Americium - A Metal, That Can VISUALIZE RADIATION!

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Hi, today I will tell you abot such unusual metal as americium.

[Thoisoi]

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[godfreypoon]

In Australia, we are allowed to put no more than 10 radioactive smoke alarms in our bin at once.
If we have more than 10, we have to treat them as radioactive waste, or alternatively put the excess units in a different bin.
There is no limit when placing them in a neighbour's bin.

[rabdimrzi]

This is the most American metal I've ever seen

[NightRunner]

What's really interesting is when you rip one open but keep it powered, and then put an oscilloscope on the output of the detector section. You can literally see the voltage levels drop as air gets more and more blocked by particles like smoke. That in itself isn't particularly astonishing, but then when you think of that crazy shower of particles flying off the Am241 sample getting interrupted by teeny tiny bits of carbon in the air causing a high voltage ionized air path to disrupt... Yeah... it's just totally cool. :-)

[PlasmaChannel]

Excellent shots you've captured here. What lens do you use for the tight macro shots?

[BackYardScience]

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[gogartymike]

What a brilliant documentary. Your content is consistently fantastic.

[thehyperscientist]

It's amazing what your doing here. Very few other chemistry channels I've seen talk about the radioactive elements in such detail and in a captivating way!

[CampyCamper]

The tracks through the ethanol vapour are beautiful!

[DaveDVideoMaker]

Thoisoi is back on his English channel after a month.

[jamesmorgan]

Top shelf visual explanatory lectures. Much appreciated.

[greasymoth]

Americium, the United State's response to the dread alloy known as Stalinium

[cpm]

I recently got some old radium watch hands, and a small sample of ThO2 for my element collection. The watch hands don't glow brightly, but if I let my eyes adapt to the dark for an hour, I can see the super dim glow, with crazy sparkling all over. For the ThO2, I bought a ZnS(Ag) screen to place on top, and it is also a super dim and sparkly light show. This is another cool way to visualize alpha radiation, although it is unfortunately difficult to capture on camera.

[happalula]

incredible... another awesome video about an every-day-appliance i never bothered to think about
really glad i found this channel in the past!

[Litepaw]

Dude just showed up at an ex-soviet nuclear waste disposal facility and they give him a tour.

Nice

[Tomas_Prucha]

Very good! I couldn't wait until you would upload. I watched in Russian first because of being very impatient. Your chemistry videos are excellent. 👋 from 🇨🇿

[galadriel]

My Grandkids are about to get educated by knowing more science and chemistry by watching your channel.

[KillersFromTheWest]

You’re the one that got me into chemistry, I had zero interest in this subject since I only cared about physics but you’ve sparked something big in me. Thank you for all that you do, I hope you make a lot of money off these videos.

[dims]

Videos like this remind me why I subscribed to thoisoi in the first place👍🏽

[FlyTimeLapse]

I came to know about application of Americium during a project. Americium was used there to determine thickness of the metal sheet. It was amazing to know how the radioactive property is used to determine metal thickness. Your videos are really informative and useful. Thank you.