Uranium Research (Extra Footage)

Steve Liddle and Professor Poliakoff discuss a major grant which Dr Liddle has won to research the chemistry of Uranium. This is a mixture of used and unused footage from another video we made about Uranium.

Main video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khfRKnLj-54

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• uranium

[alexosh1234]

excellent video. He seems brilliant for someone very young. haha! I wish he was my chemistry teacher. Mine is terrible!

[meazle]

Party at Steve's?

[rogerdotlee]

You know, it never occurred to me that this sort of science was even really necessary (to be honest, I never thought my way through this -- and it's increasingly obvious that nobody else really had either). I suppose the real challenge is going to involve prying apart the DU molecules from one another to allow them to bond elsewhere (and thus perhaps become less toxic?). So what else can possibly be done with these (besides using them for power sources for inter-planetary probes)?

[NaniTreas1]

Steve Liddle is cute! Best accent in the whole series.

[lexichronicle2]

@dobberdoss "I cannot believe that this has not already been done! Why not? because of 'fear'? What other science has been held back due to government paranioa?"

Absolutely gigantic quantities of it.

Ignaz Semmelweis was documenting germ control well before Louis Pasteur. Society wasn't ready for 'science' and invisible living things. So Ignaz died in a psychiatric hospital and Louis went on to claim the title.

Often the most ground breaking discoveries are also the most controversial.

[lexichronicle2]

@engelteir "would the depleted uranium react differently to normal uranium in these experiments?"

Chemistry studies how things bond when they swap, share or are affected by electrons. The only difference between radioactive and deplete uranium is in the nucleus of the uranium, so it makes little difference in terms of the bonds it can make via electrons.

There are lots of ways to study bonds. E.g. IR spectroscopy can determine bond types by how they absorb different wavelengths of light.

[engelteir]

would the depleted uranium react differently to normal uranium in these experiments? also how do you actually study bonds and know what they look like, without seeing them. i know a lot of it is speculated by how it reacts. but how do you actually know it looks like that. etc.

[ElveeKaye]

Congratulations, Steve! Hope to see loads of your videos here.

[TheScienceiscool]

Congratulations with the grant Dr. Liddle!

[hornetpalooza]

It seems having a 1,000+ IQ does that to people. ;)

[thejumperkin]

seemed pretty normal to me :P

[mewrox99]

Is it just me or the professor seems a bit jittery at the start of the vid