I ordered a wand from Amazon, that was filled with a Thorium powder. If you search for medical wand or whatever quack medical devices, you will find Thorium filled products from China being sold for very little, as they have no other market for the Thorium. The only reason for getting the wand was to have a source of radiation to test any radiation detectors I find.
if they're quack products, why even bother filling them with thorium? just fill them with sand or something like that. it's not like the people using them are scientific enough to differentiate sand from thorium
@@sitwazheng It depends on the level of radiation you want to have to test the detectors with, in some cheap detectors, the marble, or granite, slab doesn't trip the detector.
@@Syndesi I'm literally a network engineering and cybersecurity student right now, and we just got to that chapter! The Cisco/CompTIA materials are very thorough!
@@mryellow6918 I can never remember what movie it's from, but there's a line out there in the world that goes, "when all else fails, bang the s$&t out of it." It's practically a universal constant!
One use of thorium metal is a device called a multi leaf collimator beam shaper that is used for proton and electron beam radiotherapy devices. Thorium is used because it doesn't emit many neutrons when hit by the beam, in contrast tungsten makes lots of neutrons from the beam.
Awesome video as always!! Just as a side note: At 6:36 you mentioned that the residue left on the filter are various lanthanide hydroxides. In fact, it is probably only Ce(OH)4 and less to no other lanthanide elements. You've adjusted the pH to 3, which would precipitate all the cerium (IV) ions since they are more acidic, but the other trivalent lanthanides stay in the solution as sulfates. The residue is also probably contaminated with sulfate salts of lanthanides, since Ln2(SO4)3 are only slightly soluble, and NaLn(SO4)2 (from your previous addition of NaOH) is practically insoluble.
@@ZeroPlayerGame I'm already trying to buy something radioactive, probably not a good idea to get it from an unreliable source... I want the source that _those_ companies got it from.
I found a piece of uranium/radium ore that gets around 10,000 CPS not CPM.. It was in a little forest near the train station in The city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada where I live. There's much more hidden under the soil, I just took a few rocks..
I remember Mass Effect 1 had something about polonium and maybe thorium in the radioactive bullets ammo upgrades. Also there's the thorian enemy but presumably no relation. Yum.
Oh, that's an interesting movie. I thought that you meant a literal book. I found one in the kids section of the library for a couple of years ago that detailed all kinds of poisons, many more than I ever heard about. Cool book
Very nice video ^^ What you show during extraction and purification has a comercial name: THOREX in analogy to PUREX for extracting Uranium and Plutonium from fuel rods .
Apparently, concentrated phosphoric acid at high temperature can dissolve the REE-phosphates. It would be interesting to see a video using that technique as a comparison. Loved this video!
Thorium has quite rare feature of having +4 charge while remaining stable. Most of +4 ions hydrolize very easily, but thorium can remain in not too much extreme acidic solution for a while. Which makes me think: Is it possible to catch thorium (as well as other metals) in EDTA complexes, slowly raise pH to a level when all hydrogens of EDTA are substituted, and then separate the complexes on the column with ion-exchange resin? Thorium complex should pass through while complexes of +3 and +2 metals should remain on the column.
Your tumbler ball-mill idea was a good idea, but you missed TWO critical features. You needed bigger ball bearings *_AND_* you need to add WATER or soft tumbling media inside up to the level of the media and rocks (which should have filled the tumbler container about half to 2/3rds-full). The action of a ball mill requires significant weight in the crushing media so it repeatedly falls on the rocks and chips away fragments eventually grinding them to dust, and it can only do so with the chamber at LEAST halfway full to get enough height on each subsequent revolution.... ....and it requires water to better suspend the crushing media and serve as a lubricant. Alternately, you could have just used multiple mineral specimens of similar hardness and they would bonk and grind one another to powder. Although then your thorium would have been more dilute, or you would have yielded much more depending on what other rocks you tossed in there. I have found in my experience a hardness of 7.5 is ideal for grinding minerals, garnets, corundum, chert, agates, quartz crystals and flint are ideal for grinding away minerals. What is left will be powdery fine sludge. *But the chamber needs to be at least half full and there needs to be water... SOMETHING (be it rocks or ball bearings) has to fill the chamber almost halfway to get the right mechanics inside.* The teeny balls you used would just aggrigate at the bottom and roll around while the rocks repeatedly fell on them. That is why it didnt work, the mechanics happening inside were backwards. You need the balls to fall on the rocks, and enough of them to grind and crush against each other. Even when you used bigger balls, I suspect the chamber was still too empty allowing the balls to just roll around the bottom.
There are so-called "negative ion wand/nano energy alkaline water stick" for "water activation" on various e-commerce sites from Chinese sellers. These look like regular metal pens, but are actually filled with >70% Thorium oxide powder. They cost 5-10$ per piece, and may be an economical option for people wanting to do some thorium chemistry. Never ever think about buying or opening one of these if you don't have the proper safety precautions and equipment to handle radioactive dust!
Love it :D comming from nuclear chemistry. Especially from a departmend with a big Uranium/Thorium research background I wanted to add: that what precipitates out when adding Sodiumhydroxide to Thorium in solution is arguably better described as ThO2 × H2O. So Thoriumdioxide hydrate (same with silver) Maybe you left that in for Video purposes as most recognize a hydroxide more than an oxide hydrate. (I made that mistake of writing "Th(OH)4" once and immediately got corrected by Prof.)
There’s a gemstone that’s somewhat radioactive and has a trashed crystal structure due to the radioactivity. Ekanite, I think, and I believe that it’s radioactive because of its thorium. I have one (I’m pretty sure) of a few carats. Monazite of good appearance is sometimes used as a gemstone too. Probably not too dangerous if you don’t wear the jewelry with the stone much.
Plus isn't this (just to a lesser extent) how Blue Topaz is made from clear, and if I remember correctly, naturally occuring (and very rare) Red Diamonds form? Because of radiation causing defects to the crystal structure and the defects interacting with light?
Make a video about saftey in radioactive chemestry and how you store this kind of radioactive powder, it looks scary. Do you test for contamination before leaving the lab? What detectors do you use for this?
Man... I hope Cody doesn't get locked up. Any length of sentence is probably a life sentence for him... based on the stunning amount of mercury he's subjected his body to.
@@lastbrewfanhe's had his blood tested, he's fine on mercury. And the uranium incident was many years ago, he merely had property seized and was instructed (as far as I know) not to conduct any more radioactive chemistry.
oh thats very surprising. i don't know enough about radiation to speculate on why that would be, but there is also the fact that his radioactivity videos including uranium extraction and refining have been aggressively stripped from the internet; i recall him asking folks not to reupload. maybe that was only a yt corporate issue not a fed. @@mernok2001
“Subscribe to survive nuclear disaster” Ah yes, the kind of disaster where this chemistry is needed, to power the thorium reactors that we’ll have built… because obviously, that’s what you do in this kind of situation ;-)
Thorium should be focused upon as the future of nuclear energy. Alas, it doesn't make for good weapons, so it's largely passed over for uranium. Humans continue to be the main impediment to the advancement of humans. 😢
Your insolubles at 5:02 contain RaSO4. I don't suppose you have a fume hood with strong negative pressure to further isolate that terrible cation without killing yourself.
I have found ThO2 especially difficult to dissolve in acid. I'm kind of surprised you were able to do it here. I tried aqua regia and was only partially successful. I added a very small amount on HF (~0.1M) to my aqua regia and managed to dissolve all of it. My hypothesis is that ThO2 is similar to SiO2, glass. Glass does not dissolve in most acids, including aqua regia. This was oxude firmed a passivation layer over the thorium that was impervious to the acid. This method, however, requires the use of a Teflon beaker to mix and heat to material. Perhaps try neutralizing the acid with CaOH. This may neutralize the HF first and allow the thorium to precipitate first since all other metals will readily dissolve in aqua regia. I would be interested in seeing your results
@@tschadschi1010 I consider any element whose naturally occurring admixture of isotopes contains a sufficient measure of any individual radioactive isotope to make the parent natural unenriched element significantly radioactive to be a 'radioactive element'. K40 contributes ~5 terawatts of heat to the planet's interior, comprising more than a tenth of the total geological heat flux of the Earth.
232Th has a half-life of over 14 billion years and is pretty much all the thorium in the crust. 40K does have a half-life of 1.25 billion years but is only about 0.012% of the potassium in nature. True, potassium is a lot more plentiful overall so you have a point Third biggest source of radiogenic heat in Earth after 232Th and 238U. It’s up there in the sweepstakes.
2:59 really ? why? lol! what a silly idea! 5:34 and quite a bit of Thallium...8:00 TBP oh boy.. here we go... Yeah I am not sure where you got the idea from but we should`ve talk and save glassware! cool
Chemiolis, I think you would greatly enjoy the Radiacode-102 scintillator.. it can perform gamma spectroscopy on samples, and is very very sensitive to gamma. Check it out!:)
Where did the daughter Nuculides go? Were they part of what you threw away? It would be interesting to track them just to see what happened. Interestingly (I'm sure you know this but others don't) - radionuclides are used to easily track where they move. For example, radioactive phosphorous to track plant phosphorous absorption, etc, or a hospital scan (most commonly with technetium).
They just call it thorium nitrate tributyl phosphate complex or Th(NO3)4 TBP. There’s some stick and ball 3D images online of this with other actinides
man i fucking wish i was like some rich billionare person just like collect all the cool rocks and shit i got this one little crystal dude idk the name but one of those where its just a complete mash of elements and thats the best name it has and its just like man i wish i could just fucking massive room full of that shit
I hope there's a more streamlined way for refining Thorium, as Thorium Molten Salt Reactor looks the only way fission will really take off and make a difference.
Many modern wet chemistry metal refining processes are fairly complex, but are still reasonably cost effective when you do them at an industrial scale and with automation.
You didn't put enough material in the rock tumbler. The drum should be about 1/2 full of balls. Lot of people use rock tumblers as mini ball mills and there are a number of guides out there. You might also want to use larger balls.
Thorium recently made into the Canadian CANDU reactors in fuel assembly bundles.........yield per bundle is expected to increase 700% (which is also means a lot less long lived waste). The bundles are also cheaper because Thorium is 20 times more abundant than Uranium and a much better fuel in power generation. Completely useless for making weapons.
When I saw the NaOh 75% go into a flask with rocks, stirring and heating, I thought, Oh this should go well...
Your channel fills a void in my chemistry heart that no amount of solvent inhalation could. Bless you
Just admit that you like huffing solvents.
Chemiolis: Hides face. What we see: (Safety) Glasses. Blue labcoat. Conclusion: Clone of the same stock NileRed came from. I am very good at science.
They all come from the same factory, just different models.
I am the secret lovechild of Ex&F and NileRed
@@ChemiolisI am disgusted yet intrigued
@@ChemiolisIdk how to react to this
@@Chemiolisbut you regularly put out videos and succeed at challenging syntheses… 🤔
I ordered a wand from Amazon, that was filled with a Thorium powder.
If you search for medical wand or whatever quack medical devices, you will find Thorium filled products from China being sold for very little, as they have no other market for the Thorium.
The only reason for getting the wand was to have a source of radiation to test any radiation detectors I find.
I'm a bit fan of the thought emporium, but he kinda ruined that cheap source for the rest of us!
Yep, the "negative ion wands" were a great source of ThO2
if they're quack products, why even bother filling them with thorium? just fill them with sand or something like that. it's not like the people using them are scientific enough to differentiate sand from thorium
找块大理石瓷砖那不是更加安全吗？或者负离子瓷砖😅
@@sitwazheng It depends on the level of radiation you want to have to test the detectors with, in some cheap detectors, the marble, or granite, slab doesn't trip the detector.
Only in chemistry could you say "when dissolving rocks, if it won't go, take a hammer to it. That'll take care of it."
One could say that hammers also work to resolve layer 8 problems in IT xD
@@Syndesi Percussive maintenance fixes all issues
@@Syndesi I'm literally a network engineering and cybersecurity student right now, and we just got to that chapter! The Cisco/CompTIA materials are very thorough!
@@mryellow6918 I can never remember what movie it's from, but there's a line out there in the world that goes, "when all else fails, bang the s$&t out of it." It's practically a universal constant!
Comminution is the most important step of most extractive metallurgy.
extracting radioactive metals from rocks, this is interesting damn
There were no metals extracted, only compounds.
Cody'sLab or NileRed would have _finished_ the job the title alluded to.
@@-danR oh yea,well i meant their compounds / extracting their compounds alone from rocks which contain so many different things, my bad.
Well yes, they presumably would have. But as brilliant as they both are, I am not completely sure that they are entirely sane.
Wow I thought inorganic chemistry was just some kind of conspiracy/urban legend until i've seen this video
One use of thorium metal is a device called a multi leaf collimator beam shaper that is used for proton and electron beam radiotherapy devices. Thorium is used because it doesn't emit many neutrons when hit by the beam, in contrast tungsten makes lots of neutrons from the beam.
Awesome video as always!! Just as a side note: At 6:36 you mentioned that the residue left on the filter are various lanthanide hydroxides. In fact, it is probably only Ce(OH)4 and less to no other lanthanide elements. You've adjusted the pH to 3, which would precipitate all the cerium (IV) ions since they are more acidic, but the other trivalent lanthanides stay in the solution as sulfates. The residue is also probably contaminated with sulfate salts of lanthanides, since Ln2(SO4)3 are only slightly soluble, and NaLn(SO4)2 (from your previous addition of NaOH) is practically insoluble.
The procedures I'm following all state that pretty much all RE precipitates at pH 2.3.
@@Chemiolis how can I get relatively pure thorium dioxide for a decent price?
@@Metal_Master_YTquack negative ion products from China are full of ThO2
@@Metal_Master_YT buy one of them negative ion healing packs on the internet, seems to be where all of the excess thorium is going nowadays
@@ZeroPlayerGame I'm already trying to buy something radioactive, probably not a good idea to get it from an unreliable source... I want the source that _those_ companies got it from.
I found a piece of uranium/radium ore that gets around 10,000 CPS not CPM..
It was in a little forest near the train station in The city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada where I live.
There's much more hidden under the soil, I just took a few rocks..
I want rare earth jelly on my morning toast
I remember Mass Effect 1 had something about polonium and maybe thorium in the radioactive bullets ammo upgrades. Also there's the thorian enemy but presumably no relation. Yum.
Don't know why, but I'm starting to get some "The Young Poisoner's Handbook" vibes from this "rock series". 😉
In that case, you'll want to dial up thallium rather than thorium... or so I've heard
@@lastbrewfan If this series continues, we will probably get there eventually... 😆
Oh, that's an interesting movie.
I thought that you meant a literal book. I found one in the kids section of the library for a couple of years ago that detailed all kinds of poisons, many more than I ever heard about. Cool book
Bruh, What are they teaching our kids?@@savagesarethebest7251
@@savagesarethebest7251 Ok. Now I am just really curious. Do you remember the title?
Very nice video ^^
What you show during extraction and purification has a comercial name: THOREX in analogy to PUREX for extracting Uranium and Plutonium from fuel rods .
Thorium is used mainly in the welding industry they add it to tungsten it helps to establish the ark!
Apparently, concentrated phosphoric acid at high temperature can dissolve the REE-phosphates. It would be interesting to see a video using that technique as a comparison.
Loved this video!
That is one hell of a complex. Wicked
cool video.
and voila! you're on your way to putting together your very own thorium reactor. stay tuned for the reprocessing videos.
Good video on extracting thorium salts from ore. Prob how they refine it for reactors.
Thorium has quite rare feature of having +4 charge while remaining stable. Most of +4 ions hydrolize very easily, but thorium can remain in not too much extreme acidic solution for a while.
Which makes me think: Is it possible to catch thorium (as well as other metals) in EDTA complexes, slowly raise pH to a level when all hydrogens of EDTA are substituted, and then separate the complexes on the column with ion-exchange resin? Thorium complex should pass through while complexes of +3 and +2 metals should remain on the column.
I wish I could work with this pal
thank you for sharing your file
9:03 wow beautiful lookie like a butterfly with three finger claws
Make thorium Floride to make your thorium reactor 😉
funky rocks
Your tumbler ball-mill idea was a good idea, but you missed TWO critical features. You needed bigger ball bearings *_AND_* you need to add WATER or soft tumbling media inside up to the level of the media and rocks (which should have filled the tumbler container about half to 2/3rds-full). The action of a ball mill requires significant weight in the crushing media so it repeatedly falls on the rocks and chips away fragments eventually grinding them to dust, and it can only do so with the chamber at LEAST halfway full to get enough height on each subsequent revolution....
....and it requires water to better suspend the crushing media and serve as a lubricant. Alternately, you could have just used multiple mineral specimens of similar hardness and they would bonk and grind one another to powder. Although then your thorium would have been more dilute, or you would have yielded much more depending on what other rocks you tossed in there. I have found in my experience a hardness of 7.5 is ideal for grinding minerals, garnets, corundum, chert, agates, quartz crystals and flint are ideal for grinding away minerals. What is left will be powdery fine sludge. *But the chamber needs to be at least half full and there needs to be water... SOMETHING (be it rocks or ball bearings) has to fill the chamber almost halfway to get the right mechanics inside.*
The teeny balls you used would just aggrigate at the bottom and roll around while the rocks repeatedly fell on them. That is why it didnt work, the mechanics happening inside were backwards. You need the balls to fall on the rocks, and enough of them to grind and crush against each other. Even when you used bigger balls, I suspect the chamber was still too empty allowing the balls to just roll around the bottom.
watch him build a thorium reactor next vid
Yes, finally, an extraction of thorium, my second favourite element after cesium
There are so-called "negative ion wand/nano energy alkaline water stick" for "water activation" on various e-commerce sites from Chinese sellers. These look like regular metal pens, but are actually filled with >70% Thorium oxide powder. They cost 5-10$ per piece, and may be an economical option for people wanting to do some thorium chemistry. Never ever think about buying or opening one of these if you don't have the proper safety precautions and equipment to handle radioactive dust!
That’s one hell of a stir bar awesome job cheers
Oh wow the tri-butyl phosphate thorium nitrate complex is a beautiful molecule
It is fun how lead is from something it stops amazing job great work
never seen TBP extraction before, thanks
Its also used in lantern mantles
which themselves have little uses
Quack radioactive "health" tool manufacturer: WRITE IT DOWN WRITE IT DOWN
You need a microscope to see pleochroic halos in thin section
Love it :D comming from nuclear chemistry. Especially from a departmend with a big Uranium/Thorium research background I wanted to add: that what precipitates out when adding Sodiumhydroxide to Thorium in solution is arguably better described as ThO2 × H2O. So Thoriumdioxide hydrate (same with silver)
Maybe you left that in for Video purposes as most recognize a hydroxide more than an oxide hydrate.
(I made that mistake of writing "Th(OH)4" once and immediately got corrected by Prof.)
I can’t understand why you don’t have more subscribers! You remind me of the Great Chemplayers
next step on Chemiolis' road - graphite - uranium nuclear pile ...
The tumbler won't turn your rocks into diamonds, because you are not a kid. Jeez, it says it right there on the box!
Next video: I built a particle accelerator to make the nuclear bomb :)
Need centrifugal enrichment maitarence and metal extraction electrolisis chemical resistance vessels.
@@Nnneemo..
...don't we all!
it's all on my wish list just waiting for some random Santa..
There’s a gemstone that’s somewhat radioactive and has a trashed crystal structure due to the radioactivity. Ekanite, I think, and I believe that it’s radioactive because of its thorium. I have one (I’m pretty sure) of a few carats. Monazite of good appearance is sometimes used as a gemstone too. Probably not too dangerous if you don’t wear the jewelry with the stone much.
Plus isn't this (just to a lesser extent) how Blue Topaz is made from clear, and if I remember correctly, naturally occuring (and very rare) Red Diamonds form? Because of radiation causing defects to the crystal structure and the defects interacting with light?
Now I'm tempted to buy some thoriated tungsten rods. I don't even weld.
Thanks. This will be really useful for a little project i'm working on
Make a video about saftey in radioactive chemestry and how you store this kind of radioactive powder, it looks scary.
Do you test for contamination before leaving the lab? What detectors do you use for this?
If I recall correctly, the Thorium Nitrate is the stuff added to silk mesh bags to create Welsbach (von Welsbach?) type mantles for gas lnterns
You are correct. When you burn the mantle (in the presence of excess oxygen, of necessity) it converts the Thorium Nitrate into the oxide.
Yup@@Rinwaldo
They're not rocks. THEY'RE MINERALS!!!!!!
That Thorium complex structure looks like when chemistry starts producing petroglyphs.
Cobalt now?
You need a hexagonal barrel tumbler to use as a ball mill. Otherwise the ball bearings just roll as it turns instead of tumbling.
THOREX! The optimum acidity is about 3-6 M HNO3 for max Th extraction. Back-extract with 0.05 M HNO3.
Do be careful, Cody's lab got raided for doing very similar chemistry, except was extracting uranium.
Man... I hope Cody doesn't get locked up. Any length of sentence is probably a life sentence for him... based on the stunning amount of mercury he's subjected his body to.
@@lastbrewfanhe's had his blood tested, he's fine on mercury. And the uranium incident was many years ago, he merely had property seized and was instructed (as far as I know) not to conduct any more radioactive chemistry.
@@gnatdagnat That's good news. I know unionized mercury has very low bioavailability, but I still cringe a bit when I see it interacted with.
@@gnatdagnat Cody replied to someone in a comment that they were not happy with his tritium vials, the uranium was fine.
oh thats very surprising. i don't know enough about radiation to speculate on why that would be, but there is also the fact that his radioactivity videos including uranium extraction and refining have been aggressively stripped from the internet; i recall him asking folks not to reupload. maybe that was only a yt corporate issue not a fed. @@mernok2001
Can you make a video where you show all of your stir bars?
“Subscribe to survive nuclear disaster”
Ah yes, the kind of disaster where this chemistry is needed, to power the thorium reactors that we’ll have built… because obviously, that’s what you do in this kind of situation ;-)
Thorium should be focused upon as the future of nuclear energy. Alas, it doesn't make for good weapons, so it's largely passed over for uranium. Humans continue to be the main impediment to the advancement of humans. 😢
Your insolubles at 5:02 contain RaSO4. I don't suppose you have a fume hood with strong negative pressure to further isolate that terrible cation without killing yourself.
I have found ThO2 especially difficult to dissolve in acid. I'm kind of surprised you were able to do it here. I tried aqua regia and was only partially successful. I added a very small amount on HF (~0.1M) to my aqua regia and managed to dissolve all of it. My hypothesis is that ThO2 is similar to SiO2, glass. Glass does not dissolve in most acids, including aqua regia. This was oxude firmed a passivation layer over the thorium that was impervious to the acid.
This method, however, requires the use of a Teflon beaker to mix and heat to material.
Perhaps try neutralizing the acid with CaOH. This may neutralize the HF first and allow the thorium to precipitate first since all other metals will readily dissolve in aqua regia.
I would be interested in seeing your results
Gonna snort that shit😂
New actinocene to make... just dropped. Thorocene.
Chemiolis: "it is time to extract the only other radioactive element that is significantly present in the earth's crust: thorium"
Potassium: "BRUH"
Potassium is not what you would consider a radioactive element. Radioactive elements have no stable isotopes. Potassium has two of them.
@@tschadschi1010 I consider any element whose naturally occurring admixture of isotopes contains a sufficient measure of any individual radioactive isotope to make the parent natural unenriched element significantly radioactive to be a 'radioactive element'. K40 contributes ~5 terawatts of heat to the planet's interior, comprising more than a tenth of the total geological heat flux of the Earth.
232Th has a half-life of over 14 billion years and is pretty much all the thorium in the crust. 40K does have a half-life of 1.25 billion years but is only about 0.012% of the potassium in nature. True, potassium is a lot more plentiful overall so you have a point Third biggest source of radiogenic heat in Earth after 232Th and 238U. It’s up there in the sweepstakes.
What about rubidium?@@Muonium1
Hi i am afghan. Very very very very very very nice. I like this video
I don't know how the rock tumbler wouldn't work except that it would probably take a week or three.
2:59 really ? why? lol! what a silly idea! 5:34 and quite a bit of Thallium...8:00 TBP oh boy.. here we go... Yeah I am not sure where you got the idea from but we should`ve talk and save glassware! cool
Thorium dust, don't breathe this!!!!
Can you do a cloud chamber experiment video showing different radioactive ores in the chamber
9:00 This Complex is so fucking cursed.
Chemiolis, I think you would greatly enjoy the Radiacode-102 scintillator.. it can perform gamma spectroscopy on samples, and is very very sensitive to gamma. Check it out!:)
Where did the daughter Nuculides go? Were they part of what you threw away? It would be interesting to track them just to see what happened. Interestingly (I'm sure you know this but others don't) - radionuclides are used to easily track where they move. For example, radioactive phosphorous to track plant phosphorous absorption, etc, or a hospital scan (most commonly with technetium).
I did the extraction with 250 mg Pu. Was fun.
My thorium oxide is a bit off-white. It has a slight yellow tinge to it.
That Thorium complex shown a 9:00, looks crazy and almost like some sort of demon xD
Do you know what the name of that complex is?
I don't know, but its definitely biblically accurate.
They just call it thorium nitrate tributyl phosphate complex or Th(NO3)4
TBP. There’s some stick and ball 3D images online of this with other actinides
Naturally occurring demon core
man i fucking wish i was like some rich billionare person just like collect all the cool rocks and shit i got this one little crystal dude idk the name but one of those where its just a complete mash of elements and thats the best name it has and its just like man i wish i could just fucking massive room full of that shit
I hope there's a more streamlined way for refining Thorium, as Thorium Molten Salt Reactor looks the only way fission will really take off and make a difference.
Many modern wet chemistry metal refining processes are fairly complex, but are still reasonably cost effective when you do them at an industrial scale and with automation.
Really nice video
Where did you get TBP?
Chemicals didn’t end up yellow = Not Ex&F… Didn’t smell or taste chemicals on camera = Not NileRed. Could this be a real scientist?
Next up: making a thorium reactor and destroying the economy 😂
Mmmmmm....
_rare earth jelly_
Nice. Now smack it with thermal neutrons and make some U233
Don't forget thorium oxide is also used in Breaking Bad for... You know...
If he somehow extract Americium from Smoke detector then I would be freaking out so bad yet expected.
I am pretty sure, there is less than 0.01 grams of americium in one detector, such amount you can't even see with a naked eye
Just don't do it at home, otherwise you can not only get radioactive contamination at home, but also get a term in prison.)))
Your face is very swirly. It's beautiful!
Is the concentration of the NaOH solution by weight or w/v?
Your instructions were very clear however I am not in possession of 1.3 lbs worth. What is the best way to store this amount worth?
Cargo shorts have plenty of pockets. You'll eventually need a belt when they get heavy. Good short to medium term solution though.
8:56 me studying the compound from left to right side of the screen: looks pretty simple wait what is that what the fuck is that
1:24 I could see the grain on the video for this part
Now make thorium metal from the dioxide.
Can you extract more other rare earth elements from ores
Organothorium chemistry?
Anyone got the paper of the procedures he used?
You didn't put enough material in the rock tumbler. The drum should be about 1/2 full of balls. Lot of people use rock tumblers as mini ball mills and there are a number of guides out there. You might also want to use larger balls.
I tried some larger balls and filled it a lot more but it only polished the rocks :(
damn you can see the radiation in the video's static (at least thats what i think that is)
holy shit you can thats so funky
i very much doubt it, it is really not that active
It’s an edit 😆
Thanks for the video. Does ThO2 occur in nature?
this is awesome!
If I made thorium nitrate and mixed it with ethanol would thorium fulminate precipitate out? Radioactive primaries anyone? 🤔
When octapheno uranocene?
Lick the rock, you won't! Hahaha
Where did you do your bachelor?
Thorium recently made into the Canadian CANDU reactors in fuel assembly bundles.........yield per bundle is expected to increase 700% (which is also means a lot less long lived waste). The bundles are also cheaper because Thorium is 20 times more abundant than Uranium and a much better fuel in power generation. Completely useless for making weapons.
1:28 was that an electrical spark in the counter exactly when it reaches 875 cpm?
Reflection of light in the plastic around the button, I saw it when filming
exciting