Californium - Periodic Table of Videos

[jbeer82]

It not manufactured in large quantities, it is a very strong neutron emitter, 1 microgram emits170 million neutrons per minute. It only comes as salts due to the fact that the pure metal have not yet been accomplished.

[jbeer82]

...And $185/mcg Cf-249

[maffia440]

Californium-stupid ass name

[lilmoe102]

why is it so expensive. dang bra.

[irkiIIer]

350 billion per pound 

[sethboy66]

@irkiIIer you can get 1 pound for $22,650,000 on the black market :)

[medialover661]

i just found out it costs yeah like over $ 60,000,000 to manufacture 1 gram

[vmelkon]

Metal detectors? What does the californium do exactly in this case?

[Joke9972]

It is one of the most expensive materials on the planet, so I assume this is not true.

[boiledcabbage06]

His accent is really different (and really cool); where is he from? I mean like, what general area? If you don't mind. :]

[sparkybaz77]

@boiledcabbage06 England, probally Cambridge or East Anglian region.

[LePeintreOrageux]

Hope they can come up with a substance that detects plane hijackers as well : @

[shenstone]

are pretty female lab technicians really californium girls?...I heard the rumour but I am not convinced...

[projectpat0392]

@shenstone Thank you

[culwin]

I got some Californium on Ebay for $50 (free shipping)

[EnragedSephiroth]

Damnit, I want to see a sample of it.

[InBloom10]

Californium doesnt cost that much. In 2001 a few workers were arrested in Russia for trying to sell 5 grams of californium on the black market for around $50,000.

[avionleahcim]

really?

how much would it really cost to make?

[behnamasid]

@InBloom10 Are you also talking about Californium-252

[mdluby10]

@InBloom10 actually californium is sold up to 68,000$ a milligram

[darkunorthodox]

this is so not true, first its americium, and second a gram of clifornium costs around 27 million dollars! it has no use due to it being too expensive

[legominifigure7]

uh, $10 for .0001 of a gram... $100 for .001

[thePENANCE]

It does have a use; it is used for things such as nuclear starters, used for scanning metallic stress in a plane; so that the plane doesn't rip apart during flight; there aren't many uses; but there are enough

[Vichama]

Metal detectors in households? Did he mean smoke detectors?

[Butteredcornflakes]

Pretty sure he was talking about the metal detectors to find things in the ground...like rings and all that. =/

[Vichama]

Maybe I was thinking of Americium. Im pretty sure they use that in smoke detectors.

[atomic7732]

uhh... you are correct!

[thePENANCE]

THey wouldnt put them in houses because its 27 million US dollars for 1 gram

[polonium9]

well then endanger your house and harvest it

[thePENANCE]

no thank you, I would like to but then I would need a particle accelerator, I would need to buy shit for my basement to make it so that NO radioactivity escapes...so I'll need to have a garage sale first, and then maybe I'll take out a loan for like 1 000 000 000 000 dollars

[atomic7732]

no it isn't

[vapoorize]

Go California!

[atomic7732]

...ium!

[polonium9]

HA (did a chris matthews HA)

[spiderseena]

nice!

[spruce86]

These videos are awesome