I turned a fish tank into a URANIUM cloud chamber
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- With a basic knowledge of physics and chemistry, you can use household products to see the invisible radiation all around us.
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As promised, here's a PDF to try this yourself: scoollab.web.cern.ch/sites/scoollab.web.cern.ch/files/documents/20200521_JW_DIYManual_CloudChamber_v7.pdf
Kyle Hill ooh thanks I’ve been wanting to try it
Nice
Kyle Hill I’ve heard bananas are surprisingly radioactive. Would you be able to see it using a cloud chamber if you used enough bananas?
6:22 THAT IS SOOOO COOOL!!!!
Did I just spot a count dankula reference in the video?
'I got it from don't worry about it' is now in my top ten favorite sentences from the internet.
I appreciated the slow wink
You TOTALLY CANNOT buy small uranium ore on Amazon. It TOTALLY IS NOT perfectly legal in America to buy non-enriched uranium. 😉
@@rhov-anion if this search gets me put on another list I'm blaming you
@@sarasmr4278 Wait... ANOTHER list? does that mean...
@@sarasmr4278 I'm probably on a list myself, considering I've looked into this in the past.
Uranium and alcohol? Sounds like my kind of party.
Well that sounds like a... RAD party
Sounds like OUR party comrade
Yeah I’ll bring Geiger counters and later we can watch the trinity test video
@@Nathan-mu8zy Geiger Meister, be the radioactive decay master
@NIGHT Me to
"to do this, we need to get alcohol everywhere, like the university of arizona." ROFLMAO I live in Mesa, AZ, and you are NOT WRONG.
Is Tucson a party town now? I thought ASU was the party school
Well, what else are you gonna do in the 120 degree desert heat, drink WATER hahaha yeah I think not
@@Kierangaliano ASU stopped being a party school in the early 2000's . U of A is a mess now because of how seriously ASU takes those kinds of infractions.
Same and YUP. That was hilarious.
This is true. They swapped roles in the early century. It's still odd.
F is for Fire that burns down the whole town
U is for Uranium.... bombs
N is for No survivors
- Dr. Plankton who went to college
plankton those things aren't what fun is about
F is for Friends who do stuff together
U is for You and Me
N is for Anywhere and Anytime at all
Down here in the deep blue sea.
must've been the University of Arizona
scantopup
Maybe to you... But Uranium is _hot_
N is for Nuclear... Probably lol
Kyle : I have Uranium
Me : Where did you-
Kyle : Don't worry about it
Was it you again? Were you shipping uranium ore again?
Americium is easier to get than uranium
I'm officially worried about it.
Its not exactly difficult to obtain.
Uranium in general isn't hard to get. Significant amounts of U-238 (I think. I always get them confused) is what is controlled.
Therapist: Kyle Ross isn’t real. He can’t hurt you.
Kyle Ross: ...
Kyle Ross is terrifying, but the reverse is much more so.
To wit: Bob Hill, which definitely is not an American cartoon child
Yes, hah. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Kyle: this uranium is safe to hold
Kyle two episodes later: so since I lost my hair I've done some self reflection
I expect its a super low activity source to the point where touching it would be "safe"
buuuut i am wondering about those alpha particles that are getting let loose every time a decay hapens
their a real pain to deal with
@@sledxdomi3653 Thick gloves should do the trick.
@@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 alpha particles aren't very penetrating. The dead skin on your hand should be enough for what he's working with.
@@6ixpool520 Yeah, SHOULD be.
1 mm of material is about enough, dead skin, not necessarily. The thing is, you dont actually want the "should", you dont want to risk with skin cancer. Gloves give you some partial protection against beta too.
....or you just have not taken your hands out of your pockets for a year.
so long as you dont breath em in or get it in ur eyes then u should be good! thanks guys
"This is a hunk of uranium ore"
*Holds up an olive*
This is why they don't let you back in Olive Garden.
"I got it from -don't worry about it-"
I died. DIED! :)
@@addmoreice maybe because you held it too close to your brain?
"Don't worry about" it is actually the Amazon of the black market btw
You can also activate Don't worry about it 'Smile' to donate every time you buy selected items!
lies
Supplier location back of a truck in New Jersey
@@BrysenJacobsen ...Did anyone feel a gust of wind? (Makes a whooshing noise) Yup. Gust of wind.
@@Leekodot15 lol
''I got it from, don't worry about it'' will be my favorite phrase when someone asks me where I got their birthday present, thanks mister Hill.
This was one of your best episodes you've ever done and you've done a lot of awesome stuff.
Kyle has access to Uranium.
So when are we going to see your time traveling Delorean?
Also how did you trick the Lybians?
Either: "Kevin, go buy some Uranium..." RIP Kevin
Or: "ARIA, Exterminate !"
Delorean was Plutonium, not Uranium
@@xPanda25 ****! For the first time, my movie memory has failed me! And on my favorite movie series, no less!!!
@@sabata2 Haha happens to the best of us!
@@sabata2 Also, its libyans, not lybians.
But dont worry, you dont need to feel bad about forgetting things. Its normal, you are getting old and will soon forget you even remembered it in the first place, so it will be ok. And then you can watch your favorite movies every day like they were new.
Infact you will think they are new. 😀
All of these things you can buy for cheep or find at home.
Me:
MOM
Mom:
Yes
Me:
Were is the uranium ore
Mom:
In the drug cabinet
Me:
Thanks
You can actually buy it on Amazon no joke
fun fact, a red, food-safe (no longer considered food safe) bowl is more radioactive than uranium ore
they're called fiesta bowls and the red ones can reach 4000 counts/minute on a Geiger counter
@@uzazi2043 Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T) has a research reactor run by their nuclear engineering department. When I was a student there (it was called University of Missouri-Rolla at the time), I took a tour of the facility and they had the dosimeter badges for their staff. The tour guide told us about how they had a small panic years prior when the dosimeters for some of the people working there showed they had been dangerously exposed. He explained that each night when they left, they had been putting their dosimeter badges in one of those bowls (which he held up to show us) and the bowl was radioactive enough to set off their dosimeters.
XD
funny, I store my uranium on the basement, where I put my soap and that stuff
"Why Kyle is on a watch list in 3, 2,1..." "This is a hunk of uranium ore, I got it from don't worry about it..."
'While our chunck of Uranium, don't worry where I got it"
Definitely not super villainy 🤔
Id bet youve got a physical shop in your town or nearest city (well, city likely far more than one) that sells uranium. In the form of minerals.
you can buy it off amazon
My roommate makes Lofi beats... beats to get irradiated to is definitely happening
I actually own a piece of trynatite, which is radioactive glass made at the trinity test site, to those who are wondering I put a video of it on my youtube channel
Wow! How does it look? Is it like a shiny crystal?
@@OverlordOfNerds um actually it's more of a green glassy color with edges that look like cliffs made of emerald
@@mr.cringe2.059 That's still cool. Hella cool to be honest
@@OverlordOfNerds it is except when you realize it's a piece of radioactive fallout, in fact I accidentally put my thumb on accident and it turned purple for a moment
@@mr.cringe2.059 Okay, now it's kinda scary. Still cool, but also scary. I'm gonna go look it up on the internet. Hope it didn't lead to any lasting damage on your thumb though.
University of Arizona will remember this.
No they won't, they're too drunk
ikr, shots fired at university of arizona
Charles Stebbins that was the perfect response to that commrnt
"Next week, Join us when I explain why my arm is now a tentacle."
We did this back in 6th grade earth science. Thank you Gloria Leedham for being the best science teacher EVER!
@Anthony Romasco: That's awesome, but did she explode pure potassium in water on the first day of class, then go on to encore on day two or three by converting rust back into pure iron using thermite? Mine did. Thank you, Mr. Hurwit.
@@sdfkjgh
Well...
I'm not sure that would have flown well in a 6th grade class. But she taught us about crystal formation by making batches of fudge that were cooled at different rates. She brought in a portable planetarium tent. When I was doing my science project on lasers, she payed out of pocket to get me a dud from Westinghouse to use in my display. And taught us about supersaturation by showing us the magic snow-globe trick
Sounds fun, my 8th grade science teacher had the class make wine as a class project
we did it in kindergarten...on Vulcan
no really. You guys were really fortunate to have educators who CARE about you by lighting the wondrous eternal flame of science in your hearts and minds...we had a science department head whose first master was in English... any misspelled correct answer - 2 points. Any misspelled incorrect answer was usually -4 points then subtract 2 points for the misspelled word for a total of minus 6. For a test with 25 questions worth four points apiece, one could make a negative score. I thank God for tough teachers. College was a breeze.
The computer's still his girlfriend right? They have great chemestry together.
Don’t you mean they do great chemistry together? ;)
As far as I know, it has never gotten physical.
@@kaelanirevyruun1676 shhhhhh... we're engineers.
Hello,
Yes, Kyle?
Yes, I would like to acquire some uranium for my own version of this experiment.
Thank you.
-also not a supervillain
All you have to do is search for uranium on Amazon.
@@ronhebert3027Yes, it is legal to have a limited amount of non-enriched or depleted uranium(non-enriched uranium is naturally occurring & 99% Uranium-238[Uranium-235 is the kind used in power plants & bombs] & depleted uranium is >=99.7% Uranium-238). The main risk of these types of uranium is actually not the radiation, but the fact that they, like lead, are poisonous heavy metals.
You can find some for like $40 on Amazon.
It was a joke based on one of the things he said guys. 🤦♂️
u cn get very old green coloured stuff they are coated with uranium dont ask why
4:53 we have proof that Kyle is an alien bent on taking over the world!
I need this clips for a animated wallpaper. It is so relaxing to watch.
I have to assume that you're talking about Kyle winking at us lol
Ryan Schofill totally
Ooh, this might be the best episode of the Facility so far! The humor is on point, the science is great, and the video of the experiment was absolutely beautiful. Keep up the fantastic work, Kyle!
"Beats to get irradiated too" sounds like a fallout playlist waiting to happen
My High School: Here's a slinky for simulating waves.
Kyle Definitelynotavillain Hill: Here's some URANIUM and oh you dont need it to see RADIATION.
I'm here to like your video even though I saw it early!! Keep working the Kyle do, good.
Really cool episode here, Kyle! I loved the experiment with the alcohol cloud chamber.
Bob Ross imitation got me. Great Reference!
The visible cosmic radiation was the most interesting. Idk why but thats when I got the thought, "Oh holy [Sheets] thats awesome!"
Not that the uranium radiation wasn't also great, just got hit differently with the cosmic radiation.
Great Sciencing!
Hey Kyle please do a video on the Gundam Statue being built.
USA Headline: A REAL Transformer!
That would make a bad ass live wallpaper
Would you be able to get this effect with the radioactive material inside a smoke detector?
I'd assume so, it should work with all radio active elements and items if done right
I think you'd need to remove it from its shielding, which is probably a very bad idea.
If you remove it from the shielding, then yes, but thats not exactly safe to do so... Proceed with caution and wear thick gloves
How a smoke detector works is detection of the interruption of alpha particles(Helium-4 nucleii[Alpha particles are the least penetrating type of radiation & can be blocked by things such as sheets of paper, the 1st layer of human skin{which is dead}, &, more important for smoke detectors, smoke & steam]), so if you disassemble a smoke detector, you should be able to find the puck of Americium(it's gold plated). Also, the dose of radiation you would get from taking it apart & putting it in a cloud chamber probably wouldn't be enough to hurt you, but I wouldn't recommend leaving it lying around & keeping it in your pocket would certainly give you a harmful dose of radiation over time.
The americium in most smoke detectors has a coating on it that stops the radiation from escaping also the type of radiation from americium is different than normal radiation so unless you ingest it americium should be safe to handle
wish i could get dry ice. this seems like an awesome experiment
Tune in for the next episode: How to avoid paying your loan by threatening the whole block with a house made thermonuclear explosive
It's the in-between witty jokes that always gets me and makes it so much more entertaining to watch your videos. I hope someday to be as awesome as you someday Kyle!
Kyle: "like University of Arizona"
Me: *laughs in Radford University*
Kyle teaching us to play with radiation... Now that's my favorite kind of Supervillain!!!
7:05 _Alcoholic Mist,_ the latest fad from the same hucksters who brought you oxygen bars.
Also a great name for a smooth jazz lounge combo.
fun fact, a red, food-safe (no longer considered food safe) bowl is more radioactive than uranium ore
they're called fiesta bowls and the red ones can reach 4000 counts/minute on a Geiger counter
Praise Atom and praise Kyle for showing his influence is with us even without his special ores around us.
8:39 Nope, just get a shit-tonne of banananas together in one place, like any 7-11 does.
Yes, I am making a Nanny Ogg reference.
This is Genuinely one of my favorite episodes so far, it is taking a look at science that we all experience every day.
I made a wilson cloud chamber for my high school senior project in physics! It was so cool! except instead of Uranium i used Thorium, I officially become the most eradiated student in my class that semester lmao
Kyle: Don't worry about where I got the Uranium.
Meanwhile on Amazon you can buy uranium ore for 50 bucks.
And united nuclear will sell you small bits of highly active ore ideal for cloud chambers for $59. Or you can get old red fiestaware with uranium packed gaze off eBay.
Kyle how tf do you only have 330k subscribers. Your content is not only hilarious but extremely interesting and educational all at the same time. Keep it up man!
0:17 Interestingly enough, at least three of the Kevins _aren't_ made up of stable atoms. I keep waiting for The Foundation to label The Facility a GoI.
Fun Fact: Most Nuclear Plants use Uranium 235 as the ore they use. Example is the Indian Point 2 reactor in New York. Russia had a different ore for a little while but forgot what it was, after Chernobyl all plants turned to U235.
Chernobyl + alcohol
MSDesign ASMR so that’s why it blew up.
Drinking on the job 😂
But that's just Russia
@@aggroniq2268 and why you shouldn't be Russian around
Super sized water balloon filled with alcohol? Sounds like a super villain plot to me.
This reminds me so much of a video I saw a while ago of an experiment that let you view crazy phyiscs like this but for the life of me I can't remember who or what it was 😢😭
Been watching you for years dude, and I think this is my favorite video you've ever done. Thanks!
Fun fact, here in southern Alberta you can get 40L of 99% isopropyl alcohol for 150$ from some comercial cleaning supply stores. Have fun, dont play with fire
And here I thought for a second "Don't worry about it" was a legit seller for (harmless like the one in the video) Uranium and similar stuff...
I don't know man, my crippling social anxiety can make me pretty unstable
Holy crap are you coming into your own. One of my favorite TH-cam videos yet!
Thank you Kyle. I consider this video a gift of the likes of videos like the first black whole image or the slow mo guys’ slow mo Light video
We build one as a study project. To make it more science, we experimented with different alcohol solutions and temperatures.
We used Peltier elements instead of dry ice, though.
I would like to know where to find my local "Don't Worry About It" so I can get myself some uranium for undisclosed reasons.
your local "Don't Worry About It" is Amazon. You can straight up just buy it on amazon
Ebay
Fun fact- if you don't have the patience to wait for cosmic rays, and don't want to be on a watchlist for trying to get hold of uranium, most homes will have at least one pretty good alpha-emitting source: a smoke alarm.
Now, I'm not suggesting you go putz around with the one you already have in your home, but an additional/spare one you can take apart probably won't break the bank. Y'see, they work by having a pretty active alpha emitter (typically californium, iirc) a short distance from a sensor. Smoke gets in, absorbs the alpha particles, sensor suddenly isn't picking up the radiation and sounds the alarm. It's the high activity that we want (granted, high particle energy would also make the trails in the cloud chamber more spectacular, but offhand I can't guarantee that).
Smoke detectors contain Americum specifically 241.
1911: Today i will use my brilliant mind to create a way to form clouds !
2020: Welcome to PhysicsGirl, today i will show you how to make clouds with your Mouth !
The question I'm still pondering, where did Kyle get the uranium from?
Don't worry about it
Also known as amazon
I AM THE PHYSICS BOY! I'M THE ONE WHO EXPERIMENTS!
I'M THE RADIOACTIVE BOY, I'M THE ONE WHO RADIATES!
Idk why but I read that like how Joker from Darkside Royalty Lore says his “Nostradamus” joke xD And then heard the joke play in my head xD “I AM THE NOSTRADAMUS! THE VOICE OF GAAAHHHHD!”
Ya grump!
Wow... cloud chamber is amazing!
Wow! I love these practical demonstrations of real-life physics, and Kyle does a great job at showing us how they can be done.
It would be fun to compare different radioactive materials. You might want to get a whole collection of them, one to match every FBI agent standing outside your door.
Ah yes "Donwuriaboudit" my favorite vacation spot
Your humour is developing, and i like it
I have a theory that chambers like this could be used to see if ghosts exist, but only if ghosts are made of unstable particles. Scatter these cold chambers around a haunted place , set up cameras and lights then wait.
"I got it from don't worry about it" haha I love internet science
When I was seven (in 1958) I made a cloud chamber. For the radioactive material I had a little 'Experiments in Radiation' educational toy. I loved my cloud chamber and was trying to find info on what the different trails meant. (This was totally pre-internet. Even pre 'online'). I made the mistake of calling it a 'gas chamber' and my dad made me dismantle it because 'That is disgusting'. Ah, such is life.
If I remember correctly uranium is incredibly abundant. The base isotope (238) can be found literally everywhere.
238 isn't as active as other isotopes but it does still decay.
What does this mean? Dig through the top soil of your garden and grab a hunk of substrate. You now have enough uranium to do this experiment!
It's just the tricky matter of separating it from the rest...
I have an old radium clock that made my cellphone detecter get up to 19, i think it is the same sensor you have
That is a cancer machine
Makes me think of the old Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books, where people used radium torches as light sources.
"Crippling social anxiety", I feel called out
United Nuclear sells uranium ore. It's also where I got my ball mill from.
So does Amazon.
The cloudchamder (Tågekammer) is the student organisation that organizes presentations and alike for all physics student on my university.
Fantastic episode Kyle! Thanks for this amazing and beautiful display.
this looks like an amazing high school science fair project. the cosmic radiation version that is, not the uranium version.
This episode was definitely worth the wait.
Kyle just throwing shade left and right
Posts on 4chan? Isn’t that a basket weaving site?
Turkish knitting/sewing website
id like to see this with a more radioactive substance
From the title alone... is Kyle trying to become Super Florida Man?
John73 John he already is
If Uranium makes you nervous, you can also get Americium from certain smoke detectors.
So one could say Homer Simpson is actually a scientist?
Negative Ion products will also emit a terrifying amount of radiation for a product you are supposed to wear on you all day.
Last time I was this early Kyle wasn't trying to take over the tri-state area
Kyles evil incorporated
Stare in awe at my newest invention! The Content-inator!
Curse you kevin the intern.
Hmm, could you substitute the uranium ore with a banana?
Next video: how to make a nuke
As I learned in Fallout, Radiation is not to be feared, but it should be respected.
That's probably one of the coolest demonstrations I've seen before.
One of the most interesting episodes hands down
I saw alcohol and I clicked it
Kyle has access to Uranium. Good thing he's not a supervillain 😅😅
i must be radioactive, im hella unstable
He blinked..
The 4chan quip killed me
Yeah got me a good chuckle
I've seen a cloud chamber in person a few times, I could watch it all day. Seemed like there was alot more bombardment of particles where I was eep. So Kyle about that uranium?😆
Collabbing with the Slow Mo guys on this would’ve been rad!.... get it...?
Okay, I’ll leave.
Can you get the density of the measuring alcohol up
to have better measurement? Does it change the distance traveled by the radiation because of an interaction with the cloud chambers components? If you aligne the magnetic field would we have a more linear path golden ratio like?
A superconductor magnet would be nice to mix since it's mostly used at cold temperature.