REAL PLUTONIUM
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We're given special access to various plutonium compounds at the National Nuclear Laboratory, in Sellafield. A chance to meet the "Hannibal Lecter of the Periodic Table". With thanks to Mark Sarsfield and Chris Maher... www.nnl.co.uk/
In part this video shows how plutonium is extracted from nuclear fuel waste.
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World's first autotune @ 7:41
Plutonium - Pu - pronounced “Poo”
Crazy crazy frog you etssittDitfTzjratlzjtKtDllsktlfyyllzgllylyzlyyl,🧞♀️?:
@@peds7808 wtf
Swear
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Me - "How often do you wear that tie?"
Eccentric Scientist - "Periodically."
Very underrated conment
Kimiko Tanaka nice!!!!
Legit LOL
The best take!
Stealing
I knew that dude was legit the second I saw his hair.
Hahahaha
XD
+Horus Osiris I think that he looks wonderful and fits the stereotype
ROFL...just like my science teacher.
I'm sure he didn't just accidently electricuted himself like, Benjamin
11:38 "rather like, the fruit inside a cake"
*My brain:* *eat the plutonium*
Enjoy your meal
Enjoy hahaha
Welcome to heaven bro
that would be embarrassing.
Me: and I took that personally.
One stray neutron in your mouth initiates a chain reaction
The professor is truly great, because:
- listening to him you really come to believe that you know and understand the ENG language perfectly well
- he explains everything so that everybody, incl me, understands everything (imagine if all YT presenters be like him)
- you really would wish to be one of his friends.
Then I nearly would die for a another copy of his tie - truly a cool guy.
You miss the most important thing, he has a great hair 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
@@sebastianperales3630 Yeah how true, that's cool too :)
-the hair
He still gets things wrong occasionally. Plutonium was discovered/created in late 1940 to early 1941 at the University of California, Berkeley, not in 1914 as the video states.
@@lookoutforchrisI think he did say 1940, the two can sound quite similar
That transition from the mushroom cloud to the professor's hair at 4:02 tho. ;D
lol
@@sirwhitemeat9785 it took 1 year before anyone replied
Damn
@@mug7692 weird huh cause it made me laugh so hard xD
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4:02 CZcams Award nominee for best editing!
Excellent. Match on hair
LOL
Touche
Observation Award goes out to your sir. Well spotted!
Kkkkkkkkkkk
I don't understand everything in this, but the professor really has a skill of making concepts relatable
"I'll take you to the moon" so outdated..
"I'll take you to plutonium laboratory" is so romantic 😂
difinatly my favourite date😂
the guy at 0:24 is everything that i imagined a chemical scientist to look like
+tropicalpalmtree I was just about to make an identical comment when I saw yours!
+quasarsphere
Haha same here xD
he look like a mad scientist
he wants to be called Einstein
Same lol
I did not feel like I wasted a second of the last 17 minutes.
Thank you.
Something educational is never a waste of time even if u dont get any of it
@@emileponcelet3439 That may be true to the extent one's subconscious can be primed by the experience, but interest aids in retention, and retention aids in understanding.
Time is limited by metabolic processes, so it would be wiser to apply one's attention to garnering knowledge of one's interests, if given the choice.
So is it possible to 'waste' one's time on 'education'? I say yes, but perhaps with a caveat that one has an 'interest' in the first place. 'Education' is an interesting subject to ponder. Thanks for the thought provocation.
Why did I not pay more attention to chemistry at school?! This is fascinating stuff! Thank you guys
Your high school teacher does not have the credentials
I can't relate i was always a huge chemistry nerd, I actually went to a year of biochemical engineering school before I got burnt out and became a first responder instead
lol, Chemistry is interesting, but I don't like drawing element formations or memorizing the periodic tables, I rather watch this instead😂
when high school teachers do it it's boring.
As a high school teacher, if kids had this exact person talking exactly lile this inside the classroom, they would still fool around about his hair and only the same few would pay attention.
This was 94 times more interesting than I thought it would be :-)
I believe 92? Or are you adding uranium and plutonium...
@@robichj plutonium had an atomic number 94
How to safely handle common radioactive elements
Uranium
1: Wear protective clothing on every part of your body, extra protection for vital areas.
2: Use a tool for extended grip, as to limit your proximity to uranium.
3: Remember to thoroughly clean all lab equipment and protective clothing after you have finished.
Plutonium
1: Consider your life and all you would be throwing away.
2: Do not handle plutonium.
+Kerman Guy Or just surround them by several tons of dynamite and enjoy the show.
+Eric Wesson As long as it's outside of your body yes. In fact a thicker sheet of paper or just 10cm of air is enough to stop the alpha radiation. But once it gets inside your body it gets messy
+Kerman Guy Oh damn, I ruined it... 88, is 89.
+Kerman Guy uranium in its metallic form is an alpha radiator too so if you have it in an ampulla you don,t need all of this but if you store it in a bottle and you want to get it out you should do all of this
I was able to handle a plutonium puck while at Hanford, it was in a heavy polymer bag. It was warm to the touch a dull silver grey, I'm still alive
Even his ties are periodic. The man is chemistry. Period!
aaaaaaah, I see what you did there! *fistbump*
Imagine his underwear xD
toungepunch in the fart box?
Bill Nye could benefit from this fashion, hehe
Lol, you got jokes ma man
"I saw plutonium, but I don't think I can tell you where", Totally normal.
I just came to check in comments whether anyone else had a say on that !
Probably to avoid someone stealing it
I mean you wouldn't want the average person handling something so dangerous, makes sense that NDAs and such would get involved.
I seen it, it was over at Doc Brown's house, he stole it from the Libyans.
Just love that “mad scientist” type of hairstyle! It’s epic when a pure genius sports that hairstyle!
"Did you... did you just describe the explosion of a container containing radioactive plutonium waste as 'embarrassing'?"
"Yes"
What a madlad!
Absolute madman!
what he means is its very embarrassing when the grand children of grand children knowing that their ancestors dont know how to take care their radioactive waste and leaving the next generation with a contiminated planet to live
@@kousueki7024I completely get where you're coming from, and what you're saying, but also every single generation will create new problems for the next to solve, somehow. Until, of course, they can't fix the issue and everyone dies... Then there will be no more problems :D (or D:)
"Plutonium is dangerous for two reasons: First, because they use it to make bombs..."
I agree.
Second reason?
The radioactivity, of course.
Yeah, but usually you don't go around with a piece of plutonium.
Dense and weight have nothing to do with each other
Rick Vasquez -_-
I'm starting a process engineering job at the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington, US to clean up the plutonium waste from the Manhattan project in may :)
08:40 "Plutonium is a fascinating metal." That's an understatement! What a shame that Pu is so dangerous. Among its strange behaviors is that some of its alloys -- e.g. Pu + rare earths -- partially remelt upon cooling (via inverse peritectic reactions). After further cooling,of course, those alloys become completely solid.
Judging by his hair... he did a line of plutonium before the interview
Lol!
Dr. Borris no doubt!
Ha ha! Yeah!
Hahahahahahahah 😂 😂
Rolling over in laughter
Seriously? Everyone mentioning his hair but NOBODY NOTICED HIS TIE?!?!? That tie is perfection
I saw it and looked it up. They are for sale on Amazon for $7.20 . They even have a variety of colors. I want a " glow in the dark" 1. Really freak people out LOL
Did you notice he's not wearing a wedding ring. Mmmmmmm wonder why. 😀
I did. Periodically. 🥴🤓
I did
Marina Holmes wedding rings are not allowed in the laboratory
I love the plutonium table story! I was a chem minor in undergrad and I miss crazy stories like that.
13:15 'Did you just describe the explosion of a container containing radioactive plutonium waste as embarrassing?!' 'Yes!'. Lol I love the Proff.
There are quite a few (100+) people in the USA fitted with cardiac pacemakers powered by about 2.5Ci of Pu238. This gives off about 80 mW of heat sufficient to power the device for a long time (half-life is 88 years). When the patient eventually dies, the device is recovered and reconditioned for another person who needs one. One man was offered a battery-powered replacement but he refused as it would require minor surgery once a year, and he preferred his plutonium one!
dang, 80mW seems like a lot for a tiny RTG, the massive soviet terrestrial RTGs only made maybe 100W and were hundreds of pounds.
@@TheAechBomb My mistake - iit should be 80 micro-watts, the "mu" sign switched to an "m" somehow. Well spotted!
@@karhukivi that makes more sense, thanks :D
The name of the haircut is called the “Albert Einstein”.
I need a comrade Dyatlov cut.
Don King
Mushroom cloud haircut
Walk in too the barbers, What u want there sir? eh can a get an Albert einstein back n sides pls😂
Einstein was a fraud...
Dude that's an amazing story!!! How the heck did he recover the 9 milligrams of plutonium by turning it into ashes from a Table!!?? That's impressive
insane
Mark the glove box guy - reassuring we have experts like him at Sellafield.
Remember in 1985 when plutonium was available at every corner store?
hahahaha
I borrowed it off of some libyan nationalists. They told me to build em a bomb, and in turn I gave them a shiny bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts!
great scott i forgot XD
I was born in the 90's what are you guys talking about lol
Nothing you'd be interested in, young one. Run along now.
His hair has a higher IQ than almost everybody.
What does that mean explain?
@@dalroache it's a joke
"Plutonium has a really nasty reputation." ... Noooooohhhh! Really?! xD
You know he's a real scientist when you see him write upside down at 5:21 ... also at 6:22 he's still running Windows XP. ;)
Yeahh i same think . Wkwkwkw
He took an IQ test on a periodic table.
I did part 1 chemistry at Lensfield Rd in 1973. Alfie Maddocks was my director of studies. He told me all about dropping Britain's complete supply of plutonium, of course. Did he ever show you the press cutting? "Atom Scientist defects to Perron"? I met him again in 1993, at a funeral. He was very poorly and in a wheelchair, a double amputee, and wasn't up to recognising old students. Lovely man!
He hasn’t changed one bit in 8 years
Automatic Captions:
''...plutonium is a mom-made element...''
Damn it mom, I wanted cookies not radioactive death.
plutonium is a PEOPLE-made element.
@@IKamiZz You are correct. My mom is a person...kinda...
@@IKamiZz its manmade
I'm student from nor..err south korea and I'm interested in obtaining Plutonium for um research purposes. Any help is appreciated.
yea 5 grams for $2,500,000 .
Watchmen22
+Watchmen22 no i think Jon Doe was born with that disease. so sad :/
didn't you watch the video? You make plutonium from uranium-238 separated from u5
diego carmona you can't do math
I love these videos, not just for the information and education, but for the genuine human relationships you all have with one another. It's a breath of fresh air. Thank you, all of you!
What an extraordinary and fascinating collection of videos showing chemical elements and their use and origins.
The atomic bomb mushroom-cloud fades perfectly into the shape of his hair at 4:03.
This is sooo underrated...
All that plutonium.
Maybe he have experience the plutonium effect after all😂😂😂😂
hahahahahaha....brilliant observation!
Hahahahahaha what a brilliant shout!
My brain if I ever get a chance to touch the solution
Brain : Drink it
😂
No please don't. Pass it on to the needy,....Trump, Putin, et cetera.
@@fatdad64able I will pass it on to you
@@creepy_regret5542 So I can give it to these idiots? Great idea. I'll include "baby trump" aka Bojo. ^^
Pu(III) in solution is the forbidden grape soda.
I remember seeing the videos of all the elements in this channel when I was in my high school. I was really proud back then. Thanks for the masterpieces that you gave us
I met Glenn Seaborg in his actinide chemistry lad at Lawrence-Berkeley labs in 1995. Dangerous as his lab was, it was nothing like the lab down the hall where bromine pentafluoride was used to extract oxygen from silicates.
Wow, you must be old gentleman. I remember last year when I went to Berkeley, currently they are trying to proof the" theory of island of stability of elements". It's really coll that you seen the actual actinide lab.
@@kaustavsengupta8757 Seaborg was the old one. I was in my 30s. I was at Berkeley working on calcium isotope chemistry at the time. It's a great old lab in a ramshackle building, nothing like the grandiose glass and steel temples of science universities build today to accommodate the egos of Higher Faculty.
@@josephskulan750 may I ask in which field you have done your specialized in? Sorry I m still a Junior research fellow (pursing my PhD)and was on Berkeley for an seminar.
@@kaustavsengupta8757 I specialize in stable isotope chemistry of biological systems. I've mostly concentrated on Ca, but did a postdoc on Fe abut 20 years ago,
I know the Soviets tested rocket engines using bromine pentaflouride as an oxidizer 😂
AS a retired lab technician I have the utmost admiration for anyone involved in the level of work, working in a chamber like that is never easy more so when using highly toxic and volatile reagents .
great work guys
I have to say, I find explosive decaying plutonium barrels far less embarrassing than spilling a country's accumulated amount of plutonium and sawing the table where it fell to retrieve it. I can't stop watching your videos, they are informative, interesting, and entertaining!
I love how every single video has comments that say this is guy looks like science
Barber: "How can I help you?"
Scientist: "Gimme dat Einstein, fam."
Barber: "Say no more."
His accent is funny and it makes him fun and so clear to listen to. He's a great chap
How so? His accent is quite common
Accent? That's what English sounds like when spoken properly.
@@a2pabmb2 Accents are relative.
His accent's not funny you dips**t. Its from a southern English county you ignoramus.
Yikes. I came here to lambast @John Ogunlela for his unabashed infantilization of a rather serious subject.
But, damn...looks like there's no need.
"I have seen a lump of Plutonium once - I don't think I could tell you where I saw it" hmm... that's not suspicious
its not like they'll tell people were it is its a bit dangerous lad
Please.....tell us! ISIS wants to know.
in reality not many folks seeing plutonium have survived to tell the story, I suppose...
@@davidharrison7014 Physics is not a priviledge of 'secret societies' - Thus who needs - knows...
ISIS - is that something from ancient Egyptology? I'm not au courant, sorry...
Mariusz Fidzinski you are a muslim i bet
That Tie is absolutely Killer 😍
Thank you so much for your videos. As a highschool science and math teacher, this is a wonderfull source of inspiration.
But Boris told me it was the equivalent of one chest X-Ray.
Max Herman 😂
No 400
3.6 not great. Not terrible.
*CHERNOBYL INTENSIFIES*
@@engineer4269 he is delusional get him out
That guy with the crazy hair is exactly what I expected a scientist working on plutonium to look like
Proffesor Martyn Poliakoff has a different research focus then Plutonium chemistry. Proffesor Poliakoff researches "green chemistry" or to avoid the word green: environmentally acceptable processes and materials.
Great videos guys. Very interesting for a chemist to see how to handle this artificial elements
Incredibly educational.
Fantastic video.
0:23 EINSTEIN'S REINCARNATION
Comment section is more toxic than the damn plutonium.
SGTBizarro Yeah. Worried I am going to get cancer now.
Ha
chickenmonger123, lol.
plutonium was the most toxic before league of legends created
100% tru
This is thee most interesting documentary I have seen this year. Wow. I can listen to the old man 24/7. I just love brilliant people.
I spent a few months delivering radioactive material to an underground storage facility in the middle of bfe Utah. I’ve always thought one day I would hear about an “embarrassing” event out there 🤷♂️
I really like the professor's mad-scientist hair. How did he manage it to be like that ?
+thucydides Neo I remember him when he was very young. It was pretty well like that only black and was more springy.
+thucydides Neo It's a perk for being a mad scientist
+Nnovata Karen you need to install mods first
+thucydides Neo That scientist has a lot of static electricity in his hair. He is basically charged up!
I used to work in doing high voltage experiments when I was in university. I had sort of longish hair. My hair was standing up like that scientist's hair...
thucydides Neo Daily trips to a nearby wind tunnel. LOL
That hair... Subscribed!
i also SUSCRIBED cus the hair and nice professor
He shouldn't have touched the Plutonium!
Steve Brodnik no, he should have licked it!
"Great Scott!" :) LOL
and the tie
These men are very knowledgeable and professional, great video.
it's a priviledge to see this. Thank you so much for uploading this.
A hilarious coincidence is that the guy with the bushy white hair reminds me of Dr. Brown from the movie "Back to the future." And guess what his time machine used? Plutonium.
Damn that guy spilled the entire UK's reserve of Plutonium..... must've been so embarrassing.
He wound up losing half a gram of the most toxic element imaginable. Fun guy to work with.
And apparently he was ok and taught him chemistry
Huh? Those NNL labs dudes are part of one of the world's largest commercial nuclear fuels recycling and recovery companies. Sellafield, Cumbria, UK receives spent fuel rods from all over the world for reprocessing and storage. It's actually a major British industry. The UK has plenty, plenty plutonium - far more than is sensible, according to environmentalists.
@@alastairbarkley6572 Did you watch the video? The Professor's chemistry teacher, Alfie Maddoch (sp?) spilled nearly the entire UK plotonium reserve on a wooden table, then burned the wooden table section to recover 9/10ths of the spilled element. See 15:10 onward.
@@alastairbarkley6572 yes in the present day we have quite a lot but back during ww2 we only had 10 milligrams.
This is super informative. Thanks for sharing.
The haircut of the professor is just the haircut I would imagine the haircut of a crazy nuclear professor.
I love the smell of Plutonium in the morning. Smelled like... victory. (c) Comrade Dyatlov
Plutonium stinks..lol
Haha
Blyatlov
It's impossible for anyone to not love victory chocolate, not literal impossible but illegal..
3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible.
Only a guy with hair like his could get away with wearing a periodic table of elements necktie.
Makes you wonder if Einstein had a similar tie, doesn't it?
I wouldn't have noticed if not for this comment 🤣🤣
Absolutely fascinating.
Fantastic, congrats and thanks for sharing.
this video on my recomended videos for years....
i too gave in!
why do you dont take out your eye?
its an part of my body
when ı open this wall hack exe turns on.
no blood come out..
prohri uhri makes me wonder what you’re up to
Seen this at Black Mesa 😎😀
What I learned-a gallon contains 4 liters.
No. 4 quarts.
3.5 liters to be precise
classic internet 3 different answers
A gallon is eight pints
@@AlexianKing 3.785l to a US gallon to be even more precise ;-) that's four...
The plutonium story is awesome!
cool hair: 10/10
8/8 m8. r8 with f8
He's a chemist!
This guy is too cool!
your also 10/10
Manly Boi ???
I wish I could see a video of the old man speaking continuously all his part. That guy knows how to choose interesting stories things to say, amazing.
+Ciro Santilli Why having just him when you can have his awesomeness + more awesomeness?
+Alex Serrano It's just that it breaks my flow. I'd rather have 2 continuous videos instead. Just imagine watching The Godfather and Apocalypse Now at the same time, one minute each :-)
+Ciro Santilli lol, in a way (kinda) we did get that movie... It was godfather II (2 totally different, yet related stories inter-spliced together to form a greater understanding of a topic. The movie being the Corleone family). I, and I imagine many others would argue it is a better film even, than the godfather I was.
Science is fascinating. This is an amazing video.
I did work experience in one of the labs in that NNL centre, great experience
Something tells me, (and this is just a shot in the dark) but these guys aren't your typical college graduates.
They're on different level than us
I think they are what used to be called Alchemists!
@@kentoscocos5238
The guy with the wild hair said he studied chemistry at Cambridge university certainly not your "typical college"
Occult Master Alchemists. Freemasons mind controlled drones. Anyone want to be 'edumackated'?
@@kentoscocos5238 Completely different level!
I am a electronics tech (I guy that does the work) and worked with PhD and Masters engineers and could barely understand their "level of understanding" and I have a BA and a licensed electrician. Like Tesla
I looked up "mad sicentist" in the dictionary and this dude's picture was next to the description.
"Doc" from "Back to the future" has the same hair!
What’s a sicentist?
Josephine Bennington this guy in the video
Yeet What's a videp?
Yes, the guy in the vid is a scientist. But I wanted to know what is a sicenist? Oh, forget it......
Legend has it that the first sample of Plutonium was discovered when Uranium came into contact with his hair.
Wow, this is very interesting.
Thank you for such a great Channel and informative news.
Do you Know the process for separating iridium and osmium from pgm concentrate??
Thank you for your great work.
Always wear safety glasses while dealing with plutonium.
it wont save your life though
Welp. Yeah.
and proper shoes
And if something goes wrong then duck and cover fast!
Don't forget a white coat. That's always helpful.
Now this is an scientist!!! Look at his hair! I just love how he looks, gives me the real feeling of working with science
*a
Seriously, this guy should be best friends with Neil and Bill he's hella cool
did you see his tie?
Henry LOL!, the periodic table
yes his hair gives a great authentic science effect
Must be stressful working with massive gloves when you have such a small container filled with Pu to work with
Really don’t know why this video showed up in my feed but now I learned something.
Extremely interesting. Thank you for the post! BTY, I worked in Los Alamos and lived across a small canyon from the original plutonium lab, which was just up the street from the original Tritium Lab. If you're wondering why so many physicists, like Enrico Fermi, died young, this video indirectly gives you the answer.
My dad told me a lot of workers who were involved in the making of clocks with glow-in-the-dark numbers died from radiation poisoning.
And a recent study found traces of radionucleatides in the Los Alamos homes.
Oh, certainly. I read the plutonium book referenced early in this video (owned it since before this video was uploaded). It's made quite clear that scientists dealing with radioactive materials were thoroughly cavalier, even though they definitely had a grasp of the hazards. The ones who were careful simply had a higher incidence of cancer later in life. The ones who were not... well, you only have to watch a documentary about the lives of the workers at Chernobyl to understand how things went for them. You don't immediately die but you suffer a manifest degradation of livelihood. Like getting older decades ahead of schedule, with all the attendant symptoms like heart failure. People who undergo chemotherapy can relate.
@@stephenverchinski409 Don't believe everything you read, and make sure you understand it before you spread it around. There was concern that the somewhat elevated levels of americium (Am) found after the Cerro Grande fire (May 2000) might have been related to activities at the Lab. However, it was later shown that the Am found was due to fire detectors (they contain Am) that were burned in the 400 homes that were destroyed.
@@chuckgrigsby9664 Academia source document?
a walking Periodic Table
Dang, you're so cute! :3
Liberty Lagrana wowed!
Thanks for posting!
Sellafield used to be known by a more infamous name - Windscale. In the late 50s it was the site of the UK's worst nuclear accident when one of the nuclear piles they were using to manufacture fuel for nuclear weapons caught fire. It burned for several days, releasing large amounts of radiation into the outside environment.
Homer Simpson carries this stuff around with him in his lunch box everyday.
Bobby Knight hahahahaha
And nothings happened to him so I guess it's safe
No because plutonium and uranium doesn't glow if anything Homer Simpson is carrying around radium
Homer, the thinking mans thinking man.
It's stated to be a carbon rod in one of the games
I love these videos. My chemistry teacher was a total b***h and it was hard for me to get intetested. Now, 20 years later I've found that i have a real interest in chemistry and science in general and CZcams has been my classroom.
now what are you doing?
I don't know what I love more - that guys hair, or his periodic table tie!
This channel is fantastic!
Is there some law that says in order to be brilliant, you mustn't comb your hair?
OneSkiWonder uh, yeah... duh
If you want to be einstein then yes
OneSkiWonder If you look at Einstein's early photographs, then you will notice a much more clean cut Einstein. His later photos showed a man who woke up put on some clothes and headed out the door to solve the universe.
OneSkiWonder It's not universal, but generally people who are preoccupied with deeper thought really don't put very much attention to superficial details like hairstyle, fashion, etc.
+MrWisemasterful Epic! :)
As a retired expert in Plutonium I can say the information that Plutonium as being man-made is incorrect. It was discovered in southern Africa that a small natural "reactor" made a small amount of plutonium naturally. Pitchblende, a natural mineral that contains Uranium, emits neutrons through the fission process and the neutrons emitted also make trace amounts of plutonium in the mineral so every natural sample that contains uranium can also make small amounts of Plutonium . Therefore Pu, should be listed as a natural element...
Steve Miller
retired Scientist
What about Cesium 137 and Strontium 90?
I thought you were a retired joker, smoker, midnight toker?
what's also incorrect is that the video states that metallic Plutonium is radioactively toxic because it's an alpha emitter.
Human skin will block alpha particles quite readily.
What's actually the toxin danger is Plutonium oxides and salts, which are similar to but more toxic than other heavy metal oxides and salts, say lead or mercury salts.
And even those you don't want to get on your skin, let alone ingest.
@Carpet Hooligan the amount of Pu in pitchblende is very small. Pu does exist in nature but the amounts are extremely small as it's there as a fission product rather than pristine ore deposits. THOSE have long since fissioned away because of the far shorter half life of Pu as compared to Uranium.
@Carpet Hooligan yes and no. the distinction between natural and man made is debated. Some in the scientific community think if some atoms are found on Earth then its natural. Others put a natural abundance limit on natural elements but two natural elements on the Periodic chart are very rare also.
In my opinion if its found naturally in any amount it's a natural element...
That guys tie is awesome!!
Tacobellium is savage...as is this dude's work with The Melvins.
I'm learning more from this channel than I've ever learned from my old school science classes.
free will/discovering it on your own makes a big difference ime
i got an intro to chemistry from my mum's nursing school chemistry book when I was in junior high. had I waited until sophomore year chemistry class I'd have been bored to tears with chemistry.
- chemical engineer
I feel like I just watched a heavy metal cooking show.
David Pring you mean breaking bad
How to serve man.
That's why I love about CZcams you always learning something now I know how to do I extract plutonium
"The radioactive waste from spent fuel rods consist primarily of cesium-137 and strontium-90, but it may also include plutonium, which can be considered a transuranic waste. The half-lives of these radioactive elements can differ quite extremely." - Wikipedia
"Transuranic" (of an element) having a higher atomic number than uranium (92).