a boy scout actually built a working reactor in their home, just called someone and said it was for a university and got enriched uranium. caused a lot of problems
Nigel: “Hey, is it fine for me to use Uranium to make glass?” Government: “For what purpose do you need Uranium glass?” Nigel: “ I just want to see how it glows.” Government: “Knock yourself out.”
@@thatoneguy978 that's technically racist. you should make friends with people who you share an interest in or something, not specifically chose someone based on the colour of their skin.
the absurdity is so high Connor legit did a double take lol Connor: URANIUM??? Nigel: no no, Uranium "GLASS" Connor: okay go on Nigel: so i got some uranium Connor: uh huh ... wait hol up
the magic of nilered is in the way he delivers that key line. I don't know what it is about his voice, his tone, his inflection, whatever the fuck, but he says something and it's.... offputting. it unbalances you, but kindly. He's abrupt, but it's not harsh. I don't know. It's magical. Dude's voice is just magic.
theres nothing special about uranium. It's a metal like any other. you can dig it out of the ground. the process of ENRICHING the uranium to turn it into nuclear weapons is the difficult part. these guys freaking out over him saying he was working with uranium just shows they don't know much about chemistry.
There's a UA-camr called CodysLab who did a series on how uranium ore is processed, and did so by literally doing it with chemicals in his garage. The FBI came knocking one day. They left him to it, but he just couldn't do any enrichment (which is where you start to make bombs)
Makes sense, teaching people how to enrich uranium is just asking for trouble, unenriched uranium is just a funny rock that causes lung cancer when you breath in some dust
@@CatWithAOpinion nuclear bombs, when they talk about enrichment they talk about concentrating uranium 235 which makes up a very small amount of natural uranium. I think you would need a vast quantity of high purity uranium 235 in order to make a nuclear bomb out of it but I don’t think it would be hard to make it go supercritical with the right setup.
@@ionic7777 yeah the vast majority of uranium will actually have the exact opposite effect, it absorbs neutrons instead of releasing them. So you need to basically purify out all the uranium-235 to actually get anything dangerous
@@fikrihaikal837 it's a lazy way to say grams for people who don't even know the basic SI symbols- which is a surprisingly large amount of people so yes gms still works
@@jeremysmith7176 found? he faked his identity to companies and boards so they would sell him things he shouldn't have access to, as well as buying things like fire detectors en masse to take the isotopes from them for use.
@@jeremysmith7176 i read the book about. Not sure how true it all was, but in it stated he was pretending to be a research university professor. So, he would just buy his stuff from a company until they caught on. He did also used radioactive material from smoke detectors. He bought a bunch of them in bulk to use for his experiments.
Listening to him mentioning all of the stuff he experimented and produced made me realize how insane it is to be his parent. Imagine a whole ton of stuff happening everyday in your house.
3:00 As someone who works with glass, the difference between Uranium glass and "window glass" is what's added to it for coloring. The base is generally the same, and then you add metal to change the color. I think Uranium glass has a minor green tinge to it, but glows vibrant green under UV light. If I remember correctly, window grade glass uses aluminum oxide or magnesium Oxide to make it clear and opaque. If you sub the Aluminum Oxide or Magnesium Oxide with another metal or metallic oxide, you can get some very pretty and vibrant colors. Uranium Glass is radioactive. HOWEVER, due to the small amount of Uranium per gram of glass used and the small mass, antique Uranium glass is fairly safe to handle. DO NOT use it for food and drink. If you're worried, most curio cabinets are thick enough to safely store and display Uranium glass.
Uranium glass is completely food safe. All the uranium is within the glass so you won't ingest any without first breaking it and the alpha radiation it gives of in barely detectable amounts can hardly travel through air let alone contaminate or damage anything.
They probably hear a stutter as a cue that there might be silence coming. Can't blame them for wanting to minimize dead air on their talk show. It is kind of aggravating sometimes, like "just let the dude talk," but it's an understandable precaution.
If it makes Conor feel any better most pollution or contamination policies are like that. Motor oil for example you can't recycle the plastic container because it's contaminated with oil but if your buying them in smaller containers for personal use that amount of pollution or contamination is negligible.
You can also own your own Nuclear device but you have to do the proper paperwork with the ATF as it is a NFA item so you need the proper tax stamps for one and you are not allowed to actually use it but you can own it and have it where ever you are. The things that us Americans CAN own and not many people know about are insane but tax stamp aside the bigger problem is, who is going to sell you a Nuclear device in the first place? so you would need even more paperwork if you wanna make your own
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena I need to be able to own my own warship armed with nuclear missiles. For self defense purposes, I swear. Please ATF you must understand.
@@xxDxxism in the vain hope they better themselves and act more respectful with future hosts? I know, concepts thay would never strike your mind given your comment.
Really, is uranium still used to this day? I know there's some vintage lenses that contain uranium, a super takumar comes to mind.. But I didn't realize it's not just a thing of the past.
Has anyone here heard of the guy who bought a mineral collection, and asked Reddit what the really heavy sample was that he took out of a protective case he was told never to open?
Yeah, tbh I haven't been able to get through any of the videos they've made with ScienceTubers other than Michael Reeves. I find that a *lot* of my favorite entertainers come across as very funny and occasionally insightful amongst themselves but when you introduce someone else you like who actually knows things they become entirely insufferable. Not because they behave any differently, but because of the contrast and their inability to keep up. It usually makes me unable to stand those entertainers, so I've gone out of my way to avoid these and still end up losing respect from random clips like this.
@@zovisapphire Preventing dead air is fine, but a good podcast host knows the difference between dead air and someone making a tiny pause in their sentence to find the right words or to think about what to say next. These guys can get really annoying at times, not even a second passes and they just go off and don't give Nile the chance to talk or they just talk over him.
I would love to hear the guest talk and for the unfunny comments from the other side of the table who only make themselves laugh to just stop your not funny
@@I3urton in glass? It's legit just a way to make it glow under UV. There are entire museums filled with those pieces before the WWII ban on uranium so the government could use it for bomb research.
same, prozd episode is 2nd best lol. they need more guest like this who are clearly nerds in a certain field or hobby. if they can get a scientist guest next or someone like niel degrasse tyson its gonna be cool.
I feel like the hosts ruined this one. He had some genuinely super interesting things to talk about and all Joey and Garnt did was act like little girls screaming every 2 seconds. Connor was the only one keeping the ship sailing.
In their defense, all of this sounds insane to people who are not involved with Chemistry subjects in uni. So Joey and Garnt just could not believe what they were hearing
@@melkorstormcrown6939 Sure, but there are better ways to express your excitement and interest in the absurd things you're hearing than constantly talking over people and screaming
The whole uranium thing isn't too surprising, given that some lacquers use uranium as a pigment iirc. Pretty much harmless because the type of radiation from the decay in those cases have very short range and is nowhere as active as people think. I assume the mustard gas precursor posession allowance is because some industrial process produces it as a byproduct, or for low volume research?
Could even be that mustard gas has some useful chemical property somewhere, or that the precursor actually does have other uses under the correct circumstances
This is like Back To The Future. Where Doc says "I'm sure in 1985 you can just buy plutonium at a corner shop" "I got it shipped to me, I don't remember where it came from"
The difference between uranium and plutonium, despite them being lumped together in the mind of the public, is significantly greater than the difference between fissile uranium and things you can find around your house. You can get Uranium online pretty easily; you can get bombed, invaded, or overthrown by the CIA just for having the infrastructure to potentially make any amount of plutonium.
For my science-fair project I tested offense catalyst in solid rocket boosters. One of the materials we used was oxidized iron. In order to get the metal to oxidize quickly we needed to make a cemcal reaction take place. We found a thing but it said that is was highly dangerous, but the deadline was coming fast so we were just going to be as safe as we could be. After we set the chemical reaction, we did a little more research and it turns out that one of the byproducts was either HCN, or some diluted form of that. HCN is Hydrogen Cyanide. This was also the same chemical used in Zyclon B. We accidentally made a Nazi gas chamber. Luckily we are weird and had gas masks on hand, but I do remember explaining that one of the things we did was made a highly poisonous gas that “killed a lot of people in WWII”. I didn’t want to say to the judges that I made Zyclon B, but I just eluded ti it. I was later told that my experiment would’ve won top prizes in my school but it was deemed “too unsafe”. I think it’s bullshit that you discredit someone’s work for being too dangerous. Being said, ever since then I’ve said screw safety in science; if it’s dangerous then take proper precautions. Being told my science was too dangerous honestly destroyed me.
This is actually hilarious working in regulated waste, to understand all the things that aren't *really* regulated due to products having quantities too small or skimming the borders of PH levels
In high school I remember finding a website where you could just buy bulk uranium ore that was pretty well known. They would restock but it sold out very quickly. They also sold the aerogel glass and other less-hard-to-find chemistry products. At this point I don't want to go searching to see if it still exists lmao
Been watching some clips from this episode. My goodness, the guys are just a little over the top in how intense they're reacting and shocked by some of the stuff Nigel's talking about. Literally screaming and shouting, losing their minds haha
watching this as a (i think in US terms undergrad? im european) chem student i literally gasped when he mentioned he casually stored benzylchloride in his parents' garage
Meanwhile here in my German school: we have some really old radioactive samples. Some of them are already less radioactive than the background radiation. Regardless of that they need to be professionally checked (which cost a lot of money) and if they want to get rid of it they would need order a special radioactive transporter which would bring it to a specific place (which is even more expensive). And all of that for a pice of Metal that is less radioactive than a banana XD
a lot of ppl are complaining about the hosts but i liked how excited they were all episode long. ive listened to this episode multiple times and id love to hear yall pick nigel’s brain again
There's a company based here in Michigan called United Nuclear that sells uranium and other things that many people would consider dangerous. Their shipments require someone over 21 to sign for them though.
Chernobyl and American media making nuclear all scary is the reason for this. Nuclear energy is still the safest and greenest technology we have and we don't use it because everyone is scared of it.
@@tonydai782 yeah i know but not everyone knows that. i just hate that this "expert" act like everyone knows that. the first thing that people think about uranium is still radioactive and the bad effects of it. not everyone is well versed with chemicals lol
I mean, depleted uranium is used to make conventional weapons, and it used for hardness in this case (it's a pretty scratchy area as far as international law goes - nothing to do with radiation, it's just toxic for aquatic life, - but it's currently used in my country). It's surprising that there is no specific regulations for this case.
3:20 and uranium glass also has a specific coefficient of expansion, which makes it useful in metal-glass seals in very specific vacuum applications. Some old gas filled tubes and radio transmitter tubes had it.
Gaffer glass supply makes and sells uranium glass colorant for glass blowers in the Seattle area. Other suppliers may have it as well. It's not very popular because it looks kind of like Vaseline. It's only interesting property is that it glows under blacklight. I've made plenty of things from it (I'm a glass blower), mostly glass pumpkins for halloween. Since the uranium (depleted) is already mixed with glass, and is pretty low concentration, it's quite safe.
I remember those days, I once ordered a GALLON of 100MG/ML nicotine in VG off ebay for like $100 or so. With no ID or anything. that's enough to make like a 55 gallon drum of vape juice.
Yeah the chemical thing regarding licensing is weird. In some areas like you said it's up to the discretion of the company to decide whether to sell to you or not. But in certain businesses due to liability you have to get license. For instance years ago I used to be a professional landscaper and there were certain chemicals that I had to be licensed to spray yet didn't need a license to purchase them. One of them being parametal. Parametol is a soil sterilizer. A common civilian wouldn't know where to buy it and if I have a distributor I can go in and buy it without a license and as a civilian I can spray it, but needed a license in order to spray it with the landscape company. I found that weird that I actually had more right to the use of the chemical as a civilian than I did working for that company. I mean I understand it's for liability purposes due to hypersensitivity of people in the area and everything, but why would I have more rights to purchase it and spray it as a civilian without any licensure or notification of the public for hypersensitivity. Why would I not need the same liability insurance as a civilian. It's just freaking weird. This even applied to lesser chemicals in my area such as roundup. I can walk into any big box store and buy Roundup no problem, but when working for a company, I needed to have an herbicide and pesticide license in order to spray it 🤷🤦. Makes me think it's all about money since they only seem to put regulations and licensure and insurance requirements on businesses yet a civilian has more rights to the chemical and its use without any regulations. 🤦🤦🤦
One thing I wish NileRed pointed out is that there's two different types of Uranium: One is Uranium-235 (U-235) and the other is U-238 (U-238). The lighter version (U-235), is highly radioactive and can be used to fuel nuclear power plants or for nuclear bombs. The heavier version (U-238), is far, far less radioactive and cannot be used for power plants or bombs. Naturally occurring uranium ore is >99% U-238 and
0:58 I remember when people were buying dmt and “research” chemicals on eBay all the time. I knew someone who claimed to cure her bpd through eBay chemicals. And uh from an external observation she did not
My brother has a few antique shop near him and he can pick up uranium glass for cheap. His boyfriend codes things, and they have it set up to where if you say fire up the power plant, it plays some sci-fi engine startup noise followed by black lights lighting the cabinets with the class. Pretty cool to see in action
Not ethanolamine, triethanolamine, and it is actually used in soap making, so its available. I have seen it used as an activator to thicken hand sanitizer.
Podcasts episodes like this one are proof of why every channel or podcast needs an Angry Joe´s Alex archetype. A silent calculating type. These guys were so overwhelming on poor nile. Also I understand the impulso to put the guest in the center seat. But dude, if you´re going to bombard him with questions and weird laughter, don´t surround the man! That being said, amazing guests and cools questions. Now just a matter of polishing that etiquette
To elaborate, uranium can be used to make a number of very vibrant pigments with good thermal properties, which makes it great for glazing ceramics and mixing into glass. It used to be very common before people started to really understand and worry about radiation. Assuming it's cured properly, it's not really that dangerous. It's the kind if thing where you just don't want to sleep next to a cupboard full of it for years, or smash it and breathe in the dust.
Did you know: some forests in the US we’re dumping sites but then became protected but they didn’t bother cleaning up most of the glass because it was harmless but people would dump uranium glass so some forests in the US are slightly radioactive.
Just look at Nigels facial expressions when they cut him off, laugh excessively at pretty dumb stuff or mentioning anal lube way too often throughout the whole interview... He seems a bit annoyed or at least uncomfortable on different situations... Those interviewers should improve a bit on themselves, this was sometimes really annoying and hard to watch. The full potential of the interview was definitely not met. Poor Nigel :(
The geodes from the Toelle fields, W of SLC, have enough uranium to flouresce. I cut one into drink coasters, and they're mindblowing when your guests have had a couple of drinks, and you flip the black light on, on their coasters.
Nigel could barely get 5 words out in sequence before being interrupted by someone laughing and interjecting their jokes, opinions, or questions. Really frustrating trying to actually listen to his story here
i think a key thing that wasnt explained here is that he bought depleted uranium. which is less radioactive and one is unable to make a nuclear reactor or weapons with it.
I'm just going to assume that 80% of the views here are NileRed fans who haven't seen an episode of trash taste before this and only clicked for Nigel. They are acting like this is supposed to be a serious interview and it isn't, it's a casual podcast where they just shoot the shit and talk about random shit. This is more like sitting around the bar with some friends and then having them tell weird stories and they react to it. I mean for fucks sakes on a separate episode they had a bit where Garnt told a story about killing a cockroach which he painted as an epic battle... but when you looked deeper into it was just a really pathetic fight. If you came into this expecting a serious discussion, you clearly have no idea what they do here.
That's how it is with most refineries as well. I work in the precious metals industry and my local refinery only buys from businesses that are associated with precious metals.
Man I just wanted to listen to Nigel talk about chemistry and these other dudes can’t stop screaming and howling every 30 seconds. Just let him tell the fuckin story like god damn…
Didn’t know Benzyl Chloride supposed to smell like that. Worked with it on microgram scale and it feels normal to pipette and the bottle doesn’t smell offensive when opened, and i didnt even do it in the hood
"Please don't dump radioactive waste in the municipal trash." -Government
"Bro please, don't put radioactive waste in the trashcan bro, we can't stop you bro, but c'mon bro." - The Government Bro
@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder True.
Wait a minute, we misspelled govmint.
literally 1984
"Please don't dump radioactive waste in the municipal trash."🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
"Please don't build a nuclear bomb in your garage it is highly illegal and will hurt a lot of people!" 🤓🤓🤓
The masculine urge to turn your garage into a nuclear deterrent.
"Boss we need nukes on mother base"
Hey ferb i think I know what we are going to do today
Nuclear anti government agency defence system
a boy scout actually built a working reactor in their home, just called someone and said it was for a university and got enriched uranium. caused a lot of problems
@@mrexists5400 thats not how the story went...
Nigel: “Hey, is it fine for me to use Uranium to make glass?”
Government: “For what purpose do you need Uranium glass?”
Nigel: “ I just want to see how it glows.”
Government: “Knock yourself out.”
Canada everyone
@ time to move there 🤣
Day 200 : please make black friends 😩
@@thatoneguy978 that's technically racist. you should make friends with people who you share an interest in or something, not specifically chose someone based on the colour of their skin.
@@mitzikolo Seems like a troll farm account. It's using that Victoria Harbour photo for the channel page.
the absurdity is so high Connor legit did a double take lol
Connor: URANIUM???
Nigel: no no, Uranium "GLASS"
Connor: okay go on
Nigel: so i got some uranium
Connor: uh huh
...
wait hol up
Best part is the aftermath where he asked for clarification of the source and Nigel just went: "Source undisclosed"
the magic of nilered is in the way he delivers that key line. I don't know what it is about his voice, his tone, his inflection, whatever the fuck, but he says something and it's.... offputting. it unbalances you, but kindly. He's abrupt, but it's not harsh. I don't know. It's magical. Dude's voice is just magic.
He naturally narrates his sentences
@@bishopvida That's what makes nilegreen fun
theres nothing special about uranium. It's a metal like any other. you can dig it out of the ground. the process of ENRICHING the uranium to turn it into nuclear weapons is the difficult part. these guys freaking out over him saying he was working with uranium just shows they don't know much about chemistry.
There's a UA-camr called CodysLab who did a series on how uranium ore is processed, and did so by literally doing it with chemicals in his garage. The FBI came knocking one day. They left him to it, but he just couldn't do any enrichment (which is where you start to make bombs)
Makes sense, teaching people how to enrich uranium is just asking for trouble, unenriched uranium is just a funny rock that causes lung cancer when you breath in some dust
Feds always wanna ruin all the fun. Codyslab is based.
regular bombs, right? *face contorts with fear and confusion*
@@CatWithAOpinion nuclear bombs, when they talk about enrichment they talk about concentrating uranium 235 which makes up a very small amount of natural uranium. I think you would need a vast quantity of high purity uranium 235 in order to make a nuclear bomb out of it but I don’t think it would be hard to make it go supercritical with the right setup.
@@ionic7777 yeah the vast majority of uranium will actually have the exact opposite effect, it absorbs neutrons instead of releasing them. So you need to basically purify out all the uranium-235 to actually get anything dangerous
It's not that surprising. There is a world of difference between "Uranium" and "Weapons grade Uranium"
Yeh Uranium needs enrichment.
A world of difference as in a working biosphere on one hand and a nuclear wasteland on the other. 😁
Weapons grade Uranium is still very much just Uranium. Just used and implemented differently. Still the same element.
@@kaanssar you just need enrichment to make it weapon grade uranium and it is highly illegal...
@@kaanssar and sodium poisoning is very much just salt. The difference is quantity, concentration and usage in both cases.
Natural uranium isn't that dangerous under 100gms. The radiation isn't that dangerous. All that the agent told him makes sense.
When you say “100gms”, do you mean “100 g”? Because there is only one valid symbol for “gram”.
@@viquezug3936 they just abbreviated grams
@@INTERNAL_REVENUE_SERVICE and failed terribly at it
@@fikrihaikal837 it's a lazy way to say grams for people who don't even know the basic SI symbols- which is a surprisingly large amount of people so yes gms still works
@@fikrihaikal837 Yeah well absolutely nothing productive comes out of getting mad at them, it’s a harmless issue and doesn’t affect anyone
There’s a reason that the nuclear boyscout was a thing.
He also found radium.
@@jeremysmith7176 found? he faked his identity to companies and boards so they would sell him things he shouldn't have access to, as well as buying things like fire detectors en masse to take the isotopes from them for use.
Didn't he take apart smoke detectors to source his material?
@@Sgt.Dornan I think that was later in his life.
@@jeremysmith7176 i read the book about. Not sure how true it all was, but in it stated he was pretending to be a research university professor. So, he would just buy his stuff from a company until they caught on. He did also used radioactive material from smoke detectors. He bought a bunch of them in bulk to use for his experiments.
Listening to him mentioning all of the stuff he experimented and produced made me realize how insane it is to be his parent. Imagine a whole ton of stuff happening everyday in your house.
"are you winning, son?"
"I am become death, destroyer of worlds"
"Cooli-o champ!"
according to some comments floating around his dad was an engineering professor so his knack for experimenting was probably not a surprise
"Are ya winning son?"
"After i put in a bit of hydrocloric acid, after refining it it will become methenphetimine.
IRL Dexter Lab
@@yusux Also, his dad helped him build his lab at home
3:00 As someone who works with glass, the difference between Uranium glass and "window glass" is what's added to it for coloring. The base is generally the same, and then you add metal to change the color. I think Uranium glass has a minor green tinge to it, but glows vibrant green under UV light. If I remember correctly, window grade glass uses aluminum oxide or magnesium Oxide to make it clear and opaque. If you sub the Aluminum Oxide or Magnesium Oxide with another metal or metallic oxide, you can get some very pretty and vibrant colors.
Uranium Glass is radioactive. HOWEVER, due to the small amount of Uranium per gram of glass used and the small mass, antique Uranium glass is fairly safe to handle. DO NOT use it for food and drink. If you're worried, most curio cabinets are thick enough to safely store and display Uranium glass.
Uranium glass is completely food safe. All the uranium is within the glass so you won't ingest any without first breaking it and the alpha radiation it gives of in barely detectable amounts can hardly travel through air let alone contaminate or damage anything.
The boys REALLY need to just let the guest talk here.
They probably hear a stutter as a cue that there might be silence coming. Can't blame them for wanting to minimize dead air on their talk show. It is kind of aggravating sometimes, like "just let the dude talk," but it's an understandable precaution.
@@Majima_Nowhere Nile stutters a lot, I find that many knowledgeable people do.
Yeahhh its like he know too much but doesn’t know how to explain it
@@caioluigicf2681 doesn't efficiently know how to explain it in simple terms to simple people*
Totally agree
If it makes Conor feel any better most pollution or contamination policies are like that. Motor oil for example you can't recycle the plastic container because it's contaminated with oil but if your buying them in smaller containers for personal use that amount of pollution or contamination is negligible.
you're*
"So I got some Uranium..." has got to be the best line to come out of this podcast.
"so i called the government..."
It's our 2nd ammendment right to own your own uranium
You can also own your own Nuclear device but you have to do the proper paperwork with the ATF as it is a NFA item so you need the proper tax stamps for one and you are not allowed to actually use it but you can own it and have it where ever you are. The things that us Americans CAN own and not many people know about are insane but tax stamp aside the bigger problem is, who is going to sell you a Nuclear device in the first place? so you would need even more paperwork if you wanna make your own
Highly radioactive forms of Uranium don't kill people, the poisoning from exposure to highly radioactive Uranium does!
@@Toxic_Korgi Nah, the guy chucking chunks of highly radioactive Uranium at you is what kills you.
@@Toxic_Korgi Sorry, but even the uranium itself runs a risk of heavy metal poisoning.
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena I need to be able to own my own warship armed with nuclear missiles. For self defense purposes, I swear. Please ATF you must understand.
I watch his vids frequently and they're like the Disneyland of every science nerd ever ..I absolutely love his dedication
I like ur profile picture
@@kurinthekitty6842 thanks 🥰 I wish I remember which artist's it is...but they're known for the giant cats series so maybe that could be a hint
@@sarroumarbeu6810 it's Monokubo-sensei
@@serinrinrin thank you !
Try styropyro too, he's like the physics(more like lasers) guy
Honestly would love to listen to this interview with him, but don't think I can listen to much more of this when everyone keeps interrupting him
+1 as well, jesus christ so obnoxious. I watched it obviously for nile, but im never coming to this channel again.
Yeah, it's hard to listen when the other guys just keep freaking out every time he mentions uranium.
Yes! Like let him speak :(
@@VL4DST3R aight goodbye lol no idea why you gotta announce it
@@xxDxxism in the vain hope they better themselves and act more respectful with future hosts? I know, concepts thay would never strike your mind given your comment.
Yall are the kings of talking over eachother and not letting your guest speak
exactly my thought the entire time watching
The worst
and Bert kreischer exists, so they really are bad lol.
@@APolishPlayer lmao
Planks
I'd rank this as the second most chaotic guest episode, right behind lady beard
Uranium and Lead is still used regularly for ultra high end optical glass.
Really, is uranium still used to this day? I know there's some vintage lenses that contain uranium, a super takumar comes to mind.. But I didn't realize it's not just a thing of the past.
@@RamoArt Yep, but not in consumer optics anymore.
Source: trust me bro
@@ChickenSDS ??? Don't know how to use Google? Optical companies like Zeiss discloses this information, you just have to look for it.
Has anyone here heard of the guy who bought a mineral collection, and asked Reddit what the really heavy sample was that he took out of a protective case he was told never to open?
(Picard Faceplam moment)
sauce?
Link please.
sauce??
Not anymore
It’s so annoying trying to hear Nigel tell his story and they keep on interrupting him 🤦🏽♂️
bro for real
So annoying
Cope.
honestly for Nigel he goes on so many tangents that someone needs to steer him down the most interesting path, the full interview was pretty good imo
@@jgblkshot8375 people who double back on a conversation to explain the joke someone else told, is the most annoying thing a podcast can do.
It’d be nice if these guys knew a little more about what they’re asking. Or if they’d be quiet long enough for Nigel to finish a sentence.
that's one downsides of being a podcast host, you get too used to trying to prevent dead air so it often gets in the way of things.
Yeah, tbh I haven't been able to get through any of the videos they've made with ScienceTubers other than Michael Reeves. I find that a *lot* of my favorite entertainers come across as very funny and occasionally insightful amongst themselves but when you introduce someone else you like who actually knows things they become entirely insufferable. Not because they behave any differently, but because of the contrast and their inability to keep up. It usually makes me unable to stand those entertainers, so I've gone out of my way to avoid these and still end up losing respect from random clips like this.
@@zovisapphire Preventing dead air is fine, but a good podcast host knows the difference between dead air and someone making a tiny pause in their sentence to find the right words or to think about what to say next. These guys can get really annoying at times, not even a second passes and they just go off and don't give Nile the chance to talk or they just talk over him.
I would love to hear the guest talk and for the unfunny comments from the other side of the table who only make themselves laugh to just stop your not funny
Uranium goes brrrrrr
Connor asking why anyone would make uranium glass.
Me a glassblower: .........uhhhhhhhhh yea no idea, UV glass totally not marketable.
What do you reckon is the most common use case for it?
@@I3urton in glass? It's legit just a way to make it glow under UV. There are entire museums filled with those pieces before the WWII ban on uranium so the government could use it for bomb research.
Bongs
@@big_lmaoski There are UV glasses that are way easier to use to make bongs plus in any color instead of just green with uranium.
Nigel: I made a uranium glass
Trash Taste: ok. Wait.... YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT SUCKER IS NUCLEAR!?!?!?
Literally sounds like the opening to one of his shorts
"So I got some Uranium-"
by far my favourite episode this year
same, prozd episode is 2nd best lol. they need more guest like this who are clearly nerds in a certain field or hobby. if they can get a scientist guest next or someone like niel degrasse tyson its gonna be cool.
I like how he talks about the time he made uranium glass like he made some lasagna
It isn't exactly any more complex or dangerous.
@@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013 i would even argue a lasagna is more complex
The amount of times they interrupt him is insane. Just let the man speak.
I feel like the hosts ruined this one. He had some genuinely super interesting things to talk about and all Joey and Garnt did was act like little girls screaming every 2 seconds. Connor was the only one keeping the ship sailing.
again true
In their defense, all of this sounds insane to people who are not involved with Chemistry subjects in uni. So Joey and Garnt just could not believe what they were hearing
@@melkorstormcrown6939 Sure, but there are better ways to express your excitement and interest in the absurd things you're hearing than constantly talking over people and screaming
Yeah if they're dumb and don't understand, then they should just shut up and let the guy talk
@@ziggybadans honestly if you had a friend who did type of stuff Nile did when he was a kid how would u react? *BE HONEST* 🤔
The whole uranium thing isn't too surprising, given that some lacquers use uranium as a pigment iirc. Pretty much harmless because the type of radiation from the decay in those cases have very short range and is nowhere as active as people think.
I assume the mustard gas precursor posession allowance is because some industrial process produces it as a byproduct, or for low volume research?
Could even be that mustard gas has some useful chemical property somewhere, or that the precursor actually does have other uses under the correct circumstances
Imagine if they got Styropyro in there, THAT dude is an actual mad scientist
He's legit Tesla reincarnated
Or Photoninduction
@@The_JEB man I miss that guy. he was around when “ is it a good idea to microwave this” and kipkay were popular. That would be a good interview
@@pronukespontaneous8090 He uploaded a new vid 3 weeks ago.
@@pronukespontaneous8090 Kipkay!! You just unearthed a memory I didn't know existed thank you
"You can throw it all in the garbage and we can't stop you, but please dont"
don't*
"So I bought some Uranium"
wait.. it sounds so familiar...
*NileGreen*
This is like Back To The Future. Where Doc says "I'm sure in 1985 you can just buy plutonium at a corner shop"
"I got it shipped to me, I don't remember where it came from"
The difference between uranium and plutonium, despite them being lumped together in the mind of the public, is significantly greater than the difference between fissile uranium and things you can find around your house. You can get Uranium online pretty easily; you can get bombed, invaded, or overthrown by the CIA just for having the infrastructure to potentially make any amount of plutonium.
For my science-fair project I tested offense catalyst in solid rocket boosters. One of the materials we used was oxidized iron. In order to get the metal to oxidize quickly we needed to make a cemcal reaction take place. We found a thing but it said that is was highly dangerous, but the deadline was coming fast so we were just going to be as safe as we could be. After we set the chemical reaction, we did a little more research and it turns out that one of the byproducts was either HCN, or some diluted form of that. HCN is Hydrogen Cyanide. This was also the same chemical used in Zyclon B.
We accidentally made a Nazi gas chamber. Luckily we are weird and had gas masks on hand, but I do remember explaining that one of the things we did was made a highly poisonous gas that “killed a lot of people in WWII”. I didn’t want to say to the judges that I made Zyclon B, but I just eluded ti it.
I was later told that my experiment would’ve won top prizes in my school but it was deemed “too unsafe”. I think it’s bullshit that you discredit someone’s work for being too dangerous. Being said, ever since then I’ve said screw safety in science; if it’s dangerous then take proper precautions. Being told my science was too dangerous honestly destroyed me.
I'm assuming they didn't want more people to make gas chambers, because one time someone will do it without a gas mask
This is actually hilarious working in regulated waste, to understand all the things that aren't *really* regulated due to products having quantities too small or skimming the borders of PH levels
1:50 is absolutely golden
In high school I remember finding a website where you could just buy bulk uranium ore that was pretty well known. They would restock but it sold out very quickly. They also sold the aerogel glass and other less-hard-to-find chemistry products. At this point I don't want to go searching to see if it still exists lmao
Uranium ore is just a rock, and it's only sort of uncommon in north America. About as rare as tin.
that's united nuclear
@@butre. It was! Haven't had that name pass over my brain in a long time.
@BloodyPFX cody’s lab would beg to differ
It's so annoying how much you guys kept interrupting Nile when he was trying to tell his story
Rightttt
Been watching some clips from this episode. My goodness, the guys are just a little over the top in how intense they're reacting and shocked by some of the stuff Nigel's talking about. Literally screaming and shouting, losing their minds haha
Freaking out over the name of a chemical that isn't even that dangerous in the form he had it in.
Yeah, I wanted to watch the entirety of this but I literally can not stomach the react bro bullshit
6:21 "Uraaaanium fever's gone and got me down, Uranium fever's spreadin' all around"
"So I got some Uranium..." - best line ever
Nigel kinda reminds of the American scout that made himself a nuclear reactor in his parents' shed
watching this as a (i think in US terms undergrad? im european) chem student i literally gasped when he mentioned he casually stored benzylchloride in his parents' garage
I just love it how they all talk over the interesting person in the room.
Meanwhile here in my German school: we have some really old radioactive samples. Some of them are already less radioactive than the background radiation. Regardless of that they need to be professionally checked (which cost a lot of money) and if they want to get rid of it they would need order a special radioactive transporter which would bring it to a specific place (which is even more expensive). And all of that for a pice of Metal that is less radioactive than a banana XD
Hands down the most interesting guess so far, also connor fangirling is pure gold
Loool ikr
a lot of ppl are complaining about the hosts but i liked how excited they were all episode long. ive listened to this episode multiple times and id love to hear yall pick nigel’s brain again
I love how they all constantly talk over each other. I hate it when I get to hear what someone has to say
Lmfao
There's a company based here in Michigan called United Nuclear that sells uranium and other things that many people would consider dangerous. Their shipments require someone over 21 to sign for them though.
I am just surprised of how overscared people is about uranium
Yeah, a lot of fear mongering on radioactivity happened. That being said, we shouldn't swing completely the other way around and not be safe about it.
Chernobyl and American media making nuclear all scary is the reason for this. Nuclear energy is still the safest and greenest technology we have and we don't use it because everyone is scared of it.
Ok expert of the Internet.
@@thelast9112 Uranium isn't as dangerous compared to most other radioactive materials, especially the natural kind.
@@tonydai782 yeah i know but not everyone knows that. i just hate that this "expert" act like everyone knows that. the first thing that people think about uranium is still radioactive and the bad effects of it. not everyone is well versed with chemicals lol
This clip literally brought me to tears! 🤣
Prob onion ninjas 😉
I mean, depleted uranium is used to make conventional weapons, and it used for hardness in this case (it's a pretty scratchy area as far as international law goes - nothing to do with radiation, it's just toxic for aquatic life, - but it's currently used in my country). It's surprising that there is no specific regulations for this case.
please god let him talk stop interrupting him
3:20 and uranium glass also has a specific coefficient of expansion, which makes it useful in metal-glass seals in very specific vacuum applications. Some old gas filled tubes and radio transmitter tubes had it.
0:24 Pretty sure Mark Rober's already got dibs on him.
Gaffer glass supply makes and sells uranium glass colorant for glass blowers in the Seattle area. Other suppliers may have it as well. It's not very popular because it looks kind of like Vaseline. It's only interesting property is that it glows under blacklight. I've made plenty of things from it (I'm a glass blower), mostly glass pumpkins for halloween. Since the uranium (depleted) is already mixed with glass, and is pretty low concentration, it's quite safe.
I'm here because of Nile but these guys are like a slice of bread with butter
“So I bought some uranium-“ 😂😂😂😂 They need to get him back on the pod, Nigel is so unintentionally funny and smart
Uranium ORE, he did not get U 235 pellets or an alloyed rod of it, he got what was basically a slightly hot rock.
“Ayo government of country I’m not born or raised in, can I make uranium stuff?”
Nile is great. Such a mad lad but doesn’t seem to know it
I remember those days, I once ordered a GALLON of 100MG/ML nicotine in VG off ebay for like $100 or so. With no ID or anything. that's enough to make like a 55 gallon drum of vape juice.
I know we all adore NileRed but let the man speak!!
Probably one of the best Trash Tastes.
Dude says 2 words and everyone laughs and yammers on for 40 seconds. Let him speak.
Yeah the chemical thing regarding licensing is weird. In some areas like you said it's up to the discretion of the company to decide whether to sell to you or not. But in certain businesses due to liability you have to get license. For instance years ago I used to be a professional landscaper and there were certain chemicals that I had to be licensed to spray yet didn't need a license to purchase them. One of them being parametal. Parametol is a soil sterilizer. A common civilian wouldn't know where to buy it and if I have a distributor I can go in and buy it without a license and as a civilian I can spray it, but needed a license in order to spray it with the landscape company. I found that weird that I actually had more right to the use of the chemical as a civilian than I did working for that company. I mean I understand it's for liability purposes due to hypersensitivity of people in the area and everything, but why would I have more rights to purchase it and spray it as a civilian without any licensure or notification of the public for hypersensitivity. Why would I not need the same liability insurance as a civilian. It's just freaking weird. This even applied to lesser chemicals in my area such as roundup. I can walk into any big box store and buy Roundup no problem, but when working for a company, I needed to have an herbicide and pesticide license in order to spray it 🤷🤦. Makes me think it's all about money since they only seem to put regulations and licensure and insurance requirements on businesses yet a civilian has more rights to the chemical and its use without any regulations. 🤦🤦🤦
the tear gas thing made me think of the dad going "Yo whats wrong?" "Oh the tear gas leaked"
One thing I wish NileRed pointed out is that there's two different types of Uranium:
One is Uranium-235 (U-235) and the other is U-238 (U-238). The lighter version (U-235), is highly radioactive and can be used to fuel nuclear power plants or for nuclear bombs. The heavier version (U-238), is far, far less radioactive and cannot be used for power plants or bombs. Naturally occurring uranium ore is >99% U-238 and
Nigel's energy is so different from everyone 😂
0:58 I remember when people were buying dmt and “research” chemicals on eBay all the time. I knew someone who claimed to cure her bpd through eBay chemicals. And uh from an external observation she did not
If only the hosts would let him speak. Not over him or interrupt
Its so funny how Nile just so casually brings up buying Uranium.
God this is simultaneously amazing and annoying at the same time. Just let your guest speak please. Ffs. He has so many awesome stories.
You know it's gone really wild when the crew behind the camera is laughing at 2:16
I haven't laughed through an entire video like this in so long. It's absolutely historical
You mean hysterical?
My brother has a few antique shop near him and he can pick up uranium glass for cheap. His boyfriend codes things, and they have it set up to where if you say fire up the power plant, it plays some sci-fi engine startup noise followed by black lights lighting the cabinets with the class. Pretty cool to see in action
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This is such a random collab, nilered is one of the few youtubers that I follow for years
Not ethanolamine, triethanolamine, and it is actually used in soap making, so its available. I have seen it used as an activator
to thicken hand sanitizer.
maybe let him talk?
Podcasts episodes like this one are proof of why every channel or podcast needs an Angry Joe´s Alex archetype. A silent calculating type. These guys were so overwhelming on poor nile. Also I understand the impulso to put the guest in the center seat. But dude, if you´re going to bombard him with questions and weird laughter, don´t surround the man! That being said, amazing guests and cools questions. Now just a matter of polishing that etiquette
Why did I read this as Ukrainian glass
Eh, same thing depending how close you are to Prypiat
Because Ukraine is about to be a globally recognized synonym for it if they keep pissing Putin off lol
SAME!
Chernobyl Glass
tomorrow might be the same thing
To elaborate, uranium can be used to make a number of very vibrant pigments with good thermal properties, which makes it great for glazing ceramics and mixing into glass. It used to be very common before people started to really understand and worry about radiation. Assuming it's cured properly, it's not really that dangerous. It's the kind if thing where you just don't want to sleep next to a cupboard full of it for years, or smash it and breathe in the dust.
NileRed is what you get if Michael Reeves completed college
Did you know: some forests in the US we’re dumping sites but then became protected but they didn’t bother cleaning up most of the glass because it was harmless but people would dump uranium glass so some forests in the US are slightly radioactive.
I really wish they would let the man speak. The boys keep cutting him off
Just look at Nigels facial expressions when they cut him off, laugh excessively at pretty dumb stuff or mentioning anal lube way too often throughout the whole interview...
He seems a bit annoyed or at least uncomfortable on different situations...
Those interviewers should improve a bit on themselves, this was sometimes really annoying and hard to watch.
The full potential of the interview was definitely not met.
Poor Nigel :(
The geodes from the Toelle fields, W of SLC, have enough uranium to flouresce. I cut one into drink coasters, and they're mindblowing when your guests have had a couple of drinks, and you flip the black light on, on their coasters.
you can also just get/find uranium ore and just process it yourself
Nigel is like a wizard to these guys
Next vid: so I bought this plutonium...
Nile had a lot of patience lol
What I see here is NileRed the scientist and a bunch of kids just laughing and interrupting. The hosts are so obnoxious
Surrounded by planks of wood.
They all interrupted him too much
dumping that in the trash is a sure fire way to cause a new orphan source incident
Nigel could barely get 5 words out in sequence before being interrupted by someone laughing and interjecting their jokes, opinions, or questions. Really frustrating trying to actually listen to his story here
i think a key thing that wasnt explained here is that he bought depleted uranium. which is less radioactive and one is unable to make a nuclear reactor or weapons with it.
I'm just going to assume that 80% of the views here are NileRed fans who haven't seen an episode of trash taste before this and only clicked for Nigel. They are acting like this is supposed to be a serious interview and it isn't, it's a casual podcast where they just shoot the shit and talk about random shit. This is more like sitting around the bar with some friends and then having them tell weird stories and they react to it.
I mean for fucks sakes on a separate episode they had a bit where Garnt told a story about killing a cockroach which he painted as an epic battle... but when you looked deeper into it was just a really pathetic fight. If you came into this expecting a serious discussion, you clearly have no idea what they do here.
That's how it is with most refineries as well. I work in the precious metals industry and my local refinery only buys from businesses that are associated with precious metals.
Man I just wanted to listen to Nigel talk about chemistry and these other dudes can’t stop screaming and howling every 30 seconds. Just let him tell the fuckin story like god damn…
Didn’t know Benzyl Chloride supposed to smell like that.
Worked with it on microgram scale and it feels normal to pipette and the bottle doesn’t smell offensive when opened, and i didnt even do it in the hood