I Made My Own X-Ray Machine

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  • Опубликовано: 29 мар 2024
  • In this video I test if x rays reflect or go through mirrors.
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  • @TheActionLab
    @TheActionLab  Месяц назад +493

    Ok what should I X-Ray now? No but seriously, don’t try this!

    • @gmadh8343
      @gmadh8343 Месяц назад +13

      I'm planning make one of those voltage machines at home... It is safe right? I have too much spare time so I want some fun projects like this..

    • @RMX7777
      @RMX7777 Месяц назад +12

      It would be a good idea to place the rectifier inside a steel container when you are operating the device. 1-2 mm of steel will effectively filter out all X-rays below 40 KeV. It is important to remove these, as they are readily absorbed by the skin and will cause radiation burns. Modern medical equipment filters out everything of low energy to ensure only the deep penetrating rays make it to the patient. These higher energy rays are far less likely to deposite thier energy within the subjects body, so they are much safer.

    • @undeadarmy19
      @undeadarmy19 Месяц назад +11

      3:50 Styropyro made a GREAT video about this and the fact is that these static discharges dump several amps at a time.
      The reason it doesnt kill/hurt you is because it happens so quickly.
      In the video he spends a lot of time, and does a lot of crazy things, to answer the common question: Is it the amps or the volts that kill you?
      His conclusion is that its a combination of volts, amps, and TIME. You need enough voltage so that electricity can flow through you, that electricity needs to have enough amps to hurt you, and that electricity needs enough time to hurt you.
      I'd def recommend you, or anyone interested in electricity, lasers, etc to watch him and his videos.

    • @FayezButts
      @FayezButts Месяц назад

      @@gmadh8343 The voltage machine is safe, just don't plug it into one of those rectifiers!

    • @terranhealer
      @terranhealer Месяц назад +1

      Well you really should use an ion chamber with integrated-max dose rate. GM counters are not quick enough to really be effective for the short exposure time

  • @rhouser1280
    @rhouser1280 Месяц назад +1067

    Making X-rays with scotch tape should’ve been a MacGyver episode

    • @THE_Game_Mental
      @THE_Game_Mental Месяц назад +17

      Sadly tho it got cancelled....

    • @RJiiFin
      @RJiiFin Месяц назад +39

      @@THE_Game_Mental That's what happens if you don't make x-rays from scotch tape

    • @finkelmana
      @finkelmana Месяц назад +15

      It was done in an episode of Bones. Not scientifically accurate though...

    • @jc1982discovery
      @jc1982discovery Месяц назад +7

      Definitely a MacGyver/ Sheldon Cooper vibe to this episode. Is it even legal to make this? 😂 hope you were wearing lead pants 👍

    • @ChakaHamilton
      @ChakaHamilton Месяц назад +13

      And by MacGyver I hope you're mean the 1985 version. 😉

  • @SwissPGO
    @SwissPGO Месяц назад +602

    I was a station scientist at ESRF (grenoble, france) about 30 years ago, which was at that time the strongest X-ray source in the world. and I also developed soft X-ray lasers.
    Some more details: soft X-rays (up to a few keV can be reflected - even at 90 degrees using multilayer mirrors. But your detector likely would not be able to detect soft x-rays , and working with them typically requires working in vacuum.
    Harder X-rays can indeed be reflected or focused at grazing incidence, if the mirror surface is really really smoothly polished and made of a heavy element such as platinum. Roughness of the mirrors I used was only a few tenths of a nanometer.
    A more common way to focus or modify the direction of monochromatic X-rays is using crystals.
    And... I also produced X-rays with transition radiation. No way to do this on a tabletop: as you need to accelerate electrons to 40 Million electron volts or higher.

    • @FullModernAlchemist
      @FullModernAlchemist Месяц назад +25

      Very good points. I also wanted to point out that backscatter X-ray machines are an entire technology built on the principle of reflecting X-rays.

    • @RMX7777
      @RMX7777 Месяц назад +11

      The Radiacode likely can detect them, mine was able to read the photopeak from Tritium Bremsstrahlung.

    • @d0gkiller87
      @d0gkiller87 Месяц назад +3

      I'm kinda curious, does the mirror you use look any different than 'normal' mirorrs with bare eyes?

    • @SwissPGO
      @SwissPGO Месяц назад +32

      @@d0gkiller87 The multilayer mirrors, it depends on the materials used. Our problem was that the power involved in making the x-ray lasers pulse made such mirrors typically single use as they were destroyed after a single x-ray pulse.
      The x-ray grazing incidence mirrors look metallic. They were 1.2 meters long for an x-ray beam of about 3 mm high. It was made out of a single cristal of silicon with a coating of platinum. These typically take many months of design studies (optical behavior, mechanical behavior, thermal behavior of the cooling system while being exposed to very intense x-ray beam) before starting its production, and then the actual mirror production and testing takes another few months. Only few companies are able to produce these with the stringent specifications for x-ray mirrors.
      The actual mirror is rarely seen directly : once produced in a clean room, it is placed in the ultra high vacuum chamber connected to the synchrotron accelerator during the rest of its lifetime.

    • @SwissPGO
      @SwissPGO Месяц назад +15

      @@RMX7777 tritium beta is - from memory around 18 keV... which is way easier to detect. below 5 keV, you typically get a lot of your x-rays absorbed by air, detector windows etc...
      I used a few micron thick beryllium windows in front of a liquid nitrogen cooled SiLi spectrometer for spectroscopy, The spectrum you get out of your detector then needs to be corrected to deal for anything that may have absorbed the x-rays.

  • @stevesether
    @stevesether Месяц назад +393

    Nice experiment. I had no idea it was so easy to produce x-rays.
    One thing for anyone curious. Even at 8000 microsieverts/hour isn't a massive dose of radiation, especially for the brief time you were generating them.
    For reference, 8000 micosieverts is about the amount you get from a chest CT scan. So assuming the reading corresponds to the dose you'd receive an hour, your machine is producing about 1 chest CT scan of radiation an hour. That's not nothing, but most wouldn't consider it dangerous.
    It's not a bad idea to put in the shielding, since this obviously isn't a controlled device and you had no idea how much radiation it'd produce. But you likely were never in an real danger for the few seconds you ran the setup.

    • @kaylus9859
      @kaylus9859 Месяц назад +19

      If my math is correct, 8000 uSv is the same as 8 mSv. Which is a huge dose.

    • @zecuse
      @zecuse Месяц назад +61

      @@kaylus9859 After an hour, yes. Applying that rate to the few seconds to maybe a minute that we saw isn't huge though. Going 100mph is fast, but if you only travel that fast for a few seconds, you haven't actually gone very far.

    • @RMX7777
      @RMX7777 Месяц назад +36

      It's also important to note that alot of these X-rays are being emitted in the lower energy region, between 10 and 40 KeV. These X-rays are easily absorbed by the skin and will cause radiation burns, which doesn't happen with modern medical X-ray machines.

    • @westonding8953
      @westonding8953 Месяц назад +14

      I warn students that the biggest radiation threat to themselves is getting too many medical X-Rays for checking up. Don’t think getting too many X-Ray checkups is good or safe for you.

    • @adrieljr
      @adrieljr Месяц назад +24

      ​@@westonding8953 Unless you take dozens of x-rays per year, or is a kid,, you are more likely safer taking x-rays then unknowing what you have.

  • @johnsimons92
    @johnsimons92 Месяц назад +113

    Honestly I think the “hand cranked” part is the most impressive aspect of the machine

    • @plixplop
      @plixplop Месяц назад +3

      Old-timey x ray machine

    • @jovetj
      @jovetj Месяц назад

      I was more impressed that those wire leads could handle that much voltage. They "moved" a few times, which suggests to me the insulation may still be compromised.

    • @johnsimons92
      @johnsimons92 Месяц назад +1

      @@plixplop Ye old ionizer

    • @sage_x2002
      @sage_x2002 17 дней назад

      @@jovetj remember, amps remained low, so the high voltage is no issue

  • @dankers12
    @dankers12 Месяц назад +299

    Making X-rays in your garage using a hundred thousand volts? This channel is becoming increasingly unhinged and I love it.

    • @mgancarzjr
      @mgancarzjr Месяц назад +18

      With a hand crank of all things

    • @wbeaty
      @wbeaty Месяц назад +1

      a DC 100KV power supply is many kilobucks ...but if you only want 30kv, then find lots of used $75 supplies online, like Spellman X3000 and CZE1000. Those are variable voltage, but only put out less than one mA. But if you go that way, then it's also time to buy lots of lead sheets and bricks!

    • @SubTroppo
      @SubTroppo Месяц назад +1

      @@mgancarzjrYes, when can I wind-up my smartphone? That would be real progress.

    • @mgancarzjr
      @mgancarzjr Месяц назад +3

      @@SubTroppo I can just imagine designing a 1950s zap gun enclosure and registering it with the BATF. "What kind of bullets does it shoot?"
      "X-Rays."

    • @robe4314
      @robe4314 Месяц назад +4

      Not quite Styropyro, but I welcome the madness.

  • @funcorporatelife2177
    @funcorporatelife2177 Месяц назад +49

    somehow figures out a way to bring a vacuum chamber into every video, love it

  • @redryder3721
    @redryder3721 Месяц назад +85

    TheActionLab's neighbour: _Why are my teeth glowing?_

    • @b.s.7693
      @b.s.7693 Месяц назад +6

      This is only one of the problems he's facing...

  • @undeadarmy19
    @undeadarmy19 Месяц назад +109

    3:50 Styropyro made a GREAT video about this and the fact is that these static discharges dump several amps at a time.
    The reason it doesnt kill/hurt you is because it happens so quickly.
    In the video he spends a lot of time, and does a lot of crazy things, to answer the common question: Is it the amps or the volts that kill you?
    His conclusion is that its a combination of volts, amps, and TIME. You need enough voltage so that electricity can flow through you, that electricity needs to have enough amps to hurt you, and that electricity needs enough time to hurt you.
    I'd def recommend you, or anyone interested in electricity, lasers, etc to watch him and his videos.

    • @ryanjohnson3615
      @ryanjohnson3615 Месяц назад +8

      That dude cranks everything to 11.

    • @bunnykiller
      @bunnykiller Месяц назад +1

      the natural resistance of the body defeats the low volts, thats why 3V at 10KA wont kill you, but 1MV at 1mA will, and lightning will do you in super quick so extended time isnt a real factor there.

    • @undeadarmy19
      @undeadarmy19 Месяц назад +9

      @@bunnykillerYou are partially correct, yes.
      I'm not sure what your point here was. Are you disagreeing with my comment?
      What I said is completely true.
      It is a combination of volts, amps, and time.
      A lightning strike, while fast, is not anywhere near as fast as a static shock.
      Also, the higher the voltage and amps are, the less time is needed for it to hurt you. So, yes, you would assume that a lightning strike would be FAR more capable of killing you compared to a static shock. A lighting strike deals anywhere between 200 megajoules and 7 gigajoules of energy.
      A static shock ranges anywhere from several hundred millijoules to several hundred joules. So, yes, the lightning strike isn't going to NEED a whole lot of time to kill you, and yet people do still survive even lightning strikes.
      The whole point here is that it is a myth that static shocks almost no amps, along with the fact that it is a combination of volts, amps, and time that kills you, not volts or amps on their own.

    • @agnelomascarenhas8990
      @agnelomascarenhas8990 Месяц назад +1

      The current must flow through the heart to cause it to fibrillate and cause cardiac arrest.
      High frequency current only flows "skin depth" so isn't dangerous.

    • @undeadarmy19
      @undeadarmy19 Месяц назад

      @@ryanjohnson3615 Yes he does, and I fckin LOVE it.
      That video he made when he was making his point that its not just amps that kills you was insane. He was letting so much power travel through his body, and putting himself at crazy risk, all just to prove a point.
      In the end though, nobody can argue against him.

  • @xongi9248
    @xongi9248 Месяц назад +360

    Next video:
    I made my own fusion reactor 💀

    • @c.jishnu378
      @c.jishnu378 Месяц назад +13

      Leaving my mark on the world.

    • @nashbunshinii8649
      @nashbunshinii8649 Месяц назад +11

      should be the next iron man

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp Месяц назад +13

      that's not hard, the hard part is high-Q

    • @shanemartin31
      @shanemartin31 Месяц назад +13

      Following video: how my interview with Homeland security went!

    • @Ssrijon
      @Ssrijon Месяц назад +2

      fission!! fusion is a myth

  • @CoderCatMari
    @CoderCatMari Месяц назад +11

    The way the camera slowly zooms in on my dude while he says insane shit like “I’m going to need 100K volts” is sublime. Absolute mad lad.

  • @shazma
    @shazma Месяц назад +49

    loved the sneaking a mirror in bit

  • @Sh1nGaming
    @Sh1nGaming Месяц назад +6

    Thanks for sharing! And loving seeing the little humorous segments in the mix! 👍

  • @elielocker9947
    @elielocker9947 Месяц назад +7

    You are so creative! I am amazed by the number of experiments you have done here. Wonderful channel ! Thank you very much for the quality of your content.

  • @dipeshchaudhary5637
    @dipeshchaudhary5637 Месяц назад +8

    When i was in high school, in the chapter 'production of the x-rays', that apparatus, i realized that i've seen some sort of small x-ray vessel. And exactly that was this.
    Thank you very much for such awesome video.

  • @TalTaiber
    @TalTaiber Месяц назад +2

    It's really delightful seeing someone be this playful, resourceful and experiment-driven. Fantastic work!

  • @MrKillerno1
    @MrKillerno1 Месяц назад +3

    As always, you made an informative and learnable video.

  • @Mike__B
    @Mike__B Месяц назад +9

    I was going to say the Chandra X-ray observatory used very long mirrors and basically bounced xrays off them at shallow angles in order to focus the light.

    • @mytube001
      @mytube001 Месяц назад +2

      Yep, I expected a slight digression into that, but nope.

    • @Mike__B
      @Mike__B Месяц назад

      @@mytube001 I mean he did mention a blip at the end about how you can reflect xrays with very shallow angles.

    • @goku445
      @goku445 Месяц назад

      @@Mike__B But those mirrors aren't your typical mirrors.

  • @Mountain_Paladin
    @Mountain_Paladin Месяц назад +2

    Excellent video ! Very much appreciated going to the length you did to make your experiment possible.

  • @Oilzilla
    @Oilzilla Месяц назад +2

    This is one of the coolest science videos I've ever seen. Thank you!

  • @andrashuszti1407
    @andrashuszti1407 Месяц назад +53

    I think you can use an old TV tube. Usualy in their service manual they stat that a to high acceleration voltage can cause X rays to be emitted.

    • @AKAtheA
      @AKAtheA Месяц назад +8

      the thick lead glass in the front is there specifically to prevent the tube from blasting you with x-rays...large color screen tubes ran upwards of 60kV...

    • @mytube001
      @mytube001 Месяц назад +3

      Old TV:s used to have x-ray warning labels on the back.

    • @bobweiram6321
      @bobweiram6321 Месяц назад

      You could also create a short xray pulse by sparking the rectifier tube with a spark from a lighter.

    • @d.jensen5153
      @d.jensen5153 Месяц назад +3

      @@mytube001 Yes. And their source was the HV rectifier tube - the exact type of tube our host is using.

    • @1234fishnet
      @1234fishnet Месяц назад

      Yes exactly. Or just buy used x-ray generator from medical devices

  • @dkanev38
    @dkanev38 Месяц назад +13

    An "actual mad scientist" on RUclips 😮. Dude, that was awesome!

    • @The_RC_Guru
      @The_RC_Guru Месяц назад +1

      Have you not seen the backyard scientist?! lol he’s a mad lad.

    • @himanbam
      @himanbam Месяц назад +1

      William Osman made an X-Ray in his garage stacked on cardboard and bean tins

    • @alluseri
      @alluseri Месяц назад

      styropyro is the actual mad scientist here.

  • @sgchoe4806
    @sgchoe4806 Месяц назад +2

    one of the best videos from you, in my opinion. Thank you!

  • @matzer8846
    @matzer8846 Месяц назад +2

    Great idea to use this old rectifier tube
    Thanks a lot for sharing

  • @drap3x
    @drap3x Месяц назад +69

    Try using analog film in front of this rectifier, to see if you can ruin it.

    • @mfbfreak
      @mfbfreak Месяц назад +6

      Yes you can, eventually. But for photography stuff you kinda want a scintillation screen with a piece of photo paper stuck to it. That's how many X-ray photos were made. The emulsion is always a bit Xray sensitive, but it's much more sensitive to the green light from the scintillation screen.

    • @jassheen5318
      @jassheen5318 Месяц назад

      Do you think an alpha source scintillation medium would work as well?@@mfbfreak

    • @TheHikeChoseMe
      @TheHikeChoseMe Месяц назад

      i use film. i travel and send my film through the scanners at the airport. never had any issues.

  • @brown2889
    @brown2889 Месяц назад +8

    My Dad would have liked this.
    He liked the old X-ray glasses you see on the back of an old comic or crappy news paper back in the day. I remember him grimacing and telling me those damn things just had chicken feathers in em. 😂😂😂 I would always just laugh pretty hard. Made me question some of the things he was into possibly for a good laugh later.

  • @dominicestebanrice7460
    @dominicestebanrice7460 Месяц назад +1

    Definitely one of your more interesting videos....and that's saying something because your content is almost always unique and thought-provoking.

  • @CptFedora
    @CptFedora Месяц назад +2

    You explain the different concepts theories facts and physics principles very simply and easy to understand thank you

  • @sigilvii
    @sigilvii Месяц назад +10

    Shots fired at William Osman

  • @FJOC2323
    @FJOC2323 Месяц назад +14

    This man is living in 2024!

    • @AmethistVisionFB
      @AmethistVisionFB Месяц назад +2

      yeah no shit, this was posted in 2024

    • @abroadjoel9478
      @abroadjoel9478 Месяц назад +1

      @@AmethistVisionFBthe joke went right over your head 😂

    • @AmethistVisionFB
      @AmethistVisionFB Месяц назад +1

      @@abroadjoel9478 WAS IT A JOKE, IM SO STUPID LOL

  • @TJJewett
    @TJJewett Месяц назад +2

    I love watching the way your brain works. It's inspiring and genious.

  • @Netbug
    @Netbug Месяц назад +1

    Still one of the best channels around, by far. Thanks, man.

  • @sgchoe4806
    @sgchoe4806 Месяц назад +7

    That static electricity on steel wool is insane!

    • @DocRed39
      @DocRed39 Месяц назад +1

      Surprised it isn't mentioned!

    • @Malatronable
      @Malatronable 9 дней назад

      That blinking was the detector's LED.

  • @xugro
    @xugro Месяц назад +6

    That not only generates Xrays but also some visible light!! I noticed that when working on something under pitch black darkness and my tape was glowing when unrolling it

    • @PeteJohnson1471
      @PeteJohnson1471 Месяц назад +1

      Many years ago, I had letters from a bank that when you opened them, they'd give off like a blueish glow as the gum separated. But only from that one bank though did I ever see that :-)

    • @mellertid
      @mellertid Месяц назад +2

      I have had nice glowy envelope glue lights too! Breaking sugarcubes may also emit light. Appearantly it's the nitrogen, same spectrum as in lightning.

    • @PeteJohnson1471
      @PeteJohnson1471 Месяц назад

      @@mellertid Cheers

  • @paaabl0.
    @paaabl0. Месяц назад +2

    Brilliant demonstration!!

  • @ReallifeBambiDeerattheFarm1
    @ReallifeBambiDeerattheFarm1 Месяц назад

    Never thought I'd be seeing a vacuum tube on this channel, but here it is and it's so cool!

  • @JoeBorrello
    @JoeBorrello Месяц назад +16

    You should have powered up the filament of the tube, thermonic emission would have given you more current and more x-rays.

    • @ac281201
      @ac281201 Месяц назад +4

      8 mSv/h is plenty for testing though

    • @d.jensen5153
      @d.jensen5153 Месяц назад +9

      With the filament hot, the Wimshurst generator would never have reached a useful voltage. You'd have to carefully regulate filament current to avoid this.

    • @deltab9768
      @deltab9768 Месяц назад

      @@d.jensen5153I like the suggestion that Peter Terren (from the Tesladownunder website) had for this. Instead of wiring a vacuum tube directly to the voltage source you could charge a capacitor and then pulse it into the tube with a spark gap etc.
      It might be hard to get a reading of the output,though, since it would be short high intensity pulses.

    • @joshuafalken3312
      @joshuafalken3312 Месяц назад +4

      He could have bought a vacuum tube specifically designed to produce x-rays off eBay if he wanted. A 1B3GT is a cheap HV rectifier often used as a flyback converter in 1940's -60's tv's that is usually shielded because it gives off x-rays. Somewhere on the inter webs I've seen a simple schematic to use one and an old car ignition coil to make an x-ray generator.

    • @GRBtutorials
      @GRBtutorials Месяц назад

      @@d.jensen5153Furthermore, this kind of tube is not designed for such high voltage, using it with a hot cathode would result in arc-over.

  • @Kis_Kisi4
    @Kis_Kisi4 Месяц назад +19

    2:37 you doom fo ELECTROBOOM!!!)))

  • @dominikwirth1847
    @dominikwirth1847 Месяц назад

    best episode ever...thanks for this great lession!!

  • @Borg8
    @Borg8 Месяц назад

    Incredible!
    Thank you!

  • @kylekyle4505
    @kylekyle4505 Месяц назад +20

    Good thing you’re not William Osman or your audience would of lost their minds over this video.

    • @taylormiracle14
      @taylormiracle14 Месяц назад +2

      Or he may have lost his life attempting it.

  • @paulpease8254
    @paulpease8254 Месяц назад +71

    Do X-rays reflect off of mirrors? Without watching the video I’ll say, no. That is why it’s incredibly difficult to make an x-ray telescope. They e done it (e.g. Chandra X-ray observatory). They focus the X-rays using some structured material that gradually bends X-rays, from what I understand. If it were as easy as making a parabolic dish to focus X-rays we’d probably have some crazy power beam weapons.

    • @lubricustheslippery5028
      @lubricustheslippery5028 Месяц назад +3

      EUV lithography are using a wavelength that are well into x-rays, even if it is called UV. And they are using mirrors. They don't work as normal mirrors and are not reflecting all the x-rays.

    • @battlesheep2552
      @battlesheep2552 Месяц назад +2

      I mean I'm pretty sure using a Xaser would constitute a war crime

    • @deltab9768
      @deltab9768 Месяц назад +1

      @@lubricustheslippery5028it really depends on the wavelength/photon energy. A brief search online says that EUV uses about 13.5nm wavelength and the 20keV radiation used in the video is closer to 0.06nm.

    • @lubricustheslippery5028
      @lubricustheslippery5028 Месяц назад +4

      @@deltab9768 according to wikipedia X-rays starts about 10nm so I was wrong, it's an border case

    • @stevesether
      @stevesether Месяц назад +6

      From the Wikipedia article, it's called a Wolter telescope, and consists of a combination of hyperbolic, and parabolic surfaces that bend the x-rays at shallow angles of less than 2 degrees.
      I don't think the problem is so much that it's hard to make these types of surfaces, but that x-rays are absorbed by the atmosphere, and ionize it. So you'd have a really limited range. That's why the only x-ray telescopes we have are in orbit.

  • @1.618_Murphy
    @1.618_Murphy Месяц назад

    One of the best episodes hands down.

  • @Cannibal.
    @Cannibal. Месяц назад

    Omg! This is why I love your channel. You calculate everything you know to. And even (within means of course) stick your finger in to feel the conductivity 😂. I would do the same. And I love it 😊.

  • @rosedruid
    @rosedruid Месяц назад +5

    You didn’t exclude electrostatic effects from the second source. Try the steal wool again. Being past the mirror at the end should do the same.

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 Месяц назад +4

      No need to steal it - it's not expensive.

    • @alphaindustries5775
      @alphaindustries5775 Месяц назад

      I agree, when I was experimenting with xrays electrostatics were a nightmare.

  • @mattemito10000
    @mattemito10000 Месяц назад +19

    3:50 Electroboom is coming to rectifier you haha. (If the voltage is high, the current must be high. It doesnt kill you becouse it doesnt have much energy, so the pulse time is very low).

    • @HELLO7657
      @HELLO7657 Месяц назад

      Nah, the electric resistance of a vacuum diode in reverse is just very high.

  • @dgsean9775
    @dgsean9775 Месяц назад

    You are truly a great experimentalist.

  • @prashantsharma8308
    @prashantsharma8308 Месяц назад

    Insane! Your content is amazing

  • @Haarschmuckfachgeschafttadpole
    @Haarschmuckfachgeschafttadpole Месяц назад +8

    Quick clarification: Static shocks are high voltage and high current. The reason it doesn't hurt you is the duration is very small (micro to nanoseconds) so the total energy delivered is very low. That said, the Wimhurst machine and typical static shocks will deliver between 10-50 amps of current.

  • @Nobe_Oddy
    @Nobe_Oddy Месяц назад +7

    WOW!!!!! I think this was my FAVORITE EPISODE of Action Lab!!!! That is so cool!!!! (any your little money making scheme was HILARIOUS!! lmao)
    You should get a piece of undeveloped film and then blast something x-rays with the film behind it, then develop the film!!!! - That would be a GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 Месяц назад

      Some guy named Roentgen did that already. Can't find his RUclips channel, though.

  • @k7iq
    @k7iq Месяц назад

    Excellent demonstration !

  • @mcm3adows
    @mcm3adows Месяц назад +1

    Funny jump cut, really enjoyed this video haha

  • @pablocastro5061
    @pablocastro5061 Месяц назад +4

    thats the funniest thumbnail i ever seen

  • @RAMBOTHECURIOUSGUY
    @RAMBOTHECURIOUSGUY Месяц назад +9

    Searching for the xray film !!!

    • @geo8rge
      @geo8rge Месяц назад +4

      You could probably use Polaroid film to take x-ray pictures and develop them instantly. You might even be able to rig up the sensor used in medical or dental xrays. I wonder if light sensors from ordinary digital cameras also can detect xrays and produce a picture, with all lenses and filters removed.

    • @JoeBorrello
      @JoeBorrello Месяц назад +4

      Unfortunately both film and CCDs are very insensitive to x-rays. It would take a huge exposure to register an image. Medical radiographic equipment uses a “screen” next to the film or CCD which fluoresces when struck by x-rays, and most of the actual image production is from visible light.

  • @NANDOFFDataRecovery
    @NANDOFFDataRecovery Месяц назад +1

    That was a good episode. Nice job

  • @robinbrowne5419
    @robinbrowne5419 Месяц назад

    A really interesting episode. Thank you. 👍

  • @drhxa
    @drhxa Месяц назад +2

    His audience loves him but his neighbors

  • @EmmanuelBrito
    @EmmanuelBrito Месяц назад +3

    0:11 how do they always find out 😤

  • @MemesNick
    @MemesNick Месяц назад

    I already liked the videos a lot but man I love the skits between the experiments, the 5$ X Ray cracked me up lmao, well done!

  • @Eva86d
    @Eva86d Месяц назад

    Best one yet. I loved it

  • @Bob78
    @Bob78 Месяц назад +3

    No one:
    Astronauts using scotch tape: 💀

    • @SimonBrisbane
      @SimonBrisbane Месяц назад

      You'd need to be in a nea-absolute vacuum. If an Astronaught did that, without a suit they'd be dead. Using it with a suit, it wouldn't bother them. The suit is already lined to reduce harmful solar radiation. The volume of Xrays cellotape produces in a vacuum is very small (photon count) and has low Kv energy so it's not very good at penetrating anything. Still, a cool concept.

    • @nanijp6165
      @nanijp6165 Месяц назад

      you need particle to collide just not near the source. It wont produce in complete vacuum, right?

  • @toothlessdragon3507
    @toothlessdragon3507 Месяц назад +19

    The jump cut is killing me lol

  • @bigmikeosg7753
    @bigmikeosg7753 Месяц назад +1

    I love your videos, you are like the modern day Mr. Wizard. Love the shirt too

  • @tiagoferreira086
    @tiagoferreira086 Месяц назад

    What a beautiful piece of history that rectifier tube!

  • @kludgedude
    @kludgedude Месяц назад +23

    How many rolls of tape lost in production?

  • @jfh667
    @jfh667 Месяц назад +13

    I bet Marie Curie would have loved to have that detector.

    • @heyhoe168
      @heyhoe168 Месяц назад +2

      Would not save her. Modern radiation safety standarts are based on analysis of all those poor radiation victims.

    • @deltab9768
      @deltab9768 Месяц назад +2

      @@heyhoe168Being able to count individual photons and measure their energy would still help greatly with identifying radioactive elements and isotopes.
      Forget the Curies, this detector would be a big improvement over the most state-of-the-art gamma detectors Oppenheimer and Fermi had.

  • @diogenessanchez5834
    @diogenessanchez5834 Месяц назад

    Thank you, I am a X ray technitian and I learnt something!!

  • @llllllllll463
    @llllllllll463 Месяц назад +1

    thank you very much.
    People like you make me still have some hope in humanity.😊

  • @portalbuilder7021
    @portalbuilder7021 Месяц назад +4

    Don’t let William Osman see this

  • @porcorosso4330
    @porcorosso4330 Месяц назад +3

    2:25
    What you need is stronger tape.
    Strong tape more breaking energy more x-rays.
    There is a article on popsci 15 years ago talking about the possibility making X-ray with tape for remote location scenarios.

  • @fishbotsid9771
    @fishbotsid9771 Месяц назад +1

    that is one of the sickest thing you have done hands down. i gotta try it now xd

  • @sandeept_soul
    @sandeept_soul Месяц назад

    This was one of the coolest videos I ever watched 😊

  • @DeepState5
    @DeepState5 Месяц назад +6

    I was a veterinary nurse. Scatter xrays are a thing- I was taught that xrays will scatter off of any shiny metal surface (EG exam tables) so even if you are not in the path of the beam you are in danger.

    • @DeepState5
      @DeepState5 Месяц назад +1

      Ps... THIS EXPERIMENT IS SO DANGEROUS LOL

    • @phoneyaccount
      @phoneyaccount Месяц назад

      Scatter lose momentum with distance and time. Much like the swinging bowling ball experiment, it will not have enough energy to bounce back that far. And X-rays don't bounce off metal surfaces. They go right thru. Even with lead, Xrays still go through if the strength is strong enough. The weaker more damaging photons get absorbed by lead and other surfaces such as concrete but the higher energy photons will still pass through, and if they pass through, they will pass through you with you relatively unharmed. Just ask your x-ray tech to take an image of an old school image receptor with it inverted. The image receptor is made of lead shielding on the back, but it will pass thru show the innards on the film if shot directly.
      After watching the video, he shows you in this video that it doesn't reflect and passes through behind the mirror instead. Exactly what I explained.

    • @AKAtheA
      @AKAtheA Месяц назад

      Scatter from a metal table? No. The animal on it however, yes.

    • @romaliop
      @romaliop Месяц назад

      It may be dangerous to the nurse who works 40 years constantly getting exposed to small amounts of xrays, but not when you just do a brief experiment. Keep in mind that the patients are actually blasted with a lot more x-rays and they're just fine because they're not doing it very often.

  • @jkolbly1
    @jkolbly1 Месяц назад +5

    Seeing him reflected in the mirror for his test confirmed in my mind that he knew the mirror wouldn't reflect the x-rays.

  • @nid274
    @nid274 Месяц назад

    This is something I always wanted to see,, thanks

  • @spedi6721
    @spedi6721 Месяц назад

    Xray tubes are vacuum tubes too.
    Years ago I pulled open the cover a band air for a wound on my finger. And the spot where the adhesive separated lit up a tiny bit showing some discharge.

  • @Ikbeneengeit
    @Ikbeneengeit Месяц назад +3

    For consistency, please use steel wool in second experiment too. Thanks.

  • @kidm0bius190
    @kidm0bius190 Месяц назад +143

    ...how is this even remotely legal?

    • @MEMEOMG
      @MEMEOMG Месяц назад +11

      It's not at least where I live

    • @youtubehandlesareridiculous
      @youtubehandlesareridiculous Месяц назад +32

      ​@@MEMEOMGwhere do you live? North Korea? This is simple off the shelf parts. It's a very cool experiment though

    • @MEMEOMG
      @MEMEOMG Месяц назад +2

      @@youtubehandlesareridiculous no.

    • @Oddo22
      @Oddo22 Месяц назад +5

      @@MEMEOMG Answer the guy's question.

    • @MEMEOMG
      @MEMEOMG Месяц назад +2

      @@Oddo22 I'm not telling you my address u weirdo

  • @Edi5978Barvaz
    @Edi5978Barvaz Месяц назад

    Thank you!
    Creating x-ray at home blows my mind!

  • @555-xd1fo
    @555-xd1fo Месяц назад

    I asked my self this question from a long time 🙄 thanks for the video

  • @theredstormer8078
    @theredstormer8078 Месяц назад +5

    William osman did it first

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    @WelseyWalker Месяц назад +36

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  • @u1zha
    @u1zha Месяц назад

    Oh wow. Can't believe this site is free. Keep up the enlightening work!

  • @rensocruz1866
    @rensocruz1866 Месяц назад +1

    This experiment was awesome 👍

  • @gamechannelminecraft6583
    @gamechannelminecraft6583 Месяц назад +19

    "Congrats to everyone Who is early and who found this comment.. 🐼...,,

    • @ThePrufessa
      @ThePrufessa Месяц назад

      Go to sleep fool

    • @custos3249
      @custos3249 Месяц назад +1

      Comments like that are why we have something I'm evidently not allowed to say on YT but is pronounced "youth-en-asia."

    • @MediumSizedBagel
      @MediumSizedBagel Месяц назад +1

      I wish the dislike button in the comments does something

    • @custos3249
      @custos3249 Месяц назад

      @@MediumSizedBagel But that would be negativity, so _SMILE BECAUSE THIS IS A POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT! SSSSSSMMMMMIIIIIILLLLEEEE!!!!!_

    • @SanjanaRanasingha
      @SanjanaRanasingha Месяц назад

      😂

  • @wr0ngel
    @wr0ngel Месяц назад

    Ngl, pretty rad to just spiff X-rays left and right at home. Mb the same with a small object X-ray photographed?
    Awesome vid as always, one of the best science channels really.

  • @Brass_Tax
    @Brass_Tax Месяц назад

    I’m jealous of the stuff you do. Was totally my dream as a kid.

  • @tubbyoneness
    @tubbyoneness Месяц назад

    So cool! Loved it!

  • @user-mi5nj8gj5p
    @user-mi5nj8gj5p Месяц назад +1

    When I worked for Philip Morris International we were using polypropylene plastic film which was shredded into fibres and the process collects static electricity to overcome this we used Polonium 210 anti static inhibitors. Over time the crimped tow will have a weak radioactive signal so you pulling the Sellotape your instrument picked it up . In the plastic industry coiling sheets gathers up so much static a spark from your finger touching a 1.2 tonne plastic coil . At work we did not have Geiger counters to check the Polonium 210 in a purer form if you consumed it by tea or coffee it can kill you.

  • @marvinwaleed
    @marvinwaleed Месяц назад +1

    You are brilliant! Just friggin brilliant!

  • @mcpr5971
    @mcpr5971 Месяц назад

    This was a great hypothesis and simple test and explanation. great job. It makes me think of how these scientific principles sound so easy at first, but actually getting the X-rays was a whole other ordeal. the devil is in the details and I can see you put a lot of effort into the details. I worked at an X-ray manufacturer and they produced X-Rays by a rotating tungsten ring that arced into another piece of metal. They faced this same problem that X-rays don't reflect , so all they could do is block them in every OTHER direction. This meant the machine was extremely energy inefficient.

  • @theelectronmachines
    @theelectronmachines Месяц назад

    A standard vacuum tube is similar to the Drain to Source resistance of a MOSFET controlled by the gate voltage. You can have more conductivity across the tubes cathode to anode by heating up the cathode to a higher temperature.
    This helps electrons first overcome the work function and then they can more easily accelerate to the anode.
    U can look up the tubes data sheet and just find how many amps u need thru its cathode for it to become more conductive as you need
    Hope this helps I'm curious to see more! 🎉

  • @rahuldhargalkar
    @rahuldhargalkar Месяц назад

    This is truly amazing

  • @paulocoelho558
    @paulocoelho558 Месяц назад +1

    I was certain that one of these days you would launch your own business with all of your fascinating ideas! Happy Eastern!😛😆

  • @gatomatias1
    @gatomatias1 Месяц назад

    This is amazing! I would love to know the physics going on in the tube. Also, I wonder how dangerous these old household TVs and early sound systems actually are.

  • @professormarvel4229
    @professormarvel4229 Месяц назад

    I would really love to see you attempt a double slit experiment with xrays !

  • @BenjaminCronce
    @BenjaminCronce Месяц назад

    I was watching a science video recently that mentioned that the issue with reflecting high energy photons is they are smaller than the atoms you're attempting to reflect them off of. Not sure how true this is, but it does roughly align that start of hard x-rays so happens to be around the size of atoms.

  • @GhostSenshi
    @GhostSenshi Месяц назад

    This was epic. Thank you

  • @Nefville
    @Nefville Месяц назад

    Thanks for the $5 X-Ray. I'm not sure how the image came out but the new arm that grew out of my stomach is really useful.

  • @plixplop
    @plixplop Месяц назад

    Damn you now I'm shopping for Geiger counters on Amazon... definitely something I need