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  • Опубликовано: 18 май 2024
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  • @periodicvideos
    @periodicvideos  4 года назад +376

    These videos are made by Brady Haran - check out his "Unmade Podcast" here: bit.ly/UnmadePlaylist

  • @buddhabrew
    @buddhabrew 8 лет назад +13719

    I knew that dude was legit the second I saw his hair.

    • @nielsvanleeuwen9345
      @nielsvanleeuwen9345 8 лет назад +133

      Hahahaha

    • @trendduos7679
      @trendduos7679 8 лет назад +41

      XD

    • @ThePantruca
      @ThePantruca 8 лет назад +358

      +Horus Osiris I think that he looks wonderful and fits the stereotype

    • @hoanhngo5758
      @hoanhngo5758 8 лет назад +87

      ROFL...just like my science teacher.

    • @GlassLegend40
      @GlassLegend40 7 лет назад +120

      I'm sure he didn't just accidently electricuted himself like, Benjamin

  • @kimikotanaka6713
    @kimikotanaka6713 5 лет назад +3963

    Me - "How often do you wear that tie?"
    Eccentric Scientist - "Periodically."

  • @bmzaron713
    @bmzaron713 4 года назад +151

    I don't understand everything in this, but the professor really has a skill of making concepts relatable

  • @hni7458
    @hni7458 3 года назад +461

    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.

    • @sebastianperales3630
      @sebastianperales3630 2 года назад +24

      You miss the most important thing, he has a great hair 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

    • @hni7458
      @hni7458 2 года назад +6

      @@sebastianperales3630 Yeah how true, that's cool too :)

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Год назад +1

      -the hair

    • @lookoutforchris
      @lookoutforchris 9 месяцев назад +3

      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.

    • @SwingAxleLover
      @SwingAxleLover 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@lookoutforchrisI think he did say 1940, the two can sound quite similar

  • @mr.voidout4739
    @mr.voidout4739 5 лет назад +1049

    4:02 RUclips Award nominee for best editing!

  • @lekoman
    @lekoman 6 лет назад +2176

    That transition from the mushroom cloud to the professor's hair at 4:02 tho. ;D

    • @sirwhitemeat9785
      @sirwhitemeat9785 5 лет назад +34

      lol

    • @mug7692
      @mug7692 5 лет назад +77

      @@sirwhitemeat9785 it took 1 year before anyone replied

    • @OriginalLito
      @OriginalLito 5 лет назад +10

      Damn

    • @sirwhitemeat9785
      @sirwhitemeat9785 5 лет назад +10

      @@mug7692 weird huh cause it made me laugh so hard xD

    • @Nik-xi2ri
      @Nik-xi2ri 5 лет назад +4

      Premium Production capabilities

  • @jackrogers7395
    @jackrogers7395 3 года назад +244

    11:38 "rather like, the fruit inside a cake"
    *My brain:* *eat the plutonium*

    • @dededede6471
      @dededede6471 3 года назад +12

      Enjoy your meal

    • @altheamantes2041
      @altheamantes2041 3 года назад

      Enjoy hahaha
      Welcome to heaven bro

    • @annfokker
      @annfokker 3 года назад +2

      that would be embarrassing.

    • @ssjdaley
      @ssjdaley 2 года назад

      Me: and I took that personally.

    • @hamanakohamaneko7028
      @hamanakohamaneko7028 2 года назад +1

      One stray neutron in your mouth initiates a chain reaction

  • @palli6458
    @palli6458 3 года назад +127

    "I'll take you to the moon" so outdated..
    "I'll take you to plutonium laboratory" is so romantic 😂

    • @oximas
      @oximas 2 года назад +1

      difinatly my favourite date😂

  • @tropicalpalmtree
    @tropicalpalmtree 8 лет назад +2287

    the guy at 0:24 is everything that i imagined a chemical scientist to look like

    • @quasarsphere
      @quasarsphere 8 лет назад +31

      +tropicalpalmtree I was just about to make an identical comment when I saw yours!

    • @Halapep
      @Halapep 8 лет назад

      +quasarsphere
      Haha same here xD

    • @andreoliveira7420
      @andreoliveira7420 8 лет назад +66

      he look like a mad scientist

    • @user-ho1vt8vz2l
      @user-ho1vt8vz2l 8 лет назад +34

      he wants to be called Einstein

    • @alastair3223
      @alastair3223 7 лет назад

      Same lol

  • @kermanguy1877
    @kermanguy1877 9 лет назад +2136

    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.

    • @user-xw1yh2py4j
      @user-xw1yh2py4j 8 лет назад +71

      +Kerman Guy Or just surround them by several tons of dynamite and enjoy the show.

    • @cl4ster17
      @cl4ster17 8 лет назад +87

      +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

    • @jed-henrywitkowski6470
      @jed-henrywitkowski6470 8 лет назад +4

      +Kerman Guy Oh damn, I ruined it... 88, is 89.

    • @guntertv304
      @guntertv304 8 лет назад +3

      +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

    • @afcomser
      @afcomser 8 лет назад +63

      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

  • @Rheologist
    @Rheologist Год назад +7

    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 :)

  • @peterbmeadows2000
    @peterbmeadows2000 2 года назад +130

    Why did I not pay more attention to chemistry at school?! This is fascinating stuff! Thank you guys

    • @psylee8687
      @psylee8687 Год назад +12

      Your high school teacher does not have the credentials

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Год назад +1

      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

    • @miakaleighjj
      @miakaleighjj Год назад +2

      lol, Chemistry is interesting, but I don't like drawing element formations or memorizing the periodic tables, I rather watch this instead😂

    • @kyon-kyon-
      @kyon-kyon- 10 месяцев назад +1

      when high school teachers do it it's boring.

    • @dimitristripakis7364
      @dimitristripakis7364 10 месяцев назад +2

      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.

  • @heckler73
    @heckler73 4 года назад +766

    I did not feel like I wasted a second of the last 17 minutes.
    Thank you.

    • @emileponcelet3439
      @emileponcelet3439 2 года назад +11

      Something educational is never a waste of time even if u dont get any of it

    • @heckler73
      @heckler73 2 года назад +5

      @@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.

  • @Huffim
    @Huffim 8 лет назад +932

    Even his ties are periodic. The man is chemistry. Period!

  • @JimSmithInChiapas
    @JimSmithInChiapas 3 года назад +56

    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.

  • @Xanderviceory
    @Xanderviceory 3 года назад +72

    This was 94 times more interesting than I thought it would be :-)

    • @robichj
      @robichj 2 года назад +2

      I believe 92? Or are you adding uranium and plutonium...

    • @tinfoilbottle5943
      @tinfoilbottle5943 2 года назад +4

      @@robichj plutonium had an atomic number 94

  • @TipoQueTocaelPiano
    @TipoQueTocaelPiano 9 лет назад +279

    "Plutonium is dangerous for two reasons: First, because they use it to make bombs..."
    I agree.

  • @karhukivi
    @karhukivi 4 года назад +70

    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!

    • @TheAechBomb
      @TheAechBomb Месяц назад +2

      dang, 80mW seems like a lot for a tiny RTG, the massive soviet terrestrial RTGs only made maybe 100W and were hundreds of pounds.

    • @karhukivi
      @karhukivi Месяц назад +3

      @@TheAechBomb My mistake - iit should be 80 micro-watts, the "mu" sign switched to an "m" somehow. Well spotted!

    • @TheAechBomb
      @TheAechBomb Месяц назад +3

      @@karhukivi that makes more sense, thanks :D

    • @sauercrowder
      @sauercrowder 6 дней назад +1

      ​@@karhukiviand that is why in these kinds of contexts I always just type "u"

    • @karhukivi
      @karhukivi 5 дней назад

      @@sauercrowder ALT+230 usually gives a µ symbol but yes, a "u" is safer!

  • @ReyOfLight
    @ReyOfLight 3 года назад +31

    Just love that “mad scientist” type of hairstyle! It’s epic when a pure genius sports that hairstyle!

  • @dr.borris8034
    @dr.borris8034 5 лет назад +3515

    Judging by his hair... he did a line of plutonium before the interview

  • @JooKen
    @JooKen 4 года назад +717

    "Did you... did you just describe the explosion of a container containing radioactive plutonium waste as 'embarrassing'?"

    • @ryncookie9478
      @ryncookie9478 3 года назад +57

      "Yes"

    • @Pr1est0fDoom
      @Pr1est0fDoom 3 года назад +27

      What a madlad!

    • @angelobonanno1859
      @angelobonanno1859 3 года назад +14

      Absolute madman!

    • @kousueki7024
      @kousueki7024 2 года назад +9

      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

    • @ferretappreciator
      @ferretappreciator 2 года назад +5

      @@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:)

  • @LLO227
    @LLO227 3 года назад +27

    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

  • @vincentlangel8555
    @vincentlangel8555 3 года назад +17

    I love the plutonium table story! I was a chem minor in undergrad and I miss crazy stories like that.

  • @CaptivaLP
    @CaptivaLP 5 лет назад +495

    Seriously? Everyone mentioning his hair but NOBODY NOTICED HIS TIE?!?!? That tie is perfection

    • @ankles632
      @ankles632 5 лет назад +15

      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

    • @marinaholmes4549
      @marinaholmes4549 5 лет назад +6

      Did you notice he's not wearing a wedding ring. Mmmmmmm wonder why. 😀

    • @DJHotbuns
      @DJHotbuns 5 лет назад +11

      I did. Periodically. 🥴🤓

    • @battletoaster5470
      @battletoaster5470 5 лет назад +1

      I did

    • @RandomCoffee101
      @RandomCoffee101 5 лет назад +17

      Marina Holmes wedding rings are not allowed in the laboratory

  • @watchmen22
    @watchmen22 7 лет назад +2035

    I'm student from nor..err south korea and I'm interested in obtaining Plutonium for um research purposes. Any help is appreciated.

    • @datboidego
      @datboidego 7 лет назад +112

      yea 5 grams for $2,500,000 .

    • @theshallowswallow6733
      @theshallowswallow6733 7 лет назад +7

      Watchmen22

    • @datboidego
      @datboidego 7 лет назад +3

      +Watchmen22 no i think Jon Doe was born with that disease. so sad :/

    • @wakewind4129
      @wakewind4129 7 лет назад +32

      didn't you watch the video? You make plutonium from uranium-238 separated from u5

    • @tf3confirmedbuthv54
      @tf3confirmedbuthv54 7 лет назад +3

      diego carmona you can't do math

  • @josephskulan750
    @josephskulan750 4 года назад +6

    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.

    • @kaustavsengupta8757
      @kaustavsengupta8757 4 года назад +1

      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.

    • @josephskulan750
      @josephskulan750 4 года назад +1

      @@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.

    • @kaustavsengupta8757
      @kaustavsengupta8757 4 года назад

      @@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.

    • @josephskulan750
      @josephskulan750 4 года назад +1

      @@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,

    • @VG_164
      @VG_164 9 месяцев назад

      I know the Soviets tested rocket engines using bromine pentaflouride as an oxidizer 😂

  • @themeanbean7111
    @themeanbean7111 2 года назад +33

    "I saw plutonium, but I don't think I can tell you where", Totally normal.

    • @ofoxofox1
      @ofoxofox1 2 года назад

      I just came to check in comments whether anyone else had a say on that !

    • @valerianardelean9235
      @valerianardelean9235 2 года назад

      Probably to avoid someone stealing it

    • @sincereflowers3218
      @sincereflowers3218 2 года назад

      I mean you wouldn't want the average person handling something so dangerous, makes sense that NDAs and such would get involved.

    • @OdinzEinherjar
      @OdinzEinherjar 2 года назад +2

      I seen it, it was over at Doc Brown's house, he stole it from the Libyans.

    • @sauercrowder
      @sauercrowder 6 дней назад

      ​@@sincereflowers3218 Probably much stronger than NDAs, more like whatever the UK equivalent to ITAR might be called.

  • @HerecomestheCalavera
    @HerecomestheCalavera 9 лет назад +674

    Remember in 1985 when plutonium was available at every corner store?

    • @estebanchacanacontreras546
      @estebanchacanacontreras546 9 лет назад +27

      hahahaha

    • @Hiei2k7
      @Hiei2k7 9 лет назад +177

      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!

    • @chef5150dotpsd
      @chef5150dotpsd 9 лет назад +32

      great scott i forgot XD

    • @EpicXXProductions
      @EpicXXProductions 9 лет назад +15

      I was born in the 90's what are you guys talking about lol

    • @Hiei2k7
      @Hiei2k7 9 лет назад +92

      Nothing you'd be interested in, young one. Run along now.

  • @Ilikewater-andice
    @Ilikewater-andice 10 лет назад +30

    0:23 EINSTEIN'S REINCARNATION

  • @barrytarr2960
    @barrytarr2960 2 года назад +12

    Mark the glove box guy - reassuring we have experts like him at Sellafield.

  • @AlphaMikeCharlie
    @AlphaMikeCharlie 3 года назад +28

    He hasn’t changed one bit in 8 years

  • @tb8573
    @tb8573 7 лет назад +311

    The atomic bomb mushroom-cloud fades perfectly into the shape of his hair at 4:03.

    • @sweeflyboy
      @sweeflyboy 5 лет назад +7

      This is sooo underrated...

    • @simonpeter5032
      @simonpeter5032 5 лет назад +1

      All that plutonium.

    • @azreenklose7976
      @azreenklose7976 5 лет назад +1

      Maybe he have experience the plutonium effect after all😂😂😂😂

    • @StephenDiJoseph
      @StephenDiJoseph 5 лет назад +3

      hahahahahaha....brilliant observation!

    • @JamchesterBoozle
      @JamchesterBoozle 5 лет назад

      Hahahahahaha what a brilliant shout!

  • @RhodianColossus
    @RhodianColossus 10 лет назад +191

    Automatic Captions:
    ''...plutonium is a mom-made element...''
    Damn it mom, I wanted cookies not radioactive death.

    • @IKamiZz
      @IKamiZz 5 лет назад +1

      plutonium is a PEOPLE-made element.

    • @kencarter9721
      @kencarter9721 5 лет назад +5

      @@IKamiZz You are correct. My mom is a person...kinda...

    • @janetsminten8196
      @janetsminten8196 4 года назад +2

      @@IKamiZz its manmade

  • @jasontuck-smith3896
    @jasontuck-smith3896 2 года назад +4

    13:15 'Did you just describe the explosion of a container containing radioactive plutonium waste as embarrassing?!' 'Yes!'. Lol I love the Proff.

  • @enginebae3471
    @enginebae3471 2 года назад +8

    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 🤷‍♂️

  • @jamesgreen1239
    @jamesgreen1239 5 лет назад +1417

    The name of the haircut is called the “Albert Einstein”.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 4 года назад +17

      I need a comrade Dyatlov cut.

    • @JoeMilllionaire
      @JoeMilllionaire 4 года назад +4

      Don King

    • @tgmtf5963
      @tgmtf5963 4 года назад +18

      Mushroom cloud haircut

    • @chasiah7101
      @chasiah7101 4 года назад +8

      Walk in too the barbers, What u want there sir? eh can a get an Albert einstein back n sides pls😂

    • @Mr.Oblivian
      @Mr.Oblivian 4 года назад +4

      Einstein was a fraud...

  • @jimdevlin2138
    @jimdevlin2138 5 лет назад +69

    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

  • @HansPeter-qo9hc
    @HansPeter-qo9hc 8 месяцев назад +2

    That Tie is absolutely Killer 😍

  • @jrodificator1
    @jrodificator1 4 года назад +20

    I love how every single video has comments that say this is guy looks like science

  • @dravenromero1386
    @dravenromero1386 5 лет назад +116

    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!

  • @user-ed7gm7ol8k
    @user-ed7gm7ol8k 7 лет назад +412

    this video on my recomended videos for years....

  • @Yeebo__
    @Yeebo__ 8 месяцев назад

    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!

  • @lilaskiwan2987
    @lilaskiwan2987 2 года назад +2

    Thank you so much for your videos. As a highschool science and math teacher, this is a wonderfull source of inspiration.

  • @mh-ki2dv
    @mh-ki2dv 5 лет назад +870

    But Boris told me it was the equivalent of one chest X-Ray.

  • @ChristopherSaindon
    @ChristopherSaindon 4 года назад +2672

    His hair has a higher IQ than almost everybody.

    • @dalroache
      @dalroache 4 года назад +9

      What does that mean explain?

    • @coolguy-cu5op
      @coolguy-cu5op 4 года назад +64

      @@dalroache it's a joke

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 4 года назад +12

      "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. ;)

    • @westfold2222
      @westfold2222 4 года назад

      Yeahh i same think . Wkwkwkw

    • @thomasedavis
      @thomasedavis 3 года назад +3

      He took an IQ test on a periodic table.

  • @Ezhil-dq8op
    @Ezhil-dq8op 6 месяцев назад

    I remember seeing the videos of all the elements in this channel when I was in my high school. I was really proud back then. Thanks for the masterpieces that you gave us

  • @ciotta87
    @ciotta87 3 года назад +2

    Great videos guys. Very interesting for a chemist to see how to handle this artificial elements

  • @JohnOgunlela
    @JohnOgunlela 4 года назад +194

    His accent is funny and it makes him fun and so clear to listen to. He's a great chap

    • @codyleslie478
      @codyleslie478 2 года назад +5

      How so? His accent is quite common

    • @a2pabmb2
      @a2pabmb2 2 года назад +6

      Accent? That's what English sounds like when spoken properly.

    • @fractal5764
      @fractal5764 2 года назад +4

      @@a2pabmb2 Accents are relative.

    • @ianwhite6996
      @ianwhite6996 2 года назад +1

      His accent's not funny you dips**t. Its from a southern English county you ignoramus.

    • @getsome4806
      @getsome4806 2 года назад

      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.

  • @fightingillini1717
    @fightingillini1717 9 лет назад +33

    That guy with the crazy hair is exactly what I expected a scientist working on plutonium to look like

    • @sarowie
      @sarowie 9 лет назад +2

      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.

  • @securitymanager2938
    @securitymanager2938 4 года назад +4

    "The radioactive waste from spent fuel rods consist primarily of cesium-137 and strontium-90, but it may also include plutonium, which can be considered a transuranic waste. The half-lives of these radioactive elements can differ quite extremely." - Wikipedia
    "Transuranic" (of an element) having a higher atomic number than uranium (92).

  • @sushi_wolf
    @sushi_wolf 2 года назад +1

    These men are very knowledgeable and professional, great video.

  • @chaos-kun7310
    @chaos-kun7310 5 лет назад +562

    "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

    • @frostynugs4206
      @frostynugs4206 5 лет назад +44

      its not like they'll tell people were it is its a bit dangerous lad

    • @davidharrison7014
      @davidharrison7014 5 лет назад +19

      Please.....tell us! ISIS wants to know.

    • @fidziek
      @fidziek 5 лет назад +12

      in reality not many folks seeing plutonium have survived to tell the story, I suppose...

    • @fidziek
      @fidziek 5 лет назад +8

      @@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...

    • @gsfbffxpdhhdf7043
      @gsfbffxpdhhdf7043 5 лет назад +4

      Mariusz Fidzinski you are a muslim i bet

  • @ThaRealGecko
    @ThaRealGecko 7 лет назад +1571

    That hair... Subscribed!

    • @aguuaaa
      @aguuaaa 7 лет назад +18

      i also SUSCRIBED cus the hair and nice professor

    • @stevebrodnik2775
      @stevebrodnik2775 6 лет назад +13

      He shouldn't have touched the Plutonium!

    • @robinderoos1166
      @robinderoos1166 6 лет назад +7

      Steve Brodnik no, he should have licked it!

    • @seaningram4434
      @seaningram4434 6 лет назад +11

      "Great Scott!" :) LOL

    • @moriyama333
      @moriyama333 6 лет назад +7

      and the tie

  • @crumb_of_nopeamine_plz
    @crumb_of_nopeamine_plz 4 года назад +2

    The plutonium story is awesome!

  • @jermainedavis1909
    @jermainedavis1909 2 года назад +1

    Absolutely fascinating.

  • @FingersKungfu
    @FingersKungfu 8 лет назад +51

    I really like the professor's mad-scientist hair. How did he manage it to be like that ?

    • @Luachair
      @Luachair 8 лет назад +14

      +thucydides Neo I remember him when he was very young. It was pretty well like that only black and was more springy.

    • @nnovatakaren5515
      @nnovatakaren5515 8 лет назад +4

      +thucydides Neo It's a perk for being a mad scientist

    • @hugglepuff1
      @hugglepuff1 8 лет назад +12

      +Nnovata Karen you need to install mods first

    • @jerryg50
      @jerryg50 8 лет назад +3

      +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...

    • @davidharrison7014
      @davidharrison7014 5 лет назад

      thucydides Neo Daily trips to a nearby wind tunnel. LOL

  • @Mikesorrento3344
    @Mikesorrento3344 8 лет назад +183

    Only a guy with hair like his could get away with wearing a periodic table of elements necktie.

    • @petenielsen6683
      @petenielsen6683 5 лет назад +1

      Makes you wonder if Einstein had a similar tie, doesn't it?

    • @arunchhatwani1754
      @arunchhatwani1754 5 лет назад +1

      I wouldn't have noticed if not for this comment 🤣🤣

  • @jackng3873
    @jackng3873 2 года назад +1

    Why I love chemistry, especially in radioactivity reactions like uranium nitrate etc

  • @ki11erjosh77
    @ki11erjosh77 4 года назад

    I did work experience in one of the labs in that NNL centre, great experience

  • @mrkiky
    @mrkiky 5 лет назад +214

    Damn that guy spilled the entire UK's reserve of Plutonium..... must've been so embarrassing.

    • @mikelouis9389
      @mikelouis9389 5 лет назад +21

      He wound up losing half a gram of the most toxic element imaginable. Fun guy to work with.

    • @kyle.s3700
      @kyle.s3700 4 года назад +4

      And apparently he was ok and taught him chemistry

    • @alastairbarkley6572
      @alastairbarkley6572 4 года назад +5

      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.

    • @robertmcgovern8850
      @robertmcgovern8850 4 года назад +4

      @@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.

    • @josephbrennan370
      @josephbrennan370 4 года назад +5

      @@alastairbarkley6572 yes in the present day we have quite a lot but back during ww2 we only had 10 milligrams.

  • @joycesanders4898
    @joycesanders4898 5 лет назад +164

    What I learned-a gallon contains 4 liters.

  • @alexandroalvarez2464
    @alexandroalvarez2464 8 месяцев назад

    What an extraordinary and fascinating collection of videos showing chemical elements and their use and origins.

  • @michaelfoulk1858
    @michaelfoulk1858 3 года назад

    Really don’t know why this video showed up in my feed but now I learned something.

  • @largol33t1
    @largol33t1 10 лет назад +39

    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.

  • @prakrambhushan8328
    @prakrambhushan8328 4 года назад +356

    My brain if I ever get a chance to touch the solution
    Brain : Drink it

    • @moonbright7373
      @moonbright7373 3 года назад

      😂

    • @fatdad64able
      @fatdad64able 3 года назад +18

      No please don't. Pass it on to the needy,....Trump, Putin, et cetera.

    • @creepy_regret5542
      @creepy_regret5542 3 года назад +17

      @@fatdad64able I will pass it on to you

    • @fatdad64able
      @fatdad64able 3 года назад +5

      @@creepy_regret5542 So I can give it to these idiots? Great idea. I'll include "baby trump" aka Bojo. ^^

    • @somethinginthewalls388
      @somethinginthewalls388 3 года назад +4

      Pu(III) in solution is the forbidden grape soda.

  • @JM64
    @JM64 2 года назад

    Incredibly educational.
    Fantastic video.

  • @hdayan1945
    @hdayan1945 Год назад +1

    Fantastic, congrats and thanks for sharing.

  • @libertylagrana
    @libertylagrana 7 лет назад +81

    a walking Periodic Table

  • @j.reinhardt36
    @j.reinhardt36 8 лет назад +782

    cool hair: 10/10

  • @IIIAnchani
    @IIIAnchani 7 месяцев назад

    it's a priviledge to see this. Thank you so much for uploading this.

  • @ycmgxekwa
    @ycmgxekwa 3 года назад +6

    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.

  • @alexandrkovin944
    @alexandrkovin944 4 года назад +382

    I love the smell of Plutonium in the morning. Smelled like... victory. (c) Comrade Dyatlov

    • @JohnSmith-kz8yo
      @JohnSmith-kz8yo 4 года назад +5

      Plutonium stinks..lol

    • @_KennethG
      @_KennethG 4 года назад +3

      Haha

    • @Slothful20
      @Slothful20 4 года назад +9

      Blyatlov

    • @appleslover
      @appleslover 4 года назад +5

      It's impossible for anyone to not love victory chocolate, not literal impossible but illegal..

    • @analogueoverdigital929
      @analogueoverdigital929 3 года назад +1

      3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible.

  • @CiroSantilli
    @CiroSantilli 8 лет назад +18

    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.

    • @alexserrano2850
      @alexserrano2850 8 лет назад

      +Ciro Santilli Why having just him when you can have his awesomeness + more awesomeness?

    • @CiroSantilli
      @CiroSantilli 8 лет назад +2

      +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 :-)

    • @ffejpsycho
      @ffejpsycho 8 лет назад

      +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.

  • @floydcherade1542
    @floydcherade1542 2 года назад

    Thanks for posting!

  • @jamiewatchorn7639
    @jamiewatchorn7639 4 года назад +1

    That guys tie is awesome!!

  • @Sneezas
    @Sneezas 7 лет назад +264

    Now this is an scientist!!! Look at his hair! I just love how he looks, gives me the real feeling of working with science

  • @SGTBizarro
    @SGTBizarro 9 лет назад +1665

    Comment section is more toxic than the damn plutonium.

    • @chickenmonger123
      @chickenmonger123 9 лет назад +39

      SGTBizarro Yeah. Worried I am going to get cancer now.

    • @dahntaedeluna
      @dahntaedeluna 9 лет назад +6

      Ha

    • @grampton
      @grampton 7 лет назад

      chickenmonger123, lol.

    • @faizrafii58
      @faizrafii58 6 лет назад +1

      plutonium was the most toxic before league of legends created

    • @paper2222
      @paper2222 6 лет назад

      100% tru

  • @ajinkyas9948
    @ajinkyas9948 2 года назад +1

    Science is fascinating. This is an amazing video.

  • @charleskiker8943
    @charleskiker8943 2 года назад

    This is super informative. Thanks for sharing.

  • @LoisyAbigail
    @LoisyAbigail 8 лет назад +64

    I want THAT tie.

  • @Tekknorg
    @Tekknorg 4 года назад +8

    3:25 HOLDING PLUTONIUM WHILE LOOKING AWAY.
    BADASS

    • @starchief93
      @starchief93 2 года назад

      when you don't look at the plutonium

  • @rodboyd1254
    @rodboyd1254 2 года назад

    That's why I love about RUclips you always learning something now I know how to do I extract plutonium

  • @siddheshsingabhatti4025
    @siddheshsingabhatti4025 2 года назад +23

    Still less radioactive and toxic than TikTok😂😂

  • @higherresolution4490
    @higherresolution4490 6 лет назад +47

    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.

    • @rudolphguarnacci197
      @rudolphguarnacci197 5 лет назад +9

      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.

    • @stephenverchinski409
      @stephenverchinski409 5 лет назад +5

      And a recent study found traces of radionucleatides in the Los Alamos homes.

    • @Asterra2
      @Asterra2 5 лет назад +12

      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.

    • @chuckgrigsby9664
      @chuckgrigsby9664 2 года назад +3

      @@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.

    • @stephenverchinski409
      @stephenverchinski409 2 года назад +2

      @@chuckgrigsby9664 Academia source document?

  • @manaraslespaul
    @manaraslespaul 8 лет назад +648

    i think you can buy plutonium on ebay

    • @robertmetzger55
      @robertmetzger55 8 лет назад +8

      Hahah soooooo funny

    • @robertmetzger55
      @robertmetzger55 8 лет назад +4

      Besides plutonium is thousands and thousands of $$$$

    • @user-cg9fe4zq8p
      @user-cg9fe4zq8p 8 лет назад +20

      +kappa You can buy uranium on ebay, but not plutonium

    • @user-cg9fe4zq8p
      @user-cg9fe4zq8p 8 лет назад +51

      +kappa You can also buy unicorn meat

    • @Aikaramba12
      @Aikaramba12 8 лет назад +4

      You can buy uranium! NOT plutonium, but still AWESOME!!

  • @mantia39
    @mantia39 2 года назад +1

    This channel is fantastic!

  • @Learnofy371
    @Learnofy371 3 года назад +1

    so much to know and learn

  • @mrs.willette9481
    @mrs.willette9481 4 года назад +17

    I’ve had this in my recommended for 7 years now

    • @stop8738
      @stop8738 3 года назад

      Fucc, what made you watch now?

  • @bonsaipiper3773
    @bonsaipiper3773 5 лет назад +424

    Something tells me, (and this is just a shot in the dark) but these guys aren't your typical college graduates.

    • @kentoscocos5238
      @kentoscocos5238 5 лет назад +24

      They're on different level than us

    • @ubergeraldine
      @ubergeraldine 5 лет назад +22

      I think they are what used to be called Alchemists!
      @@kentoscocos5238

    • @paulchesser3765
      @paulchesser3765 5 лет назад +40

      The guy with the wild hair said he studied chemistry at Cambridge university certainly not your "typical college"

    • @gigicoyle4245
      @gigicoyle4245 5 лет назад +6

      Occult Master Alchemists. Freemasons mind controlled drones. Anyone want to be 'edumackated'?

    • @comm744
      @comm744 5 лет назад +12

      @@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

  • @johnarmenta2199
    @johnarmenta2199 2 года назад

    I don't know what I love more - that guys hair, or his periodic table tie!

  • @jillianc949
    @jillianc949 Месяц назад

    Sellafield used to be known by a more infamous name - Windscale. In the late 50s it was the site of the UK's worst nuclear accident when one of the nuclear piles they were using to manufacture fuel for nuclear weapons caught fire. It burned for several days, releasing large amounts of radiation into the outside environment.

  • @salmonkill7
    @salmonkill7 4 года назад +87

    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

    • @Tekknorg
      @Tekknorg 4 года назад +1

      What about Cesium 137 and Strontium 90?

    • @tedkazcynkski4328
      @tedkazcynkski4328 4 года назад +22

      I thought you were a retired joker, smoker, midnight toker?

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting 4 года назад +3

      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.

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting 4 года назад +5

      @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.

    • @salmonkill7
      @salmonkill7 4 года назад +5

      @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...

  • @Peter1Europe
    @Peter1Europe 7 лет назад +359

    Always wear safety glasses while dealing with plutonium.

    • @dustinontaiyabbi5608
      @dustinontaiyabbi5608 7 лет назад +24

      it wont save your life though

    • @Nemain
      @Nemain 7 лет назад +1

      Welp. Yeah.

    • @Audfile
      @Audfile 7 лет назад +23

      and proper shoes

    • @tiger_icecoldlive6762
      @tiger_icecoldlive6762 7 лет назад +11

      And if something goes wrong then duck and cover fast!

    • @sp3ccylad
      @sp3ccylad 7 лет назад +17

      Don't forget a white coat. That's always helpful.

  • @mellbenham6809
    @mellbenham6809 3 года назад +1

    White hypalon gloves much better than the Neoprene ones we used at Harwell. But as for Plutonium the one that I didn't like working with was Pu238 it's so specifically active it makes Pu239 look inert.

  • @bird6736
    @bird6736 Год назад

    Beaker! ..nice to see you
    .. thanks... seems like a nice person

  • @KanishQQuotes
    @KanishQQuotes 5 лет назад +53

    I can watch this scientist talk all day.
    A true intelligent man who is doing the work for humanity to progress

    • @MoShaafici
      @MoShaafici 5 лет назад +2

      Or humanity to assassinate

    • @henryohare1
      @henryohare1 4 года назад

      @Ace Feeley ….so its ok to store the Pu round at your house ?

    • @rosetheis1403
      @rosetheis1403 4 года назад

      True that

    • @rosetheis1403
      @rosetheis1403 4 года назад

      Henry he just said it isn't

  • @BillGreenAZ
    @BillGreenAZ 4 года назад +378

    I looked up "mad sicentist" in the dictionary and this dude's picture was next to the description.

  • @seniorgakimofcl1245
    @seniorgakimofcl1245 Год назад

    I play with HBM Nuclear Tech Mod in Minecraft & I’ve been working with Uranium, Neptunium & ofc Plutonium cause some players were giving them to me since I’m the only one with a proper equipped lab & I’ve been making Americium self charging batteries for everyone.

  • @Mnone_of_your_business
    @Mnone_of_your_business Год назад

    Bigger brains than me for sure. How they ever figured all this out in the first place and the periodic table amazes me all the time.