I Built Nobel Prize Machine To See Radioactivity
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- čas přidán 2. 02. 2023
- This is a cloud chamber that can display radioactive materials in a supersaturated alcohol vapor. Here's how I built it and what it tells you.
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Don't smoke alarms have a radioactive element in them? You might be able to find uranium glass as well.
Or Fiestaware or thorium gas lantern mantles. Or maybe radium dials, but those are significantly more dangerous than the other three I'm pretty sure.
Yes, smoke detectors have americium inside them which is radioactive.
There should be radioactiv photo lenses too, but be carful, keep some distance to your body and get rid of them afterwards.
Also welding electrodes
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Dude.. that transition @0:57 was a work of art on its own 👌🏼👌🏼
I was searching the comments for this. It was really cool. The viewers didn't notice it I guess.
I had to watch the clip 4 or 5 times to actually catch what happened. I think the transition is almost too clean because I genuinely did not see it the first few times.
haha exactly what I was about to say!!
Black Magic!
Dude's on another level
Bananas are radioactive due to potassium 40 which is one very special isotope. It is both a beta emitter, and (very rarely) a positron emitter. When you observed the strange phenomenon around the banana I got giddy with excitement because I thought you might have been so absurdly lucky and observed positron annihilation. Now this is almost certainly not the case, probably just an artifact of dust or something. but I can have my fantasies!
you have some sick fantasies! 😄
This was super interesting and now I want to see a positron annihilation around a banana
I was today years old when i learned potassium 40 is slightly radioactive.
Wtf.
You still need tonnes of bananas to make a considerable amounts of visible radiation in a cloud chamber.
I just got excited with you. You are the best kind of nerd, and I like that.
If you have any local university or college nearby, you can talk to professor to show the setup to their students in exchange of some kind of lab samples of certain isotopes to make a video with.
Back in the Uni I used to study we had access to those things as physics students, but we never saw this kind of chamber irl.
This is hands down the coolest thing i've seen this week. Thanks for creating all these awsome projects
Btw you introduced me to drones and 3D printers and since then i went down a rabbit hole and well i now have both and love these hobbys, just thanks!
Same, i knew nothing about 3d printing or rc vehicles, now I have 2 fpv drones and two 3d printers:)
SAME i got a 3D printer to support my drone habit... now 3d modeling
"the coolest thing I've seen this week" agreed 🥶
it do be very low in temperature
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Seeing something (an electron) pass through a piece of paper is just not something I'd ever think I'd see... this is pretty amazing!
Yeah!
Tbh I would watch hours of content that is just gazing at radiation with this setup and you explaining the different ocurrences. It was so incredibly interesting and relaxing to watch this, great content!
Saw the cloud chamber elsewhere and currently on a looking at most of those video ahah
Not only is the content awesome, but the editing is top notch too! Those transitions are super slick, well done
Dude... your editing skills are only getting better. :) Great job.
What was wrong with his eating skills before hand?
@@yongyea4147 he was more of a goofball with the editing before hand. that was more fun seeing simon as a goofball
Great s h i t ! Just a copy of other sh ! t s !
@@yongyea4147 nothing was wrong with with his editing skills before. It's just that his editing skills are getting more and more advanced.
First of all, cool project. One modification I would suggest is to have a magnetic field perpendicular to the surface. Since electrons are negatively charged their tracks would turn clockwise around the magnetic field lines, while alpha particles are positively charged so they would turn counter clockwise. That would be a nice way for you to more easily distinguish between the two particle types. You could perhaps buy neodymium magnets and place between the coolers, just make sure they are pointing in the same direction.
I'm not sure where in Sweden you guys are, but in some regions there are naturally occurring radon gas which is radioactive so if you have the cloud chamber in a poorly ventilated basement you might see more activity than if you are in a better ventilated room. You could also test the soil since there might be some trace radioactive isotopes in it from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Alternatively test the meat of wild boars, since they like to dig in the ground and eat roots they might be radioactive with isotopes from Chernobyl. After all, it was the Swedish nuclear power plant Forsmark that where first outside the Soviet union to detect the disaster due to the wind blowing from the south east on that faithful day in 1986. Furthermore, there are regions in Sweden with uranium in the ground, so you could consider testing some rocks (I know that there are some uranium ore in Slotsskogen in Gothenburg), however that might be considered illegal mining of uranium so check the laws first.
In conclusion you guys have many interesting things you could test with you cloud chamber.
This, a magnetic field would make this so much better!
Magnetic fields would be awesome!
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One super easy and cheap way to get something radioactive in Sweden is to go to a second hand store like Erikshjälpen or Myrorna and go to the glassware section. There’s usually some uranium glass there, which is how I started my collection of it. They’re not marked as such though so you have to use a UV flashlight on them to tell if they’re actually uranium, they have a certain glow.
I used to work in a teaching lab, I always looked forward to the part in the academic year when we got the cloud chambers out. We used CO2 'snow' to achieve the very cold temperatures (it was my job to make it, by jetting CO2 from a big cylinder into a cloth bag!). Seeing actual particle trails was always a wow moment, never got tired of seeing it. The little chambers we used had a built in radioactive source for alpha and beta.
A lot of old wrist watches have tritium on their dial. Tritium is a slightly radioactive material that was used to make the markers glow in the dark. You can find these watches on ebay, some of them are very cheap.
Tritium is common in fire arm weapon sights & optics as well, as it requires no batteries to glow and lasts for a long time
You can also just buy radioactive samples on eBay or Amazon. It’d be way more radioactive than the small amount of material in a wristwatch, and it isn’t even very expensive.
@@Chevsilverado This. Thorium is super cheap too, and you can also find americium sources in about half of smoke detectors
Downside of Tritium is that it has a very short half life. So going this route may be hit and miss if buying off Ebay.
It's also still used in glowing exit signs
And me thinking CZcams was already a clout chamber
You should go look at tik tok lol
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I love this, to be able to see the beauty of something humans was not designed to see, only being able to see it in our imagination, but to actually see it physically it’s absolutely crazy.
And asking AI to help him see it lol.
This is simply amazing. The cloud chamber (which I have seen in person in San Francisco) captured my imagination as a young adult. To see you build one yourself boggles my mind.
Try with TIG Welding Tungsten Electrode 2% Thoriated aka red tip, the thorium is supposed to be radioactive and emits alpha particles. They're not very expensive and you can find them in any welding supplies shop.
Definitely this. Also thoriated tungsten electrodes are relatively safe to handle since they're not radioactive enough to pierce through human skin. They're bad when you grind them and release radioactive dust into the air that you can breathe in.
Also gas lamp hoods are thoriated too.
Love catching this guys builds.
So innovative compared to so many of the others.
Wish I had his level of intelligence regarding electronics.
Study and you will get that knowledge.
I did not understand 10% of what you said but you had me hooked to watch the thing over and over. Its great to see your mind at work exploring the potential of things. Great video. Keeps these going. I enjoyed watching and learning. CO from Michigan USA
Cool vid! This might be my first DIY project in a very long time. One small detail, but I liked it so much it made me chuckle- That transition when you spun the base and then the plate appeared was smooth and really cool. Subscribed, cant wait for more!
Put Americium from a smoke detector in there. If you leave it in its canister, it is very safe.
Or thorium gas lantern mantles. Or Fiestaware.
Or as many others have pointed out, uranium glass.
Uranium glass is the safest of the non-smoke detector options. This mainly comes down to that the others are more likely to chip/fleck
Perhaps he could easily obtain Thorium from a microwave magnetron.
why not put a raw uranium deposit ;)
Or Tritium which was used on older watches as lume on hour markers and hands
@@joshuathomas512 Tritium beta decays which would show, but not as dramatically as alpha particles. Americium is an excellent choice since alpha particles will show well in a cloud chamber, and is safer so long as you choose not to eat it.
This is hands down the coolest thing you've built, and that's saying something because there's a lot of contenders
Dude your content never gets boring been watching for years, seen you grow up with me. It's insane. I wish do do even a fraction of the cool stuff you do. Love from Colorado
We made these many years ago at college, and used a large syringe to draw a partial vacuum, this increased the saturation and made a lot more trails visible - you could probably do that by making your chamber a much lower volume and putting a good seal around the base (might need to use glass instead of perspex?), we soaked a small pad in alcohol which allowed us to observe for much longer (place it to one side in the chamber) and cooled the base with a cake of solid CO2 - when you pulled the syringe the chamber went from barely working to amazing visibility, when a gentle pull is kept on the syringe it could be observed for many minutes before the vacuum or alcohol were exhausted - It's good to see it work with peltier coolers, we used to throw them in the bin due to their high power consumption and poor performance on higher powered processors.
I love how you do transitions to skip things like painting. And this was a genuinely interesting topic. Great video!
I have made a TEC cloud chamber in the past and here is something i learnt, if you add an electric field it makes the particle tracks much more defined, around 2-5Kv does the trick. I would recommend buying a bug zapper tennis racket, removing the internal PCB and connecting the negative high voltage terminal to the cold plate and then add a wire mesh above the cold plate that the positive terminal connects to, in mine it was around 100mm above, yours may vary. if you have this on a switch you can turn it on and off and compare the results.
another thing that i found was good was to add a few layers of fabric (I used cotton felt) on top of the wire mesh and soak it in isopropyl alcohol, this will last for a long time so you don't have to keep on spraying, you can add a heating element inside of this but i didn't find that necessary.
also the Americium found in smoke alarms is a good source of beta radiation if you are carful and want to try it. Another source of radiation is welding rods i don't remember exactly which type
6011 welding rods contain a high-cellulose potassium type coating which could give off a slight amount of radiation.
I love that you present your experiments in 4K Simon. Keep it up 👍.
I used to look up any video I could on cloud chambers so I suppose that's why youtube recommended me this, and I'm glad it did! I look forward to seeing what else you might do with this.
You're uploads are so good, makes me wish they came along more often. Best of luck
Your videos are always brilliant. Great editing, personality, sarcasm, and content. I always want to try making something after watching.
So much fun to watch! Thanks for the incredible amount of work that went into it.
Outstanding narration of all you accomplished!!! Well done!
This is next level stuff. Best editing, best experiment, best fun. OMG !
Thank you
Go to a local thrift store and look for uranium glassware, Its verry common and you can see it light up under UV light. Its slightly radioactive, nothing to worry about.
This is super amazing, can't wait to see what you put into next.
This was soo awesome!!
Your style of video and presentation mixed with you... Being you!
Long time subscriber and you are awesome 👍
I remember using a cloud chamber at school, but we just used dry ice - but yours is a more hi-tech solution :)
this video should have been so much longer! my god that was beautiful!
That was really cool, I learned a lot of new stuff! Footage and editing was perfect too!
Very cool experiment, dude! Congrats!
This is pretty cool! You should put some old drinkware or ceramic dishes near the chamber. Some of the really old stuff contains traces of radioactive elements. Or if a family member has an old wrist watch with glow in the dark clock arms.
This is easily one of the coolest videos I've seen in a long time! Definitely want to try it out myself
Coolest. See what you did there 😉 (totally right though).
Fan va coolt du! Fortsätt med vad du gör. Blev chockad när du börja prata svenska vilket gjorde mig ännu mer intresserad och fick mig att faktist att lära nått nytt
You are a legend and a genius to be mad enough to make these things! Awesome! Really enjoyed watching this!
I remember making one in Boy Scouts - it was such a cool experience. Thanks for the video - brings back some memories.
Incredible! Some old camera lenses have radio active glass in them that you could put in your cloud chamber.
CONGRATS! nice job!
thats so cool. really enjoyed seeing some small experiments not just pretty paterns
Good on you for getting it to work with a single layer of peltiers. It was my experience that a stack of two is needed, a high current peltier cooling the hot side of a lower current peltier, which in turn cools the cold plate. The top layer doesnt contribute all that much heat to the system (with them being driven by considerably lower current than the bottom peltiers) but it greatly enhances the delta-t possible.
I love all of your videos. They are detailed without being boring. They tell the story of your process well, and your transitions and editing are entertaining. Keep up the good work.
WOW, simply WOW!!
Thank you for sharing your journey of this build
Fascinating project! It's nice to see how the canal is constantly growing :) Radioactive substances are installed in fire alarms, it's worth a try.
What a great project! If you put the term "Cloud Chamber" in the title the majority of your audience will know exactly what you're talking about, and it will make your video easier to find in search engine results (for all the kids who want to make their own at home). Anyway, greetings! I hope you're doing well. The Marlin project continues to hold me in its grip, even occasionally making progress.
I second the "cloud chamber" addition to the title since that is the name for this object. I found the "Nobel Prize Machine" thing kinda confusing to have in the title.
The equivalent would be like, making a video tutorial on how to make pasta, but titling the video "Long chewy boys that you eat" or something. (Though to be fair, I would click on a title like that...)
The thing is, if you want to expand your channel and reach a wider layman audience who dont know what a cloud chamber is, you cant put cloud chamber in the title because only people who already know about cloud chambers will click. Veritasium's videos on clickbait and stuff explained this much better.
Although here I would say cloud chamber sounds cooler
@@no-bk4zx idk why you think you can't put cloud chamber in the title
"I Built Nobel Prize Machine To See Radioactivity: The Cloud Chamber"
There. It's that easy. Infact doing this will probably attract a wider audience besides just the layman. For example students. This video is a much better resource than whatever else they might find on the internet
but this is youtube and he wants to monetize. he prefers click bait.
tf is a cloud chamber?
tritium tubes can be obtained pretty cheap. I would also like to see a test with an old Japanese manual lens with yellow coating(most of them are slightly radioactive)
love the ad orange loading bar! Thank you for the content!
This was absolutely GREAT STUFF!
just started watching you and I'm already a big fan, I love your editing, and the amount of skill you show off in this video alone. keep up the good work man
Can you put in this pellet of metal I found while metal detecting in Australia?
lol perhaps a little IR192 tictac?
This is amazing! Awesome video, dude!
Amazing maker skill! Nice video.
I love the effect! If you tweak the voltage of the TECs a bit, you might reach a better input-power-to-deltaT point as the input power and maximum deltaT depend a lot on your setup (cooling, and thermal conductivity of the aluminum plate). Sometimes you have to reduce the power to the TECs to increase the deltaT. Sounds counter-intuitive, but that did the trick for my setup.
Maybe a smoke detector in the chamber? More specifically the radioactive parts inside
modern sensors do not use isotopes
@@artineogda what do they use instead? my old sensor has a radioactive warning on it
@@jungletroll3844 they use optoelectronics. Modern optoelectronic sensors can be very sensitive.
@@artineogda ty
You do good work, that's really excellent. A fun thing to try in there would be an old watch with a luminous dial and hands from a junk store. If you get an old enough one you have a radium source, still radioactive even if the fluorescent material mixed into the paint has stopped working. It's a real problem for people who repair old watches, the paint flakes off and can be inhaled.
your transitions are just so smooth god dang
Great work! I'm impressed how ChatGPT answered to your question. Maybe it was not clear enough, but you need to connect negative high voltage to that tungsten wire to create electron beam.
Honestly, this is absolutely insane suggestion by ChatGPT, and I don't understand why anyone even humoured it for a second. It's a -30 cloud chamber and putting a 1626.85C wire (assuming ~1900k hue) is not going to anything other than ruin the effect. Absolutely insane.
And how can you connect a negative DC voltage over a wire? Positive and negative in DC just refer to direction of current. If you swapped the connections on each end, you could call it negative, but it makes no difference.
@@1992jamo I agree, the "negative" voltage comment makes no sense. Voltage is simply relative to your reference. So negative one way is positive another.
For the radioaktive things, sometimes old watches have radium color used in it or you can look for vintage lenses with thorium used in the glass (although they can get pretty expensive)
Awesome experiment! thanks for sharing
Smoke detector? Usually contains americium 👍
Really well done! Awesome!
Super clever with the 3D printer bed! I've wanted to build one of these for so long but never saw a design I liked. I tried a few of the dry ice ones and even went to a museum to go see one. The one at the museum was out of order and my dry ice one was meh. TL;DR this is a fantastic build and has me inspired to make my own, thanks dude!
I made one of these in a high school science class many years ago. It was a small black cup with a clear lid, with some alcohol and a small chunk of dry ice. I still have a mental video of the particle trails. Very cool!
Love this channel, best you tube video I have seen in some time. BIG KUDOS HOPE TO SEE MORE LIKE THIS.
Very cool! Great work!
Fantastic work! 👍
The music compliments so good!
Your videos are always brilliant..
hey thats some nice editing, subscribed!
Absolutely amazing!
Wow...that's some super cool editing
Awesome project!
I built a tiny version of this - I mean it had a cascade but was only the size of the Peltier Square - but I got it to work numerous times - would like a bigger one - I admire all the construction steps and work you put into it to get it working 👍👍🙏🙏
Simon thank you for you work!!!!
Great video! Interesting stuff!
bout time someone finally started doing videos on cloud chambers. there are a few from cloudylabs but it needs more exposure. Please put a waterproof phone in one! i've always wanted to see the sort of particles they release
Very good work!
In second hand stores you can often find old fashion smoke alarms with a tiny tiny bit of americium in it. Be safe obviously and store the modified smoke alarm well marked but it really is neat to see it emitting those trails. The tiny speck Amercium is contained and glued firmly inside a small metal can that is surrounded by another meshed metal cap and doesnt need scraping of or other nasty action.
Your cloud chamber worked like a charm, it's a work of art.
Have you considered applying a magnetic field too?
I'll have to watch just a few more times so I can understand it. Those trails were really neat looking
Neat project! Fun editing in this video, too. 😀
You can buy old photo lenses and put it inside. Some of them contain radioactive glass elements and they cost next to nothing if bought as "parts only". List of these lenses can be found easliy
I remember a while ago some guys made an X-ray device using a reel to reel setup of 3M magic tape. The device needed to be in a vacuum to work as atmospheric particles stopped the effect, but such a basic device could be mounted in or beside the chamber, and stand back. It was thought to be a low tech way to be able to generate X-ray images in remote areas, but I haven’t heard anything about it recently (I heard about this around 20 years ago).
amazing work!
Cool. Awesome build.
I work in NDT-company and we use ray tube to do non destructive testing on things. I always wondered how the radioactive rays look like. Very interesting video.
All this complexity and power hungry equipment kind of dashes my hopes of building my own cloud chamber. But, good job! It's awesome to see it working.
always wanted to make one but not enough vids on youtube for reference. Amazing video!
Nice. There was an article in the Scientific American many years ago that gave instructions on how to build a simple cloud chamber using a champaign bottle.
you should make a website to link with the full details of your builds! ElectroBoom does this and its amazing for getting more information on how and why he builds a device a certain way
Radiation going through different materials is really cool. Haven't seen that before
This is one of the best pieces of content on youtube I have seen in my entire life (30 y.o).
mind blowing! so fun to watch ,understand and learn about the machine & radioactivity