How to safely handle common radioactive elements Uranium 1: Wear protective clothing on every part of your body, extra protection for vital areas. 2: Use a tool for extended grip, as to limit your proximity to uranium. 3: Remember to thoroughly clean all lab equipment and protective clothing after you have finished. Plutonium 1: Consider your life and all you would be throwing away. 2: Do not handle plutonium.
+Eric Wesson As long as it's outside of your body yes. In fact a thicker sheet of paper or just 10cm of air is enough to stop the alpha radiation. But once it gets inside your body it gets messy
+Kerman Guy uranium in its metallic form is an alpha radiator too so if you have it in an ampulla you don,t need all of this but if you store it in a bottle and you want to get it out you should do all of this
The professor is truly great, because: - listening to him you really come to believe that you know and understand the ENG language perfectly well - he explains everything so that everybody, incl me, understands everything (imagine if all YT presenters be like him) - you really would wish to be one of his friends. Then I nearly would die for a another copy of his tie - truly a cool guy.
He still gets things wrong occasionally. Plutonium was discovered/created in late 1940 to early 1941 at the University of California, Berkeley, not in 1914 as the video states.
@@emileponcelet3439 That may be true to the extent one's subconscious can be primed by the experience, but interest aids in retention, and retention aids in understanding. Time is limited by metabolic processes, so it would be wiser to apply one's attention to garnering knowledge of one's interests, if given the choice. So is it possible to 'waste' one's time on 'education'? I say yes, but perhaps with a caveat that one has an 'interest' in the first place. 'Education' is an interesting subject to ponder. Thanks for the thought provocation.
08:40 "Plutonium is a fascinating metal." That's an understatement! What a shame that Pu is so dangerous. Among its strange behaviors is that some of its alloys -- e.g. Pu + rare earths -- partially remelt upon cooling (via inverse peritectic reactions). After further cooling,of course, those alloys become completely solid.
what he means is its very embarrassing when the grand children of grand children knowing that their ancestors dont know how to take care their radioactive waste and leaving the next generation with a contiminated planet to live
@@kousueki7024I completely get where you're coming from, and what you're saying, but also every single generation will create new problems for the next to solve, somehow. Until, of course, they can't fix the issue and everyone dies... Then there will be no more problems :D (or D:)
There are quite a few (100+) people in the USA fitted with cardiac pacemakers powered by about 2.5Ci of Pu238. This gives off about 80 mW of heat sufficient to power the device for a long time (half-life is 88 years). When the patient eventually dies, the device is recovered and reconditioned for another person who needs one. One man was offered a battery-powered replacement but he refused as it would require minor surgery once a year, and he preferred his plutonium one!
I can't relate i was always a huge chemistry nerd, I actually went to a year of biochemical engineering school before I got burnt out and became a first responder instead
As a high school teacher, if kids had this exact person talking exactly lile this inside the classroom, they would still fool around about his hair and only the same few would pay attention.
"Plutonium has a really nasty reputation." ... Noooooohhhh! Really?! xD You know he's a real scientist when you see him write upside down at 5:21 ... also at 6:22 he's still running Windows XP. ;)
AS a retired lab technician I have the utmost admiration for anyone involved in the level of work, working in a chamber like that is never easy more so when using highly toxic and volatile reagents . great work guys
I saw it and looked it up. They are for sale on Amazon for $7.20 . They even have a variety of colors. I want a " glow in the dark" 1. Really freak people out LOL
I have to say, I find explosive decaying plutonium barrels far less embarrassing than spilling a country's accumulated amount of plutonium and sawing the table where it fell to retrieve it. I can't stop watching your videos, they are informative, interesting, and entertaining!
I borrowed it off of some libyan nationalists. They told me to build em a bomb, and in turn I gave them a shiny bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts!
@@davidharrison7014 Physics is not a priviledge of 'secret societies' - Thus who needs - knows... ISIS - is that something from ancient Egyptology? I'm not au courant, sorry...
Huh? Those NNL labs dudes are part of one of the world's largest commercial nuclear fuels recycling and recovery companies. Sellafield, Cumbria, UK receives spent fuel rods from all over the world for reprocessing and storage. It's actually a major British industry. The UK has plenty, plenty plutonium - far more than is sensible, according to environmentalists.
@@alastairbarkley6572 Did you watch the video? The Professor's chemistry teacher, Alfie Maddoch (sp?) spilled nearly the entire UK plotonium reserve on a wooden table, then burned the wooden table section to recover 9/10ths of the spilled element. See 15:10 onward.
As a retired expert in Plutonium I can say the information that Plutonium as being man-made is incorrect. It was discovered in southern Africa that a small natural "reactor" made a small amount of plutonium naturally. Pitchblende, a natural mineral that contains Uranium, emits neutrons through the fission process and the neutrons emitted also make trace amounts of plutonium in the mineral so every natural sample that contains uranium can also make small amounts of Plutonium . Therefore Pu, should be listed as a natural element... Steve Miller retired Scientist
what's also incorrect is that the video states that metallic Plutonium is radioactively toxic because it's an alpha emitter. Human skin will block alpha particles quite readily. What's actually the toxin danger is Plutonium oxides and salts, which are similar to but more toxic than other heavy metal oxides and salts, say lead or mercury salts. And even those you don't want to get on your skin, let alone ingest.
@Carpet Hooligan the amount of Pu in pitchblende is very small. Pu does exist in nature but the amounts are extremely small as it's there as a fission product rather than pristine ore deposits. THOSE have long since fissioned away because of the far shorter half life of Pu as compared to Uranium.
@Carpet Hooligan yes and no. the distinction between natural and man made is debated. Some in the scientific community think if some atoms are found on Earth then its natural. Others put a natural abundance limit on natural elements but two natural elements on the Periodic chart are very rare also. In my opinion if its found naturally in any amount it's a natural element...
A hilarious coincidence is that the guy with the bushy white hair reminds me of Dr. Brown from the movie "Back to the future." And guess what his time machine used? Plutonium.
Proffesor Martyn Poliakoff has a different research focus then Plutonium chemistry. Proffesor Poliakoff researches "green chemistry" or to avoid the word green: environmentally acceptable processes and materials.
@@kentoscocos5238 Completely different level! I am a electronics tech (I guy that does the work) and worked with PhD and Masters engineers and could barely understand their "level of understanding" and I have a BA and a licensed electrician. Like Tesla
You can tell the Einstein looking guy is brilliant because he's able to explain what so many of these other "experts" make so complicated and hard to understand sound so simple a 6 year old could understand it. Matter of fact I think it was Einstein that said "if you can't explain it to a 6 yr old you don't understand it yourself"! I think this man would agree and Einstein would be impressed by him. Cool video ✌🏻✌🏽✌🏿
12 years ago, and still as powerful as, both the plutonium and the value of this video. Thanks, to all the team. Had a look at the team photo on your website, and a very photogenic bunch you are.
I just realized how terrified we should be of nerds. We laugh at them and pick on them in school. Then they grow up to think of ways to destroy your entire world! I have a whole new respect for nerds now.
OneSkiWonder If you look at Einstein's early photographs, then you will notice a much more clean cut Einstein. His later photos showed a man who woke up put on some clothes and headed out the door to solve the universe.
OneSkiWonder It's not universal, but generally people who are preoccupied with deeper thought really don't put very much attention to superficial details like hairstyle, fashion, etc.
I love these videos. My chemistry teacher was a total b***h and it was hard for me to get intetested. Now, 20 years later I've found that i have a real interest in chemistry and science in general and RUclips has been my classroom.
I spent a few months delivering radioactive material to an underground storage facility in the middle of bfe Utah. I’ve always thought one day I would hear about an “embarrassing” event out there 🤷♂️
+Alex Serrano It's just that it breaks my flow. I'd rather have 2 continuous videos instead. Just imagine watching The Godfather and Apocalypse Now at the same time, one minute each :-)
+Ciro Santilli lol, in a way (kinda) we did get that movie... It was godfather II (2 totally different, yet related stories inter-spliced together to form a greater understanding of a topic. The movie being the Corleone family). I, and I imagine many others would argue it is a better film even, than the godfather I was.
+thucydides Neo That scientist has a lot of static electricity in his hair. He is basically charged up! I used to work in doing high voltage experiments when I was in university. I had sort of longish hair. My hair was standing up like that scientist's hair...
I'm starting a process engineering job at the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington, US to clean up the plutonium waste from the Manhattan project in may :)
Extremely interesting. Thank you for the post! BTY, I worked in Los Alamos and lived across a small canyon from the original plutonium lab, which was just up the street from the original Tritium Lab. If you're wondering why so many physicists, like Enrico Fermi, died young, this video indirectly gives you the answer.
Oh, certainly. I read the plutonium book referenced early in this video (owned it since before this video was uploaded). It's made quite clear that scientists dealing with radioactive materials were thoroughly cavalier, even though they definitely had a grasp of the hazards. The ones who were careful simply had a higher incidence of cancer later in life. The ones who were not... well, you only have to watch a documentary about the lives of the workers at Chernobyl to understand how things went for them. You don't immediately die but you suffer a manifest degradation of livelihood. Like getting older decades ahead of schedule, with all the attendant symptoms like heart failure. People who undergo chemotherapy can relate.
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@@rudolphguarnacci197 Yeah, the workers would take the tips of the brushes to make a point by licking it. Yikes! 😱
@@stephenverchinski409 Don't believe everything you read, and make sure you understand it before you spread it around. There was concern that the somewhat elevated levels of americium (Am) found after the Cerro Grande fire (May 2000) might have been related to activities at the Lab. However, it was later shown that the Am found was due to fire detectors (they contain Am) that were burned in the 400 homes that were destroyed.
free will/discovering it on your own makes a big difference ime i got an intro to chemistry from my mum's nursing school chemistry book when I was in junior high. had I waited until sophomore year chemistry class I'd have been bored to tears with chemistry. - chemical engineer
I love these videos, not just for the information and education, but for the genuine human relationships you all have with one another. It's a breath of fresh air. Thank you, all of you!
0:32 I'd just like to point out that this "evolved with it = tolerance; manmade = no tolerance" claim is nonsense. We _don't_ really tolerate uranium well because it's still a heavy metal and thus is toxic, like lead. Uranium is still uncommon, and as such we haven't evolved to handle it (thus, it is toxic). If we're talking about radiation levels, well, natural uranium tends not to be highly radioactive (because if it was, it would have decayed away), while plutonium _is_ more radioactive. It's a selection effect and is nothing to do with evolution or whether it's artificial.
I know :p I was just ironizing, my picture is from an anime. And I don't know why it caught my attention when I was reading the comments. Guess I should sleep.
So.. Plutonium produces helium gas and may cause radioactive nuclear waste containers to explode after some years of time.. In our country, Finland, there is a company (Posiva) that is intenting to put our accumulated (used fuel) nuclear waste (some 1500 tons today) in copper containers and bury it in bedrock in one randomly selected place close to one of our nuclear powerplants. Any thoughts?
+ArtisanTony Actually, I like it. Don't know why, but for a scientist, talking about plutonium, almost a mad scientist or someone who is so into his work and experiments that he could care less about his looksHe'd probably be a blast to spend some time with. As long as you're interested in what he does, especially if you could spend time when he's doing experiments.
Excellent! Great narration and easy to understand. The Prof. with the static electricity in his hair is a great communicator. I wish he was my chemistry teacher!
I did part 1 chemistry at Lensfield Rd in 1973. Alfie Maddocks was my director of studies. He told me all about dropping Britain's complete supply of plutonium, of course. Did he ever show you the press cutting? "Atom Scientist defects to Perron"? I met him again in 1993, at a funeral. He was very poorly and in a wheelchair, a double amputee, and wasn't up to recognising old students. Lovely man!
I met Glenn Seaborg in his actinide chemistry lad at Lawrence-Berkeley labs in 1995. Dangerous as his lab was, it was nothing like the lab down the hall where bromine pentafluoride was used to extract oxygen from silicates.
Wow, you must be old gentleman. I remember last year when I went to Berkeley, currently they are trying to proof the" theory of island of stability of elements". It's really coll that you seen the actual actinide lab.
@@kaustavsengupta8757 Seaborg was the old one. I was in my 30s. I was at Berkeley working on calcium isotope chemistry at the time. It's a great old lab in a ramshackle building, nothing like the grandiose glass and steel temples of science universities build today to accommodate the egos of Higher Faculty.
@@josephskulan750 may I ask in which field you have done your specialized in? Sorry I m still a Junior research fellow (pursing my PhD)and was on Berkeley for an seminar.
@@kaustavsengupta8757 I specialize in stable isotope chemistry of biological systems. I've mostly concentrated on Ca, but did a postdoc on Fe abut 20 years ago,
Bugbears and Wormwood A couple of things. 1st. Never and I mean never, bury a bomb that's about to explode, you should pre detonate it yourself first. 2nd. If you think it will explode when you bury it, don't bury it so deep, (the whole thing) wait a few minutes and then drop it in all the way in till you hit the bottom, and then let it explode!
He is talking about a little puffer explosion, like when you pump up a balloon and it pops. Fucushima did that, no mushroom cloud. Helium pressure means you make your sealed storage container into a balloon that will pop it, some decades down the road, not right this minute.
@@ZapperGazer Fukushima had a build up of hydrogen from the water breaking down. No mushroom cloud but no pop either.
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Its reading of the "Air became blue" at Los Alamos that really terrifies. Whilst attempting to decipher how close the Beryllium sphere could close, they used a flat bladed screwdriver instead of a thin block of post-it sheets. The half=spheres closed for a moment & the 4 scientists said the air lit with a blue hue before a blast of radiation particles shot through the assembled men.
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World's first autotune @ 7:41
Plutonium - Pu - pronounced “Poo”
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@@peds7808 wtf
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Me - "How often do you wear that tie?"
Eccentric Scientist - "Periodically."
Very underrated conment
Kimiko Tanaka nice!!!!
Legit LOL
The best take!
Stealing
I knew that dude was legit the second I saw his hair.
Hahahaha
XD
+Horus Osiris I think that he looks wonderful and fits the stereotype
ROFL...just like my science teacher.
I'm sure he didn't just accidently electricuted himself like, Benjamin
How to safely handle common radioactive elements
Uranium
1: Wear protective clothing on every part of your body, extra protection for vital areas.
2: Use a tool for extended grip, as to limit your proximity to uranium.
3: Remember to thoroughly clean all lab equipment and protective clothing after you have finished.
Plutonium
1: Consider your life and all you would be throwing away.
2: Do not handle plutonium.
+Kerman Guy Or just surround them by several tons of dynamite and enjoy the show.
+Eric Wesson As long as it's outside of your body yes. In fact a thicker sheet of paper or just 10cm of air is enough to stop the alpha radiation. But once it gets inside your body it gets messy
+Kerman Guy Oh damn, I ruined it... 88, is 89.
+Kerman Guy uranium in its metallic form is an alpha radiator too so if you have it in an ampulla you don,t need all of this but if you store it in a bottle and you want to get it out you should do all of this
I was able to handle a plutonium puck while at Hanford, it was in a heavy polymer bag. It was warm to the touch a dull silver grey, I'm still alive
The professor is truly great, because:
- listening to him you really come to believe that you know and understand the ENG language perfectly well
- he explains everything so that everybody, incl me, understands everything (imagine if all YT presenters be like him)
- you really would wish to be one of his friends.
Then I nearly would die for a another copy of his tie - truly a cool guy.
You miss the most important thing, he has a great hair 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
@@sebastianperales3630 Yeah how true, that's cool too :)
-the hair
He still gets things wrong occasionally. Plutonium was discovered/created in late 1940 to early 1941 at the University of California, Berkeley, not in 1914 as the video states.
@@lookoutforchrisI think he did say 1940, the two can sound quite similar
I did not feel like I wasted a second of the last 17 minutes.
Thank you.
Something educational is never a waste of time even if u dont get any of it
@@emileponcelet3439 That may be true to the extent one's subconscious can be primed by the experience, but interest aids in retention, and retention aids in understanding.
Time is limited by metabolic processes, so it would be wiser to apply one's attention to garnering knowledge of one's interests, if given the choice.
So is it possible to 'waste' one's time on 'education'? I say yes, but perhaps with a caveat that one has an 'interest' in the first place. 'Education' is an interesting subject to ponder. Thanks for the thought provocation.
4:02 RUclips Award nominee for best editing!
Excellent. Match on hair
LOL
Touche
Observation Award goes out to your sir. Well spotted!
Kkkkkkkkkkk
Even his ties are periodic. The man is chemistry. Period!
aaaaaaah, I see what you did there! *fistbump*
Imagine his underwear xD
toungepunch in the fart box?
Bill Nye could benefit from this fashion, hehe
Lol, you got jokes ma man
08:40 "Plutonium is a fascinating metal." That's an understatement! What a shame that Pu is so dangerous. Among its strange behaviors is that some of its alloys -- e.g. Pu + rare earths -- partially remelt upon cooling (via inverse peritectic reactions). After further cooling,of course, those alloys become completely solid.
Judging by his hair... he did a line of plutonium before the interview
Lol!
Dr. Borris no doubt!
Ha ha! Yeah!
Hahahahahahahah 😂 😂
Rolling over in laughter
"Did you... did you just describe the explosion of a container containing radioactive plutonium waste as 'embarrassing'?"
"Yes"
What a madlad!
Absolute madman!
what he means is its very embarrassing when the grand children of grand children knowing that their ancestors dont know how to take care their radioactive waste and leaving the next generation with a contiminated planet to live
@@kousueki7024I completely get where you're coming from, and what you're saying, but also every single generation will create new problems for the next to solve, somehow. Until, of course, they can't fix the issue and everyone dies... Then there will be no more problems :D (or D:)
There are quite a few (100+) people in the USA fitted with cardiac pacemakers powered by about 2.5Ci of Pu238. This gives off about 80 mW of heat sufficient to power the device for a long time (half-life is 88 years). When the patient eventually dies, the device is recovered and reconditioned for another person who needs one. One man was offered a battery-powered replacement but he refused as it would require minor surgery once a year, and he preferred his plutonium one!
dang, 80mW seems like a lot for a tiny RTG, the massive soviet terrestrial RTGs only made maybe 100W and were hundreds of pounds.
@@TheAechBomb My mistake - iit should be 80 micro-watts, the "mu" sign switched to an "m" somehow. Well spotted!
@@karhukivi that makes more sense, thanks :D
@@karhukiviand that is why in these kinds of contexts I always just type "u"
@@sauercrowder ALT+230 usually gives a µ symbol but yes, a "u" is safer!
This was 94 times more interesting than I thought it would be :-)
I believe 92? Or are you adding uranium and plutonium...
@@robichj plutonium had an atomic number 94
I'm student from nor..err south korea and I'm interested in obtaining Plutonium for um research purposes. Any help is appreciated.
yea 5 grams for $2,500,000 .
Watchmen22
+Watchmen22 no i think Jon Doe was born with that disease. so sad :/
didn't you watch the video? You make plutonium from uranium-238 separated from u5
diego carmona you can't do math
That transition from the mushroom cloud to the professor's hair at 4:02 tho. ;D
lol
@@sirwhitemeat9785 it took 1 year before anyone replied
Damn
@@mug7692 weird huh cause it made me laugh so hard xD
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the guy at 0:24 is everything that i imagined a chemical scientist to look like
+tropicalpalmtree I was just about to make an identical comment when I saw yours!
+quasarsphere
Haha same here xD
he look like a mad scientist
he wants to be called Einstein
Same lol
Why did I not pay more attention to chemistry at school?! This is fascinating stuff! Thank you guys
Your high school teacher does not have the credentials
I can't relate i was always a huge chemistry nerd, I actually went to a year of biochemical engineering school before I got burnt out and became a first responder instead
lol, Chemistry is interesting, but I don't like drawing element formations or memorizing the periodic tables, I rather watch this instead😂
when high school teachers do it it's boring.
As a high school teacher, if kids had this exact person talking exactly lile this inside the classroom, they would still fool around about his hair and only the same few would pay attention.
His hair has a higher IQ than almost everybody.
What does that mean explain?
@@dalroache it's a joke
"Plutonium has a really nasty reputation." ... Noooooohhhh! Really?! xD
You know he's a real scientist when you see him write upside down at 5:21 ... also at 6:22 he's still running Windows XP. ;)
Yeahh i same think . Wkwkwkw
He took an IQ test on a periodic table.
AS a retired lab technician I have the utmost admiration for anyone involved in the level of work, working in a chamber like that is never easy more so when using highly toxic and volatile reagents .
great work guys
Automatic Captions:
''...plutonium is a mom-made element...''
Damn it mom, I wanted cookies not radioactive death.
plutonium is a PEOPLE-made element.
@@IKamiZz You are correct. My mom is a person...kinda...
@@IKamiZz its manmade
11:38 "rather like, the fruit inside a cake"
*My brain:* *eat the plutonium*
Enjoy your meal
Enjoy hahaha
Welcome to heaven bro
that would be embarrassing.
Me: and I took that personally.
One stray neutron in your mouth initiates a chain reaction
The name of the haircut is called the “Albert Einstein”.
I need a comrade Dyatlov cut.
Don King
Mushroom cloud haircut
Walk in too the barbers, What u want there sir? eh can a get an Albert einstein back n sides pls😂
Einstein was a fraud...
I don't understand everything in this, but the professor really has a skill of making concepts relatable
Seriously? Everyone mentioning his hair but NOBODY NOTICED HIS TIE?!?!? That tie is perfection
I saw it and looked it up. They are for sale on Amazon for $7.20 . They even have a variety of colors. I want a " glow in the dark" 1. Really freak people out LOL
Did you notice he's not wearing a wedding ring. Mmmmmmm wonder why. 😀
I did. Periodically. 🥴🤓
I did
Marina Holmes wedding rings are not allowed in the laboratory
Guy that came in at 0:23 says all I need to know about this element
"Plutonium is dangerous for two reasons: First, because they use it to make bombs..."
I agree.
Second reason?
The radioactivity, of course.
Yeah, but usually you don't go around with a piece of plutonium.
Dense and weight have nothing to do with each other
Rick Vasquez -_-
I have to say, I find explosive decaying plutonium barrels far less embarrassing than spilling a country's accumulated amount of plutonium and sawing the table where it fell to retrieve it. I can't stop watching your videos, they are informative, interesting, and entertaining!
Comment section is more toxic than the damn plutonium.
SGTBizarro Yeah. Worried I am going to get cancer now.
Ha
chickenmonger123, lol.
plutonium was the most toxic before league of legends created
100% tru
I love the plutonium table story! I was a chem minor in undergrad and I miss crazy stories like that.
But Boris told me it was the equivalent of one chest X-Ray.
Max Herman 😂
No 400
3.6 not great. Not terrible.
*CHERNOBYL INTENSIFIES*
@@engineer4269 he is delusional get him out
Remember in 1985 when plutonium was available at every corner store?
hahahaha
I borrowed it off of some libyan nationalists. They told me to build em a bomb, and in turn I gave them a shiny bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts!
great scott i forgot XD
I was born in the 90's what are you guys talking about lol
Nothing you'd be interested in, young one. Run along now.
His accent is funny and it makes him fun and so clear to listen to. He's a great chap
How so? His accent is quite common
Accent? That's what English sounds like when spoken properly.
@@a2pabmb2 Accents are relative.
His accent's not funny you dips**t. Its from a southern English county you ignoramus.
Yikes. I came here to lambast @John Ogunlela for his unabashed infantilization of a rather serious subject.
But, damn...looks like there's no need.
Just love that “mad scientist” type of hairstyle! It’s epic when a pure genius sports that hairstyle!
"I have seen a lump of Plutonium once - I don't think I could tell you where I saw it" hmm... that's not suspicious
its not like they'll tell people were it is its a bit dangerous lad
Please.....tell us! ISIS wants to know.
in reality not many folks seeing plutonium have survived to tell the story, I suppose...
@@davidharrison7014 Physics is not a priviledge of 'secret societies' - Thus who needs - knows...
ISIS - is that something from ancient Egyptology? I'm not au courant, sorry...
Mariusz Fidzinski you are a muslim i bet
My brain if I ever get a chance to touch the solution
Brain : Drink it
😂
No please don't. Pass it on to the needy,....Trump, Putin, et cetera.
@@fatdad64able I will pass it on to you
@@creepy_regret5542 So I can give it to these idiots? Great idea. I'll include "baby trump" aka Bojo. ^^
Pu(III) in solution is the forbidden grape soda.
Damn that guy spilled the entire UK's reserve of Plutonium..... must've been so embarrassing.
He wound up losing half a gram of the most toxic element imaginable. Fun guy to work with.
And apparently he was ok and taught him chemistry
Huh? Those NNL labs dudes are part of one of the world's largest commercial nuclear fuels recycling and recovery companies. Sellafield, Cumbria, UK receives spent fuel rods from all over the world for reprocessing and storage. It's actually a major British industry. The UK has plenty, plenty plutonium - far more than is sensible, according to environmentalists.
@@alastairbarkley6572 Did you watch the video? The Professor's chemistry teacher, Alfie Maddoch (sp?) spilled nearly the entire UK plotonium reserve on a wooden table, then burned the wooden table section to recover 9/10ths of the spilled element. See 15:10 onward.
@@alastairbarkley6572 yes in the present day we have quite a lot but back during ww2 we only had 10 milligrams.
Dude that's an amazing story!!! How the heck did he recover the 9 milligrams of plutonium by turning it into ashes from a Table!!?? That's impressive
insane
Nitric acid and solvent extraction.
Only a guy with hair like his could get away with wearing a periodic table of elements necktie.
Makes you wonder if Einstein had a similar tie, doesn't it?
I wouldn't have noticed if not for this comment 🤣🤣
"I'll take you to the moon" so outdated..
"I'll take you to plutonium laboratory" is so romantic 😂
difinatly my favourite date😂
One does not exclude the other. Nuclear propulsion is a thing.
As a retired expert in Plutonium I can say the information that Plutonium as being man-made is incorrect. It was discovered in southern Africa that a small natural "reactor" made a small amount of plutonium naturally. Pitchblende, a natural mineral that contains Uranium, emits neutrons through the fission process and the neutrons emitted also make trace amounts of plutonium in the mineral so every natural sample that contains uranium can also make small amounts of Plutonium . Therefore Pu, should be listed as a natural element...
Steve Miller
retired Scientist
What about Cesium 137 and Strontium 90?
I thought you were a retired joker, smoker, midnight toker?
what's also incorrect is that the video states that metallic Plutonium is radioactively toxic because it's an alpha emitter.
Human skin will block alpha particles quite readily.
What's actually the toxin danger is Plutonium oxides and salts, which are similar to but more toxic than other heavy metal oxides and salts, say lead or mercury salts.
And even those you don't want to get on your skin, let alone ingest.
@Carpet Hooligan the amount of Pu in pitchblende is very small. Pu does exist in nature but the amounts are extremely small as it's there as a fission product rather than pristine ore deposits. THOSE have long since fissioned away because of the far shorter half life of Pu as compared to Uranium.
@Carpet Hooligan yes and no. the distinction between natural and man made is debated. Some in the scientific community think if some atoms are found on Earth then its natural. Others put a natural abundance limit on natural elements but two natural elements on the Periodic chart are very rare also.
In my opinion if its found naturally in any amount it's a natural element...
is there a among us book right behind the professor at 1:25 ?
What I learned-a gallon contains 4 liters.
No. 4 quarts.
3.5 liters to be precise
classic internet 3 different answers
A gallon is eight pints
@@AlexianKing 3.785l to a US gallon to be even more precise ;-) that's four...
That hair... Subscribed!
i also SUSCRIBED cus the hair and nice professor
He shouldn't have touched the Plutonium!
Steve Brodnik no, he should have licked it!
"Great Scott!" :) LOL
and the tie
this video on my recomended videos for years....
i too gave in!
why do you dont take out your eye?
its an part of my body
when ı open this wall hack exe turns on.
no blood come out..
prohri uhri makes me wonder what you’re up to
Seen this at Black Mesa 😎😀
"I saw plutonium, but I don't think I can tell you where", Totally normal.
I just came to check in comments whether anyone else had a say on that !
Probably to avoid someone stealing it
I mean you wouldn't want the average person handling something so dangerous, makes sense that NDAs and such would get involved.
I seen it, it was over at Doc Brown's house, he stole it from the Libyans.
@@sincereflowers3218 Probably much stronger than NDAs, more like whatever the UK equivalent to ITAR might be called.
The atomic bomb mushroom-cloud fades perfectly into the shape of his hair at 4:03.
This is sooo underrated...
All that plutonium.
Maybe he have experience the plutonium effect after all😂😂😂😂
hahahahahaha....brilliant observation!
Hahahahahaha what a brilliant shout!
I love the smell of Plutonium in the morning. Smelled like... victory. (c) Comrade Dyatlov
Plutonium stinks..lol
Haha
Blyatlov
It's impossible for anyone to not love victory chocolate, not literal impossible but illegal..
3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible.
A hilarious coincidence is that the guy with the bushy white hair reminds me of Dr. Brown from the movie "Back to the future." And guess what his time machine used? Plutonium.
He hasn’t changed one bit in 8 years
Where can I order some of this stuff from? Asking for my buddy Kim
I got a lil left over from an experiment i did over in Japan, FYI, im selling 3 grams of dark matter also, make offer?
Too bad, we only have anti matter on our lab, we sell it for 9999999 Robux.
You can find some in india.
have you tried alibaba?
The last 2 people I knew named Kim....one is a histrionic narcissist and the other puts Tabasco on ice cream. 🥴🤓
That guy with the crazy hair is exactly what I expected a scientist working on plutonium to look like
Proffesor Martyn Poliakoff has a different research focus then Plutonium chemistry. Proffesor Poliakoff researches "green chemistry" or to avoid the word green: environmentally acceptable processes and materials.
Something tells me, (and this is just a shot in the dark) but these guys aren't your typical college graduates.
They're on different level than us
I think they are what used to be called Alchemists!
@@kentoscocos5238
The guy with the wild hair said he studied chemistry at Cambridge university certainly not your "typical college"
Occult Master Alchemists. Freemasons mind controlled drones. Anyone want to be 'edumackated'?
@@kentoscocos5238 Completely different level!
I am a electronics tech (I guy that does the work) and worked with PhD and Masters engineers and could barely understand their "level of understanding" and I have a BA and a licensed electrician. Like Tesla
You can tell the Einstein looking guy is brilliant because he's able to explain what so many of these other "experts" make so complicated and hard to understand sound so simple a 6 year old could understand it. Matter of fact I think it was Einstein that said "if you can't explain it to a 6 yr old you don't understand it yourself"! I think this man would agree and Einstein would be impressed by him. Cool video ✌🏻✌🏽✌🏿
I can watch this scientist talk all day.
A true intelligent man who is doing the work for humanity to progress
Or humanity to assassinate
@Ace Feeley ….so its ok to store the Pu round at your house ?
True that
Henry he just said it isn't
Now this is an scientist!!! Look at his hair! I just love how he looks, gives me the real feeling of working with science
*a
Seriously, this guy should be best friends with Neil and Bill he's hella cool
did you see his tie?
Henry LOL!, the periodic table
yes his hair gives a great authentic science effect
I looked up "mad sicentist" in the dictionary and this dude's picture was next to the description.
"Doc" from "Back to the future" has the same hair!
What’s a sicentist?
Josephine Bennington this guy in the video
Yeet What's a videp?
Yes, the guy in the vid is a scientist. But I wanted to know what is a sicenist? Oh, forget it......
12 years ago, and still as powerful as, both the plutonium and the value of this video.
Thanks, to all the team. Had a look at the team photo on your website, and a very photogenic bunch you are.
Er.. where's the rest? How to recover it after plutonium 3 oxidation state? Cmon guys I need to know this for my backyard reactor
The nsa would like to know your location
You're going to need some old clocks.....
Just ask Tony Stark
Such thing actually happened. Search for "Radioactive boy scout"
Just don't cross the streams. It would be bad.
cool hair: 10/10
8/8 m8. r8 with f8
This guy is too cool!
your also 10/10
Just Multiply
~IGN
Mark the glove box guy - reassuring we have experts like him at Sellafield.
a walking Periodic Table
Dang, you're so cute! :3
Liberty Lagrana wowed!
I just realized how terrified we should be of nerds. We laugh at them and pick on them in school. Then they grow up to think of ways to destroy your entire world! I have a whole new respect for nerds now.
Ever heard of Ted Kazinsky smart guy oh he was also the unabomber
Not really. And who's the "we" btw?
Well first off, "nerds" don't exist,they're just people who actually applied themselves in school and the workforce.
@@potatoalpacas6114 exactly lol
@Samuel Smith oof
Always wear safety glasses while dealing with plutonium.
it wont save your life though
Welp. Yeah.
and proper shoes
And if something goes wrong then duck and cover fast!
Don't forget a white coat. That's always helpful.
13:15 'Did you just describe the explosion of a container containing radioactive plutonium waste as embarrassing?!' 'Yes!'. Lol I love the Proff.
Homer Simpson carries this stuff around with him in his lunch box everyday.
Bobby Knight hahahahaha
And nothings happened to him so I guess it's safe
No because plutonium and uranium doesn't glow if anything Homer Simpson is carrying around radium
Homer, the thinking mans thinking man.
It's stated to be a carbon rod in one of the games
Is there some law that says in order to be brilliant, you mustn't comb your hair?
OneSkiWonder uh, yeah... duh
If you want to be einstein then yes
OneSkiWonder If you look at Einstein's early photographs, then you will notice a much more clean cut Einstein. His later photos showed a man who woke up put on some clothes and headed out the door to solve the universe.
OneSkiWonder It's not universal, but generally people who are preoccupied with deeper thought really don't put very much attention to superficial details like hairstyle, fashion, etc.
+MrWisemasterful Epic! :)
I love these videos. My chemistry teacher was a total b***h and it was hard for me to get intetested. Now, 20 years later I've found that i have a real interest in chemistry and science in general and RUclips has been my classroom.
now what are you doing?
I spent a few months delivering radioactive material to an underground storage facility in the middle of bfe Utah. I’ve always thought one day I would hear about an “embarrassing” event out there 🤷♂️
I wish I could see a video of the old man speaking continuously all his part. That guy knows how to choose interesting stories things to say, amazing.
+Ciro Santilli Why having just him when you can have his awesomeness + more awesomeness?
+Alex Serrano It's just that it breaks my flow. I'd rather have 2 continuous videos instead. Just imagine watching The Godfather and Apocalypse Now at the same time, one minute each :-)
+Ciro Santilli lol, in a way (kinda) we did get that movie... It was godfather II (2 totally different, yet related stories inter-spliced together to form a greater understanding of a topic. The movie being the Corleone family). I, and I imagine many others would argue it is a better film even, than the godfather I was.
I really like the professor's mad-scientist hair. How did he manage it to be like that ?
+thucydides Neo I remember him when he was very young. It was pretty well like that only black and was more springy.
+thucydides Neo It's a perk for being a mad scientist
+Nnovata Karen you need to install mods first
+thucydides Neo That scientist has a lot of static electricity in his hair. He is basically charged up!
I used to work in doing high voltage experiments when I was in university. I had sort of longish hair. My hair was standing up like that scientist's hair...
thucydides Neo Daily trips to a nearby wind tunnel. LOL
0:23 EINSTEIN'S REINCARNATION
I'm starting a process engineering job at the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington, US to clean up the plutonium waste from the Manhattan project in may :)
As a layman, I really enjoy seeing lab science being done.
Very interesting, thanks.
😆 much more interesting than doing it, believe me!
glassware and reagents are terrible conversationalists.
Extremely interesting. Thank you for the post! BTY, I worked in Los Alamos and lived across a small canyon from the original plutonium lab, which was just up the street from the original Tritium Lab. If you're wondering why so many physicists, like Enrico Fermi, died young, this video indirectly gives you the answer.
My dad told me a lot of workers who were involved in the making of clocks with glow-in-the-dark numbers died from radiation poisoning.
And a recent study found traces of radionucleatides in the Los Alamos homes.
Oh, certainly. I read the plutonium book referenced early in this video (owned it since before this video was uploaded). It's made quite clear that scientists dealing with radioactive materials were thoroughly cavalier, even though they definitely had a grasp of the hazards. The ones who were careful simply had a higher incidence of cancer later in life. The ones who were not... well, you only have to watch a documentary about the lives of the workers at Chernobyl to understand how things went for them. You don't immediately die but you suffer a manifest degradation of livelihood. Like getting older decades ahead of schedule, with all the attendant symptoms like heart failure. People who undergo chemotherapy can relate.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 Yeah, the workers would take the tips of the brushes to make a point by licking it. Yikes! 😱
@@stephenverchinski409 Don't believe everything you read, and make sure you understand it before you spread it around. There was concern that the somewhat elevated levels of americium (Am) found after the Cerro Grande fire (May 2000) might have been related to activities at the Lab. However, it was later shown that the Am found was due to fire detectors (they contain Am) that were burned in the 400 homes that were destroyed.
I'm learning more from this channel than I've ever learned from my old school science classes.
free will/discovering it on your own makes a big difference ime
i got an intro to chemistry from my mum's nursing school chemistry book when I was in junior high. had I waited until sophomore year chemistry class I'd have been bored to tears with chemistry.
- chemical engineer
I love these videos, not just for the information and education, but for the genuine human relationships you all have with one another. It's a breath of fresh air. Thank you, all of you!
0:32 I'd just like to point out that this "evolved with it = tolerance; manmade = no tolerance" claim is nonsense. We _don't_ really tolerate uranium well because it's still a heavy metal and thus is toxic, like lead. Uranium is still uncommon, and as such we haven't evolved to handle it (thus, it is toxic).
If we're talking about radiation levels, well, natural uranium tends not to be highly radioactive (because if it was, it would have decayed away), while plutonium _is_ more radioactive. It's a selection effect and is nothing to do with evolution or whether it's artificial.
I really appreciate that the chemist guy was including details about the real chemistry, as opposed to just ambiguous descriptions
There are corners of RUclips where genuinely intelligent content lurks and this is one of them.
I want THAT tie.
I want that plutonium!!
I want that HAIR!
Kid: Can we get Albert Einstein?
Mom: We have Albert Einstein at home.
Albert Einstein at home: 0:23
I feel educated.
weeaboo
***** hilariously, the picture is not from an anime.
He said that people with anime pictures are weeaboos, not that you have an anime pic. It was just a statement.
Shi .Kazu It was implied via context ;p
I know :p I was just ironizing, my picture is from an anime.
And I don't know why it caught my attention when I was reading the comments. Guess I should sleep.
I love how every single video has comments that say this is guy looks like science
So.. Plutonium produces helium gas and may cause radioactive nuclear waste containers to explode after some years of time.. In our country, Finland, there is a company (Posiva) that is intenting to put our accumulated (used fuel) nuclear waste (some 1500 tons today) in copper containers and bury it in bedrock in one randomly selected place close to one of our nuclear powerplants. Any thoughts?
Despite the video is 11 years old the quality in any aspects is super great
Can it lead to bad hair?
I think so 😅😂
+ArtisanTony No hair
+ArtisanTony....................... He does NOT have bad hair!
Lol
+ArtisanTony Actually, I like it. Don't know why, but for a scientist, talking about plutonium, almost a mad scientist or someone who is so into his work and experiments that he could care less about his looksHe'd probably be a blast to spend some time with. As long as you're interested in what he does, especially if you could spend time when he's doing experiments.
I’ve had this in my recommended for 7 years now
Fucc, what made you watch now?
I feel like I just watched a heavy metal cooking show.
David Pring you mean breaking bad
How to serve man.
Legend has it that the first sample of Plutonium was discovered when Uranium came into contact with his hair.
Amazing what the human mind can accomplish
I have a fetish for minds.
Chris Medina this ground of science enabled us to play with atomic bombs :)
Chris Medina . Yea. We're all gona die soon
Yes. 50 forms of cancer for example. Just amazing.
It would be more amazing if we can find a way to use elements for peace, not burning people alive or vaporizing them
That scientist with the white hair is what hipsters wish they could be
You can not do plutonium with a fukin gender studies degrees and 5 Year experience working at Starbucks
KanishQ Quotes ...😁😀😆😊🤣😃😎🤗
KanishQ Quotes I think most people wouldn’t do plutonium
The part about the hole in the table was amazing, pretty ingenious imo
This is thee most interesting documentary I have seen this year. Wow. I can listen to the old man 24/7. I just love brilliant people.
I had no idea the periodic table was so sexy. I kinda have a crush on silicon as carbon is just too damn cheap - hangs out with everyone!
digitalsketchguy here take this L
Tyler Scudder Did you mean Li ? She's kinda cute too
digitalsketchguy booooo
I like gold because it's misanthropic like me.
Element Yaoi.
*pretends to understand all of this*
He was actually explaining it very well.
@@dude-jk2hn He meant that he the viewer is pretending, not the scientist.
I think that thing about the scientist working late at night is an analogy
Excellent!
Great narration and easy to understand. The Prof. with the static electricity in his hair is a great communicator.
I wish he was my chemistry teacher!
I did part 1 chemistry at Lensfield Rd in 1973. Alfie Maddocks was my director of studies. He told me all about dropping Britain's complete supply of plutonium, of course. Did he ever show you the press cutting? "Atom Scientist defects to Perron"? I met him again in 1993, at a funeral. He was very poorly and in a wheelchair, a double amputee, and wasn't up to recognising old students. Lovely man!
Oh you can't remember the symbol for Neptunium? Don't worry that's NP.
NP
Lawrence Noyman NP is Nitrogen + Phosphor. Much cheaper.
Element 93.
No problem.
I met Glenn Seaborg in his actinide chemistry lad at Lawrence-Berkeley labs in 1995. Dangerous as his lab was, it was nothing like the lab down the hall where bromine pentafluoride was used to extract oxygen from silicates.
Wow, you must be old gentleman. I remember last year when I went to Berkeley, currently they are trying to proof the" theory of island of stability of elements". It's really coll that you seen the actual actinide lab.
@@kaustavsengupta8757 Seaborg was the old one. I was in my 30s. I was at Berkeley working on calcium isotope chemistry at the time. It's a great old lab in a ramshackle building, nothing like the grandiose glass and steel temples of science universities build today to accommodate the egos of Higher Faculty.
@@josephskulan750 may I ask in which field you have done your specialized in? Sorry I m still a Junior research fellow (pursing my PhD)and was on Berkeley for an seminar.
@@kaustavsengupta8757 I specialize in stable isotope chemistry of biological systems. I've mostly concentrated on Ca, but did a postdoc on Fe abut 20 years ago,
I know the Soviets tested rocket engines using bromine pentaflouride as an oxidizer 😂
I hate when my bombs don’t perform. Also when they embarrassingly explode as soon as they’re buried.
they bury spent radioactive fuel remnants, they do not bury remnants of nuclear bombs..
Bugbears and Wormwood A couple of things. 1st. Never and I mean never, bury a bomb that's about to explode, you should pre detonate it yourself first. 2nd. If you think it will explode when you bury it, don't bury it so deep, (the whole thing) wait a few minutes and then drop it in all the way in till you hit the bottom, and then let it explode!
woooooooosh
He is talking about a little puffer explosion, like when you pump up a balloon and it pops. Fucushima did that, no mushroom cloud. Helium pressure means you make your sealed storage container into a balloon that will pop it, some decades down the road, not right this minute.
@@ZapperGazer Fukushima had a build up of hydrogen from the water breaking down. No mushroom cloud but no pop either.
Its reading of the "Air became blue" at Los Alamos that really terrifies. Whilst attempting to decipher how close the Beryllium sphere could close, they used a flat bladed screwdriver instead of a thin block of post-it sheets. The half=spheres closed for a moment & the 4 scientists said the air lit with a blue hue before a blast of radiation particles shot through the assembled men.