*Thanks for watching, nerds!* As promised, here's a PDF to try this yourself: scoollab.web.cern.ch/sites/scoollab.web.cern.ch/files/documents/20200521_JW_DIYManual_CloudChamber_v7.pdf
@@Kierangaliano ASU stopped being a party school in the early 2000's . U of A is a mess now because of how seriously ASU takes those kinds of infractions.
I expect its a super low activity source to the point where touching it would be "safe" buuuut i am wondering about those alpha particles that are getting let loose every time a decay hapens their a real pain to deal with
@@6ixpool520 Yeah, SHOULD be. 1 mm of material is about enough, dead skin, not necessarily. The thing is, you dont actually want the "should", you dont want to risk with skin cancer. Gloves give you some partial protection against beta too. ....or you just have not taken your hands out of your pockets for a year.
fun fact, a red, food-safe (no longer considered food safe) bowl is more radioactive than uranium ore they're called fiesta bowls and the red ones can reach 4000 counts/minute on a Geiger counter
@@uzazi2043 Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T) has a research reactor run by their nuclear engineering department. When I was a student there (it was called University of Missouri-Rolla at the time), I took a tour of the facility and they had the dosimeter badges for their staff. The tour guide told us about how they had a small panic years prior when the dosimeters for some of the people working there showed they had been dangerously exposed. He explained that each night when they left, they had been putting their dosimeter badges in one of those bowls (which he held up to show us) and the bowl was radioactive enough to set off their dosimeters.
@@ProctasisLimerna: Reminds me of that episode of _Gilligan's Island,_ where they had to cure radiation poisoning by eating soap. Yeah, I don't understand how that would work, either.
@Anthony Romasco: That's awesome, but did she explode pure potassium in water on the first day of class, then go on to encore on day two or three by converting rust back into pure iron using thermite? Mine did. Thank you, Mr. Hurwit.
@@sdfkjgh Well... I'm not sure that would have flown well in a 6th grade class. But she taught us about crystal formation by making batches of fudge that were cooled at different rates. She brought in a portable planetarium tent. When I was doing my science project on lasers, she payed out of pocket to get me a dud from Westinghouse to use in my display. And taught us about supersaturation by showing us the magic snow-globe trick
no really. You guys were really fortunate to have educators who CARE about you by lighting the wondrous eternal flame of science in your hearts and minds...we had a science department head whose first master was in English... any misspelled correct answer - 2 points. Any misspelled incorrect answer was usually -4 points then subtract 2 points for the misspelled word for a total of minus 6. For a test with 25 questions worth four points apiece, one could make a negative score. I thank God for tough teachers. College was a breeze.
@@sabata2 Also, its libyans, not lybians. But dont worry, you dont need to feel bad about forgetting things. Its normal, you are getting old and will soon forget you even remembered it in the first place, so it will be ok. And then you can watch your favorite movies every day like they were new. Infact you will think they are new. 😀
@@ronhebert3027Yes, it is legal to have a limited amount of non-enriched or depleted uranium(non-enriched uranium is naturally occurring & 99% Uranium-238[Uranium-235 is the kind used in power plants & bombs] & depleted uranium is >=99.7% Uranium-238). The main risk of these types of uranium is actually not the radiation, but the fact that they, like lead, are poisonous heavy metals.
I actually own a piece of trynatite, which is radioactive glass made at the trinity test site, to those who are wondering I put a video of it on my youtube channel
@@OverlordOfNerds it is except when you realize it's a piece of radioactive fallout, in fact I accidentally put my thumb on accident and it turned purple for a moment
@@mr.cringe2.059 Okay, now it's kinda scary. Still cool, but also scary. I'm gonna go look it up on the internet. Hope it didn't lead to any lasting damage on your thumb though.
you could also put an old smoke detector in a cloud chamber the americium is radioactive. ps uranium ore is fairly common in some places, like just pick up off the ground common
Wow! I love these practical demonstrations of real-life physics, and Kyle does a great job at showing us how they can be done. It would be fun to compare different radioactive materials. You might want to get a whole collection of them, one to match every FBI agent standing outside your door.
And united nuclear will sell you small bits of highly active ore ideal for cloud chambers for $59. Or you can get old red fiestaware with uranium packed gaze off eBay.
I remember doing this expirement back in high school chemistry class and I remember being fascinated by it for some reason, maybe because I was seeing something invisible, or maybe cause the girl I had a crush on was also interested in it too, but this brings me back. Thank you!
Ooh, this might be the best episode of the Facility so far! The humor is on point, the science is great, and the video of the experiment was absolutely beautiful. Keep up the fantastic work, Kyle!
I've always wondered how that worked! In the Seattle Science Center they have one of these cloud chambers set up to show how much cosmic radiation is out there. Sometimes you can just stare into the tank they have set up and be almost mesmerized by the sight. It's almost like a weird scientific scrying device, trying to find patterns where they are obviously none.
0:17 Interestingly enough, at least three of the Kevins _aren't_ made up of stable atoms. I keep waiting for The Foundation to label The Facility a GoI.
The visible cosmic radiation was the most interesting. Idk why but thats when I got the thought, "Oh holy [Sheets] thats awesome!" Not that the uranium radiation wasn't also great, just got hit differently with the cosmic radiation. Great Sciencing!
The cloud chamber is a great piece of science apparatus, and demonstrates a principle used by geologists to study the uplift rate of crust. Instead of a cloud chamber, however, the radioactive trails are captured in mineral grains. Many minerals have small inclusions of radioactive materials, such as uranium 235, that are fissile. When these inclusions do go unstable, the daughter products will shoot apart in opposite directions. The resulting trail of destruction will stay in the crystal lattice until it is either destroyed, or the crystal can be repaired by a specific temperature dependent on the mineral in a process of annealing. Since the Earth has a natural heat gradient based on depth, and radioactive decay can be used as a timing mechanism, this annealing temperature can tell geologist how long ago that crystal was at a certain depth. For example, apatite (the mineral that makes up tooth enamel) has an annealing temperature of 100C. That is the temperature at roughly about 4km depth. Combined with data from other minerals with different annealing temperatures, and geologist can determine the rate that mountains formed and how long ago, or how fast stable craton (ancient parts of the primordial continents) rebounds after ice sheets retreat from them. This study of geology is known as thremochronology, and this is just the briefest of overviews. It involves acids, a lot of patient counting, and the use of a nuclear reactor (to create a control sample).
How a smoke detector works is detection of the interruption of alpha particles(Helium-4 nucleii[Alpha particles are the least penetrating type of radiation & can be blocked by things such as sheets of paper, the 1st layer of human skin{which is dead}, &, more important for smoke detectors, smoke & steam]), so if you disassemble a smoke detector, you should be able to find the puck of Americium(it's gold plated). Also, the dose of radiation you would get from taking it apart & putting it in a cloud chamber probably wouldn't be enough to hurt you, but I wouldn't recommend leaving it lying around & keeping it in your pocket would certainly give you a harmful dose of radiation over time.
The americium in most smoke detectors has a coating on it that stops the radiation from escaping also the type of radiation from americium is different than normal radiation so unless you ingest it americium should be safe to handle
It's the in-between witty jokes that always gets me and makes it so much more entertaining to watch your videos. I hope someday to be as awesome as you someday Kyle!
You did such a great job with the setup and the recording of your cloud chamber, I can't wait to see what you do next. There is so much radiation in normal, everyday life that people don't realize due to its invisibility, and it would do us so much good as a society if people understood that. Between cosmic radiation, radon, radioactive inclusions in minerals, and countless home products that have small, or well shielded radiation sources, and just isotopes of materials like potassium 40 that we frequently encounter without realizing it, it's unseen but present in so much of our experience. On the one hand, not realizing how much we're surrounded by it naturally makes it easy for a lot of people to get excessively worried about things like nuclear reactors. On the other hand, not realizing how much there is in the natural environment lets people imagine they're somehow not hurting people around them by releasing a cloud of radioactive (not to mention toxic) gas every other breath.
1911: Today i will use my brilliant mind to create a way to form clouds ! 2020: Welcome to PhysicsGirl, today i will show you how to make clouds with your Mouth !
Why does it look like there are microbes in the cloud chamber? There are the vapour trails from the particles which are lines that shoot through the chamber but what are the emerging blobs that look like single cell organisms?
Idk why but I read that like how Joker from Darkside Royalty Lore says his “Nostradamus” joke xD And then heard the joke play in my head xD “I AM THE NOSTRADAMUS! THE VOICE OF GAAAHHHHD!”
After all the documentaries and my curiosness, it took me two whole days of Internet searching to finally get some concept, starting with basic elementary school knowledge of physics, then continuing to alpha, beta, gamma rays and nevtrons and finally I stumble upon what I was searching for, for my questions about radiation, visualised. And then this character puts Uranium into the chamber with his freakin bare hands. Just great, I am back to darn square one! How?! Why?! WTF, for the love of Jesus.
Some of the secondary particles of cosmic radiation should decay before they reach the ground. The only reason they don't decay is because they are going fast enough to experience time dilation, or if you prefer Earth's atmosphere has Lorentz contraction with respect to the particle.
Thoriated lantern mantles and tig welding rods are another fun source for a cloud chamber and used to be far easier to get ahold of than uranium. Although natural uranium isn't really hard to get ahold of in the small or even fairly large rock type. If you live in some areas of the western united states it can be found just laying around if you have a GM counter or something that can detect radiation.
"And, of course, I have my source of Uranium over there." I'm sure in the facility Uranium is in every corner drug store, but around here, its a little hard to come by!
My immediate reaction to Kyle joking about uranium ore was as follows:"What are you talking about it is so easy to get uranium ore. I can get it and several other radioactive mineals anytime I want." Then i realized that most normal people don't think about radioactivity literally everyday........ Soooo I work in a lab that specializes in environmental radioactivity. Quite literally everyday I spend preparing, detecting, analyzing, and studying the extremely low levels of radioactive isotopes in natural samples. I love learning about radioactivity and how we can study it to understand moore about the world around us. I have greatly enjoyed seeing Kyle talk about radiation, its uses, its dangers, and most of all the amazing science behind it. Thank you for another great episode! P.s. I still have not forgiven you for what you said about polonium-210 (one of my favorite isotopes) on your old channel.
Kyle how tf do you only have 330k subscribers. Your content is not only hilarious but extremely interesting and educational all at the same time. Keep it up man!
I did this expirament when I was 6, I used it for my school science fair (I'm not being braggadocious, it's a super simple expirament lol). It was one of the first expiraments that got me interested in nuclear physics.
fun fact, a red, food-safe (no longer considered food safe) bowl is more radioactive than uranium ore they're called fiesta bowls and the red ones can reach 4000 counts/minute on a Geiger counter
6:18 Kyle: "So I've turned out the lights..." My brain: "...& I'll glow, to the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle!"
*Thanks for watching, nerds!*
As promised, here's a PDF to try this yourself: scoollab.web.cern.ch/sites/scoollab.web.cern.ch/files/documents/20200521_JW_DIYManual_CloudChamber_v7.pdf
Kyle Hill ooh thanks I’ve been wanting to try it
Nice
Kyle Hill I’ve heard bananas are surprisingly radioactive. Would you be able to see it using a cloud chamber if you used enough bananas?
6:22 THAT IS SOOOO COOOL!!!!
Did I just spot a count dankula reference in the video?
'I got it from don't worry about it' is now in my top ten favorite sentences from the internet.
I appreciated the slow wink
You TOTALLY CANNOT buy small uranium ore on Amazon. It TOTALLY IS NOT perfectly legal in America to buy non-enriched uranium. 😉
@@rhov-anion if this search gets me put on another list I'm blaming you
@@sarasmr4278 Wait... ANOTHER list? does that mean...
@@sarasmr4278 I'm probably on a list myself, considering I've looked into this in the past.
F is for Fire that burns down the whole town
U is for Uranium.... bombs
N is for No survivors
- Dr. Plankton who went to college
plankton those things aren't what fun is about
F is for Friends who do stuff together
U is for You and Me
N is for Anywhere and Anytime at all
Down here in the deep blue sea.
must've been the University of Arizona
scantopup
Maybe to you... But Uranium is _hot_
N is for Nuclear... Probably lol
Uranium and alcohol? Sounds like my kind of party.
Well that sounds like a... RAD party
Sounds like OUR party comrade
Yeah I’ll bring Geiger counters and later we can watch the trinity test video
@@Nathan-mu8zy Geiger Meister, be the radioactive decay master
@NIGHT Me to
"to do this, we need to get alcohol everywhere, like the university of arizona." ROFLMAO I live in Mesa, AZ, and you are NOT WRONG.
Is Tucson a party town now? I thought ASU was the party school
Well, what else are you gonna do in the 120 degree desert heat, drink WATER hahaha yeah I think not
@@Kierangaliano ASU stopped being a party school in the early 2000's . U of A is a mess now because of how seriously ASU takes those kinds of infractions.
Same and YUP. That was hilarious.
This is true. They swapped roles in the early century. It's still odd.
Kyle : I have Uranium
Me : Where did you-
Kyle : Don't worry about it
Was it you again? Were you shipping uranium ore again?
Americium is easier to get than uranium
I'm officially worried about it.
Its not exactly difficult to obtain.
Uranium in general isn't hard to get. Significant amounts of U-238 (I think. I always get them confused) is what is controlled.
Therapist: Kyle Ross isn’t real. He can’t hurt you.
Kyle Ross: ...
Kyle Ross is terrifying, but the reverse is much more so.
To wit: Bob Hill, which definitely is not an American cartoon child
Yes, hah. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
This was one of your best episodes you've ever done and you've done a lot of awesome stuff.
"Don't worry about" it is actually the Amazon of the black market btw
You can also activate Don't worry about it 'Smile' to donate every time you buy selected items!
lies
Supplier location back of a truck in New Jersey
@@BrysenJacobsen ...Did anyone feel a gust of wind? (Makes a whooshing noise) Yup. Gust of wind.
@@Leekodot15 lol
Kyle: this uranium is safe to hold
Kyle two episodes later: so since I lost my hair I've done some self reflection
I expect its a super low activity source to the point where touching it would be "safe"
buuuut i am wondering about those alpha particles that are getting let loose every time a decay hapens
their a real pain to deal with
@@sledxdomi3653 Thick gloves should do the trick.
@@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 alpha particles aren't very penetrating. The dead skin on your hand should be enough for what he's working with.
@@6ixpool520 Yeah, SHOULD be.
1 mm of material is about enough, dead skin, not necessarily. The thing is, you dont actually want the "should", you dont want to risk with skin cancer. Gloves give you some partial protection against beta too.
....or you just have not taken your hands out of your pockets for a year.
so long as you dont breath em in or get it in ur eyes then u should be good! thanks guys
"This is a hunk of uranium ore"
*Holds up an olive*
This is why they don't let you back in Olive Garden.
"I got it from -don't worry about it-"
I died. DIED! :)
@@addmoreice maybe because you held it too close to your brain?
"Why Kyle is on a watch list in 3, 2,1..." "This is a hunk of uranium ore, I got it from don't worry about it..."
All of these things you can buy for cheep or find at home.
Me:
MOM
Mom:
Yes
Me:
Were is the uranium ore
Mom:
In the drug cabinet
Me:
Thanks
You can actually buy it on Amazon no joke
fun fact, a red, food-safe (no longer considered food safe) bowl is more radioactive than uranium ore
they're called fiesta bowls and the red ones can reach 4000 counts/minute on a Geiger counter
@@uzazi2043 Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T) has a research reactor run by their nuclear engineering department. When I was a student there (it was called University of Missouri-Rolla at the time), I took a tour of the facility and they had the dosimeter badges for their staff. The tour guide told us about how they had a small panic years prior when the dosimeters for some of the people working there showed they had been dangerously exposed. He explained that each night when they left, they had been putting their dosimeter badges in one of those bowls (which he held up to show us) and the bowl was radioactive enough to set off their dosimeters.
XD
@@ProctasisLimerna: Reminds me of that episode of _Gilligan's Island,_ where they had to cure radiation poisoning by eating soap.
Yeah, I don't understand how that would work, either.
We did this back in 6th grade earth science. Thank you Gloria Leedham for being the best science teacher EVER!
@Anthony Romasco: That's awesome, but did she explode pure potassium in water on the first day of class, then go on to encore on day two or three by converting rust back into pure iron using thermite? Mine did. Thank you, Mr. Hurwit.
@@sdfkjgh
Well...
I'm not sure that would have flown well in a 6th grade class. But she taught us about crystal formation by making batches of fudge that were cooled at different rates. She brought in a portable planetarium tent. When I was doing my science project on lasers, she payed out of pocket to get me a dud from Westinghouse to use in my display. And taught us about supersaturation by showing us the magic snow-globe trick
Sounds fun, my 8th grade science teacher had the class make wine as a class project
we did it in kindergarten...on Vulcan
no really. You guys were really fortunate to have educators who CARE about you by lighting the wondrous eternal flame of science in your hearts and minds...we had a science department head whose first master was in English... any misspelled correct answer - 2 points. Any misspelled incorrect answer was usually -4 points then subtract 2 points for the misspelled word for a total of minus 6. For a test with 25 questions worth four points apiece, one could make a negative score. I thank God for tough teachers. College was a breeze.
''I got it from, don't worry about it'' will be my favorite phrase when someone asks me where I got their birthday present, thanks mister Hill.
'While our chunck of Uranium, don't worry where I got it"
Definitely not super villainy 🤔
Id bet youve got a physical shop in your town or nearest city (well, city likely far more than one) that sells uranium. In the form of minerals.
you can buy it off amazon
My roommate makes Lofi beats... beats to get irradiated to is definitely happening
"Beats to get irradiated too" sounds like a fallout playlist waiting to happen
I need this clips for a animated wallpaper. It is so relaxing to watch.
I have to assume that you're talking about Kyle winking at us lol
Ryan Schofill totally
"Next week, Join us when I explain why my arm is now a tentacle."
Kyle has access to Uranium.
So when are we going to see your time traveling Delorean?
Also how did you trick the Lybians?
Either: "Kevin, go buy some Uranium..." RIP Kevin
Or: "ARIA, Exterminate !"
Delorean was Plutonium, not Uranium
@@xPanda25 ****! For the first time, my movie memory has failed me! And on my favorite movie series, no less!!!
@@sabata2 Haha happens to the best of us!
@@sabata2 Also, its libyans, not lybians.
But dont worry, you dont need to feel bad about forgetting things. Its normal, you are getting old and will soon forget you even remembered it in the first place, so it will be ok. And then you can watch your favorite movies every day like they were new.
Infact you will think they are new. 😀
My High School: Here's a slinky for simulating waves.
Kyle Definitelynotavillain Hill: Here's some URANIUM and oh you dont need it to see RADIATION.
This is Genuinely one of my favorite episodes so far, it is taking a look at science that we all experience every day.
University of Arizona will remember this.
No they won't, they're too drunk
ikr, shots fired at university of arizona
Charles Stebbins that was the perfect response to that commrnt
7:05 _Alcoholic Mist,_ the latest fad from the same hucksters who brought you oxygen bars.
Also a great name for a smooth jazz lounge combo.
Thanks!
Hello,
Yes, Kyle?
Yes, I would like to acquire some uranium for my own version of this experiment.
Thank you.
-also not a supervillain
All you have to do is search for uranium on Amazon.
@@ronhebert3027Yes, it is legal to have a limited amount of non-enriched or depleted uranium(non-enriched uranium is naturally occurring & 99% Uranium-238[Uranium-235 is the kind used in power plants & bombs] & depleted uranium is >=99.7% Uranium-238). The main risk of these types of uranium is actually not the radiation, but the fact that they, like lead, are poisonous heavy metals.
You can find some for like $40 on Amazon.
It was a joke based on one of the things he said guys. 🤦♂️
u cn get very old green coloured stuff they are coated with uranium dont ask why
I actually own a piece of trynatite, which is radioactive glass made at the trinity test site, to those who are wondering I put a video of it on my youtube channel
Wow! How does it look? Is it like a shiny crystal?
@@OverlordOfNerds um actually it's more of a green glassy color with edges that look like cliffs made of emerald
@@mr.cringe2.059 That's still cool. Hella cool to be honest
@@OverlordOfNerds it is except when you realize it's a piece of radioactive fallout, in fact I accidentally put my thumb on accident and it turned purple for a moment
@@mr.cringe2.059 Okay, now it's kinda scary. Still cool, but also scary. I'm gonna go look it up on the internet. Hope it didn't lead to any lasting damage on your thumb though.
Praise Atom and praise Kyle for showing his influence is with us even without his special ores around us.
you could also put an old smoke detector in a cloud chamber the americium is radioactive.
ps uranium ore is fairly common in some places, like just pick up off the ground common
Wow! I love these practical demonstrations of real-life physics, and Kyle does a great job at showing us how they can be done.
It would be fun to compare different radioactive materials. You might want to get a whole collection of them, one to match every FBI agent standing outside your door.
4:53 we have proof that Kyle is an alien bent on taking over the world!
Been watching you for years dude, and I think this is my favorite video you've ever done. Thanks!
"This is a hunk of Uranium ore I got it from don't worry about it"
Absolutely hilarious delivery of that line
Holy crap are you coming into your own. One of my favorite RUclips videos yet!
Kyle: Don't worry about where I got the Uranium.
Meanwhile on Amazon you can buy uranium ore for 50 bucks.
And united nuclear will sell you small bits of highly active ore ideal for cloud chambers for $59. Or you can get old red fiestaware with uranium packed gaze off eBay.
Bob Ross imitation got me. Great Reference!
I remember doing this expirement back in high school chemistry class and I remember being fascinated by it for some reason, maybe because I was seeing something invisible, or maybe cause the girl I had a crush on was also interested in it too, but this brings me back. Thank you!
Your humour is developing, and i like it
Ooh, this might be the best episode of the Facility so far! The humor is on point, the science is great, and the video of the experiment was absolutely beautiful. Keep up the fantastic work, Kyle!
The computer's still his girlfriend right? They have great chemestry together.
Don’t you mean they do great chemistry together? ;)
As far as I know, it has never gotten physical.
@@kaelanirevyruun1676 shhhhhh... we're engineers.
I've always wondered how that worked! In the Seattle Science Center they have one of these cloud chambers set up to show how much cosmic radiation is out there. Sometimes you can just stare into the tank they have set up and be almost mesmerized by the sight. It's almost like a weird scientific scrying device, trying to find patterns where they are obviously none.
0:17 Interestingly enough, at least three of the Kevins _aren't_ made up of stable atoms. I keep waiting for The Foundation to label The Facility a GoI.
"I got it from 'don't worry about it"... Sounds an awful lot like what Doc Brown says right before he says "THE LIBYANS MARTY, THEY FOUND ME!!"
And here I thought for a second "Don't worry about it" was a legit seller for (harmless like the one in the video) Uranium and similar stuff...
This is a hunk of uranium ore and I got it from don't worry about it.
Give your writer a raise, they've earned it.
Hey Kyle please do a video on the Gundam Statue being built.
USA Headline: A REAL Transformer!
"Beats to Get Irradiated To" was exactly where my brain went seeing the cloud chamber in action. Thrilled that you made it a reality.
Fantastic episode Kyle! Thanks for this amazing and beautiful display.
The visible cosmic radiation was the most interesting. Idk why but thats when I got the thought, "Oh holy [Sheets] thats awesome!"
Not that the uranium radiation wasn't also great, just got hit differently with the cosmic radiation.
Great Sciencing!
Kyle: "like University of Arizona"
Me: *laughs in Radford University*
Funnily enough, people could buy radioactive materials back in the 50's in the 60's as they were sometimes included in home science kits
You still can just order a bit of uranium ore off Amazon if you want, shipped straight to your home.
"I got it from don't worry about it" haha I love internet science
The cloud chamber is a great piece of science apparatus, and demonstrates a principle used by geologists to study the uplift rate of crust. Instead of a cloud chamber, however, the radioactive trails are captured in mineral grains. Many minerals have small inclusions of radioactive materials, such as uranium 235, that are fissile. When these inclusions do go unstable, the daughter products will shoot apart in opposite directions. The resulting trail of destruction will stay in the crystal lattice until it is either destroyed, or the crystal can be repaired by a specific temperature dependent on the mineral in a process of annealing. Since the Earth has a natural heat gradient based on depth, and radioactive decay can be used as a timing mechanism, this annealing temperature can tell geologist how long ago that crystal was at a certain depth. For example, apatite (the mineral that makes up tooth enamel) has an annealing temperature of 100C. That is the temperature at roughly about 4km depth. Combined with data from other minerals with different annealing temperatures, and geologist can determine the rate that mountains formed and how long ago, or how fast stable craton (ancient parts of the primordial continents) rebounds after ice sheets retreat from them. This study of geology is known as thremochronology, and this is just the briefest of overviews. It involves acids, a lot of patient counting, and the use of a nuclear reactor (to create a control sample).
Would you be able to get this effect with the radioactive material inside a smoke detector?
I'd assume so, it should work with all radio active elements and items if done right
I think you'd need to remove it from its shielding, which is probably a very bad idea.
If you remove it from the shielding, then yes, but thats not exactly safe to do so... Proceed with caution and wear thick gloves
How a smoke detector works is detection of the interruption of alpha particles(Helium-4 nucleii[Alpha particles are the least penetrating type of radiation & can be blocked by things such as sheets of paper, the 1st layer of human skin{which is dead}, &, more important for smoke detectors, smoke & steam]), so if you disassemble a smoke detector, you should be able to find the puck of Americium(it's gold plated). Also, the dose of radiation you would get from taking it apart & putting it in a cloud chamber probably wouldn't be enough to hurt you, but I wouldn't recommend leaving it lying around & keeping it in your pocket would certainly give you a harmful dose of radiation over time.
The americium in most smoke detectors has a coating on it that stops the radiation from escaping also the type of radiation from americium is different than normal radiation so unless you ingest it americium should be safe to handle
It's the in-between witty jokes that always gets me and makes it so much more entertaining to watch your videos. I hope someday to be as awesome as you someday Kyle!
This episode was definitely worth the wait.
Really cool episode here, Kyle! I loved the experiment with the alcohol cloud chamber.
That's probably one of the coolest demonstrations I've seen before.
You did such a great job with the setup and the recording of your cloud chamber, I can't wait to see what you do next. There is so much radiation in normal, everyday life that people don't realize due to its invisibility, and it would do us so much good as a society if people understood that. Between cosmic radiation, radon, radioactive inclusions in minerals, and countless home products that have small, or well shielded radiation sources, and just isotopes of materials like potassium 40 that we frequently encounter without realizing it, it's unseen but present in so much of our experience.
On the one hand, not realizing how much we're surrounded by it naturally makes it easy for a lot of people to get excessively worried about things like nuclear reactors. On the other hand, not realizing how much there is in the natural environment lets people imagine they're somehow not hurting people around them by releasing a cloud of radioactive (not to mention toxic) gas every other breath.
1911: Today i will use my brilliant mind to create a way to form clouds !
2020: Welcome to PhysicsGirl, today i will show you how to make clouds with your Mouth !
Wow. This is what I came for; things I don't fully understand, but at least I now understand it a little bit more.
These things are VERY interesting.
United Nuclear sells uranium ore. It's also where I got my ball mill from.
So does Amazon.
Glad to watch another episode of the joy of science with Kyle Ross.
I'm here to like your video even though I saw it early!! Keep working the Kyle do, good.
Ooooh, you stole my Uraniam P38 Explosive Space Modulator! And my cocktail!
Tune in for the next episode: How to avoid paying your loan by threatening the whole block with a house made thermonuclear explosive
Man...you make every video so flippin Hilarious.......and Educational 🤣🤣🤣🤓
I look forward to every one👍👍👍👍👍
I have an old radium clock that made my cellphone detecter get up to 19, i think it is the same sensor you have
That is a cancer machine
Makes me think of the old Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books, where people used radium torches as light sources.
Why does it look like there are microbes in the cloud chamber? There are the vapour trails from the particles which are lines that shoot through the chamber but what are the emerging blobs that look like single cell organisms?
I AM THE PHYSICS BOY! I'M THE ONE WHO EXPERIMENTS!
I'M THE RADIOACTIVE BOY, I'M THE ONE WHO RADIATES!
Idk why but I read that like how Joker from Darkside Royalty Lore says his “Nostradamus” joke xD And then heard the joke play in my head xD “I AM THE NOSTRADAMUS! THE VOICE OF GAAAHHHHD!”
Ya grump!
This is such a good episode. Definitely a video I would show to my class if I was a science teacher.
Chernobyl + alcohol
MSDesign ASMR so that’s why it blew up.
Drinking on the job 😂
But that's just Russia
@@aggroniq2268 and why you shouldn't be Russian around
Super sized water balloon filled with alcohol? Sounds like a super villain plot to me.
I love the slow wink 😉
That made me laugh so much 😆
I would like to know where to find my local "Don't Worry About It" so I can get myself some uranium for undisclosed reasons.
your local "Don't Worry About It" is Amazon. You can straight up just buy it on amazon
Ebay
After all the documentaries and my curiosness, it took me two whole days of Internet searching to finally get some concept, starting with basic elementary school knowledge of physics, then continuing to alpha, beta, gamma rays and nevtrons and finally I stumble upon what I was searching for, for my questions about radiation, visualised.
And then this character puts Uranium into the chamber with his freakin bare hands. Just great, I am back to darn square one! How?! Why?! WTF, for the love of Jesus.
From the title alone... is Kyle trying to become Super Florida Man?
John73 John he already is
"why kyle is on a watchlist in 3, 2, 1"
Last time I was this early Kyle wasn't trying to take over the tri-state area
Kyles evil incorporated
Stare in awe at my newest invention! The Content-inator!
Curse you kevin the intern.
Every now and then you get a little nasally and sound exactly Carl Sagan and I love it. You the man man
The 4chan quip killed me
Yeah got me a good chuckle
Great video Kyle. Radiation Protection worker here, keep the science coming!
Posts on 4chan? Isn’t that a basket weaving site?
Turkish knitting/sewing website
Some of the secondary particles of cosmic radiation should decay before they reach the ground. The only reason they don't decay is because they are going fast enough to experience time dilation, or if you prefer Earth's atmosphere has Lorentz contraction with respect to the particle.
So one could say Homer Simpson is actually a scientist?
Thoriated lantern mantles and tig welding rods are another fun source for a cloud chamber and used to be far easier to get ahold of than uranium. Although natural uranium isn't really hard to get ahold of in the small or even fairly large rock type. If you live in some areas of the western united states it can be found just laying around if you have a GM counter or something that can detect radiation.
i must be radioactive, im hella unstable
"And, of course, I have my source of Uranium over there."
I'm sure in the facility Uranium is in every corner drug store, but around here, its a little hard to come by!
I understood that reference ✌🤓
@@victorhugoeh974 Great Scott! I'm glad someone did.
Next video: how to make a nuke
My immediate reaction to Kyle joking about uranium ore was as follows:"What are you talking about it is so easy to get uranium ore. I can get it and several other radioactive mineals anytime I want." Then i realized that most normal people don't think about radioactivity literally everyday........
Soooo I work in a lab that specializes in environmental radioactivity. Quite literally everyday I spend preparing, detecting, analyzing, and studying the extremely low levels of radioactive isotopes in natural samples. I love learning about radioactivity and how we can study it to understand moore about the world around us. I have greatly enjoyed seeing Kyle talk about radiation, its uses, its dangers, and most of all the amazing science behind it. Thank you for another great episode!
P.s. I still have not forgiven you for what you said about polonium-210 (one of my favorite isotopes) on your old channel.
I saw alcohol and I clicked it
That would make a bad ass live wallpaper
Kyle how tf do you only have 330k subscribers. Your content is not only hilarious but extremely interesting and educational all at the same time. Keep it up man!
I did this expirament when I was 6, I used it for my school science fair (I'm not being braggadocious, it's a super simple expirament lol). It was one of the first expiraments that got me interested in nuclear physics.
fun fact, a red, food-safe (no longer considered food safe) bowl is more radioactive than uranium ore
they're called fiesta bowls and the red ones can reach 4000 counts/minute on a Geiger counter
Radiation is also visible if your exposed to typically near fatal/fatal amounts.
As it can effect your vision.
id like to see this with a more radioactive substance
I'd like to see that through the phantom slow motion camera!
'Beats to get irradiated to' is an amazing idea for a release and I'm definitely taking that idea
6:18 Kyle: "So I've turned out the lights..."
My brain: "...& I'll glow,
to the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle!"