400 years ago Crude oil was also considered Useless.

@nealramsey4439

5 жыл бұрын

Gasoline was considered useless too. It was simply dumped by Rockefeller in the process of making lamp oil, because it was to dangerous for lamps. At the same time people working on combustion engines were looking for something to run their engines. Today it would be considered to dangerous and dirty to be used. I find it funny when people say lithium batteries are dangerous for use I cars. Because a couple have caught on fire. How many cars catch on fire every day? I know my truck burnt up in my driveway and want even in a wrecked.

@octaviani5397

5 жыл бұрын

@@nealramsey4439 yeah but how many combustion cars are out there? Like a couple billions meanwhile not even a million electric cars and they already started to catch fire

@emilianoramirez5340

5 жыл бұрын

Actually thorium can be used as a fuel in special nuclear reactors that take only 100 years to decompose so doesn't create that many nuclear waste but no one wants to develop those reactors

@QasimAlKhuzaie

5 жыл бұрын

First thing that came to my mind!

@ablebaker8664

5 жыл бұрын

@@emilianoramirez5340 Except that's only a half-truth... One being promoted by a couple of pseudoscience conmen. Thorium has a much longer half-life than Uranium 235... which means that just like Uranium 238 it needs a hot neutron source to initiate criticality... So it needs to be salted with U 235 to kick it in the ass. Sustaining criticallity requires more than just getting the neutron cascade started though. As the fuel decays it produces daughter products that absorb neutrons, gradually reducing the output to a level that can no longer sustain criticallity. Thorium isn't "cleaner." It runs for only a fraction of the time that uranium fuel can before requiring that the fuel rods be changed. It leaves you with more rather than less hot spent fuel to store until it's cooled off enough to reprocess. Reprocessing of both types of fuel is expensive snd dangerous, but with thorium is must be done more frequently. Thorium itself is safe enough to be around... the spent fuel rods however are just as dangerous as uranium fuel rods. The people pushing this half-truth tend to pretend there is some sort of conspiracy to hide cheaper/cleaner energy from consumers. They are the same sort of folks who rant about perpetual motion machines and "free energy" systems they claim are being covered up by "big energy." So... no. Not in reality. If they were actually more efficient/cleaner/safer they would be in use. They do however inspire lots of people to throw money at conmen who promise a lot of BS to their "investors."

"I DON'T RECOMMEND BUYING RADIOACTIVE PRODUCTS" "I WILL LEAVE A LINK" UHHH OK

@d4lera

3 жыл бұрын

only russians can click the link

@LordOfChaos.x

3 жыл бұрын

U need the Gulag Pass

@troychampion

3 жыл бұрын

they sell other elements, not only radioactive ones.

@theanonymous4443

3 жыл бұрын

@@d4lera why is that so?

@Stratonetic

3 жыл бұрын

@@theanonymous4443 Their regulations with such material are more relaxed then say, the United States, or really any other country in the world, maybe there's a few others out there besides Russia, but they're probably less notable.

Title: Thorium, a metal that noone needs Sam o' nella: Am I a joke to you?

@nikbratusa4032

3 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what came to my mind when I saw the title. I was hunting samonella viewers in the comments and I found one.

@simonhrusovsky7892

3 жыл бұрын

I miss him

@slav2054

3 жыл бұрын

Dude, thorium rocks. Ba dum du ba dum *BANG*

@nistelroji9623

3 жыл бұрын

@@simonhrusovsky7892 what happened to him?why doesn't he upload videos?

@yourairconditioner760

3 жыл бұрын

@@nistelroji9623think he said something about college

Thorium is very useful indeed. It's used in TIG welding electrodes because being a beta emitter it starts an arc very easily. Also used as a cold cathode emitter in some electron guns.

@revcrussell

2 жыл бұрын

It is not to do with being a beta emitter. In fact, it (or rather its daughters) is a rather poor one. The benefit in the electrodes is a metallurgical one. The electrodes last longer and produce a better weld.

@qwadratix

2 жыл бұрын

@@revcrussell Simply not true. I don't know where that idea comes from but I used to work in research in electron microscopy where these things are studied at University level. Look up thoriated tungsten work function. (Work function is the voltage needed to 'pull' electrons out of a metal surface) physics.stackexchange.com/questions/359187/thoriated-tungsten-filaments

@revcrussell

2 жыл бұрын

@@qwadratix Yes, it has a lower work function. That is a 'metallurgical' property not a nuclear radioactive property. Thorium is not radioactive enough to reduce the energy to start the spark (enough to matter). There are places where this is done but here it doesn't matter. Look up Kr-85 filled vacuum tubes.

@qwadratix

2 жыл бұрын

@@revcrussell True, Work function is a property of the quantum states of the electronic structure of the bulk metal. As such it's extremely complex and there's no practical calculation I'm aware of that allows you to compute it directly from basic parameters. However. I entertain a (possibly unjustified) conviction that the electrical potential developed by an unstable nucleus is going to influence the bulk property. I shouldn't have stated it as fact. I'll also add that the beta particles emitted will also tend to produce some ionisation in the surrounding air, Also probably a factor. But at the end of the day, thorium is added for it's ability to initiate an arc, not it's thermal properties. That much is certain

@BTW...

Жыл бұрын

EVERYBODY knows this. Why do people like you and the others that post the same comment keep repeating it?

Because thorium has the potential to produce more than one million times the energy of gasoline by weight it has been called the most valuable worthless element. Of course there was a time when crude oil was also worthless.

@gustavosmith3980

3 жыл бұрын

Everyone keeps repeating this, it's still fucking useless

@bepisbepi

3 жыл бұрын

Yea, because uranium can’t do that as well, but thousands of times more efficiently, reliably and cost-effectively, right?

@dwaynowilli6822

3 жыл бұрын

@@bepisbepi also isn't anywhere as abundant...

@Aaayyyeeee214

2 жыл бұрын

@@bepisbepi imma leave this here...... kzread.info/dash/bejne/nJ6Bm6dvlJeYXbA.html

@averagehumanbeing7932

2 жыл бұрын

@@bepisbepi thorium reactors are more efficient and there is more thorium on Earth than uranium

Thorium may be a useless metal. But dang, it's a must have mod for Terraria players.

@Maadnamas

3 жыл бұрын

I WAS EXPECTING THIS

@SonicMasterLB

3 жыл бұрын

Ffs mate, took the words out of my mouth...

@tigerii10.5cmpog4

3 жыл бұрын

Noice

@jfrtbikgkdhjbeep9974

3 жыл бұрын

damnnn 😲

@pfzht

3 жыл бұрын

Useful in a better version of the fission reactor. Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactor. Check it out.

My god, this guy straight up sound like a mad russian scientist

@kubamiszczz

3 жыл бұрын

But very calm mad russian scientist

@googleuser7823

3 жыл бұрын

Well, he have a russian channel. So no wonder actually.

@medexamtoolsdotcom

3 жыл бұрын

Your words are redundant, all russian scientists are mad scientists.

@pandemicgrower4212

3 жыл бұрын

@@medexamtoolsdotcom 😂

@JETWTF

3 жыл бұрын

@@kubamiszczz It's the calm mad scientists you need to worry about.

I use thoriated tungsten all the time for welding . It's probably one of the best TIG electrodes in the world . Some people prefer cerium , I do not .

@jt3022

3 жыл бұрын

Says guy with icon of hulk

@pranav_2229

Жыл бұрын

@@jt3022 says the guy with name JT

@itiso1123

Жыл бұрын

@@jt3022 what that has to do with anything?

@mikebarnacle1469

Жыл бұрын

@@itiso1123 hulk's origin story is he was exposed to gamma radiation

@itiso1123

Жыл бұрын

@@mikebarnacle1469 oh haha okay that's pretty funny

WOW a radioactive pen? that's the perfect gift for your bully.

@aluksus9327

5 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: radiation dont affect ppl instantly it have effect only on their children

@RadiusNightly

5 жыл бұрын

@@aluksus9327 Fair enough, i dont want my family tree to be able in future to merge with my targets!

@vainillachocolate5531

5 жыл бұрын

@@aluksus9327 but what about cancer?

@Schwarzvogel1

4 жыл бұрын

@@RadiusNightly What he says is quite incorrect. Ionizing radiation *can* affect you instantaneously... if it is energetic enough. A dose of 5 Gy will be enough to fry your eyeballs, metaphorically speaking. After receiving a full-body dose of that intensity, you'll develop acute radiation sickness within an hour, which will entail vomiting, shitting yourself uncontrollably, seizures, coma, and death. Likewise, getting exposed to high-energy X-rays will cause visible and painful burns. So yes, radiation can affect you instantly. But for the average person, you have more to worry about from high voltage than ionizing radiation.

@Schwarzvogel1

4 жыл бұрын

@@vainillachocolate5531 Cancer doesn't develop instantly

Stay tuned for thorium reactors in the near future.

@zerotwo_.002

3 жыл бұрын

Coming since 1969

@drust1985

3 жыл бұрын

Far future*

@gistasbanaitis473

3 жыл бұрын

Well it radiates alfa radiation which can produce heat so maybe possible to make an weak nuclear reactor in your garage which will supply lights so good luck ;)

@PrashantKumar-yd7rx

3 жыл бұрын

India does have a majority of reactors running on thorium

@PrashantKumar-yd7rx

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobec2999 ohk thanks

"Thorium's is useless" safer nuclear reactors: am I a joke to you?

@justcallmenoah5743

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly they're only a hypothetical rn. India is researching the technology at the moment but they have not yet found a breakthrough that would allow a thorium reactor to work. You can convert thorium to uranium to use in nuclear power plants, but it defeats the safety issue, and is actually far more expensive than just buying uranium.

@spicylemon9339

3 жыл бұрын

@@justcallmenoah5743 I thought there was already a good plan for them, I just remember thorium having to be combined with another element(plutonium?) And it doing the same thing a pure uranium reactor does. But when it fails it seperates thorium from the other element and the entire process stops

@N0M4dIC1RST

3 жыл бұрын

@@spicylemon9339 not sure what the other dude is talking about, but there are actual designs that work. We just haven't really seen one of those since the sixties. One thing to get out of your head is "thorium reactor". You can breed uranium with thorium, but the reactor still technically runs on uranium. Breeder reactors just use the nuclear reaction to make more fuel (like by turning thorium into more uranium) as it generates energy. Other fuel cycles exists but the thorium concept is the best known. Thorium is also not really about safer reactors, at least not directly, though the proposed designs we see all use fourth generation intrisinsically safe designs. You could not use thorium at all and just use uranium directly and it would be as safe. The Molten Salt Reactor is the most common type of next-gen reactor that is presented to the public, often in the context of presenting the LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) concept. These reactors are intrinsically safe, meaning that there is basically physically nothing that can go really wrong with these reactors. No explosions or meltdown is physically possible. There is also no radioactive gases to escape and all of the fuel is trapped inside molten salt. This is true whether you use thorium/uranium or just uranium. For reference, most of the commercial reactors around the world are second generation. Third gen reactor are not that common since we built few reactors in the last 20-30 years. Fourth gen reactors are still in experimental stage. While second gen reactors are extremely safe, third gen are insanely safe (due to integral passive safeties) and fourth gen are absolutely safe (due to intrinsic safety design). I could also talk on and on about fuel cycles and recycling of nuclear waste, but that'll be for another day.

@spicylemon9339

3 жыл бұрын

@@N0M4dIC1RST wow I am very greatful for this deeper knowledge of reactors you've shared :D ty!

@Kalumbatsch

3 жыл бұрын

@@N0M4dIC1RST That they are super safe is what you get told about every kind of nuclear reactor right until the shit hits the fan.

Never in my life would I have thought to follow a chemistry channel. After watching a few of your videos after yt recommended them I am hooked. Thank you for making chemistry so interesting!!!

@Torby4096

6 ай бұрын

See also "Periodic table of videos." Thoisoi and Polliakov might make you a chemist!

That vapor chamber and the shots you took of it were beautiful

@bhu1334

5 жыл бұрын

I was in awe! you can actually see the trajectory alpha particles

@gotsteem

5 жыл бұрын

If you liked the cloud chamber, you'll probably like this if you use an android phone.. Keep a cloud chamber in your pocket. : play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sifnt.CloudChamber

@DeKosta

5 жыл бұрын

Yes really awesome showcase actually.

@stormeagle81x

5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful like your feet must be

@egidijusanikevicius5651

2 жыл бұрын

Super cool

Thorium is a metal that is actually underestimated in importance and underutilized, mainly in fission. Th-232 is not fissile but it is very fertile, and when it takes on that extra neutron it becomes Th-233 for a very short time then BETA decays into Protactinium 233 for 2 weeks then on to U-233. There are times where it will decay into U-232 which is junk and has a half life of 60 years but there are ways to deal with it. U-233 as fuel is the best stuff you can get with a fission to capture ratio of 12 (fission) : 1 (Capture) making U-233 50% better at fission that U-235 which is as rare as platinum and is 4x better than Plutonium 239 which is bred from U-238 because U-238 is not fissile but it is fertile. Also the U-233 fission cycle produces transuranic wastes that are radioactive for 300 years instead of U-235's thousands and U-238 -> PU-239's tens of thousands. It will also produce considerably less waste due to it's considerably better fission ratio. So yeah, Thorium is not a metal that no one needs, it's exactly the metal we need and need to properly utilize.

@brettknibbs9351

5 жыл бұрын

finally someone with sense

@theepicslayer7sss101

5 жыл бұрын

i bet they just want the Plutonium and that is the only reason they avoid it.

@brettknibbs9351

5 жыл бұрын

@@theepicslayer7sss101 its gonna have a lot to do with the price of stuff imo. the normal way we do it makes rhem farfar more money. unless forced its unlikely they'll change any time soon

@Spartan536

5 жыл бұрын

I also feel I need to add that U-232 in its base synthetic form (there are no naturally occurring instances of U-232) is junk as it is not good for fission, HOWEVER it can be bred into the highly fissionable U-233 with a thermal neutron capture and U-232 is fertile. One of the proposed ideas and can be done with MSR's is the live removal of U-232 and it's chemical separation and subsequent neutron bombardment in a separate fuel chamber via PU-239. This means the current waste products we have and be "burned" in a breeder for U-232 into U-233 while Th-232 is bred into U-233. This makes U-233 a more viable fuel source and since MSR's can actively filter their fuel cycles unlike solid fuel BWR/PWR's they can greatly increase their efficiency and reduce transuranic wastes. This does not come without its hefty technical challenges but it certainly needs to be fully explored and tested because the positives outweigh the negatives for civil power production.

@theepicslayer7sss101

5 жыл бұрын

@@Spartan536 i have to admit my knowledge of Reactors is limited to some Minecraft mods like IC2 and ReactorCraft or Factorio and the Kovarex Research that lets you turn U238 to U235. (in Minecraft IC2 as well) tho in ReactorCraft, i used Thorium to make power and less waste since in game it produces less when being fission in the Reactor, i just used the Radioactive waste to launch neutrons at the Thorium to make my power... i doubt it is that easy in real life!

"A metal noone needs" Thorium reactors: say what?

Cool literally 5 minutes ago i watched a video where a guy praised Thorium for 4 minutes and 32 seconds.

@aasimshaikh9647

3 жыл бұрын

Hey kids!

@dwarflanternsharkfriend6713

3 жыл бұрын

Can I tell you a secret?

@AnotherAltAccountYouDonkey

2 жыл бұрын

I miss man

@kajalvpatel

2 жыл бұрын

Tararre

Alpha particles in ethanol vapour is one of the best experiment I have ever seen. Great !

@codycall6513

5 жыл бұрын

pruthvi ck that was pretty sick wasn’t it?!

@jschlesinger2

5 жыл бұрын

Cool, but it's not an experiment....it's a demo.

@RowOfMushyTiT

5 жыл бұрын

To think it's just a single atom making that track, incredible!

@jschlesinger2

5 жыл бұрын

@@RowOfMushyTiT it's even cooler: what was making the track was even smaller than a complete atom: it was merely a particle (two protons and two neutrons).

@RowOfMushyTiT

5 жыл бұрын

@@jschlesinger2 True, it just the helium nucleus. So much smaller than with the electron orbitals.

Be careful about saying Thorium is useless, you might be struck by a thunderbolt.

@chadleach6009

5 жыл бұрын

You not see infinity war or endgame yet? Cant get much more useless.

@hschan5976

5 жыл бұрын

More like struck down by radioactivity

@RizLazey

5 жыл бұрын

Except that the replies are a bunch of idiots/Nerds that didnt even get the joke -_-

@RyllenKriel

5 жыл бұрын

@@chadleach6009 Nothing is more useless in life than an underdeveloped sense of humour.

@chadleach6009

5 жыл бұрын

@pDemios yes, what did he accomplish exactly in either infinity war or endgame?

"No one needs thorium" Mindustry: ...

@lag7721

3 жыл бұрын

Just dont run out of criogen

@CrazExtra

3 жыл бұрын

finally a mindustry fan like me also the comment above is too ture

@anorexicwater4663

3 жыл бұрын

Thorium Reactor go boom because dont know how logic block thingy works

@woop1418

3 жыл бұрын

@@anorexicwater4663 everyone when first playing v6:

@jefftan9800

3 жыл бұрын

Ahh yes.. i was there when uranium was only nuclear fuel..

Thank You Sir for your wonderful videos! I am a ham radio operator and I know that thorium was sometimes added to Tungsten vacuum tube filaments to increase the electron emission in certain vacuum electronic tubes. This augmentation was called a "Thoriated tungsten" filament. Thoriated tungsten in welding rods make for more robust welds, but that seems rather dangerous to me!

Thorium - A METAL THAT NO ONE NEEDS! (Until molten salt thorium reactor era) :)

@nobody4y

5 жыл бұрын

@@4johnybravo to slow to be afective, it takes more energy start when you get it back I suggest watching Thunder foot, hedebanks this shit

@evilwarcow

5 жыл бұрын

Northerend Engineering and Blacksmithing?

@kshatriya1414

5 жыл бұрын

Bad4You Please don’t even mention ThunderFoot, he’s a fucking joke

@sharmadhru

5 жыл бұрын

Check India's Nuclear program, fast breeder reactor IGCAR kalppakam, India. India is one of largest source of thorium.

@balasubr2252

5 жыл бұрын

Dhruv Sharma why do we need to produce energy, when solar energy is left unused? Isn’t energy conversation to meet any need better than energy production and transmission with loss?

thumbs up for Half-life sounds!

@RandyContello

5 жыл бұрын

i knew he was part of black mesa, likely lamba core

@Lion7ism

5 жыл бұрын

@@RandyContello anomalous materials

@RandyContello

5 жыл бұрын

@@Lion7ism call the gman

@HighlordFrancis

5 жыл бұрын

Let’s start the 7 hour war.

@IWillSmurfYou

5 жыл бұрын

@Kimfri , bro is your profile picture of the alien guy from that ps1 game? It was a side-scrolling adventure game?

7:28 - 9:21 The cloud chamber is easily the coolest simple experiment I've ever seen.

Thanks! I have been learning more about chemistry ad the elements usage in everyday life than in several years of chemistry at school.

The vapor chamber and being able to see the alpha particles was one of the coolest things I've seen. Your always told about something "emitting"radiation but to actually see it was awesome.

@justayoutuber1906

2 жыл бұрын

100% agree. I've never seen that before. Awesome

that cloud chamber exploded my brain, this is the best visual explanation of radiation I've ever seen in my whole nerd life, I hope whoever starts reposting that part of the video links back to your channel, people need to see that!

@Saareem

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I mean, cloud chambers are common practice in the examination of decay products and cosmic rays but I've never seen such a low effort and low cost version of it.

I'm hopeful that when supplies of Uranium get more expensive the Thorium cycle will be useful. We've got to do something to control the waste issue, though! Great video love the content. Thanks

@ossiehalvorson7702

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure that'll happen for a good long time. We've somewhat recently devised methods of extracting uranium from the ocean, and it turns out it's fairly abundant compared to what you'd expect.

Its used in the welding industry in our tungsten welding electrodes the call it 2% thoriatated. I believe its the same element

@BTW...

Жыл бұрын

Everybody who watched the video knows this.

That ethanol vapor chamber was literally the coolest thing i have ever witnessed.

@Skinflaps_Meatslapper

3 жыл бұрын

Cloud chambers are awesome. I wish I had some enriched uranium to use in a chamber.

@Skinflaps_Meatslapper

3 жыл бұрын

@@Durkamoo snitches get stitches

2 percent thorium mixed with tungsten makes a fine electrode for tig welding steel and stainless, just don't breath the dust when sharpening them.

@kyleglenn2434

5 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, I won't be laying any lines and doing a snort! Always seemed like a bad idea.

@obelixer9751

5 жыл бұрын

Now your telling me ...

@chrismetal15xbox306

5 жыл бұрын

@@obelixer9751 it's fine i've been breqthing in the dust for years. The most it's gonna do is give me cancer in like 20 years or something.

@obelixer9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrismetal15xbox306 Thanks, who want's to live another (extra) 20 years anyway. Although it would be cool to glow in the dark.

@debdodson9867

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrismetal15xbox306 You could always do a magnesium sulfate head wrap;Celts used to do that as a medicinal poultice..You could also add in some type of chlorella such as water cress,blue green algae,or small small portions of kelp(14 days)..Asian medicinal..Just add in sulphur dioxide to prevent a blockage in the arteries or veins and to prevent infection..Sea salts and greens are extremely corrosive of excessive metals built up in the human body..Topical applications of zinc in industrialized aluminum manufacturing works okay but if the zinc coating is not applied; tree pollen usually digs a hole in aluminum after a while..The corrosion factor of using sea salts and greens orally and topically also depletes carbon buildup with metal particulates that are sometimes oxidized from stainless steel valves and heads/engine blocks,also depletes/corrodes metals from iron ore nickel deposit engine blocks,and numerous other metals used in machine shops and construction job occupations..but you have to work at it like you work on an automobile..Beta carotene that converts to vitamin A in the human body also helps to regrow the lungs when paired with vitamin c and some type of dairy "with" growth hormone to increase rapid lung repair..Then you just apply high grade 80 bill refrigerated probiotic or homebrew kefir and some high fatty omega 3's & 9's/Hyaluronic acid to feed myelin insulators and brain collagen to prevent damage from high human biological emf's from increased metal exposure..Like the swedish around cast iron engine ore mines gobbling way too many omega avocadoes..Throw in hot pepper to increase blood circulation,some Gingko biloba to stimulate memory,and some nicotine to increase the synapses between the neurons in the brain collagen in case you get a break in the collagen and she misfires and you need to fire hotter to skip a few places until you heal up/regrow the collagen..Running around in machine shops since 91 and on construction sites playing with metals since 99..Tore down a VW 4 cylinder at the age of 11;yeah the human flesh car is a more tenacious task...

Unfortunately my grandfather died of cancer as a result of Thorium that was incorporated into the welding rods he used to weld chain links together at Stockbridge UK steel works. I've always been fascinated by Thorium, especially its use in gas mantles. I think I understand why it was used in glass lenses. From what I believe it was used to keep down chromatic aberration. Keep up the great work. Love your videos.

Thorium is still used in big Xenonlamps as used in cinema projectors. It is the rod going through the Quartz glass and ends in the Wolfram tip where the Plasma Bullet emulates the perfect white light. If you brake the rod after (safely!!) destroy the big Xenonlamp, you can see the specific form of the Thorium. If you want pics, just ask me. Ps: Xenonlamps in cinemaprojectors will not be replaced by Leds but by Laser.

Thorium: "a metal that no one needs" Sad ragnarok noises

@2pollosx180

4 жыл бұрын

Thorium mod reference

@vozhdenko932

3 жыл бұрын

HELL YEAH BRO! FINALLY A TERRARIA REFERENCE!!

@burnblazethecharizard4073

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, a man of culture

@genghiskhan4883

3 жыл бұрын

apparently they changed the name to the primordials? like wtf (the ragnarok)

@burnblazethecharizard4073

3 жыл бұрын

@@genghiskhan4883 primodials are the 3 gods, the ragnarok is the purple circle, the real one

"A METAL THAT NO ONE NEEDS, BUT EVERYONE DESERVED."

@Erizo_

3 жыл бұрын

A metal that everyone needs but no one cares about .

@HaveANiceDayLol.

3 жыл бұрын

A metal that cares about everyone but needs no one

@medexamtoolsdotcom

3 жыл бұрын

We all deserve it? What does that mean, that we all deserve to die of radiation poisoning?

@nazeerkhot3651

3 жыл бұрын

@@medexamtoolsdotcom ah yes fully ignoring the amount of people that die due to fossil fuel consumption. Nuclear energy is the future whether you like it or not. I think you are one of those annoying ass kids that cry about chernobyl.

@goutamboppana961

2 жыл бұрын

@@nazeerkhot3651 the name already tells that he is that type of person

That alpha particle expirement is so cool. I know people say they dont travel far but wow they go fast and then just lose all their momentum. They look like they could penetrate your skin if you held them!

Thoriated tungsten was also used in some vacuum tubes for old radios. I think it improved electron emissions from the cathode.

@clytle374

Жыл бұрын

Still used in high power RF tubes. Thoriated tungsten cathodes increase electron emission. Worrying about the radiation is another boogie man IMO.

The alpha particle demonstration is something I haven't seen before, thanks for that.

That alpha particle experiment was really cool. Very mysterious.

The cloud chamber is impressive because it shows how much energy a single atom has, think of the scale difference between atom and it's trail..plus the speed it shoots out at!!❤️😊

The Thorium mantels were used with kerosene lamps as well. We had one on our boat.

11:22 - Wow, so that's how China is getting rid of its Thorium-based nuclear waste! Thanks for the warning.

@mickenoss

5 жыл бұрын

The US gets rid of it's depleted uranium in a similar way, by putting it in bullets and shooting them into other countries lol.

@robinderoos1166

5 жыл бұрын

@@mickenoss but thats for a noble cause, China poisoning the world is less great...

@ec8107

5 жыл бұрын

@@robinderoos1166 maybe irradiating the rest of the world is a noble cause, from the Chinese perspective of course.

@JosephArata

5 жыл бұрын

@hawkturkey Depleted uranium is still radioactive and can poison you if it enters your skin or blood. Using it as ammunition is still improper disposal of nuclear waste and littering other countries with it in conquest of resources, isn't much better than China dumping radioactive materials into products.

@bryanl1984

5 жыл бұрын

@hawkturkey DU is used because it's much denser than lead, which increases its penetrative power and it's pyrophoric so, it bursts jnto flames like cerium. Its perfect for armour piercing projectiles but theres a serious downside. DU isn't at all dangerous _radiologically_ but all uranium isotopes chemically unzip DNA. Because uranium is naturally present we do have machanisms to deal with it, unlike plutonium and other synthetic elements but, its far from benign in large concentrations.

Thorium containing coating is used in nearly every combustion turbine as a thermal coating to improve efficiency of the turbine. It was also used on gas lantern mantles to emit a bright white light.

@Saareem

5 жыл бұрын

Did you watch the video? He told about the mantles. Just not about combustion turbines.

Microwave oven tubes still use a tungsten-thorium alloy, so it is hard to say this metal is useless. That being said, great video, I always learn a lot from you.

@bradfordjeff

Жыл бұрын

Beryllium oxide is what is used in microwave oven magnetrons.

@andrasbognar9662

Жыл бұрын

@@bradfordjeff BeO is used in the insulation parts of the magnetron. Th-W alloy is used in the cathode of this electron tube

Isn’t thorium used in tig welding rods for something? I remember it on the box

@doublem1354

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Yes they are.

@michmich6645

3 жыл бұрын

Do u have are stupid

@jman2432

2 жыл бұрын

It’s used in the tungsten electrodes.

There is research on thorium based reactors across many countries, especially in those where Thorium is abundantly available.

I love the Half-life references :D

@rgmoses2189

3 жыл бұрын

Your comment is underated

@keinebuhnefurgrune506

2 жыл бұрын

STAHP!

Loved the 1/2 life sfx in the beginning.

I love this damn channel and it's in depth explanation of facts unlike other science channels on YT which only explain childish scientific facts which a chemistry or physics students s wouldn't give 2 fs about

That cloud chamber and visuals of alpha particles is the best demonstration ever!

Dude made a cloud chamber with dish sponges and ethanol. Best thing on KZread this year. Well done.

@Ginto_O

5 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@billcook4768

4 жыл бұрын

Ethanol from a hip flask.

The title should be: "THORIUM, THE METAL THAT EVERY BODY NEEDS"

Some of the coolest experiment I've seen in your cloud chamber...

I'm just interested why this is recommended to me xD But love this guys English

For decades Thorium was used as a coating on the hot filament of vauum tubes when heated it will release more free electrons than just plain metal. Also vacuum tubes using a cathode heated by a filament the cathode sleeve will be Thorium coated.

10:32 in captions it said " i am thankful to my subscriber Vladimir" 💀💀

"Thorium, a metal that no one needs!" *sad thor noises*

@lukaskaucik8616

3 жыл бұрын

ah you idiot, it is so transparent what you did...what a sad human being you must be when you recycle the top comment, just for some stupid likes...

@rohanalias9053

3 жыл бұрын

@@lukaskaucik8616 leave him he did not see the watermark on the original comment .

A truly beautiful demonstration in the cloud chamber! ❤️

7:30 So that's how Russians store pure Ethanol on a lab. радость!

@gedhole

5 жыл бұрын

hahahaha, i was asking myself why use a hip flask to store pure ethanol

@erikz1337

5 жыл бұрын

Водка!

@kenthatfr

5 жыл бұрын

@@gedhole He's just using his personal lab chemical stash

@manishmandal-78

5 жыл бұрын

😀

@AldoSchmedack

4 жыл бұрын

Estonian!

It was, and I think still is, used as additive to tungsten for cathodes in vacuum tubes because it boosts thermionic electron emission, and I think that all VFD displays were using it.

Thorium is massively useful. Molton Salt reactors are a replacement for Uranium. The reason why it`s not been deleloped further, is Thorium cannot be used to "cook" Plutonium. Norway already have ships powered by Thorium.

Love the funny parts especially. Appreciate the info. Thanks.

there is a somewhat creepy story about thorium in turkey; it's believed that turkey has massive reserves of thorium and there were some Turkish scientist who worked on a thorium-based reactor mysteriously whole crew of 6 scientists died in an airplane ''accident'' 12 years ago

@nihalbhandary162

5 жыл бұрын

There was also a team of Indian nuclear scientists dead in mysterious ways, police rules them as suicide/accidents but the circumstances says otherwise. Something is fishy.

@hildkiin

5 жыл бұрын

@@nihalbhandary162 government expects you to believe that it was suicide smh

@ankurdebbarma6363

5 жыл бұрын

@@nihalbhandary162 which incident are you talking about?

@nihalbhandary162

5 жыл бұрын

@@ankurdebbarma6363 Google Indian nuclear scientists deaths due to mysterious circumstances

@nunyabizwack343

4 жыл бұрын

when you take what other people tell you are facts without verification then you are asking for trouble.

2:26 "Nevertheless, it is fairly safe. Unless you live within ten centiments from the rock." the ant on the rock: PANIK

* Sad Sam O'Nella noises *

@bruhmode6836

3 жыл бұрын

I see your a man of culture

@agermanboi

3 жыл бұрын

That’s what I thought too

@chrisrenfro2058

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, men of culture 😉

@barium_67

3 жыл бұрын

Who

@chrisrenfro2058

3 жыл бұрын

@@barium_67 oh, only one of the best youtubers this side of the mississipi

Love the intro this time. Keep up the amazing production quality! 💪

@ElTurbinado

5 жыл бұрын

But will you love it.... next time? How did you feel about last time?

@ChurchOfThought

5 жыл бұрын

@@ElTurbinado stfu before I put you in an ice cream test

As others mentioned, it's used in some lenses (like my Kodak) and thoriated tungstens for TIG welding but I could add that it makes the light from lamp mantles (kerosene and propane) a bright white. Nowadays the mantles are a dingy and darker in comparison---but they are no longer radio active.

I play Mindustry. And yeah there's one generator structure there named "Thorium Generator" which uses Thorium and cryo fluid as inputs. I never expected that this Thorium really existed.

The alcohol vapor chamber experiment was fascinating. Could TIG welding cause long term health issues?

That "intro" was great! Love from Finland :))

Used to be used in some types of vacuum tubes (thoriated filaments) to increase the cathode emission.

@sanjeevdandin9350

5 жыл бұрын

"used to be used" Just kidding XD

Great video, man. Love your content.

thorium is so good because it adds a class and completly fleshes out another. also it one of the oldest terraria mods if not the oldest

The cloud chamber was great, and so easy to make.....especially when you're Russian and already have a hip flask of pure alcohol :-)

You must have one of the new HEV suits. That will be very useful.

Your channel is extremely interesting, glad i found it

Such an amazing musical composition over there! On this thorium 💫

Thorium, a metal that people should not use as jewelry Also that vapour chamber with the tungsten-thorium bar was quiet beautiful and interesting.

@gotsteem

5 жыл бұрын

If you liked the cloud chamber, you'll probably like this if you use an android phone.. Keep a cloud chamber in your pocket. : play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sifnt.CloudChamber

"However it's considered fairly safe, unless you live within 10 Centi - Meters of the rock." That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.

Thorium is added in small quantities to tungsten filaments in incandescent lamps. It controls the crystallization of the tungsten which permits it to be drawn into thin wire for filaments.

Bro you truly know ur stuff when it comes to chemistry, sub & liked!

Awesome work as always. Even with Half Life sounds :D

@Barrickade89

5 жыл бұрын

First thing I recognised as well :D

"you can massage hand with it." *Jabs hand several times*

Your voice is exposed to a lot of thorium. Great work❤

i love the intro, complete with half-life sounds

Thoisoi2: Thorium is Useless! Terraria Thorium Mod Players: **sad thorium noises**

@jack_copperz

3 жыл бұрын

Mindustry players: I'm 4 parallel universes ahead of you

I find the new thorium, fluoride salt reactors very interesting. Hopefully we will perfect this safer form of power generation in the future. Apparently we had the choice years ago, thorium or uranium reactors, but we all went with good old uranium, well thorium doesn't fission plutonium!canny make bombs without it!

Omg you made my day. Thank you so much

Without Thorium concentration in sedimentary Rocks we wouldn't detect Gamma Ray to find oil and gas Reservoirs. So it's not useless.

That alpha particle trick was 🔥🔥😍

P.S. Info about thorium reactors: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor Also, it needs to be done a lot of research until thorium fueled reactors can compete with uranium based reactors. P.P.S. Please help me make subtitles to this video, here is the script: drive.google.com/file/d/1vyE6xt3hEc2QEddYTOmKfMr4yfHMn9as/view

@Real_Claudy_Focan

5 жыл бұрын

ok.ru/video/98287684270

@karhukivi

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, thorium as a metal has few uses. As the oxide, it has many uses as the comments below point out. However, as a nuclear fuel there is a major problem as although thorium is about 4 times more abundant than uranium, it does not form enriched mineral deposits like uranium which can be dissolved (hexavalent state) in oxygenated groundwater and precipitated in reducing conditions. Extracting thorium from ores containing a few ppm Th will always be very expensive.

@sinephase

5 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%27s_three-stage_nuclear_power_programme#Stage_III_%E2%80%93_Thorium_Based_Reactors India is planning on using it in the future but it's a long way away :/

@mariobeck3798

5 жыл бұрын

There are already big deposits of leftover 'waste' Thorium from other operations.

@spearshaker7974

5 жыл бұрын

Multon salt reactors guess we don’t “need” them but I “want” them

Abut torum Torum Orum Tahrum Toroom Torum Bruh a c c e n t t h i c c

I watch you videos every morning! Even if I seen them before I watch them anyway! God Bless you!🙏 Your the best Teacher I have ever had! I'm currently raising money to open my own gold mine! When I get it up and running I will send you material to do tests with! Thank you for all you do sir!

Somebody needs to make Thor's hammer out of this metal.

@hariangr

5 жыл бұрын

thx u, you made my night

@sociallyinept01

4 жыл бұрын

Don't

@zamundaaa776

4 жыл бұрын

I name it the "cancer hammer"

@sociallyinept01

4 жыл бұрын

@@zamundaaa776 ok NVM now that's genius

@pauldusa

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe Thor's Hammer made of

1:58 Are we just going to ignore the radioactive ants of that ore😂

@monicasahu07

3 жыл бұрын

And that's probably where Hank Pymm got the idea of Pymm Particle for Ant Man 🤣

I remember thorium mantles in camping lights when I was a kid. And the sound of the gas flame that heated them.

I was blown away by ur ingenuity making that particle chamber with dry ice and alcohol. It's rare to actually see how radiation reacts with the world around it. Those Alpha particle popping offbthe thorium rods was an awesome experiment.

Thorium MSR for the win!!

I believe an alloy used in manufacturing rocket nozzles for large space rockets has thorium in it.

@mikakorhonen5715

5 жыл бұрын

Just to please gods like Zeus.

@nightwaves3203

5 жыл бұрын

I recall it as a mix with copper to give strength and resistance to melting while passing heat to fuel flowing through nozzles. Makes the gods happy when their gas is heated :)

You're videos are so interesting and educational.

Thorium is used for TIG welding to help give clean welds in stainless steel and is probably the most commonly type electrode used for this purpose.

@BTW...

Жыл бұрын

Everybody who watched the video knows this.