"its just a bunch of old watch dials" me: *sudden horrific realization*

@laurensa.1803

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Exactly my reaction.

@TheAechBomb

2 жыл бұрын

I build watches... I want a set

@cezarcatalin1406

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheAechBomb No you don’t...

@K1ngwing

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheAechBomb You will lose your limbs

@benjaminmcinnis6683

2 жыл бұрын

@@K1ngwing IDK, I have heard they are delicious

There isn’t something scarier than hearing a straight note from a geiger counter

@SiveenO

Жыл бұрын

How about holding said Geiger Counter with your hands?

@Alb410

Жыл бұрын

What about a straight note in A heart rate monitor?

@tavinl

Жыл бұрын

@@Alb410 one leads to another

@Oberon4278

Жыл бұрын

@@Alb410 Imo the Geiger counter is scarier. A flat line means one person died, but highly radioactive stuff can kill a lot of people, in really miserable ways, with very little warning.

@garablacktail5426

Жыл бұрын

​@@Alb410 A far as I'm aware, you solve that with CPR, also as far as I'm aware, you can't CPR away being irradiated and or contaminated, so I'd still wager a Geiger counter as a flat is scarier. Granted from what I've seen, the scariest would be it being a flat note no matter where you are or pointing it, cause that means that *everywhere* is highly radioactive, or that the counter is somehow broken

My dad worked at a research nuclear reactor before he retired, and if he saw this he'd honestly be terrified. Really hope you got your precautions and safety measures up to snuff.

@ForestWizardLookingForPotion

Жыл бұрын

short periods of exposure are fine as long as you don't ingest/inhale any radioactive particulate

@solsinclair1909

Жыл бұрын

​@RoachDoggJR there were ALOT of loose dust here, and thousands of times the safe limit of radon gas. Quite surprised nile opened the box tbh.

@adriendebosse6941

Жыл бұрын

@@solsinclair1909 Maybe he was fully clad in Tyvek coverall, with full face mask, used an appropriate ventilation (and of course all the safety procedure when removing the pontentially contaminated clothes).

@solsinclair1909

Жыл бұрын

@Adrien Debosse I hope so! That's a awful amount of radium.

@PascalGienger

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. Normally you open stuff like that with some lead suit to prevent body exposure and special gloves. And you do that in a case with an air pulling extractor pulling radon abd other gases outside through a filter and chimney and the filter needs to be replaced by professional services as high risk disposal.

Man it's a small world. One day about 3-3½ weeks ago I was watching a video about some kind of guns with a tritium sites. As I'm reading the comments people were talking about how potentially bad "Radium" can be. This one guy said 4 words, "look up Radium girls" to the guy he was talking to. So I was curious and looked it up. Next thing you know I'm down rabbit hole after rabbit hole learning about how they used it for makeup, medicine, ect, and the watch dials, aka The Radium Girls. I watched and learned about this stuff for about a week or so. Those poor women when through an absolute hell. It's a very interesting yet extremely sad story. When they painted the watch dials, they were told to point their paint brush with their lips, to save time and it worked better. Sonthey ended up ingesting very toxic amounts for several years. These women's bodies literally would glow in the dark at night. They painted their finger nails, teeth, and their faces with it to have some "harmless" fun. They had no idea how bad it was because the owners of "American Radium" told them it was good for them. Also like I said some Dr's were actually prescribing it to certain people in a "energy drink" form. There's magazine and newspapaer clippings where you can read where they called Radium "The Fountain of Youth" and that it made them younger. It's CRAZY, I definitely recommend looking this up, also cone to find out there's a movie on Netflix called "Radium Girls"..... About a week ago I was watching a "Mr.Ballin" story here on KZread and he hides certain things in his videos you have to find. Well I normally don't look, I just read the pinned comment to see where this hidden object is. Well this time it was something called Radithor. I had no idea what that was at the time so I looked it up. Come to find out it was the "Radium energy drink" I had explained above. What's the freakin odds. Now you have a video showing the exact dials that THE RADIUM GIRLS PAINTED. Lord knows how many women painted these dials you just showed and died a horrible death? I just think it's insane I just learned about this stuff a few weeks ago and I knew IMMEDIATELY what they were after you opened the box. I didn't pay enough attention to the thumbnail photo to realize until I watched. Hearing that machine go off like that when 95% of those dials are 100 years old, if not older. Makes you wonder exactly how potent those were when they were originally painted. These poor women had to be buried in lead lined caskets to try and stop the potency from coming up and out of the ground, OUT OF THEIR BONES. Sorry for the long comment, I didn't think anyone would believe this, what's the odds. Lol it may not sound crazy to anyone else, but I've been a sub to you Nile, and the other channels for a few years now. So it's just crazy how this all strung together. The only channel I wasn't subbed to was where it all started. In the comment section where someone was talking about dangerous gun sites..... I think its pretty wild man. Again every one sorry about the length of my stories lol

@markm0000

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the story

@Oberon4278

Жыл бұрын

Sights btw

@BillehBobJoe

Жыл бұрын

Tritium only weakly decays. Unless you eat your gun sights tritium can’t hurt you.

@E50AK

Жыл бұрын

Interesting read. But what you're stating is pretty common, KZread regularly does that to me. The reason being that all of the Google products share data with each other. So what you search gets recommended on KZread and what you watch on KZread, similar videos get recommended to you, in order to intrigue your curiosity and increase the probability of you clicking on a video and watching it. Pretty sinister when you think of it that they literally make money by making us waste time.

@HRM.H

Жыл бұрын

No radium dials were made till long after the second world war. So not all over 100 years old

Box: *is extremely radioactive, more than pure uranium* Nilered: Oh, no! Anyways...

@user-gh4ur4jq1e

2 жыл бұрын

That reference to Jeremy Clarkson tho...

@westie430

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-gh4ur4jq1e what?

@user-gh4ur4jq1e

2 жыл бұрын

@@westie430 kzread.info/dash/bejne/a4dsx7CTZMndZaw.html here's what

@Samithecutie

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-gh4ur4jq1e I love that meme lmfao

@vaclavzajac214

2 жыл бұрын

That's because uranium isn't actually very radioactive. Chemical poisoning from uranium (because it's a heavy metal just like lead or mercury) will kill you over 1000 times before the radiation would.

The stories of the 'radium girls' - the women who worked in watch factories painting the watch faces with the radium/ZnS mixture - are harrowing. They were told it was safe and instructed to wet the brushes with their mouths and shape the tip of the brush to be fine. The first woman to die suffered greatly, as her jaw literally fell off before her death, such was the impact of the radiation sickness. More than 30 women died. Edit: @Muonium has pointed out that it was actually radiotoxicity, not radiation sickness.

@aeromaster2134

2 жыл бұрын

Is this a common knowledge to everyone, about the radium girls?

@splendidsimp

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I just left a comment about how my highschool did a play about the women who worked at these factories and the horrible things that happened to them... however luckily there wasn't anyone who lost their jaw in the play

@Muonium1

2 жыл бұрын

not radiation sickness really. Acute radiation sickness has a very specific pathology and etiology that's completely different than the *radiotoxicity* caused by ingestion of radioactively contaminated materials. Radiation sickness is caused by exposure to large doses of an external source of radiation and you will either recover or die within a few weeks. Radiotoxicity is internal contamination with a radioactive substance that with some materials like radium, accumulate in bones and perpetually damage, mutate, and destroy tissue at the cellular level usually for years until the victim either dies of other natural causes, or of the carcinogenic, or simple physically destructive effects of the radioactive substance itself.

@hello_im_dumb

2 жыл бұрын

I believe that's the same painting method that is suspected to cause Van Gogh to go insane

@128ajb_02_Music

2 жыл бұрын

@@splendidsimp awesome! We are doing that show soon

The second you said watch hands I knew exactly what it was. Read it in a book about the elements, I was obsessed with what they used radioactive elements for in society

Back in the early 90’s, I worked at a movie theater. The “EXIT” signs located near the floor in all theater rooms had to be replaced. When I looked at the back of the signs, I noticed a “Radioactive” label. I wonder if they had this material in them. If so, it’s likely the reason they were replaced.

@reedg8662

2 жыл бұрын

I could be wrong but I’m guessing the signs used tritium, which is still radioactive but to a much lesser degree. It’s a gas that is generally safe unless the container is broken. Tritium exit signs are still commonly used today. They last for a very long time but do need to be replaced every 10-20 years or so.

@PascalGienger

9 ай бұрын

Those are tritium signs. Way less dangerous. Even when the glowing vials break. it is hydrogen. It moves up to the sky really rapidly and escape every building rapidly.

@mfbfreak

9 ай бұрын

Tritium probably. Those have a half life of about 12 years. Because it's a gas, it disperses quickly, so the cleanup of a spill is just 'Ventilate well' instead of 'meticulously collect any and all specks of dust, and for god's sake don't breathe it in'.

@PascalGienger

9 ай бұрын

@@mfbfreak Ventilation not even needed. It's Hydrogen. You won't even have time to notice it the time everything gets out through all of your tiniest openings and cracks of the room (-;

Ah, I can see the next NileRed episode on the main channel “I made a mini Chernobyl using old clock arms”

@KeksimusMaximus

2 жыл бұрын

More like "I'm getting several forms of cancer by breathing all of the dust from this sketchy box that I obtained in some illegal way"

@Sonny_McMacsson

2 жыл бұрын

@@KeksimusMaximus Everything spooky has to be illegal.

@ozmobozo

2 жыл бұрын

@@KeksimusMaximus Duke you have no idea what's illegal and what's not. Sure it would be illegal to pour some of these stuff to someone's food but having them is not.

@Merennulli

2 жыл бұрын

@@KeksimusMaximus I assume this was just an attempt at a joke, but if you were serious - radium dials are legal to own and sell, and you can get a bunch of them like what's shown here for about $15 online.

@arturpinheiro5518

2 жыл бұрын

guess what, that happened already

I thought he was going to hammer the dials as soon as he said carefully 😂😂😂

@sciencenerd218

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I wasn't the only one 😂

@milesperhour2286

2 жыл бұрын

That just shows you has dangerous this actually is

@sumedhpatil1019

2 жыл бұрын

Don't put ideas in his mind DON'T

@MaxArceus

2 жыл бұрын

bruh, he's not stupid! Doing that'd might literally cause a big clean up company to have to come by.

@shilpakulkarni119

2 жыл бұрын

This proves you always watch his vids 😂😂😂

This deserves a full video just covering all of the history behind those watch dials.

as soon as i saw they were watch dials i knew it was the radium paint. crazy how they used that stuff in so many products 😬

Me: huh strange Him: *mentions radium Me remembering the story about the Radium Girls: *Oh*

@LoreleiBlaine

2 жыл бұрын

it's enraging knowing how badly those companies endangered all those women. sure, the average person didn't know how dangerous radium was but the companies forcing all their employees to paint with it for hours, saying it was "perfectly safe" absolutely knew, they just didn't have to deal with danger directly so they just say "eh not my jaw that's gonna get severe cancer in a decade :)". absolutely despicable fuckers.

@ik6non712

2 жыл бұрын

@@LoreleiBlaine Especially after some of them had already died or showed symptoms. The company just paid them off

@lilith01proxima28

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@lia8302

2 жыл бұрын

Same thought

@jackslts

2 жыл бұрын

And the delayed symptoms

This stuff is wicked. I’ve got a memorial in my town for the “radium girls” as well as a old factory a few towns over now called “The Westclox Building”. Also a few superfund sites and old rad warning signs still dot the area. Huge part of local history. Coincidentally not far from the first commercial nuclear reactor and fermi lab. 🤘

@shalibegum4995

2 жыл бұрын

since you see this why don’t you give it a like ;) edit: thanks for the likes

@jj003333

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen documentaries dedicated to the radium girls. Such a horrific tragedy

@huhdidwhat

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. Welcome to Ottawa 🙏

@DLeighWifey

2 жыл бұрын

There's a stage production caller "Radium Girls" too. Pretty sad.

@ThunderousMuffin

2 жыл бұрын

@@huhdidwhat come for the history and natural beauty, stay because of the property taxes and dropout rate. Is #savedave still a thing or did the trades program get killed off after all?

Geiger Counter: **Screams in Fear and Agony**

How much radioactive are you? Radium: yes

Box: **screams in radiation** "Let's open it up!"

@averageambivert

2 жыл бұрын

His reaction was so casual about it That's why we like him

@steveaustin2686

2 жыл бұрын

*screams in radiation* LOL :)

@19accountsremoved41

2 жыл бұрын

His GM isn't a real one so "off the charts" is VERY LOW. He is a citizen therefore can only receive .1 mRem a year. So yeah that shit isn't even hot.... now, sucking on radium is a bad idea lol. -you friendly neighborhood Radcon

@GeneralPet

2 жыл бұрын

@@19accountsremoved41 Obviously it's real. High sensitivity does not mean its cheap or fake. After all he may be able to turn down the sinsitivity. If anything, high sensitivity is more real because each beep is closer to individual counts.

@19accountsremoved41

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeneralPet it's real. It reads in VERY low units. Civilians don't get their hands on anything actually hot. He's using an incorrect instrument as well, you don't count gamma, you count alpha. When I say it's not real because it's a novelty toy compared to real world radiation.

I think the fact that he didn't throw them, smash them, or do some other reckless thing with them shows how dangerous they are. (As well as perhaps giving us an insight into his respect for history.)

@averageambivert

2 жыл бұрын

It's a fact for sure

@mr.cauliflower3536

2 жыл бұрын

Or his own life

@19accountsremoved41

2 жыл бұрын

Lol they aren't dangerous. Just don't suck on them

@19accountsremoved41

2 жыл бұрын

@@MaxC_1 not sure how he'd go to jail and yeah he's a chemist so radiation is fucking rocket science to him, trust me. The GM probably reads in microsieverts. He's a civilian so you don't get dose really. It's actually the CHEMICAL radium that is toxic, the radiation is null

@MaxC_1

2 жыл бұрын

@@19accountsremoved41 irresponsible handling of radioactive substances is a criminal offence in a lot of places so well yea

The moment he opened the box and I saw the watch dials, I got so scared. I don’t think i could ever forget reading about the horrific stories of the radium girls.

I always wanted to collect all the elements on the periodic table as a hobby and the radioactive elements have always seemed quite exotic.

@Xnoob545

2 жыл бұрын

good luck with oganesson

"need to be handled really carefully" Me, who's seen all the shorts: *expecting his hand to come down and smack the pile*

@NinthSettler

2 жыл бұрын

This is one of those where missing even one piece will literally kill someone if not all of his crew over a couple of years. Radiation poisoning is scary

@totallynotahacker2450

2 жыл бұрын

@@NinthSettler Just incase you didn't know, that's a MASSIVE exaggeration. Radium is an alpha emitter. Alpha radiation can only travel a few centimeters in the air. The danger of radium comes from ingestion, it acts like calcium in the body and is deposited in the bones. (This is where the horrifying stories of the radium girls come from) Losing one, which already has a pretty small amount of radium in it, wouldn't kill anybody.

@phamminhquan5054

Жыл бұрын

@@totallynotahacker2450 Like yea, it's very dangerous but people often exaggerate the danger of radiation that they forgot the metals themselves are more toxic by being a heavy metal like Lead and others.

@xjunkxyrdxdog89

Жыл бұрын

@Ninth Settler who were you hoping to impress when you pulled *that* from your ass?

My heart was stopped beating when he said, "and they have to be handled really carefully"

@nbhunia1

2 жыл бұрын

I thought something like the cesium will happen

@ihavetubes

2 жыл бұрын

its the same stuff David Hahn used to build a small nuclear reactor in 1994.

@Jesus_paid_it_all

2 жыл бұрын

In fact, just opening that case contaminated the entire table. If you inhale the radium paint, your body mistakes it for calcium and stores it in the bone Were it can tear apart tissue and give you cancer. I have a few radium clocks thar I store in a safe, for safety. They also put out radon, the amount he has basically pouring it out like a tea kettle. It was very foolish of him to open it.

@gliple

2 жыл бұрын

@@ihavetubes yeah and the craziest part is that he got it from SMOKE DETECTORS like bruh why is everything from before 2000 so radioactive

@Jesus_paid_it_all

2 жыл бұрын

@@gliple He got the Americium-241 from smoke detectors not radium. He got the radium from junk yards and antique shops.

"It's just a bunch of old watch dials" Me, a collector of old watch dials: ":o"

Is it just me, or do others get the same feeling when Nile says Anyways....I actually feel myself backing way from the screen. I would not have even opened that box at all with that much radioactivity. Crazy lad Nile.

looks like little radioactive fishies in the thumbnail

@colstonish2168

2 жыл бұрын

Epic fail 🤣🤣🤣😂😳

@dps3

2 жыл бұрын

ayo what are you doing here? dont you have a video to make?

@phoenix1782

2 жыл бұрын

nah

@noideawhoiam3855

2 жыл бұрын

i kind of see it actually

I inherited my grandfather's old watch, which he bought sometime after he got back from WWII. At least when I was a kid in the 1980s, it still glowed, and I loved to wear it. I've often wondered if that watch was made with radium. I guess I need a Geiger counter.

@benoite.1546

2 жыл бұрын

Probably Radium yes. Just keep it away from your bedside and don't use it as a daily pocket watch. If the glass of the watch is still intact, it should trap the paint dust and all the alpha radiation.

@TheAechBomb

2 жыл бұрын

if it still glows it's not radium, the phosphors in radium lume broke down very quickly from the constant radiation and barely work anymore. more likely it's just the phosphor on its own (given the era, probably zinc sulfide)

@Setixir

2 жыл бұрын

@@benoite.1546 You don't need glass to trap alpha radiation, your skin will block that just fine. The main harm from Radium comes from ingestion. So yes glass top for the dust and you'll be fine really.

@dragonfireproductions790

2 жыл бұрын

@@Setixir radium emits some Beta and Gamma radiation

@19accountsremoved41

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's radium. Nothing else from the Era does that. Just don't suck on it and enjoy it.

"Has to be handled extremely carefully" Comes in cardboard box, with a small plastic container. Oh don't forget the paper towel, I heard that stuffs like type 4 armour xD

“It’s worse than pure uranium.” Also Nile: opens the box like it’s nothing

Him: "The contents of this box are more dangerous than Uranium." Me: I don't like where this is going.

@firstnamelastname.7749

2 жыл бұрын

Uranium isn't that dangerous

@Frost-bc7kz

2 жыл бұрын

@@firstnamelastname.7749 how so?

@firstnamelastname.7749

2 жыл бұрын

@@Frost-bc7kz it's barely radioactive, it is toxic, but not any more than lead or any other heavy metal.

@EriCLion-rt7sz

2 жыл бұрын

@@Frost-bc7kz uranium itself is incredibly safe. It's half-life is incredibly long (around 4B years for U-238, which is the most common isotope) so it takes a lot of time for it to decay and release a significant ammount of radiation. Radium on the other hand has a half-life of around 1500y, so it decays pretty fast and can release a lot of radiation even in small quantities. And there are a lot more radioactive things. By example, most fission products (like those that a nuclear reactor produces) usually have half-lifes that are between 10 to 50 years, and Radon gas has a half-life of around 3 days. In short: the shorter the half-life of a radioactive isotope, the more radiation it will emit, but the quicker it will release it all to finally become more stable and safe.

@rohitwankhede9153

2 жыл бұрын

@@firstnamelastname.7749 but that is still a lot

You can tell its really dangerous when he does not bang it on the wall.

@19accountsremoved41

2 жыл бұрын

No not really.

@harshitaharshloomba7701

2 жыл бұрын

@@19accountsremoved41 Its hyperbole

@19accountsremoved41

2 жыл бұрын

@@harshitaharshloomba7701 🤦‍♂️ yeah it is isn't it

Nile: "Extremely radioactive, must be handled carefully" *proceeds to touch them with just some glove

Woah, I didn't expect that! Keep up the good work! ❣️😄👏🏻

i like how every single time i've seen him use a geiger counter it's been a *different* geiger counter

@roddydykes7053

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta have one for every mood

@xenongd6974

2 жыл бұрын

It couldn't handle the amount of radioactive stuff in his lab

For those who were expecting him to smash the watch arms with a hammer or something like he normally does, Let’s just be happy that he didn’t Because I much prefer NileRed shorts to NileDead Shorts

@shlok3172

2 жыл бұрын

Underrated🔥

@Misha-dr9rh

2 жыл бұрын

Jack shit would happen. At worst some of the radium would be transferred to the hammer and have to be disposed of.

@hal6yon

2 жыл бұрын

Red Dead Redemption

@Quroe_

2 жыл бұрын

I hope he realizes that the internet deranged *will* be calling him NileDead if he makes a lethal mistake.

@randaranatunga7259

2 жыл бұрын

@@Quroe_ unfortunately his is true

My father had a wristwatch with these things, back when I was young. I was super fascinated by it, shoving my eyeball practically against the glass, to bask in its glow... Today, I would... probably _admire it from a distance._ 😐

Glad u are still with us after watching the previous video....

*DANGER* is what he's never heard of

@Try-hard-emily

2 жыл бұрын

Danger huh is that laten or French

@hamburg4034

2 жыл бұрын

He is the danger

@mrsprite399

2 жыл бұрын

It's not in his vocabulary

@averageambivert

2 жыл бұрын

Danger is the thing he used to play with as a kid

@imfoive3734

2 жыл бұрын

Aaaaaaaarmyyy💜💜

perfect comedic timing when you actually didn’t do anything

"its just a bunch of old watch dials" me: hold up

As soon as you said "watch dials" I was like, "Ah, radium." lol

I definitely remember typing a research paper during my sophomore year of high school, which talked about the “Radium Girls incident”. And this short helped awaken that memory again :D

Him: "And they have to be handled very carefully" Me: oh no *nothing happens* Me at the end of the video: Whew

@SevenOfNineIsHot

2 жыл бұрын

Epic profile pic dude

@19accountsremoved41

2 жыл бұрын

Well he didn't put them in his mouth so that's it.

@kendodd8734

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard about killing time and now I know where this old saying comes from

@satgurs

2 жыл бұрын

@@kendodd8734 i like to kill time

@kendodd8734

2 жыл бұрын

@@satgurs ohh really nice

Extremely cool. You could have also had old smoke detector parts, but the watch parts are very cool too. A shame they don't glow on their own anymore.

Such tiny, tiny pieces of metal with such a dangerous element on them, imagine dumping all them in a shotgun shell 💀

As soon as he said watch dials, my heart kinda dropped... Such a dark time in history... Those dials are, metaphorically speaking, blood stained

@CJ-cc5jm

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the same goes for today but less dramatic. Almost every item bought from retailers especially Amazon, is made in a poor country with lax laws on how things are made. Lots of kids work in their factories and are made to slave away for us to have our toxic items. It’s sad

@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage

2 жыл бұрын

@@CJ-cc5jm You're definitely right on that. Industrial exploitation has become, in wealthier nations, a point largely of the past (though you still see exploitation in the service industries, like with retail, restaurant, and delivery companies). Within poorer nations, corporations can take advantage of the messy web of multi-national laws, and the complex mix of oversights and loopholes. Unfortunately, that complex mix forces any solution against exploitation to be equally intricate, and exceptionally difficult (especially when a fair amount of mega-corps like Amazon and Nestle have major political and economic backing).

@Nosirrbro

2 жыл бұрын

@@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage Well exploitation definitionally always exists wherever capitalism exists, but yes the most obviously egregious practices have been moved to the global south so you don't have to see any white people in horrific conditions, and that seems to make people more or less content enough to keeping our current mode of production and global hegemonic status in the west.

@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nosirrbro Just thinking about that kinda makes my skin crawl

@Nosirrbro

2 жыл бұрын

@@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage Join an org

"...and they have to be handled really carefully." **drops cinderblock on watch hands*

U know shit is wild when nile red says they need to be handled carefully, and then proceeds to handle them carefully

As soon as he said they were watch dials, I immediately knew radium was involved.

Dear @NileRed, I have been watching your videos for 2-3 years now with great interest. Thanks to you, and my school teachers, i loved chemistry and yesterday i learned that i passed the exams to become a chemical engineer(The university starts this October). Thank you so much for all these years of education and entertainment. Please keep making videos so others can learn the beautiful world of chemistry.

@AlexandreG

2 жыл бұрын

You got your results in September? Damn, teachers over there are really slow to correct exams. In my country in early August I already have to send in my university choices application

@astakosgr-so7nf

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlexandreG Its not really the university doing the correcting, actually is the "the country". In my country (Hellenic Republic) student get to chose an orientation (sciences, philosophical, medical, economics) 2 years before the exam. Everyone on the same orientation writes the same exam the same day for every subject. After that the results get announced and we get to choose in which university we want to apply. If the university takes for example 100 students, it will take the 100 with the higher scores. This takes a lot of time (it took 1.5 months for me i think) as it has to calculate that for every student (almost 100.000) and each student can apply for as many universities as he wants (someone can literally choose every single university in his orientation in the country). You get to go to the university in which you got higher scores than the last student, according to the priority you gave it while applying. There is also a lowest score lower than which you can't enter a university but the process will take too long to explain and this comment got big already.

@joshflinn8510

Жыл бұрын

How are You doing?

“And they have to be handled really carefully” *smashes them without a second thought *

@averageambivert

2 жыл бұрын

I was 70% sure about that happening Hopefully, it didn't

Makes me sweat and feel sick just looking at the picture.

Bruh the counter looked like the monitor you use to call in nukes in modern warfare

I remember seeing something about that on a TV show that documented this. Someone already beat me to it, but it had to do with the Radium Girls (who later sued and have since become legends in regards to work hazard prevention). Knowing this, the story behind the creation of those pieces of metal is much more interesting.

NileRed: "Whatever is in here is extremely radioactive and worse than when I tested nearly pure uranium." Also NileRed: "But anyway, now to open it up!" I'm a bit worried about what he considers too dangerous to actually handle, at this rate...

@lepidotos

2 жыл бұрын

Natural uranium is >93% uranium-238, which decays so slowly that it really might as well be stable from a safety perspective -- half-life is a measure of how quickly unstable atoms decay (i.e. how radioactive it is) and a longer timespan means a weaker, less radioactive atom. To give an example of a typical radioactive atom, radon-222 which occurs on Earth naturally has a half-life of about 4 days. Uranium-238 has a half-life of 4.468 billion years.

@thebob5240

Жыл бұрын

Most of what Radium gives off is Alpha particles that can easily stopped by your skin or just a thin layer of clothing the problem is when it is ingested it really messes you up, that's why he handled them carefully this watch dials are old and could very easily release paint dust that he could then breath in but again a simple medical mask would be more than enough to stop him from ingesting any. To quote my Cham teacher "Remember, respect not fear, fear makes you unable to do things safely when they go wrong, respect allows you to calmly react to bad situations if they are to occur."

imagine being like "yo so did you test it for radiation?" "yeah I got a question, is it supposed to make beeps or what?" "what do you mean, did it not make them?" "well it did make sounds, but it sounded more like a flat line" _"oh..."_

Ok I know they’re spicy or whatever but a watch dial that glows indefinitely would be really nice…

“Whatever’s in this box is extremely radioactive and dangerous” “Welp, time to open it up”

I can’t take the word “careful” seriously without having a winter soldier episode on this channel

Glad to see you survived the cesium incident.

"Do you Have a Geiger Counter?" "Mine's in the shop" felt like i was ring that quote all the time 😂😂😂

After hearing "they have to be handled really carefully", I excpted to see you dropping the box on the floor and having them fall all over the floor.

Am I a psychopath for being sad that he didn‘t threw these extremely radioactive watch dials on his wall because I‘m used to it?

@kitsune_lover8257

2 жыл бұрын

No

@vioblion2053

2 жыл бұрын

@Mike Hunt why should he? It's dangerous

@erasedexistence4161

2 жыл бұрын

Yeh

@axion6070

2 жыл бұрын

Wtf

i have a clock made with those things and i didnt knew it could hurt me

Watch dials that glow on their own without any charge sound dope

NileRed: - "however, they're still extremely radioactive and they have to be handled very carefully"

Quick correction: They are called "Watch hands," and they were made from around 1898 to as late as the 1940s. I would say that the ones shown here are around mid 1930s. Interestingly, they are often still used today, usually by collectors, when restoring antique watches, although it is possible to buy safer replicas.

@dapri002

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of watchmakers today have no clue how hazardous these may be and relume them by scraping the old powdery lume off without even wearing a mask. You really should wear a protective mask and let them sit in some distilled water or isopropyl alcohol first to make sure you don't inhale any dust

@nasuegaming1255

2 жыл бұрын

Finally some educational comment on the comment section.

@koltonkotoski7680

2 жыл бұрын

My father was a watch maker and I helped him with his business as when I was a kid even to the point of eventually repairing Quartz watches. But we had an old watch come in one day with those hands. He knew immediately what it was and showed and explained to me how horrible it was. Needless to say we ended up shipping it back. I dont remember why but we weren't able to fix it and we definitely did not want that in our shop.

"A phosphor called Zinc Sulfide" My chem major brain: A phosphor with no phosphorus... Yeah that totally makes sense..

I was waiting for him to drop that box after saying 'carefully'.😂

I remember the time I visited a nuclear power plant as a kid (Wylfa Power Station, Wales). I set off the radiation detector and thought I was going to die from radiation poisoning. Turns out my watch had radioactive materials in the hands. 😆 Such a shame we aren't allowed to visit those power plants any more. It was fun while it lasted. P.S. I can tell my younger family that I actually went to a nuclear power plant (when the world wasn't so crazy with terrorist threats). So happy I could do that. It was a great experience, seeing the main generators (vertically-oriented) spinning so fast, so balanced. It was like watching alien technology in action. The reactor section was the most scary, realising that if anything went wrong, it could all go up and we'd all be irradiated with no recourse. Overall, it was an amazing experience! So glad I had the chance to experience it all.

Its actually awesome to see something that was talked about on safety third become a video

You finally did it after teasing on podcast.

Bro you showed the watch dials…. And my stomach dropped 😂

NileRed: This is more radioactive than pure uranium Also NileRed: Yeah let's loosen the protection measure to have a look

@Try-hard-emily

2 жыл бұрын

Classic nile

@JNouveau

2 жыл бұрын

A protection mesure? Yeah that cardboard box and plastic needle tray aint keeping SHIT out

@kiitten249

2 жыл бұрын

ah yes, some cardboard and a plastic box can contain radium

him saying that he has to handle them carefully and leaving a 5 second gap of nothing is incredibly intentional. I love this channel

Not me waiting for him to smash the box after saying “this has to be handled very carefully” 😂

The only things that scare me are real life threats ( and jumpscares because they're cheap ) and the only thing that scares me more than the horrors of the ocean, is a Geiger counter going from normal beeping, to a high pitched siren.

I too like to store my highly radioactive substances in a nondescript box.

@19accountsremoved41

2 жыл бұрын

Considering you are a civilian that would be okay because you won't get much of a dose.

"have to be handled really carefully" Even with this level of radiation, I still expected him to smash it against a wall.

This is the funny thing about working in the uranium industry. You'd think the uranium would be the most radioactive part of the process, but its actually the radium. The most radioactive areas of a uranium mill are where the ore is at its least pure forms, before the radium is stripped and separated.

Factories: We have the most radioactive stuff NileRed: *Hold my Uranium* " *Heres Radium* "

Just checked my phone. His experiments and tests really make my day.

When I heard him say it has to be handled very carefully, I was waiting for him to do something like he always does but I understand since it is so radioactive.

Thems be some good ol wristwatch hands with some radioactive material that glows

Nile Red: Whatever is this box could mean the end of life as we know it Also Nile Red: I'll just open it anyways

Me who was thinking he would smack the hell out of those dials: My day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable.

@kagedevshorts4886

2 жыл бұрын

@Not RickRoll 👇 4 I got an ad. I was saved from the rick roll

“They have to be handled really carefully” I expect him to throw them or something ;n;

Nile: This is so radioactive and dangerous! Also Nile: Let's open it up!

Nile: It’s more radioactive than uranium. But anyway, now to open it up. *Tell my kids I love them*

I was actually expecting him to the drop the box at the end when he said they had to handled carefully

Oh dear, oh dear Nigel. You shouldn’t be playing around with stuff like that.

@Try-hard-emily

2 жыл бұрын

Oh shut up have you seen this channel

@-ZH

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t worry, he didn’t even throw it against a wall

@sebastianjonathan7844

2 жыл бұрын

The radiactive particle of barium is alpha particle, which do little to no harm outside the body. It is extremly dangerous if found inside the body though( the body falsely recognize it as calcium, so the radium will be deposited in the bones and damage the bone marrow).

The box: very very radioactive, need to be handled carefully Nilered: *proceeds to open it*

“They have to be handled real carefully” is usually followed by Nile dropping it or hitting it with a hammer. I don’t blame him for not doing it this time!

Holy shit, I just bought one of these watch dials aswell. I find this so damn interesting.

@redoverdrivetheunstoppable4637

2 жыл бұрын

same... my geiger hasn't been this happy before

I live in a city in Switzerland where watches was pretty popular back in the days. A lot of old radium paint was used when watchmakers didn’t actually knew what radiation was, and some workplaces are still closed to this day due to the radiation. The paint isn’t a real problem until the protective glass from the watch is broken.

@coelacanthtrench7

2 жыл бұрын

well, in terms of alpha particles. beta and gamma however....

@kourii

2 жыл бұрын

@@coelacanthtrench7 Radium-226, the isotope used in watches, undergoes alpha decay and has a half-life of about a millennium and a half. As long as you don't ingest it, breathe in the dust, or put yourself in a situation where radon's going to build up, it's tame

@coelacanthtrench7

2 жыл бұрын

@@kourii true

Im happy to NileRed still alive

As soon as he said watch dials I knew exactly where it was going.

I wish this guys taught me Chemistry in high school…

@19accountsremoved41

2 жыл бұрын

Well chemisty has NOTHING to do with radiological sources... so he'd be the worst to learn from as far as radiation goes... but his chemistry is the shit

When there too much ticking that you dont hear the gap in between the ticking

‘What I have here’ the most scariest thing Nile has said. 😅

When he said watch dials I was like oh ya radium