Radium - The MOST RADIOACTIVE Metal ON EARTH!

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Do not repeat the experiments shown in this video!
Hi everyone! In this video I am going to tell you about the most radioactive metal on earth that is about radium. Radium is about a million times more radioactive than uranium. However, first let us talk about the discoverer of this metal that is about Marie Skłodowska Curie and her husband Pierre Curie and also about how their discovery of radium affected their health and life.

[Thoisoi]

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[arihantarya]

"Dont try this experiment"
Me- sadly keeping my box full of Radium back on the shelf😔

[yourboss]

He actually said Marie sklodowska Curie. I love him already.

[jeongna]

Radium is the most radioactive metal


Polonium and Plutonium: Hold my atoms

[claudiaaguilar]

Stop complaining about his accent and just enable the captions.
He has an accent. So what? That means he speaks more than one language.
Keep it up thoisoi! I really love your channel.
As a Chemistry student your videos get me excited and motivated 💜

[Spacedog]

30 years ago I had a radium dial watch that had been made into a broach. It was extremely radioactive. I had to keep it in a lead box. I exposed film in a light proof envelope for less than a second to the face of the watch. After development you could read the numbers and the position of the hands. Exposures longer than one second turned the negative completely black.

[gordonfreeman]

FANTASTIC video! Your production quality is outstanding and extremely informative. Thank you for producing quality content!

[Jin-Ro]

To get two noble prizes, as a woman, in that day and age, with no political correctness, and feminism seen as a real enemy by many, is a phenomenal achievement. She should be an inspiration to women everywhere, not the screaming Misandrists we have today.

[jefffredenburg]

I remember as middle school student, we were shown a movie in class about mc and her husband and at the end the narrator talk about how their home was still radioactive, from the doorknobs to just about everything they'd touched. The sacrifices they had made in the name of science.

[garyseaman]

Thank you. I really enjoy your videos. I enjoyed chemistry at school back in the eighties but wanted to take the mechanical engineering route. The school wouldn't let me study both physics and chemistry. Thanks again. Worth every moment watching.

[spwit]

Her full name was Maria Skłodowska Curie. She was born and rised in Poland. Don't forget about it.. She has also discovered Polon element

[antonevan]

Marie Sklodowska Curie, the most badass woman ever

[stevenjohn]

If you're done with all the Elements, are you going to make videos about molecules? That would be awesome, and you basically couldn't run out of those, especially the organic ones ;)

[wellyngtonweller]

Talking about radioactive elements we had an accident (level 5 at International Nuclear Event Scale) that happened here in Brazil about 32 years ago.
A man found a sealed capsule on an abandoned hospital and took it to his house, after opening it to sell the lead, he found a pretty nice glowing blue substance inside of it and took it to his home.
He gave some it to his neighbors, some friends and to some people from his family (including his brother's daughter that ate some of it with eggs accidentally)
Some people played with it, giving it to even more people. After some hours in contact with the Caesium the whole family begun to feel sick having all sort of problems caused by the radiation, they didn't knew what could be happening but his wife thought it could be happening because of the weird glowing substance that he found.

So, after some time they took the unknown substance to a health surveillance center to ask if it could be the cause of their problems, 'cause everything started after her husband open that sealed capsule. When the technician used his Geiger counter he thought that it was broken because the measure was too high, he borrowed another equipment to measure it again cause he couldn't believe at what he was seeing.
To make everything even worse, the government kept everything in secret telling to people it was a gas leakage...

Approximately 1000 people were affected by the disaster, the dead people had to be berried on sealed lead coffins and then covered with concrete.

It happened at the city of Goiânia-GO at 13th September 1987, the case is known by "O acidente - Césio 137".
I don't know if it is interesting to be shown on one of your videos but I think that it could be used as a warning to the people. Consider talking about it when you have the opportunity to show us something about this element.

[chrisoz]

Thank for saying ‘Skłodowska’ as her name. People assume she was French because no one says it. She was Polish of course

[papaversomniferum]

Yes!!! We love your voice! Thank you for making videos you teach me a lot! And you are one of 2 major youtubers that got me into chemistry!

[Thereal_prettyinblack]

You forgot to mention she was a Polish scientist and her name was Maria Sklodowska-Curie. She had a French husband but she was not French at all. Pierre was more helping in her work but she was a motor of all the discoveries. Polonium was called after Poland
She was also one of the first women in Europe with a driving licence which at that time was quite bold if not scandalous.

[denizbluemusic]

i am pretty sure that Actinium is more radioactive with a half life of 21 years (most stable isotope) and superheavies which only have a half life of a few minutes at best

[bhabukbhattarai]

I am litterally in love with his English😆😅😉

[joemalola]

Here I am holding my mouth gasping at how much radium used to be ingested back then. Wow.png