Make ☢️Radiation☢️ VISIBLE
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Do a timelapse of a banana in there till it pops something.
Uranium rod add uranium rod
put the demon core inside it
Do it with a smartphone, so people would finally know a smartphone's radiation level. Since a lot of people still believe 5G causes cancer 😐
Alpha rays huh? Can I ask something? Which of them are the worst to humans? alpharays (who are the ,,least resistant"), betarays ( who are like gamma but they don't pass aluminum) or gammarays
I would like to see how a smoke alarm is shielded vs unshielded
Edit: 22k Likes and we haven't seen this yet :( I hope you're still up to doing this one.
No difference there use some non ionizing type of cesium I beleive and nano grams at thst just has to complete a circuit
@@derrekvanee4567 There are smoke detectors that use Americium and while they use a very tiny amount the type of radiation emitted is most certainly ionizing.
@@peterhaag9344 there was a boy that took radioactive materials from smoke detectors, gun sights, and lanterns. And used them to try and create a breeder reactor. While he ultimately failed (due to both him realizing the radiation it was giving off and being caught by the government). But he had already irradiated his home leading to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) classifying his mothers home as a Superfund hazardous materials site. And this was after his mother had actually three away most of the radioactive material through conventional garbage disposal. He was also arrested on the claim that he stole smoke detectors for rebuilding his reactor. To which he plead guilty. He was in the end be nicknamed the Nuclear Boy Scout and would die due to drug and alcohol complications.
bro where tf does this even come from
@@calebferrell2298 spent nuclear fuel
The "banana for scale" is pure gold
It did have trails though which was neat
Because of the small amount of radioactive isotope of potassium
@@Sleepy_Joe true
It wasn't for scale.. it was for the rumor that bananas will kill you cause radiation even though it's so small it really doesn't matter..
@@stevenn1940 apparently I need glasses cuz I didn't see any at all. Watched three times after reading this too. Lol
The fact that they were able to sell something that was mislabeled and RADIOACTIVE on Amazon is absolutely insane.
They stopped selling thorium coated mantles in the 90s.
@@Dak3he means the “negative ion pendant”
How is it dangerous? I guess you’re afraid of the sun.
Lemme guess. Those coins were forged in Asgard@@Dak3
@@Dak3 lol no they didn't. most people don't like the new yttrium mantles and dont think they put out as much light. they still sell thorium mantles and people seek them out. i bought a 20pack
It's Spidey senses are tingling
this needs more attention
i've always imagined radioactive like area damage
but it's actually a micro bullet firing thing
that's even more awesome
Me too!
Its like granade fragmentation?
@@lower47 If you are asking a question, he means that he imagined radiatiation area of effect as bubble rather then something that shoots things
well, as usual there is some ambiguation. just as with light. besides that, with enough time / strength it can be generalized into waves-like. this would be done for e.g. exposure calculation.
@@lower47 more like a minigun that fires a large amount of rounds in random directions. Or I guess the fragmentation metaphor could work if you imagined the grenade going off countless times.
“From Amazon that turned out to be radioactive” is not something I thought I’d ever hear
Amazon employees:" First day hm?"
But in all seriousness they should protect their workers and treat them better in any case.
@@Kino_Cartoon since when
@@thorticus1047 oh shoot I forgot the word *"should"* my bad
@@Kino_Cartoonbro i saw your pfp and thought it was soyjak, look it up if you dont know what it is. I promise it looks just like your pfp from a distance 😂
@@420inmysystem69 fair enough it does look like it from afar XD. I drew this when I was like 14 and never changed it. It kinda makes me nostalgic when I'm being honest.
"A banana produces no trails-"
**A single trail comes of the banana at that exact moment**
thats why he said almost
I saw 3 trails
Bananas are radioactive btw lol
@@Dough_Fruit_V2beat me to it lok
@@JuicyBurger29 Banana fruit
The banana farting a singular trail really does it for me lol
I don't see it
How high are u bro, it doesn't
@@MisguidingWishlook again, it does.
@@MisguidingWish it's at the top left above the curved portion close by the stem
Bro really did "To prove to you of the radioactivity, here's a banana for scale"
Banana's have a surprisingly large amount of carbon-14, so yes, we literally use a banana for scale when using millirems and microsieverts to scale.
even bananas are a better measurement unit than imperial
Bananas are actually radioactive, as they have Potassium 40, which is.... you guessed it... Radioactive...
Bro really thought this was the comment
What if you peel the banana?
I always thought of radiation as sort of a constant thing emanating from radioactive objects, it's interesting how it's sort of just a bunch of particles piercing through space. So if you get hit with radiation, it's like a bunch of microscopic stab wounds.
That’s what kills you, they stab through your body, and basically start decomposing your body while you’re still alive
@@lucasbuttalicka4521 Yeah I guess so.
poking out holes and something and it loses its integrity
I guess this is the same principle used with a Radiation Knife. I never thought it was so literal haha
Kinda, except it's small enough to destroy parts of your DNA
Bro, the split second moment where the banana actually spew a trail of radioactive particles kills me
well, just correcting (feel free to call me a nerd) it's radioactive particle, not particles... the trails are from a SINGULAR particle.
it will kill you if you eat 40,000 in 10 mins
@@iced_latte6354Ah yes, the RADIATION would kill you
@@hazeltree7738 congrats, you were the comment i was fishing for!
@@iced_latte6354 Woo \o/
You should make an hour video of the particle trails. You’d be surprised how many would watch along with you!!❤
Honestly there should just be a permanent livestream of one of these chambers, imagine just casually having this in the background and you suddenly see it light up with trails and it turns out you just witnessed some interesting event!
Train a camera on it and use some opencv to do some tracking of the trails and you'd have a decent source of entropy/random number seed
@@gazzat5 I think Cloudflare does this with lava lamps.
I want to make my own cloud chamber but i just don't have the time.
I even have most of the materials including the 99% IPA.
@@gazzat5 Cloudflare actually uses radioactive decay for some of their random numbers. It's also the best possible source of randomness, due to quantum mechanics.
(They also use a camera for lava lamps / a triple pendulum at some of their other data centers)
Even better, those thin streaks are actually only alpha particles, but once in a while you might see a thick streak which is likely a beta plus or beta minus decay particle
Man unironically used a banana for scale in terms of radioactivity
It's clever lol
They are little radioactive but only really minor
Yup, potassium is radioactive, but to be fair, so are humans
@@outkast937 yup, we eat potassium making us barely radioactive. It's cuz of the rare potassium-40 isotope.
Just read the "Banana equivalent dose" Wikipedia page, for better reference.
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I went to a science demonstration type thing as a little kid once and a guy did this for us. It's been like 18 years and I've never seen or heard about this procedure since, but I still think about it all the time. So cool to see it again
It's a perfect way to visibiliy show how dangerous it is and how it impales us invisibly.
Chernobyl would look like a fireworks show with this thing
😂😂😂 fr same with the 2 famous Japan citys 🤣 here comes the Sun Do Do Do do
@@ludoviclacroix6258 funny
@@UCgx7OseCrundqkE8oEVeobg bro take a fucking chill pill It's a TH-cam comment
@@UCgx7OseCrundqkE8oEVeobg skill issue
@@UCgx7OseCrundqkE8oEVeobg skill issue
Seeing the way it rapidly cuts through the air was incredible. Really puts a visual to how it can rip through our DNA.
Yes. They're actually moving at about 5% of the speed of light.
@@joshhickson7551 bruh thats 54 million kms per hour ☠️
Alpha particles go around 5-10% the speed of light and 5% is indeed 53962642 km per hour.
@@Jeffrey_van_der_Post uh, thanks for checking the math. 👍
Very dangerous indeed
Ngl I thought from the thumbnail that tampons were radioactive
Exactly what I thought it would look like.
The bullet analogy about radioactive particles from Chernobyl was spot on, holy crap.
Because it’s not an analogy lmao it’s literally what happens to the particles
Perpetual BRRRRRRRRRRTBlyat.
Exactly what i was thinking
You've heard of the man who stuck his head in a particle collider, no?
That's why radioactive radiation is dangerous: it literally could penetrate/destroy cell membrane or even DNA of living being since it's so energetic.
Indeed we're bombarded by radiation everyday. But the comparision to stand nearby radioactive materal is like being shot by semi-auto pistol to gatling gun.
It is interesting how a banana still produces a few trails. Bananas are very, very slightly radioactive due to having trace amounts of Potassium 40 in them
But in the end they are somehow good for you
@@Crimsomreaf5555 radiation is all around us
There's an ambient amount of radiation too, like from the sun and stuff. It was most likely that.
And according to an experiment by explosions&fire ripe, dark spotted bananas have more potassium in them than green or yellow bananas.
Don’t remember if he found that bananas turn something else into potassium as it ripens or if the potassium just migrates from the peel to the fruit, but it was pretty cool nevertheless!
@@jafogx that is cool! How interesting.
Banana:- Radio active ❌❌
Banana :- Always Active ✅✅
I love how the banana still produced a single very faint trail
Him: I can watch it for hours
Marie Curie: not the best idea, my guy.
Underrated comment
Severely underrated comment. Most people don't even know madam Curie! It feels great you mentioned her!
@@felinefriendly617 It's standard curriculum to learn about her in US schools.
@Czadzikable sure, it wasn't my intention to disrespect the memory of this great scientist. And it is indeed sad that even most people do not even know this fact. But for this kind of joke, created mostly for entertainment, it would've been a bit overloaded for me to use her full polish name because she is mostly known after the short version of her name, and it is pretty hard to read for an average english speaking person. So I guess it may be exceptional for the simplicity reasons of a joke ( which by itself shouldn't be taken to serious ) , to keep the things short and use more or less known name of this legendary scientist.
Rest in peace, Marie Skłodowska Curie.
@@felinefriendly617 feminist spotted
everyone knows and respects her don't be such a know it all
Suggestions: a radium watch dial, Americium smoke detector source, X-ray tube, thoriated tungsten TIG electrode, and a cobalt-60 source.
I can already tell you an x-ray tube will not do much. Photons are too light to be picked up on cloud chambers
>and a cobalt-60 source
It's fine, if you don't like this youtuber you can just say it
ooo yeah I'd like to see how much radiation the radium girls were exposed to when painting watches
@@laz272727 Drop and run
Demon core
You should throw in a vintage uranium glass dish
You should get the slow mo guys to record this and see the trails moving super slow
Radiation is one of the most terrifying hazards known to man, you can't see it, smell it or taste it. It is known that during the Chernobyl disaster some victims experienced a phenomenon known as "radiation euphoria". It happens when someone is subjected to a large dose of radiation under a short amount of time. Some described it as feeling powerful and able to do anything, but it only lasted for a short amount of time before the symptoms of radiation sickness took its place.
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Lemme fix that😂😂
@@maryamchannel3566 that is greatly appreciated.
So it DOES give superpowers.. until it gives u super cancer
Latent phase
So. We do turn into Spider-Man or Captain America when pumped with radiation. Gonna jump in a nuclear reactor. BRB.
This is genuinely one of the coolest science demonstrations I've ever seen on youtube. Being able to actually see tiny radioactive particles making real, physical changes on their environment is just incredible
Same i was always curious about why radioactive materials are so dangerous, it sounded like magic to me. And as I haven't received any science education just reading why or the actual explanation didn't say much to me.
As you said it's so cool seeing here the particles being shoot and i can picture them going through a body like tiny bullets messing up it's particle structure, genetic material or whatever.
Lool, dude, i've seen your comment fired under some YTshort just yesterday and now you're here, the comment was ~2 yrs ago and it was about some school project where you had to do smth probably, it reall stuck with me for a moment and then i found you in the comment section, what a coincidence...
I know that this happens but actually seeing it is very sobering. If all radioactive substances were like this people would be much more careful with things.
The inventor, Charles Thomas Rees Wilson won a Nobel Prize for this invention! Several particles have been found using a cloud chamber as well!
"Today where gonna use a hotter item where gonna start with dry ice" 💀
Just to put it into scale, if the subatomic particles were the size of a grain of rice, it would leave a trail wider than jupiter
"I can watch this for hours" *proceeds to grow a third arm*
You know why? Your dna is so damage by this bullets shredding through that it try reconstruct itself to fix it resulting into mutation..
@@ireallycant4416 ..................
@@ireallycant4416 🤓
@@ireallycant4416 that's probably the best explanation of how radiation works wow
Eh, it’s not that dangerous to be around. Wouldn’t recommend it, but I don’t think it’d kill you.
It’s radioactive, but not Chernobyl radioactive 😅
I'd love to see some watch dials made in the 1940's.
You got some time to kill or wut?
Yes radium is way way more dangerous than a thorium mantle
@Damian Stefanicki
Did you have a stroke?
Pew pew pew
@Damian Stefanicki Huh? What are you trying to say?
I recently learned about this in physics!! Super fascinating!
Last short before bed
The short:💀
This completely changed the mental model I'd built in my head about radiation! I knew radiation is individual particles, but I assumed there would be thousands and thousands at all times, like rays of light from a flashlight.
What you're seeing here is Alpha radiation, literally ionised helium atoms being spewed out. Unfortunately, a cloud chamber can't be used to show X-rays or Gamma radiation, which, now that I think about it is probably for the best.
@@solartaire1 it shows gamma just not x ray Atleast from what I’ve heard
@@clarkortega1722 A Geiger counter can be used to detect alpha and beta particles as well as gamma radiation, whereas a cloud chamber reveals the presence of alpha and beta radiation, as well as protons and even muons, but it doesn't work for gamma or X-rays.
A Geiger counter clicks when it gets hit with a particle. We are a lot better dealing with periodic information from our auditory system than our visual system. If every click is one particle, a click rate that sounds like white noise is deadly, while a rate that sounds like a broken metronome is safe. You can think of each click as a small possibility that a single cell turned cancerous. Obviously, those possibilities add up over time.
same here, i always imagined it behaved like a gas. so i was expecting something similar to that video of what farts look like through a thermal camera.
*”Your Radiation Level has Increased”*
*Gieger Counter ticking*
*Ticks becoming louder*
ise a radaway
we makin it out of the FAYZ with this one 🗣️🔥🔥💯💯🥶🥶🥶🔥🔥💯💯‼️‼️🥶🥶🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🔥🥶💯
Lmao the fact that the banana still shot out a particle.
Someone needs to mail this guy an antique garden gnome that has yellow paint.
@@Crooked.crooked when I clicked the translation it said Rage. R u saying mad in a foreign language or r u asking what in English but misspelled
@@Crooked.crookedidrk abt this but im assuming the yellow pigment used at the time had smth radioactive in it and then it got turned into paint used on the gnome making it very radioactive
@@Crooked.crooked i wasnt rlly explaining why you said what but my bad ig sry
@@Crooked.crooked i just misunderstood why you said “wut” and your explanation sorry
@@brody231you rang?
“Hey man that’s a cool fog machine!”
“That’s not a fog machine 💀”
why does this have so many likes? its not even funny
@@2fifty533 none of your videos are either 💀
@@skurneha7163 not even trying to be funny lol
I disagree
@@2fifty533 came to remind u ur still a loser btw
This shows really well why radiation is bad for dissipating heat
Great explanation, thank you!
It’s actually scary to think that’s what is all around Chernobyl
I just watch the show and the documentary. That’s the first thing I thought about
I really wish we had one of these in advanced physics lab in college. It would've been absolutely mesmerizing to see in person
You don't need an advanced physics lab, I remember a science hobby book from the '60s that you could make one of these Cloud Chambers at home with a jar and some Water Ice to create a supersaturated cloud and then you would fire particles from a radium dial watch into it. So just go to the library and look for old science hobby books for kids.
@@nfrl-hs2ly oh for sure, I just meant the class was Advanced Physics Lab. It's a pretty simple piece of equipment, thanks for the pointers on where to find instructions, but I still think it would've been a useful classroom exhibit
@@Omega_Orion Same, Think conducting this types of experiments within a safe-environment filled with like-minded people is far better than doing a DIY by yourself.
that is a big trail for a particle, scary
I am absolutely captivated by this
Next, Chernobyl's Elefant Foot
Can't, ate it all ;[
In my belly X3
elephant
@@Volymbrez no, it's Elefant
@@Envision_you got a source for that?
I've replaced quite a few lantern mantles, never knew they were radioactive. Interesting stuff.
Most aren't, at least the ones that are sold today. Most modern ones are made with yttrium, which isn't radioactive.
I still have some, and there about 2 decades old.
Still packed.
I'm gonna take a look what they're made of
@@jibranbhat8711just don't chew on them...
I've done a lot of camping also and I've wondered how that little bag just doesn't burn up completely but I guess it actually does turn to ash?
@@Glenn-em3hv It works for quite long time and then due to prolonged heat stress part of it falls off and not useful anymore.
Fascinating. One of the things that makes radiation so terrifying is that it's invisible.
I’m amazed at how fast the particles move.
“Bananas contain potassium, and potassium decays, therefore is slightly radioactive”
-Sheldon Meatcanyon
Lol diamond decays into graphite. Doesn't mean we will ever be near "slightly measuring it in a noticeable way."
Potassium has a radioactive Isotope, which is the source of 40% of the annual natural radiation emissions a human body has to deal with, as it is inside the human bones for example.
@@letsomethingshine
One, I'm 99% sure diamond does not decay.
Two, if it did, it would not create graphite whatsoever, as that is still carbon just like the diamond, and radioactive decay only creates elements of a lower atomic number.
Lol love seeing that reference here
@@MrSailing101 diamond was more recently discovered to decay. Carbon dust was found around diamond exhibits and after measuring the dust weight vs the diamond weight it was discovered to be the lost mass of the diamond. This was tested globally and has been confirmed.
Also fun fact, the time between decays and the direction of the resulting radiation particle (alpha or beta) are completely and utterly random.
You could use the decays from that video clip as a seed for an encryption system and it could not be recreated.
Depends on the material. Certain elements can be predicted when they decay, which is known as a half-life. A material with a half-life of (X) will decay either at that point or beforehand.
@@jesusofbullets ‘at that point or beforehand’ tells us that it is in fact random, your argument is flawed. There is uncertainty of the exact moment when alpha/beta decays will occur.
Half-life is not a calculation which you can use in order to figure out exactly when a radioactive particle will decay. Half-life is an estimation of the time it will take for one half of the starting material to decay i.e the time it takes for radioactivity to half in measure.
Although half-lives for differing elements have been defined the exact rate of decay is completely random. It is impossible to know with absolute certainty when a nucleus will decay.
@@loafy7396 why are you all so smart? How do people even get to know things like that?
@Grzegorz Grabowski they teach this in physics class... one of the required science subjects in middle to high school?
Remember, at least one encryption company uses CRT TVs and cameras to generate hash sequences for encryption.
I absolutely love the banana for a baseline for zero radioactivity 😂😂😂
Just realized Spider-Man’s spidey sense looks like that! Radioactive spider!
“Hauntingly beautiful” couldn’t have said it better. Earned a like from me.
Its hilarious that the banana emitted
Did you know you would die of radiation poisoning if you ate 30,000 bananas in a day...
Ah Yes THE RADIATION WOULD KILL YOU.
@@PilotTedi dont think it would be the radiation killing you if you ate that many bananas lol
Well yes and no, bananas have potassium and there’s an isotope of potassium that’s radioactive
@@Mgl1206 Well that's besides the point
So cool best way to explain particles and radiation to someone.
That white and pink Pacman ghost looks cool.
I’ve used Coleman lanterns all my life. No wonder why I glow in the dark.
Should've gone for Tilly lamps instead. 😂
Honestly had no idea the mantles are radioactive. Amazing what you learn whilst randomly scrolling :)
I know you’re joking. But it’s creepy how many people think radiation makes someone radioactive.
I think the more recent made Coleman lanterns use yttrium oxide instead of thorium oxide now, but don’t quote me on that
@@profile2047 Nobody thinks that.🤦♂️
My chemistry teacher told me radiation was basically an invisable fire
Strange my teacher said it was spicy air
Mine said that it is a deadly laser XD
That makes 0 sense.
@@xTriton_ can you explain how?
Looked more like otherwise invisible sparks to me. (but there are different types of radiation, I would expect alpha and beta radiation to emit particles, but gamma radiation to be just glowing "invisible" light).
So those are the particles that would be zipping through your body when exposed to radiation?
Throw a bit of Fiestaware in there if you can find it. Alternatively, old watches who's hands were painted with Radium paint. They should provide a heck of a show.
seeing these clips is just convincing me that enchanted items back in olden days were just radiated items and that's why the curses destroyed people
That is a fantastic observation. What you said reminds me of how I was listening to a man talk about how a ketogenic diet can cure some cases of epilepsy. He has a theory that in biblical times when people would pray and fast from eating, maybe epileptics would have relief from their condition but it would seem as if their conditions were coming from a demonic spirit.
It would be interesting to see what TIG welding electrodes look like in that thing. They are normally something called 2% Thoriated Tungsten.
Those were banned in Europe some time ago, dunno bout the rest though.
You should test different kinds of phones, or maybe just one, because that sounds expensive
👍 Wonderful video art work. An excellent information based work!
If you have an old living relative ask them if you can borrow an old porcelain bowl or plate and put it in there I heard older plates, bowls, and just older stuff from the 1900's usually has some level of radiation
No way ! I have and buy shit like that . Ok throwing it away
@Diana Solorio it's not dangerous to a degree. You should be fine.
@@Nothingisavailible as long as you don't grind it up and inhale/ingest it, you should be fine.
@@Nothingisavailible Paranoid
@@rainbowbunchie8237 since radiation can be super dangerous, I'd sooner call them careful than paranoid. If you don't know much about radiation and find out you have radioactive stuff, it is safer to remove those items from your house instead of just shrugging and leaving it. If you don't/can't inform yourself on it, better not mess with it.
This is the most educational piece of content I've watched relating to the movement of particles, I guess most specifically.
That's amazing that we can actually SEE the penetration of radiation
Be interesting to see the trails from one of those older radium watch dials. I understand they were quite radioactive on a small scale.
But everyone knows that bananas are the most radioactive fruit
How so???
He didn't peel it.
@@uncharted7againblackking256 they contain potassium 40, which is radioactive.
its incredibly interesting to see tangible things like this to complete your understanding of that particular thing. it brings it all into perspective since many scientific text just kinda lays it out as a theory. it brings the words into context when experiments like these are done
Yes! I am wondering if I can use it to give kids physics classes.
Without being target by angry afraid parents and fired from the school. 😂
I've worked in radiation my whole life and I've never seen this. Saved, bookmarked and will be shared with many people.
Interesting experiments. It is my first time to see this kind of experiment.
I'd love to see a crossover with you and the slowmo guys to see radiation flying out in slowmo and closeup 👌
I don't think they have fast enough cameras for it. One of the fastest things thyev ever filmed is the progression of cracks in glass which happens around 4,500 m/a. The slowest form radiation, alpha radiation, already moves at around 20,000 m/s. Then there is beta radiation and EM radiation (e.g. gamma and x-rays) which can be moving pretty damn close to the vacuum speed of light and we just can't film that reaction in this context. If anything the litter is likely the speed of condensation, with the radiation having long since passed through the vapour before it actually condenses and displays the particle's path.
@@maxk4324 They've filmed stuff moving at 10,000 m/s (explosions) I'm sure they can find a way to film this as well
@@mastershooter64 only if they can film 2000x faster and that's going to be a blur
Radiation moves at the speed of light so with their current equipment they would not be able to film it. They could possibly film it's interaction with the matter in the cloud chamber as that wouldn't react at the speed of light but hopefully wouldn't be too fast
@@pookee0064 gamma moves at the speed of light. Beta and alpha move WAY slower than the speed of light. Sill rediculously fast.
Note you can film light with the trick of sampling. The caveat is it needs to be repeating.
The reason the banana had trails is because part of the storing process done by most if not all grocery stores is irradiation, it aint gonna kill you and it doesnt use enough radiation to make it radioactive but it uses some
You can see that the trails have a wave form looking like a dashing effect
Does this reveal alpha, beta, and gamma emissions… just alpha?
Alpha and beta, but not gamma. BUT if gamma undergoes pair production, then you'll see the beta particles that come out as a pair that shoot out 180 degrees from each other
@@thethoughtemporium What pattern does that actually produce in the chamber? Because depending on how fast they carry on moving in the same direction there should be different angles to the resulting lines, i'd think.
@@swedneck
Are you speaking of tracks taken in a magnetic field?
why even ask for gamma? That’s something you can barely contain.
@@josislostyou would probably die before you put the object in the chamber
Cloud chambers are one of the things that got me into physics in the first place, just fascinating how something so simple can allow us to see the atomic world
The first cloud chamber was invented in 1894 by a physics student to investigate an atmospheric phenomenon called a 'glory', a sort of reverse rainbow. A few years later it was realized that it could be used to photograph what happens when pieces of an atom are knocked off by x-rays. Subsequently, physicists would use it to learn how to efficiently split an isotope of uranium. Our world was irrevocably changed thereafter.
I've always wondered if you could use this to make a type of hologram (if a pretty dangerous one). if you found a way to direct the particles, open it up so it doesn't need to be in a box, and shoot a projector at it, you could use the contrails to make the 3D shape (as the contrails appear decently far away from the object) and the projector for color and more detail. Would be interesting.
Could you try radium glass or old fiestaware? in theory they’re not radioactive enough to be harmful but I would love a visualizer of them!
I have been very interested in chernobyl's disaster lately and this video blew my mind. The worst thing for all the people who had to leave and who had to perform all these cleaning tasks was that they couldn't see the thing they were being warned against
That’s actually quite horrifying.
the radium watch dials gonna go insane with this
Buy a small mineral specimen of autunite or a uraninite crystal. You’ve worked with opals so get one from South Australia, say Coober Pedy mine, they are phosphorescent when exposed to UV so there’s something in there.
Man I wish I could save shorts to a playlist. Is there a way to save this easily? Great video! 🍻
You can convert the short to video by copy the shared link and change from /short/ to /watch/ then it is a usual yt video and you can save it
@@yourtime you are the best! Thank you!
Yeah, this is so annoying because I see many shorts that I’d like to watch again or save to a specific playlist. For a big profiting company like TH-cam, they suck way too much.
On mobile, on the "library" tab on the right, in the "recent" list at the top, shorts will show up as normal videos. You can directly add them to playlists or just tap them to view them as a normal video. On web you have to change the URL.
@@remy333 there’s an even easier way. They show up as normal videos in your recently watched tab
why is it that I feel I have these false memories of people claiming bananas are highly radioactive 🤔
Thorium is mostly harmless unless ingested. Alpha and beta decay are basically stopped by clothing and skin.
Man I’ve known about cloud chambers for years but for some reason this demo is miles above the others I have seen. I love it!
**puts my sense of humor inside**
**sees millions of lines come out from it within a matter of seconds**
Cloud chamber... sweet
Thsta actually pretty cool!
Hauntingly beautiful👌🏼
few days ago finally got to see a cloud chamber for myself. its really fascinating and very addicting to watch
Maybe try a phone in the cloud chamber (btw I love the vids)
Idea: Try putting an Iphone 11, 12, 13 or 14 pro max vs Samsung Galaxy S20, S21, S22 or S23 Ultra inside it