Plutonium - Periodic Table of Videos

[MrMayur1210]

hell hairs

[MrMayur1210]

the hairs are so much disturbing



[MrMayur1210]

nice video

[smeggerss]

and still runs voyagers power today

[akacpkiller21]

the guy with the white hair looks like an evil genius!

[jiaanchen]

a video for olivine

[guanjon]

Old guy needs to shut the fuck up. I want to know about plutonium, not your brother's book or whatever.

[GTHaroFITBMX]

@guanjon well, F@CK YOU!

[fjgamerz]

WTF is with the hair?

[GTHaroFITBMX]

@fjgamerz WTF is with your question?!

[kevindeniskevindenis]

Love the hair

[Virtuoso80]

Cool story, except what happened to the other 0.5mg of Plutonium?

[liveoles]

@Virtuoso80 Karen Silkwood's flat, all over her flat......ok...wait...

[jesusxd1000]

@Virtuoso80 Good question!!

[poofnsauce]

@jesusxd1000 well I imagine it decayed away since it has a half life in normal atmosphere.

[dajwilkinson]

@Virtuoso80 The 'burn' and recovery process was evidently careful enough to keep 95% of the Pu so the rest would be in the residual ashes or whatever solvents were used. I trust these are in boxes or bottles in a safe somewhere and didn't go to landfill or down the sink! If they did, that would answer your question :-( In terms of decay, if the 10mg supplied were either of the two most important isotopes (238 or 239) over half would still exist today and at least 0.25mg is still 'out there'...

[JonThm]

A lightning bolt reaches the temperature of 10 million degrees C, driven by heavy rain. Producing five terms of helium gas: safe, clean, free molecular nuclear fusion.

[natna25]

plutonium is not poisonous i eat it all the time the professor is wrong

[M8EO]

classic mad scientist

[IqsMontegro]

@IqsMontegro :D



[uralegend987]

His glasses are goggles!!! O.o

[TheMartijn45]

GREENPEACE-ATOMICBOMBS!!!! Good for the earth!

[Shpwnicus]

thumbs up if your watching this just because it is a radioactive element :D

[uxa1]

can i get a sample of this man's hair? i just want to touch it.

[JonThm]

H2O in turbulent flow produces helium and heat. Plus free radical oxygen. That is the way it works. I have a master's degree in Engineering Materials.

[Thatguywithlogic]

@JonThm How hot are we talking....100,000K?

[marcomovies97]

lolz i'm 14 and watching this video's

[adler3008]

@marcomovies97 i'm 13

[marcomovies97]

@adler3008 lolz

[Dkayed85]

@adler3008 I'm 5.

[NeddyRedux]

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.

[JonThm]

Hydrogen ions are naked protons. So the turbulent flow of hydrogen ions does nuclear fusion.

[endimion17]

@JonThm No, that's not not really how it goes.

H+ (proton) doesn't create turbulent flows, and fusion requires high speed proton rays, not any flows.

Meanwhile, hydrogen ions in aqueous solutions are H3O+, which have nothing to do with fusion. Protons can't exist in aqueous solutions.

[YooEssBee1]

Its like obsidian from minecraft

[polotic]

171,316 ppl hav been chekd by GCHQ the moment they clikd this vid

[Versudan]

Haha, that's a bit ironic... Trying to make thermonuclear weapons more 'ecologically friendly' to make. I bet the detonation of one more than makes up for their efforts to 'be green'. ;)

[Tridecalogism]

This guy looks like the chemist professor from sixty symbols.

[Tridecalogism]

@Tridecalogism Nevermind! University of Nottingham. That explains.

[dallaschoppers]

if these guys are so damn smart, why cant they spell grease right? are they so damn smart they're dumb

[megatron3804]

I made the flux capacitor all I need is plutonium

[idman3333]

@megatron3804 i am not helping the discepticons by giving you that

[ChaosButterfly8]

Dr. Terwilliker: Is it atomic?

Bart Collins: Yes sir, VERY atomic!

The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.

[ChaosButterfly8]

Plutonium atomic number 94.

9 + 4 = Illuminati Fibonacci numerology number 13.

P u is right!

(smile)

[ChaosButterfly8]

Love the weapons grade hair!

Fabulous!

[MeditatedSoulja]

can i borrow 1.21 gigawatts worth?

[HRage]

haha environmentally friendly nukes :)

I'm all in favour of nuking my enemies with a good conscience

[HurrLogicAttackDurr]

Great Scott !

[Shawn21769]

Oh the irony in that! More environmentally friendly nuclear bombs.

[SidB8]

They forgot to mention that plutonium is THE MOST DANGEROUS ELEMENT ON THE PERIODIC TABLE!!!

[Berowra290997]

@SidB8 I hope you are joking... I think there are plenty of other dangerous one. (eg. Fluorine gas)

[Berowra290997]

@SidB8 I hope you are joking... I think there are plenty of other dangerous ones. (eg. Fluorine gas) It is only spectactularly dangerous if you have its critical mass worth, where it can spontaneously fission.

[SidB8]

@Berowra290997

Inhaling plutonium or coming into close contact with it without protection can lead to an INSTANT DEATH.

[patrickwellerwrites]

why don't you have a sample of plutonium?

[LeftoverJedi]

@patrickwellerwrites they don't have the proper facilities to handle it, or the proper clearance to access it.

[ronniepage]

how much would 1 gallon of plutonium weigh?

[TeslaRifle]

Plutonium is a trans-Neptunium element.

[Christinarn71]

I am curious about the play he speaks about. I want more insight.

[Fullmetalminos]

Demoman most loved element :D

[gohan661]

Environmentally friendly nuclear bombs is pure win

[pooppeeyoupants]

BENCH FAIL :D

[leadpickshredder]

Press 1 then 9 to watch INSTA-ROGAIN in action!!! All kidding aside I love Prof Poliakoff and everyone else involved in these videos. VERY educational THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!! I've watched every video you've made aswell as all the SIXTY SYMBOLS vids. Its too bad more people don't make stuff like this. I've learned so much from these videos and been inspired to look deeper into chemistry and physics. You guys should be very proud of yourselves and keep making more vids and inspiring people.Thanks

[strange6]

Errrrrrrr, I don't think you would use an hacksaw for several hours to try and cut the stuff. that's bullshit for the video I'm afraid

[TheGOTH13]

what if they make bullet out of plutonium with an lead core it will be too heavy i think but thele figure something out

[dreasim]

I just saw a pic of a Pu lump used on spacecraft..it glows red from its own heat!

[matt23547]

WHAT HE SAYS IS RIGHT TOTALY AGREE!

[williamtul11]

could you talk about the demon core and the science behind that?

[w4rr10r11]

I need this for my Flux Capacitor.

[TeslaRifle]

@w4rr10r11 1.21 Gigawatts!



[Tuttomenui]

@TeslaRifle 1.21 Jigawatts! (Have to spell it wrong for full effect of the quote ;) )

[TeslaRifle]

@Tuttomenui Great Scott!!!

[ProphetOfTheGoat]

i can imagine this guy walkin around the offices with an afro pick n pimp cane. with his lab coat collar popped. i hope he does that 

[kjah11]

You are the best mad-prof on the internet!

(is this a compliment becouse it was for my old fysics tutor?)

[Kamikuru77]

I would love to come study plutonium and physics in the UK once i finish my undergrad here in the usa in physics. How hard is it to get a research job in the UK?

[RubertaLang]

Awesome! I absolutely love these kinds of anecdotes, very very nice! Thanks!

[MercSLRFan]

@pyrioni What a stupid idiot you are.

[jinkss111]

that's funny spilled it on a bench lol

[zugurudumba]

Love this professor, I would listen to him all day long.

[shakin2011]

between 0:50 and 1:30 i think he swallowed some plutonium

[KarbineKyle]

Pu-238 is used in space equipment, because its half-life is relatively shorter than the other common isotopes, such as Pu-239, Pu-240, Pu-242, and Pu-244. Most of the other isotopes, like Pu-241 is even more unstable. It's not used much. Pu-238 has a T-1/2 of about 87.8 years, and so Pu-238 is used in generators to produce heat. Tungsten carbide (WC) is good for containing and shielding it, because Pu-238 is so hot. Lead would melt, so WC is used, because of its high melting point and density.

[originalboondi]

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW

I have Sent you a private message PROFFESOR.....

[pipkguitar]

lol, "More environmentally friendly atom bombs"

[thewabbiteer]

Hey hey, the University of Nottingham! I studied there - brilliant place, nice to see the Professor in action.

[dclaver2]

If this guy would put on thick black round glasses, he would look like the zombie scientist from black ops 

[dclaver2]

half a Kg is about 1 Ib

[jingjong12]

With Plutonium, I can go back in time! :P

[stix471]

that guy is a typical crazy scientist.

[dalsenov]

A sort of similar macabre joke concerning environmental concerns I heard is that Greanpeace requested that all the atomic bombs should be ecological.More specifically ,while killing people the atomic bombs should let vegetation untouched.

[lapkine77]

Okay, please tell me if I'm getting this right : the dude with the awesome hair just said that supercritical carbon dioxyde could replace plutonium in nuclear bombs, right ?

Please I need some clarification :/

[rigby0105]

@lapkine77 narrpp, he said that a woman he was talking to was trying to see if they could use supercritical co2 as a solvent for removing grease from the plutonium as the chlorine based solvent was bad for the enviroment. lol!

[lapkine77]

@rigby0105 lol thnx coz when I heard it I was like "WTF LOL"

[rigby0105]

@lapkine77 saaalreet :)

[43932]

@lapkine77 you don't understand nothing ! 

[lapkine77]

@43932 That's why I made my comment :P

[Evilspanky19]

he said environmentally friendly ,,ha,, im sure i hear in my class and alot of people the the bomb was made to kill every living thing in sight of where the bomb lands so everything is dead except roaches .... dont kw what macabe is

[Hylander27]

this guy hair ROCKS! it's soooooooooooo 1930's

[Hylander27]

omg! look that the hair!

[Skandalos]

Whats wrong with worrying about environment when handling weapons grade plutonium? I really dont get it. If people would NOT care about the environment, THEN Id be worried.

[jcyeahful]

@Skandalos think about it if they use that thing to clean the grease for the polutium the effects are going to be minimum compared to when they actually launch it to destroy a envioroment of around about 1000 km

[Skandalos]

@jcyeahful umm, so you suggest it's ok to do CERTAIN damage to YOURSELF because the bomb IF it happens to be used WOULD do lots of damage to the ENEMY. Kinda interesting way of "thinking" you doing there ...

Ever thought about a brain transplant?

[jcyeahful]

@Skandalos no no thats not what am saying am saying that the enviromental cost of degreasing the plutonium would be minimum compared to the actually explosion am not sure how much degreasing of certain element weapons would damage the enviroment but its got to be smaller than the actual explosion its self

[Skandalos]

@jcyeahful well, and thats totally ok, because the probability that the bomb will ever be used is very close to zero while the grease absolutely certainly will damage the environment. And again: bomb goes to enemy. Contaminated grease goes to your own backyard. Note the difference? It's the freaking JOB of the bomb to do MAX damage to potential enemy, and ZERO damage to yourself.

You still dont get it, right? I give up.

[jcyeahful]

@Skandalos yes i understand why they hav to degrease them but think of the effect of the raidoactivity over its half life how much it alone will cause and america has a lot of bombs

[hr1100]

@jcyeahful More like 3-4km. And it wont destroy the environment, it will just make it unsuitable for malls and car parkings for a while. Plants and stuff will still grow, given that the area already had vegetation.

[jcyeahful]

@hr1100 its still destroying what ever was there though and the effects of a nuclear bomb can last up to 1 year at most

[SeasOfRefuge]

How did that guy get the plutonium out of the ash?

[computerfreaq17]

@SeasOfRefuge Filter it? XD

[SeasOfRefuge]

@computerfreaq17

That seems tedious, but I suppose if all the plutonium in the UK was at stake, that would be some impetous to do that.

[twodoortwo]

Plutonium has also powered many unmanned space probes sent to the outer solar system, where solar panels do not provide much energy. It is a very useful element, although it has a bad rap for it's use in thermonuclear weaponry.

[bobalazs]

There are lot of new periodic elements appearing in labs every so often.

Supposedly theres a lot more than what is currently known.

[UnchainTheNight1]

Plutonium? You can buy it from Libyan Nationalists. Don't f*ck with them.

You're gonna need it for that 1.21 gigawatts ;)

[BkUnbreakable]

this video is very good. i watch his videos everyday for school. Because i am homeschooled. And it helps my chemistry learning :) very good!(: keep up the goodwork!

[bobalazs]

@BkUnbreakable i wish i could do that. I would sit around 20 hours a day just watching videos! :)

[BkUnbreakable]

@bobalazs yeah its pretty cool :) ive also been checking out their physics channel! man they are good, i watch like 13 vids a day :D

[bobalazs]

@BkUnbreakable you're right they're interesting. Even though i'm not in school anymore. :DD

[BkUnbreakable]

@bobalazs lucky! imma junior -_-

[7ineedalife7]

after the bomb explode there3 will be no inviroment so be frendly towards

[jworcester92]

watching this guy makes me feel smart

[awdawdwdwadwad]

If you guys see other videos showing people with plutonium in viles or jars its fake becuase plutonium is highly dangerous, highy radioactive, and highly lethal even in very small doses and plutonium can melt through almost anything.

[madjimms]

@awdawdwdwadwad No, its not some magic rock that kills everything..... It is highly radioactive, BUT you can be around it for short periods of time with no ill effects. Even the most radioactive elements can be handled in short periods of time.

[lynkynpark86]

haha is the 10% chlorine cleaner we are using on our weapons-grade fallout-producing plutonium "green"

[flux1969]

enviromently friendly atom bombs haha!! they explode(implode) and plant a few trees at the same time ;) and maybe a few flowers too

[bogdanbelcea]

Lead gloves ? Are you sure? As far as I can find info on it, Plutonium is an ALPHA emitter, and for that , a sheet of paper or even the layer of dead skin-cells on your skin do a great job of shielding you from the alpha particles.

If it has a lot of fission fragments you might have a problem with them.

Also,a Plutonium golf ball will have more like ~830g

[DeltaPhi79]

@bogdanbelcea Which *IS* in excess of half a kg and lead still protects against alpha particles. :P

[strange6]

YAWNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!

[sadlersinengland]

The hair grew at least 3 inches between th start and end of the clip

[scraffs224]

@sadlersinengland lol scary movie 3 xD

[limefrog77]

@sadlersinengland and im sure his hair is sentient lol

[bunkmasterflex]

@sadlersinengland I think he's a werewolf but i don't judge him for it.

[alitavakoliwww]

if i didnt see the vid and only the dicribtion i would answer you this: i would go and kill my self before the kill me (much happier death truth me)

[tiagandremo]

enviromentally friendly atom bombs, thats a good 1 xD

[SETHHIKARU]

If I was holding a golf ball size shape of Plutonium in my hand that weighed in excess of half a kilogram, I think I would build a Plutonium bomb for the lulz.

[opoptimus]

thumbs up if you got this from back to the future

[YottaFlop]

Environmentally friendly atomic bombs.... holy fucking lol!!!!!

Someday we will be seeing the ROHS* certificate on nuclear warheads!

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*ROHS stands for -> Restriction of hazardous substances.

[cuntylishus]

I didn't realise that he was Stephen Poliakoff's brother! Genius runs in the family.

[GutsAndSpleen]

it true a pound of plutonuim can kill 7 billion people?

[jrodblue59]

Einsteins grandson!

[snelpiller]

I dont really understand maths and alike but I still really enjoy videos like this.

[pkmorris1]

Does this guy have the largest hands in the world?

[WHIREAS]

wow, that lady must´ve been such an idiot xDD

[ycarus1977]

@WHIREAS

He said she worked with weapons grade plutonium. Perhaps they were dismantling bombs, and they need a way to clean the metal before using it elsewhere (such as in a power plant) so might not be quite such an oxymoron as you might think.

Even if she were manufacturing bombs, you do care about the environment around where they're made because they would be made domestically. After all you do tend to care about your own environment more than that of your enemy.

[WHIREAS]

@ycarus1977 maybe, but it´s still kinda ironic lol xP

[badbobbyhughes]

I don't understand why he couldn't recover the plutonium from the bench mechanically (i.e. picking it up) is it really that heavy that it would embed itself in the wood or something if ground finely enough and dropped?

[ycarus1977]

@badbobbyhughes If he were researching its chemistry, it would likely have been a salt in solution, making it quite possible for it to be absorbed into a wooden desk.

[badbobbyhughes]

@ycarus1977 ahhh, well that makes perfect sense. I had just assumed he was using elemental Pu metal. thanks

[lexichronicle2]

when that guy in the black shirt if talking, it sounds like something off a comedy show "it'd be like holding a very heavy cup of warm time, that's also a banana, but brown and upside down, if you can imagine that...."

[ProxyNuker]

I would love to work with this stuff, the sheer power and mysterious element about it is fascinating.

[wardenphil]

@ProxyNuker  It is not that big a deal p trust me.

[RuKuLuke]

If I was ever a chemistry/science teacher, I would use these videos.

I wish my school would use these.

[BobStinkfulla]

@RuKuLuke That's exactly why you shouldn't be a teacher.

[TalksWithDirt]

I like my Plutonium with a heavy salting of electrons, neutrons, and protons.

[xn117]

@TalksWithDirt LOL

[GlobalWTF]

Very good story about the environmentally friendly bombs, I laughed very much.

[Aethren]

Chuck Norris eats plutonium in a bowl with milk every morning.

[artman40]

@Aethren I bet there are people so badass that they can eat plutonium without milk.

[ParadigmShift22]

My dad died from plutonium poisoning be careful with this stuff

[Yoshemo1]

@ParadigmShift22 On the other video, you said your dad died of Lead...

[UncleKennybobs]

It's Pinky, it's Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain.

[strange6]

Why are so many highly intelligent people about as interesting as toothache?

[UncleKennybobs]

@strange6 Only to incredibly stupid people like you.

[1993gandy]

doesn't plutonium about the same size as a basketball power an entire city for 10 years

[stevewestingale]

@1993gandy i dont know about that but a grapefruit sized ball of plutonium can make a nuclear bomb capable of destroying a large city

[1RadicalOne]

I would think environmental effects of manufacturing nuclear weapons are far outweighed by the horror of their use.

[rebelgunnut]

nice i just glad i get to work with it :-) in my research

[VanillaShoelace]

@rebelgunnut You don't work with plutonium...

[rebelgunnut]

@VanillaShoelace ya i do in Very small amounts im a radiochemist student, i did a simple determanation of plutonium in water experiment

[P514sub]

I like the idea of making enviromentally freindly atomic bombs that destroy huge areas for over a hundred years!

[masacatior]

macabro... trabalhando com bombas de destruição em massa que transforma as zonas de teste em verdadeiros desertos radioativos e ainda pensando no gás carbônico..

[strange6]

I bet this chap is great fun at a party! He looks like a real joker lol

[ErosaScuderia]

Uh oh, plutonium! Lol.

[rew901]

mmm up where i have been some one made a nuclear reactor in there front lawn and well forgot the shield and ended up giving himself like 25 years worth of radiation poisoning he gather the materials which for legal reasons i will not say from what or where that guy was either insanely smart and had n common sense or just plain had no common sense

[rebelgunnut]

@rew901 wow if that true he should of been throwing up and be temporary sterility and most likely deathly ill form commen sickness.

[mikeccuk2006]

haha, bomb making lady worried about environment while making radioactive bomb. Lets just not fire it

[StereoSpace]

I believe plutonium is used in radio isotope thermal generators (RTGs) which power deep space spacecraft like Voyager and Cassini.

[leatherman7553]

but you could find that lost golfball with a gieger counter