Americium - Periodic Table of Videos

[F2L4Life]

*buys three hundred billion smoke detectors*

[HYEYBT]

Who knew you could walk into a grocery store and buy an element more dangerous than weapons-grade plutonium?

[NahPalProductions]

minecraft! anyone?

[Dth091]

@NahPalProductions I don't get it

[NahPalProductions]

@Dth091 glowstone from the nether was originally called americium but it was changed very soon after the nether's realise to glowstone

[Dth091]

@NahPalProductions Uh, if you mean the playtest that PC gamer did before the official release, they nicknamed it "Australium" which is a completely fake element that's used as a joke most of the time.

[nbachmann]

Americium, Fuck Ya!

[Kokoda144]

it doesn't not surprise me that Americans and Europeans are that shallow would name universal elements after them self.

[forsurenoob]

@Kokoda144 erm, there's Francium (after France) - Einstenium (after Einstein) - Polonium (after Poland) and many others named after people / places. It's just done to honor the person/place that found them or so.

[Dth091]

Sure because things are never named after the people who discover them / the places they are discovered.

[andid]

GOD BLESS AMERICIUM

[Roadkill3121x3121]

anything above 84 on the periodic table is radioactive

[TheCaptainLulz]

If you have an americium patch from a smoke detector you can count it as 2 elements as it decays into neptunium which has a million+ year half life.

[vmelkon]

It's strange that they put this in smoke alarms. I guess it is a waste product.

[imaball]

yay i learned soo ooo much! . . . .....

[jeebersjumpincryst]

i took the Am source out of smoke detector, took it to work and left it for 2 hours on a rare earth screen cassette loaded with film. Is sensitive to kVp range of xray energies. Anyway,It fogged it very well, but only directly under Am source. Dose tiny compared to usual diagnostic range, but would add up fast if near a radiosensitive organ for an extented period of time. I guess the 59keV gamma was the one that did the fogging. Was something to do and interesting heh heh.

[jeebersjumpincryst]

testing...

[skonkfactory]

Not quite true- a lot of people have tritium in their homes as part of light sources; they were used in the Trimfone.

[berkeleyboy15]

developed in where?

Lawrence Berkeley Labs, of course!

[DuskY1991]

Cool! So this means i've got Americium in my house? Cool! Lol

[Thedutchjelle]

If you got 60 KG , you can make a nuke!

To bad a detector only has like 0,2 micrograms :P

[DuskY1991]

So this means i need... about 300.000.000.000 of those things? Maybe i made a miscalculation, but still... ALOT lol

[Thedutchjelle]

Yeah I'm pretty sure there are no 300x10^9 detectors on the planet, so you're probably better off just buying the element instead of that many detectors :P

[DuskY1991]

Can you actually buy this kind of elements?

[atomic7732]

Maybe, but you might have to have 10^5 dollars. know only a low amount of Cf has been made and it's like 10^12, to bad it's gone now.

[wsmith68]

Thank god it has only 2E-7 g.

[XTwina]

@Thedutchjelle i calculated it and you would need around 232 billion smoke detectors of 1 microcurie each for a bomb , i think, its easier to buy plutonium ilegaly ^^

[imaball]

@XTwina or make a nuclear reactor =D

[WoodyMathias]

@Thedutchjelle either need a lot of smoke alarms or make a teeny tiny nuke ;)

[1993gandy]

@Thedutchjelle just buy 100000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000 smoke detectors lol

[uut0]

@1993gandy 3000000000 actually

[dlouis95]

@Thedutchjelle 300 billion smoke detectors.

[cullotte3]

@Thedutchjelle Well lets crackin.

[porkyinka]

@Thedutchjelle lmao i just realised that said micro grams not milli. FTW

[atomic7732]

awesome!