And here we see two majestic chemistry majors post expensive piece of paper frolicking about their natural habitat. Watch closely. Soon, you will spot the moment a reaction starts, and the two will begin to uranate upon each other in a show of dominance. Sadly though, a victory here is not all it seems, as the apparent alpha is still a nerd.
Good to see that you finally got a high yield, higher than literature. Maybe this is the start of your redemption ark and you become the king of high yields. Love the vids, Keep up the great work.
If it's higher than the literature you're either really good and have amazing processes or you're not so good and have impurities, looks like he did pretty well though!
Seems like evidence that it's not a lack of skills, it's that he doesn't usually want to try that hard, probably because he can still show the process without doing everything perfectly. But when the consequence of cutting corners is having radioactive waste to deal with, it's just easier to get the steps nearly perfect the first time.
Nice to see some U chemistry. You've probably got some other metals (lanthanides, other products from spontaneous fission, in addition to the decay products) from the rock dissolved in the nitric acid, though. Would've been better to purify the U nitrate with TBP extraction (5-30% in n-dodecane or kerosene) first to remove all the other crap, then back extract with dilute nitric, precipitate as ammonium diuranate, calcine that to UO3, THEN react that with the hexachloropropene, at least that's how we do it sometimes. If you're not too fussed about the other elements present in the rock to start with, you're probably OK, but the purification I outlined there should get rid of most of the extraneous crap.
@@lolroflpmslits so cool that you work with chemistry like that for your job!!! I'm starting my major in chem this September, still not sure what kind of work lies ahead but very excited nonetheless
Awesome chemistry. You were well advised to choose uraninite as it is often highly radioactive. Thing is you purchased a quality piece for mineral collectors and paid the price. Recommend bulk uranium ore.
"I don't plan on inhaling any of it" Remember to always test your homes for radon, I took my Geiger counter to my HVAC air filter and got counts per min over 1000, which is pretty much only from the beta decays of bismuth and lead 214
Love these videos - I studied chemistry at university and spend a few years working in a lab - its amazing how quickly you forget it all when you're not practicing it!
Man I have to say, all your chemistry projects are really amazing and stand out of what I usually think of when I think about home chemistry and youtube chemistry channels That being said, its a huge yes for me in favor of the organothorium synthesis project!
I have absolutely no clew about chemistry. And after watching this video, I have to admit that I have headache (maybe due to the high pace of event and activities). But I am impressed, how cumbersome all this seems to be. And somehow all this reminds me of cooking - but many dimensions more complex! All in all very impressive!
Cooking isn't quite the same cause a lot of times you're just heating rather than causing chemical changes but when you look at something like baking it is literally applied chemistry cause it is chemical changes and slight inaccuracies in measurements can stop the reaction from working or completely changed the outcome just like in lab chemistry like this
Good job! Actinoidoorganic compounds are cool. I would try to separate Ra though, since you don’t want your final product to be radioactive, I suppose.
0:12 just FYI - Cody (Codys Lab) got a visit from Uncle Sam because of a harmless "I don't have my atomic weapon... yet" joke. Or at least that was what they used to give him a hard time. I don't think you're in the states tho, idk if your government does the same petty crap. But be careful :-)
Uranium tetrachloride is the precursor of many organouranium complexes. I'd love to see you make uranocene ;) In addition, thorium has its own organometallic chemistry. Thorocene when? P.S. Actinocenes use cyclooctatetraenide!
If u working with beta radiation it good to close radiocative sample with the transperent plastic window, because beta particles can`t affect on skin, but eyes could be damage
I (as a beginner chemistry youtube) am really impressed how you make your videos so easy to watch. Where did you learn to create (edit) such beautifull videos?
You're like Nile red in his old videos, before he bought ridiculously expensive props and threw things on the floor in every video. You know, when the videos contained actual science.
At the 10 min mark, I think this is a very helpful explanation because as a non chemist this is exactly like my first Virology course I took, just a fella with a blank look on his face. But fun to watch nonetheless.
Beautiful work mate! One additional safety thing you should probably have mentioned is how nasty water soluble Uranium salts are! Just in case anyone who probably shouldn’t (I.e. someone lacking proper lab safety knowledge etc.) is planning on doing this, just don’t 😋 Uranyl nitrate is easily absorbed through the skin so spilling it on yourself would probably be even worse than eating or snorting the ore 🤪 Anyways, would love to see some Thorium Chem!
I wondered about this but the industrial route seems to use elemental fluorine which is pretty terrifying... and idk if there's a safer way of making it. Also I do wonder if making UF6 would get a channel strike or even a ban. Obviously it's not going to lead to people making nukes since isotope enrichment is still completely inaccessible to amateurs, but do you think RUclips moderators know that? They aren't nuclear scientists!
Uranium alpha particles and polychlorinated compounds and chlorinated solvents are things I personally wouldn't work with. Though I admire the intellectual rigour of this video very good indeed.
you do get some gamma from the decay of 238U, since the 234Th produced by alpha decay is in an excited state and emits a photon, ofc thats where all the gamma from that lump of uraninite is coming from, excited state nuclides produced by alpha and beta emission, all down the chain
Did you find anything in the Dutch law about the legality of owning uranium? I find our law really ambiguous on this subject. As far as I can tell there is no such thing as an exempt quantity, on the other hand small specimens pass customs without problems apparently. I might want to own a nice piece of uranium ore myself one day, but it seems to be impossible to buy in the Netherlands.
Remember that law denying people sunlight and exercise? The same law that locked them inside houses with a disease that only spread indoors and caused sickness only among those lacking sunlight and exercise? You should. Maybe we should all start just saying NO to dictators.
alpha male with alpha particles
Nothing alpha about yellow chem 🤣
And here we see two majestic chemistry majors post expensive piece of paper frolicking about their natural habitat. Watch closely. Soon, you will spot the moment a reaction starts, and the two will begin to uranate upon each other in a show of dominance. Sadly though, a victory here is not all it seems, as the apparent alpha is still a nerd.
In radiochemistry, gamma is the real alpha.
@@SwampMonster1 excuse you this is GREEN chem? Totally different :P
Tell me more about that low penetration, Mr Alpha...
Good to see that you finally got a high yield, higher than literature. Maybe this is the start of your redemption ark and you become the king of high yields. Love the vids, Keep up the great work.
If it's higher than the literature you're either really good and have amazing processes or you're not so good and have impurities, looks like he did pretty well though!
I doubt it
Seems like evidence that it's not a lack of skills, it's that he doesn't usually want to try that hard, probably because he can still show the process without doing everything perfectly. But when the consequence of cutting corners is having radioactive waste to deal with, it's just easier to get the steps nearly perfect the first time.
Oh yes. I would love to see more radioactive chemistry. Maybe Americium from smoke detectors? :)
Just don't do a David Hahn.
@@bromisovalum8417 who is David hahn
@@cooldude7301 bruh, Radioactive Boy Scout
@@awli8861 I just realized that i thought of another related Khan, Abdul Qadeer Khan
Americium is far more dangerous.
The only thing better than dealing with a powder of a heavy metal is dealing with a powder of a radioactive heavy metal
"Better"... Haha.
i am not exactly sure but if you inhale uranium dust it is possible heavy metal poisoning will kill you faster than radiation
If you inhale those particles, it’d make tobacco look like child’s play
Maybe it could be a new genre - Radioactive Heavy Metal
I wish i could learn chemistry so good so i coulddo such stuff😊
Nice to see some U chemistry. You've probably got some other metals (lanthanides, other products from spontaneous fission, in addition to the decay products) from the rock dissolved in the nitric acid, though. Would've been better to purify the U nitrate with TBP extraction (5-30% in n-dodecane or kerosene) first to remove all the other crap, then back extract with dilute nitric, precipitate as ammonium diuranate, calcine that to UO3, THEN react that with the hexachloropropene, at least that's how we do it sometimes. If you're not too fussed about the other elements present in the rock to start with, you're probably OK, but the purification I outlined there should get rid of most of the extraneous crap.
Start a channel please 🙏
@@Skunkhunt_42 Kinda have one, just don't have the time, space, or spare cash to devote to doing chemistry (even though that is my day job...)
@@lolroflpmslits so cool that you work with chemistry like that for your job!!! I'm starting my major in chem this September, still not sure what kind of work lies ahead but very excited nonetheless
@@tyjo2495i have also joined chemistry major this year
Awesome chemistry. You were well advised to choose uraninite as it is often highly radioactive. Thing is you purchased a quality piece for mineral collectors and paid the price. Recommend bulk uranium ore.
If he doesn't want to do it ever again, paying top dollar for a small high-purity sample seems like a good way to go.
where do you get it in bulk, though?
"I don't plan on inhaling any of it" Remember to always test your homes for radon, I took my Geiger counter to my HVAC air filter and got counts per min over 1000, which is pretty much only from the beta decays of bismuth and lead 214
Got to watch this before the glowies make it disappear.
You just run them over with your car.
Love these videos - I studied chemistry at university and spend a few years working in a lab - its amazing how quickly you forget it all when you're not practicing it!
This is one of my favorite video in your channel :)
Man I have to say, all your chemistry projects are really amazing and stand out of what I usually think of when I think about home chemistry and youtube chemistry channels
That being said, its a huge yes for me in favor of the organothorium synthesis project!
That looks like a lot of work man. Was it worth it? Did it taste good?
Those are absolutely massive yields, good job!
Tell the feds I said hi when they show up at your place
FBI guy in the van. I'm just watching out of curiosity ok
Thorium chemistry videos are extremely rare. A thorium video would be very nice.
Dude your channel is so underrated, your videos are so good.
yes radioactive chemistry is amazing, love your stuff man
Would love to see some Thorium chemistry next!
those are such beautiful green colors. i’m curious what some other radioisotopes look like
this stuff is so satisfying to watch
Lets all pray that Dr Bruce Chemiolis wont become Hulk in the next video!
I have absolutely no clew about chemistry. And after watching this video, I have to admit that I have headache (maybe due to the high pace of event and activities). But I am impressed, how cumbersome all this seems to be. And somehow all this reminds me of cooking - but many dimensions more complex! All in all very impressive!
Cooking isn't quite the same cause a lot of times you're just heating rather than causing chemical changes but when you look at something like baking it is literally applied chemistry cause it is chemical changes and slight inaccuracies in measurements can stop the reaction from working or completely changed the outcome just like in lab chemistry like this
Oh no my rock hard hot rock is too hot and now the NRC is after me
12:35 would be the craziest bong rip in history
RIP that one Cody’s Lab video.
3:30 I love how you can see the vapour line going out of controll and then coming back
Wait this isn't NileGreen
Good job! Actinoidoorganic compounds are cool. I would try to separate Ra though, since you don’t want your final product to be radioactive, I suppose.
Im glad youtube recommended this lol, interesting video, i'll wait for the next one
That rock looks pretty tasty ngl, probs would eat it.
A very beautiful compound, indeed. Paint a painting with it and give it to someone you hate.
Extremely bad idea if this bad person sell this painting or give it someone else or if he live with someone or just throw it in the garbage or else
@@Neront90 You're right. Better to find out their hobbies and use it to contaminate a gift they're sure to keep forever. Muhahahahahaaaaa.
I'd love to see a thorium episode! There are a lot of places to get a lot of thorium from, you just gotta know where to look ;)
I wonder how many fbi watch lists I'm on now after clicking this video
All of them
Good, Thank you very much. It would be interesting to watch how the Uranocene will be synthesis.
The government agents that got cody’s lab is sitting on the edge of his seat while watching this.
14:28 forbidden matcha powder
0:12 just FYI - Cody (Codys Lab) got a visit from Uncle Sam because of a harmless "I don't have my atomic weapon... yet" joke. Or at least that was what they used to give him a hard time.
I don't think you're in the states tho, idk if your government does the same petty crap. But be careful :-)
you are have some aditional steps: 1) convert UCl6 to UF6; 2) centrifuge it to devide isotopes; 3) collect proper isotope; 4) ...
4)NUKE
This is how X Corp manufactures Twitter Blue
this channel is top notch ....
First time ever I see a real sequence of reactions to go from rock to desired molecule (i m not a chem professional nor student). Very interesting
spicy rock
Rocks are great! 🫡
Great vid mate! Wish the best
Well definitely u should try thorium and try to make a piano stool complex of it
Please do the thorium chemistry!!!
Nice video!!
Uranium chemistry is so beautiful
It's facinating that people use organics to prepare exotic uranium chloride.
Hexachloropropene is technically inorganic 😋
YES do thorium .. no one else has been working with it, despite it being a really good energy source for a reactor.
Thorium yes please.
Thorium chemistry fascinates me more than uranium's, although it's less complicated.
Uranium is harder in regards of the oxidation state, as +4 will be oxidized to +6 UO2 2+ in presence of air.
I love radiochem
Uranium tetrachloride is the precursor of many organouranium complexes. I'd love to see you make uranocene ;)
In addition, thorium has its own organometallic chemistry. Thorocene when?
P.S. Actinocenes use cyclooctatetraenide!
"Mom, I turned the rock collection into a nuclear arsenal again."
"It's okay. you'll get your antimatter arsenal next time around."
If u working with beta radiation it good to close radiocative sample with the transperent plastic window, because beta particles can`t affect on skin, but eyes could be damage
That powder form makes me nervous.
next episode: enriching uranium and building a nuclear warhead
I (as a beginner chemistry youtube) am really impressed how you make your videos so easy to watch. Where did you learn to create (edit) such beautifull videos?
nice! can you hit the powder with some UV light?
Love the color of Uranium. Also love that Urinals are named after this compound. TIL
Awesome! Love your videos
I was already on a list...
What if i drink the solution at 6:14 ?
11:49 Instructions were not clear, I immediately used the flask as urinal.
The cleanup from this must have been a nightmare
MASTER TEACH ME YOUR CHEMIST WAYS!!!
I don’t even know what he’s doing but I love it
i don't think i've ever seen yields that high in a youtube video before
forbidden wasabi powder
You're like Nile red in his old videos, before he bought ridiculously expensive props and threw things on the floor in every video. You know, when the videos contained actual science.
Careful going near any centrifuges, that's how Cody got raided.
So that was actually you on r/chemistry
You should make a uranium rock candy.
At the 10 min mark, I think this is a very helpful explanation because as a non chemist this is exactly like my first Virology course I took, just a fella with a blank look on his face. But fun to watch nonetheless.
Hope you are careful. I so don’t wanna encourage anyone to take any years or decades off their life.
Very original and challenging! Great job! You could check the gamma spectrum to see how far along you got with the secular equilibrium! Thumbs up!
Yep do the thorium, your content is really good to eating dinner
Idea for the next video: electromagnetic isotope separation 😂
0:08 wait ?!why you like and enjoy that thing , thing in right side !!
😂😂
now u make some uranium hexafluoride lol
Beautiful work mate!
One additional safety thing you should probably have mentioned is how nasty water soluble Uranium salts are! Just in case anyone who probably shouldn’t (I.e. someone lacking proper lab safety knowledge etc.) is planning on doing this, just don’t 😋 Uranyl nitrate is easily absorbed through the skin so spilling it on yourself would probably be even worse than eating or snorting the ore 🤪
Anyways, would love to see some Thorium Chem!
Mmm, uranyl nitrate, the forbidden hand lotion...
@@hoon_sol LoL 🤣🤣🤣
randomly recommended this video and as a non chemist person, my brain is either bigger or broken.
Could you do a tutorial for uranium hexafluoride next? It’s very important
No
I wondered about this but the industrial route seems to use elemental fluorine which is pretty terrifying... and idk if there's a safer way of making it.
Also I do wonder if making UF6 would get a channel strike or even a ban. Obviously it's not going to lead to people making nukes since isotope enrichment is still completely inaccessible to amateurs, but do you think RUclips moderators know that? They aren't nuclear scientists!
How to get on the FBI watchlist
Step 1
JESUS, CHEMIOLIS, MINERALS!
Tasty roc:)
Explaining what you need uranium ore for to the customs must have been a nightmare 😭
0:08 I just hope you didn't shove it up
Your videos are so good!
Does it taste good?
Have you archived all of your videos in the case RUclips deletes all of it?
0:17 I seem to remember a periodic videos of a molecule shaped like this but can't find it =/
Uranium for your molten salt fast reactors.
0:00
They are called minerals.
Uranium alpha particles and polychlorinated compounds and chlorinated solvents are things I personally wouldn't work with. Though I admire the intellectual rigour of this video very good indeed.
Welcome to the watchlist B)
you do get some gamma from the decay of 238U, since the 234Th produced by alpha decay is in an excited state and emits a photon, ofc thats where all the gamma from that lump of uraninite is coming from, excited state nuclides produced by alpha and beta emission, all down the chain
That a very cool video but was there any legal issues? Cody extracted 450 g and got in trouble. Maybe it because you only used 4 g or so.
Did you find anything in the Dutch law about the legality of owning uranium? I find our law really ambiguous on this subject. As far as I can tell there is no such thing as an exempt quantity, on the other hand small specimens pass customs without problems apparently. I might want to own a nice piece of uranium ore myself one day, but it seems to be impossible to buy in the Netherlands.
Remember that law denying people sunlight and exercise? The same law that locked them inside houses with a disease that only spread indoors and caused sickness only among those lacking sunlight and exercise?
You should. Maybe we should all start just saying NO to dictators.
Good one. Didnt menage to make UCl4 in my bachelor thesis.
All stuff you used is contaminated now.
I better call the FBI. 😂