Making a Particle Detector (Cloud Chamber)
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By: Mehdi Sadaghdar
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#TeamTrees - Věda a technologie
Dude! That is so freaking cool! I want to make one now
Make a glass coffee table with this thing in it, with mist and particle clouds and all!!
You two should try making one of those huge tesla coils or just make a much more efficient version of this or maybe a geiger muller tube?
I wouldn't say no to a BDA/ElectroBOOM colab. This needs to happen!
@@ElectroBOOM But don't put light sources in your eye line, the direct light dilates your pupils making it harder to see sharp images of subtle clouds! (aka - makes you blind!)
Omg yaaaaas please do it I love your channel
This guy is what CZcams was originally meant for.
Until he got sponsored. Guess I be that way one day we all take money above anything else
@@Tangobaldy dude with how youtube is, Getting sponsored is needed, its just like getting your channel monetized in the old days
@@Tangobaldy at least the sponsored content is still in content with his channel.
Been watching since I made the slayer exciter. This man changed my life.
@@Tangobaldy yea screw him for making what he loves and getting money for it! (s)
Can we just pause to respect that not only does he know his science and practical engineering, but he is a damn good script writer and editor?
striker851 tbh that davie504 meme got me good
he's one heck of a comedian too
Was thinking that too!
@@krenovaFromSG and endures a lot of pain
@@krenovaFromSG exactly
8:40 That zoom gets me every time!
1:41 i was shocked by "we dooooo!"
I screamed
His on self was like a arc
1:38 "WE DO"
This made me laugh so much
PvPMardy I jumped 😭
I laughed too
I literally jumped from that haha
@@ravenprincess3243 I did too.
@@ravenprincess3243 I did too.
the FBI guy and the ad dude were hilarious
@Mimon CMS Käsberger ummn... Ich glaub nich dass er deutsch is
@@deepstonecrypt ich auch nicht
Aber witzig wie sich hier alle deutschen treffen 😂
@@kimi8638 haha ja
@Mimon CMS Käsberger?
7:27 made me spit out my tea😂😅🙈🙈
Lmao I made it 69 likes as well 🤣🤣
"FBI man can you see it?"
'Yes, it's beautiful.'
"Yeah."
'We'll still swat though.'
*Confused middle eastern electric noises*
America at its finest.
@@sammayo473 nah that was the 1950’s.
Lmao yes😹
@@hairlesscat6458 Now they just shoot eachother.
"are you getting nervous about me cutting against my finger?"
I was legit looking in horror.
ThatGuyNamedTohuki ha same
I was waiting for a “FAAA*beeeeeeeeeeep*”
no but I was getting nervous when you started to use your electric band saw *shutters*
I've seen people using a saw towards their other arm an that was horrific
@@kamo7293 What the time stamp
Next video:
“Making a nuclear bomb to test homemade sensors”
Nah, just a neutron source using thorium...
@@Jundas Fbi open up
would the fbi accept that
+TheSmart_ Protogen “Why else would I make one? For safety??”
@@cubixrohan510 much moe=re than not accepting it
“Never cut towards your body parts!”
*proceeds to cut towards his body parts throughout the entire video*
3:40 let's be real. He is an amazing all-round talent.
"Dont cut towards your hand"
Proceeds to cut every single piece of wood with a saw towards his fingers and comes within 1mm of losing his hand twice.
Only really "bad" cut I saw was 3:09, though (besudes the "example").
It was really bad tho; he wouldn't have even been able to see his fingers get cut off until they were.
I've seen a finger or two lost thanks to idiot workers.. makes me cringe everytime.. like really cringe.
I dislike stupid people blood everywhere
He know what he doing otherwise he wouldn’t be doing the videos! A lot of lessons learned here! Pay attention.im an electronics geek myself and I overstand his videos.that statement may have gone over most heads.lol
It’s a jig saw, relax.
richard marriott he has a masters in electrical engineering, not exactly someone you can classify as “stupid”
6:29 These random forms and figures at the top look actually quite beautiful.
if you want to make them yourself, just put a sticky paste on a flat sheet of some sort, then stick another sheet onto it, and pull it off again, that's how you get those shapes.
Pro tip (3 years later, I know 😅): Alpha radiation can be stopped with a sheet of paper or even our dead skin cells. So putting the bananas behind that plexiglass is probably the reason it didn't work at all. Try putting them inside, It should work better, same with the smoke detector, which, btw, could be an optical detector with no radiation since they kinda "banned" ionizing ones
I was going to say the same thing, lol
Better pro tip 😉 … The radioisotope in bananas is Potassium 40 which decays (mostly) via beta particle emission. NO alpha particle emission. These particular beta particles have more than enough energy to get through that plexiglass. But, given the half life of K-40 (over a billion years) and it’s puny specific activity, you’d have to leave one there for a while to spot any ionisation. They just get missed in all the other natural radioactive stuff 👍🏻 Yeah. I’m fun at parties.
@@cyclingbob1 nah, you're probably fun at parties. I'm not the kind of idiot to go around scolding people for correcting wrong data or being nerds, so thanks for the info 😄👍
Slapped like , just like on Davie's.
That Davie moment was gold though. Lol
bruhhh
Hahhaa
Somebody should send this to Davide :D
How does he know I watch Davie504 😂😂
Same
I didn't see that "Slap" coming.
Epic.
Checkmate!
E P I C C
You mean epico
Lmao
epico*
10:22 To anyone trying to replicate this (and to @electroboom himself, although I don't think he'll see this by now): alpha particles are blocked easily by basically anything denser than air and without actual radioactive stuff, you are not likely to see any other type of high energy particles comming out of it (maybe you are lucky to have a few radioactive isotopes on your bananas), so you have to place them inside the chamber so those alpha particles are made visible. And with the smoke dectector... Well, some of those do have a tiny piece of radioactive americium inside but a) not all of them use them and b) it will still mostly emit alpha particles so you still need to have it insed the chamber to properly see stuff coming out of it... And probably destroy the sensor to expose the americium block inside anyways haha. I LOVE cloud chambers and i will definitely make my own some dayand @electroboom actually made some great job shoeing how to do it. I syill think dry ice is still easier though... But the alcohol-soaked sponges with resistors is a good idea
3:09 The anxiety that gave me man oof
"Never cut towards your bodyparts" - said the guy right before he started jigsawing around his fingers
Jigsawing isn’t a word
With a knife yes, but saws are a lot safer. They can't suddenly slice through the material and hit your hand like knives can.
"In case of a nuclear disaster your body melting would be a good enough indicator."
Spoken like a true engineer.
😂
3:10 I'm pretty sure this is the DIY equivalent of looking into a shotgun barrel.
Pretty sure you underestimate the damage a shotgun would do to a persons skull point blank by a factor of 10000. Or underestimate the damage a jigsaw would do by same amount.
"I love curiosity"
And that look
So good
11:04
"Do NEVER cut towards your body parts!"
Saws towards body parts.
I thought he might lose a finger there
He must be father
He said dont CUT not SAW
@@supernova5434 a saw still cuts hahahaha
2:55 Iranian version of SLAP is much harder than the Italian one.
hahahahaha
بزن تو گوشش 🤣🤣
No
You can't beat daddy davie
He’s gone full Davey
@@astletruscott6291 lol sure 😂
10:15 "Good! So we can conclude that bananas are safe to eat"
0:19 that smile......that damn smile😂
Right 😄 🤣
"Do you SWAT Canadian Residence too?"
FBI: "WE DO"
AAUAAAAAA
that actually freaked me out too xDDD
and then they say “Sorry for raidin’ eh’?”
"I have never built it before, but I know how it works" - Every Engineer ever
😂😂😂
This quote sounds like it's straight out of an xkcd! Lol, that's always a good thing imo
I have never built a THERMONUCLEAR bomb but i know how it works.
@@charadremur333 and i think it should stay like that lmao
This is quickly becoming my favorite channel. This guy is amazingly intellegent and hilariously funny. You will laugh and if you pay attention you will learn too.
I really love the fact that Mehdi’s “My Life of Failures” book also features a failure: he misspelled his channel name 😆 (10:51)
I too only make failures.
there are no failures - Master Accident
A thin sheet of paper stops alpha particles, that's why the detector didn't show any extra particles. Plexiglass will stop beta particles and the K40 in bananas is a beta emitter. It's mostly gamma rays you see. If you want to be sure if it's alpha, beta, or gamma place the chamber in a magnetic field. Alpha and beta particles will be bend into circular paths while gamma rays stays unaffected.
And stack peltier modules to achieve lower temperatures.
Pretty sure Beta can penetrate plexiglass. Still requires a metal container, at least.
@@JJayzX Say someone gives you 4 cookies. An alpha cookie, a beta cookie, a gamma cookie and a neutron cookie. You have to eat one, throw one away, hold one in your hand, and put one in your pocket. The beta goes in your pocket if you know cloth will block betas.
@Corey Someone need to study a bit more, it is a particle, a photon to be exact and a wave at same time. Wave-particle duality.
I think what's important is that the radiation can ionize the alcohol molecules, so even if photons aren't the nucleation points themselves, they can cause ionization, thus you can detect gamma rays.
Davie part, he he he.
"Yes it's beautiful, we'll still swat though" died on that part.
ghosts confirmed 1000%
Genius 🤣
3:58 me when a computer i was working on continuously refused to let me install the OS.
8:50 when me and my girlfriend became official
"there's no one else in the room with you"
12:00
Nobody:
Davie504 when he hears "slap": nice
Lol
no one:😐
Pewdiepie: slap like sleepers🤑
davie504: smiles😎
Davie504: pewdiepie is a slapper confirmed😎
Electroboom: slap like sleepers😌
Davie504: hey that's mine I'll kill you 😤
Electroboom: pfffft no need I'm already dead inside🤕 trying everything to keep my channel😭
Davie504: I'm sorry. 😢 still gonna kill you only pewds is allowed to steel my words 😔😎
Oh fuck I thought I was the only one ur my saintt
YESSS!! ANOTHER SLAPPER!!
Yes! Slap LIKE NOW!
My two favorite channels never disappoint.
@@emmanuelmwaka2716 lol # youtubers_infinity_war 😆
“Oh by the way do you swat Canadian residences?”
*We do*
_electroboom has left the chat_
*NGAAH!*
I love Mehdi's pure joy when the detector works. This satisfaction is why we all tackle scientific problems
6:42 ahh yes i love the fridgizeeser
2:55 as soon as he said slap like I literally thought “Davie504”
Nicholas Hughes SAME
Very nice
SAME ×2
o m g
EPICO
Electroboom: Slap Like
Davie: wait.. that's illegal
"Slap like" is getting viral... Epico
@@william_mazza omg
He must be calling the police
Epic
SLAPP like NOW!
That intro almost perfectly encapsulates the humor of this channel. I love these videos because it feels like I'm watching Looney Tunes while being educated.
The god damn "do you swat Canadian residents" "We do" ACK! Gag is literally my favorite youtube moment....ever
Do you swat Canadian residents too?
*WE DO*
That scared me.
Edit: Disclaimer! I did not steal this comment. This actually happened to me.
funniest part
hahah
Slow it down to lowest setting and watch it😂
in soviet russia fly swats you back
Why do even swat Canadian!?
Honestly seeing Davie made me realize that those two carry very similar energies. Medhi is to science youtube as Davie is to music youtube
This is a very weird, but accurate statement. And I swear it’s not just the fact that they both have accents
It didn't click for me at first either, but the moment Mehdi said "Slllap that like button!" did it for me
Mehdi.
Noticed as well.
0:40 Laughs in Rad-X and Radaway.
What gives most heart attacks-
3. Jump-scares
2. Robberies
1. 3:09 / 03:10
Do you SWAT Canadian citizens to - WE DO!
lol, i can´t breathe anymore ! that guy a+!
Nearly choked on my lunch when I saw that bit
That's hilarious. Did you come up with that all on your own??
If so bravo!!! #Sarcasm
you are the only guy I've ever seen who can use a jigsaw dangerously
You haven't seen any Tested videos?
@@taunokekkonen5733 send me a link I want to hurt my brain lol
@@MrDoboz are you waiting still
@@taunokekkonen5733 Have you seen DiodeGoneWild ?
@@tiborbogi7457 I have now, what the heck LOL
Something genius here. I noticed it now, and probably i am very late. But, anyway, if you see, in Mehdi's videos in his new house, he has done 2 videos where he is talking to his alter ego or his 2nd personality. He actually started that here. and silently continued it. Amazing.
"WE DO"
I laughed way too hard at that one.
FBI guy: "we still swat tho"
Mahdi: *concerned face*
“Avengers End Game is the most ambitious crossover event in hist...”
- SLAPP LIKE NOW
(ಥ﹏ಥ) I'm so proud of my Italian brother🇮🇹🇮🇹
@@ratatouille420pm4 They actually have the same dead tone, it would be perfect
3:41 great symphony buddy LOL
Awesome. The problem is that you're blinding yourself with the light. You should shade above those strips and recess them. You want the room to be as dark as possible, with only the thin controlled layer of soft light at the bottom. Also the bottom should be black. This would be a very cool application for some of that Vanta Black material.
Holy, Mehdi is a slapper! Slap like now (Edited because commas are important, though Holy Mehdi works as well)
Here in Ireland, slapper means slut. Just fyi
@@cocospops9351 ```BIG OOPSIE```
@@cocospops9351 That fact reminds me of an Artist.
Remembers me of this one guitarist on CZcams
1:42
I don’t even jump when watching horror movies, and that scared the shit out of me.
Same
I am no engineer(electrical or mechanical) but I am a HVAC Technician. I thought of a improvement on the design for lower temps. Air over heatsinks are no good air has a low heat capacity. My idea would use a small refrigeration circuit to chill a bath of isopropyl alcohol and have the heatsink submerged in the actively cooled alcohol bath. As the alcohol condenses the sub zero plate will be pitched so it will run off directly in to the bath the heatsink is sitting in. Maybe a mini pump and a float switch to recirculate the alcohol to the top of the device to be evaporated again. For the lighting using a laser that projects a flat wide beam would be perfect for this application because no laser light would hit the metal plate as the beam would be parallel to it.
You have a gift for keeping attention. I can’t stop watching your videos. I learn something new constantly
That moment when mehdi gets an editor and gives him a slice of bread for every transition
I almost died when Davie approved. Damn that was a GOOD SLAPPP
That was impressive... But can you make a music video with the sounds of the stuff you cut and broke on this video. Davie504.
I DIED
I just discovered that channel last day. :-)
What a wonderful bodge job , perfect DIY
4:57 😂😂😂 immediately recognize the 5 minutes craft vibe.
*Iranian guy talks about what to do in case of a nuclear disaster.
FBI guy: I'm about to end this guy's whole career.
wE DO
Bruh we won against iran in football just moments ago
*FBI cancels eletroBoom* (actually now that I think about it him talking about nuclear stuff being middle eastern and his channel name I can see red flags being raised by mistake)
fbi has no power in canada
@@abudabisas true just thought about it for a sec mostly saying that the red flag here would be people being put on a watch list
Was I the only one squinting when after 6 minutes he still didn't hurt himself?
I got tired of watching through a crack between my fingers so I cut a hole in cardboard and watch through that. Just keep his hands and face out of view and enjoy an almost psychopathic lack of empathy. My blood pressure is down to a nice 108/74 without pharmaceuticals.
Karl Harvy Marx what
Yep
No. Gods no.
You are such a great editor, and comedy artist man! Kudos to you!
Your reaction to the particles was priceless.
5:37 Melting a hot glue stick with a hot air station is *the definition* of jank.
it's a higher end of jank compared to running the stick through candle flame resulting to a black glue.
That's exactly what I thought, but then, with good will I figured it was for the very final touch-ups (curling edges - which even doesn't require contact!)
Only God knows why though!!
3:40 at 2x speed is very rhythmic. Something I always craved for people who do similar things did.
E P I C
リズムがない
I totally want one of these. I saw a similar but much larger version in the New York Hall of Science and I wanted that one too.
I watch a lot of other engineering channels and one of them recently led me to one of your videos and now I've been watching your videos obsessively. How have I never stumbled on your content before now? You are freaking awesome!
3:51 Epic😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
ElectroBOOM 2019:
We can conclude that banana is safe to eat
Yep
*Dado has left the chat*
Unless your a diabetic lol
Not if there is 500 in your mouth
I'm convinced he's just Davie from the future who's life went electric after some kind of freaky bass experiment
Frank Tedder
When Davie hits 10mil subs, he will reveal that he’s actually Electroboom
Mehdi's guitar has four strings...just sayin'
06:37 Here is where a mechanical engineer comes in and says "water expands when it turns in to ice"
10:33 as someone who has smashed many many smoke detectors to get the americium from them you’re going to need to remove the source, it’s going to be in a little plastic container mounted to the main circuit board of the smoke detector. You need to rip that open and there should be a small star shaped bit of material. It is safe to handle and only emits about 1-6 uCi. Americium is primarily an alpha emitter although it’s pro generate radioisotopes can emit differently. Alpha particles only travel a few centimeters in air and have a very difficult time penetrating materials. This is why they are used in smoke detectors where the source is placed in-front of a detector. If something gets in between the source and the detector (like smoke) the alpha particles will stop reaching the detector and the alarm will be tripped. Due to this property of alpha particles the source will need to be placed inside of the box. You can identify paths made by alpha particles fairly easily. They are fat little dots. Don’t eat the source and don’t loose it and don’t touch the little star bit.
Hey ! To everyone trying to replicate this setup, i found something interesting, it seems that you can go wayyy under 2-3° with some fan and heatsink.
I found out that the major problem is the thermal coumpound you apply.
With standard electronic one (the white one, 1W/(m.K)) you can't go under 2-3°C. Out of curiosity, i tested a good one (for computer CPU, 8.5W/(m.K)) and... -13°C. Same heatsink, same fan.
It seems that a "bad" coumpound is not enough to draw the heat from the module to the heatsink, and you thermal balance in the module is at a way higher temperature.
Wouldn’t cooled water with salt also work better then ice? Ice will simply melt around the heatsink, locally raising temperature quicker. *edit: didn’t watch end of video yet, expected better results with salt
I like your profile pic👀
what compound in particular? I personally believe that something like Artic MX-5 should be superior to several "bulk thermal compounds"
Elvityre What does he connect the sponge resistors to
(Please Help)
That's good information, even better if you cam determine the difference I'm composition!
4:12 Rapunzel's mother should have used silicon
😂😂
ElectroBOOM: are you getting nervous about me cutting against my finger?
also ElectroBOOM: *uses a jigsaw dangerously*
Love these things,always wanted to make one.
Davie405 in the next video: "I will play BASS with an overcharged capacitor"
Electroboom: "Nice."
Davie504**
Davie504*
The_SpyJevil yes because the first comment didn’t serve its purpose ?
Davie504
@@lemonhashberry5799 Davie504*
Mehdi: (making ionising radiation detector)
FBI man: *Yes*
"Sprinkle some resistors in groove" 5:13 , LOL
7:30 when electroboom change into coldboom
😂😂😂
Sahi aa
2:56 Slap like now? That took me by surprise!! I seriously did NOT expect that! I love it!
my FBI agent doesn't even talk to me. I'm sad now.
It's ok, we were just hearing the voices in Mehdi's head.
I always love watching this video cause I can just feel how happy Mehdi is when he gets it working :)
at the "we do" part he legit looked scared i was actually on the floor laughing
The actual fbi agent behind his screen be like : wtf is he talking about
2:55 OMG, BEST CROSSOVER EVER
EPICO
Decídete hablas español o inglés
@@Angelob_j "Epico" from the Italian language. And it's not a random choice. You got to now Davie504 to understand the reference.
Man I love you. No day passes without watching some of your videos and enrich my knowledge!!!
thanks for the website curiositystream. i loved it
This guy is just something else. Very funny, Very Smart. He's out of this world
1:40 got me good
keep it up mehdi love your videos
Love your videos. I think with this one maybe the light from one side rather than both sides might help and a darker room.
I have to build one of these. I was looking and that's how I saw this video. :)
Your videos are so good in terms of content and script !
3:08 almost lost 4 digits.
You see Mr. Mahdi, never underestimate mechanical engineers.
Fluid and thermo dynamics are our game!
"And now, I solder the two foams in parallel."
This Channel is Love!! His passion is so pure it results into me experiencing pure joy!! It's interesting, educational and so funny at the same time. Thank you for all these pure videos!
1:27 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😄OMG
😂😂😂