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  • Named after Poland, this element has a notorious reputation because of its use in atomic bombs and international murder allegations.
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  • @billybbob18
    @billybbob18 11 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    I like the way he describes a nuclear melt down as "embarrassing" and radiation sickness as "unpleasant" lol

  • @bionerd23
    @bionerd23 16 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    just a little info on the side, he was talking about the polonium that makes up most of natural's sources for polonium. there are different isotopes of polonium, though; some synthentic pollonium has a half life of nearly 3000 years, and another has a half life of only 300 nanoseconds... and there's lots in between, too. :-)

  • @grebulocities8225
    @grebulocities8225 9 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Fun fact: you can buy a potentially lethal dose of polonium-210 on the internet for about $100. It's used in some antistatic devices, which use the positively charged alpha particles to neutralize charge buildup. Devices up to 0.5 mCi can be bought without restriction; more powerful ones are also not difficult to obtain for industrial purposes. The polonium is kept secure under a metal strip - you'd have to dissolve that away and somehow precipitate out the polonium to make it useful. I think a reasonably advanced amateur chemist/Russian assassin should be able to pull this off.

  • @jimmarshall3724
    @jimmarshall3724 9 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I had to design a perfume or afterrshave for GCSE graphics, i called it polonium for some reason... No wonder i got a D

  • @Titanium1500
    @Titanium1500 11 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It means that there are no stable isotopes, so basically brackets are usually used in radioactive elements. Since the larger elements tend to be the radioactive elements and any element larger than uranium is synthetic, the majority of radioactive elements are synthetic, so that's why it may seem like the brackets mean it's synthetic.

  • @Hoshimaru57
    @Hoshimaru57 12 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "Because it's radioactive and decays so fast it can cause all sorts of unpleasent effects...and it's probably very poisonous as well."
    I hear that in every video that involves a heavy metal, especially the radioactive ones.
    I think we can safely say that the list of elements that aren't toxic in their elemental forms is shorter than the list that are.
    Granted, ALL are in a high enough dosage, but I mean anything that'll sicken or kill with a minute dose or very quickly.

  • @Lukq95
    @Lukq95 13 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    cheers from poland:D

  • @oxm18
    @oxm18 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Every one is talking about uranium, but polonium is the most radioactive element in the periodic table !!!!

  • @Lordhermitcrab
    @Lordhermitcrab 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Just don't put it in your coffee. We don't want another Litvinenko incident.

  • @aaronesparza-almaraz9480
    @aaronesparza-almaraz9480 10 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Poland can into space

  • @MisterTutor2010
    @MisterTutor2010 12 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I think he means chemically poisonous.
    For example Pu in addition to being very radioactive is also chemically toxic making it even more dangerous

  • @zeeter666
    @zeeter666 12 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    LOL is it just me or those look like someone else's arms?

  • @RedwoodTheElf
    @RedwoodTheElf 14 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    @kawana87
    That would be on the same periodic table as "unobtanium" and "Adamantium" (a fictional metal that is supposedly as hard as diamond, which is actually a variant of "Adamant" which, after the middle ages eventually became "A diamond")

  • @douro20
    @douro20 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Certain sorts of light elements give off great amounts of fast neutrons when bombarded with alpha particles. Foils of lithium and beryllium are the most commonly used materials for these types of so-called spallation neutron sources.

  • @MisterRedBird
    @MisterRedBird 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Because you can just pick up some Polonium from the super market, its not like they were used as a trigger in atomic bombs or anything.

  • @romanticirony
    @romanticirony 14 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Hi! Is it true that Polonium was found to be a component of cigarettes? Would you know if cigarettes today still contain it? Thanks.
    Love this channel. :)

  • @SETHHIKARU
    @SETHHIKARU 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No because a large enough amount will decay to half and then half again and half again etc. But it's still detectable so a small enough amount would still be detectable if you managed to live with it inside of you after a year and a half.

  • @uwilly23
    @uwilly23 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How would they keep it, 138 days of storage and half of it is gone, 277 days and 3/4 of it is gone. 2 years and you have less than 1/30 remaining.

  • @Drag0nfoxx
    @Drag0nfoxx 15 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That seems very unlikely to me. Cigarettes are lethal because of, among others, carbon monoxide and nicotine, but not plutonium or polonium.

  • @petroslitos3595
    @petroslitos3595 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    can i ask you something???when alpha or beta decay happen??forexample if we had uranium which its decay is alpha particle and a neutrino if am i correct how i am supposed to know if this is uranium or after the tranmutation become plutonium???

  • @Aedazan
    @Aedazan 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    For a plasma one or more of two things must happen: the element must have a very high temperature (3000+ degrees), or it loses all the electrons from one or more of its shells. both of these usually happen. in the case of polonium the only times that it gets hot enough to produce plasma is when it is either being produced, or when it is actually detonating the bomb. that said it also bonds with blood plasma and irradiates the whole body on its trip :( but dont take my word. do some research

  • @ryanburninator
    @ryanburninator 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @romanticirony yes it is true, it is a byproduct of the smoke in which you inhale from the cigarette and now they still contain it

  • @madman123456
    @madman123456 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ok, people start to eat Polonium; about time i start hoarding Bottlecaps.

  • @VannAleXX
    @VannAleXX 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    But will it blend???

  • @romanticirony
    @romanticirony 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    P.S. Maybe that'd be a nice update for the Polonium video. ^^,

  • @cube_cup
    @cube_cup 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I thought it was named after Polonius from Hamlet

  • @northroad1
    @northroad1 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Where is the polonium wire!?

  • @ghostid544
    @ghostid544 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @lexichronicle2 I believe it's because they replace some of the other metals in our bodies that are required for certain chemical reactions. I could be wrong but I think that's one of the biggest reasons. I probably should have paid more attention in class so I could give you a better answer :-)

  • @BamaFanEdge
    @BamaFanEdge 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why does my periodic table have polonium's atomic mass in brackets? I thought brackets meant that the element was synthetic.

  • @dudi2016
    @dudi2016 14 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    POLAND

  • @SETHHIKARU
    @SETHHIKARU 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    No one is ever too smart.

  • @TheTman373
    @TheTman373 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    you live in the u.k.???

  • @whoopla1095
    @whoopla1095 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My faavorite elemnt. elemnt number 115, the element of suprise. Whoa tis is the most radioactive element!

  • @tahu2247
    @tahu2247 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    actually,I think Po was also used in antistatic brushes

  • @peppoj
    @peppoj 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    @MYTHWIZ
    Polonium yes, Plutonium no

  • @00nerd4
    @00nerd4 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    @MYTHWIZ i am sure ppl would die from radiation posinoning then from lung or heart desieases

  • @willgaines5269
    @willgaines5269 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    PROBABLY poisonus??????

  • @stardude692001
    @stardude692001 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @culwin Chuck Norris is that you?

  • @AlwayzPr0
    @AlwayzPr0 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I came here because of Yasser Arafat.

  • @grooveclubhouse
    @grooveclubhouse 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually I think its quite brilliant. think of it... it has such a short half life that soon enough any evidence is gone. unlike a bullet. catch my drift?

  • @omniexistus
    @omniexistus 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    why does the stereotype of the nutty professor hold true?
    I mean dude, what's with the hair!

  • @RoC1909
    @RoC1909 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @VannAleXX LOL!

  • @MisterRedBird
    @MisterRedBird 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Expensive eggs.

  • @12345RunescapeNerd
    @12345RunescapeNerd 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @culwin the eggs that you laid two mornings ago???

  • @tiagandremo
    @tiagandremo 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you just had to ruin the joke........sad sad sad :L

  • @timbagzey1465
    @timbagzey1465 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    polonium was used by mi6 to frame the fsb why not use an alkaloid ? mi6 did it to frame Russia .

  • @Furball2k
    @Furball2k 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    No, he died in a French hospital of A.I.D.S.

  • @casmatt1
    @casmatt1 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    more so with beta particles rather than alpha particles. alpha particles really cant do jack shit

  • @dudi2016
    @dudi2016 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ha jestem dumny ze jestem Polakiem

  • @ithenoob
    @ithenoob 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    I heard that polonium and plutonium are in cigarettes

  • @Blubber4444
    @Blubber4444 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    lol^^

  • @ver64
    @ver64 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who is your hair dresser?..

  • @Usayasha
    @Usayasha 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    This man doesn't know what he's saying. Polonium has no mutagenic effects whatsoever, it kills everything it touches before they have a chance to mutate.
    It also powers time machines and certain sex toys.