What Happens When You Break a Vial of Radioactive Tritium?
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- In this video I break open some vials of tritium to see if it actually in creases the local radioactivity in the area around me. I use a Geiger counter to check for beta radiation. I also explain what beta decay is.
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C-c-c-c-c-c-Combo Breaker!!
And the strange quark
that name is funny
or the charm quark
and the bottom quark
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As a materials scientist, this one of the few science channels where I actually learn something, or at least re-learn stuff that I never use and have already forgotten. Keep up the great work 👍
funny, funny, not so funny! in nuclear reactors, Tritium is a real problem. Atomic Hydrogen (and therefore , too) tends to penetrate metals and makes them brittle over time. Wiggener-effect.
@@konradcomrade4845 Yea we know that. They are nuclear reactors!!!!!
I feel like one day "The Action Lab" will just start with "Hey everyone! Today I will be re-creating Chernobyl"
Tritium vials be like:
They see me glowing,
They hating
Tryna catch me riding dirty... David Hann
Homeland security just felt their Spidey senses tingling.
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Not over tritium.
The power of the sun in the palm of my hands!
I am sure the NRC did...😂
_Action Lab:_ How to become Superman
😂
Just wait for his next video...
More like:
Action lab: how to become a ghoul
Wait it says Superman nvm
I’m still gonna leave it there tho
Hahahaha
The Hulk.
Some of my firearms have tritium night sights on them. They have to be replaced every 10 to 15 years because the tritium gets so dim it basically becomes useless at night.
Cost?
@@ibidibi From around $50 to $125 or so, plus labor that a lot of shooters do themselves. You replace entire sights, not just the tritium vials and sights alone vary in complexity and materials and therefore in price.
Strictly speaking, the tritium doesn't get dim, it decays until there's no longer enough decaying to energize the phosphorus paint in the vials, or the phosphorus paint itself degrades. Night sights are typically marketed as being good for about 12 years - the approximate half-life of the tritium, as mentioned in the video. But yeah, it's easier and more common to just say that the tritium gets dim, or wears out, no big deal.
Yah, I've got a set of TruGlo TFOs on my "WTF was that?" Glock - green up front/yellow in back. Ironically, the fiber-optic performance in low-light is more impressive than anything...almost too bright
@@supermarioisacat TruGlo is a ripoff.
@@Ni999 id have to make the educated guess that the phosphorus paint degrades.
My physics teacher was epic, then I went on to learn chemistry. This was back in the 1990’s. I’m catching up now. Your channel is epic. It still strands the basics of what I learned, but now more refined. I’d like to thank you very much for the efforts you personally put into this channel. Kids today will learn a lot from this channel. Oh, & I’m Welsh. 🏴👍
That meter can only detect betas down to about 50 keV while tritium releases a beta at 18 keV. With the proper equipment you could have detected the tritium.
I think he meant to say it's very low energy and not dangerous
@@Anankin12 Which he DID say. What I said, because it is true, is that the meter he was using is not capable of detecting tritium no matter how much there was. Using a meter that can't detect what you are looking for is kind of pointless and doesn't show anything of value.
Those vials are pretty cheap on their own. No need to buy many Chernobyl memorials.
@@DTofMN ruclips.net/video/T1HZ8NAXu64/видео.html how can this guy detect it then
@@PHONKPOWER Did you even watch the video YOU linked to? He even says he is NOT detecting the radiation from the tritium. He explains that he is detecting bremsstrahlung, photons released when the beta radiation from the tritium slows down as it encounters atoms. I mean come on dud, just watch the video YOU link to and it answers your question and it confirms my claim about detecting radiation from the decay of tritium.
I really love how this channel does the experiment with it's viewers and only gives the answer based on the experimental results. Feels like I am doing the experiment myself!
I just want to say thank you for everything you are doing. Somehow you manage to blow my mind and open my eyes for the world with every video. You are amazing! Please keep doing it.
It is cool experiments like this that makes me love your channel so much!
You wouldn't expect to be able to detect radiation from tritium with a Geiger counter because the beta particles are not very energetic--you need a liquid scintillation counter. Beta particles emitted by the decay of Phosphorus 32, however, are quite energetic and can be detected with a regular Geiger counter.
It IS possible to detect Tritium with an average Geiger counter.
The problem is, however, that Tritium gas is lighter than air and would immediately float up and away the instant it's freed from it's vial.
One would have to break the vial, and capture the gas, under an inverted containment device to be able to measure it
@@davelowets the geiger countwr he is using can only detect down to 50kev
Ur point also stands tho he shoulve tried it with both the geiger counter and vials sealed in a ziplock bag
This was really fascinating! Thanks for the explanation of tritium. Thanks for sharing!
I'm really glad you posted this because I have a tritium vial and I've been wondering what would happen if it were to be accidentally destroyed. Excellent explanation, as usual!
I broke one open in my house 2 years ago, and I'm still healthy! I couldn't find much research on it back then so it gave me some anxiety for awhile.
@@Aleksiinascreations_Aleksi haha glad to hear you survived it. The best I've heard is to open windows in the room (if possible) and stay out for a bit, but it sounds like that's possibly not even necessary. Though I'll probably still take precautions if it happens.
@Funny Shorts I figured, as it’s been 6 years since then and I’m still good😤 I think? Lmao
@@Aleksiinascreations_Aleksi damn u had that kind of money to buy tritium?
@@NippyNep haha. When fidget spinners were popular there was a niche market for high quality, exotic metal spinners made by gun/knife manufacturers. The higher end ones had small (1.5mmX10mm) vials of tritium in them, and I wanted to switch them out for a different color. I didn’t realize that they used UV optical resin to glue them in place and I broke one trying to get it out.
TLDR I wasted a bunch of money on tritium for a fidget spinner made out of tungsten. The vials I bought were only like $20 each though, which is still damn expensive lmao
This guy sounds like he's asking questions every time he says something
No he doesn’t
No he doesn't
No. 😕
yes
Yes
You would be a sick science teacher in school
Doctor octopus: I need you precious tritium !!
Something to say: small vial's of tritium are use in watches, replacing luminova so there is no need to expose watch to light for glowing in dark. They last for about 10 years still glowing (if I'm good remember). For example Luminox watches.
Yugoslavian sks' have tritium vials with phosphorus on them as the night sights.
They used to use radium and uhhhh…lets say that didnt go very well…
Hey! I just learned about radioactivity and beta decay! It’s pretty cool to see something like this in real life!
"The power of the sun... in the palm of my hand"
I appreciate your videos and your explanations! Thank you for what you do!
He spoke a billion words that I have no idea existed
Another awesome video - thanks for posting!
Thanks, that clears up how exit signs work (without electrical power). Also, gun sights!
Doctor Octopus gonna come to get those tritium vials
*0:04** LMAO! You're freakin me out homie!* You're trying to stab a miniature chernobyl like you're a human Godzilla while keeping that 'constipated look' face. - Off the charts hilarious!
are you trippin on Molly
Ok...
Lmao i felt that
Thank you dude, answered my exact questions after hearing about the tritium leak in Minnesota, love your videos subscribing
you always blew my mind sir everytime i watch your vids!!
I love your videos man I learn different things every day from watching you
super good job. the mysteries of particle physics!
*Action lab* is basically teaching us how the Hulk got his *super powers.* 😁 Love it.
*edit:* why is it called *beta radiation* and not electron ejection?*
Because people would misunderstand "electron ejection" for something kinky.
Probably because it's just the second type. There is alpha, beta, and gamma radiation that I know of. Basically like called them radiation 1, 2, and 3. Very creative.
Sphakamiso Zondi Theres alpha, beta, and gamma decay
While alpha decay ejects He and beta decay (as said) e-, gamma decay ejects short-length electromagnetic waves called gamma rays, which follow the alpha decay if the decay energy exceeds the sum of the kinetic energy of the alpha-decayed element and Helium (basically if the Element is still in a higher state of energy compared to its base status after the alpha decay)
So i guess they just called it alpha, beta and gamma for consistency as they are the first 3 letters in the Greek alphabet and all resemble the decay of an element.
@@ShiNiGaMi-bb2ep bro, your explanation is right on the money. It makes sense now.
Sphakamiso Zondi you’re welcome😁
Out of many RUclips and other explanations of tritium decay, this is the only one that includes the up quark and W- boson steps. Even ChatGPT didn't include these steps. Thanks for being precise, it DOES make a difference.
Great video! Very simple explanation.
I have an tritium exit sign made in 1988. It’s still glowing after 32 years. I also have an ACOG rifle scope where the reticle it illuminated with tritium.
ACOGs are the shit I had one on my M4 when I was in the service. They also use a fiber optic cable to power the sight with solar energy. No batteries need ever!
"Come to Quark's, Quark's is fun, come right now, don't walk - run!"
The Action Lab - GREAT VIDEO THANK YOU! Could you also make a video about uranium glass, i have some at home and was wondering how its made, why it's green, why it glows under a UV-light and how much (if any) radiation it emits?
It's safe enough, just don't eat off of it and wash you hands after touching it.
It’s actually fine to eat off of as long as it is not cracked or chipped. It does emit a small amount of radiation but nothing outside of a normal range, you would get more radiation from a day outside in the sun than the period of time you would use uranium glass for a meal.
*Tritium is what we use in our night sights on our guns.* 100% safe
Incorrect. No amount of radioactive material is 100% safe.
Peter Booth have you heard abt background radiations?
@@petebike Cosmic radiation *cough*
@@dhruvakashyap3899 I mean.... people do get skin cancer
It's a Benin risk but still there
@@Ni999 visible light is electromagnetic radiation
Action lab in two years: lung cancer lab
I am so lucky I have someone like him as my science teacher!
I was more intrigued by that geiger counter than anything. I've already got a Radalert and a Radex but they definitely can't differentiate between alpha, beta and gamma emissions like that one apparently can...
How dare you... Everyone knows protons are red and electrons are blue!! Otherwise the entire reality would collapse
its the opposite wtf
@@younlok1081 from now on we are enemies, dude
No!!! Electrons are yellow!! Protons are red and neutrons are blue!!!
BTW I am blue red colour blind.....
@@shaypatrickcormac4670 sad i know your feeling kinda
i have a friend who is green red color blind
🤔...Very interesting...👌🏼 Thanks for the education and breakdown...💯✔
Thank you for this video... I was wondering what happens
In some old exit signs I found at my dad's work, they had florescent lights and a lead-acid battery, rather than tritium vials, which would probably be more expensive .
This is a very good experiment to demonstrate some very important nuclear physics principles!
I would assume we ingest insignificant amounts of tritium with some amount of regularity. It naturally makes up a minuscule percentage of hydrogen, but given that hydrogen is so abundant I’d doubt that there weren’t at least a couple atoms of tritium for every so much amount of water we drink, whether it be per gallon or per the total amount consumed in a year.
This is what happens when you are into chemistry
Except this isnt chemistry.. it’s basically nuclear physics
You destroyed me like Hiroshima Nagasaki
_Doc Ock wants to know your location._
One time I saw green glowing bark whenever I was camping
Up, up, down, left, right, up, up.
Super combo punch!!!
In the beginning you accidentally said “only one photon” instead of proton 👍🏼 when describing tritium. Love your vids man!
Precious tritium is what makes this project go. There's only 25 pounds of it on the whole planet. I'd like to thank Harry Osborn and Oscorp Industries for providing it.
Me: Nods thoughtfully through description of quarks as if I understand.
Ah, so witchcraft you say?
You did not do science in school? Like the advance one? I thought people watching Action labs videos have done that.
But now that I think about it, people who did not do advance science may watch his videos, because why not.
@@joandy2749 I took physics and chemistry. We never really got down smaller than protons and neutrons from what I remember. I have heard of quarks of course, but don't really understand them. As for what I'm doing on the channel, I find science interesting, even if I'm not in a scientific field or highly trained in the subject.
@@jasepoag8930 You are in what grade? Yeah, you do not have to be very knowledgeble in science to find it interesting and to like watching scientific videos... I wonder tho if at least one person who had not choose science as a subject enjoy these kind of scientific videos. Maybe yes maybe no... But I think yes.
@@joandy2749 I'm 31, so like 25th grade. Lol
@@jasepoag8930 Haha... Maybe at your time, quarks may not have been a well known thing or was not in the curriculum or you forgot about the explanation of quarks.
No! Don't do it! This is your Mom talkin here! :) So fun seeing you on my "Live" today!
You must be a very proud mother.
@@wheelsiam_ lol, yes l am :)
Wait, you're his mother?
I used a very small tritium vial to add about 200mCi of tritium to RF excited co2 laser gas tube and it greatly increased the response to excitation with immediate ignition of the tube. It did away with the need to tickle the tube with a keep alive voltage 🤓
Please rename this to:
*REENACTING CHERNOBYL!! DO NOT TRY AT HOME!!*
Next video-"What happens if you break a nuclear power plant reactor ?"
Great explication
I just learned so much shit I’m gonna forget by tomorrow. Great video.
I have a few watches with Tritium in the bezel and clock hands. The brand is Traser, for those interested. Cool video!
Sorry Action Lab, though interesting, it’ll take a bit more than that to beat instant pickles.
I learned what quarks are. Thank you.
i swear i have learned about more things watching your videos than i ever did throughout all 12 grades of school lol
Don't forget wrist watches! I have a Marathon watch with tritium vials on the hands and hour markers. Really cool!
I had a friend who worked at a nuclear facility that had a lot of tritium. He said that a couple of times they had accidents and when they did they just sent all the employees to the bar to drink beer for the rest of the day. That helped flush the system.
@The Action Lab Can you tell me where you got those tritium vials? That size looks perfect for what I need them for.
Anything that glows for 12 years, can be seen by the naked eye, I do not want around me. I know all about the physics involved and why its safe. but I still do not want it near me. for some reason.
@1234coolman well keep laughing until I substitute your perfectly safe tritium vial with some polonium.
Also, how was the tea? Good? Harasho.
You've already been, or inevitably will be, exposed to *far more* of the same watching TV.
My carry pistol has tritium sights that have been pressed up against my skin for over a decade. I swap them out every 2 years so it’s fresh tritium also. No ill effects whatsoever, and that’s almost constant contact with my skin.
@@Ni999 ridiculous statement, you do not know which and what tech i use.
@@johnd9357 thanks for sharing
Also used in the instrument panels on old airplanes to light up the dials
You had me at Chernobyl.
In the industry, Tritium is considered a hard-to-detect and it is unlikely the meter he used could see the week energy beta emitted. Trust me, he absorbed through the skin/ingested quite a bit of that Tritium by breaking that vial. Lucky him, Tritium has a short biological half life.
Finally found the specs of his counter. It is a RADIASCAN 701A. The lower beta energy threshold is 0.05 Mev. Sorry to say but Tritium Beta energy is 0.018 Mev. Too low for this counter to see it. Sorry, but don't try this experiment at home!
Look at this from HP society... Scroll down to the paragraph about detecting Tritium: hps.org/documents/tritium_fact_sheet.pdf
It's gaseous tritium, not tritiated water. It'd just disperse and float out of the room
I like how the radiation fried some of the sensors in your camara.
8:15 Even wristwatches have them!
Wrist watches have radium...
Nope.
@@michaelesposito2629 Nope? Can you google it up? Nope?
@ꀯ okay
LOL you're awesome. Shared.
Awesome, the tritium escaped the container and went straight into your lungs.
Action lab posted a new video
Me:Ah sh*t here we go again.
him holding it up to his face while hes breaking it in the thumbnail😂
also good music choice
music works well imo
Tritium sights are amazing and the best use of tritium. They tell you if it cracks to not get it by your eye
I rather enjoyed learning how protons and neutrons are made of quarks. You explained it very easily.
Hey The Action Lab, First thanks for your cool videos, I learned a lot about the world that we live on it. I want to ask you about copyright permit.
Is it possible for me to translate and talk on your videos and make this videos customized for my fellow Iranians. It's going to be awesome if you let me do that. Thank you for your tiredless efforts.
Even inhaling tritium isn't that bad as long as you are in a dry environment the problem with tritium is it attaches to water molecules very easily so it attaches the humidity in the air then you breathe it in then it gets into your body and is very bad. We used to deal with large bottles of tritium when I was in the military about the size of a door knob or so.
What about the braking radiation (bremsstrahlung) xrays from tritium vials? I can't find any info on whether these pose a long term risk to people who carry tritium on their keychain for example.
I come back from a science experiment to do with radioactive materials and guess what pops up in my notifications, this video. Is this a radioactive day?
I've had a tritium light source on my keys for like 10 years and it still glows just fine
This is why you don’t eat our pendants.
Love your vids
Tritium? *Spider man 2 flashbacks*
A neutrino walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out! We don’t serve any neutrinos in this bar.” The neutrino replies, “Don’t mind me; I’m just passing through.”
5:46 there was a green flash on the screen a few seconds after breaking the vial. Was this tritium irradiating the camera sensor?
I would like to know if krypton-85 could be used for power production instead of tritium, and shouldn't it give out a lot more juice?
The electron structure of hydrogen is 1s1 (1 valence electron) while helium is 1s2 (2 valence electrons ; stable/inert).
I feel like a Boson after this explanation.
You can have the Tritium, but bring me Spider-man alive.
You forgot thet Tritium is hydrogen. As soon as you broke the vial it goes upwards and escapes through every hole in the roof.
As long as you do not breathe it in - it is gone the moment you break the vial.
When will you make a particle collider and make some black holes?
Can you explain more about the antineutrino and what happens if it hits you?
Laughing at the silliness of this video for two reasons.
1.) The moment the vials are broken, the tritium would escape and shoot straight up to the ceiling and eventually out into the upper atmosphere. It would not be around long enough to even detect near the vial.
2.) I don't get the whole point of destroying art to get the tritium vials. You can buy those vials online, by the dozens, in multiple different colors, dirt cheap.
Put the geiger counter on some thoriated tungsten electrodes. It goes crazy. I stopped using them after I saw it
Buck Hubach What is a thoriated tungsten electrodes, is it like the densest radioactive thing ever?
nah it doesn't
they are radioactive sure, but not that much. i measure the same counts from the filter of my dehumidifier
@@trinitronaphthalene you can't even google
do you mean I don’t know how to google or you can’t google this?
@@trinitronaphthalene they are just being smartasses. Thoriated tungsten is used as a welding electrode on TIG welders. Tungsten is very dense and can handle extreme heat before melting. Im not sure why they treat it with thorium maybe our welder friend could tell us.
This video would have been much more interesting if you had a better detector. Being that you have some decent funding, I think you could obtain a sensitive pancake probe and a better counter. Heck I’m pretty sure you could afford a Ludlum 44-9 and compatible meter, for example. That would make for a more fun (and views)! Might even get some 20mm vials as well :)
Even the Ludlum 44-9 probe would not be sensitive enough. While I don't know the detection threshold of a 44-9, it's efficiency for Tc-99 is
Kevin Jamison I know there are much better pancake probes available. Do you have a suggestion for something affordable that would suit the task?
This one took a moment to sink in.
Most informative video you've made in a while now.
Thank you.