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- The rare isotope Calcium-48 plays a key role in the creation of superheavy elements. But it's not easy to obtain. Filmed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, in Dubna, Russia.
Featuring Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff.
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$250/mg? So still only 1/10th of what printer ink costs
lol
No.
Thomas Wigele now i am curious that what is the cost of 1mg of printer ink?
For those wondering, no, printer ink doesn't actually cost that much.
It's a joke.
$500 000 calcium vs. $5 calcium
next week on buzzfeed
$150 000 asbestos vs. $10 asbestos
Ronan Sandoval it's funny because your bottle of $5.00 calcium tablets probably contains a few hundred dollars worth of that $500,000 calcium 48
Peida Li you'd have to extract the calcium 48 to make it that expensive
Peida Li and my mechanical pencil's lead contains a few hundred dollars worth of graphene
Periodic Videos is the opposite of click bait. They "bait" you with a catchy title, then give you the answer in the first minute and then give you even more interesting information for the next 8 minutes.
Wait a minute.. i thought i commented this. but i guess we have the same pfp
@@static7793 Lol hi clone
@@FredDufresne lol i just realized this comment was 3 years ago, also, do you even know what our pfp means?
@@static7793 One of the best games ever
@@FredDufresne oh yeah, KSP!
I love it.... 10 million dollars of equipment in a room and the pipes go through a DIY hole the wall...
Russians dont care if anything looks pretty...just that it works.
You just described every engineering lab ever, especially if there are students doing research there. This is what happens when you give utilitarian engineers space and money... Looks like chaos, but you can fit a lot more important stuff in a lab if you're not trying to be particularly clean.
Slap some baby puke green paint on it, and it'll be fine.
*their
lol they have better jets then the u.s better tanks better submarines and better air defense systems and also don't forget better nukes
I thought I was the only one that saw the hole lol
0:18 I like that precision drilled hole in the wall there
hazzard77 quality work
russia, my friend
Ruski Engineering. Ohhhhh yes
What's the point of making it beatufil? (I'm russian)
It is already beautiful
Next week on Codys Lab: Producing Calciumcarbonate with Calcium-48 from Milk
Burak Saritas best comment
Burak Saritas next week on codys lab. creating a californium play button.
So true, and exactly what I thought haha
ROLF
Best CZcams comment ever.
I'm just waiting for the headline that says 'Cocaine addict breaks into scientific facility, snorts $500,000 worth of Calcium-48'
Calcium-48*
Calcium-69*
"Calcium-69" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
...Tyrone Biggums
Might want to take about 20-25% off the meth intake there super chief
“You get the carbonate free” Lol I love the professor’s humor
"The carbonate is extra bonus" make me lol
In Russia when you build a brand new house, factory, lab.. it already looks 40 years old.
And when you need to run a pipe you just have Ivan smash the wall open with a sledgehammer.
Still looks better than hipster gentrified scandinavian style restaurant tho
mostly re bought building are built during the soviet union
@@josefmuller86 Facts
Actually it has to be more than 40 years old...at least 60 years old...this is something build in USSR time....and it is still working
At the border:
"Is that cocaine?"
"No it is just Calcium"
"Sorry, we have to open the package and take a sample"
"Noooo"
I would sue the airport.
@@hexagonist23 same
Nearly two and a half years since this video appeared and still no music videos with rappers flashing their calcium-48. I'm very disappointed.
If you ate that bottle of calcium your skeleton would be like wolverines.
P. Doherty not likely
I wonder how much heavier would you be if you swapped all your existing calcium for this calcium 48?
That math shouldn't be too hard to do. If you actually cared. Definitely not worth doing though.
hamilton harper you'd gain 3 grams for every kilogram of body weight. For example, a person weighing 70 kg would gain 210g.
I calculated that 17 grams. But I'm half asleep and didn't bother to actually write anything down on paper, so I might be totally wrong there.
48Ca has other uses. In geochemistry 48Ca (usually along with 42Ca) it is used in Ca isotope "double spikes" for obtaining high precision measurements of calcium isotope ratios. In medical research it is used as a tracer for studying calcium metabolism. Another interesting feature of 48Ca is that it actually is very slightly radioactive, transforming to 48Ti by double beta decay with a half life of something like 6x10^19 years.
I absolutely *love* watching Periodic Videos and the Dark Sky channel too. Smarter Every day and the Sound Traveler. I've learned *so* much from these 4 channels. The Professor and the people there as well as Destin from Smarter Every Day has been so entertaining and informative! Thank you everyone.
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Your passion for the field and for teaching is truly inspiring.
i love russian style science. just broke the wall and continiue to build your scientific device. no big deal. at 0.18
Science is science... idiot.
iLoveTurtlesHaha that wasn't science that was Russia
CZcams recommended the highest quality calcium to me on spooky season...
Thank you
Looks like cocaine finally has competition
Always going to want more
hahahah
The professor is the reason I'm getting a three in chemistry right now. I wish he was my professor.
I like these videos, because they come periodically.
So fun ! Thank you !
Only $2.5 million in sales per year with very few customers. For that reason I'm out.
I cannot help but wander what all these elements taste like
only one way to find out
same as human bones
I wonder what Oxygen tastes like.
Chalk. It's still chalk.
@@Rbattam *drinks plutonium in solution*
So glad to see the prof still being awesome!
That's why I love this channel, I would never have known this otherwise.
"It's also probably the most expensive compound you've ever seen. And it's right here."
*_camera pans to pot of cocaine_*
When I saw Ca-48's relative abundance I wondered why it was so expensive, but then it all got sorted :)
Thank you for taking the time to make this wonderful video, and for all the videos before.
You explain in such astonishingly plain words. Teachers are born and can not be created. Hats off to you sir.
Can you make Calcium-48 by bombarding Calcium-40 with neutrons?
It wouldn't be pure but you could make some more of it, Im no expert but it seems viable seeing as all of the isotoopes in between are relatively stable and calcium 49 would decay into argon.
Trevor Campbell it would take far, far too long to make even a gram of the stuff.
I would love to know too.
Short answer:yes.Long answer:though you can theoretically make it,it would take ridiculous amount of time and effort to make even 1 mg of it(you would have to clean this up from radioactive isotopes and still separate Calcium-48). Conclusion:possible,but not worth it.
Probably but it would be stupid to do it like that if you want calcium 48. Because in the process you also make other isotope, so in the end you still need to seperate them.
I would love to see some videos covering the chemistry of the advancements in the area of solid state batteries. :) The converse of putting energy into a system where the eventual outcome is to lose the energy in a wasteful "bang", but rather designing a "battery system" where you get the energy back most efficiently. In other words, help save the planet in spite of the oil-gas and military industrial complexes. ;)
£500 an hour just for the calcium, still cheaper than I expected when you brought on the 2g of calcium carbonate.
The machine they use to make bigger atoms must be very efficient
His explanations are so easy to understand! Love it :)
Imagine how much Calcium-46 would cost!
I hope this guy may still live for a long time
He is a pure "Gem" on this earth 🤩 !
love the professors' enthusiasm and he's got a nice voice, too
I so want a autographed picture of this guy.. he rocks !!😎🎓
0:18 When you see the bodge job on the wall in a nuclear research facility, you know it's Russian made.
I thought Russia had more snow than that.
Great Videos, really miss being at UoN
It does
It was summer
i just wanna say THANK YOU for making these videos
love this professor and his videos wouldn't lectures with him be awesome?
Great video!
@PeriodicVideos
Prof Poliakoff Looks very well thoses times :)
we need more peoples like you on earth
i have learn more in chemistry in 2 months of periodicvideos than all high school time i passed
I love your channel. Thanks for the lesson and please keep it up!
Poor dude, he shakes so much he can't touch the bottle. I feel bad for him because he's probably really passionate about his craft and being in a situation where he is so close to something so rare but can't touch it must be heart wrenching. :(
$500,000 calcium? Good thing it's on sale at the pharmacy for buy one get one free this week. But you need to have the store's discount card to get the sale price.
Walgreens - downtown Moscow HA HA
Still a better value than most military projects...
Very well explained, thank you very much.
thanks for sharing your knowledge with us
$500,000 for 2 grams is what I charge rich frat boys for my weed
I like this comment
@@franklinhirsch1654 Me too
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what would happen if someone ate it?
I was wondering that as well lol!
3bertface01 probably some kidney stones
They would probably be targeted for a revenge killing for maliciously destroying an extremely expensive piece of Russian government property :P
you acquire super powers
The same thing that would happen if you ate the same amount of egg shells or antacids.... not much. The calcium carbonate would react with the hydrochloric acid in your stomach and neutralize some of it (creating some water and CO2 in the process) , thus reducing the stomach's acidity. then it'd go into the intestines and some of it would be absorbed and used like regular calcium.
You'd end up with a strange proportion of calcium isotopes in your body, but that would have no health effects at all.
Dr. Martyn Poliakoff: The only chemistry professor I've ever wanted to give a hug.
Great video as always! My favorite part is the hole at 0:18 lol
Interesting, I always though that calcium metal production through thermite could not be acheived with oxides (judging by the Ellingham Diagram), that is why calcium sulfate/aluminium thermite is usually used instead.
Oh man, when was you in Dubna? I work in FLNR, but I didn't saw you.
Great video! Very entertaining and educating!
I'm glad the prof is showing some love for the nucleus too.
I think I understand.
Basically it's magic!
Yesterday at the subway station, a creepy guy in a black coat approached me and asked me if I need Ca48. I told him I am not interested. Then he insisted and offered 5g for $50. I refused him again... Damn, now I see this video.
When Oganesson-293 is considered "relatively stable" (due to usage of a doubly magic projectile nucleus) you know things are bound to get interesting.
I FELL in LOVE @ 3:22 !
Can you imagine, you just want a half million Pounds worth of calcium 48, and they misunderstand and bring you a half million pounds of the stuff that costs $250/mg?
The joy of being English!
but will it make my ramen better
Daniel Anon "money turned my noodles into pasta"
this was very informative thank you.
great explanations by the professor
Don't let Keith Richards anywhere near that.
Haha at :18 you gotta love the Russians...
We've run out of room for the super heavy element making machine comrade!
Comrade pulls an RPG out of the closet and blows a hole in the concrete wall...
Get back to work comrade! Continue into the next room!
Only in Russia could a prestigious laboratory not afford a half decent contractor
OMG!!! Watch out for the Helvetica Scenario!!
great title + very enjoyable vid
Why are small bottles of white powder so expensive?
why are the numbers 20 for protons and 28 for neutrons "magic"? what makes them more stable than other numbers?? :/
tell the professor to be more specific!!! xD
A magic number of neutrons or protons will result in a higher binding energy per nucleaon, think of it as the octet rule.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_nuclide#.22Magic_numbers.22_and_odd_and_even_proton_and_neutron_count mentions it a bit as well
thx for the link.. that makes things a little bit clearer
thank you. very educative. regards.
i like the increased production value of these videos
If they are just shooting the atoms and most of them don't hit the target. Can't they just recycle ?
They get lots of hits,but not much hits that count.Those that don't hit get deflected and start moving randomly hitting the walls of cyclotron.
You're right. Thanks for the answer.
It would be pretty much impossible to recover the stray calcium due to the vast space it could wind up in the cyclotron
Not impossible, just very difficult.
You'd have to meltdown whatever the cyclotron is made of since the ions are travelling so fast they are probably stuck too far in the surface to just be washed off. It's more trouble than it's worth, and the target zone is worth far, far more than getting the calcium back.
I thought the thumbnail was coke.....BOY WAS I WRONG!!!!!
H>UBE every one makes mistakes
スzyckon yes. hes pays me $10 for everytime i say it.
You can still sniff the calcium.
I'd still snort it just to know that I'd have about 250,000$ inside me :D
*"You can still sniff the calcium."*
Well, calcium carbonate is essentially rock dust, so I doubt you'd enjoy snorting it...like chopping out a line of The World's Most Expensive Concrete...
Awesome! Great video :-)
i really enjoied , wow , i love this man!
I can imagine that Ca-48CO3 is heavier then Ca-40CO3. Why can't they just use a (ultra)centrifuge to separate the Ca-48 from the Ca-40?
That would only work if they had all loose atoms. But the crystals contain both 48 an 40. The centrifuge can't rip apart the crystals. It's like centrifuging ice to try and get a little piece of sand out of it.
The professor gave the reason. Calcium doesn't have a gaseous compound, so it can't be separated in a centrifuge. Uranium does have a compound that is a gas, so it can. However, in some ways the separation uses the same principles, but using a magnet. The calcium is effectively gasified by turning it into ions in a vacuum chamber.
Can LHC be used to synthesize of heavy atoms?
I am wondering this too
I doubt it, it is call large HADRON collider not large atoms collider :D for example a proton or a neutron is a hadron. So I don't think the LHC can be used to synthesize heavy atom considering heavy have at least a few hundred hadron.
Żółć I believe the equipment they use is not exactly compatible with the size of the particles used in elemental synthesis.
They could, but it is more designed to collide individual particles rather than particles with a target. Also the detector is designed to look at the resulting shower of exotic particles that escape after two particles hit each other with 12TeV of kinetic energy. I'm sure it could handle the calcium, but larger particles like californium might be a bit tricky to use...
@Eivilcow: No they can't aside from the size which is hundred times bigger than a hadron, you also need a charged particle so that the magnet can bend the trajectory of the particle. So an atom is out of the question, an ion maybe...
edit: actually an ion is ok, the ALICE experiment is an ion collider, although atom is still out of question.
Well boys, who's up for a spooktober heist
Very interesting! thank you
First I was like: No, this facility deosn't look ru … oh there is a masive hole in the wall. Tbh they got it right :-)
i wonder how Mr. White and Jesey could use this Ca48.
The way he talks about Calcium 48, it's importance, how to make it etc reminds me of a speedrunner talking about how they're going to beat a video game using an exploit, how it works and why
0:45 You mean super-heavy elephants? I loved that slip in the original!
Mr. Bones wishes you strong bones
Are they taking proper precautions to avoid a Helvetica Scenario?
I want to see a discussion on calcium's sister element. Ca-42 intelligent calcium ;o)
A small pile of calcium powder appeared in our living room about a week back, I tested it and found it to be heavily saturated with helium gas, I estimated it to have been initially introduced to at least a factor of 10QPS, putting the midpoint somewhere in Russia. So I had a "yep I knew it" moment when I saw this video. I doubt they are taking precautions.
the Helvetica Scenario is a work of fiction, those are real scientists who know their stuff, I wouldn't be worried.
I'm a bit curious. I have learnt that reactivity of metals go in the order K>Na>Ca>Mg>Al..., so why would aluminium powder have a higher affinity for the oxygen?
I never thought I'd see my college tuition sitting in a tiny vial.
Who wants to get into the Calcium-48 business with me?
whatsup1827 meeee
In Russia calcuim 48 buys you
thank mr skeltal
The yellow machine shown here at the SU-20 facility of Elektrokhimpribor is a calutron, an enormous mass spectrometer whose sole purpose is the separation of atomic isotopes which cannot be separated using gaseous diffusion or gas centrifugation. It was originally used for the enrichment of uranium.
great video
Dr. Poliakoff is a lefty? :o
That's the most expensive white powder I've come across.
Hey Brady, I love your work here and on numberphile I think you always ask good questions.
Professor Poliakoff, you have an outstanding mind and I love learning from these videos.
This may be silly, but if a substance like water is put into a vacuum chamber then the water will freeze, right? But when I think of atoms and molecules in a vaccum I would picture them expanding away from each other into the open space around them forming a gas. I guess I don't understand because I have difficulty imagining it happen any other way.
Sidebar question: Ca-48 is naturally occurring in limestone but its decay is a billion-times slower than thorium, but its energy is enough and its abundance is enough, that it should cause scintillations in the dark-have you looked....
You'd probably have to spend nearly an hour in the dark and be looking at the thing constantly...
Awww why not allow the professor to touch something so interesting? 😥
I would trade my Lamborghini for that
this thumbnail is genius!
Not even a chemist but I love these videos