I love how so many of your statements are basically “I knew this was a bad idea. I did it anyway. It was indeed a bad idea.” It just really sells the Scientific Realism.
I'm a Boro-silicate laboratory glass blower. I've worked with custom uranium glass before. The trick to keep your specimens from shattering is a technique known as annealing. To accomplish this, you would want 2 separate furnaces. One for melting and the other for annieline. Place your graphite block in the aneeling furnace at about eleven hundred degrees fahrenheit. Open the door once the block and the furnace is preheated. place your spasiman On your graph light block at eleven hundred degrees for at lea half an hour. then Slowly reduce the temperature of your aneeling furnace without opening the door. Over the course of twenty four hours And till your sample is near room temperature And you should not have any internal stress anymore This process aligns the internal crystalline structure of the silica Transforming it into a stress free homogeneous mass. You will want to reduce the temperature on an inverted J curve slowly at first. But once you get past about 400° fahrenheit leaving the door closed u till it has completely cooled you should be fine - James
@@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 Not exactly. As the OP said, the proper way to anneal glass is to place it in the oven and let the oven cool down over time in controlled steps. Most of my friends who have taken glass lampworking more seriously than I did have ovens specifically meant for this process. He's trying to make borosilicate glass (think Pyrex), but I'm puzzled since he's not using aluminum oxide in the mix as is typical from what I understand. The omission may be intentional, but it also may be in part why such small pieces were so sensitive.
“It might be okay to occasionally wear it as a necklace or something” And that’s the story of how I put a radioactive source directly next to my thyroid.
@@chloroform7204 A lot of countries, apparently. It's actually really easy to get nukes, you don't even need to build nuclear reactors, but most countries don't want them or have nuclear allies. Any country willing to spend some GDP on nuclear research can dig uranium out of the ground, enrich it to weapons grade in centrifuges, and voila--You're a nuclear power. That's how North Korea got theirs, without a single reactor. Hence why the argument for less reactors to stop bomb proliferation is utter nonsense, it's actually the complete opposite. Ironically, 10% of the energy created by US reactors is from old soviet warheads bought from Russia, rather reactors have done the most to stop proliferation.
"I did all of this in a fume hood, because I was worried about uranium glass dust." 5 minutes later *Squeezing uranium glass until it literally shatters everywhere multiple times*
Right? I was watching the glass dust falling off the pieces as he was tapping them and thinking that radioactive dust plus glass dust is possibly the worst combination.
@@imademedikasurya3917 but then I called William and Michel to make a robotic body to transfer my continence and it worked out pretty well. I'm really impressed of what those two did , ok enough of that , now let's try to make antimatter with a simple homemade particle accelerator
_Describes my wife standing in front of her open closet and mirror, while hurling Self-Depraved insults at herself....0.o....right before her violent Berserker meltdown. I however slip away to the den, ready with my Rhino-Tranq gun, locked and loaded._
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT _Describes my wife standing in front of her open closet and mirror, while hurling Self-Depraved insults at herself....0.o....right before her violent Berserker meltdown. I however hug her and tell her she looks beautiful and that her deepest criticisms are irrational, and that she is amazing inside and out. Heart locked and loaded_
@@benjaminshields9421 _Stupid Beta Male, sure you do. You forget that even the word "irrational" will set them off worse. No need to tell a bold face lie._ _I shouldn't have to say it, but my comment was sarcastic._
theodore matthews one of these days he’s gonna get cancer and then the doctors will ask” him have you been near any cancer causing chemicals” then he’ll say “yes” the doctor will then ask “what kind” “yes”
Δημήτρης Κυρκου You’d be discussing what is termed dirty. Really needs a massive centrifuge although there is research in to centripetal cyclotrons that suggest it is possible. Fortunately the most basic of cyclotrons are by far beyond the average idiot, how they will then build a centripetal device to accrue mass while limiting accelerated exponential decay is beyond most of the worlds top physicists.
On the glass side, did you know, sometimes improperly annealed glass can sit for years, if not decades, before finally giving in to the stresses? There are stories of glass vases sitting for decades and then all of a sudden exploding.
Well he did said he didn't want the glass to crack then proceeds to touch it fucking it completely up. Not to mention how impatient he is really gets irritating, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity that hasn't been done much since it's inception, so I'd expect him to at least be patient.
im just wondering what his search history looks like because it must be insane, I mean seriously "uranium for sale" "uranium glass" "diamond carbonated water for sale" "toilet paper alcohol" "how to make carcinogens"
@@backyardcamping7161 Alpha particles are especially nast when inhaled, but a sheet of papar stops alpha particles, so they are not detected. Dust masks are intended only for "nuisance" particulates and won't come close to stopping PM10 particulates, which are the wost inhalation danger.
Note: 7:38 have a dedicated lab refrigerator with a lock. The last you want just hanging out in the family refrigerator is a beaker of what appears to be clear water, but is actually liquified lye.
i literally thought you said this as a joke, but knowing nile i went back to check just in case and jesus christ there it was..... i think i went threw an existential crisis, nile is truly chaotic...
I honestly subscribed just to see how long it takes for this guy to die of radiation poisoning of some kind. Despite how much care he states the materials needed to be handled, by the end he's rolling the glass around in his hand prior to testing the radiation levels.
normal: "world war 2 was very, very horrible because of the mass killings and treacheries of war." nile: "world war 2 was a bit sucky cause they took all the uranium for weapons instead of uranium glass.."
I’ve been picking up uranium ore locally with a UV torch for a bit, and like you found, it’s strange that some of the higher uranium-content materials lose their fluorescent effects. Uraninite and pitchblende both have relatively high uranium content but have little to no fluorescence. While uraniferous opal is much lower (hard to find info, but never exceeding 15% uranium-bearing compounds, typically MUCH lower) and can exhibit some great phosphorescence.
It’s also helpful to have UV blocking glasses, at least for ore / impure uranium. You’ll be able to see some bright reflection without them, but the classic green color is much easier to see without the semi-visible UV light interfering
@@poyrikkanal Kayfabe is a wrestling term relating to the reality within wrestling, presenting something as "true" or "real" that may not necessarily be either. Unfortunately this doesn't really matter because I still don't have a fucking clue what he was trying to say.
So im just going to drop my 2 cents here. For some background I was a CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiation, Nuclear) subject matter expert in the Air Force. The installation I was stationed at made the focus of my experience within the field centered around the Nuclear and Radiological aspect. I was curious if I missed it, or if you simply omitted wearing a protective mask whenever you were around the materials? The primary reason being the particulates of alpha and beta radiation. Its the same reason I would never drink from a glass made using uranium or any other radioactive material. Alpha particulates can be stopped by paper or skin, beta by tightly woven fabric, and Gamma rays only through time, distance, and shielding. Most people with working common knowledge of radiation tend to focus on the danger of Gamma. However within my field, we actually consider alpha to be the most dangerous form. The primary reason for this is that Gamma simply passes through your body. However, beta can and alpha does get trapped within your body upon ingestion or inhalation. This causes it to simply bounce around inside of your systems with no means of escape, continuously bombarding the vulnerable organs within your body with radiation. These particulates can be excised through ingesting compounds that bonds to the particulates, but that is something that specialized medical staff would deal with so my knowledge on that subject more general then on the matter of radiation in general. I hope you stayed safe and I would warn anyone away from being around materials that release anything above normal background levels of radiation without proper PPE.
@@lucyk8935 yes this is true, but I also was wondering about the use of a respirator or some kind of mask. Nigel is really good, but it is always possible for really good people to make mistakes. I do hope that next time he works with uranium or other radioactive materials he does use a mask as well.
Well, yes and no. I cannot agree more about dust particles, they can be dangerous, while alpha "radiation" (not true radiation actually, due to it's particle nature) it self, not so much. It won't bounce inside your organism as you said, because it will quickly become absorbed by nearby tissue. Problem is that dust particle, which will sit there and will be constantly producing another and another alpha particles. It will literally act like a source. Drinking from uranium glass is safe. First, it emits next to none radiation, very similar to natural background. Second, if it would emit any alpha praticles, they would be imediately absorbed by liquid inside the cup and would not find the way in your organism. About how dangerous are specific types of radiation, again, it deppends on circumstances and it is simply cannot be said that "this one" is the worst. It deppends on what you consider as actuall danger, it's ability to travel over distances and penetrate materials, or it's actuall effects. Gama radiation is most capable of all 3 to travel and penetrate, as you said. While alpha can be very easily shielded, but can cause most damage when somehow gets inside your body, again, as you said. But not because it will bounce around, but because it has strongest ionization potential. So gama is considered by many people if you get exposed to some external source of radiation, because it will get most easily inside you. While alpha is most dangerous when you inhale or digest radioactive material - like dust for example - because it will become internal source of radiation, and there will be nothing in it's way to shield it.
The sodium diuranate likely did not fluoresce while in the small bottle, because ordinary glass is typically opaque to UV light. You might want to try it again, shining the UV light in through the mouth of the open bottle.
"The government doesn't really like it when you show how to refine uranium on the internet" Yeah yeah. They're a smidge testy about that sort of thing.
They're not testy about that sort of information at all because it's been widespread public knowledge since the 1950s, but when ignorant TH-camrs disregard safety and pose a threat to public safety, they act, and they did.
@Horizon585 He himself said that he wasn't storing everything perfectly and also had some waste he really didn't have any use for. You guys bagatellise these things, but accidents can happen and nuclear safety is not a game. What you have to understand, that they aren't concerned about you building a nuke. They are concerned about *poisoning* yourself or others.
FullMetal the government let dumbass "challenges" like the cinnamon challenge, choking game, fire challenge, tide pod challenge, etc slide so I doubt they give a fuck about public safety. If you don't believe the government doesn't care about home nuclear testing, you're pretty naïve.
@@Dinnye01 exactly what Kendall said. The government doesn't even want other countries to have any form of nuclear testing, let alone a random citizen building a nuke in their backyard.
You kept saying "So far" "It seemed" and I'm always sure something will go wrong. Congrats on making a video about glass more suspenseful than some novels.
I know three local blowers who have screwed around with uranium glass. Al Young in Detroit probably did the most. He melted a few pots of it, at a much higher concentration than you used, and drew out bars of the colored glass. John Fitzpatrick in Ferndale got his hands on a couple of those bars. You can break a chunk off a bar, pick it up on the end of your blowpipe, and blow through it. Windy Dankoff ran pots of it at a more normal concentration and gathered it for paperweights. I have some of his.
@@heliveruscalion9124 if something is immensely radioactive a geiger counter will inform you in no uncertain terms. this was it saying "ey, dude das radioactive, like... put it behind a sheet of paper or two" but there is a period in which your geiger counter starts screeching at you like a discount banshee
I've been watching for over 3 years now, I just watch older videos and the recent videos over and over and over cuz it always seems new to me, he always makes it fun even though he's serious 🙂
I know it's quite fun, but actually, the radiaton from the glass is so small, that you can drink from it couple times, and it will cause no problem. It will be better to use normal glass to drink most of the time, but if you want to, you can drink from uranium glass for a little while without actually causing any kind of damage to your body. P.S. I am not an expert, so it'll be better to actually ask an expert, google something on internet or simply do some research. And it was actually fun for me, that he says, that cons of the uranium he got, was that he can't make bombs with it.
@@BetterIP_ You could drink from it all day, every day, for the rest of your life. The radiation isn't contagious, you mouth-breather. No shit you're not an expert. You barely qualify as educated.
@@PoliticalJames Most ceramic pieces are poisonous. Its not uncommon to get lung cancer from ceramic pieces with deadly glaze makeups, its also been found through autopsies that certain red glazes from specific potters have poisoned the owners of the pieces.
"This stuff tends to let off dust particles when dry." - Re-pressurizes a vacuum container with it (likely setting off a small cloud of it) - Agitates the solids inside the flask BEFORE closing it...
Should be handled in a glove box. I also want to know the efficiency of his inexpensive GM meter. GM meters have very low efficiencies so 200 cpm may actually only represent way less than 1% of the actual radiation field.
@@galenicalhoover6508/videos Agreed. TH-camrs like Cody and Nile need to buy better meters when working with these materials. And in response to Nick Schwartz, the number of atoms in a speck of dust can range from a few hundred thousand to many trillions or more. Imagine stirring up a small cloud of airborne uranium from these samples without a fume hood or adequate mask (surgical masks don't cut it), and then consider the entire lifetime of every element in the uranium decay chain, and where each gets stored in the body. I've been looking for a reason why Nevada has such a low life expectancy, not sure if I've found it here lol. I emplore you reconsider the dangers of working with these materials. Us humans don't get to pick which parts of our DNA gets hit with a cannonball of a helium nuclei, nor do we have the genetic defenses to sufficiently cope with that damage. Its not like any major universities are encouraging their teams to create a vaccine for human cancer. P.S. I am all for nuclear power (provided, waste is kept out of weapons of mass dispersal used by the military [bullets,sabots,missiles]) - fission, fusion, and quark annihilation methods, even cold fusion if its real. But, you have to respect it, because it can wreak havoc 50 years after exposure. Heavy elements are not all too different from fossil fuels, renewables, or any other source of power like corn or beef. All of our heavy elements were created by storing some energy from merging neutron stars, imploding supergiants, etc. It is essentially stored solar power in a dense form. All of our fossil fuels were by extension just plants and algae that stored the light energy from our very own nuclear fireball, the sun, and used it to excite chemical reactions that bonded together organic molecules into long chains. Its all very poetic.
"When it's dry like this though, it has a tendency to give out dust and powder, which is obviously really horrible to breathe in". *Says while shacking it violently which could break it up and release dust*
The mother of an old school friend of mine had a large collection of uranium glassware. She kept the glass in a locked leaded glass display cabinet with and alarm system.The artwork was very beautiful, I believe the collection was quite valuable, most was a light green.
I like Uranium Glass too - it's very pretty. But I wouldn't bother with the leaded glass cabinet - normal glass would be perfectly adequate for the Beta and Alpha rays, and hundreds of kg of leaded glass would be inadequate to absorb the Gamma radiation. Check if the glass *really* is lead-rich. The lead *strip* used to hold plain glass panes together is radiologically useless - and that is the normal meaning of "leaded glass".
I collect uranium glass and putting it in a lead cabinet is overkill and unnecessary. People would and still do eat and drink off them. They're not gonna kill you.
When you blasted the glass with your torch, you caused some "reduction", converting the uranium oxide back into metallic uranium which went into colloidal suspension. This can produce pretty metallic swirls and white opacity. Controlled reduction is used to do things like giving a glass dog white paws.
NileRed: "When its dry like this though, it has a tendency to give off dust and powder, which is obviously really horrible to breathe in" Also NileRed: *SHAKES* *IT* *VIOLENTLY*
@Evi1M4chine he is a channel member, the "join" button next to subscribe buutton, its helps the youtuber and the person get some few things, like the image and Early video access, etc
@@teaser6089 Nah they just came for an inspection after a tip. Cody operated within legal limits and they green-lit him. Just a bit of stress and boasting rights.
That's why failure is such an important part of science. We learn how to get better at achieving the results we expect but also learn new aspects of the problem that we did not initially know about, increasing our body of knowledge and potentially discovering something really important.
"When it's dry like this though, it has a tendency to give off dust and powder which is obviously horrible to breath in." *Shakes container without a cap*
@@theclownmechanicus8794 Toxic would be poisonous, but dangerous would just be a general word for all things that are really not good for you, including poison
The sodium diuranate didn't fluoresce and I was concerned that maybe the glass was blocking the blacklight. I went back and tested it on its own though, and it definitely doesn't fluoresce. m.imgur.com/a/e7YOpH9 Also, it has been pointed out that my reading of micro sieverts wasn't very accurate. This is because the counter can't actually differentiate between alpha/beta/gamma and it instead uses math to approximate things. This is only accurate to what it was calibrated to, and for uranium, it won't give a very accurate reading. I figured it was still better than just CPM, but I should have added that it's also not very accurate. My reading here is probably higher than it should be and the danger is being overestimated.
Im assuming you know basic radcon, but definitely make sure you dont injest or inhale the uranium. And take through surveys of your workstation after your done. -radcon worker
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 Most of the variation on luck in this attempt was mitigated by intelligent maneuvers. However, given this rag tag operation doesn't have any advanced equipment, at least 8 points of luck were expended.
@@Zuion_Art still it's just... TH-cam comment section is not the place, do discord or something. I have nothing against furries but once again, you should leave this stuff to when in "private"
@@AliceYobby of course I will. My LND-712 is quite sensitive to Alpha. It is going completely crazy with Americium -241. Fortunately on very short distance only. Have to wait for a local offer from Greece, now. Shipping is more expensive than the glass when order from outside Greece.
I have to imagine that various US intelligence agencies have those "X days since last injury" signs except it's "X days since last NileRed false alarm"
I spent 6 years in the Navy working as a Nuclear ET on subs. Carrying that disk for a year would give you a higher effective dose rate than I received standing watch as a reactor operator.
12:28 the glass might be absorbing the uv. UV chemistry usually needs to be performed in quartz glassware because regular glass absorbs too much uv. Also, uv fluorescent bulb tubes are made of quartz because it lets the uv through while the normal white ones coated with the phosphor are just normal glass because it’s cheaper and when producing visible light you would want uv to leak through anyway
@@legokill1019 It depends on the chemistry of the glass. Usually I think glass in your home windows and car windows block UV-B and C and some UV-A is blocked but not totally. With out knowing what the chemistry of the glass is, we can't say what it blocks. I think regular beaker glass lets most of the UV spectrum trough but I guess this glass was not that and was thick enough to block UV-A
@@peter4210 from what I understand, only windshield glass is guaranteed to be treated to block some UV-A. Side and back windows don’t come that way by default, but you can special order them for extra cost.
At 12:50 the reason it didn't show fluorescence because UV Radiation do not pass through glass because Glass can absorb electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths around 300 nm.
NGL, if a youtuber is capable of making a nuclear bomb with his (relatively) affordable setup, I think it's their duty to share that knowledge with the world.
How r u going to seperate the .07 percent 235 from the 99.3 percent U-238 that's what was so hard during the war and what keeps us safe from people going rouge with bad intentions
This really takes me back... My dad used to have all kinds of chemicals in his photography lab back in the day, including small amounts of ferrocyanide, uranyl nitrate, high purity sulphur, copper sulphate and permanganate and a lot of other stuff (boric acid was dirt cheap and found everywhere). Back to uranyl nitrate what fascinated me (i was but a child back then) was that the container it was in always had water droplets forming on the inside. I used to say it ¨sweated¨. :) And i used to take it out in my own hand, clean the water and put it back it. But the little glass bottle would ¨sweat¨ again. I also played quite a lot with elemental mercury. It's amazing i am still in one piece :) But in any case, i have come to learn that chemistry is a very beautiful science if done properly and safely. I do wonder though how he managed to get his hands on uranyl nitrate, especially since he lives in a Western country (i.e. very strict rules regarding access to such stuff).
I love how so many of your statements are basically “I knew this was a bad idea. I did it anyway. It was indeed a bad idea.” It just really sells the Scientific Realism.
Humans really like doing this.
That reminds me of The Demon Core. Even if it's stupid but you do it anyway.
This feels like a call out
fuck around and find out
That's how Chernobyl happened. "Raise the damn power!"
Biggest thing I've learned from this channel is that between Amazon and eBay you can buy litteraly anything.
Yeah i got a big lump of uranium online
@@TomatoSauceKing including uranium
guns
You can buy anything on the internet if you know your way around the dark web
You can buy so many things, maybe not a very specific thing but with other things you can make the specific thing. Let me know if I’m wrong.
“I’d never worked with uranium before, so I figured I would follow the instructions.” Good plan.
This video has been out for 1 minute so how is this comment 20 hours old
bruh wtf 20 hours?
patronite probably
It was only out for 7 minutes...
How long till Nile gets cancer
I'm a Boro-silicate laboratory glass blower. I've worked with custom uranium glass before. The trick to keep your specimens from shattering is a technique known as annealing. To accomplish this, you would want 2 separate furnaces. One for melting and the other for annieline. Place your graphite block in the aneeling furnace at about eleven hundred degrees fahrenheit. Open the door once the block and the furnace is preheated. place your spasiman On your graph light block at eleven hundred degrees for at lea half an hour. then Slowly reduce the temperature of your aneeling furnace without opening the door. Over the course of twenty four hours And till your sample is near room temperature And you should not have any internal stress anymore This process aligns the internal crystalline structure of the silica Transforming it into a stress free homogeneous mass. You will want to reduce the temperature on an inverted J curve slowly at first. But once you get past about 400° fahrenheit leaving the door closed u till it has completely cooled you should be fine
- James
I have now acquired another piece of knowledge I may never need but still was interesting to learn about.
same@@TheKamasGod
Didnt he try to do just that?
@@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 yh he said it before he did tht why so
@@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 Not exactly. As the OP said, the proper way to anneal glass is to place it in the oven and let the oven cool down over time in controlled steps. Most of my friends who have taken glass lampworking more seriously than I did have ovens specifically meant for this process. He's trying to make borosilicate glass (think Pyrex), but I'm puzzled since he's not using aluminum oxide in the mix as is typical from what I understand. The omission may be intentional, but it also may be in part why such small pieces were so sensitive.
“It might be okay to occasionally wear it as a necklace or something”
And that’s the story of how I put a radioactive source directly next to my thyroid.
But just think, you're taking a step to being the next Lex Luthor. All you have to do after that is get smart, rich, and bald.
@@bsharpmajorscale I mean, that'll probably handle the baldness, too.
Anonymous lmao
@@MisterNohbdy HAHAHAHAA
ever heard of Trinitite? bomb site jewelry
I like how he listed “can’t make bombs” under cons lis
*FBI would like to know your location*
2:04
And no nukeular energy
@@chloroform7204 A lot of countries, apparently. It's actually really easy to get nukes, you don't even need to build nuclear reactors, but most countries don't want them or have nuclear allies. Any country willing to spend some GDP on nuclear research can dig uranium out of the ground, enrich it to weapons grade in centrifuges, and voila--You're a nuclear power. That's how North Korea got theirs, without a single reactor.
Hence why the argument for less reactors to stop bomb proliferation is utter nonsense, it's actually the complete opposite. Ironically, 10% of the energy created by US reactors is from old soviet warheads bought from Russia, rather reactors have done the most to stop proliferation.
To be fair that is a con
"I did all of this in a fume hood, because I was worried about uranium glass dust."
5 minutes later
*Squeezing uranium glass until it literally shatters everywhere multiple times*
I looks like he was doing that in his fume hood as well though
Right? I was watching the glass dust falling off the pieces as he was tapping them and thinking that radioactive dust plus glass dust is possibly the worst combination.
Nile: Makes glass once
Nile: Proceeds to make the second batch that he has ever made in his life WITH URANIUM
"I never made glass before, so let's make uranium glass"
That's NileRed for ya!
"After that I got cancer..."
@@imademedikasurya3917 but then I called William and Michel to make a robotic body to transfer my continence and it worked out pretty well. I'm really impressed of what those two did , ok enough of that , now let's try to make antimatter with a simple homemade particle accelerator
Azim Ali did you just.. did you just reference..?
Azim Ali huh
I love how this youtuber is so relatable, I haven't made uranium glass before just like him
Is me or are you everywhere
@@shafikyasir958 the picture is everywhere lol
Doritos
@@Ry91415 shame damn shame.
@@shafikyasir958 Shame damn shame.
"it just exploded from all that internal stress"
uranium glass is such a mood
_Describes my wife standing in front of her open closet and mirror, while hurling Self-Depraved insults at herself....0.o....right before her violent Berserker meltdown. I however slip away to the den, ready with my Rhino-Tranq gun, locked and loaded._
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT _Describes my wife standing in front of her open closet and mirror, while hurling Self-Depraved insults at herself....0.o....right before her violent Berserker meltdown. I however hug her and tell her she looks beautiful and that her deepest criticisms are irrational, and that she is amazing inside and out. Heart locked and loaded_
@@benjaminshields9421 _Stupid Beta Male, sure you do. You forget that even the word "irrational" will set them off worse. No need to tell a bold face lie._
_I shouldn't have to say it, but my comment was sarcastic._
Man, don’t you just hate it when you explode from internal stress? It just sucks...
@Vulcan Games what?
The yellow liquid adds a whole new meaning to uranate.
If you uranate that, you'd di.
peak of nerd jokes
my theory is they named it uranium because of urine
@@ellepalmeri think its because of the planet uranus. Because theres also plutonium and neptunium, named after pluto and neptune.
"there was clearly an effect"
(Nile says as the geiger counter starts screaming)
*REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
Oof
theodore matthews *jumps from 15 to 1222 in 15 seconds* I think that’s a bit radioactive...
Rephical Gaming “a bit” well yes
theodore matthews one of these days he’s gonna get cancer and then the doctors will ask” him have you been near any cancer causing chemicals” then he’ll say “yes” the doctor will then ask “what kind” “yes”
“The government doesn’t really like it when you show how to refine uranium on the internet.” Damn my Saturday plans are ruined
@@Δημήτρης-θ7θ someone or a small group of people with infinite patience could do it over a period of decades without detection.
@@Δημήτρης-θ7θ I ALSO HAVE QUESTIONS....
Same
Cody's lab yellow cake, it's gone now.
Δημήτρης Κυρκου You’d be discussing what is termed dirty. Really needs a massive centrifuge although there is research in to centripetal cyclotrons that suggest it is possible. Fortunately the most basic of cyclotrons are by far beyond the average idiot, how they will then build a centripetal device to accrue mass while limiting accelerated exponential decay is beyond most of the worlds top physicists.
i love how his humor is so chaotic while having such a professional voice. It's great
Thats Nilered for you
Nilered is lawful neutral, Explosions&fire is chaotic neutral
On the glass side, did you know, sometimes improperly annealed glass can sit for years, if not decades, before finally giving in to the stresses? There are stories of glass vases sitting for decades and then all of a sudden exploding.
Damn I never thought I would find glass relatable
@@mikii278lol no kidding!
i know the phrase “don’t drink anything that came out of his blender” common but i think this video really shows that
Him: “I’m afraid of the uranium dust”
Also him: *shatters glass repeatedly into fine particles just to see what happens*
The glass dust would also be of risk at that size, possibly more risk than the Uranium but can't say since I don't know a lot
Ah yes. Adulthood is truly glorified adolescence.
Well he did said he didn't want the glass to crack then proceeds to touch it fucking it completely up. Not to mention how impatient he is really gets irritating, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity that hasn't been done much since it's inception, so I'd expect him to at least be patient.
@@wazzupsters if the glass has high internal pressure, it will shatter whether you touch it or not, touching it just makes the shattering predictable
His obituary is going to be such an interesting read!
I was absolutely expecting "the uranium was too chunky to go into the mixture" to be followed by "so I put it in my blender"
Rama “Uranium gas. Don’t breathe this!”
Will it blend? Well, we'll never get our answer because I'll be dead soon after I turn the blender on.
Nile usually does pretty good with the safety but every once in a while he just has a pants on head moment.
@@Mylryyt like handling the glass without cheaking the raidioactivity?
@@Mylryyt let's continue to enjoy his content for as long as he lives. Which might not be long.
"I simply had no choice. I had to turn the death rock into death powder. I really had absolutely no choice. 😔"
-Nile 2020
"Special waste container:"
The neighbors trashcan.
No, he has a drawer that he stores his waste in, and in a few years he'll pay a company to dispose of it all
@@Mikemk_ Whooosh
@@SausageBrosdotbik no one says that anymore but you're right
See my meme guys
@@inferno7181 *worked
im just wondering what his search history looks like because it must be insane, I mean seriously
"uranium for sale"
"uranium glass"
"diamond carbonated water for sale"
"toilet paper alcohol"
"how to make carcinogens"
Yeah his fbi agent must be really confused.
Not worse than mine I don't use incognito
@@donguklee6904 oof
@@donguklee6904 me neither, though I do use a separate google account
CIA is watching him.
Nile: "The dust it gives off is toxic to humans" also Nile: *shakes it violently*
He is wearing a dust mask
@@backyardcamping7161 hmm...... Is it bad to cyan???
in an closed container
@@backyardcamping7161 the bottle wasn't even closed yet lol
@@backyardcamping7161 Alpha particles are especially nast when inhaled, but a sheet of papar stops alpha particles, so they are not detected. Dust masks are intended only for "nuisance" particulates and won't come close to stopping PM10 particulates, which are the wost inhalation danger.
nile fucking up the uranium and cracking it: that's fine
nile cracking a chocolae chip cookie: WE HAVE TO GET IT OUT OF THERE
She's gonna blow.
it's incredible how much more worried he is about potentially messing up his cookie over risking his life to play around with uranium
Nile: Super careful about Uranium dust
Also Nile: Throws extremely fine silica power around like it's nothing
Absolutely :) be careful with that stuff, Nile.
Silica smoke, don't breathe this!
Silica ain't all that dangerous, though, and I'm guessing he did it in a fumehood anyways
@@adrianpip2000 Only if you inhale it. I recommend wearing a dust mask and wet wiping everything afterwards.
@Igor R. Neves Not even the safety glasses?
Note: 7:38 have a dedicated lab refrigerator with a lock. The last you want just hanging out in the family refrigerator is a beaker of what appears to be clear water, but is actually liquified lye.
That’s a saw movie nightmare
You know he works in a lab I’m pretty sure that he has a fridge just for stuff like that
@@blankisdank2734 The comment wasn't for him; he's on top of things just fine. It was for anyone else inquisitive on trying this.
While absolutely true, if your family is drinking water out of your chemistry beakers I think there’s a safety discussion to be had.
@@ChronicRen Lmao 💀
Cons:
"It can't make nuclear bombs."
Only if😦
i literally thought you said this as a joke, but knowing nile i went back to check just in case and jesus christ there it was..... i think i went threw an existential crisis, nile is truly chaotic...
Tasha Chan ???
Not being usable to make bombs seems like a "pro" rather than a "con" to me.
Cody will be disappointed.
The forbidden Kraft Mac and cheese sauce 💀
"I'd like to refine uranium"
*The government is watching
mikemorr100 Hillary Clinton would like to know your location
Harriet Jones is watching if you get the reference
I was going to make the same comment
Man your comment is growing fast
and cody's lab...
Nile: this dust is extremely toxic that’s why I’m keeping it in a container
*shakes the bottle without a top
*breaks glass
*gets disappointed because he can’t refine uranium on his own
*throws dust into the grinder from a foot up
I honestly subscribed just to see how long it takes for this guy to die of radiation poisoning of some kind.
Despite how much care he states the materials needed to be handled, by the end he's rolling the glass around in his hand prior to testing the radiation levels.
@@FolstrimHori so you think, he hold them in his hand maybe taste them with his tongue before he bought all the equipment to test it ? hmm
normal: "world war 2 was very, very horrible because of the mass killings and treacheries of war."
nile: "world war 2 was a bit sucky cause they took all the uranium for weapons instead of uranium glass.."
He's a little confused but he got the spirit
1.2k likes and one comment why now it’s 2 thi
broke vs woke
noice...
Yes Yes and and I I will do internet
I’ve been picking up uranium ore locally with a UV torch for a bit, and like you found, it’s strange that some of the higher uranium-content materials lose their fluorescent effects. Uraninite and pitchblende both have relatively high uranium content but have little to no fluorescence. While uraniferous opal is much lower (hard to find info, but never exceeding 15% uranium-bearing compounds, typically MUCH lower) and can exhibit some great phosphorescence.
It’s also helpful to have UV blocking glasses, at least for ore / impure uranium. You’ll be able to see some bright reflection without them, but the classic green color is much easier to see without the semi-visible UV light interfering
I like how “can’t make a nuke” is in the cons
why North Korea doesn't have any
Kiki Zandov there should also be
“and, it looks like piss”
@@stealthcone yummy
Lmao ikr
@@soymilk9143 -/ they're definitely watching these videos
As a glassblower, I am extremely impressed with your first trial glass batch.
Yeah it isnkayfabe
@@unknownkingdom what
Definitly interested because I have messed with some uranium glass while apprenticing in some lampwork and, also because I love uranium glass
@@poyrikkanal Kayfabe is a wrestling term relating to the reality within wrestling, presenting something as "true" or "real" that may not necessarily be either.
Unfortunately this doesn't really matter because I still don't have a fucking clue what he was trying to say.
but what if he breathed in
So im just going to drop my 2 cents here. For some background I was a CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiation, Nuclear) subject matter expert in the Air Force. The installation I was stationed at made the focus of my experience within the field centered around the Nuclear and Radiological aspect.
I was curious if I missed it, or if you simply omitted wearing a protective mask whenever you were around the materials? The primary reason being the particulates of alpha and beta radiation. Its the same reason I would never drink from a glass made using uranium or any other radioactive material.
Alpha particulates can be stopped by paper or skin, beta by tightly woven fabric, and Gamma rays only through time, distance, and shielding. Most people with working common knowledge of radiation tend to focus on the danger of Gamma. However within my field, we actually consider alpha to be the most dangerous form.
The primary reason for this is that Gamma simply passes through your body. However, beta can and alpha does get trapped within your body upon ingestion or inhalation. This causes it to simply bounce around inside of your systems with no means of escape, continuously bombarding the vulnerable organs within your body with radiation.
These particulates can be excised through ingesting compounds that bonds to the particulates, but that is something that specialized medical staff would deal with so my knowledge on that subject more general then on the matter of radiation in general.
I hope you stayed safe and I would warn anyone away from being around materials that release anything above normal background levels of radiation without proper PPE.
The guys who runs this channel is very good about following safety precaution, so I'm sure he did. :) He is a trained professional, after all
@@lucyk8935 yes this is true, but I also was wondering about the use of a respirator or some kind of mask. Nigel is really good, but it is always possible for really good people to make mistakes. I do hope that next time he works with uranium or other radioactive materials he does use a mask as well.
I'm pretty sure he did and goes more into detail in his cleaning up video.
He has been wearing a mask. Like,
Well, yes and no. I cannot agree more about dust particles, they can be dangerous, while alpha "radiation" (not true radiation actually, due to it's particle nature) it self, not so much. It won't bounce inside your organism as you said, because it will quickly become absorbed by nearby tissue. Problem is that dust particle, which will sit there and will be constantly producing another and another alpha particles. It will literally act like a source.
Drinking from uranium glass is safe. First, it emits next to none radiation, very similar to natural background. Second, if it would emit any alpha praticles, they would be imediately absorbed by liquid inside the cup and would not find the way in your organism.
About how dangerous are specific types of radiation, again, it deppends on circumstances and it is simply cannot be said that "this one" is the worst. It deppends on what you consider as actuall danger, it's ability to travel over distances and penetrate materials, or it's actuall effects.
Gama radiation is most capable of all 3 to travel and penetrate, as you said. While alpha can be very easily shielded, but can cause most damage when somehow gets inside your body, again, as you said. But not because it will bounce around, but because it has strongest ionization potential. So gama is considered by many people if you get exposed to some external source of radiation, because it will get most easily inside you. While alpha is most dangerous when you inhale or digest radioactive material - like dust for example - because it will become internal source of radiation, and there will be nothing in it's way to shield it.
The sodium diuranate likely did not fluoresce while in the small bottle, because ordinary glass is typically opaque to UV light. You might want to try it again, shining the UV light in through the mouth of the open bottle.
"The government doesn't really like it when you show how to refine uranium on the internet"
Yeah yeah. They're a smidge testy about that sort of thing.
They're not testy about that sort of information at all because it's been widespread public knowledge since the 1950s, but when ignorant TH-camrs disregard safety and pose a threat to public safety, they act, and they did.
@Horizon585 He himself said that he wasn't storing everything perfectly and also had some waste he really didn't have any use for. You guys bagatellise these things, but accidents can happen and nuclear safety is not a game.
What you have to understand, that they aren't concerned about you building a nuke. They are concerned about *poisoning* yourself or others.
FullMetal the government let dumbass "challenges" like the cinnamon challenge, choking game, fire challenge, tide pod challenge, etc slide so I doubt they give a fuck about public safety. If you don't believe the government doesn't care about home nuclear testing, you're pretty naïve.
@@kenny1515gamer that's on them.
@@Dinnye01 exactly what Kendall said. The government doesn't even want other countries to have any form of nuclear testing, let alone a random citizen building a nuke in their backyard.
You kept saying "So far" "It seemed" and I'm always sure something will go wrong. Congrats on making a video about glass more suspenseful than some novels.
He was uncharacteristically unsure during the video which kept the tension high omg I'm glad I wasnt the only one who thought this
Nile: *is afraid of creating a "death cloud" *
Also Nile: *shakes bottle without the cap on*
bottle goes shakey shakey brrrr
@@mindaugasverikovskij2759 pog
Just ignore the fume hood
And obliterates uranium glass into clouds
Nigel is a true madlad
I know three local blowers who have screwed around with uranium glass. Al Young in Detroit probably did the most. He melted a few pots of it, at a much higher concentration than you used, and drew out bars of the colored glass. John Fitzpatrick in Ferndale got his hands on a couple of those bars. You can break a chunk off a bar, pick it up on the end of your blowpipe, and blow through it. Windy Dankoff ran pots of it at a more normal concentration and gathered it for paperweights. I have some of his.
"when its dry like this, it is very dangerous because of dust that can come off"
*shakes container aggressively BEFORE putting lid on*
Patrick Bateman you beat to it
"when dried like this is has the tendency to give off a lot of dust and powder"
*Shakes furiously with no cap on*
Yeah exactly. That's what I was thinking. Goes through explaining how dangerous it can be and the shakes the open container lol.
I was thinking about that when he broke the glass with tweezers
@@mastersonogashira1796 yes
Hmm.....
XDDDDDDD comment section so funny
*geiger counter having a seizure*
Nile: "It was slightly radioactive"
I mean, with a geiger counter it's pretty much either a seizure or a magnitude 10 earthquake
@@heliveruscalion9124 if something is immensely radioactive a geiger counter will inform you in no uncertain terms.
this was it saying "ey, dude das radioactive, like... put it behind a sheet of paper or two"
but there is a period in which your geiger counter starts screeching at you like a discount banshee
LOL
Not bad not terrible
defEnderr_ru Nice reference
I've been watching for over 3 years now, I just watch older videos and the recent videos over and over and over cuz it always seems new to me, he always makes it fun even though he's serious 🙂
"I think the glasses are safe"
*check Geiger counter*
"I think I have cancer"
Well, it's not like the glasses would be up against you very often. Also, the radiation is not going to linger in the glass.
bruzote well its not like glasses can spontaneously break and send glass/uranium dust in the air or anything
kek
Really though, I feel like the heavy metal toxicity of natural uranium is probably about as dangerous as its radioactivity.
Really though, I feel like the heavy metal toxicity of natural uranium is probably about as dangerous as its radioactivity.
I love how he says it so calmly that it is toxic to humans and then drinks from the glass.
I know it's quite fun, but actually, the radiaton from the glass is so small, that you can drink from it couple times, and it will cause no problem. It will be better to use normal glass to drink most of the time, but if you want to, you can drink from uranium glass for a little while without actually causing any kind of damage to your body. P.S. I am not an expert, so it'll be better to actually ask an expert, google something on internet or simply do some research.
And it was actually fun for me, that he says, that cons of the uranium he got, was that he can't make bombs with it.
The glass actually doesnt make the food in it radioactive.
i made this like comment 666
@@BetterIP_ You could drink from it all day, every day, for the rest of your life. The radiation isn't contagious, you mouth-breather.
No shit you're not an expert. You barely qualify as educated.
Same way drinking water from (properly maintained) lead pipes.... its safe. But if you would ingest lead powder, it's not.
"After handling the uranium glass beads with my bare hands, I decided to see how radioactive they were"
No neutron radiation = No radiation on things
Test a microwave while running 🧠
@mwstar Depends, its not bad, but if you would drinnk from it, it would be not nice. Overall its not that dangerous.
@mwstar No, it isn’t, it would be only bad if you would sleep with it, the is mostly Alpha and beta radiation, so that is safe.
@@PoliticalJames Most ceramic pieces are poisonous. Its not uncommon to get lung cancer from ceramic pieces with deadly glaze makeups, its also been found through autopsies that certain red glazes from specific potters have poisoned the owners of the pieces.
Radioactive glass is dangerous. Proceeds to touch uranium with bare hands.
Uranium glass is safe ENOUGH
When NileRed says words like "It should've..." or "It would've..." you know it's gonna be followed up shortly by "Unfortunately..."
Maybe it's because he knows how to language.
"This stuff tends to let off dust particles when dry."
- Re-pressurizes a vacuum container with it (likely setting off a small cloud of it)
- Agitates the solids inside the flask BEFORE closing it...
Should be handled in a glove box. I also want to know the efficiency of his inexpensive GM meter. GM meters have very low efficiencies so 200 cpm may actually only represent way less than 1% of the actual radiation field.
nice
spill tea sis
@@galenicalhoover6508/videos Agreed. TH-camrs like Cody and Nile need to buy better meters when working with these materials. And in response to Nick Schwartz, the number of atoms in a speck of dust can range from a few hundred thousand to many trillions or more. Imagine stirring up a small cloud of airborne uranium from these samples without a fume hood or adequate mask (surgical masks don't cut it), and then consider the entire lifetime of every element in the uranium decay chain, and where each gets stored in the body. I've been looking for a reason why Nevada has such a low life expectancy, not sure if I've found it here lol.
I emplore you reconsider the dangers of working with these materials. Us humans don't get to pick which parts of our DNA gets hit with a cannonball of a helium nuclei, nor do we have the genetic defenses to sufficiently cope with that damage. Its not like any major universities are encouraging their teams to create a vaccine for human cancer.
P.S. I am all for nuclear power (provided, waste is kept out of weapons of mass dispersal used by the military [bullets,sabots,missiles]) - fission, fusion, and quark annihilation methods, even cold fusion if its real. But, you have to respect it, because it can wreak havoc 50 years after exposure.
Heavy elements are not all too different from fossil fuels, renewables, or any other source of power like corn or beef. All of our heavy elements were created by storing some energy from merging neutron stars, imploding supergiants, etc. It is essentially stored solar power in a dense form. All of our fossil fuels were by extension just plants and algae that stored the light energy from our very own nuclear fireball, the sun, and used it to excite chemical reactions that bonded together organic molecules into long chains. Its all very poetic.
When you get urianum poisoning from making uranium glass
:him:What did i do wrong :past him: shakes bottle
Chemical evolution:
7:02 Piss.
8:42 Mango juice.
9:13 Lemon pudding.
10:50 PlayDoh.
11:37 Cheeto dust.
19:30 Solid piss.
Lol
Things seem to be going pretty well.
☠️
Oh Mango Juice :D *Dies*
I told you! it wasn’t frozen uranium pee from an airplane, the sky is falling!
Nile: I wanna be careful with this stuff so I used my fume hood.
Also Nile: LULZ let’s crack this crap into a billion little pieces all over the lab
22:29 "The moment that it did break, though, it just exploded from all that internal stress"
I know the feeling
Ahh, another episode of "Videos that put NileRed on a FBI watchlist"
he is in Canada i don't think the FBI has a watchlist for canada but i could be wrong.
@@Potatoman_-fx3gs actually everyone of us Canadians are on an fbi watch list. That maple syrup has to come from somewhere ya know.
@@representelanation4463 i hate being on a list
@@Potatoman_-fx3gs As an American, I can say that the FBI more than likely has specific watchlists for each major country.
@@buddycatdudeguy7169 so not canada you guys could CRUSH us in a battle however when it comes to karen's i think we win
You deserve an award for making Physics and Chemistry fun
I know, I don't understand anything about chemistry but I love watching these videos
Fun*
*For people who didn't already enjoy it.
Fr tho i started watching him 2 weeks ago and my physics grade went from an f to a c+
@@leartbytyci5057 damn if u keep watching ur grades gonna go upto a+
Physics and Chemistry has always been fun
Nilered is the type of guy to touch something containing uranium without safety gear and live to tell the tale
5:38 "and it can lead to heavy metal poisoning"
Mad guitar riffs in distance
th-cam.com/video/DWe1T5OdfrQ/w-d-xo.html
heavy Metal Poisoning sounds like a cheesy metal band of mad scientists, ngl.
Clever one
exactly. I think I got that yesterday after listening too too much Tenacious D
@@ambulocetusnatans HAH! I knew it was a song, but i thought it was spinal tap
"You could get heavy metal poisoning"
*Heavy metal music stops*
*h e a v y*
I think that's the plot of one of Styx's albums
*DEATH METAL MUSIC STARTS*
@@Repulse96 SLAMMING BRUTAL GRIND CORE DEATH METAL STARTS
Imagine naming your band uranium
"When it's dry like this though, it has a tendency to give out dust and powder, which is obviously really horrible to breathe in". *Says while shacking it violently which could break it up and release dust*
I’m not the only one like wtf
8:58 forbidden orange juice
14:07 forbidden flour
"wouldn't be a good idea to carry around in your pocket" just casually roasting marie curie
Pretty sure she already roasted herself.
oh damn
This comment is EVERYTHING lmao
@@aliyashahum6655 DAMN!!!!!! (In the voice of Smokey)
@@aliyashahum6655 that was awful.
XD
The mother of an old school friend of mine had a large collection of uranium glassware. She kept the glass in a locked leaded glass display cabinet with and alarm system.The artwork was very beautiful, I believe the collection was quite valuable, most was a light green.
I like Uranium Glass too - it's very pretty.
But I wouldn't bother with the leaded glass cabinet - normal glass would be perfectly adequate for the Beta and Alpha rays, and hundreds of kg of leaded glass would be inadequate to absorb the Gamma radiation.
Check if the glass *really* is lead-rich. The lead *strip* used to hold plain glass panes together is radiologically useless - and that is the normal meaning of "leaded glass".
I collect uranium glass and putting it in a lead cabinet is overkill and unnecessary. People would and still do eat and drink off them. They're not gonna kill you.
“Cons: can’t make bombs” made me laugh hard
IKR i cracked up so hard
we all know someday he's gonna blow up the entire continent
When Nilered is sus
@@xnoobwarx4571nø
There is always the next video
When you blasted the glass with your torch, you caused some "reduction", converting the uranium oxide back into metallic uranium which went into colloidal suspension. This can produce pretty metallic swirls and white opacity. Controlled reduction is used to do things like giving a glass dog white paws.
"Hey dude that jar of mustard you had in the fridge went great on my sandwitch!!!"
Him:THE *WHAT*
I’d probably be more concerned about the fact you put mustard in a sandwich
I still stand by my argument.
Daniel Mooney mustard is great in a sandwich! As well as pickles
The Golden Boi am I actually the only one who thinks mustard was made for hotdogs?
Edit: sorry, I don’t know what the fuck I was saying ignore me.
Daniel Mooney I only put it on cheeseburgers.
NileRed: "When its dry like this though, it has a tendency to give off dust and powder, which is obviously really horrible to breathe in"
Also NileRed: *SHAKES* *IT* *VIOLENTLY*
Dude is going to live to 50 if he's very, very lucky lol.
CommonApathy do you mean 30
he is a new member
@Evi1M4chine he is a channel member, the "join" button next to subscribe buutton, its helps the youtuber and the person get some few things, like the image and Early video access, etc
methyl ethyl keytone👍
"I learned from cody'slab that the government doesn't really like it when you show how to refine uranium" got me laughing
For those who don't know men in black had made a visit to Cody
@@See3y Is that true? Did he get into trouble??
@@teaser6089 Nah they just came for an inspection after a tip. Cody operated within legal limits and they green-lit him. Just a bit of stress and boasting rights.
@@teaser6089 /watch?v=x1mv0vwb08Y 1:30
Thats so Cody
9:12 the forbidden mustard
Forbidden Fanta.
something goes wrong:
NileRed: I actually think that was pretty cool
My life
hopefully my life
That's why failure is such an important part of science. We learn how to get better at achieving the results we expect but also learn new aspects of the problem that we did not initially know about, increasing our body of knowledge and potentially discovering something really important.
@@toyfreaks ok boomer
"there's nothing wrong, just some little happy accident"
"When it's dry like this though, it has a tendency to give off dust and powder which is obviously horrible to breath in."
*Shakes container without a cap*
🤣 I was sitting there thinking the same exact thing🤣
Glad other people were like "jesus christ you just said you didn't want dust"
He's likely wearing a gas mask or hazmat suit. Failure to do so may lower his lifespan by many years
@@Dienow3xw This actually makes sense.
@@Dienow3xw I also think he’s mentioned in a video before that he has a very good fume hood that he uses when working with dangerous chemicals.
dust: *is toxic*
Nile: hehehe orange Shakey Shakey bottle
@Mai Bui So it is toxic.
@Mai Bui he could use a fume hood
Quite carcinogenic!
Mai Bui 5:30
@@theclownmechanicus8794 Toxic would be poisonous, but dangerous would just be a general word for all things that are really not good for you, including poison
Heavy metal poisoning... i didn't know it was possible, i will not listen to it anymore! Thank you, NileRed, for all the priceless knowledge
The sodium diuranate didn't fluoresce and I was concerned that maybe the glass was blocking the blacklight. I went back and tested it on its own though, and it definitely doesn't fluoresce.
m.imgur.com/a/e7YOpH9
Also, it has been pointed out that my reading of micro sieverts wasn't very accurate. This is because the counter can't actually differentiate between alpha/beta/gamma and it instead uses math to approximate things. This is only accurate to what it was calibrated to, and for uranium, it won't give a very accurate reading. I figured it was still better than just CPM, but I should have added that it's also not very accurate. My reading here is probably higher than it should be and the danger is being overestimated.
I was just about to ask if you tried without glass. Good work.
Thanks, wanted to ask just that a moment ago :)
Great video!
@@amitdas2676 thanks!
Im assuming you know basic radcon, but definitely make sure you dont injest or inhale the uranium. And take through surveys of your workstation after your done.
-radcon worker
STR: 9
DEX: 8
CON: 10
INT: 21
WIS: -2
CHA: 11
what's the luck at? ;)
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 Most of the variation on luck in this attempt was mitigated by intelligent maneuvers. However, given this rag tag operation doesn't have any advanced equipment, at least 8 points of luck were expended.
Isn't he SPECIAL
@@Scratchy1024 i don't know you, are you allowed to write comments?
Chris aka Schulbus I don't know you either, but I can write comments. Can you write comments?
"It's also highly toxic, and it can lead to heavy metal poisoning"
*headbanging starts to kick in*
😂😂
Give me your full snuggle uwu
@@Zuion_Art no stop
@@wafflegaming43 read the full description of the commenter on her/her channel
@@Zuion_Art still it's just... TH-cam comment section is not the place, do discord or something. I have nothing against furries but once again, you should leave this stuff to when in "private"
PLEASE do not try to fly if you have worked with Uranium in the past several months. You will NOT like TSA's response.
I’m actually curious about the radiation readings on the cup he bought.
@@greekstraycats what is the radiation level usually in those cups? High?
@@matt25675 Yes, I am also curious. I will buy some. I think every overseas flight is more stressful than owning some of this stuff.
@@greekstraycatsplease let us know what the reading turns out to be when you do this!
@@AliceYobby of course I will. My LND-712 is quite sensitive to Alpha. It is going completely crazy with Americium -241. Fortunately on very short distance only.
Have to wait for a local offer from Greece, now. Shipping is more expensive than the glass when order from outside Greece.
uranium glass actually has very low radiation, only slightly more than the average background dose.
I have to imagine that various US intelligence agencies have those "X days since last injury" signs except it's "X days since last NileRed false alarm"
jokes on you HE'S CANADIAN
@@mariofeds1101 Don't think that changes the fact that anything involving uranium on the internet is of concern to them.
@@jasonchangdalekrule makes it even worse cause hes NOT in the us and working for them i nthe future lol
@@mariofeds1101 that just means the NSA watches him instead of the FBI
@@thelongestrose oh
I spent 6 years in the Navy working as a Nuclear ET on subs. Carrying that disk for a year would give you a higher effective dose rate than I received standing watch as a reactor operator.
To make glass
"For beginners it's recommended to use a mixture of 3 different things"
-furnace
-coal
-sand
*sweden starts to play*
@@sneakyinvader4454 dun, dun dun, dun, dun, dun dun, dun
@Unoriginal Copy why did I instantly recognize the mission impossible theme from nothing but “dun, dun, dun dun”
You got Mission: Impossible from Minecraft music, got it.
Not Funny
12:28 the glass might be absorbing the uv. UV chemistry usually needs to be performed in quartz glassware because regular glass absorbs too much uv. Also, uv fluorescent bulb tubes are made of quartz because it lets the uv through while the normal white ones coated with the phosphor are just normal glass because it’s cheaper and when producing visible light you would want uv to leak through anyway
I was about to comment the same!
my understanding is that only true for shorter wavelength uv-c other wavelengths of uv can pass through glass as far as I am aware
@@legokill1019 It depends on the chemistry of the glass. Usually I think glass in your home windows and car windows block UV-B and C and some UV-A is blocked but not totally. With out knowing what the chemistry of the glass is, we can't say what it blocks. I think regular beaker glass lets most of the UV spectrum trough but I guess this glass was not that and was thick enough to block UV-A
I thought the same thing
@@peter4210 from what I understand, only windshield glass is guaranteed to be treated to block some UV-A. Side and back windows don’t come that way by default, but you can special order them for extra cost.
“Uranium dust is toxic and hazardous, I don’t want to kick dust in the air.”
*takes a kilogram or so of silica.*
“Hehe blendy blendy sand.”
LMAO
😂😂😂😂
lmfao 😂😂😂😂
lOLLll
Dust go woosh
At 12:50 the reason it didn't show fluorescence because UV Radiation do not pass through glass because Glass can absorb electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths around 300 nm.
☝️🤓
For the big disc, my first thought was "Cool coaster, dude!" "Thanks, it's radioactive"
I’m sorry, but I have to.
“I’m radio rebel.”
@@af9162 no, im radio rebel
Ttttttttttyy
@@eitainhzaeil2954 NO I AM
@@ReeForLife NO, I AM-
"So I decided to have some patience and to test it again a few minutes later"
Bruh I don't think you know what patience means 😂
tour 454y
What the
To be fair, he did say *some* patience
@@koencagurangan3256 That wasn't even *some.* That was *VERY LITTLE.*
You haven't seen his video on aerogel maybe🤭🤭. You'll be surprised how much patience he actually has.
I love this channel, it’s like a cooking show for chemistry
Except don't do a lot of shit at home
So it’s baking? (/s but kinda not)
no thats breaking bad.
Treating things that can kill you as if they're ingredients to a cake is bad...
Have you ever watched a kiwami japan knife video? That man must be a chemist by day
Have a bunch of this stuff around my house. We always buy uranium glass anything at garage sales and antique stores when we see it.
“Death clouds” basically the danger of chemistry as a whole
Sounds like heavy metal
“death clouds” 😂😂😂
@@dankhead88 heavy metal death clouds
"pros: easier to get
cons: can't make bombs"
LMAO you charmer you
but why make bombs when you get glass!
@@KeterMalkuth Also probably glows under black light lmao
@@trentswag9324 In Soviet Russia the light glows you
NGL, if a youtuber is capable of making a nuclear bomb with his (relatively) affordable setup, I think it's their duty to share that knowledge with the world.
Lmfao XDDDDDDDDD
Oh, look, it's another episode of *OH MY LORD WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!*
🧐 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤯🤯🤯🤯
very good
Featuring this mad scientist
"I've been wanting to work with uranium for a while" has got me dying 😂😂
Nile:"This substance is extremely poisonous so I have to be careful"
Nile: *proceeds to drink the bottle*
You mean FROM the bottle....right..... RIGHT!?!
@@petardjuric3533 no. inhale the glass.
@@Teudlanif oh,that makes sense
@@Teudlanif No no, drink the glass and eat the water inside.
r/forbidden food
16:46 "After doing it just once, I was definetely by no means a pro with making glass, but I felt that I was ready to get uranium involved".
Just saw it as i read your comment 10/10 would coincide again
😂🎅
"Sometimes foreshadowing is obvious..."
5:39 “heavy metal poisoning” sounds like a good band name
or probably a disease you get from listening to too much heavy metal
@@Nyctotope you cant listen to enough heavy metal
I thought the same thing
Yep
my kind of poisoning
it's crazy how such a low percent of uranium is still capable of completely changing the color of the glass and making it fluoresce
“Hey guys, this is Nile red, and today I am going to try to purify uranium ore, into uranium 235, and try to make a nuclear reactor”
50th like
Welcome to the fbi watchlist
How r u going to seperate the .07 percent 235 from the 99.3 percent U-238 that's what was so hard during the war and what keeps us safe from people going rouge with bad intentions
@@dalejr183 obviously a centrifuge time and lots of science brain stuff
For a nuclear power plant, 5% or U-235 is enough. The nuke requires 90%
"I tried to create as little uranium dust as possible"
*Proceeds to crack uranium glass and spew glass shards everywhere*
@Curunir Low concentration though, the original dust he had must've had much more than his first count showed.
0.25% is nothing
After he ground it up, when pouring into funnel, a huge cloud is ejected.
the glass vitrified uranium is basically biologically inert. When he had it in the salts was the only time there was danger.
And he "thought it was really cool..."
Radioactive Uranium glass? That sounds like a blast
Its common
nice one XD
LoL
ITS YoU?! AGain?
I'm starting to think there is multiple people who don't have a mustache and have the same profile pic
ba-dum *tish*
This really takes me back... My dad used to have all kinds of chemicals in his photography lab back in the day, including small amounts of ferrocyanide, uranyl nitrate, high purity sulphur, copper sulphate and permanganate and a lot of other stuff (boric acid was dirt cheap and found everywhere). Back to uranyl nitrate what fascinated me (i was but a child back then) was that the container it was in always had water droplets forming on the inside. I used to say it ¨sweated¨. :) And i used to take it out in my own hand, clean the water and put it back it. But the little glass bottle would ¨sweat¨ again. I also played quite a lot with elemental mercury. It's amazing i am still in one piece :) But in any case, i have come to learn that chemistry is a very beautiful science if done properly and safely.
I do wonder though how he managed to get his hands on uranyl nitrate, especially since he lives in a Western country (i.e. very strict rules regarding access to such stuff).
To quote Ex&F: "yellow chem bad reeeeeeee"
We're gonna need to see your clean up and disposal process too.
It's probably going to go up on nileblue, his second channel.