Nuclear Engineer Reacts to NileRed "Making Uranium Glass"
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Nuclear Engineer Reacts to NileRed "Making Uranium Glass"
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Thank you so much for watching! If you are interested in seeing my reaction to another crazy homemade uranium experiment, please check out my reaction to Styropyro's URANIUM CRAYON! th-cam.com/video/GuoAQ4SXtv4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=4RMyLLdiW38fIEzz
time to get hella learnt
Hello Sir! Can you check out QSERF- Quantum Science Energy Reasearch Facility ? Please. Is a roblox game like the one you watched earlier this year.
I bet ya people get the green glowy uranium image from Bart in the intro of The Simpsons.
Only you could get one of the beads..slip it in your pocket before the check at work lol
Great video! 😹👍
Nigel was on the Trash Taste podcast, and he talked about this project. He asked the Canadian government about the legal implications of amateur/private citizen chemistry using uranium. What he was told was that the laws in Canada around radioactive materials only apply to using them for their radioactive properties. Therefore because the fluorescent property of uranium glass comes from its chemical properties and not from its radioactivity, legally he could just throw all his radioactive waste in the regular trash, but they “strongly prefer [he] didn’t”. 😂
Alternative phrasing “we dont have a reason to kick your ass for putting it in regular trash, but by god will we try to find one”
@@tillburr6799Sounds more like the US, but Canada could probably pull it off.
@@tillburr6799 They wouldn't bother.
@@tillburr6799 That would be the country we are the hat of.
Canada'd be like, "We don't have a reason to send people with horses to trample you, don't give us one and clean up your messes or we'll hit you as hard as the maple syrup thieves."
@@Natso_1 I mean, Canada the only nation where the cops are more corrupt than it's own government, and it's government is the definition of corrupt.
Canada: Horse police tramples elderly lady and she ends up in hospital with broken bones... also Canada, no one was hurt today, I don't care if you got video evidence of us harassing the citizens.
This nilered guy is no joke
He can turn cotton into cotton candy, plastic gloves into grape soda, plastic gloves + vanilla into hot sauce
This dude's a modern day alchemist and that kicks donkey
Wait until he turns silver into gold
Not to mention toilet paper into rectified ethanol and diamonds into carbonation.
One day, he will turn dirt into diamonds
@@Yichh That's... gonna be more difficult. Definitely outside the scope of chemistry for sure.
i love Nilered, but dont worry about safety! He built his own personal lab for these videos, complete with fumehoods and plenty of storage and PPE. He also has his own glassware (the beakers are all labeled "NileRed")
Did he really build the lab or does he just rent it from his uni?
@@k1zer100 pretty sure he built one into his house or something. He used to do them in his kitchen but that's gets pretty nasty quickly. He should have a video of his lab somewhere. Maybe on Nileblue
@@ferretforrent1144It's not part of his house. IIRC it's his own lab (everything in it is his own), the actual building it's in is a lease.
@@k1zer100he used to do these out of his parents house but at around 1 million subscribers he had saved up enough to make a lab, he rented a like 4 room places, broke one of the walls to make a room bigger, and bought all he needed to do what he needs (including PPE) he has a couple videos on this process and it's genuinely really cool. Online resellers were his savior apparently lol
@@k1zer100 He is renting a space for a lab, it is not inside of his house it is a separate office space. There are some videos on his second channel Nile Blue of him moving into the lab a few years back iirc!
Yep, Nile Red/Nigel has a degree in chemistry and is a real pro. Some of his experiments have spanned months, and he has a remarkable tenacity to stick with and repeat things until he gets it right.
some have taken years! nigel is amazing :)
He's also made superconductors and aerogel, which is pretty awesome.
@@Techno_Idioto he made frickin supercritical fluid and has probably made meth
The ferrofluid video convinced me. His results were better than any commercially sold examples he found.
@@_sandy_meth is actually p easy to make for guys like Nigel lol it's not that complicated. It would only make like a 5 min video
I love NileRed, he'll casually do some uranium chemistry and then turn around and say "I've never made glass before" as if that were the difficult/dangerous part 😂
Always admire Nile's attention to safety. Out of any science youtuber I've seen that does chemistry, they are the safest, despite working with arguably far more dangerous things
Actually, that makes perfect sense. When working with more dangerous things, you should probably be more careful. For example, I don't see why someone like Thought Emporium would need to use safety goggles, when they're working with living cells.
NurdRage also does some spicy stuff
@@cobaltchromee7533 I don't even mean in scale with the type of work done, I just mean in general, I feel a lot of science youtubers don't have proportionally appropriate safety standards
I thought the safest was Explosions and Fire /s
Him vs "i did a thing"
Oh yeah, thats 99% why "radioactive = green". Its because from radium painted glow in the dark watches and clock faces, uranium glazed ceramics, uranium glass, uranium in jewelry, etc.
It certainly didn't come out of nowhere lol
The green still comes from phosphor.
@@XtreeM_FaiLokay and?
@@PneumaticFrog And that's it.
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
@@XtreeM_FaiL Sort of / depends. Many lights, and presumably phosphors, put out UV and use a coating. In this case, the uranium can act as that coating.
Based on the fire extinguisher, he got to put out metal fires, I believe he takes safety seriously.
worlds biggest salt shakee
I'm a fan of @NileRed and I do believe he was working with a lab-grade fume hood at this point in his TH-cam career, and at his own off-site lab no less. Some geniuses have all the luck 🙂Also worth noting that he has a video about the cleanup from this experiment on his NileBlue channel which is also a good watch.
Yes. This was way after he set up his lab. He has two hoods as far as I recall. He's always safe.
Yeah, he has a really great professional setup now... Old Nile was hilariously jank though.
If you still want some shed chemistry, Tom from the Explosions&Fire/Extractions&Ire channels has some good jank.
@@kittycatpilotToms awesome, he laughs in the face of yellow chemistry.
Something worrying that was found out a few years ago was to do with “negative ion bracelets” or something like that, basically similar to healing crystals. What was found was that some of these bracelets and necklaces, mixed in with the silicone were thorium particles and were radioactive enough to cause some damage if you used them as intended. Also since they were just mixed in with the silicone, the thorium could probably come out/break off during everyday use, allowing the thorium to get inside people.
There were a few TH-cam videos on it but I can’t remember who by.
Thought emporium I think, it would definitely be a cool reaction to his videos about those companies.
I think Thunderf00t did one
@@invictus_1245 I agree, I would love to see this guy react to thought emporium's videos about "health products" loaded with thorium.
Big Clive iirc
not only just thorium being embedded in the silicone, but also thoriated blankets and other items that could potentially contain loose thorium powder which is not only easy to potentialy spill but also inhale. those bracelets are probably the safest form of that garbage ironically.
For your personal enrichment, yellowcake is a bright yellow, and most of the chemical processing of spent fuel is also quite yellow, being oxides, etc.
ALSO as a glassblower, you CAN buy uranium glass rods, theyre just very expensive and rare. old stock mostly.
I found a piece of uranium glass in a pile of old trash in the woods right next to my house. It's an old cookie jar lid.
Nigel, or Nile, is my favorite education-based youtuber, and I appreciate this look at his stuff. I'm enjoying you watching and educating along with these kinds of channels.
Thanks, I appreciate it!
I work in nuclear reprocessing and waste management. We have a plant that we use for vitrification of radioactive effluent and liquor, it's not too dissimilar to the process that Nile uses here.
Obviously it's on a greater scale and the contents are highly radioactive, meaning we have certain safeguards in place. But the end result is still the same, radioactive glass.
We use vitrification because it is easier to track and control solid waste than liquid waste. All the liquid that is boiled off as part of the process is filtered of any remaining radioactive particles, then converted to steam which is also used to power some of the other plants on the site.
Vitrification is one of the cleanest and safest ways to deal with radioactive effluent.
Uranium salts were also used as a pigment for bricks. Early in my career, I worked at a research facility which was built in the early 20th century. A radon assay was done in one of the buildings and radon was detected in the corner rooms. It turned out that the source of the radon was the yellow brick in the walls.
That is so cool... and horrifying.
In my country Radon buildup is a common problem, and your comment has me wondering whether the yellow bricks in some of the older houses may be adding to the natural levels.
the yellow brick road is taking on entirely new forms of meaning now. 😂
The reason the non-florescent uranium compound becomes florescent in the glass is because the uranium gets oxidized when you mix it with the glass. Uranium can have tons of different oxidation states, but only specific ones are florescent. I forget which ones, +12 maybe? Regardless, it's this oxidation state that gives rise to the fluorescence. You could say when the uranium is added to the glass it's not the same uranium compound, but that's kind of a funny way to say that. The uranium is now part of the glass structure, so it's not really it's own compound in the glass.
yoooooooo nilered rocks
Well this is nilered glass, but nilered probably makes rocks aswell
First time seeing your channel, but I'm a long-term fan of Nile. All his videos are extremely well detailed, and he even has videos about the cleaning process of the different chemicals that he used. He has videos about his entire lab setup, which is honestly impressive for someone doing TH-cam videos. He loves what he's doing, and it shows in the videos. Spending days, or even weeks, on a single video idea for him is nothing. Some of the experiments he did took MONTHS.
My wife used to be a high school chemistry teacher and we would go to flea markets with a Geiger counter to find household radionuclides, like "vaseline" glass, so called because it's color resembles vasiline. You can actually tell if it was manufactured in the 30's or later by how hot it is. In the 30's, it was made with raw uranium. After the 40's, it was made with depleated uranium.
We also looked for "Fiesta ware" plates and bowls. The orange-red ceramic glaze was also made with uranium.
Many people still do that because of the resell value. Many garage/flea market people do not fully realize what they have and sell them underpriced
personally fiesta ware scares me, if only somewhat. because fiesta ware is more likely to chip or scrape the glaze if its used as intended, and you ingest that, which then wreaks havoc on your innards until you figure out what happened.
Depleted uranium actually is used in nuclear weapons just as a tamper instead of core material its density making it well suited to this role coupled with the fact that when bombarded with enough neutrons it too will react
I love Nile red! I apologize if I haven’t noticed it yet, but have you ever watched Cody , the guy he referenced with the thunder can? He’s awesome and a very worthwhile rabbit hole for reactions
Yeah codyslab is a trip
I am delighted to hear an expert opine that NileRed really IS as meticulous as he seems to be in all his videos. I have enjoyed Nile's content for years, and it always seemed to me that he was taking reasonable precautions.
Nigel usually handles most syntheses he does in his fumehood
Generally, flat black or white background means its in his fumehood
Not always
Uranium chemistry from what ive seen in demonstrations tend to be pretty colorful, and often kinda green or yellow or blue.
Metal chemistry tends to be colorful
Also, uranyl nitrate is extremely soluble, and subsequently toxic, and some sources say it can absorbed through skin. Some say absorption isnt significant, but skin contamination is still significant.
The danger is still ingestion, but now its really really solible and will dissolve into the sweat on your hands rather than just sitting there
Finally, some actually good reaction content!
Love to see it. Keep up the great work, my dude!
Thanks so much!!
I heard once that the reason why depleted uranium shells are so good at penetrating armour is partially because of the density of depleted uranium, but also because of the way it interacts with the armour itself. A typical steel shell (or pretty much any other metal used in ammunition, for that matter), tends to mushroom out at the front as it passes through armour. Apparently, a depleted uranium shell essentially sharpens itself as it passes through armour instead of mushrooming out.
This is something I heard about maybe once or twice quite a while ago, and I have not researched the topic, so please take the above paragraph with a grain of salt.
It's oblative so sheds the outside off rather than mushrooming, while kind of self sharpening it doesn't really get sharp, however since DU is pyrophoric the dust/fragments auto ignite when in contact with the air. So it's a super dense armour piercing dart that doesn't mushroom out, sets things on fire inside and outside the tank (such as the big autoloaders in the Russian tanks leading to the turret popping off like a high powered party popper.)
@@lukeevans1945 I see. Thanks for the correction and the additional info.
Uranium is also a very hard metal. Not as hard as tungsten, but harder than steel. Though density is mostly what you care about in a penetrator.
@@unknownhours True.
lead is the decay product of Uranium
Bead shops are a great place to look for modern uranium glass ... or at least that was my experience a couple decades ago. A keen eye is almost as good as a geiger counter. I was even able to procure some within the Berkeley (CA) "nuclear-free zone". Alas, the beads were not free. Even so, a lot less trouble than rolling your own.
5:35 I built my own counter from a cheap solder kit for 20 bucks. I found the asphalt outside my flat is about 4 times more radioactive than the woods around it I was looking into building a gamma ray spectrometer, but the crystal alone would come in at hundreds of money units. Certainly not the price range for me for something just to toy around with.
36:40 most cheap counters that offer measurements in Sv/h or similar are calibrated to specific materials, like uranium. So when it detects some amount of particles, it assumes those particles to be in proportion as per the calibration material.
had my curiosity took hold and looked up the geiger counter used (PRM-9000) and found its $680usd and is calibrated to cesium-137
They are probably using phosphogypsum in the ashphalt, that is why it is radioactive.
What a wonderfully warm, generous reaction. I really enjoyed this.
TH-cam randomly reccomended your channel and I'm glad it did. This was great content especially considering your education, background, and expertise in the matter!
Thanks! Welcome aboard!
I really enjoyed this reaction; you brought a lot of insight. It's cool when safety-focused people from different disciplines still converge on the same risks and mitigation strategies.
I heard that the association between radiation and glowimg green originally stems from WW1. They used to paint the watch faces and compasses with a radioactive paint that would glow green at night and in the dim trench light (I think radium). I think many just assumed that anything radioactive glows green. Personally i like the blue more.
It can glow in a variety of colours.
The story you are referring to, is the Radium Girls. An absolute nightmare.
newcomer to your channel here; kudos to you for making this an actual reaction video! Your reactions add a lot to the original video which is what a react video should always strive to be.
Too many people just steal other creators content under the name fair use and don't add anything to the video except laughing along and that really annoys me.
This! Actual add of info, Personal comment/stories, warning when he doesn't know much about the subject, ... and so much more. From a little channel i'm amazed. Actual legitimate good stuff.
This type of reaction video may still fall under copyright misuse, unfortunately. When you watch the entire video in full, it's always a little bit sketchy. I, as a general rule, try to avoid reaction videos that watch the entire source video because it really hurts the original creator. Taking little snippets of revelant material is generally a better practice. This guy does it better than most, though the commentary does consume less of the video duration than the original content, which is, again, risky regarding content protections.
Legal Eagle has a good video regarding this topic. Worth a watch if you're interested.
@@Malicious2013 There should be, at least in theory, absolutely no problem with copyright infringement, at least according to LegalEagle's late September video addressing the systematic theft of content in the Reaction Streamer community. This reaction is about 40% longer in duration than the original video, and with the additional perspective and information added, it can easily be considered transformative, and it was made more than three and a half years after the date of the original upload, which for this period has realized almost 12 million views.
@parasitelights3158 It still uses an unedited full viewing of the original content. That's pretty tough to dispute lol.
Thanks for the extra perspective on his video. I enjoyed watching this through your eyes. Have a good day mate.
NileRed is my favorite chemist!! My granddaughter and I watch his videos together. I’m so happy he got his new lab. He has the exuberance and fascination of a young person, with the education and knowledge to make chemistry understandable and fun. He also never quits. He is always trying to make whatever he’s doing better.
We use boric acid in glassmaking to lower the thermal coefficient of expansion, which reduces strain as the glass cools. That’s how you make old-fashioned pyrex. 1100°C is actually a little cool for borosilicate. The person who taught my wife and I glassblowing used to run the glass furnace up to about 1200°C to "fine" it, and that was a soda lime glass.
I've been watching NileRed long enough to know that usually when he's showing chemicals outside of containers like with that uranyl nitrate, it's under his fume hood. So you can rest easy on that one, dude.
Also powdered sodium diuranate is the forbidden mac n cheese powder.
thanks for talking professionally about this enthusiasts! this is very needed in youtube
This guy does some of the coolest stuff. On NileRed, he has his more serious projects, like making cherry soda out of paint thinner, transparent wood, or bromine (his favorite carcinogen). On NileBlue, he has his more silly projects, like making the world's purest cookie.
Depleted Uranium is used in thermonuclear weapons as a tamper, and the neutrons from the fusion reaction cause it to undergo fission itself, significantly increasing the yield.
please do more reactions to nilered/nileblue!!
Or Nilegreen even
This was really interesting to watch, I'm glad to have gotten the chance to learn some more!
I wish Nile did more chemistry related to radioactive materials so you would watch more for this channel XD
What exactly would you want him to do? There's only so much he can do, both from a safety and legal standpoint.
@@AB-80X I mean, whatever is interesting to him? I like all of NileRed stuff; the 'food' related ones are interesting, like Gloves to Grape Soda. But literally anything that strikes his fancy I'd be happy to watch more of.
What do you mean 'safety and legal', you mean copyright strikes? If so, its entirely at the discretion of NileRed. Im not under the impression hes anti-reaction videos, so I don't think there is a high likelihood of any real risk of doing a video from him every so often. Otherwise, Im not so sure what you mean.
you are literally finding every science/comparison youtuber I watch! XD glad to see the youtubers I find all seem to be more than aware of each other
Thank you for reacting to this! Was realy fun to se you get so excited!.
Thanks!!
For a reference, here are the temps/targets I use when doing fusing and slumping art glass: (I work with System 96 glass, so garget temps will vary.)
from Room Temp to about 1,000 Deg F/357.8 Deg C - Fragile zone. Solid glass in this range is subject to thermal shock and can shatter. Not an issue for making powder into glass.
960 Deg F/515.6 Deg C - Soak target temp to allow glass to relax and anneal, so it won't likely shatter on it's own.
1250 Deg F/676.7 Deg C - Soak target Temp when ramping up temperature. Also edge of plastic/fluid state where glass is soft and taffy like.
1350 Deg F/723.3 Deg C - Soak target temp for slumping panes of glass into molds.
1400 Deg F/760.0 Deg C - Soak Target Temp for making smaller bits of glass stick together (Fusing). At this temp, glass retains it's sharp edges and corners.
1450 Deg F/787.8 Deg C - Soak Target Temp for Fusing. Used to soften the edges and corners, but still leave them intact.
1500 Deg F/815.6 Deg C - Soak Target Temp for Fusing. Used to take glass near puddle like. All edges and corners melt off and round out due to surface tension.
1700 Deg F/926.7 Deg C - Soak Target Temp for Casting glass in a mold. Mostly used for solid chunks being melted down inside the mold.
2300 Deg F/1260 Deg C - Target temp for melting glass, especially for "glory hole" kilns. This is the temp for pouring glass into a mold.
The kiln I have can only go up to 1700 Deg F, because it's a small kiln used for slumping and fusing glass. I have ramped it that high in an attempt to make glass spacers for a fountain I never finished. I don't know how fluid Glass blowers need their glass to be, but I assume it's somewhere between 1700 Deg F and 2300 Deg F. (I'm being lazy and not looking it up.) For what Nile needs, I think he needed to go hotter. I don't remember what I posted in his video when I watched it a while ago. The nice thing is he doesn't need to slowly ramp up the temperature in the kiln he's using because he's working with powder and not solid glass chunks. HOWEVER, he will have to SLOWLY ramp down the temperature and probably have a few soak holds to anneal the glass so it won't just shatter. Don't remember if he did that. Luckily, they're smallish pieces, so he can be a little aggressive with the cool down. Larger pieces have to go as slow as you can and then even slower to keep the temperature equalized in the piece.
EDIT: If you want to see if there is stress in the glass (from how it was created), you need a light table and two pieces of polarized plastic. Place one polarized sheet on the light table. Place the glass piece on top of it. Then place the other polarized piece on top and turn the top piece (90 Degrees) until the area around the glass piece is black. The light will go through the glass and be visible. Any stresses in the glass will show up as lines and the cloudier the piece, the more stress it has and likely to break. However, Tempered Glass uses this stress against itself to make the glass incredibly strong and likely to break into cubes instead of shards when it does break.
I'm hindsight it's ridiculously obvious that a hairline fracture in glass would polarize light, but I would never have thought of it. Physics is so damn cool.
I pick up and deliver at the Fiestaware plant in Newell, WV on occasion. I took my radiation detector in there once and it spooked me. Even though they stopped making radioactive dishware decades ago, it's still fairly radioactive for a factory. That side of the factory is now a tourist stop and the gift shop area iirc. Definitely worth checking out if you ever end up along the Ohio River in WV.
It's awesome to see Nigel's science and methods confirmed by an actual expert in the field. Thank you for this video, very entertaining!
If you wanna check more about his safety steps and his setup, he has another channel for that called NileBlue. I think he has a cleanup video for this project specifically on there.
I would love to see more NileRed!
Kudos to everyone involved. Great work.
NileRed has done some impressive organic and inorganic chemical processes. He'll start with something like Nitrile gloves and end up after numerous reactions with 'grape soda'. Love watching him and he does work in a good lab.
I love how in depth he goes in his videos.
I lived near a pottery artist as a kid. She had drawers full of various powders for ceramic glaze. One drawer contained about 10lbs of powdered uranium ore. Makes the bright orange glaze once fired on pottery.
sounds like cancer
It always amazes me that everyone has the same examples for the various levels of exposure. Dental scan, airplane trip, banana, etc. I assume it's from everyone having similar charts when they learned it, but the consistency is still impressive.
HEY! Love the shoutout to Cody’s Lab. Awesome channel. Cody is a great guy.
Also he has a video on the cleanup process behind this experiment, it was interesting to see everything that went into it and that he properly handles all the waste and contaminated equipment
30:00 - The reason the one piece broke is because he didn't anneal the glass and bring the temps down gradually. Stresses weren't allowed to be released in the annealing process... and it ripped itself apart.
Awesome! A reaction to NileRed, I’d love to see more of this
Uranium glass can still be found in antique shops. You can find the clear, lime-green glass as well as (usually marbles) a greenish, petroleum jelly looking glass. These, too, are fluorescent under UV.
20:00 the reason his Uranium compound wasn't fluorescent under the UV light is because most of the UV light was blocked by the glass container.
I really appreciate seeing two knowledgeable people discuss a topic. Chemistry and Nuclear Physics are topics that probably 99% of the population will never know the details of let alone feel like they have any truck with, so seeing a video narrating the process of making uranium glass and having commentary by an expert--and that BOTH videos are so digestible by the layperson--is a really cool window into an otherwise mystical realm that we could never hope to get to. Thanks for sharing!
That stereotypical green glow also occurs when you expose quite a few secondary uranium minerals to a blacklight. These tend to form on top of uraninite deposits (which are mostly black) where the uraninite reacts with the elements dissolved in groundwater and oxygen. I've got a piece of autunite that under UV also gives an intense green fluorescence.
Nice video. Liked your enthusiasm. Nile does amazing stuff.
Uranium glass was produced simply as another color of glass. Uranium salts were mixed into glass to create particular yellow colors in natural light, just like other metals' salts would produce other specific colors. The fluorescence of the glass was a quality that wasn't apparent to people until years later when UV lights became available.
You can easily find vintage & antique uranium glass bowls, dishes, cake plates, custard dishes, candle holders, cups, mugs, even glass lamps, etc. etc. at thrift stores.
if you ever try out gaming. you should play minecraft with the industrial craft 2 mod (specifically ic2 classic) (its got nuclear reactors in it and theres so many ways you can set up one, its also a late game power source and the best power source)
there's also HBM's nuclear tech mod
bigger reactors and mekanism also do
@@_CDLP stuck on 1.12.2
@@LatvianVideo well yeah, but ic2 is the og though
How about Chernobyl: The Legacy Continues? (needs an old PC though)
Uranium was commonly used as a glaze in making tiles prior to around 1940. Lots of old houses will still have these, and they are slightly radioactive.
I grew up back in the 70's in Crystal River Fl and I remember going through the nuclear plant while under construction on a school feild trip. We also were able to tour the 2 coal fired plants as well. (it was a different time! I can't imagine that being allowed today!!!). A few years later we were given a tour through the operating nuc plants control room (again, can't imagine that today!!!). I lived within the 5 mile "Kill Zone" and I remember the sirens were at the end of our road... Pointed away from us 🙂We used to kid out of towners that we glowed at night ;-) I remember some of the best fishing ever at the warm water outlet of the plant!!! Red fish especially enjoyed the warm water!!! Later on they built 2 more larger coal plants and had cooling towers for them, most people thought they were for the nuc plant, but they weren't... I was able to tour their costruction as well and remember hollaring in the tower and how it echoed ;-) Also got to stand in the smoke stack b4 they put the guts in it and was amazed at how much it swayed in the wind!!!(It was 600' tall and my friend (who eventually wound up running the nuc plant) asked if I wanted to go up in the elevator to the top of the stack... NOOOO was my answer ;+) Great video sir!!!
Uranium glass is a staple in scientific glass blowing shops, because it gives a tight seal with metal, such as you would want around electrodes extending from an external power supply into a vacuum chamber.
Way back in the early 80s I read a book called "After The Flood" (by Swedish author P.C. Jersild). The story takes place after a nuclear world war. In one sequence the characters are piloting a boat outside Stockholm in the archipelago and I remember one of them mentioning that they need to be careful because there were glass banks that might sink their vessel. That detail always remained with me.
I thik the green glow myth also comes from radium and tritium radioluminescense as green is the brightest and most common color used with zinc sulfide being ideal for the purpose. I wonder if if a self illuminating phosphorescent form of uranium glass that illuminates itself with charged particles is possible. Like a self glowing crystal that doesn't need a phospor coating.
Depleted Uranium is amazing for weapons because not only is it denser than lead meaning you can carry more energy, it also ablates through armor in a very specific way that actually makes it sharper as it goes through, making it more effective with more armor to go through. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of one of those shells.
Awesome video. Thanks for taking the time to post.
It’s not particularly related to this video, but have you heard of the Okla mine nuclear reactor? I think it is one of the most fascinating cases of nuclear criticality I have read.
I've seen uranium glassware in a glass museum in Passau, Germany. The pieces I saw were all green. I think they were late 19th-early 20th century. I seem to recall a physics textbook that listed the refractive values for several types of glass, and uranium glass was much more refractive than the other types.
Deleted uranium is super dense, which is why it's used in munitions. Heavy small rounds impart more force via kinetic energy transfer
Nile is truly dedicated to his craft, imo. Seeing a professional be impressed by his standards, safety precautions, and methods of approach is definitely validating of that opinion.
I used to do glasswork for fun. I still have all the stuff. I have one rod of uranium glass somewhere. Someday I'll make something cool out of it.
Anealing the glass is 100% required. Glass kilns have timers to control the ramp down. You can also see the internal stress with polarized light. If there's and internal stresses, you don't sell the piece.
I'm not a chemist, but always wonder where the fumes in a fumehood go - surely it's not just vented outside. How are they treated? It must be more sophisticated than something like a carbon filter?
Organic chemist here.
It really depends on what you are working with.
I work with Fluorinated Organophosphate compounds which can be extremely toxic and dangerous, as part of alternative pesticide research. We vent everything though chemical scrubbers. Some hoods use "mechanical" filters that are designed to catch small particles, which you would use in such a case as with NileRed. There are also some chemical scrubbers that can be used in this situation. What setup he uses? Who knows. I'm guessing a mix of HEPA and chem filters.
And lastly, in work where you have low level toxicity and low pollution, you simply vent it outside of the building without any treatment. Fume hoods and their filter systems come in a wide variety of types. Ours are as simple as a caustic scrubbers that will react with the vapours given off and thus neutralizing them.
I once visited a lack working with highly radioactive materials, and the filtration system for their "fume hoods" took up as much space in the building as the rest of the lab...
@@AB-80X Belated thanks for the detailed reply. This is exactly the kind of thing I was wondering.
@@kyrresjbk7876 That's very reassuring 😐. Also interesting too.
21:18 Boric acid is used not for shielding properties, but because it increases the durability of glass. You might recognize borosilicate glassware brand names like "Duran" or "Pyrex" that have been stamped on equipment in both kitchens and chemistry labs, because it is both highly durable and heat resistant.
Pyrex is usually not borosilicate anymore :(
@@RobinTheBot Really? I guess I shouldn't trust their Wikipedia page.
@@HenriFaust It used to be but they have changed to something else which is why if you look, you can find many articles and videos about Pyrex exploding.
He never said it was used for shielding. He said it was used for its neutron absorption in reactors. He never mentioned its use in glass other than saying it was interesting it was used in both
@@RobinTheBot the lab glassware still is, but the USA made consumer-grade stuff is now made of soda-lime glass-much inferior to the borosilicate glass used before.
You've probably held a lot of uranium glass and just not known it. Most antique green and yellow glass has some uranium content to it(and some white glass--commercial Fenton flower vases from the 60s and 70s come to mind). It was a fairly common ingredient in glass for a very-very-very long time.
I used to work an antiques shop, we'd display it under a backlight, and walk around thrift stores and yard sales with a Geiger counter looking for items.
I have NEVER heard this about smoking. Not for doctors, nay sayers, nagging Nellies, etc. Thank you so much for enlightening me on this additional risk from smoking. I’m genuinely grateful!
that's cool. my only experience with uranium was during a lab course in which we used uranyl acetate staining for electron microscopy
As I've heard french comercial reactors use uranium nitrate in their fuel pellets, and I've heard it from Rosatoms's representative interview talking about enrichment and production of some quantities of fuel for the french.
Radioactive Thorium in optical lenses was pretty common until the 1970s, particularly for military and industriall use. The majority were recalled, but there were consumer models which can still be found.
I was born in the late 60s and came of age before the end of the Cold War. The ever present threat of USSR nuclear bombs falling out of the sky was a low level but constant fear during my childhood.
Once the internet was born I found tons of information online about all things nuclear that wasn't easily accessible pre-internet.
Because of this easy access, over the past couple of decades I've sucked up every bit of information I can find about nuclear energy and radioactivity: from radium dials on watches to the nuclear fusion explosions kept in check by gravity that we call stars.
Discovering your channel makes me super happy. Seeing another content creator "playing" with uranium blows my Cold War influenced mind.
I'm really excited to have found your channel and now Nile's. Science was not cool for girls when I grew up and I crave fact based information sources that are easy to understand.
So thanks! I think a day of binge watching your content is in my immediate future.
subbed for your cheerfulness and reactions... looking forward to seeing you reach 100k
Thanks so much!! Welcome aboard!
I really enjoyed watching your reactions and commentary, after having watched the same video earlier today. I have several mineral specimens containing Uraninite (U oxide) and/or Autunite (a complex Uranyl Phosphate), which I keep in a lead-lined styrofoam box. The oxide doesn't fluoresce but the phosphate does; I suspect it has to do with the oxidation level of the Uranium. BTW, I found that the PRM-9000 retails for $679.
NileRed is great! Thank YOU for YOUR notes, twas quite interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was a nice video to get a more in depth view on radiation.
Decades ago, I was passing through Oklahoma and stopped into a random antique store. The proprietor took me out back and opened a 10 ft cargo container that was filled to the brim with Uranium glass plates and glasses. There were hundreds of pounds of the stuff.
Meteorites will also form glass when they hit due to the plasma heating them in the atmosphere. I have a glass infused meteorite that has blue and white glass covering it.
Cobalt bottles and glass wear used to be popular. I had a friend who had a kitchen cabinet full of cobalt mixing and punch bowls. Cobalt dishes etc. One night he put the cobalt punch bowl into his microwave for one minute. He turned out the lights removed the bowl which glowed brighter a than most glow in the dark friz bee disc's. I was amazed. He died of cancer 3 years later. Not saying the cobalt kitchenware gave him cancer but I avoid it. The Philips Milk of Magnesia bottles used to be made of cobalt glass before they switched to plastic.
“Don’t eat Uranium” (taking notes)
Some fun and interesting facts about DU ammunition.
The M1 Abrams also has depleted Uranium ammunition.
It's a long solid dart of DU stabilised with a discarding plastic sabot, the sabot keeps the DU round centered and stable in the round and bore while firing.
It falls away when it exits the bore of 120mm canon. DU rounds are used by The Army, Navy, Marine Core and Air force in a variety of guns and vehicles.
Some notable vehicles are the AV-8B Harrier Jump jet, The Navy's Phalanx CIWS M61 Vulcan Gatling style rotary cannon.(This may have been subsequently replaced with Tungsten rounds)
The Bradley, the Marines LAV-25
And of course the legendary General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm 7 barrel auto cannon ( Currently manufactured by General Dynamics) on the A-10 Thunderbolt II, to name few vehicles and weapon systems that utilise DU rounds.
The US & UK are the only nations who admit to using DU ammo
The DU round is 20% more effective than Tungsten rounds, on contact with armore the tip of the round fractures in a way that makes the round sharper.
As it's penetrating the armour it gets extremely hot and will self ignite when it contacts the oxygen on the inside of the tank.
Brutal for the enemy.
Awesome video. I also love NileRed videos and use some of them in my physical science class. I have a uranium glass ice cream dish from the early 1900's and a Fiesta Ware Uranium orange bowl from the 1950's. The Fiesta Ware bowls were manufactured into the 1970's (until around the time of the Three Mile Island incident... go figure). The glass ice cream bowl fluoresces beautifully but does not even tickle my cheap Geiger counter. The Uranium Orange bowl does not fluoresce but measures strongly on the Geiger counter out to a distance of about a foot (20cm). Both are quite safe for everyday use as long as you don't eat the bowls... of course then the immediate problem is not the uranium but the fact that you ate glass and ceramic bowls. :)
Eating out of it isn't too bad, microscopic glass particles will just pass on through. It's when you breathe the particles in that you start having real problems, because they get stuck in your lungs. This is the same problem that occurs with cigarettes, as the mineral fertilizer used in fields is contaminated by lead-210 and polonium-210. The same fertilizer is used to grow food in the USA, by the way, but food doesn't normally get trapped in your lungs like tobacco tar.
Man I love the fact we can watch something like this, this is great
When I was a baker (20 years head baker@ an international bakery) we used sodium hydroxide to make pretzels. Slippery stuff, we always used thick gloves.
He has a video on his second channel NileBlue that goes over how he handled the waste he generated, it's only 5 minutes so probably not worth making a video on but might be an interesting watch for anyone curious.