I read the label on the polonium-210 pellet and it had me scared for a sec lol. I know that holding it in your hand can give you some nasty effects but luckily he had the shielded ones.
The fact that United Nuclear is the only reputable website I know that sells those isotope pucks to private individuals makes me hope for this channel to get a sponsorship with them or at least a collaboration
United nuclear? Lmao not only is that site run by a nutjob but it’s possibly one of the worst sites to buy anything nuclear related from all they do is email spectrum techniques (the manufacturer of these exempt sources) for you and then upcharge you an insane price for them. Almost everything they sell that’s nuclear related can be bought in an antique store or somewhere else for much cheaper. Only their chemicals are worth buying
United nuclear? Lmao not only is that site run by a nutjob but it’s possibly one of the worst sites to buy anything nuclear related from all they do is email spectrum techniques (the manufacturer of these exempt sources) for you and then upcharge you an insane price for them. Almost everything they sell that’s nuclear related can be bought in an antique store or somewhere else for much cheaper. Only their chemicals are worth buying
Fun fact, alpha particles are used in smoke detectors! Because they aren’t very penetrating, smoke is enough to stop them. When the alpha sensor is obscured by smoke, it triggers the alarm
@@jakenuno9900 An alpha-emitting isotope, Actinium-225 can be attached to a ‘disease-targeting molecule’ that is designed to seek out and bind to cancer cells. As Actinium-225 decays, it emits high-energy alpha particles that effectively kill cancer cells, leaving nearby healthy cells unharmed in the process. Collectively, this treatment is known as targeted alpha therapy. Initial studies had incredible results but Ac-225 is one of the rarest isotopes we can make.
@@jakenuno9900 Targeted radiopharmaceuticals are created by linking a therapeutic radioisotope to a targeting molecule (e.g., peptide, antibody, small molecule) that can precisely recognize tumor cells and bind to tumor-specific characteristics, like receptors on the tumor cell surface. As a result, the radioisotope accumulates at the tumor site and decays, releasing a small amount of ionizing radiation, thereby destroying tumor tissue. The highly precise localization enables targeted treatment with minimal impact to healthy surrounding tissue.
Despite being non-penetrating, they are exceeding deadly if inside your body. So toxic that it's ld50 is measured often in micrograms of Polonium per kilogram of body mass.
I'd have thought you were talking about the C60 irradiated baby food of 1950s exported I know from Australia to Britain , other foods also irradiated for preservation purposes. Hospitals also used C60 irradiated food . It was fine , not dangerous but today the folk are hysterical.
I do like that you explained the cloud chamber and all, but I am a bit sad you didn't explain that Alpha Particles just don't have enough energy to penetrate the outer layers of skin, which is why they're relatively safe to handle.
@@isaacschmitt4803 your skin is porous and can absorb metals through the skin. The gloves are not for the alpha particles. They're to keep the metal from getting into your bloodstream and disintegrating inside of you.
@@revcrussellyep. Radium is a very strong emitter of alphas, betas and gammas. It also emits over a wide range of energies (perfect for calibrating a gamma spectrometer). It's a fantastic source
@@inductivelycoupledplasma6207 Ra-226 itself is a pure alpha emitter with effectively no gamma emission (3% 0.1 MeV). As I said, those other fun radiations are due to the daughter nuclides. Get Eu-152 if you want spectra.
Radium is easily detecteble and can give you cancer if you stay near it for too long without protection While Polonium is almost safe to touch with unprotected hands (better wear gloves anyway) it can't penetrate skin But Radium can, because he emits everything including gamma particles
Alpha particles have a quality factor of 20 and are stopped by skin cells or thicker. If you ingest it or it hits your eyes it does massive damage. Quality factor of gamma, sun radiation, is 1. Fast neutrons is 10. Pretty solid damage
I remember back in 2004 when Viktor Yushchenko, the third president of Ukraine,he leaned toward Western ideals and thus was poisoned by his enemies with Dioxin and it broke out his face like a bunch of major pimples he was scarred and disfigured.
Love that you use the GQ meter, I have several, even have one that has been connected to a computer recording the background levels and it has been connected since 1985. Live in Portland. OR. US and saw the background levels go up during Fukushima, and Chernobyl. Have collected Rad meters for many years I have a sample test piece from 1950's , it is black Bakelite with a dab of brown paste in a hole in the center covered with a piece of clear plastic. it has a stamp on the back of .16 and consistently reads 2150 CPM. so it has outputted this reading the entire time I have had it and most likely did since the 50's .History is cool
@@DrArkham.You do not want radioactive isotopes on your skin. They can absorb through your skin. Polonium is very poisonous so it could and probably would kill you.
Radon in home is dangerous for lung cells for this reason, po releases alpha from 214 and 218. But its measured in pCi/L. Measurable by CRM and others such as alpha track detectors. Alphas cant really go through paper really, so they count the pit marks on the alpha track plastic puck under 100x microscope. Very interesting stuff.
It's cool how they all stop at about the same distance! I wonder, can a cloud chamber still work at a different atmospheric pressure or composition?That should change the distance right?
In theory it should be pressure dependant so the trails should get longer at higher altitudes, ya. And a lot of early particle physics was done with cloud chambers on mountains or floated up with balloons
Actually an interesting fact about polonium is that it becomes significantly more dangerous at high temperatures, being more radioactive and also reacting with oxygen and sublimating creating radioactive gas. That’s why you have to wear respirators around it in an industrial setting.
Polonium is used as anti-static in industrial applications as well. It should be added you should never inhale it, or be exposed to high temperatures. It undergoes sublimation when heated, and when inhaled can be lethal. Also, its alpha decay ramps up pretty significantly. It also creates Polonium Dioxide which is incredibly hazardous. It’s rarely used, sometimes being used for textile, paper, or certain electronic components. Also for material analysis when paired with beryllium. Pretty sure it isn’t that hard to get your hands on it, just handle it with care.
Working with optics, at my former company, I used a brush that had a strip of Polonium 210 on it (as stated on the brush). This was to assist in de-ionization.
Cesium reacts violently with water vapor in the air. Cesium also has an extremly low melting point of 25.8°C (83.3°F). How do you have a disc of cesium?
@@Cyraxxhole LOL, reminded me of a friend who "borrowed" a huge chuck of sodium from the school labs... was all fun and games until his bag set on fire on bus ride home.
The thing about Po-210 is it ONLY emits alpha. And there is no decay chain because it decays directly into Pb-206 which is stable. So yeah, get a geiger counter that can detect alpha. To detect alpha a geiger counter has to have what's sometimes called a pancake probe, with an extremely thin mica window that alpha particles can penetrate. I have such a geiger counter and it only cost me $400.
yet western colonizers just cant admit they have a senior predator citizen with alzeimers as a president who could easily be registered as a sex offender :0
_Very hard to detect_ Yeah, if you try to detect it with the wrong instrument. A Geiger counter will only detect gamma source reliably. *Get the right instrument that can measure alpha, beta and gamma.* Especially if you looking for the *more dangerous types of emissions*, alpha and beta.
More dangerous depending on where they are.. Alpha radiation is relatively safe in your hands.. but inside the body it is absolutely deadly. Gamma radiation, on the other hand, can penetrate through concrete.
Weirdly enough, the tobacco plant is amazing at absorbing polonium from the ground and storing it in its leaves. One of the many poisions in cigerettes.
Alpha particles are like shotguns. If you are "far away" then it wont hurt you, but if it gets into close range (your intestines in this case) then you are absolutely FUCKED
As far as I know, alpha radiation is much "safer" than gamma radiation, since it can't penetrate into your body as deeply. However, when ingested, alpha radiation is actually more dangerous than gamma due to that very same property. While some gamma rays may penetrate your body without actually hitting anything, alpha radiation will fully hit your insides.
@@epicman943The issue with gamma (although it’s weakly interactive in comparison to alpha radiation) is that you sustain far more than superficial damage. It has the capacity to pass right through the human body (damaging DNA and tissue on the way) which poses a much more significant risk with exposure to high doses.
Alpha and Beta are stopped by pretty much anything, Gamma you better have a thick lead plate. My chemestry teacher in Highschool told me that, given I wear a necklace with Tritium vials on it every day and I don't have throat cancer, definitely would say it rings true that as long as Alpha and Beta are outside your body, your safe.
Your chemistry teacher is... not correct. Alpha may be stopped mostly, but betas most definitely are not. Tritium betas are fairly low energy but they'll penetrate skin. It's not terrible, but it's not a good idea either.
I've got to say I've seen so many samples in a cloud chamber that as soon as I saw the sample on the chamber and saw the trails I said that's alpha. Then you confirmed it lol
CERN has plans for building an alpha detector, uses a photodiode and one does have to remove the window from the detector. The rest of the plans are easy, circuit boards can be ordered, looked to run around $50 to build.
@@_loss_Depends on the GM tube you use 🙂. Pancake tubes will do just fine detecting alpha but meters and probes that utilise them are vastly more expensive than something with a simple beta gamma tube like the J304 :). Alpha sensitive scintillators are usually more expensive still.
Strangely enough those poisoned by the mentioned character always make it to survive and tell the world their story… them being supported by the US is mere coincidence
I hope the guy filming this is ok, and I thank him for the sacrifice he's making to do this video - because however careful he might be, he'll be exposed to SOME form of extra radiation compared to other guys. So yea, thanks for the education. You're amazing.
Uh, but Geiger counters can detect alpha particles? It's just a lot easier if you don't have additional plastic FROM THE CASE stopping the alphas in front of the tube. This whole idea that they "can't get into the geiger tube" displays a sorry lack of understanding of the principle of operation of a geiger-muller tube. That's not how it works dude.
@@revcrussell Yeah, I mean not *every* GM tube can detect alphas but I just feel like it's really misleading statement to say "normal geiger counters can't detect alpha" when what many people would consider perfectly normal geiger counters *can* absolutely detect alpha. If you put a tube with a mica window in that super cheap geiger counter's case it still couldn't detect alpha, for what I hope are obvious reasons.
Note, alpha particles have low penetrating power out of alpha beta and gamma, but it has the MOST energy being literal matter, doing immense damage to anywhere it CAN get, like eroding your cornea or eviscerating your innards with cancer, luckily your skin can block it just fine and your skin refreshes anyways, but a different story for your organs..
i will not be eating the forbidden mentos flavour.
I read the label on the polonium-210 pellet and it had me scared for a sec lol. I know that holding it in your hand can give you some nasty effects but luckily he had the shielded ones.
More for me then
I would
spicy mentos
Cover it with a piece of beryllium....
The fact that United Nuclear is the only reputable website I know that sells those isotope pucks to private individuals makes me hope for this channel to get a sponsorship with them or at least a collaboration
I think it’s for the best that radioactive materials companies aren’t buying sponsored ads
United nuclear? Lmao not only is that site run by a nutjob but it’s possibly one of the worst sites to buy anything nuclear related from all they do is email spectrum techniques (the manufacturer of these exempt sources) for you and then upcharge you an insane price for them. Almost everything they sell that’s nuclear related can be bought in an antique store or somewhere else for much cheaper. Only their chemicals are worth buying
United nuclear? Lmao not only is that site run by a nutjob but it’s possibly one of the worst sites to buy anything nuclear related from all they do is email spectrum techniques (the manufacturer of these exempt sources) for you and then upcharge you an insane price for them. Almost everything they sell that’s nuclear related can be bought in an antique store or somewhere else for much cheaper. Only their chemicals are worth buying
I am the only reply
@@WackWacky-vc5ed looks like it 😮
Fun fact, alpha particles are used in smoke detectors! Because they aren’t very penetrating, smoke is enough to stop them. When the alpha sensor is obscured by smoke, it triggers the alarm
Old smoke detectors
@@Cyraxxhole Most smoke detectors sold in stores still use Americium.
In my country, those kind of detectors are banned now @@RMX7777
That's where the idea for Tenor Saw's 1980s Reggae song "Ring the alarm, another Alpha particle is decaying" came from, ..probably
@@RMX7777 Thats not true, at least in most countries.
The company I work for is producing Ac-225 so these alpha particles can be deployed directly to tumours.
That sounds very interesting, I must know more, for no reason other than curiosity.
@@jakenuno9900 An alpha-emitting isotope, Actinium-225 can be attached to a ‘disease-targeting molecule’ that is designed to seek out and bind to cancer cells. As Actinium-225 decays, it emits high-energy alpha particles that effectively kill cancer cells, leaving nearby healthy cells unharmed in the process. Collectively, this treatment is known as targeted alpha therapy. Initial studies had incredible results but Ac-225 is one of the rarest isotopes we can make.
@@jakenuno9900 Targeted radiopharmaceuticals are created by linking a therapeutic radioisotope to a targeting molecule (e.g., peptide, antibody, small molecule) that can precisely recognize tumor cells and bind to tumor-specific characteristics, like receptors on the tumor cell surface. As a result, the radioisotope accumulates at the tumor site and decays, releasing a small amount of ionizing radiation, thereby destroying tumor tissue. The highly precise localization enables targeted treatment with minimal impact to healthy surrounding tissue.
i mean.. If you drink the polonium tea, as long as you have a tumor, the radiation would probably reach it eventually...
@@jakenuno9900 that's the whole point of science so you're on the right tracks
Oh my favorite subject...you see I am a atomic baby. So yes not pentrating unlike colbalt 60 or 57.
Despite being non-penetrating, they are exceeding deadly if inside your body. So toxic that it's ld50 is measured often in micrograms of Polonium per kilogram of body mass.
But more dangerous with double the quality factor
Atomic babies when molecular adults tell them to go to sleep
I'd have thought you were talking about the C60 irradiated baby food of 1950s exported I know from Australia to Britain , other foods also irradiated for preservation purposes. Hospitals also used C60 irradiated food . It was fine , not dangerous but today the folk are hysterical.
ATOOOOOMMICCC BABY
VERSHUS
COUGHING BOOOOOOOOOOMB
BEGIN
Masking tape stops the Alpha particles.
Not very ALPHA of them.
It stops most of them, some still get through.
@@st3althyonevery few and alpha particles are stopped by 10cm of air
Tell that to 7.7MeV Po-214 alphas. Those little suckers will punch through three layers of aluminium foil 😀.
Alpha sigma skibidi rizzler gyatt ohio
alphas have very low penetrative power
I do like that you explained the cloud chamber and all, but I am a bit sad you didn't explain that Alpha Particles just don't have enough energy to penetrate the outer layers of skin, which is why they're relatively safe to handle.
*with gloves
@@charlese.straut9998 Oh for sure. Don't need to take unnecessary chances!
@@charlese.straut9998I mean, your skin is usually enough. But yeah, I wouldn't really want to roll those dice either . . .
@@isaacschmitt4803 your skin is porous and can absorb metals through the skin. The gloves are not for the alpha particles. They're to keep the metal from getting into your bloodstream and disintegrating inside of you.
Your mom is an alpha particle that’s safe to handle 😂😊❤
Radium: Am I a joke to you?
Radium is usually in secular equilibrium with its daughters and they are wonderfully strong gamma emitters (and beta too).
Radium is easily detectable
@@revcrussellyep. Radium is a very strong emitter of alphas, betas and gammas. It also emits over a wide range of energies (perfect for calibrating a gamma spectrometer). It's a fantastic source
@@inductivelycoupledplasma6207 Ra-226 itself is a pure alpha emitter with effectively no gamma emission (3% 0.1 MeV). As I said, those other fun radiations are due to the daughter nuclides. Get Eu-152 if you want spectra.
Radium is easily detecteble and can give you cancer if you stay near it for too long without protection
While Polonium is almost safe to touch with unprotected hands (better wear gloves anyway) it can't penetrate skin
But Radium can, because he emits everything including gamma particles
that picture of putin lmao
AFAIK posting of that picture is illegal on russian networks
Yep, anglo-jews are hating him for stealing Russia from them.
@@isbadatnaming8526 me on my way to register there to post it all over
@@isbadatnaming8526 what isn't tbh except lying
@@inhisglory960the punishment is a fine of 140 USD
Cloud Chambers are so cooooool! I could stare at them for hours. Thanks for sharing!
Bro doesn't know what a Mica tube is Geiger counters pick up alpha what he doing!
The way you say "out", you're either Canadian or a u-per (upper michigan peninsula)
He's Canadian
A yooper
Eought
Yes, instantly knew Canadian.
Or an A.I.
That Pride Putin picture though 😂
That was horrible 😂😭
Western propaganda is indeed horrible.
Alpha particles have a quality factor of 20 and are stopped by skin cells or thicker. If you ingest it or it hits your eyes it does massive damage. Quality factor of gamma, sun radiation, is 1. Fast neutrons is 10. Pretty solid damage
Alpha males aren’t very penetrating either
dear all "alpha males": Your birth certificate is an apology letter from the condom factory.
I remember back in 2004 when Viktor Yushchenko, the third president of Ukraine,he leaned toward Western ideals and thus was poisoned by his enemies with Dioxin and it broke out his face like a bunch of major pimples he was scarred and disfigured.
Yeah dioxin tends to maim rather than kill
Pretty nasty stuff
@@emevyleboyles309Dioxins are found in most foods, completely safe in small concentrations. Weird that you focus on coffee filters specifically lol
Did he get a super fast healing factor and a fucked up dirty mind?
@@emevyleboyles309 is this memes?
@@MandrakeFernflowerThat's comical hyperbole. Not everything humorous is a meme.
Love that you use the GQ meter, I have several, even have one that has been connected to a computer recording the background levels and it has been connected since 1985. Live in Portland. OR. US and saw the background levels go up during Fukushima, and Chernobyl. Have collected Rad meters for many years I have a sample test piece from 1950's , it is black Bakelite with a dab of brown paste in a hole in the center covered with a piece of clear plastic. it has a stamp on the back of .16 and consistently reads 2150 CPM. so it has outputted this reading the entire time I have had it and most likely did since the 50's .History is cool
flex tape ad can go ham on this
polonium is most commonly found in a smoker's lungs
This has helped improve my day, I thank you for this.
So poisonous but not venomous.
Venom is only made by animals. They are proteins and enzymes that break down normal cell function.
Still venomous you don’t want to touch that with your bare skin
@@epicman943Alpha particles don't penetrate skin.
@@DrArkham.You do not want radioactive isotopes on your skin. They can absorb through your skin. Polonium is very poisonous so it could and probably would kill you.
@@DrArkham. they can still ionise skin cells do u don’t really want to touch an alpha source
Radon in home is dangerous for lung cells for this reason, po releases alpha from 214 and 218. But its measured in pCi/L. Measurable by CRM and others such as alpha track detectors. Alphas cant really go through paper really, so they count the pit marks on the alpha track plastic puck under 100x microscope. Very interesting stuff.
It's cool how they all stop at about the same distance! I wonder, can a cloud chamber still work at a different atmospheric pressure or composition?That should change the distance right?
In theory it should be pressure dependant so the trails should get longer at higher altitudes, ya. And a lot of early particle physics was done with cloud chambers on mountains or floated up with balloons
First short, I've seen from you, immediate sub! I wanna see the other 3 isotopes!:D
Also commenting for the algo😉
Should I put this in some tea
famous last word
Actually an interesting fact about polonium is that it becomes significantly more dangerous at high temperatures, being more radioactive and also reacting with oxygen and sublimating creating radioactive gas.
That’s why you have to wear respirators around it in an industrial setting.
@@nalcij I didn't know that thanks
@@iamhuman1whose tea are you planning to put this in? 😂
Put in
Hail naw I aint overlooking that protective film
Cant let that one slide
Polonium is used as anti-static in industrial applications as well. It should be added you should never inhale it, or be exposed to high temperatures.
It undergoes sublimation when heated, and when inhaled can be lethal. Also, its alpha decay ramps up pretty significantly. It also creates Polonium Dioxide which is incredibly hazardous.
It’s rarely used, sometimes being used for textile, paper, or certain electronic components. Also for material analysis when paired with beryllium.
Pretty sure it isn’t that hard to get your hands on it, just handle it with care.
Working with optics, at my former company, I used a brush that had a strip of Polonium 210 on it (as stated on the brush). This was to assist in de-ionization.
I HAVE A LITTLE DISC THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE THAT, BUT IT HAS CESIUM
WHY ARE YOU YELLING
@@thethoughtemporiumthe radiation is making them loud.
@@koshermalSpecifically, they have to shout over the loud clicking of their geiger counter.
Cesium reacts violently with water vapor in the air. Cesium also has an extremly low melting point of 25.8°C (83.3°F). How do you have a disc of cesium?
@@Cyraxxhole LOL, reminded me of a friend who "borrowed" a huge chuck of sodium from the school labs... was all fun and games until his bag set on fire on bus ride home.
The thing about Po-210 is it ONLY emits alpha. And there is no decay chain because it decays directly into Pb-206 which is stable. So yeah, get a geiger counter that can detect alpha. To detect alpha a geiger counter has to have what's sometimes called a pancake probe, with an extremely thin mica window that alpha particles can penetrate. I have such a geiger counter and it only cost me $400.
Putin looks tutti fruity in that picture.
"What flavor is your mentos Bro?"
"Oh its Radiation flavored"
That's only half the reason it's used. The half life is also very short so it's difficult to find after the fact.
Finally, someone got an unmodified picture of Putin.
Liberals keep crying these days
@@AlenB29keep crying
😂😂
yet western colonizers just cant admit they have a senior predator citizen with alzeimers as a president who could easily be registered as a sex offender :0
"What's your favorite flavour of Life Saver?"
"Polonium"
_Very hard to detect_
Yeah, if you try to detect it with the wrong instrument.
A Geiger counter will only detect gamma source reliably. *Get the right instrument that can measure alpha, beta and gamma.*
Especially if you looking for the *more dangerous types of emissions*, alpha and beta.
More dangerous depending on where they are.. Alpha radiation is relatively safe in your hands.. but inside the body it is absolutely deadly. Gamma radiation, on the other hand, can penetrate through concrete.
I had an alpha and beta particle source from my grandpa, huge pain to dispose of
Weirdly enough, the tobacco plant is amazing at absorbing polonium from the ground and storing it in its leaves. One of the many poisions in cigerettes.
Alpha particle was my nickname in high school
Not very penetrating
Blocking the exit...
Has the demon core incident taught you nothing, smfh
😂
I don't believe Po-210 is fissile.
"This is an odd flavor of Life Savers you have Doc."
Alpha particles are like shotguns. If you are "far away" then it wont hurt you, but if it gets into close range (your intestines in this case) then you are absolutely FUCKED
So I can’t wear this as a necklace?
As far as I know, alpha radiation is much "safer" than gamma radiation, since it can't penetrate into your body as deeply.
However, when ingested, alpha radiation is actually more dangerous than gamma due to that very same property. While some gamma rays may penetrate your body without actually hitting anything, alpha radiation will fully hit your insides.
And alpha radiation is much more ionising
That’s interesting that the gamma radiation just shoots right out of you!
@@epicman943The issue with gamma (although it’s weakly interactive in comparison to alpha radiation) is that you sustain far more than superficial damage.
It has the capacity to pass right through the human body (damaging DNA and tissue on the way) which poses a much more significant risk with exposure to high doses.
*someone puts it in my drink*
"ok now i need to see if my drink is poisoned"
*casually pulls out cloud chamber*
POLON🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
TIL Marie Curie named polonium after her motherland
@@qlbc7043Maria Sklodowska
“will only be deadly if you eat it”
rest in piss to the guy who tried to
Taking notes rn
I made a chamber in 5th grade and used radium scraped from an old alarm clock. It was very cool watching the alpha trails.
bunker gramp would be so
mad if he watched this video
Alpha and Beta are stopped by pretty much anything, Gamma you better have a thick lead plate.
My chemestry teacher in Highschool told me that, given I wear a necklace with Tritium vials on it every day and I don't have throat cancer, definitely would say it rings true that as long as Alpha and Beta are outside your body, your safe.
Your chemistry teacher is... not correct. Alpha may be stopped mostly, but betas most definitely are not. Tritium betas are fairly low energy but they'll penetrate skin. It's not terrible, but it's not a good idea either.
POLAND MENTIONED
"if i put a piece.."
*Explosion*
Stuff like this is just so cool
I've got to say I've seen so many samples in a cloud chamber that as soon as I saw the sample on the chamber and saw the trails I said that's alpha. Then you confirmed it lol
CERN has plans for building an alpha detector, uses a photodiode and one does have to remove the window from the detector. The rest of the plans are easy, circuit boards can be ordered, looked to run around $50 to build.
Fill the hole and all the alphas are stopped, got it
I just saw a meme about alpha particles where the other particles are making fun of it and it turns into a wolf lmao
Into sigma😂
Wolves dont have an alpha, omega, and beta system, they actually just have a mama and papa system lol. 2 coupled wolves lead the pack.
@@lychenthrope No its to do with this cringy meme that turned satire about like some kid being bullied and turns into a werewolf or some shit
_"if you tape over the hole, most Alphas are stopped"_
you should duct tape the whole thing and put it back in the cloud chamber
Yeah, but what does it taste like?
The irony of that Picture was insane.
Can I eat it?
You can eat anything
Love is the only thing that holds the dark at bay.
Your Geiger counter doesn’t detect alpha particles, that’s why.
... Because alpha particles don't penetrate that well...
Which is what was literally explained in the video
It does but it doesn't matter you bucko
@@_loss_Depends on the GM tube you use 🙂. Pancake tubes will do just fine detecting alpha but meters and probes that utilise them are vastly more expensive than something with a simple beta gamma tube like the J304 :). Alpha sensitive scintillators are usually more expensive still.
visualized radiation is terrifying 😅
Guy is so based im subscribed right away
Based on what, the radioactive science of death??
How?
This guy makes so many radioactive contain i hope he be fine in future.
Strangely enough those poisoned by the mentioned character always make it to survive and tell the world their story… them being supported by the US is mere coincidence
Your point?
And Skripal? Keep tap dancing Ivan
The only one I know of was Litvinenko, and that was very much UK centric.
If I were that small, I'd be a sigma particle.
High-speed helium is no laughing matter.
Does it kill you because of alpha radiation or is it just chemically toxic, like arsenic or mercury
It's the radiation, the chemical toxicity is there but radiation is at least 10 times worse.
It’s highly ionising so it damages cells
@@revcrussellno. Polonium is one of the most toxic substances on earth. Apart from the radiation it is 250 BILLION times more toxic than cyanide
Terribly bitter said the guy poisoned by drinking tea
Putler really out here outdoing his predecessor
I hope the guy filming this is ok, and I thank him for the sacrifice he's making to do this video - because however careful he might be, he'll be exposed to SOME form of extra radiation compared to other guys. So yea, thanks for the education. You're amazing.
Great info, one remark: there's only one russian dictator.
they had plenty more in the past
There never were no sane leaders at all
now it's hard to know if you're talking about Stalin or Putin, and if one of them isn't actually a dictator
@@IKTeam it's meant present tense, so yeah Putain
Only one that used Polonium. Others used more direct methods.
Ah yeah, we making it through the airport with this one bois
Uh, but Geiger counters can detect alpha particles? It's just a lot easier if you don't have additional plastic FROM THE CASE stopping the alphas in front of the tube. This whole idea that they "can't get into the geiger tube" displays a sorry lack of understanding of the principle of operation of a geiger-muller tube. That's not how it works dude.
Yeah Ludlum does sell the GM tubes as alpha-beta-gamma probes. But they have an open mica window.
@@revcrussell Yeah, I mean not *every* GM tube can detect alphas but I just feel like it's really misleading statement to say "normal geiger counters can't detect alpha" when what many people would consider perfectly normal geiger counters *can* absolutely detect alpha.
If you put a tube with a mica window in that super cheap geiger counter's case it still couldn't detect alpha, for what I hope are obvious reasons.
High speed Helium.
Sounds like fun for truck drivers. 😬😬
Love that picture of Putin!😂
It's safe to handle, but devastating once inside the body 😢
Forbidden Lifesaver
Similar to small amounts of Tritium used in rings and watches. The radiation just cant penetrate even skin.
Hubby's influences can lead to new hobby... poison..
Thank you for interesting knowledge. Here's hoping it will only used in doing good things!
ain’t gonna stop me from eating it.
This is why you DO NOT SWALLOW A SMOKE DETECTOR....
The fact that this is basically giving someone cancer is crazy
the forbidden life saver, the helium flavored life taker if you will
First time ever seeing a visual of what radiation actually looks like
Proper Geiger Counters can detect Alpha rays.
Note, alpha particles have low penetrating power out of alpha beta and gamma, but it has the MOST energy being literal matter, doing immense damage to anywhere it CAN get, like eroding your cornea or eviscerating your innards with cancer, luckily your skin can block it just fine and your skin refreshes anyways, but a different story for your organs..
You could also get a Geiger counter that picks up on A particles.
This guys on a watch list for sure lol
Looks like a spicy lifesaver
Fun fact. Polonium was named after Poland by Marie Curie-Skłodowska. Just like Germanium after Germany.
new fear, undetected radiations
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I had a "Staticmaster" anti-static record cleaner brush that used polonium behind a grid shield. Worked OK.
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