A Radioactive Unboxing!

On this week's unboxing, Natalie is joined by long time friend, Christopher, to help unbox this radioactive stone! Watch along as the two explain the features and characteristics of radioactive gemstones!

JTV is one of the leading experts on gemstones and is the best source on YouTube for all things gem related. Featuring gem history, the science behind the stones, gemstones in pop culture, and much more, you too can become a gem expert by immersing yourself in JTV’s channel. Natalie, our host, is a Graduate Gemologist and an Applied Jewelry Professional.

[xxTrumpetBoyxx]

You're using music from my favorite lofi artist In Love with a Ghost in the background yet I don't see them attributed in the description :(

[ryrylamby]

I'm more of a biology nerd, but your channel gives me just enough chemistry to suffice my needs. Great job on coming up with new video ideas.

[moguhoki]

Great informative video! The only thing that could make this better is to adjust the audio levels so that the music isn't fighting what were you hearing from the people.

[foxhoundp]

I worked at an auction house for about 6 years, we got old costume and real jewelry in ALL the time. it wasn't till I was about 16, 3 years into working for this auction house, I was told by my bosses wife
"oh be careful with some of the green gemstones we get"
me, "oh why?"
bosses wife, "they're from when people used to wear and put radium in everything."
I wore alot of the jewelry as one of the "hosts" and to this day wonder if anything was actually irradiated enough or was actually coated in radium or was active uranium itself. I'll admit I was aware at the time some stuff had lead and radium based paint in it but not the stones themselves. I kinda have an idea of what pieces too since I was supposed to show people how some necklaces would glow in the dark. 😅 oh well

[VoIcanoman]

A cyclotron is not a nuclear reactor. It's a particle accelerator. It makes charged particles (usually protons or deuterons) go really fast and turns them into beams which can be directed at a target, changing its structure (and therefore properties). They do not typically result in residual radioactivity within the gemstone. Some nuclear research reactors can be used to produce neutron beams to direct at targets - here, residual radioactivity is common (as you are changing the isotopic composition of your target, adding neutrons to the elements and making them into radionuclides). Gamma rays are also known to alter the properties of a target material - cobalt-60 has been used to artificially irradiate gemstones. A natural mineral variety that only occurs due to gamma irradiation is smoky quartz - indeed, on some specimens you can see a ring of clear quartz around a center of smoky quartz, indicating that there might be a radioactive source buried in there (often a small chunk of zircon).

[alanamcleod]

I love this channel and I just found out about from an ad! But the music is a little too loud, so it makes it hard to hear what Natalie is saying

[cindywitherow]

Very interesting, but was hard to hear. Your competing with the music. Could the music be more of a back ground sound with a lower volumn. Thanks. Live learning new things.

[kiyadenham]

PLEASE SHOW MORE CLOSE UPS OF THE ACTUAL GEMS

[joshford]

Awesome video as it helps me understand how to store my mineral specimen with Alfa, Beta and Gamma. I also find it so interesting that they can work also out a zircons age by the amount of uranium and lead percentage of my memory is correct.

[KingdomWolf]

I have a pet betta fish named Zircon.
I was googling Zarcon pictures and google asked if I meant "Zircon"
My fish is iridescent. Everytime he turns he changes from blue to carribean sea green.
It was destiny. ( besides Zarcon from Space Fighter Lions is purple. )

[PoppinSunshine]

So interesting to know. I just bought blue topaz from JTV and did a lot of research on it before hand about irradiation.

Love this video

[SuperAwesomeReasons]

Oh! I loved this video!
Thanks for making it.

[theemeraldg]

my friend has a piece of Rounded Fluorite they call a Spirit stone, meaning a spirit is stuck in it, I'm not against that at all or anything but Knowing that Fluorite can sometimes Be Radioactive it worried me when she told me "If it gets mad it'll become kinda hot in my hand".

[complexobjects]

I just bought a green zircon because I had never seen it in that color before. I realized later that it was metamict which is so cool! Looks the exact the same color as yours.

[muskylemon]

has a geiger counter and a table full of radioactive minerals....scans only her hand.

[klausjendrach]

Please do a video about green diamonds 🙏🙏🙏

[nak]

Should I be concerned about Eudialyte, Opal, or Chalcedony? Some Chalcedonies or Opals can contain minor traces of Uranium and I have one nearly walnut sized rough Eudialyte in matrix.

[braintwo]

Fun fact: Ekanite is another radioactive gemstone which has 27% of thorium and sometimes uranium. They have tetragonal crystals but it's usually a Metamict. Allanite, Samarskite, Thorite, Thorianite, Titanite, Francevillite, Euxenite, Gadolinite, Zircon, and Fergusonite. All except Francevillite can be Metamicts too I think... There's many radioactive minerals

[Pootel]

Please make a video about Londsdaleite. It is really special, has an interesting story behind it and would make for a great video :D

[jerrysstories]

12:27 Took me a moment to figure out they were saying barrel not beryl.