I have discovered that uranium glass won't flouresce if it is very hot. I discovered it while I was trying to melt some shards into a little ball. I thought it was very interesting :)

@ionhunter

7 жыл бұрын

So, at high temps no kool green glow? that's interesting.

@greenpixel716

4 жыл бұрын

U trying making small Uranus? lol

These glasses were also found during the excavation of Mohenjadaro,Sindhu and Indus valley, which clearly indicates that there was a nuclear explosion ...which dated around 5000 years back

This is a great, really informative channel. Though I would love more frequent uploads.

That is too freaking cool! Thank you for sharing the Trinitite! I've never seen anything like it!

That is fascinating ! Nice video.

Nicely done, great overall video. Trinitite is indeed quite beautiful under the microscope and the history on how it was made changed the World forever. Thanks for the post

Your photos are amazing!

I love your videos! I'm getting really into all of this stuff. Always loved learning about it. Thinking of getting a counter soon!

@manletopia4801

2 жыл бұрын

99$ on amazon

Beautiful work, Tom! I bought some authentic Trinitite fragments, and put some very tiny pieces under my compound microscope. I don't have an adapter yet, so I put my phone's camera up to the eyepiece and took multiple photos of the same image, but with the objective lens at differing distances (in and out-of-focus). I focus-stacked them into one image, and everything came out focused! You should do focus-stacking! I'll upload them someday! This video helped inspire me to look at radioactive sources under my microscope! It's awesome! Thank you, Tom!

I have one piece I have bought from a rock shop and I too found that they are hardly radioactive. I did put it in a spectrometer and I did find that there were some traces of plutonium at 129KeV, I do also wonder whether it was Americium and Cs ofcourse.

@kevin42

4 жыл бұрын

Plutonium, U sure about that? Plutonium isnt that active when it comes to gammas

@jonmarquez128

4 жыл бұрын

True it does have traces of plutonium. Even owning pure plutonium maybe illegal, but trintinite not enough to kill someone! Because it too small l!

Awesome! Thank you for sharing!

I collect radioactive samples, and have been collecting for some time. I love your collection, it's wonderful. The one thing, I lack though is Trinitite, I shall acquire some, one day.

Hi Tom, I recently have been put on a prescription of Potassium Citrate, and since hearing on your channel that Potassium is slightly radioactive I decided to check my prescription with my Inspector detector and I'm getting a count constantly above 150 CPM. Do you think this is safe for me to consume or is there something wrong with my prescription

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have you ever run a gamma spectroscopic analysis of cigarette tobacco to see what levels of polonium 210 and other radionuclides are present in the tobacco?

Tom! How/what do you store your mildly radioactive stuff in?

when buying an old giger counter such qs the cdv 700, what is best to expect?

OMG!!! I came to here after watch a bionerd video and I'm new on this stuff and I came here to ask what dangerous is 87.73 msv/h and you just said in the video that 86 is not so dangerous outside the body

Tom - Your hand OK?

I have seen White Sands New Mexico from a low flying Cessna, and the sand looks like a shiny lake were the A bomb was detonated. When I was there on the ground I found a baseball sized piece of green glass stone like rock that's probably trinitite.

You should make a ring out of it.

I have cards michael jordon...could u sell them and we can buy this item for you to further your research....how do u stop this thing feom doing damage?? I have questions

I've always wanted a piece but I'm broke lol

it really does look like an emerald

@itscasper4787

5 жыл бұрын

You must have never seen an emerald

@rachelkline2052

3 жыл бұрын

Not at all dose not look like emerald

when will you make a new video

wow is so cool

Can neodymium magnets be used to deflect alpha particles?

@KarbineKyle

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! They don't travel very far (except in a vacuum), since they are relatively massive and very positively charged (+2), so it is very hard to detect, but any particle with a non-zero charge can be altered by a magnetic field! Beta particles can deflected by magnets. I've done it! Strontium-90 works well, but Cesium-137 will work, as long as the beta radiation is energetic enough to be detected and not mistaken for the gamma rays!

Your so lucky to have these

Damm, nice

Radiation exposure?

Are you still alive ? It's been 4 years since you did a video

What happened to the soil/rocks in the area of hiroshima and nagasaki. Also another question Can you do X-ray Diffraction or Xray Flouroscence ? with the pure chip samples you have ? Really curious ! also why dont you write a book about your experiments and acquision of, Radioactive material ! Great Channel 😁😁

@wippip

7 жыл бұрын

Don't quote me on this, but I recall both the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs were detonated around 500m above the cities. This would greatly reduce the heat reaching the ground, as opposed to the ground level detonation of Trinity.

@GLITCH_-.-

7 жыл бұрын

What about Zar Bomba? It should have been hot enough, doesnt it?

@flamingrubys11

5 жыл бұрын

@@GLITCH_-.- it melted the snow

@GLITCH_-.-

5 жыл бұрын

@@flamingrubys11 stupid lame biggest bomb ever

You have so many radioactive materials. Is not it dangerous for your health?

Warpstone ! yes-yes !

Nice thank you. Are you aware of any "trustworthy" source?

Did you say the least radioactive room in your house is 1000 counts of minute?

@M390VI

7 жыл бұрын

Only 1000 cpm? Thats nothing :) My kitchen is just about 4500 cpm while my basement bathroom tops out at 9000 cpm (12k cpm if measured just beside the porcelain toilet).

Trinitite / Trinity, perhaps a connection?

18th view! I made a video on this historical substance myself, it's awesome!

No Plutonium? I figured there would be traces of that too?

I came to know that These same kind samples we can find from Dead Sea and from part of Kurushatra India which are formed in the ancient period

Trinititerocks has some

Oh please put these in an alcohol particle box

you x-ray generator test . you new upload video.

Can I have the trinite rock?

Hi purity germanium???

In real life, can you lay a sheet of normal paper over the sample to separate it from the meter?

@GLITCH_-.-

7 жыл бұрын

Thats really weird question. Why "In real life"?

@annelieseocallaghan801

7 жыл бұрын

For alpha yes, for other kinds of radiation, no.

NEW VID PLEASE!!!!

Ionisation detectors are fire detectors and not smoke detectors which is why residential should use photoelectric.

@M390VI

7 жыл бұрын

If the ionization type isn't a smoke detector then why does it detect smoke? Granted residential should probably use optical since they're more sensitive, less prone to false alarms and doesn't contain a potent alpha emitter.

@KarbineKyle

5 жыл бұрын

Many modern smoke detectors use both now. That way you can eliminate the cons of both types.

Dear Sir: The makeup of the Trinitite is the same as the Olivine on Kilauea, and "Helenite" which is a man made glass from St. Helen's Ash, which is similar to the Olivine made from the heat from the Hawaiian eruptions, and also is the same as found in Meteorite materials...See Paridot...The August Birthstone! Soooo...Fat Man had a terrible amount of heat, melting the sands of New Mexico desert floor, making Trinitite , or Peridotite, or Olivine....You can buy Volcanic Olivine necklaces for cheap at the Alamoana Shopping Center in Hoholulu, and just how do I know so much about this subject??? Well I am a loud mouth Leo, yes I was born in August just five years after the first Nuclear Blast in 1945, and your comment about it being a stone of European nature is a bit off the mark! Soooo...now you know the rest of the Story! Aloha! No! I am a Haole...You know...In Hawaiian...A White man! HAHA!

Revelation 15:2......."And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass......"

*dynamite*

I saw this on eBay for 65k

Atomic* not nuclear. Nuclear weapons had not yet been invented.

Sounds like you're in a bell, hard to listen to.