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@davidgoodnow269 Күн бұрын
Very informative, thank you. I had always thought it was stupid to worry about radon gas, because of living in an area where uranium is extremely common, and therefore radon would be common, so why worry about that which I cannot control? Now, at least I know why people went stupid about it. The press at the time was all freakout, no explanation. In any case, it has changed absolutely nothing in fact, just added the expense of tests that have no relavance to anything except life and death -- meaning, irrelevant to those who are living their lives.
@Roguescienceguy 3 күн бұрын
Should I be worried or happy that a Russian is willing to explain how a Geiger counter works?
@allRadioactive 3 күн бұрын
You think I’m Russian? Sorry to disappoint but you’re pretty off 😅
@Roguescienceguy 3 күн бұрын
@allRadioactive then you are either Finnish or from a country that was behind the iron curtain. Kind of disappointed now, I thought I had a good bit of banter going
@nommmo 3 күн бұрын
Акцент сломал мой мозг
@allRadioactive 3 күн бұрын
😂
@BetterGeiger 5 күн бұрын
Thank you for the video review! You are right something rigid would be preferred on the display, but you might be surprised how tough that plastic cover is, it can withstand a surprising amount of abuse. Regarding the sensor position, it is marked on the top only so that I could have all of the printed stuff on one side only, but the sensor is in a position approximately equal in distance from the top, bottom, and 'front'... so you can use all three directions for measurements. Maybe I should explain that more clearly in the manual. And yes you are right it is practically only a X-ray/gamma measurement device with very low beta sensitivity... that is partly on purpose because a common mistake beginner's make is using an ordinary Geiger counter and placing it next to a beta source, which a GM tube responds to very strongly, and then they look at the dose number and mistakenly think it is accurate. Actually if a GM tube is picking up beta the dose rate is extremely wrong, to measure dose with a GM beta should be blocked (and even then energy-compensation is missing, so the number will not be very accurate, but beta is the thing which makes it give extremely wrong numbers). Lastly, you are right the algorithm could be improved to respond faster to high dose rate environments, I will work on that.
@jaffacalling53 6 күн бұрын
How much of a concern is uranium glass? I would imagine some of the gas would stay trapped in the glass.
@allRadioactive 6 күн бұрын
Uranium glass doesn’t really produce much radon as it’s processed uranium without its decay products. I wouldn’t worry about it. Same goes for uranium glaze
@AndréSilveira-VA2HAS 6 күн бұрын
I’m very interested in one of those.
@allRadioactive 6 күн бұрын
It’s pretty cool meter, definitely better than most other budget Geiger counters out there
@NeganFluffyFurry 6 күн бұрын
i was looking into getting one of these at one point but settled on a radiascan 701. it seems like a nice meter but its not really my type haha. thank you for making a video about it! im still trying to get new meters so maybe ill get one of em
@The-One-and-Only100 6 күн бұрын
Get the radiacode 102 instead since it's smaller you can buy accessories for it and it does gamma spectroscopy to prove what isotopes make something radioactive
@NeganFluffyFurry 6 күн бұрын
@@The-One-and-Only100 i have a radiacode 103! its a very nice meter
@The-One-and-Only100 6 күн бұрын
Why was it uploaded again?
@allRadioactive 6 күн бұрын
Had to do a few minor changes. I hate doing that as the initial view counts and comments are lost...
@The-One-and-Only100 6 күн бұрын
@allRadioactive what were the minor changes?
@allRadioactive 6 күн бұрын
@@The-One-and-Only100 nothing big. You wouldn’t miss anything 😉
@The-One-and-Only100 6 күн бұрын
@allRadioactive its the exact same video just now a piece of ceramic with uranium glaze in place of the strontium disk source and thoriated tungsten welding rods in place of the americium disk source
@allRadioactive 6 күн бұрын
@@The-One-and-Only100pretty much
@Killerean 8 күн бұрын
This might be like the second time in my life I actually like the sponsor of a video/a product being offered to me. :D
@Fullsend2534 8 күн бұрын
What’s beryllium for I got a magnetron tube Ik it’s got thorium or turns into uranium
@KuruGDI 9 күн бұрын
I wonder if there is an industry use for Radon gas 🤔
@allRadioactive 8 күн бұрын
It is used in alternative medicine but other than that, I’m not aware of any other uses
@KuruGDI 9 күн бұрын
These Radon meter looks interesting. But how much does it cost? ... over 200 bucks. Well... 😐I mean... I don't have any _nobel_ friends visiting me, so I might as well take the nobel gas instead, I guess...
@allRadioactive 6 күн бұрын
Unfortunately specialised equipment tends to cost a bit more but I think the Aranet Radon meter is definitely worth its price.
@John-Is-My-Name 9 күн бұрын
I've recently been informed I've been living my first 20 years before I moved out of my parents home in about 400-800 Bq/m3. Yeah not great... Most people live their whole life not even knowing what level their house is at.
@allRadioactive 6 күн бұрын
That’s why radon test are mandatory in some places. You just don’t know unless you test for it!
@brfisher1123 10 күн бұрын
Excellent! I’ve been waiting for someone to also take note of these fossil megalodon teeth often being slightly radioactive and doing gamma spectroscopy on them even since I’ve discovered my fossil megalodon tooth being radioactive back in 2021! Not scary but pretty interesting that these things that people love collecting can be radioactive! ☢️ ☢️
@allRadioactive 7 күн бұрын
Yes! I knew about them being potentially radioactive for a while but where I live we don’t have that many megalodon teeth so when I saw one that was spicy during my trip to US, it was an instant buy for me
@williamkane 10 күн бұрын
Thanks for this advertisement..ugh, I mean video!
@allRadioactive 6 күн бұрын
Wanted to make a video about Radon gas for a while but I always struggle about how to visualise it. Collaboration with Aranet allowed me to finally create the video and share it here on the channel. Wouldn’t use their products if I thought they weren’t good 😉
@troyclayton 11 күн бұрын
Almost all homes built in the last 30-40 years where I live in Maine have radon mitigation systems. I borrowed a radon detector, and turned our system off after getting baseline levels. I turned the system back on after I saw the levels increasing.
@wetbadger2 12 күн бұрын
It would have been nice if you showed the radon map of the USA. The only way too keep our radon levels safe is constantly pulling a vacuum under the basement concrete slab.
@realvanman1 12 күн бұрын
I sure wish they'd make these detectors that DON'T need a damned app on dumb smartphone that costs a fortune and only lasts a few years at best. Stand alone device, please! Maybe a USB connector so I can use a computer with it, when desired.
@allRadioactive 12 күн бұрын
I’ll be honest, I am also not a fan of smartphone apps that are required to use a certain product but in this case, it actually feels more like the extension of the meter. The device works perfectly fine without one and only when you want to get more insight into the data the meter has collected (graphs etc), then the app is necessary.
@Norsilca 9 күн бұрын
At least this one doesn't immediately demand location permissions along with tons of other ones before it will do anything, like the Radiacode app. Though it does require the "nearby devices" permission on Android, which tbf is necessary for bluetooth but it could also allow them to locate you 🫤.
@vladtepesh3761 Күн бұрын
Have you thought of a Virtual android device ran on your PC with plugins to do the talking?
@paulkurilecz4209 13 күн бұрын
Unless you are storing tons of the minerals, you really don't need to worry.
@Rivenworld 14 күн бұрын
KZbin deliberately blocking this video, 4 attempts to view then it stops. YT Censorship rules again!
@allRadioactive 6 күн бұрын
Hmm, I tried from my other account and had no problems!
@sharonfox 14 күн бұрын
Your numerical commas are in a nonsensical place.
@nzoomed 15 күн бұрын
Its funny how such a heavy element can remain a gas, which its metal decay products are lighter and turn to a solid.
@allRadioactive 15 күн бұрын
Yes, chemistry is really amazing and fascinating!
@janisalnis6422 15 күн бұрын
uranium salts become insoluble in aneorobic conditions - lack of oxygen
@janisalnis6422 15 күн бұрын
there is uranium in Estonian shale minerals that are sediments. Some people sau that as uranium is heavy it should sink to the bottom of the see. The chemistry is that in aneirobic cinditions uranium salts become insoluble. Aneirobic conditions happen because od bacteria digesting fossils.
@janisalnis6422 15 күн бұрын
Thank you for a nice video about radon meter. I also like Aranet radon sensor. It runs from 2 batteries. I placed it into a plastic food bucket with a tight lid togather with granite pebbles and it went up to 2000 Bq/m3 reading. Radia showed that this granite is only 2 times above the background. It hink there is two isotopes of radon. The bad one is from uranium as it has 4 days of halftime while radon from Th has about 1 minute and most of it decays before gets chance to get inhaled.
@Norsilca 9 күн бұрын
Does the app require you to log in or anything before using it?
@janisalnis6422 Күн бұрын
app can read multiple meters nearby via bluetooth. When a phone pairs the device e-ink screen displays a code that need to enter in the phone. Phone does not need to be connected to internet. I use old Android phone as well as iphone to read out same sensors. It is nice that family members can read out the device from different phones
@nefariumxxx 15 күн бұрын
Good video and if anyone doubts getting radon contamination all over them and in their lungs from uranium mine exploration... just go see the end of the Carbis Bay Crew video of South Terras mine. You won't doubt it anymore. :)
@wacojones8062 15 күн бұрын
Interesting element my mom took 27 RAD exposure over an 18 month period making Radon seeds in gold tubes for initial cancer tests at The Mayo Clinic back in the late 1940;s. Pre waldo working around a pile of lead blocks using mirrors and custom hand tools only hands and wrists exposed most of the time.
@allRadioactive 6 күн бұрын
That’s really fascinating but also kinda scary. 27 RAD is definitely not a small dose! You’re sure about radon being used for cancer treatment? I never heard of it being used for that purpose but I know that Radium was used back in the day, before everyone learned that it is actually really not good for human body.
@ruediix 16 күн бұрын
As of the proper way to embed uranium-based minerals for display to prevent particles, radon and radiation emission: Encase them in a heavy leaded glass case, fill that case with resin (this seals), then add a resin coat to seal the leaded glass (due to heavy leaded glass emitting lead dust with age.)
@allRadioactive 15 күн бұрын
Seams like a bit of an overkill but I’m sure it’s gets the job done!
@Don.Challenger 14 күн бұрын
No counts from a radiation sensor, but maybe best to exhibit at a museum or such - say example items from Chernobyl with count rates at encasement on a label.
@BuGBurnout 16 күн бұрын
Me: setting up uranium mining in Factorio while watching this video LOL
@seansingh4421 16 күн бұрын
Without sunscreen I don’t go out…Trust no ionizing radiation 😂😂😂
@juliusphiletta5171 17 күн бұрын
Weißt du, wie man herausfindet, wann der Sr-90 Prüfstrahler (B-8) produziert wurde? Auf der Rückseite des Strahlers steht eine zweistellige Nummer.
@allRadioactive 16 күн бұрын
Ich hat night gesehen Nummer oder Identifikation am die B-8 Prüfstrahler. Sr90 hat 28.8 Jahre Halbwertszeit so ich denke wann du Weiss von welcher Jahr die Geiger Zahler kommt, du kannst +/- 1 Jahr geben fur die Prüfstrahler. Entschuldigung für mein sehr schlecht deutsch, ich lerne aber ich bin nicht gut mit neue Sprache 😅
@juliusphiletta5171 16 күн бұрын
@@allRadioactive My source comes from an DP-5V, the back of the source has the number "5" on it. I thought that it could mean that it was produced in 1985. But I guess without the meter where it came from you can just estimate the age based on the activity.
@nagi603 17 күн бұрын
downside of eInk: less apparent when it runs out of juice (or somehow dies otherwise) unattended.
@allRadioactive 16 күн бұрын
Didn’t know about that! The meters have couple year battery life depending on the settings, so I guess you can write down the date when the batteries were last replaced and when they should be replaced on a piece of tape and stick it onto the battery door of the meter
@defeatSpace 17 күн бұрын
The irony of a noble gas also being a carcinogen.
@allRadioactive 17 күн бұрын
Not very noble of it, is it?
@AndreasDelleske 14 күн бұрын
@@allRadioactiveWell think of what humans do to Nature..
@justicar5 2 күн бұрын
@@allRadioactiveI dunno, being a sadistic killer sounds on brand for a noble
@SofiaGolubtsova 18 күн бұрын
Great video! Very informative 👍🏻
@allRadioactive 18 күн бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@alisforaluminum 19 күн бұрын
Got this in my recommended and I'm surprised you don't have 1 million subs, considering this is a very well made video! I'm in school for nuclear engineering so this is all super interesting to me. I'll definitely be checking out your other videos too! Subscribed!! 😊
@allRadioactive 19 күн бұрын
I’m glad you enjoyed it! The topics I cover are very niche and not a lot of people are interested in them. When I started the channel I could have never expected it to grow to the size it is now and to give me the amazing opportunities and community of other nuclear hobbyists. I’m sure one day the KZbin algorithm gods will find my content 😅
@pirobot668beta 19 күн бұрын
What I didn't forget about collecting Uranium minerals: Don't do it! There are enough chemical nasties among minerals, why go out of your way to get ones that can get you back? I know, it's a rock-hounds 'merit badge' to get radio-actives in the bag. I'll stick with blue Asbestos tee-shirts or Cinnabar dentures if I wanna live dangerously.
@allRadioactive 19 күн бұрын
Uranium minerals can be very beautiful and colourful especially under black light. Personally I find it fascinating how Uranium decays into other elements such as Thorium, Radium or Radon. Uranium mineral collecting surprisingly isn’t dangerous as one would think, of course given the safety guidelines are followed, but I also totally understand why some wouldn’t like to have it in their collection. In any case, I hope you enjoyed the video and learned something new 😃
@kwongmanlung 20 күн бұрын
I assume that this radon detector would need to be located far from my very large collection of minerals in order to read correctly?
@allRadioactive 19 күн бұрын
I keep mine on the opposite side of the room where I have my minerals. I’m not sure about the false readings triggered by uranium minerals. I think it’s best to contact Aranet (or the manufacture you are considering buying the meter from) and asking them about it.
@kwongmanlung 18 күн бұрын
@@allRadioactive thank you
@mikusmilgravis2775 18 күн бұрын
@allRadioactive Or, you can try an experiment: find a larger jar with a lid, place the Aranet radon sensor and rocks inside, and study whether the radon levels increase. It should give a good indication of how much radon is released from a few rocks.
@mfbfreak 17 күн бұрын
@@mikusmilgravis2775 Just be aware that the meter can get contaminated with solid decay products of gaseous radon, and it will take a few half lifes before it goes back to normal. If you're sealing the radon meter in a jar with the minerals, you're gonna get a very high concentration.
@allRadioactive 17 күн бұрын
@kwongmanlung I left my radon meter right next to the box with my minerals and the readings didn’t change but when I placed it inside, the readings quickly went up. so I think it’s doing a pretty good job at isolating the background radiation from radon
@stipi6996 20 күн бұрын
As soon as i watched through your video it struck me.... i seen those filters and we have them installes on roofs of our company and we swap them on regular basis. Next time ill cut some piece and seal it and do a 1 day radiacode test 🙂thanx for heads up. What i allso noticed at our company that i detect only 160 to 180 cpm with radiacode 103 but at my home (multiapartment house) i get no less than 350 cpm it got me wondered what this is about, i was thinking about radon meter as i have 2 kids and curently i have no minerals in possesion, only some aliexpress goodies... maybe lower values at work speak for the quality constant ventilation benefits.
@allRadioactive 19 күн бұрын
The “goodies” you are referring to most probably contain Th232 which does also emit radon but a different isotope, Radon 220 which has much shorter half life. I really wouldn’t worry about radon coming front AliExpress goodies. If you don’t have any strong samples, then most probably you have some natural uranium or thorium in the concrete or bricks from which your building is built. I have Uranium in my walls and on my raysid I can pick up double the background I get outside, nothing to worry about and it’s perfectly normal
@janisalnis6422 Күн бұрын
air filters loose their activity quickly. You should start measuring as soon as possible after air flow had been switched off. Geiger counter should give some results. After 10h will be no activity leftl. another test is to use a vacuum cleaner and cotton pad as a filter and suck for 20 min.
@stipi6996 19 сағат бұрын
@@allRadioactive thank you for answer, well 2 weeks back i got Adrianov compas from ussr and and that thing is glassed originaly and still gives 10 to 14 micro Sieverts/front through glass up close and 5 of the back through plastic and those things were meant to be worn like a watch (radium dials and theu did the colouring thick) allso i have 2 very old 1cm dials in plastic case but not more. it is not much but still i was considering led strip to be layed in inner case just to play safe, and then again i would trap some more gases inside and then probably would be a good idea to open it on well aired room or outside.
@stipi6996 19 сағат бұрын
@@janisalnis6422 thanx, i will definitely try this and report back if some visible results