I used to live in Aberdeen as a student. Because of all the granite buildings (it's known as the Granite city) the background gamma radiation is somewhere around 40% higher than the rest of the country.
It reminds me of a case where it was discovered that a ordinary stapler was radioactive. It turns out that the company had filled the inside with sand to add weight to it and it was actually monazite containing sand, which has ThO2.
tamaragaber Yeah, and you, and I, and everything in this universe, does too. It’s mostly in the long wave infrared spectrum for us due to blackbody radiation, and other parts of the spectrum for objects at different temperatures. In addition, almost everything is slightly radioactive due to naturally occurring radioisotopes such as potassium-40 and carbon-14.
Personally, I think anything below 100 microsieverts/hour is not dangerous if you only hold it for a few minutes or hours And I'd quite happily wear that lavastone pendant, it's just like wearing a piece of granite
Richard Frank You'd have to absorb 126 days worth of radiation from it to die, but your body will heal itself before that. (from the 1.66 microseivents one)
I would love to hear what kinds of saftey precautions you take with storing and handling these samples? Is it not very necessary (I notice the bare hands). Is there any risk to repeated handling and or storing them near your for long periods?
You should wash your hands with soap after handling them. Uranium is about as chemically toxic as lead. Our bodies evolved with uranium in the environment and we're able to excrete it, but large amounts are still a concern. For the most part, besides avoiding contamination with dust, the two precautions are to keep it some distance away from where people spend considerable time (the radiation rate decays with the square of the distance), and to keep it in a well ventilated area (outside, basically) to avoid a radon build up indoors (radon is more of a risk because it gets inside the lungs). His collection is radioactive enough that he can probably detect it from several meters away. A "safe" distance is about when the dose rate falls below 1 µSv/hr. You can shorten the distance with shielding (basically, any mass), but it's not necessary when distance will do.
Another thing to keep in mind is that alot of radiation is stopped by our skin. So being near radioactive materials like this for a few minutes won't kill you. What's extremely dangerous is when radioactive materials are dispersed in air or water. If we were to breath or otherwise ingest radioactive materials we wouldn't have our skin to protect us
Mark Rose Beta radiation isn't nearly as damaging relative to Gamma or Alpha as far as I understand.due to the radically lower mass of electrons. I think my point still stands that consumed radioactive materials are radically more dangerous than ones sitting on a table or something
A single flight from New York to Los Angeles exposes you to about 40µSv, so you could probably play with these samples every day without being in any danger.
Last year at our school we had to test some radioactive material, shit got scary when the gauger counter still counted around 1600 uSv/hour even when there was 6cm of leadplate between it and the source.(source itself counted over 3400 uSv/hour)
It's a school in holland called bernardinus, tough it was a yearly event of an university, since it is prohibited for a school to have such materials laying around.
Back in the days, where they made glass from Uran. Aside from having radioactive material embedded, those glasses are really nice to look at under UV light.
Ironic, everyone is so scared of radioactivity, they don't even realize they encounter radioactive objects in their daily lives. You've just got to stop worrying and love the bomb, is what I say. Oh and, what's that ominous music you used? I recognize it... S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
+MCPE Manu_ Beh....Non so.Se vai a cercare "Bionerd" il tuo "standard" si alzerá.È incredibile quante radiazioni sopra la norma possiamo ricevere senza conseguenze.E poi quest i non sono materiali con radioattivitá seria.Se guardi il canale di Bionerd,ha trovato a Chernobyl un pezzetto di carburante del reattore esploso per terra,e se lo tiene in camera da letto,anche se supera il limite dei misuratori.
I live in Saxony, Ore Mountains from where you got the Pitchblende and in my town there are a lot of mines but they are all closed in cause of radioactive ores/materials.
i found this same Geiger counter on a forum from a man who goes to Chernobyl for his birthday, he used it for checking radiation in the areas he visited, so it was neat to see you using it as well knowing that the russian military who helped him into the zone also used it for visitors
That might explain why I felt nauseous for no reason (this only occurred a few times within a decade) Touching things that we would not even think to be radioactive
Really interesting video! Definitely subscribing to your channel… Two questions: Can the SOEKS detector display counts per minute (CPM)? And also, what is the font you used for displaying the mineral’s names and formulas? It’s beautiful!
I have collected and removed more than 600 lbs of pitchblende from my seven acre property. I live in Independence, Virginia. Pearisburg, VA is worse. I'm just glad that most of those rocks are directional.
I am looking to buy a reliable Geiger counter because I live on top of a mass of hot granite and have several defunct thorium and uranium mines in the neighbourhood. I have been told that even our well water contains uranium and radon. The strange thing is that people around here also live to great old age.
I know you said you wouldn't comment on how dangerous is too dangerous to have around, but you seem like the right person to ask. I'm really interested on this subject.
You should make a video where you test and show things that are radioactive or emit radiation that we may have or use on a daily basis. Like what you did with the dog tag and the set of dishes.
johannes the stalking biscuit only if it has a mica window, thin enough to allow alpha particles in. I believe the SOEKS in this video does not have one.
***** Yes, geiger counters are usually quite far from the full story unless you are measuring a Cesium-137 sample. I would get a higher reading if the samples were 'unpacked' and measured including alpha radiation. But with an energy-compensated scintillator I think most samples would score a lower reading.
Another great video! Thanks for sharing!!! I'm gonna buy one of these radiation measurement things and check my dinnerware in case any stuff at my home is radioactive too. Those pendants and dinnerware sets should be clearly labeled as radioactive! It's kinda scary!!!
I live in Mexico, roughtly 40km away from a "depleted" urarinite mine. It is rumored that the US and Mexican goverment had to close down the mine because of its proximity to a town (4 km) and an important river (less than 1km), not because the mine was completely "exhausted". The entrance of the mine is sealed off with big iron plates and it is not recommended to get close to this zone since small traces of urarinite can still be found at ground level. I never knew that said rock was so dangerous, and sometimes I went to explore there... lol
+james leet Hehe, if I lived near a uranium mine I probably would be tempted to go there too. I would never go down into the mine though. To many risks - including insane concentrations of radon...
+Ben J Alpha radiation is stopped by only a sheet of paper and has a range of only a few centimetres in air. Beta radiation is a bit stronger, so maybe some of the samples are in a lead box.
***** Labs are definitely going to have it, sure, but it seems like he got it as a private buyer, which is what made me curious. I've been trying to synthesize uranyl nitrate for display over an ultraviolet LED, but struggling to isolate the uranyl.
Sometimes I think of the episode of House MD where the kid was celebrating graduation but gets sick, turns out that his father works at a metal recycling place and found a neat looking thing that the kid kept on him at all time but it was some sort of radioactive stuff. Makes me think I should get a geiger counter to see if the stuff I buy from China or the local fleamarket has any amount of radiation to them.
Have you heard of the Goiânia accident? A nuclear core from an x ray machine found its way into a scrapyard in Brazil and one of the workers broke it open and shared the material with his family. It glowed in the dark and he didn't realize it was radioactive. By the time the material was addressed, it had contaminated 250 people and ultimately killed 4 of them (the man who brought home the material was a 5th death, but he drank himself to death). Very sad, very preventable.
A house 2 houses away from me and my family's house was another victim of lice. It was just tinted and is now finished but still has tons of chemicals near it. Our friend who lives in the house right in front of the lice house said that she can still smell some of the chemicals outside every time she opens a window in their house. How radioactive do you think the house and the area surrounding it is???
Wouldn't something that radioactive hurt you eventually especially since they are probably not kept in specialized containers and you're handling them with no protection?
I guess if those are gamma ray detectors you could get a bit more information on those too-hot-to-measure samples by seeing how close the detectors can get before they max out.
The pendants are scary because they are a relative new thing and aren't advertised as radioactive. The vintage pottery is less scary - back then they just didn't know better :)
@Brainic75, I'm glad that you now have the Radiacode device, but that said, lots of people went out and purchased the Gamma Scout because they saw it on your channel. The gamma scout is a totally horrendous product, and even now get sales revenue for this snake oil. FYI, I just did a review on my channel about that horrible product.
I don't wanna be a wise guy, but should you were gloves? What safety precautions were made? I don't know where I would be without your videos. Your my main man
I would not be wearing that pendant around my neck and would he a hard pass on the ceramic bowls too. I would be worried just keeping those red hot rocks around my house. Do they give off heat, more so than just a normal river rock?
why the gammascout jumps to zero at the 320µsv piece? (at 10:10) thats not normal, its not too much for that device (when its too much it shows "overflow") maybe there is something wrong with the tube voltage regulation, it needs to rise the voltage at higher counts
I think you need to add some context to the levels of radiation these things are giving out. The tool you're using seems to consider anything above 0.9 as dangerous, yet you're handling it without a care, so what is dangerous?
FileTrekker If I'm right, that counter is made for measuring background radiations, so it's for long-term exposure. normally the normal amount we get usually for a year is 4mSv, this counter measure the number of uSv per Hour (i use ''u'' for micro), if we take his background exposure, its 0.13uSv/h, in one year you get 1.14 mSv a year, which is a low amount But at 0.9uSv/h, you get 7.88mSv, which is almost twice (4mSv) the normal dose one of the sample was 38uSv/h, in one year you get an impressive 332.88mSv, which is almost 7 time higher the max allowed exposed for one year (50mSv) of an Nuclear plant employee For the highest thing he tested, 4x320=1.28mSv/h, the one year dose is 11.21Sv, the deadly dose is 2Sv to 4Sv, il make you see how fast it goes up second: 0.35 uSv minute: 21.33 uSv Hour: 1.28 mSv Day: 30.72 mSv Week: 215.04 mSv Month: 921.6 mSv Year: 11.21 Sv there the image i used, which is reliable upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Radiation_Dose_Chart_by_Xkcd.png So the fact he touch them for a short time is not dangerous at all, since the counter is for Long term measurements. Hope that helped
Great video ! Other samples to add to your collection are the sensor from an old smoke alarm, welding rod with 2% thorium and maybe old glow in the dark clocks or instruments from pre WW II or The Great War to end all wars... Have you been to the Trinity Site ? And 2015 was the 70th year with a big turn out in the Spring Open House. Used to play at the old Argonne site where CP-2 and CP-3 are buried. CP-3 was the First Working Heavy Water Reactor ! The German design was to small and needed to be three times larger to work. And think that a young woman from Poland started all the work on radiation and was the first woman professor and taught at a French University. Thank you, tjl
Chernobyl is a tourist destination, but Chelyabinsk is still open to live and no one knows what happened in Krasnoyarsk because they turned off the Geiger counters...
Radioactive stuff is actually less dangerous to animals.. simply because of their shorter lifespans. (less cells to divide, less copying errors?) And probably shorter natal period.
Good work, nice presentation but.. there is a problem. Your video is misleading. Both instruments show numbers, and numbers only. You could make anyone of them show Fukushima inside the reactor while it does not exist at more than low sample level of say Cs-137. The answer is Calibration of whatever we use as nuclear decay energy detector or to be more accurate nuclear activity detector. The only limitation with how big is the error is sensitivity of the detector. I love your videos, thank you for your work. It is my preoccupation on a daily basis. Wesley
to the end question... Interestingly Fukushima is already starting to draw tourists to the ghost towns. had I had more time I would have liked to visit myself... maybe my next trip.
You know it's bad when even your Geiger counter screams out in pain.
yea haha
I seem to be late
I used to live in Aberdeen as a student. Because of all the granite buildings (it's known as the Granite city) the background gamma radiation is somewhere around 40% higher than the rest of the country.
WOAH, That pseudoscience on those pedants scare me...
Here, hang this radiation source right over your thyroid gland!
this fuckin amulets give you ~16 mSv/a ... thats like working in a nuclear plant ^^
Same here. You think we would stop after Hiroshima but nah
imagine those poor pets wearing the radioactive pendants!
It reminds me of a case where it was discovered that a ordinary stapler was radioactive. It turns out that the company had filled the inside with sand to add weight to it and it was actually monazite containing sand, which has ThO2.
"These are considered safe for food. Just avoid acidic foods and drinks"
Or just use a normal bowl where there is no "just avoid" attached on to it.
I hope you used some Rad-X before filming!
☭_DRINK_CCCP_420_☭ literally nobody cares
am I the only one that LOVES the sound of the geiger counter?
Damon Jackson ℵϙ ⅈ ĹⅈϏ℮ ⅈȶ ȶϙϙ
Nope. Geiger counter ASMR for life
Damon Jackson Definitely Not For Me I Like The Geiger Counter Sound
BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP BEP
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Your a very rare sort of Guy.
A credit to the intelligent and interesting aspects of human kind.
Thank you for your presentation, most enjoyable.
+Bill Stamford
Thank you for commenting! And you are a polite commenter - something rare here on the internet ;)
@@brainiac75 Even rarer now
I feel like I got radiation poisoning from just watching this
well you did not because it takes 25,000 MR to get you sick
Kumatine me too
Steve so need some rad away only 60 caps
well, computers and smartphones also amit radiation.
tamaragaber Yeah, and you, and I, and everything in this universe, does too. It’s mostly in the long wave infrared spectrum for us due to blackbody radiation, and other parts of the spectrum for objects at different temperatures. In addition, almost everything is slightly radioactive due to naturally occurring radioisotopes such as potassium-40 and carbon-14.
I find it funny that some people make a big deal over Brazil nuts when random stuff is more radioactive
You should have used bananas for comparison.
veritasium?
+M Isa Yeah.
Po Lu Nah, Veritasium is one of those scientific YT channels.
I had that exact same idea
Bananas are very Dangerous there Radiation is very Dangerous if a Man it's One He Becomes Gay and can't Make Baby's.
4:10 I love how the geiger counter is already beeping in fear
Before you mentioned it, I thought; "How the hell can people sell radioactive pendants?". Prefect example of greed, no matter what the cost to others!
I don't know it it is really smart to make those radioactive lava samples pendant-shaped. Someone stupid enough might actually wear them.
Oscar Scheepstra people wear them to cure cancer... oh the irony...
kagi95
Well, so this is really cool! :D
Oscar Scheepstra alpha and beta particles are not harmful unless they are ingested or inhaled. these decays are almost always alpha or beta decay
+Physics Only the device measures hard beta and gamma... no alpha is detected
So if the pendant is dangerously radioactive, I can't see how keeping it right on your chest would be in any means safe..
Who the hell sells radioactive necklaces!? D:
...and they don't even inform the buyers about it. They're sold as beneficial for your health. Even for your pet... Welcome to 2016 :)
Brainiac75 thanks
Brainiac75 throwback to the 1800's
Personally, I think anything below 100 microsieverts/hour is not dangerous if you only hold it for a few minutes or hours
And I'd quite happily wear that lavastone pendant, it's just like wearing a piece of granite
Richard Frank You'd have to absorb 126 days worth of radiation from it to die, but your body will heal itself before that. (from the 1.66 microseivents one)
HOLY CRAP! I'm from Czech Republic.. and right now I'm like super scared to touch any rock in the nature here. 😄
Ja taky
Can’t find radioactive rocks in Ohio, Usa
Where do you store these "Radioactive Stuff" ?
In the refrigerator.
At his mother-in-laws house!
His mothers barn
in lead
In his pocket
I would love to hear what kinds of saftey precautions you take with storing and handling these samples? Is it not very necessary (I notice the bare hands). Is there any risk to repeated handling and or storing them near your for long periods?
You should wash your hands with soap after handling them. Uranium is about as chemically toxic as lead. Our bodies evolved with uranium in the environment and we're able to excrete it, but large amounts are still a concern. For the most part, besides avoiding contamination with dust, the two precautions are to keep it some distance away from where people spend considerable time (the radiation rate decays with the square of the distance), and to keep it in a well ventilated area (outside, basically) to avoid a radon build up indoors (radon is more of a risk because it gets inside the lungs). His collection is radioactive enough that he can probably detect it from several meters away. A "safe" distance is about when the dose rate falls below 1 µSv/hr. You can shorten the distance with shielding (basically, any mass), but it's not necessary when distance will do.
Another thing to keep in mind is that alot of radiation is stopped by our skin. So being near radioactive materials like this for a few minutes won't kill you. What's extremely dangerous is when radioactive materials are dispersed in air or water. If we were to breath or otherwise ingest radioactive materials we wouldn't have our skin to protect us
Liam8488 The skin only protects against alpha radiation. It does nothing to protect against beta or gamma radiation.
Mark Rose
Beta radiation isn't nearly as damaging relative to Gamma or Alpha as far as I understand.due to the radically lower mass of electrons. I think my point still stands that consumed radioactive materials are radically more dangerous than ones sitting on a table or something
A single flight from New York to Los Angeles exposes you to about 40µSv, so you could probably play with these samples every day without being in any danger.
Thank god this came up in suggested videos, I couldn't help but keep watching race crashes.
A very engaging and beautifully narrated video. Thank you for sharing this stuff with us!
"...it's tiny, but still has a larger, more sensitive geiger tube..."
.... That's what she said ...
Lool
Last year at our school we had to test some radioactive material, shit got scary when the gauger counter still counted around 1600 uSv/hour even when there was 6cm of leadplate between it and the source.(source itself counted over 3400 uSv/hour)
blackvalley007 Wow, what kind of school/university is that? Sources with that activity are to my knowledge not common among pupils :)
It's a school in holland called bernardinus, tough it was a yearly event of an university, since it is prohibited for a school to have such materials laying around.
blackvalley007 Ah OK, that makes sense to me. I would also be careful when handling sources with millisieverts/h :)
Holy shit, your school got a mini nuclear plant in a box? A LEAD box?
Word has it that Keemstar emits 174991748293.29kGy/h of radiation.
WoW i didn't knew that MeeMStar can cause cancer o.o
Painis Cupcake It's true!
***** Sometimes I touch myself.
Back in the days, where they made glass from Uran. Aside from having radioactive material embedded, those glasses are really nice to look at under UV light.
Ironic, everyone is so scared of radioactivity, they don't even realize they encounter radioactive objects in their daily lives.
You've just got to stop worrying and love the bomb, is what I say.
Oh and, what's that ominous music you used? I recognize it... S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
Found the Children of Atom follower 🤣
I could listen to that voice all day. So soothing.
Thanks :D
You’re delusional, it was obviously 3.6 Roentgens, get him out!
I’ll leave now
not good, not terrible
use Rad-x dude :)
that shit is real Nasa is working on it, but I think it works like rad-x and rad away
I need some stampaks because of this comment..
Scrolled down to find this!!
I have a question:
Since the counter detected dangerous amounts of radioactivity in some samples isnt it dangerous for your health too?
Bionerd just signed your hat! Dude, that's so cool! I watched her videos about Chernobyl! She is a brave and great person!
Naaah...My socks emit 500 000 millisieverts/hout
+VLOG e altra roba.... Wow. Can be used as a nuclear bomb.
Throw it to china
+VLOG e altra roba.... heh. you think YOURS are bad? i tested mine and they were 14,000,000,000,000 Microsieverts/hour!
+MCPE Manu_ Beh....Non so.Se vai a cercare "Bionerd" il tuo "standard" si alzerá.È incredibile quante radiazioni sopra la norma possiamo ricevere senza conseguenze.E poi quest i non sono materiali con radioattivitá seria.Se guardi il canale di Bionerd,ha trovato a Chernobyl un pezzetto di carburante del reattore esploso per terra,e se lo tiene in camera da letto,anche se supera il limite dei misuratori.
+VLOG e altra roba.... Bionerd la conosco eccome...è da un po che non si vede aveva fatto anche la scintigrafia...non gli sarà andate molto bene
I live in Saxony, Ore Mountains from where you got the Pitchblende and in my town there are a lot of mines but they are all closed in cause of radioactive ores/materials.
How radioactive is that rock?
It says 320uSv/h but that's as high as the meter goes...
Ah! 320. Not great, not terrible.
its actually 720 microsieverts
i found in a later video
i found this same Geiger counter on a forum from a man who goes to Chernobyl for his birthday, he used it for checking radiation in the areas he visited, so it was neat to see you using it as well knowing that the russian military who helped him into the zone also used it for visitors
+Brandon Fireking actually i believe its Ukrainian military, my bad
Could you perhaps put these figures into context in terms of how dangerous some of these items could potentially be?
That might explain why I felt nauseous for no reason (this only occurred a few times within a decade)
Touching things that we would not even think to be radioactive
Won't be the cause. Exposure to low/ moderate amounts of radiation produces no acute symptoms
your videos are always a treat
How did you keep yourself safe from the Radiation? Or is it safe for linited periods of exposure?
Really interesting video! Definitely subscribing to your channel… Two questions: Can the SOEKS detector display counts per minute (CPM)? And also, what is the font you used for displaying the mineral’s names and formulas? It’s beautiful!
Thank you :)
No, the Soeks cannot display CPM. The Gamma-Scout can (CPS or accumulated counts in a given period).
The font is called Lao UI.
I have collected and removed more than 600 lbs of pitchblende from my seven acre property. I live in Independence, Virginia. Pearisburg, VA is worse. I'm just glad that most of those rocks are directional.
Where do you buy your mineral samples? Thanks for the video!
Would it surprise you, if it was the dark net?
Love the music you use for this, kind of has a dark feel to it. :)
I was waiting for: "Warning! Hazardous radiation levels detected."
+pvc988 The warnings on the meter including "DANGEROUS BACKGROUND RADIATION" was clear enough to me.
Was that a Half Life reference ?
I was waiting for it to say "Get the fuck out!"
Subnautica?
+Friday Harlowe :)
I am looking to buy a reliable Geiger counter because I live on top of a mass of hot granite and have several defunct thorium and uranium mines in the neighbourhood. I have been told that even our well water contains uranium and radon. The strange thing is that people around here also live to great old age.
It's great to see you're making super-interesting videos again!
I know you said you wouldn't comment on how dangerous is too dangerous to have around, but you seem like the right person to ask. I'm really interested on this subject.
What is the most radioactive thing in the body naturally?
+TheGamerOfSamness (Evarderp)
Potassium-40 has some hard gamma radiation. More info: hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/faqradbods.html
Bananas have Potassium-40
A penis?(Maybe?)
You are funny. But no
what is the deadliest thing naturally in the body
Great video. Thanks for sharing and congrats on winning Bionerd's contest!
+Howard Price
Thanks for watching :)
A normal day in Braniac's life xD
My question to you sir, why the hell you keep radioactive material in your home?
I felt like I got cancer just by watching this.
+Forssa1 Our bodies produce around 5000 cancer cells in 1 minute, sleep on that.
+Dāvis Zaķis -- We are world cancer so it's like a pot and a kettle thing at this point.
Well, i am from saxony. why did you said it because it is in germany?
Forssa1 Only if you Smoke ! tjl
Man, i just LOVE your videos.
Czech Republic for the win!
I'm just kidding.
Or not.
+Shadowhacker Yeah i live in most radioactive county propably :-D
+Shadowhacker Don't be mean to my neighbour country D:
jk dont take srsly
+Slahous já nevěděl že žiju v Černobylu 0.o
:-DD
+MichalH What is your neghbour country?
This video made me wondering if the 33x45x5cm "Viscount White" granite slab underneath my record player is radioactive, and if, how much.
I live in the Czech Republic :)
You should make a video where you test and show things that are radioactive or emit radiation that we may have or use on a daily basis. Like what you did with the dog tag and the set of dishes.
What would happen if you put your radiation detector thing in a microwave and turned it on?
I'm also aware that radioactivity and microwaves aren't necessarily the same thing lol.
Borka223 im fairly certain it detects alpha too, but yea
johannes the stalking biscuit only if it has a mica window, thin enough to allow alpha particles in. I believe the SOEKS in this video does not have one.
Microwave radiation is non-ionizing so a geiger counter doesn't detect it. But it would probably fry/melt the electronics so don't do it :)
***** Yes, geiger counters are usually quite far from the full story unless you are measuring a Cesium-137 sample. I would get a higher reading if the samples were 'unpacked' and measured including alpha radiation. But with an energy-compensated scintillator I think most samples would score a lower reading.
Another great video! Thanks for sharing!!! I'm gonna buy one of these radiation measurement things and check my dinnerware in case any stuff at my home is radioactive too. Those pendants and dinnerware sets should be clearly labeled as radioactive! It's kinda scary!!!
How do you store your radioactive samples?
+Marius Ammann behind Iron bars well that is what i would do
+Gandalf Bruh Lead bars at least
iron? defuq i talk lead yes iam sorry m888
Bars? You know it's not a prisoner right? It can go through the gap in the bars lmao. Surely a lead box would be better?
The fridge.
uuuuuh Nice Collection... I love it! =)
How did you get that radioactive material 🇫🇮🇫🇮🍪
I bought it. Search eBay or dedicated mineral webshops :)
+Brainiac75 Okay :) Thank you for anwsering to my comment many big you tubers dont even read my comments so thank you :)
Could you provide a link?
I live in Mexico, roughtly 40km away from a "depleted" urarinite mine. It is rumored that the US and Mexican goverment had to close down the mine because of its proximity to a town (4 km) and an important river (less than 1km), not because the mine was completely "exhausted". The entrance of the mine is sealed off with big iron plates and it is not recommended to get close to this zone since small traces of urarinite can still be found at ground level. I never knew that said rock was so dangerous, and sometimes I went to explore there... lol
+james leet
Hehe, if I lived near a uranium mine I probably would be tempted to go there too. I would never go down into the mine though. To many risks - including insane concentrations of radon...
how to commit a crime with radioactive shit.
1. Give your victim the lava rock pendent as a present.
2. AND BOOM CHECK IT OUT PRETTY AMAZING HEH?
that pet collar...it just sets off ill feellings for me
Who is watching this in 2016?
So as most of these came under "Dangerous Radiation" levels, where do you store them? Away from your house?
+Ben J
Alpha radiation is stopped by only a sheet of paper and has a range of only a few centimetres in air. Beta radiation is a bit stronger, so maybe some of the samples are in a lead box.
THIS VIDEO SCARED THE LIVING HELL OUT OF ME
Lore it's the background music
People tend to fear what they do now know about.
Hey I'm new to these types of videos and I'm curious how much radiation would be a lethal dose, or how much would actually affect you?
This man wants to die
As always a really interesting video. I have never seen one that I didn't like. Thank you for making, them very informative.
Thanks for watching :)
Very cool video! Those samples sure beat anything I have!
The uranyl acetate struck me. I was not aware soluble uranium compounds were available for purchase.
***** Labs are definitely going to have it, sure, but it seems like he got it as a private buyer, which is what made me curious. I've been trying to synthesize uranyl nitrate for display over an ultraviolet LED, but struggling to isolate the uranyl.
Sometimes I think of the episode of House MD where the kid was celebrating graduation but gets sick, turns out that his father works at a metal recycling place and found a neat looking thing that the kid kept on him at all time but it was some sort of radioactive stuff. Makes me think I should get a geiger counter to see if the stuff I buy from China or the local fleamarket has any amount of radiation to them.
Have you heard of the Goiânia accident? A nuclear core from an x ray machine found its way into a scrapyard in Brazil and one of the workers broke it open and shared the material with his family. It glowed in the dark and he didn't realize it was radioactive. By the time the material was addressed, it had contaminated 250 people and ultimately killed 4 of them (the man who brought home the material was a 5th death, but he drank himself to death). Very sad, very preventable.
nrml 0.11
A house 2 houses away from me and my family's house was another victim of lice. It was just tinted and is now finished but still has tons of chemicals near it. Our friend who lives in the house right in front of the lice house said that she can still smell some of the chemicals outside every time she opens a window in their house. How radioactive do you think the house and the area surrounding it is???
Wouldn't something that radioactive hurt you eventually especially since they are probably not kept in specialized containers and you're handling them with no protection?
I guess if those are gamma ray detectors you could get a bit more information on those too-hot-to-measure samples by seeing how close the detectors can get before they max out.
Those "pitchblende rocks", are those common on mountains or just a decorative stuff in a garden.
Why do I feel radiated by just watching this video?
Capitalizing off of radiation, with the pendants and pottery... a little scary, admittedly...
The pendants are scary because they are a relative new thing and aren't advertised as radioactive. The vintage pottery is less scary - back then they just didn't know better :)
@Brainic75, I'm glad that you now have the Radiacode device, but that said, lots of people went out and purchased the Gamma Scout because they saw it on your channel. The gamma scout is a totally horrendous product, and even now get sales revenue for this snake oil. FYI, I just did a review on my channel about that horrible product.
I don't wanna be a wise guy, but should you were gloves? What safety precautions were made? I don't know where I would be without your videos. Your my main man
Keep the videos coming my friend! I always enjoy your stuff!
I would not be wearing that pendant around my neck and would he a hard pass on the ceramic bowls too. I would be worried just keeping those red hot rocks around my house.
Do they give off heat, more so than just a normal river rock?
A classic statement: "...I prefer to eat from the non-radioactive bowls"
I see the small amounts and then I think imagine buying land and like having LARGE amounts of it under you
what would be the effect if you put a magnet on one of this ?
VB2095 ? Nothing
why the gammascout jumps to zero at the 320µsv piece? (at 10:10) thats not normal, its not too much for that device (when its too much it shows "overflow")
maybe there is something wrong with the tube voltage regulation, it needs to rise the voltage at higher counts
I think you need to add some context to the levels of radiation these things are giving out. The tool you're using seems to consider anything above 0.9 as dangerous, yet you're handling it without a care, so what is dangerous?
FileTrekker If I'm right, that counter is made for measuring background radiations, so it's for long-term exposure. normally the normal amount we get usually for a year is 4mSv, this counter measure the number of uSv per Hour (i use ''u'' for micro),
if we take his background exposure, its 0.13uSv/h, in one year you get 1.14 mSv a year, which is a low amount
But at 0.9uSv/h, you get 7.88mSv, which is almost twice (4mSv) the normal dose
one of the sample was 38uSv/h, in one year you get an impressive 332.88mSv, which is almost 7 time higher the max allowed exposed for one year (50mSv) of an Nuclear plant employee
For the highest thing he tested, 4x320=1.28mSv/h, the one year dose is 11.21Sv, the deadly dose is 2Sv to 4Sv, il make you see how fast it goes up
second: 0.35 uSv
minute: 21.33 uSv
Hour: 1.28 mSv
Day: 30.72 mSv
Week: 215.04 mSv
Month: 921.6 mSv
Year: 11.21 Sv
there the image i used, which is reliable upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Radiation_Dose_Chart_by_Xkcd.png
So the fact he touch them for a short time is not dangerous at all, since the counter is for Long term measurements. Hope that helped
It has been another 3 years, make another one!
Great video ! Other samples to add to your collection are the sensor from an old smoke alarm, welding rod with 2% thorium and maybe old glow in the dark clocks or instruments from pre WW II or The Great War to end all wars... Have you been to the Trinity Site ? And 2015 was the 70th year with a big turn out in the Spring Open House. Used to play at the old Argonne site where CP-2 and CP-3 are buried. CP-3 was the First Working Heavy Water Reactor ! The German design was to small and needed to be three times larger to work. And think that a young woman from Poland started all the work on radiation and was the first woman professor and taught at a French University. Thank you, tjl
that dog and cat thingy is saddening because they wear that their whole life
Chernobyl is a tourist destination, but Chelyabinsk is still open to live and no one knows what happened in Krasnoyarsk because they turned off the Geiger counters...
Radioactive stuff is actually less dangerous to animals.. simply because of their shorter lifespans. (less cells to divide, less copying errors?) And probably shorter natal period.
you have some very nice samples!
And just like that, my interest in "healing" pendants spiked
Good work, nice presentation but.. there is a problem.
Your video is misleading. Both instruments show numbers, and numbers only. You could make anyone of them show Fukushima inside the reactor while it does not exist at more than low sample level of say Cs-137. The answer is Calibration of whatever we use as nuclear decay energy detector or to be more accurate nuclear activity detector.
The only limitation with how big is the error is sensitivity of the detector.
I love your videos, thank you for your work. It is my preoccupation on a daily basis.
Wesley
Any recommendations for geiger counters? I would like one
RUclipsrs like you deserve more subs
Thanks! My channel is slowly but steady growing so I'm more than pleased. 40k subscribers is way more than I ever expected.
to the end question... Interestingly Fukushima is already starting to draw tourists to the ghost towns. had I had more time I would have liked to visit myself... maybe my next trip.
How can they legally sell those pendents.