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  • @periodicvideos
    @periodicvideos  4 роки тому +372

    These videos are made by Brady Haran - check out his "Unmade Podcast" here: bit.ly/UnmadePlaylist

  • @kimikotanaka6713
    @kimikotanaka6713 5 років тому +3916

    Me - "How often do you wear that tie?"
    Eccentric Scientist - "Periodically."

  • @buddhabrew
    @buddhabrew 8 років тому +13603

    I knew that dude was legit the second I saw his hair.

    • @nielsvanleeuwen9345
      @nielsvanleeuwen9345 8 років тому +133

      Hahahaha

    • @trendduos7679
      @trendduos7679 8 років тому +42

      XD

    • @ThePantruca
      @ThePantruca 8 років тому +357

      +Horus Osiris I think that he looks wonderful and fits the stereotype

    • @hoanhngo5758
      @hoanhngo5758 8 років тому +86

      ROFL...just like my science teacher.

    • @GlassLegend40
      @GlassLegend40 7 років тому +120

      I'm sure he didn't just accidently electricuted himself like, Benjamin

  • @bmzaron713
    @bmzaron713 3 роки тому +146

    I don't understand everything in this, but the professor really has a skill of making concepts relatable

  • @hni7458
    @hni7458 3 роки тому +454

    The professor is truly great, because:
    - listening to him you really come to believe that you know and understand the ENG language perfectly well
    - he explains everything so that everybody, incl me, understands everything (imagine if all YT presenters be like him)
    - you really would wish to be one of his friends.
    Then I nearly would die for a another copy of his tie - truly a cool guy.

    • @sebastianperales3630
      @sebastianperales3630 2 роки тому +24

      You miss the most important thing, he has a great hair 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

    • @hni7458
      @hni7458 2 роки тому +6

      @@sebastianperales3630 Yeah how true, that's cool too :)

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Рік тому +1

      -the hair

    • @lookoutforchris
      @lookoutforchris 9 місяців тому +3

      He still gets things wrong occasionally. Plutonium was discovered/created in late 1940 to early 1941 at the University of California, Berkeley, not in 1914 as the video states.

    • @SwingAxleLover
      @SwingAxleLover 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@lookoutforchrisI think he did say 1940, the two can sound quite similar

  • @mr.voidout4739
    @mr.voidout4739 5 років тому +1039

    4:02 UA-cam Award nominee for best editing!

  • @lekoman
    @lekoman 6 років тому +2167

    That transition from the mushroom cloud to the professor's hair at 4:02 tho. ;D

    • @sirwhitemeat9785
      @sirwhitemeat9785 5 років тому +33

      lol

    • @mug7692
      @mug7692 5 років тому +77

      @@sirwhitemeat9785 it took 1 year before anyone replied

    • @OriginalLito
      @OriginalLito 5 років тому +10

      Damn

    • @sirwhitemeat9785
      @sirwhitemeat9785 5 років тому +10

      @@mug7692 weird huh cause it made me laugh so hard xD

    • @Nik-xi2ri
      @Nik-xi2ri 5 років тому +4

      Premium Production capabilities

  • @jackrogers7395
    @jackrogers7395 3 роки тому +233

    11:38 "rather like, the fruit inside a cake"
    *My brain:* *eat the plutonium*

    • @dededede6471
      @dededede6471 3 роки тому +11

      Enjoy your meal

    • @altheamantes2041
      @altheamantes2041 3 роки тому

      Enjoy hahaha
      Welcome to heaven bro

    • @annfokker
      @annfokker 2 роки тому +2

      that would be embarrassing.

    • @ssjdaley
      @ssjdaley 2 роки тому

      Me: and I took that personally.

    • @hamanakohamaneko7028
      @hamanakohamaneko7028 2 роки тому

      One stray neutron in your mouth initiates a chain reaction

  • @Rheologist
    @Rheologist Рік тому +7

    I'm starting a process engineering job at the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington, US to clean up the plutonium waste from the Manhattan project in may :)

  • @kermanguy1877
    @kermanguy1877 8 років тому +2123

    How to safely handle common radioactive elements
    Uranium
    1: Wear protective clothing on every part of your body, extra protection for vital areas.
    2: Use a tool for extended grip, as to limit your proximity to uranium.
    3: Remember to thoroughly clean all lab equipment and protective clothing after you have finished.
    Plutonium
    1: Consider your life and all you would be throwing away.
    2: Do not handle plutonium.

    • @user-xw1yh2py4j
      @user-xw1yh2py4j 8 років тому +71

      +Kerman Guy Or just surround them by several tons of dynamite and enjoy the show.

    • @cl4ster17
      @cl4ster17 8 років тому +86

      +Eric Wesson As long as it's outside of your body yes. In fact a thicker sheet of paper or just 10cm of air is enough to stop the alpha radiation. But once it gets inside your body it gets messy

    • @jed-henrywitkowski6470
      @jed-henrywitkowski6470 8 років тому +4

      +Kerman Guy Oh damn, I ruined it... 88, is 89.

    • @guntertv304
      @guntertv304 8 років тому +3

      +Kerman Guy uranium in its metallic form is an alpha radiator too so if you have it in an ampulla you don,t need all of this but if you store it in a bottle and you want to get it out you should do all of this

    • @afcomser
      @afcomser 8 років тому +62

      I was able to handle a plutonium puck while at Hanford, it was in a heavy polymer bag. It was warm to the touch a dull silver grey, I'm still alive

  • @tropicalpalmtree
    @tropicalpalmtree 8 років тому +2281

    the guy at 0:24 is everything that i imagined a chemical scientist to look like

    • @quasarsphere
      @quasarsphere 8 років тому +31

      +tropicalpalmtree I was just about to make an identical comment when I saw yours!

    • @Halapep
      @Halapep 8 років тому

      +quasarsphere
      Haha same here xD

    • @andreoliveira7420
      @andreoliveira7420 8 років тому +66

      he look like a mad scientist

    • @user-ho1vt8vz2l
      @user-ho1vt8vz2l 8 років тому +34

      he wants to be called Einstein

    • @alastair3223
      @alastair3223 7 років тому

      Same lol

  • @palli6458
    @palli6458 3 роки тому +119

    "I'll take you to the moon" so outdated..
    "I'll take you to plutonium laboratory" is so romantic 😂

    • @oximas
      @oximas 2 роки тому +1

      difinatly my favourite date😂

  • @peterbmeadows2000
    @peterbmeadows2000 2 роки тому +126

    Why did I not pay more attention to chemistry at school?! This is fascinating stuff! Thank you guys

    • @psylee8687
      @psylee8687 Рік тому +12

      Your high school teacher does not have the credentials

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Рік тому +1

      I can't relate i was always a huge chemistry nerd, I actually went to a year of biochemical engineering school before I got burnt out and became a first responder instead

    • @miakaleighjj
      @miakaleighjj 11 місяців тому +2

      lol, Chemistry is interesting, but I don't like drawing element formations or memorizing the periodic tables, I rather watch this instead😂

    • @kyon-kyon-
      @kyon-kyon- 10 місяців тому +1

      when high school teachers do it it's boring.

    • @dimitristripakis7364
      @dimitristripakis7364 9 місяців тому +2

      As a high school teacher, if kids had this exact person talking exactly lile this inside the classroom, they would still fool around about his hair and only the same few would pay attention.

  • @Huffim
    @Huffim 7 років тому +932

    Even his ties are periodic. The man is chemistry. Period!

  • @TipoQueTocaelPiano
    @TipoQueTocaelPiano 9 років тому +273

    "Plutonium is dangerous for two reasons: First, because they use it to make bombs..."
    I agree.

  • @themeanbean7111
    @themeanbean7111 2 роки тому +28

    "I saw plutonium, but I don't think I can tell you where", Totally normal.

    • @ofoxofox1
      @ofoxofox1 2 роки тому

      I just came to check in comments whether anyone else had a say on that !

    • @valerianardelean9235
      @valerianardelean9235 2 роки тому

      Probably to avoid someone stealing it

    • @sincereflowers3218
      @sincereflowers3218 2 роки тому

      I mean you wouldn't want the average person handling something so dangerous, makes sense that NDAs and such would get involved.

    • @OdinzEinherjar
      @OdinzEinherjar 2 роки тому +2

      I seen it, it was over at Doc Brown's house, he stole it from the Libyans.

  • @Xanderviceory
    @Xanderviceory 3 роки тому +70

    This was 94 times more interesting than I thought it would be :-)

    • @robichj
      @robichj 2 роки тому +2

      I believe 92? Or are you adding uranium and plutonium...

    • @tinfoilbottle5943
      @tinfoilbottle5943 2 роки тому +4

      @@robichj plutonium had an atomic number 94

  • @heckler73
    @heckler73 4 роки тому +763

    I did not feel like I wasted a second of the last 17 minutes.
    Thank you.

    • @emileponcelet3439
      @emileponcelet3439 2 роки тому +11

      Something educational is never a waste of time even if u dont get any of it

    • @heckler73
      @heckler73 2 роки тому +5

      @@emileponcelet3439 That may be true to the extent one's subconscious can be primed by the experience, but interest aids in retention, and retention aids in understanding.
      Time is limited by metabolic processes, so it would be wiser to apply one's attention to garnering knowledge of one's interests, if given the choice.
      So is it possible to 'waste' one's time on 'education'? I say yes, but perhaps with a caveat that one has an 'interest' in the first place. 'Education' is an interesting subject to ponder. Thanks for the thought provocation.

  • @karhukivi
    @karhukivi 4 роки тому +67

    There are quite a few (100+) people in the USA fitted with cardiac pacemakers powered by about 2.5Ci of Pu238. This gives off about 80 mW of heat sufficient to power the device for a long time (half-life is 88 years). When the patient eventually dies, the device is recovered and reconditioned for another person who needs one. One man was offered a battery-powered replacement but he refused as it would require minor surgery once a year, and he preferred his plutonium one!

    • @TheAechBomb
      @TheAechBomb Місяць тому +2

      dang, 80mW seems like a lot for a tiny RTG, the massive soviet terrestrial RTGs only made maybe 100W and were hundreds of pounds.

    • @karhukivi
      @karhukivi Місяць тому +3

      @@TheAechBomb My mistake - iit should be 80 micro-watts, the "mu" sign switched to an "m" somehow. Well spotted!

    • @TheAechBomb
      @TheAechBomb Місяць тому +3

      @@karhukivi that makes more sense, thanks :D

  • @ReyOfLight
    @ReyOfLight 3 роки тому +31

    Just love that “mad scientist” type of hairstyle! It’s epic when a pure genius sports that hairstyle!

  • @JooKen
    @JooKen 4 роки тому +714

    "Did you... did you just describe the explosion of a container containing radioactive plutonium waste as 'embarrassing'?"

    • @ryncookie9478
      @ryncookie9478 3 роки тому +57

      "Yes"

    • @Pr1est0fDoom
      @Pr1est0fDoom 3 роки тому +27

      What a madlad!

    • @angelobonanno1859
      @angelobonanno1859 3 роки тому +14

      Absolute madman!

    • @kousueki7024
      @kousueki7024 2 роки тому +9

      what he means is its very embarrassing when the grand children of grand children knowing that their ancestors dont know how to take care their radioactive waste and leaving the next generation with a contiminated planet to live

    • @ferretappreciator
      @ferretappreciator 2 роки тому +5

      @@kousueki7024I completely get where you're coming from, and what you're saying, but also every single generation will create new problems for the next to solve, somehow. Until, of course, they can't fix the issue and everyone dies... Then there will be no more problems :D (or D:)

  • @CaptivaLP
    @CaptivaLP 5 років тому +495

    Seriously? Everyone mentioning his hair but NOBODY NOTICED HIS TIE?!?!? That tie is perfection

    • @ankles632
      @ankles632 5 років тому +15

      I saw it and looked it up. They are for sale on Amazon for $7.20 . They even have a variety of colors. I want a " glow in the dark" 1. Really freak people out LOL

    • @marinaholmes4549
      @marinaholmes4549 4 роки тому +6

      Did you notice he's not wearing a wedding ring. Mmmmmmm wonder why. 😀

    • @DJHotbuns
      @DJHotbuns 4 роки тому +11

      I did. Periodically. 🥴🤓

    • @battletoaster5470
      @battletoaster5470 4 роки тому +1

      I did

    • @RandomCoffee101
      @RandomCoffee101 4 роки тому +17

      Marina Holmes wedding rings are not allowed in the laboratory

  • @JimSmithInChiapas
    @JimSmithInChiapas 3 роки тому +56

    08:40 "Plutonium is a fascinating metal." That's an understatement! What a shame that Pu is so dangerous. Among its strange behaviors is that some of its alloys -- e.g. Pu + rare earths -- partially remelt upon cooling (via inverse peritectic reactions). After further cooling,of course, those alloys become completely solid.

  • @vincentlangel8555
    @vincentlangel8555 3 роки тому +17

    I love the plutonium table story! I was a chem minor in undergrad and I miss crazy stories like that.

  • @RhodianColossus
    @RhodianColossus 10 років тому +190

    Automatic Captions:
    ''...plutonium is a mom-made element...''
    Damn it mom, I wanted cookies not radioactive death.

    • @IKamiZz
      @IKamiZz 5 років тому +1

      plutonium is a PEOPLE-made element.

    • @kencarter9721
      @kencarter9721 5 років тому +5

      @@IKamiZz You are correct. My mom is a person...kinda...

    • @janetsminten8196
      @janetsminten8196 4 роки тому +2

      @@IKamiZz its manmade

  • @HerecomestheCalavera
    @HerecomestheCalavera 9 років тому +674

    Remember in 1985 when plutonium was available at every corner store?

    • @estebanchacanacontreras546
      @estebanchacanacontreras546 9 років тому +27

      hahahaha

    • @Hiei2k7
      @Hiei2k7 9 років тому +177

      I borrowed it off of some libyan nationalists. They told me to build em a bomb, and in turn I gave them a shiny bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts!

    • @chef5150dotpsd
      @chef5150dotpsd 9 років тому +32

      great scott i forgot XD

    • @EpicXXProductions
      @EpicXXProductions 9 років тому +15

      I was born in the 90's what are you guys talking about lol

    • @Hiei2k7
      @Hiei2k7 9 років тому +92

      Nothing you'd be interested in, young one. Run along now.

  • @LLO227
    @LLO227 3 роки тому +27

    Dude that's an amazing story!!! How the heck did he recover the 9 milligrams of plutonium by turning it into ashes from a Table!!?? That's impressive

  • @barrytarr2960
    @barrytarr2960 2 роки тому +12

    Mark the glove box guy - reassuring we have experts like him at Sellafield.

  • @dr.borris8034
    @dr.borris8034 5 років тому +3506

    Judging by his hair... he did a line of plutonium before the interview

  • @watchmen22
    @watchmen22 7 років тому +2032

    I'm student from nor..err south korea and I'm interested in obtaining Plutonium for um research purposes. Any help is appreciated.

    • @datboidego
      @datboidego 7 років тому +112

      yea 5 grams for $2,500,000 .

    • @theshallowswallow6733
      @theshallowswallow6733 7 років тому +7

      Watchmen22

    • @datboidego
      @datboidego 7 років тому +3

      +Watchmen22 no i think Jon Doe was born with that disease. so sad :/

    • @wakewind4129
      @wakewind4129 7 років тому +32

      didn't you watch the video? You make plutonium from uranium-238 separated from u5

    • @tf3confirmedbuthv54
      @tf3confirmedbuthv54 7 років тому +3

      diego carmona you can't do math

  • @jasontuck-smith3896
    @jasontuck-smith3896 2 роки тому +4

    13:15 'Did you just describe the explosion of a container containing radioactive plutonium waste as embarrassing?!' 'Yes!'. Lol I love the Proff.

  • @AlphaMikeCharlie
    @AlphaMikeCharlie 3 роки тому +28

    He hasn’t changed one bit in 8 years

  • @tb8573
    @tb8573 7 років тому +310

    The atomic bomb mushroom-cloud fades perfectly into the shape of his hair at 4:03.

    • @sweeflyboy
      @sweeflyboy 5 років тому +7

      This is sooo underrated...

    • @simonpeter5032
      @simonpeter5032 5 років тому +1

      All that plutonium.

    • @azreenklose7976
      @azreenklose7976 5 років тому +1

      Maybe he have experience the plutonium effect after all😂😂😂😂

    • @StephenDiJoseph
      @StephenDiJoseph 5 років тому +3

      hahahahahaha....brilliant observation!

    • @JamchesterBoozle
      @JamchesterBoozle 5 років тому

      Hahahahahaha what a brilliant shout!

  • @Ilikewater-andice
    @Ilikewater-andice 10 років тому +30

    0:23 EINSTEIN'S REINCARNATION

  • @josephskulan750
    @josephskulan750 4 роки тому +6

    I met Glenn Seaborg in his actinide chemistry lad at Lawrence-Berkeley labs in 1995. Dangerous as his lab was, it was nothing like the lab down the hall where bromine pentafluoride was used to extract oxygen from silicates.

    • @kaustavsengupta8757
      @kaustavsengupta8757 4 роки тому +1

      Wow, you must be old gentleman. I remember last year when I went to Berkeley, currently they are trying to proof the" theory of island of stability of elements". It's really coll that you seen the actual actinide lab.

    • @josephskulan750
      @josephskulan750 4 роки тому +1

      @@kaustavsengupta8757 Seaborg was the old one. I was in my 30s. I was at Berkeley working on calcium isotope chemistry at the time. It's a great old lab in a ramshackle building, nothing like the grandiose glass and steel temples of science universities build today to accommodate the egos of Higher Faculty.

    • @kaustavsengupta8757
      @kaustavsengupta8757 4 роки тому

      @@josephskulan750 may I ask in which field you have done your specialized in? Sorry I m still a Junior research fellow (pursing my PhD)and was on Berkeley for an seminar.

    • @josephskulan750
      @josephskulan750 4 роки тому +1

      @@kaustavsengupta8757 I specialize in stable isotope chemistry of biological systems. I've mostly concentrated on Ca, but did a postdoc on Fe abut 20 years ago,

    • @VG_164
      @VG_164 9 місяців тому

      I know the Soviets tested rocket engines using bromine pentaflouride as an oxidizer 😂

  • @mistrimeat
    @mistrimeat 2 роки тому +3

    Barber: "How can I help you?"
    Scientist: "Gimme dat Einstein, fam."
    Barber: "Say no more."

  • @ChristopherSaindon
    @ChristopherSaindon 4 роки тому +2669

    His hair has a higher IQ than almost everybody.

    • @dalroache
      @dalroache 4 роки тому +9

      What does that mean explain?

    • @coolguy-cu5op
      @coolguy-cu5op 4 роки тому +64

      @@dalroache it's a joke

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 4 роки тому +12

      "Plutonium has a really nasty reputation." ... Noooooohhhh! Really?! xD
      You know he's a real scientist when you see him write upside down at 5:21 ... also at 6:22 he's still running Windows XP. ;)

    • @westfold2222
      @westfold2222 3 роки тому

      Yeahh i same think . Wkwkwkw

    • @thomasedavis
      @thomasedavis 3 роки тому +3

      He took an IQ test on a periodic table.

  • @jamesgreen1239
    @jamesgreen1239 4 роки тому +1416

    The name of the haircut is called the “Albert Einstein”.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 4 роки тому +17

      I need a comrade Dyatlov cut.

    • @JoeMilllionaire
      @JoeMilllionaire 4 роки тому +4

      Don King

    • @tgmtf5963
      @tgmtf5963 4 роки тому +18

      Mushroom cloud haircut

    • @chasiah7101
      @chasiah7101 4 роки тому +8

      Walk in too the barbers, What u want there sir? eh can a get an Albert einstein back n sides pls😂

    • @Mr.Oblivian
      @Mr.Oblivian 4 роки тому +4

      Einstein was a fraud...

  • @Yeebo__
    @Yeebo__ 7 місяців тому

    I love these videos, not just for the information and education, but for the genuine human relationships you all have with one another. It's a breath of fresh air. Thank you, all of you!

  • @Ezhil-dq8op
    @Ezhil-dq8op 5 місяців тому

    I remember seeing the videos of all the elements in this channel when I was in my high school. I was really proud back then. Thanks for the masterpieces that you gave us

  • @jimdevlin2138
    @jimdevlin2138 5 років тому +69

    AS a retired lab technician I have the utmost admiration for anyone involved in the level of work, working in a chamber like that is never easy more so when using highly toxic and volatile reagents .
    great work guys

  • @dravenromero1386
    @dravenromero1386 5 років тому +116

    I have to say, I find explosive decaying plutonium barrels far less embarrassing than spilling a country's accumulated amount of plutonium and sawing the table where it fell to retrieve it. I can't stop watching your videos, they are informative, interesting, and entertaining!

  • @siddheshsingabhatti4025
    @siddheshsingabhatti4025 2 роки тому +23

    Still less radioactive and toxic than TikTok😂😂

  • @jrodificator1
    @jrodificator1 4 роки тому +19

    I love how every single video has comments that say this is guy looks like science

  • @fightingillini1717
    @fightingillini1717 9 років тому +33

    That guy with the crazy hair is exactly what I expected a scientist working on plutonium to look like

    • @sarowie
      @sarowie 9 років тому +2

      Proffesor Martyn Poliakoff has a different research focus then Plutonium chemistry. Proffesor Poliakoff researches "green chemistry" or to avoid the word green: environmentally acceptable processes and materials.

  • @JohnOgunlela
    @JohnOgunlela 4 роки тому +194

    His accent is funny and it makes him fun and so clear to listen to. He's a great chap

    • @codyleslie478
      @codyleslie478 2 роки тому +5

      How so? His accent is quite common

    • @a2pabmb2
      @a2pabmb2 2 роки тому +6

      Accent? That's what English sounds like when spoken properly.

    • @fractal5764
      @fractal5764 2 роки тому +4

      @@a2pabmb2 Accents are relative.

    • @ianwhite6996
      @ianwhite6996 2 роки тому +1

      His accent's not funny you dips**t. Its from a southern English county you ignoramus.

    • @getsome4806
      @getsome4806 2 роки тому

      Yikes. I came here to lambast @John Ogunlela for his unabashed infantilization of a rather serious subject.
      But, damn...looks like there's no need.

  • @ciotta87
    @ciotta87 3 роки тому +2

    Great videos guys. Very interesting for a chemist to see how to handle this artificial elements

  • @lilaskiwan2987
    @lilaskiwan2987 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you so much for your videos. As a highschool science and math teacher, this is a wonderfull source of inspiration.

  • @FingersKungfu
    @FingersKungfu 8 років тому +51

    I really like the professor's mad-scientist hair. How did he manage it to be like that ?

    • @Luachair
      @Luachair 8 років тому +14

      +thucydides Neo I remember him when he was very young. It was pretty well like that only black and was more springy.

    • @nnovatakaren5515
      @nnovatakaren5515 8 років тому +4

      +thucydides Neo It's a perk for being a mad scientist

    • @hugglepuff1
      @hugglepuff1 8 років тому +12

      +Nnovata Karen you need to install mods first

    • @jerryg50
      @jerryg50 8 років тому +3

      +thucydides Neo That scientist has a lot of static electricity in his hair. He is basically charged up!
      I used to work in doing high voltage experiments when I was in university. I had sort of longish hair. My hair was standing up like that scientist's hair...

    • @davidharrison7014
      @davidharrison7014 5 років тому

      thucydides Neo Daily trips to a nearby wind tunnel. LOL

  • @prakrambhushan8328
    @prakrambhushan8328 4 роки тому +356

    My brain if I ever get a chance to touch the solution
    Brain : Drink it

    • @moonbright7373
      @moonbright7373 3 роки тому

      😂

    • @fatdad64able
      @fatdad64able 3 роки тому +18

      No please don't. Pass it on to the needy,....Trump, Putin, et cetera.

    • @creepy_regret5542
      @creepy_regret5542 3 роки тому +17

      @@fatdad64able I will pass it on to you

    • @fatdad64able
      @fatdad64able 3 роки тому +5

      @@creepy_regret5542 So I can give it to these idiots? Great idea. I'll include "baby trump" aka Bojo. ^^

    • @somethinginthewalls388
      @somethinginthewalls388 3 роки тому +4

      Pu(III) in solution is the forbidden grape soda.

  • @HansPeter-qo9hc
    @HansPeter-qo9hc 8 місяців тому +2

    That Tie is absolutely Killer 😍

  • @enginebae3471
    @enginebae3471 2 роки тому +8

    I spent a few months delivering radioactive material to an underground storage facility in the middle of bfe Utah. I’ve always thought one day I would hear about an “embarrassing” event out there 🤷‍♂️

  • @chaos-kun7310
    @chaos-kun7310 5 років тому +562

    "I have seen a lump of Plutonium once - I don't think I could tell you where I saw it" hmm... that's not suspicious

    • @frostynugs4206
      @frostynugs4206 5 років тому +44

      its not like they'll tell people were it is its a bit dangerous lad

    • @davidharrison7014
      @davidharrison7014 5 років тому +19

      Please.....tell us! ISIS wants to know.

    • @fidziek
      @fidziek 5 років тому +12

      in reality not many folks seeing plutonium have survived to tell the story, I suppose...

    • @fidziek
      @fidziek 5 років тому +8

      @@davidharrison7014 Physics is not a priviledge of 'secret societies' - Thus who needs - knows...
      ISIS - is that something from ancient Egyptology? I'm not au courant, sorry...

    • @gsfbffxpdhhdf7043
      @gsfbffxpdhhdf7043 5 років тому +4

      Mariusz Fidzinski you are a muslim i bet

  • @largol33t1
    @largol33t1 10 років тому +39

    A hilarious coincidence is that the guy with the bushy white hair reminds me of Dr. Brown from the movie "Back to the future." And guess what his time machine used? Plutonium.

  • @JM64
    @JM64 2 роки тому

    Incredibly educational.
    Fantastic video.

  • @ycmgxekwa
    @ycmgxekwa 3 роки тому +6

    This is thee most interesting documentary I have seen this year. Wow. I can listen to the old man 24/7. I just love brilliant people.

  • @SGTBizarro
    @SGTBizarro 9 років тому +1665

    Comment section is more toxic than the damn plutonium.

    • @chickenmonger123
      @chickenmonger123 9 років тому +39

      SGTBizarro Yeah. Worried I am going to get cancer now.

    • @dahntaedeluna
      @dahntaedeluna 9 років тому +6

      Ha

    • @grampton
      @grampton 7 років тому

      chickenmonger123, lol.

    • @faizrafii58
      @faizrafii58 6 років тому +1

      plutonium was the most toxic before league of legends created

    • @paper2222
      @paper2222 6 років тому

      100% tru

  • @mh-ki2dv
    @mh-ki2dv 4 роки тому +870

    But Boris told me it was the equivalent of one chest X-Ray.

  • @sushi_wolf
    @sushi_wolf 2 роки тому +1

    These men are very knowledgeable and professional, great video.

  • @alexandroalvarez2464
    @alexandroalvarez2464 7 місяців тому

    What an extraordinary and fascinating collection of videos showing chemical elements and their use and origins.

  • @mrkiky
    @mrkiky 4 роки тому +212

    Damn that guy spilled the entire UK's reserve of Plutonium..... must've been so embarrassing.

    • @mikelouis9389
      @mikelouis9389 4 роки тому +21

      He wound up losing half a gram of the most toxic element imaginable. Fun guy to work with.

    • @kyle.s3700
      @kyle.s3700 4 роки тому +4

      And apparently he was ok and taught him chemistry

    • @alastairbarkley6572
      @alastairbarkley6572 4 роки тому +5

      Huh? Those NNL labs dudes are part of one of the world's largest commercial nuclear fuels recycling and recovery companies. Sellafield, Cumbria, UK receives spent fuel rods from all over the world for reprocessing and storage. It's actually a major British industry. The UK has plenty, plenty plutonium - far more than is sensible, according to environmentalists.

    • @robertmcgovern8850
      @robertmcgovern8850 4 роки тому +4

      @@alastairbarkley6572 Did you watch the video? The Professor's chemistry teacher, Alfie Maddoch (sp?) spilled nearly the entire UK plotonium reserve on a wooden table, then burned the wooden table section to recover 9/10ths of the spilled element. See 15:10 onward.

    • @josephbrennan370
      @josephbrennan370 4 роки тому +5

      @@alastairbarkley6572 yes in the present day we have quite a lot but back during ww2 we only had 10 milligrams.

  • @CiroSantilli
    @CiroSantilli 8 років тому +18

    I wish I could see a video of the old man speaking continuously all his part. That guy knows how to choose interesting stories things to say, amazing.

    • @alexserrano2850
      @alexserrano2850 8 років тому

      +Ciro Santilli Why having just him when you can have his awesomeness + more awesomeness?

    • @CiroSantilli
      @CiroSantilli 8 років тому +2

      +Alex Serrano It's just that it breaks my flow. I'd rather have 2 continuous videos instead. Just imagine watching The Godfather and Apocalypse Now at the same time, one minute each :-)

    • @ffejpsycho
      @ffejpsycho 8 років тому

      +Ciro Santilli lol, in a way (kinda) we did get that movie... It was godfather II (2 totally different, yet related stories inter-spliced together to form a greater understanding of a topic. The movie being the Corleone family). I, and I imagine many others would argue it is a better film even, than the godfather I was.

  • @charleskiker8943
    @charleskiker8943 2 роки тому

    This is super informative. Thanks for sharing.

  • @kilohertz9456
    @kilohertz9456 3 роки тому +1

    I am a retired Crystal River Nuclear Generation Plant worker. Our plant manager told me he was on a project that fed small amounts of Plutonium to pigs. They wanted to determine how it would effect humans but they couldn't use humans and the closest animals were pigs. Well one day the pigs escaped. The cleanup was a major radiological event at the test facility. There was pig feces and urine all down the halls of the building. He said it wasn't funny at the time but looking back it was hilarious.

  • @user-ed7gm7ol8k
    @user-ed7gm7ol8k 7 років тому +412

    this video on my recomended videos for years....

  • @Mikesorrento3344
    @Mikesorrento3344 8 років тому +182

    Only a guy with hair like his could get away with wearing a periodic table of elements necktie.

    • @petenielsen6683
      @petenielsen6683 5 років тому +1

      Makes you wonder if Einstein had a similar tie, doesn't it?

    • @arunchhatwani1754
      @arunchhatwani1754 5 років тому +1

      I wouldn't have noticed if not for this comment 🤣🤣

  • @michaelfoulk1858
    @michaelfoulk1858 3 роки тому

    Really don’t know why this video showed up in my feed but now I learned something.

  • @arseface2k934
    @arseface2k934 2 роки тому +4

    5:20 look directly to the right of the professor it's AMONG US

  • @alexandrkovin944
    @alexandrkovin944 4 роки тому +382

    I love the smell of Plutonium in the morning. Smelled like... victory. (c) Comrade Dyatlov

  • @joycesanders4898
    @joycesanders4898 4 роки тому +164

    What I learned-a gallon contains 4 liters.

  • @doc3row
    @doc3row 22 дні тому

    I did part 1 chemistry at Lensfield Rd in 1973. Alfie Maddocks was my director of studies. He told me all about dropping Britain's complete supply of plutonium, of course. Did he ever show you the press cutting? "Atom Scientist defects to Perron"? I met him again in 1993, at a funeral. He was very poorly and in a wheelchair, a double amputee, and wasn't up to recognising old students. Lovely man!

  • @ErpelusMaximus
    @ErpelusMaximus 7 місяців тому +2

    The haircut of the professor is just the haircut I would imagine the haircut of a crazy nuclear professor.

  • @ThaRealGecko
    @ThaRealGecko 7 років тому +1571

    That hair... Subscribed!

    • @aguuaaa
      @aguuaaa 7 років тому +18

      i also SUSCRIBED cus the hair and nice professor

    • @stevebrodnik2775
      @stevebrodnik2775 6 років тому +13

      He shouldn't have touched the Plutonium!

    • @robinderoos1166
      @robinderoos1166 6 років тому +7

      Steve Brodnik no, he should have licked it!

    • @seaningram4434
      @seaningram4434 6 років тому +11

      "Great Scott!" :) LOL

    • @moriyama333
      @moriyama333 6 років тому +7

      and the tie

  • @libertylagrana
    @libertylagrana 7 років тому +81

    a walking Periodic Table

  • @IIIAnchani
    @IIIAnchani 7 місяців тому

    it's a priviledge to see this. Thank you so much for uploading this.

  • @johnarmenta2199
    @johnarmenta2199 2 роки тому

    I don't know what I love more - that guys hair, or his periodic table tie!

  • @Sneezas
    @Sneezas 7 років тому +264

    Now this is an scientist!!! Look at his hair! I just love how he looks, gives me the real feeling of working with science

  • @higherresolution4490
    @higherresolution4490 6 років тому +47

    Extremely interesting. Thank you for the post! BTY, I worked in Los Alamos and lived across a small canyon from the original plutonium lab, which was just up the street from the original Tritium Lab. If you're wondering why so many physicists, like Enrico Fermi, died young, this video indirectly gives you the answer.

    • @rudolphguarnacci197
      @rudolphguarnacci197 5 років тому +9

      My dad told me a lot of workers who were involved in the making of clocks with glow-in-the-dark numbers died from radiation poisoning.

    • @stephenverchinski409
      @stephenverchinski409 5 років тому +5

      And a recent study found traces of radionucleatides in the Los Alamos homes.

    • @Asterra2
      @Asterra2 5 років тому +12

      Oh, certainly. I read the plutonium book referenced early in this video (owned it since before this video was uploaded). It's made quite clear that scientists dealing with radioactive materials were thoroughly cavalier, even though they definitely had a grasp of the hazards. The ones who were careful simply had a higher incidence of cancer later in life. The ones who were not... well, you only have to watch a documentary about the lives of the workers at Chernobyl to understand how things went for them. You don't immediately die but you suffer a manifest degradation of livelihood. Like getting older decades ahead of schedule, with all the attendant symptoms like heart failure. People who undergo chemotherapy can relate.

    • @chuckgrigsby9664
      @chuckgrigsby9664 2 роки тому +3

      @@stephenverchinski409 Don't believe everything you read, and make sure you understand it before you spread it around. There was concern that the somewhat elevated levels of americium (Am) found after the Cerro Grande fire (May 2000) might have been related to activities at the Lab. However, it was later shown that the Am found was due to fire detectors (they contain Am) that were burned in the 400 homes that were destroyed.

    • @stephenverchinski409
      @stephenverchinski409 2 роки тому +2

      @@chuckgrigsby9664 Academia source document?

  • @TheRabbit123
    @TheRabbit123 4 роки тому

    We've got two nuclear experts here: Old Duke Nukem 0:50 and Doc from back to the future 8:40
    The hair gives it away.

  • @securitymanager2938
    @securitymanager2938 4 роки тому +4

    "The radioactive waste from spent fuel rods consist primarily of cesium-137 and strontium-90, but it may also include plutonium, which can be considered a transuranic waste. The half-lives of these radioactive elements can differ quite extremely." - Wikipedia
    "Transuranic" (of an element) having a higher atomic number than uranium (92).

  • @j.reinhardt36
    @j.reinhardt36 8 років тому +782

    cool hair: 10/10

  • @salmonkill7
    @salmonkill7 4 роки тому +87

    As a retired expert in Plutonium I can say the information that Plutonium as being man-made is incorrect. It was discovered in southern Africa that a small natural "reactor" made a small amount of plutonium naturally. Pitchblende, a natural mineral that contains Uranium, emits neutrons through the fission process and the neutrons emitted also make trace amounts of plutonium in the mineral so every natural sample that contains uranium can also make small amounts of Plutonium . Therefore Pu, should be listed as a natural element...
    Steve Miller
    retired Scientist

    • @Tekknorg
      @Tekknorg 4 роки тому +1

      What about Cesium 137 and Strontium 90?

    • @tedkazcynkski4328
      @tedkazcynkski4328 4 роки тому +22

      I thought you were a retired joker, smoker, midnight toker?

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting 4 роки тому +3

      what's also incorrect is that the video states that metallic Plutonium is radioactively toxic because it's an alpha emitter.
      Human skin will block alpha particles quite readily.
      What's actually the toxin danger is Plutonium oxides and salts, which are similar to but more toxic than other heavy metal oxides and salts, say lead or mercury salts.
      And even those you don't want to get on your skin, let alone ingest.

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting 4 роки тому +5

      @Carpet Hooligan the amount of Pu in pitchblende is very small. Pu does exist in nature but the amounts are extremely small as it's there as a fission product rather than pristine ore deposits. THOSE have long since fissioned away because of the far shorter half life of Pu as compared to Uranium.

    • @salmonkill7
      @salmonkill7 4 роки тому +5

      @Carpet Hooligan yes and no. the distinction between natural and man made is debated. Some in the scientific community think if some atoms are found on Earth then its natural. Others put a natural abundance limit on natural elements but two natural elements on the Periodic chart are very rare also.
      In my opinion if its found naturally in any amount it's a natural element...

  • @crumb_of_nopeamine_plz
    @crumb_of_nopeamine_plz 4 роки тому +2

    The plutonium story is awesome!

  • @hedayatsm553
    @hedayatsm553 3 роки тому +5

    Legend has it that the first sample of Plutonium was discovered when Uranium came into contact with his hair.

  • @KanishQQuotes
    @KanishQQuotes 5 років тому +53

    I can watch this scientist talk all day.
    A true intelligent man who is doing the work for humanity to progress

    • @MoShaafici
      @MoShaafici 4 роки тому +2

      Or humanity to assassinate

    • @henryohare1
      @henryohare1 4 роки тому

      @Ace Feeley ….so its ok to store the Pu round at your house ?

    • @rosetheis1403
      @rosetheis1403 4 роки тому

      True that

    • @rosetheis1403
      @rosetheis1403 4 роки тому

      Henry he just said it isn't

  • @dpring777
    @dpring777 8 років тому +57

    I feel like I just watched a heavy metal cooking show.

  • @ajinkyas9948
    @ajinkyas9948 Рік тому +1

    Science is fascinating. This is an amazing video.

  • @Mnone_of_your_business
    @Mnone_of_your_business Рік тому

    Bigger brains than me for sure. How they ever figured all this out in the first place and the periodic table amazes me all the time.

  • @jhyland87
    @jhyland87 5 років тому +23

    I really appreciate that the chemist guy was including details about the real chemistry, as opposed to just ambiguous descriptions

    • @joshuarosen6242
      @joshuarosen6242 5 років тому +3

      There are corners of UA-cam where genuinely intelligent content lurks and this is one of them.

  • @Peter1Europe
    @Peter1Europe 7 років тому +359

    Always wear safety glasses while dealing with plutonium.

    • @dustinontaiyabbi5608
      @dustinontaiyabbi5608 7 років тому +24

      it wont save your life though

    • @Nemain
      @Nemain 7 років тому +1

      Welp. Yeah.

    • @Audfile
      @Audfile 7 років тому +23

      and proper shoes

    • @tiger_icecoldlive6762
      @tiger_icecoldlive6762 7 років тому +11

      And if something goes wrong then duck and cover fast!

    • @sp3ccylad
      @sp3ccylad 7 років тому +17

      Don't forget a white coat. That's always helpful.

  • @man_ray_man8945
    @man_ray_man8945 2 роки тому +1

    Wow, this is very interesting.
    Thank you for such a great Channel and informative news.
    Do you Know the process for separating iridium and osmium from pgm concentrate??
    Thank you for your great work.

  • @ki11erjosh77
    @ki11erjosh77 4 роки тому

    I did work experience in one of the labs in that NNL centre, great experience

  • @killymckillerson3075
    @killymckillerson3075 6 років тому +14

    I love these videos. My chemistry teacher was a total b***h and it was hard for me to get intetested. Now, 20 years later I've found that i have a real interest in chemistry and science in general and UA-cam has been my classroom.

    • @MixbOOsted
      @MixbOOsted 5 місяців тому

      now what are you doing?

  • @tibschris
    @tibschris 10 років тому +38

    0:32 I'd just like to point out that this "evolved with it = tolerance; manmade = no tolerance" claim is nonsense. We _don't_ really tolerate uranium well because it's still a heavy metal and thus is toxic, like lead. Uranium is still uncommon, and as such we haven't evolved to handle it (thus, it is toxic).
    If we're talking about radiation levels, well, natural uranium tends not to be highly radioactive (because if it was, it would have decayed away), while plutonium _is_ more radioactive. It's a selection effect and is nothing to do with evolution or whether it's artificial.

  • @jackng3873
    @jackng3873 2 роки тому +1

    Why I love chemistry, especially in radioactivity reactions like uranium nitrate etc

  • @stevenbaeyens2652
    @stevenbaeyens2652 4 роки тому +18

    Must be stressful working with massive gloves when you have such a small container filled with Pu to work with

  • @bonsaipiper3773
    @bonsaipiper3773 5 років тому +425

    Something tells me, (and this is just a shot in the dark) but these guys aren't your typical college graduates.

    • @kentoscocos5238
      @kentoscocos5238 5 років тому +24

      They're on different level than us

    • @ubergeraldine
      @ubergeraldine 5 років тому +22

      I think they are what used to be called Alchemists!
      @@kentoscocos5238

    • @paulchesser3765
      @paulchesser3765 5 років тому +40

      The guy with the wild hair said he studied chemistry at Cambridge university certainly not your "typical college"

    • @gigicoyle4245
      @gigicoyle4245 5 років тому +6

      Occult Master Alchemists. Freemasons mind controlled drones. Anyone want to be 'edumackated'?

    • @comm744
      @comm744 5 років тому +12

      @@kentoscocos5238 Completely different level!
      I am a electronics tech (I guy that does the work) and worked with PhD and Masters engineers and could barely understand their "level of understanding" and I have a BA and a licensed electrician. Like Tesla

  • @nathanlynch9634
    @nathanlynch9634 5 років тому +9

    I'm learning more from this channel than I've ever learned from my old school science classes.

    • @john-ic5pz
      @john-ic5pz 3 місяці тому

      free will/discovering it on your own makes a big difference ime
      i got an intro to chemistry from my mum's nursing school chemistry book when I was in junior high. had I waited until sophomore year chemistry class I'd have been bored to tears with chemistry.
      - chemical engineer

  • @mantia39
    @mantia39 2 роки тому +1

    This channel is fantastic!

  • @hdayan1945
    @hdayan1945 Рік тому +1

    Fantastic, congrats and thanks for sharing.