URANIUM CRAYON? - Nuclear Engineer Reacts to INSANE 1933 Chemistry Recipes by styropyro
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URANIUM CRAYON? - Nuclear Engineer Reacts to INSANE 1933 Chemistry Recipes by styropyro - Věda a technologie
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So, if I come within sight of Cerenkov radiation, in person, does that mean I'm already screwed in terms of radiation poisoning? Every story I've read about that blue light seems to be 'if you see it in-person, your life is over'.
i have 7 PDF volumes of this book series he is referring to. a LOT of spooky stuff in them. i am comfortable playing around with funky chemicals/processes. but there's shit in these books that completely creep me out.
You are always saying you don't know everything about Nuclear but you are a Nuclear Engineer. Well shouldn't you know all of it? I mean if you are a nuclear engineer. As a civilian, I want the best of the best people running those power plants. Anything less than that is somebody I don't want running those. I mean shouldn't you be on the top of your game and know it all?
And you have some good videos on here.
Ive always found it ironic how Styropyro's youtube presence has more to do with optics and electrical engineering, but the area he is most studied in is chemistry. Totally reccomend watching everything he has to offer on his channel, he is unironically the most 'chad' science communicating youtuber to bless our screens!
I feel blessed to live less than 3 hours from where his workshop is, hope to eventually run into him since he seems like such a chill science CZcamsr that has actual fun with his ridiculous projects
@@WildEGHatch How do you even know that?
Ah one of the best icons to have from RA2
And then there's Explosions&Fire
he lives near chicago@@nikkiofthevalley
He DOES have a good safety record.
That is to say, he's done FAR scarier things in the past repeatedly and still is alive.
That’s great to know!
NileRed did a video about making uranium glass and he went through the process of refining the uranium and was testing it for phosphorescence throughout. It's an interesting video.
I second this
Would love to see his reaction to that one.
HE LISTENED
Cody's lab did one showing how to purify and extract uranium out of ore. The feds asked him to take it down but he put it back up last year
gotta love styropyro
You rn
🍷🗿
How is your comment older than the video?
stryopyro*
Pretty cool, right
11:20 that's a really cool mnemonic for recalling the difference between flammable and inflammable! Never noticed it was the same rule as valuable/invaluable
Invaluable is like priceless, impossible to set a value on or set a price for because it's too large. Nonvaluable and worthless things have no value. Inflammable is the same as flammable, not more flammable. You don't flam something or flame it; but you could inflame it, which usually means irritate it, but conceivably could mean adding flame to it, rendering it "in flames", setting it aflame, ablaze, afire, alight, or on fire. Nonflammable means it won't flam, and you can't flam it, even if you try... Inflammable means you can inflam it... What you want is non-inflammable.
It's not, really! "Invaluable" just means you can't place a value on it, either because it's too valuable to YOU that you wouldn't sell it for any price, or because it's just outright not worth anything. So to say, it applies equally to an ancient portrait of your great-great-great-great-grandfather, and a fistful of dirty glass shards.
Styro may be my favorite science CZcamsr, if only because I am constantly terrified for his safety, yet he always seems in complete control
So it's like the science to the engineering of "I did a thing"?
@@StorymasterQ I'm not convinced "I did a thing" actually does anything safely, I think he just has plot armor and the writers don't want to kill him off
@@werxeh He isn't gone?
@@TantalumPolytope Well he's certainly not dead to the best of my knowledge, just real life things became more important. He disappeared for about 5 years, came back for a little bit and he did make a video explaining why he'd been absent for so long, then he's gone dark again for the past couple of years.
It's always wonderful when Styro uploads. Not just because it's a good video, but because it means he hasn't blown himself to pieces yet.
This dude is like… I don’t know. Modern Tesla? Wildly genius and humble and sarcastic and death-defying because of his self-taught prowess in this stuff!?!?
Please do watch more of him. You won’t be disappointed.
styro's content is wild, i don't know how much it'll cross between your knowledge of nuclear eng. but it'll sure be a fun time to watch and react to his stuff
If I had to guess, the green glowy idea of uranium probably came from uranium glass, which was extremely popular for ~20 years around the 60s and 70s. It probably used the same salts as in this video, because the glass is yellowish under normal lighting but flouresces incredibly bright green under UV. It's much brighter and more effective than you would guess from the "crayon" in this video.
"Building a fire death machine using soviet military tech" might be my favorite video from styropyro if you want something interesting to watch either on or off the channel
lab coats are generally the least important of the common PPE in my experience so its often the first to be ignored, although obviously still helpful/important.
"How a man survived the strangest accident in history" by thoughty2 is a really fun retelling of the very much real story concerning the man that survived being shot in the head by a particle accelerator.
If you haven't heard of it before it is definitely worth a watch!
There are far better sources for that story than Thoughty2, who regularly peddles misinformation and pseudoscience, not to mention he doesn't cite sources. Just another pop "science" tool, and that's without getting into his less science specific videos where he acts like an insufferable prick.
more styropyro ? yes yes yes.
He's so interesting, even the FBI got curious about his experiments if i remember correctly. :)
Yeah, they tend to be suspicious people depending on what you buy.
Yes, two FBI agents showed up at his house, if I remember correctly.
9:23 what I find fascinating about that recipe is how close it was to being an actually effective asthma relieving cigarette instead of an extremely poisonous version of tear gas.
I love smoking tear gas 🚬😋😋
You might not need a reactor to get cool glowy colors, but Cherenkov radiation is so pretty.
6:50 I think his reasoning for the lack of long sleeves for this particular part of the video is probably because of the flammable chemicals and chance of auto ignition, you don’t want anything that can soak up fuel and prolong the amount of time you have fire against skin if things go wrong, and it’s much easier to wash off the particular chemicals he’s working with than to get burns treated as well as being much cheaper
Styropyro is a legend, I highly recommend his "laser microwave" video. Good stuff.
Styropyro is alot of fun, love to see that hes still alive every time he uploads
“Hopefully this guy has a good safety record.”
He puts himself in a literal Tesla coil arc. I’d recommend that video to show you a glimpse of how insane he is. Something talking about if it’s volts or amps that kill. You should be able to input something on that since you work in a power-related industry.
Amps kill
Thanks for the suggestion!
@@tfolsenuclear You're very welcome, my good man.
@@rawhidelampit's more complicated than that actually there's a pretty scary chart that shows all the way electricity can end you.
Unlike steel, copper can't be hardened by quenching, but the pipe has probably been work hardened. Heating it up actually anneals it, making it softer. I bet the quenching liquid actually makes a hard coating on the surface while the copper itself actually gets softer, which would align with the results.
18:42 I have an old medical book with a recipe for medicial soap (and other things). It's pretty cool. I've never tried to do it, though
It is NOT regular soap. It's very special..... But it's basically a disinfectant.
I did nuclear remediation for a while, so I've been intimately familiar with ore, tailings, and yellow cake etc. I've never seen it glow either but I did max out my Ludlum when we found out this rancher somehow ended up building rock retaining walls with the densest pitchblend I ever encountered. Dude was like 80 so it clearly didn't hurt him, but only God knows how. Was up near Ambrosia lake NM.
Pitchblende, missed an e and CZcams is acting up not letting me edit that 😂
15:30 I'm reasonably confident that "if patient survives" means "if they've survived the cyanide poisoning up to this point, continue treatment thusly" and not "if they've survived the treatment."
I taught my kid that flammable burns, non- flammable doesn't burn, and inflammable doesn't bother with burning; It just blows the f*** up
I am BEGGING you to watch more Styropyro vids! He’s got a ton of cool stuff on his channel, especially about Lasers.
17:13 "Let's drop the base"
That shit floored me lmao. I knew exactly what the joke was the moment I saw the powder and heard the word "base". I love Science lmao
Styropyro is really great. You should watch more of his videos. His electronics and laser videos are very fun.
As far as I'm aware styro hasn't had any known serious safety incidents, but us fans of his are always relieved he isn't dead whenever he uploads just because he does this kinda crap LMAO
he once shaved some of the hair on his arm off with a laser while talking about how if it hit his skin it'd instantly give him third degree burns
He’s so casual about things that it adds to the humor
you're the best reaction channel out there man, keep it up
Thanks so much!!
I read some of those old books and they are completely insane on their recipes. Some are interesting, some are completely illegal today (like cleaning products that use spermaceti), some are so out of proportion absurd like using cyanide and things like that. The threshold for security at that time was completely different and I bet most of the recipes were just copied from other sources without the minimum understanding of them. Lets remember that old (I mean 70's) chemical sets for kids had lead salts, sulfuric acid and worsts things yet.
I play Dungeons and Dragons and I made a wizard based on Styropyro. The other players fear him.
What are his abilities?
I just paused at 2:59, my understanding is that it's fluorescence of some compounds that makes it glow green. Uranium glass is a very classic example.
It's interesting that Styropyro is wearing gloves when he knows flames are involved. During my studies we were told nitrile/latex gloves and so on are a no no when working with fire (risk of melting polymer and making a hot and sticky material that will burn you bad). So we always had to remove our gloves.
Somewhere in a box I have a book published in the 1880s collecting articles from a British magazine from the 1830s & 40s.
One of the suggestions for a display at a garden party was to take a block of ice, one foot on a side, and drill a hole 1" wide and 6" deep, then drop in a piece of sodium the size of a walnut. It will make a nice display of sparks and flame.
@11:30 The difference is that "flammable" means something can be set fire to using a flame, "inflammable" means something can burst into flame without an ignition source other than ambient heat.
To be fair, it's worth noting that some words, and even prefixes, have changed meanings over time. For example, older texts refer to magnetic attraction and repulsion as love or hate. 17th century scientists weren't ascribing emotions to metals, just using terminology that could be translated into multiple languages including Latin (since the church funded a lot of science).
Would love to see more StyroPyro reactions, his videos are great.
I'd love to see more styropyro on the channel, his videos are great!
That book is trolling chemists even 90 years after it was written 😂.
Uranium used to be added to procelain tooth caps for the fluorescense. Normal teth have a bit of a bluish glow under UV but there’s nothing easy to add to porcelain that glows blue I guess.
uranium is naturally phosphorescent so yes, it will glow with a nice light green light if under uv light, and keep glowing enough that it is used for glow in the light paint for many application, like exit routes or watches. since it is used in tiny quantities and usually only alpha decays, it is mostly safe. uranium glass is extremely cool with the inner light green glow, but for some reason most people do not want to eat or drink from them...
oh, and they rarely if ever produce nowadays, so you have to hunt them in sales and such.
Every time Styropyro posts a new video I inwardly sigh with relief that the mad genius hasn't accidentally offed himself.
would love to see you react to more of his stuff :)
well if "eau de toilette" is french for "grooming water" then I think toilet milk is probably "grooming milk"
since it's basically just a perfumeded soap
Heating and quenching cooper makes it soft.
seriously styro is a legend when it comes to his projects. so much so that he has his own fbi friend!
CONGRATS ON 20K!
Thank you so much!!
11:09 Its not actually English's fault. The prefix in- comes to english from the common Latin prefix in-, which means "into, in, in, or upon". This is BTW NOT the origin of the extremely common word "In" which has almost the exact same meaning. In the word comes to us from proto-germanic. Ultimately, both however get the word from the Proto Indo-European word *en. BTW, the asterisk is there to represent that the word has been reconstructed and as such it is only what linguists believe the origin word most likely was based on studying descendent languages. This version sometimes is spelt im-, il-, or ir-.
This is as opposed to how we usually think of the prefix in-, meaning "not" which English gets from the common Latin prefix "in-" meaning not. THIS in- is believed to actually from a different PIE prefix, *ne-. There is actually in English a cognate to this version of in-, un-. A reasonable accurate way to tell if a word using a not prefix is native to english or a latin import is that generally latin imports have in- for this purpose while un- is words that are using the native version or heavily nativized versions of a word.
Yes, It could be a source of confusion in latin as well. For example, the latin version of impress, Impressus? Could be pressed or unpressed.
:O no sam o nella today? Thats okay, ill watch your reactions to anything!
you know it will be a good video when the first line he says after opening the book is "anyway, let's see how much further i can get through this book without violating the geneva convention"
17:50 The melting point 168 farenheit is close to Cerrosafe (168F) but it's lacking cadmium. Rose metal is the only one that uses exclusively Bismuth+Lead+Tin and nothing else and the melting point is 208F (1 part Tin, 1 part Lead and 2 part Bismuth), so this might be why the recipe didn't work as expected when boiled in water.
Aw this is such a good channel to react to, this man is actually unhinged
Your camera makes your wall look absolutely crazy. I had a brief panic moment of "Wait I don't remember taking anything this morning".
being told nuclear chemists have a boring job is not what i expected to hear today
Always funny to see @styropyro wherever I go now. lol. Back in the day, some 15+ years ago, we were just acquaintances on a laser pointer forum. Now homeboy has completely blown the fuck up.
He likely wore eyepro. He's pretty big on that, since he really loves lasers. And since he hasn't died yet, I'm guessing his safety record is pretty good. DUde does some insane high voltage experiments, too.
@2:20 a lot of Uranium salts have a green fluorescence. Diuranate is pretty common in old green glassware or pottery glaze.
This is an amazing series.
Definitely Kurzgesagt, Sam Onella, etc.
As he is also in school to become a Nuclear Enginner, and his content is right up your alley - may I recommend Kyle Hill? Great content, very in depth concerning nuclear energy from science to history to theory. He also does many OTHER things, but all are science based. He formerly was with the channel Because Science - another great reservoir of videos.
urainium salts : "oh the forbidden sparkle sugar" xD
Safety precautions:
1. Safety squint.
2. Mother on speed dial.
i especially like the line break demon- stration at cold fire :D
Highly recommend watching more of his insanity
That's probably where the green glowing uranium artistic license comes from tbh.
Uranium glassware is quite popular and still being made today. Uranium is about as toxic as lead and you can hardly leach either from glass without extreme temperature.
More styropyro!!
So with the mineral oil and glycerine in the toilet milk makes me think it was a laxative because both of those are used to treat constipation.
"Toilet" is being used here in the sense of "toiletries," substances that you use in washing yourself and preventing the body from smelling. So if the toilet milk is a cream or lotion, I guess it's a moisturizer maybe.
I miss Styropyro after CZcams practically told him to get lost as people were replicating his experiments especially during covid lockdown.
Plz do more of this guy
Now I have a silly question, does metallic uranium glow under a blacklight?
I collect fossils, and sometimes minerals too. Every time I've seen uranium ore/rock 'in the wild' it always has that metallic look, but also a black-ish crust. In fact, it's the only mineral I've seen that has that particular look, and to me it' sop unique I can spot it from quite a distance.
As I understand it (And I am no chemist, just have an avid interest in science and chemistry), active uranium or plutonium will fluoresce a bright green or yellow under a black light (Especially actinic UV). And unprocessed uranium in the form of salts does tend to have a lighter hue showing more of a green, but not a glowing green like we see in the video, he probably uses UV for appearances to make it more interesting. Uranium salts under normal lighting have more the coloring of ancient roman uranium glass, a dull sickly earthen green. The samples you show for the Uranium you know are processed and enriched, having a more solid mass and higher density causing them to appear a dark green-black.
Styropyro is also a Brown belt in Judo AND Ju Jitsu, ham radio operator, tornado chaser 😬
We listen to safety meetings every morning, that include catch-all statements like:
Safety is first priority, Stop work is your right, No job is worth getting injured etc...
We have one particular data center that is protected so the safety team, cops and even the fire marshal have never been inside.
There is a sign inside that reads *"It's OK to kill 1 or 2 people to keep this data center online."*
I stumbled upon your videos, and find them quite enjoyable, informative and funny.
Perhaps you'll like to do Eminemium by Acapella Science?
Pretty interesting video. I live near a facility that makes peletized nuclear fuel for subs and such, always kinda sketched by it as it is right in the river.
Informative and Entertaining
bro you gotta check out explosions and fire / extractions and ire!
funfact copper reacts way diffrent to quenching than for exammple steel .... copper gets somewhat softer when you quench it with a hih temp , if you quench it after heating it to 450 to 500 °C it is in its softest state. xD
More styropyro!
You’re going to love his video on his Soviet death machine
“Let’s see how far I can get in this book before I violate the Geneva Convention” what a line right there haha
I was raised bilingual, English and French.. Inflammable is French for flammable. I had no idea that inflammable differed from flammable in English. I find it kinda hard to believe tbh
You should follow up with Part 4
I've been waiting for this moment
The 12-year-old with daddy’s credit card, but think before you get it there is “Yellow Cake Uranium”.
You need to look at him building a death machine with soviet millitary tech
Id recommend checking out his 5000 volt death machine video as he uses the plasma generated to burn various elements and metals
Such an bright and adventurous young man! He May Live Long Enough to change the world if he can become an apprentice to a knowledgeable master so he does not off himself or the entire neighborhood!
12:53 OKAY I HAVE TO PAUSE THERE the eyes are the quickest and most direct method of ingestion, you'll also get a stronger affect because theres less dilution in the blood stream, out of all the ways to ingest two highly toxic compounds through the eyes has to the worst
Been watching your vids for a while, and never get this early before
Check out his explanation on talking to a squirrel while being asked by the goverment why he bought enough chemicals to blow up a building
Styropyro's great, man. Also, you're talking about people eating the uranium crayons and kinda skipping over the danger of breathing in the dust, since they're more like chalk...
And on the cyanide poisoning procedure, of course you expect them to die. We're talking about a dose of cyanide in the early 1930s. Your best hope is that it was a fairly small dose and you can save them from the acute primary effects. They deserve a drink after lol
YEAH STYRO
I do have one of those carbon tet fire extinguishers that is about half full.
All the Elite Marines right now slamming creditcard on desk to buy that Uranium Crayon o.o
Styropo is an effin' classic!
do a video about uranium hexafluoride and oxidation states, lovely colours haha
I use strontium-aluminate powder's to get a similar effect, tho not strontium-90, no radioactivity required.