomb," by me (Jeffrey Allan McQueen . . . Fr. Lyons' nephew).
usrevolution2 1 year ago
Hi there. In another video you showed a piece of americium from a fire detector. The gamma radiation of americium was pretty low. I wonder if you place the beryllium in front of the americium, if you get a noticeable increase in gamma radiation.
nick1f 1 year ago
@nick1f
nope. why would i?
bionerd23 1 year ago
@bionerd23
After I posted this message, I came accross another movie you made (Update on the neutron experiment - uFoR3aADZXk), where you actually claim you were not successful in generating gamma radiation from an americium source, using beryllium foil. You forgot your own experiment??
nick1f 1 year ago
@nick1f
it was about neutrons, not gamma radiation. gamma radiation is electromagnetic radiation with a very short wavelength / energy - a photon, a quantum of energy (same as visible light). neutrons are particles, hadrons (that are also part of atoms nuclei).
bionerd23 1 year ago
@bionerd23
Hi, you are right, I am sorry for my mistake. I was under the impression that gamma rays consist of neutrons.
nick1f 1 year ago
You do know that beryllium is one of the most toxic elements ever right? I would never touch it with bare hands. Yikes! Hope you are ok.
berylman 1 year ago
NICE! I have a sample of Be (~1 gram) in a spherical form. It is VERY TOXIC, esp. if Be dust is inhaled. Be "tampers" are used in nukes when firing "neutron pulses", in uSeconds! It's great to use as a neutron spallation experiment, if you have a powerful alpha emitter, i.e. Ra-226, Am-241, Cm-244, or Cf-252. I must say, you are so ambitious, tenacious, & obviously VERY intelligent! You have quite an imagination, and that's hard to find these days. SO many "radiation ignorant" people these days.
KarbineKyle 1 year ago
I would also like to add that if you want to irradiate silver, which I want to do, I have most of the materials. The silver I have is to thick, but I can acquire foil. I wanted to also try Gold (Au) too, and see if I could get a result from that. When I can someday, I'll try to irradiate Au! Also, Paraffin is a great material to slow neutrons down (thermal neutrons). Just thought I'd add that, but I'm sure you know that! I wish I could meet you someday! We'd be like the Marie and Pierre Curie!
KarbineKyle 1 year ago
actually, they make model boat propellers out of beryllium copper. They even warn you that when balancing them (where you have to sand some material away), to wear a respirator. I wonder who really does that....
I know I could, if I had felt the need to balance mine.
PsychoticBovine 2 years ago
I had 3 bars of beryllium copper, 3/4x6". I sold them for scrap 10 years ago thinking "I'll never use these" .Dumb thought
IExposeMormonism 2 years ago
eek. beryllium is poisonous, you should be wearing gloves. not that poisonous though...
cool piece!
ButterflyNM14 2 years ago
Doesn't all light weight atoms (aluminium, carbon, etc.) release neutrons when hit by alpha particles? Though not as effective as beryllium or lithium...
MightyBaal 2 years ago
yeah. aluminum / aluminium is supposed to work okay, too, though the neutron yield would be much, much lower that with beryllium... beryllium seems to be ideal.
bionerd23 2 years ago
omg! Les Horribles Cernettes?? I love them!
10mintwo 2 years ago
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Beryllium is one of the most dangerous metals. He should had worn gloves when handling the foil.
douro20 2 years ago
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U235hexafluoridedude 2 years ago
Bombard some of that uranite with neutrons and see if you get PU .
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A55KlCKER 2 years ago
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thanks, take care
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A55KlCKER 2 years ago
i wasnt asleep, i was simply a) not at home and b) busy.
you can check for minor amounts of contamination with specific isotopes (such as Cs-137) by analyzing the material in a spectrometer.
a geiger mueller counter / dosimeter is not sensitive enough for small contaminations and cannot determine the nuclide / isotope, either.
bionerd23 2 years ago
Its stable so i like it. Its a pretty (tiny) shet.
Peace of. Just tell me please, how to test food contaminated a little bit of cs137 sr90 etc, love you. Does Da GAMMA SCOUT make it up? I love Germany too
A55KlCKER 2 years ago
This is the first time i`ve seen beryllium. Interesting !
I wonder why the dull sueface ?
Flapjackbatter 2 years ago
where can you buy Be and how much does it cost? :)
teslafredde 2 years ago
Didn't / don't they use beryllium in nuclear warheads to start a chain reaction?
man4hire 2 years ago
yeah, as neutron reflector, basically.
bionerd23 2 years ago
dont pull a slotin
mike240se 2 years ago
Rock Band 2 is COOLLLLL!!!!!!!
YEAH......
marlethfan 3 years ago
I've googled all around, but cannot find a decent source of this metal. United Nuclear has been out for a while, a helpful pointer on where to get some would be nice. :)
Hades8784 3 years ago
E-B-A-Y. be patient, check often. :-)
bionerd23 3 years ago
hey, there are a few Be auctions on RIGHT NOW on ebay.
bionerd23 3 years ago
I see them, but I worry about authenticity of the samples..Is there a quick field test I could do, or is it distinct enough on its own
Hades8784 3 years ago
well, i guess its impossible to tell without having it. i'd look at the sellers reputation, especially if he sold Be before. when you have it, well... all i could do is compare it to other pieces of Be on the internet and also compare its weight against an equally thick slice of aluminium, which resembles its density and is rather specific for beryllium.
bionerd23 3 years ago
Okay, thanks for the tip. I'm fairly familiar with the other light metals so I can easily tell. You're a terrible influence by the way, sparking my interest like this!
Hades8784 3 years ago
dont say that, it's one of the most beautiful hobbies there is. ;-)
bionerd23 3 years ago
Beryllium is very plentiful in chemtrails all arround the world. Just look outside and watch those planes releasing it every day by the tons. They cause lung cancer and thyroid cancer. Great stuff!
jingling30 3 years ago
I got like 20 beryllium balls (1cm by 2 cm)...
legominifigure7 3 years ago
cool, when are you finally gonna post videos of that and your Tc99?
bionerd23 3 years ago
When it stops breaking my cameras with its radiation!
legominifigure7 3 years ago
Not really, but i have so little, its hard to see.
legominifigure7 3 years ago
my eyesight is good enough to see 1 by 2 cm spheres. ^_^
bionerd23 3 years ago
im talking the Tc99
legominifigure7 3 years ago
radon radon radon............................ ;)
lucaeroteam 3 years ago
yes? what about it?
bionerd23 3 years ago
For neutron safety, one of the best things you can use to sheild against them is boron. Put some paraffin blocks up and some zip-lock bags full of borax behind them, and it should be an effective neutron sheild... or just melt the paraffin and mix the borax in with it and it'll be just as good, but then that paraffin will be useless as a moderator for experiments then.
AScannerClearly 3 years ago
thanks a lot AScannerClearly, i'll try that! :-)
bionerd23 3 years ago
but it does not give off neutrons till it is excited by a source like electrons right??
boxa888 2 years ago
eine Noob Frage:
Hatte nen Chemie Test und da kam ne frage:
Was ist Sr?
ist das Stronzium? =)
Blinkwing 3 years ago
Strontium, ja.
bionerd23 3 years ago
oh danke :-)
nun nur noch richtig schreiben :-)
noch ne Frage, was versteht man unter dem Stoff
Darmstadtium (Ds)?
Blinkwing 3 years ago
WIKIPEDIA punkt DE - dein freund und helfer. beantwortet alle fragen, sofort.
weitere solche fragen an mich kosten 1 EUR, zahlbar per vorrauskasse durch paypal. :-P
bionerd23 3 years ago
oh neeeeiiiiinn!
dann werde ich ja arm^^
Blinkwing 3 years ago
Whoa whoa whoa. You gotta be super careful with Be. The neutrons that are produced are highly highly active.
Nice sample nonetheless though =D
Ch3mG33k 3 years ago
what do you mean, highly 'active'?
as in, high in energy / fast neutrons? yeah, i'll have to moderate them... got paraffin for that so far. =)
why are you especially talking about Be though; are neutrons released by e.g. SF lower in energy? thanks! :-)
bionerd23 3 years ago
Well, the problem with the neutrons produced by Be is that they are of particularly high energy. It has something to do with it's low Z number (atomic number). As for why I'm concerned, neutrons created by Be killed two great chemists a while back because the radiation coming from their experiment was particularly hard. Make sure you really know what you're doing. Also, one of them was using paraffin and apparently, he didn't set it up properly. Also, be careful about induced radiation!
Ch3mG33k 3 years ago
now that's interesting, do you have a link to that? i wonder what happened exactly. also, i bet they had a lot of neutrons; i'll have ONE per second as absolute maximum, if my predictions are right.
oh well, some kinda immediate death by neutrons sounds much more appealing than slow death by induced cancer, as everybody is predicting i will get from touching mercury.
lol, just kidding. ^_^
bionerd23 3 years ago
Hahah, cancer from mercury. Well actually, cancer would prolly be less painless compared to acute radiation poisoning which is what you'd get from exposure to neutrons. It's not a pretty sight...Plus too, I dunno if even one per second is safe. Unless you're doing it outside, I wouldn't suggest creating neutrons. Unless of course you're enriching uranium, in which case I think the UN might get a little angry =D
Ch3mG33k 3 years ago
well, it depends on how many fast neutrons, i guess - if enough, i'd just be unconcious / dead in no time at all. some exposure that leads to a 'walking ghost phase' and then a horrible death wouldnt be so nice, but at least you'd be dead in max. a few weeks; final-stage cancer is suffering about the same, but for LONGER, even MONTHS of horrible torture (i know that because my mother died of cancer).
bionerd23 3 years ago
Ah, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah neutron radiation in general is just not something fun to be around.
Also, I think I mentioned this already, but be mindful about where your neutrons are going. You have all that uranium in your room and you'll be getting three neutrons for the price of one of the uranium gets hit.
Ch3mG33k 3 years ago
yeah, i will be careful that the neutrons dont strike any uranium; though nothing all that noticable SHOULD happen, in theory, i think its 'better to be save than sorry'. even with no sustaining chain reaction, free neutrons flying around are, as you said 'not fun if around'. they'll just decay in 20 minutes, but not if new neutrons are produced and the chain reaction is self-sustaining... as i said, this cant really happen with uranium ore, but i'll make sure im on the safe side.
bionerd23 3 years ago
Sounds good. I think it'd be funny if you were measuring radiation levels after the experiment and your gamma-scout became radioactive xD
Ch3mG33k 3 years ago
i just checked my book, it's from the german authorities and for scientists and very 'scientific' indeed, plus it's up to date.
it says that Be-9 and Ra-226 (0.1 uCi) are a 'simple to produce neutron source' and that 'the dangers of this source are less from the very low numbers of released neutrons, but more due to the toxicity of radium and especially beryllium itself'.
of course it's a different story if you just use watch hands OR if you have some insane 1 Ci source of Ra226 or the like.
bionerd23 3 years ago
Hm, very interesting! I guess the neutrons produced by this reaction don't have enough energy to actually do anything. Makes sense I suppose.
Ch3mG33k 3 years ago
oh yeah, also... what about cosmic radiation and stuff? its not like absolutely NO neutrons where around us and only i would produce them. there are quite a few neutrons present at all times. also, people are legally allowed to build fusors - fusion reactors - at home, which releases neutrons as well. hmmm....
bionerd23 3 years ago
but yeah... the US military says 80 Gy of neutron radiation causes death. i am nowhere near Gray; im not even at picogray with my small amount of neutrons, i guess.
also, i'll aim them at some silver foil, NOT at uranium, as i am a little worried this ending up in something bad happening - also, im not sure if the produced plutonium would be legal to own in the quantity i'd produce, and as i dont want to get into trouble, im staying away from such experiments. :-P
bionerd23 3 years ago
What exactly does radiation do to a human body? a living organism in general? All your talk about how horrible a death from radiation is made me very curious! I guess I should just look it up.
sysexit 3 years ago
yes, good idea - go to wikipedia D_o_T com and look for RADIATION SICKNESS, i think that is a very good start! then you can start looking for ionizing radiation in general and see the difference in danger to a living organism between the different types of ionizing radiation. :-)
bionerd23 3 years ago
wow you seriously could make a little reactor, thats soo fucking cool!! look up the first nuclear reactor called a "breed reactor" the thing was basically what some people would call "free energy" it was a very efficient reactor by the use of fast neutrons that allowed for the more efficient conversion of radioactive matter to energy, thus in the end there was little or no nuclear waste which made nuclear power better, all nuclear reactors today are "slow neurtron" power plants, makes u wonder
boxa888 2 years ago
miiiiiiiiiiiies D:< xD
ich freu mich trotzdem für dich... :D
sciencoking 3 years ago
ive have had several people warn me of the dangers of breathing beryllium dust when i pulled apart some magnetrons,although im now mislead as to wether its in the ceramic insulation or alloyed with the copper.
any input would be appreciated.
5 stars from me
m3sca1 3 years ago
to my knowledge, in industrial appliances, beryllium is included in copper alloys and does not produce dust (unless grinded etc.). for example, there are golf clubs made out of beryllium-copper alloys; and they're not dangerous to touch / hold either, of course. :-)
bionerd23 3 years ago
cool-so as long as i dont take a grinder to the pretty looking copper,i will be ok.
thanx.
m3sca1 3 years ago
Be extra cautious with neutrons. I'm much more concerned with them than even hard gammas.
kewikle 3 years ago
thanks for the heads-up; i will be careful. i heard neutrons are considered as dangerous as alpha decay *inside* the body; well, sounds reasonable, as neutron activation could turn stuff inside me radioactive, too.
bionerd23 3 years ago
Dam i really wanted beryllium but my supplier is currently out!
klutz22 3 years ago
nice i got a fujfilm finepixz
Dharok60 3 years ago
nice cam
Dharok60 3 years ago
lol, thx... its a canon powershot a590.
bionerd23 3 years ago
Hey dewd, nice addition to your collection. So the little experiment you are going to do, is that neutron activation?
th3d3wd3r 3 years ago
yes, exactly - neutron activation is the correct term. :-)
bionerd23 3 years ago
Weeeeeeiiiiird looking stuff! Looking forward to seeing what you can do with it!
AScannerClearly 3 years ago