Making uranium glass

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For this project, I'll be making radioactive uranium glass, which was very popular 100 years ago. Under a blacklight, the uranium in it fluoresces to give off a nice green color.
WARNING: Working with uranium and radioactive material is dangerous, and this video is for entertainment/educational purposes only. Please don't try and repeat what you see. Also, when the project is done, the waste needs to be dealt with and handled properly. On my second channel, NileBlue, I show what I did with it and you can check it out here: • Cleaning up my uranium...
References:
• Applied Science: / bkraz333
• Cody'sLab: / thecodyreeder
• Cloudylabs: • Cloudylabs cloud chamb...
Uranium waste cleanup on NileBlue: • Cleaning up my uranium...
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[@acearachnid]

“The government doesn’t really like it when you show how to refine uranium on the internet.” Damn my Saturday plans are ruined

[@DrewskisBrews]

@@user-yg4kj2mf1p someone or a small group of people with infinite patience could do it over a period of decades without detection.

[@Spolt_main]

@@user-yg4kj2mf1p I ALSO HAVE QUESTIONS....

[@deansampsend6916]

Same

[@tonyk421]

Cody's lab yellow cake, it's gone now.

[@SynKronos]

Δημήτρης Κυρκου You’d be discussing what is termed dirty. Really needs a massive centrifuge although there is research in to centripetal cyclotrons that suggest it is possible. Fortunately the most basic of cyclotrons are by far beyond the average idiot, how they will then build a centripetal device to accrue mass while limiting accelerated exponential decay is beyond most of the worlds top physicists.

[@echalone]

"I never made glass before, so let's make uranium glass"

[@zenithartistry518]

That's NileRed for ya!

[@imademedikasurya3917]

"After that I got cancer..."

[@euruskreacatoa2370]

@@imademedikasurya3917 but then I called William and Michel to make a robotic body to transfer my continence and it worked out pretty well. I'm really impressed of what those two did , ok enough of that , now let's try to make antimatter with a simple homemade particle accelerator

[@somethingwithbungalows]

Azim Ali did you just.. did you just reference..?

[@cuno115]

Azim Ali huh

[@shrek3759]

You deserve an award for making Physics and Chemistry fun

[@Overthinking-rain]

I know, I don't understand anything about chemistry but I love watching these videos

[@ack7956]

Fun* *For people who didn't already enjoy it.

[@leartbytyci5057]

Fr tho i started watching him 2 weeks ago and my physics grade went from an f to a c+

[@theformer1337agent]

@@leartbytyci5057 damn if u keep watching ur grades gonna go upto a+

[@KasaneKurow]

Physics and Chemistry has always been fun

[@ChaoticBad]

I’m actually curious about the radiation readings on the cup he bought.

[@matt25675]

@@greekstraycats what is the radiation level usually in those cups? High?

[@greekstraycats]

@@matt25675 Yes, I am also curious. I will buy some. I think every overseas flight is more stressful than owning some of this stuff.

[@AliceYobby]

@@greekstraycatsplease let us know what the reading turns out to be when you do this!

[@greekstraycats]

@@AliceYobby of course I will. My LND-712 is quite sensitive to Alpha. It is going completely crazy with Americium -241. Fortunately on very short distance only. Have to wait for a local offer from Greece, now. Shipping is more expensive than the glass when order from outside Greece.

[@gelatinous6915]

uranium glass actually has very low radiation, only slightly more than the average background dose.

[@noahreeverts465]

Biggest thing I've learned from this channel is that between Amazon and eBay you can buy litteraly anything.

[@presidentofallfoodnice8113]

Yeah i got a big lump of uranium online

[@presidentofallfoodnice8113]

@@TomatoSauceKing including uranium

[@aerpods]

guns

[@brando12343]

You can buy anything on the internet if you know your way around the dark web

[@jeanssradio.7067]

You can buy so many things, maybe not a very specific thing but with other things you can make the specific thing. Let me know if I’m wrong.

[@roboactive]

Cons: "It can't make nuclear bombs."

[@ranoekeo5677]

Only if😦

[@tashachan5418]

i literally thought you said this as a joke, but knowing nile i went back to check just in case and jesus christ there it was..... i think i went threw an existential crisis, nile is truly chaotic...

[@noodle714]

Tasha Chan ???

[@technetium4761]

Not being usable to make bombs seems like a "pro" rather than a "con" to me.

[@ianboard544]

Cody will be disappointed.

[@user-bq2mv6fg3v]

I'm a Boro-silicate laboratory glass blower. I've worked with custom uranium glass before. The trick to keep your specimens from shattering is a technique known as annealing. To accomplish this, you would want 2 separate furnaces. One for melting and the other for annieline. Place your graphite block in the aneeling furnace at about eleven hundred degrees fahrenheit. Open the door once the block and the furnace is preheated. place your spasiman On your graph light block at eleven hundred degrees for at lea half an hour. then Slowly reduce the temperature of your aneeling furnace without opening the door. Over the course of twenty four hours And till your sample is near room temperature And you should not have any internal stress anymore This process aligns the internal crystalline structure of the silica Transforming it into a stress free homogeneous mass. You will want to reduce the temperature on an inverted J curve slowly at first. But once you get past about 400° fahrenheit leaving the door closed u till it has completely cooled you should be fine - James

[@TheKamasGod]

I have now acquired another piece of knowledge I may never need but still was interesting to learn about.

[@user-oh5sp1bi1i]

same@@TheKamasGod

[@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179]

Didnt he try to do just that?

[@ChinedumUzoma-sn6kd]

@@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 yh he said it before he did tht why so

[@murasaki848]

@@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 Not exactly. As the OP said, the proper way to anneal glass is to place it in the oven and let the oven cool down over time in controlled steps. Most of my friends who have taken glass lampworking more seriously than I did have ovens specifically meant for this process. He's trying to make borosilicate glass (think Pyrex), but I'm puzzled since he's not using aluminum oxide in the mix as is typical from what I understand. The omission may be intentional, but it also may be in part why such small pieces were so sensitive.

[@spenzr6920]

"Nile, that mango yoghurt on the table tastes weird, you should get rid of it" Him: mango yoghurt..?

[@NativeAsElizabethWarren]

His name is Nigel Braun BTW. His channel is named after ‘nile red’, a type of lipophilic stain used in biochemistry and microbiology. It’s other name is ‘nile blue oxazone’ which is where his second channel Nile Blue gets its name.

[@spectrumforthesoul6322]

@@NativeAsElizabethWarren nigel like the portal 2 core?

[@NativeAsElizabethWarren]

@@spectrumforthesoul6322 sure

[@KaihanDTuna]

@@NativeAsElizabethWarren he has cool name ngl

[@waerden]

@@spectrumforthesoul6322 Like literally every person named Nigel, but yes, like the Portal 2 core

[@mikemorr100]

"I'd like to refine uranium" *The government is watching

[@whyisblue923taken]

mikemorr100 Hillary Clinton would like to know your location

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

Harriet Jones is watching if you get the reference

[@pixelman6025]

I was going to make the same comment

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

Man your comment is growing fast

[@ericlotze7724]

and cody's lab...

[@toddmcquiston5997]

“I’d never worked with uranium before, so I figured I would follow the instructions.” Good plan.

[@LargeSlime]

This video has been out for 1 minute so how is this comment 20 hours old

[@diktwist8487]

bruh wtf 20 hours?

[@hecta14]

patronite probably

[@FunnyMemes-dr3se]

It was only out for 7 minutes...

[@numonefranbegbiefan]

How long till Nile gets cancer

[@JerryEricsson]

When I was a kid in the 60's my Brother-in-law worked at a Uranium extraction plant in North Dakota. The plant had. a huge kiln where Uranium ore was dumped in one end, then heated and transported the length of the device and came out the other end in a different form. Occasionally a bolt or nut would drop in with the mix and come out the other end as a blob of steel imbedded with uranium ore. He gave me a couple of these, with the advice, carry them in your pocket for a few weeks and you will never have to worry about making your girl friend pregnant. Well I never did carry them, in fact I donated them to a. museum to be displayed in their mineral collection, where they still lay, emitting radiation into the pure South Dakota air. The Brother-in-law has now gone to his rewards, as has my sister, he good wife, cancer took them both, hell it attacked me as well and my other sister and my good wife of 51 years and 4 days. Mine, the Doctors say is survivable, where the rest of my family's were not. Funny how that works, I am now healing from the holes in my belly where the doctor cut me open and took out my cancerous Kidney and half my adrenal gland.

[@onechessdude]

Holy hell, why would he give you that? Probably shouldn't have been employed at an extraction plant.

[@balls3062]

how did he even got the job with no knowledge of radiation at all

[@fewbronzegames]

was a different time lol@@onechessdude

[@SantiagoRodamar]

You alive then😊

[@garyweber7139]

The mother of an old school friend of mine had a large collection of uranium glassware. She kept the glass in a locked leaded glass display cabinet with and alarm system.The artwork was very beautiful, I believe the collection was quite valuable, most was a light green.

[@a.karley4672]

I like Uranium Glass too - it's very pretty. But I wouldn't bother with the leaded glass cabinet - normal glass would be perfectly adequate for the Beta and Alpha rays, and hundreds of kg of leaded glass would be inadequate to absorb the Gamma radiation. Check if the glass *really* is lead-rich. The lead *strip* used to hold plain glass panes together is radiologically useless - and that is the normal meaning of "leaded glass".

[@SkyGameZZZZ]

I like how he listed “can’t make bombs” under cons lis

[@infini_ryu9461]

*FBI would like to know your location*

[@se7en427]

2:04

[@desertracer619]

And no nukeular energy

[@infini_ryu9461]

@@chloroform7204 A lot of countries, apparently. It's actually really easy to get nukes, you don't even need to build nuclear reactors, but most countries don't want them or have nuclear allies. Any country willing to spend some GDP on nuclear research can dig uranium out of the ground, enrich it to weapons grade in centrifuges, and voila--You're a nuclear power. That's how North Korea got theirs, without a single reactor. Hence why the argument for less reactors to stop bomb proliferation is utter nonsense, it's actually the complete opposite. Ironically, 10% of the energy created by US reactors is from old soviet warheads bought from Russia, rather reactors have done the most to stop proliferation.

[@Silicosis_]

To be fair that is a con

[@aimee6839]

I love how so many of your statements are basically “I knew this was a bad idea. I did it anyway. It was indeed a bad idea.” It just really sells the Scientific Realism.

[@Life-uu5yo]

Humans really like doing this.

[@ttdrex9569]

That reminds me of The Demon Core. Even if it's stupid but you do it anyway.

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

This feels like a call out

[@damaraksama3008]

fuck around and find out

[@femmywemmy]

That's how Chernobyl happened. "Raise the damn power!"

[@prestonsukenik187]

Nile: Makes glass once Nile: Proceeds to make the second batch that he has ever made in his life WITH URANIUM

[@joshuamartin2008]

It's amazing how many chemicals you can get from cleaning supplies and gardening supplies.

[@PembuatKomentarHandal]

I Like To Think That "Cleaning Supplies" Is Uranium

[@frozenjune83]

"Special waste container:" The neighbors trashcan.

[@Mikemk_]

No, he has a drawer that he stores his waste in, and in a few years he'll pay a company to dispose of it all

[@SausageBrosdotbik]

@@Mikemk_ Whooosh

[@James-le8gd]

@@SausageBrosdotbik no one says that anymore but you're right

[@Mahbus]

See my meme guys

[@annette_lu]

@@inferno7181 *worked

[@salamiflavoredlacroix9284]

im just wondering what his search history looks like because it must be insane, I mean seriously "uranium for sale" "uranium glass" "diamond carbonated water for sale" "toilet paper alcohol" "how to make carcinogens"

[@williamnicholson8133]

Yeah his fbi agent must be really confused.

[@donguklee6904]

Not worse than mine I don't use incognito

[@Piyushkarkare]

@@donguklee6904 oof

[@soarimg]

@@donguklee6904 me neither, though I do use a separate google account

[@joy303jake2]

CIA is watching him.

[@Kalina_009]

"I simply had no choice. I had to turn the death rock into death powder. I really had absolutely no choice. 😔" -Nile 2020

[@mortenthorpe]

In photography, some really old lenses have amazing optical qualities, because the glass contains Thorium (I think it’s thorium)… maybe, if you have the gear to measure optics, try and see if you can find the recipe, methods, and ultimately results of such optics

[@LawTaranis]

Erbium is used in fiber optic cables to improve TIR quality. Doping is such a wild science trick.

[@callmeval3542]

Ahh, another episode of "Videos that put NileRed on a FBI watchlist"

[@Potatoman_-fx3gs]

he is in Canada i don't think the FBI has a watchlist for canada but i could be wrong.

[@representelanation4463]

@@Potatoman_-fx3gs actually everyone of us Canadians are on an fbi watch list. That maple syrup has to come from somewhere ya know.

[@Potatoman_-fx3gs]

@@representelanation4463 i hate being on a list

[@buddycatdudeguy7169]

@@Potatoman_-fx3gs As an American, I can say that the FBI more than likely has specific watchlists for each major country.

[@Potatoman_-fx3gs]

​@@buddycatdudeguy7169 so not canada you guys could CRUSH us in a battle however when it comes to karen's i think we win

[@supersophisticated9943]

normal: "world war 2 was very, very horrible because of the mass killings and treacheries of war." nile: "world war 2 was a bit sucky cause they took all the uranium for weapons instead of uranium glass.."

[@paul_109]

He's a little confused but he got the spirit

[@No_namess]

1.2k likes and one comment why now it’s 2 thi

[@lapeez2277]

broke vs woke

[@sniperheroes3082]

noice...

[@-dodup-5970]

Yes Yes and and I I will do internet

[@josephwisniewski3673]

I know three local blowers who have screwed around with uranium glass. Al Young in Detroit probably did the most. He melted a few pots of it, at a much higher concentration than you used, and drew out bars of the colored glass. John Fitzpatrick in Ferndale got his hands on a couple of those bars. You can break a chunk off a bar, pick it up on the end of your blowpipe, and blow through it. Windy Dankoff ran pots of it at a more normal concentration and gathered it for paperweights. I have some of his.

[@DS-re4vs]

Just seeing this, I brought the subject up because I know a lot of people collect uranium glass, and I just saw some at a flea market. Also…HE’S WEARING BOBBY DUKE MERCH!! “WEWD”!!

[@Lemon9234]

“It might be okay to occasionally wear it as a necklace or something” And that’s the story of how I put a radioactive source directly next to my thyroid.

[@bsharpmajorscale]

But just think, you're taking a step to being the next Lex Luthor. All you have to do after that is get smart, rich, and bald.

[@MisterNohbdy]

@@bsharpmajorscale I mean, that'll probably handle the baldness, too.

[@catchara1496]

Anonymous lmao

[@ethaphu5589]

@@MisterNohbdy HAHAHAHAA

[@nathaniel1207]

ever heard of Trinitite? bomb site jewelry

[@ChaoscelusApollyon]

"You could get heavy metal poisoning" *Heavy metal music stops*

[@gallium-gonzollium]

*h e a v y*

[@neoqwerty]

I think that's the plot of one of Styx's albums

[@Repulse96]

*DEATH METAL MUSIC STARTS*

[@ACIDS531]

@@Repulse96 SLAMMING BRUTAL GRIND CORE DEATH METAL STARTS

[@hotpikachusex]

Imagine naming your band uranium

[@joshuazhang2320]

On the glass side, did you know, sometimes improperly annealed glass can sit for years, if not decades, before finally giving in to the stresses? There are stories of glass vases sitting for decades and then all of a sudden exploding.

[@mikii278]

Damn I never thought I would find glass relatable

[@hudsonv1962]

I’ve been picking up uranium ore locally with a UV torch for a bit, and like you found, it’s strange that some of the higher uranium-content materials lose their fluorescent effects. Uraninite and pitchblende both have relatively high uranium content but have little to no fluorescence. While uraniferous opal is much lower (hard to find info, but never exceeding 15% uranium-bearing compounds, typically MUCH lower) and can exhibit some great phosphorescence.

[@hudsonv1962]

It’s also helpful to have UV blocking glasses, at least for ore / impure uranium. You’ll be able to see some bright reflection without them, but the classic green color is much easier to see without the semi-visible UV light interfering

[@kikizandov5833]

I like how “can’t make a nuke” is in the cons

[@soymilk9143]

why North Korea doesn't have any

[@stealthcone]

Kiki Zandov there should also be “and, it looks like piss”

[@soymilk9143]

@@stealthcone yummy

[@mr.4o513]

Lmao ikr

[@cucumber_999]

@@soymilk9143 -/ they're definitely watching these videos

[@Ohhelmno]

Him: “I’m afraid of the uranium dust” Also him: *shatters glass repeatedly into fine particles just to see what happens*

[@JGHFunRun]

The glass dust would also be of risk at that size, possibly more risk than the Uranium but can't say since I don't know a lot

[@neonfroot]

Ah yes. Adulthood is truly glorified adolescence.

[@wazzupsters]

Well he did said he didn't want the glass to crack then proceeds to touch it fucking it completely up. Not to mention how impatient he is really gets irritating, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity that hasn't been done much since it's inception, so I'd expect him to at least be patient.

[@matteoferro4599]

@@wazzupsters if the glass has high internal pressure, it will shatter whether you touch it or not, touching it just makes the shattering predictable

[@T1Oracle]

His obituary is going to be such an interesting read!

[@davidcueva5018]

Radioactive glass is dangerous. Proceeds to touch uranium with bare hands.

[@GoldenTouchGuitar]

The forbidden Kraft Mac and cheese sauce 💀

[@theodorematthews7007]

"there was clearly an effect" (Nile says as the geiger counter starts screaming)

[@Trixan]

*REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

[@kirayoshikage5450]

Oof

[@Rephical]

theodore matthews *jumps from 15 to 1222 in 15 seconds* I think that’s a bit radioactive...

[@rain4028]

Rephical Gaming “a bit” well yes

[@Human-gu2cx]

theodore matthews one of these days he’s gonna get cancer and then the doctors will ask” him have you been near any cancer causing chemicals” then he’ll say “yes” the doctor will then ask “what kind” “yes”

[@juanestebanmandzij546]

"it just exploded from all that internal stress" uranium glass is such a mood

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

_Describes my wife standing in front of her open closet and mirror, while hurling Self-Depraved insults at herself....0.o....right before her violent Berserker meltdown. I however slip away to the den, ready with my Rhino-Tranq gun, locked and loaded._

[@benjaminshields9421]

@@MAGGOT_VOMIT _Describes my wife standing in front of her open closet and mirror, while hurling Self-Depraved insults at herself....0.o....right before her violent Berserker meltdown. I however hug her and tell her she looks beautiful and that her deepest criticisms are irrational, and that she is amazing inside and out. Heart locked and loaded_

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

@@benjaminshields9421 _Stupid Beta Male, sure you do. You forget that even the word "irrational" will set them off worse. No need to tell a bold face lie._ _I shouldn't have to say it, but my comment was sarcastic._

[@DraconicAux]

Man, don’t you just hate it when you explode from internal stress? It just sucks...

[@DraconicAux]

@Vulcan Games what?

[@viniscreios]

22:35 What is worst than uraniun powder? That's right, uraniun glass powder.

[@americanv1nceagainagain749]

My family collects uranium glass has a side hustle and puts them together on a shelf so now I'm scared of how much radioactive particles it's giving of

[@rienn8559]

from comments ive seen that its fine if u eat from it a couple times unless powder gets on ur or smth idk i could be very wrong so regardless i wouldnt touch it

[@frostwolf746]

Nile: "The dust it gives off is toxic to humans" also Nile: *shakes it violently*

[@backyardcamping7161]

He is wearing a dust mask

[@blixer4740]

@@backyardcamping7161 hmm...... Is it bad to cyan???

[@pouncepounce7417]

in an closed container

[@OctoDADDY.]

@@backyardcamping7161 the bottle wasn't even closed yet lol

[@catsupchutney]

@@backyardcamping7161 Alpha particles are especially nast when inhaled, but a sheet of papar stops alpha particles, so they are not detected. Dust masks are intended only for "nuisance" particulates and won't come close to stopping PM10 particulates, which are the wost inhalation danger.

[@excaliburner9413]

dust: *is toxic* Nile: hehehe orange Shakey Shakey bottle

[@theclownmechanicus8794]

@Mai Bui So it is toxic.

[@lokiblaster2354]

@Mai Bui he could use a fume hood

[@ChaimYosefMariateguiLeviPhD]

Quite carcinogenic!

[@frostedqilin]

Mai Bui 5:30

[@Nick07900]

@@theclownmechanicus8794 Toxic would be poisonous, but dangerous would just be a general word for all things that are really not good for you, including poison

[@shadeerahmed4685]

How can he be so chill when working with radioactive elements i mean no matter how careful you're it is never enough

[@Jinsei_0.0_]

I've been watching for over 3 years now, I just watch older videos and the recent videos over and over and over cuz it always seems new to me, he always makes it fun even though he's serious 🙂

[@wqerrk1901]

“Cons: can’t make bombs” made me laugh hard

[@kathacentauri5943]

IKR i cracked up so hard

[@azureeyepatch]

we all know someday he's gonna blow up the entire continent

[@xnoobwarx4571]

When Nilered is sus

[@colindebose3123]

@@xnoobwarx4571nø

[@starship2023]

There is always the next video

[@thememegeneer5716]

Nile: this dust is extremely toxic that’s why I’m keeping it in a container *shakes the bottle without a top

[@Metallicamilo311]

*breaks glass

[@sev8304]

*gets disappointed because he can’t refine uranium on his own

[@gnupfo]

*throws dust into the grinder from a foot up

[@FolstrimHori]

I honestly subscribed just to see how long it takes for this guy to die of radiation poisoning of some kind. Despite how much care he states the materials needed to be handled, by the end he's rolling the glass around in his hand prior to testing the radiation levels.

[@mytester6208]

@@FolstrimHori so you think, he hold them in his hand maybe taste them with his tongue before he bought all the equipment to test it ? hmm

[@brosterinfinity321]

17:17. Nile Red: I tried working with as little dust as possible *proceeds to mix it*

[@fictionsolosanyverseyounam7599]

Also Nile Red: I should be careful about the dust 17:33 proceeds to spill it 🍷🗿

[@kexcz8276]

Man, I just love how you act smart and calm, yet puzzled 😂. Overall very cool, what surprised me though that even me as an like could tell it would need to anneal when it was cracking, because I assumed a certain simillarity with the steel structural behaviour, and I was at the end correct. When you had pulled it out straight away, you had basically tempered it, making it hard but brittle, where with the annealing, you've managed to make it not as hard, but more tough, simillar to steel. Very nice video! 🧡

[@aparioss1072]

"I think the glasses are safe" *check Geiger counter* "I think I have cancer"

[@bruzote]

Well, it's not like the glasses would be up against you very often. Also, the radiation is not going to linger in the glass.

[@aparioss1072]

bruzote well its not like glasses can spontaneously break and send glass/uranium dust in the air or anything

[@hvip4]

kek

[@somethingwithbungalows]

Really though, I feel like the heavy metal toxicity of natural uranium is probably about as dangerous as its radioactivity.

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

Really though, I feel like the heavy metal toxicity of natural uranium is probably about as dangerous as its radioactivity.

[@HeyImSolace]

"Cons" "can't make bombs" Okay... Do we have to be scared?

[@elephystry]

LMAO

[@zenithartistry518]

Ikr XD

[@kodi0223]

If you've seen NileRed in videos that isn't from his channel... he's nuts and we shouldn't be worried

[@miltonferreira9287]

@@kodi0223 where

[@saltinodavito2135]

@@zenithartistry518 lmao rawr XD owo *nuzzles u* uwu

[@josephwisniewski3673]

When you blasted the glass with your torch, you caused some "reduction", converting the uranium oxide back into metallic uranium which went into colloidal suspension. This can produce pretty metallic swirls and white opacity. Controlled reduction is used to do things like giving a glass dog white paws.

[@Prince_Luci]

Have a bunch of this stuff around my house. We always buy uranium glass anything at garage sales and antique stores when we see it.

[@ALEXGAYMAR2312]

I love how this youtuber is so relatable, I haven't made uranium glass before just like him

[@shafikyasir958]

Is me or are you everywhere

[@Ry91415]

@@shafikyasir958 the picture is everywhere lol

[@jadedjaden8751]

Doritos

[@Ave_Satana666]

@@Ry91415 shame damn shame.

[@Ave_Satana666]

@@shafikyasir958 Shame damn shame.

[@tomreevo]

"I did all of this in a fume hood, because I was worried about uranium glass dust." 5 minutes later *Squeezing uranium glass until it literally shatters everywhere multiple times*

[@nexaentertainment2764]

I looks like he was doing that in his fume hood as well though

[@theGhostWolfe]

Right? I was watching the glass dust falling off the pieces as he was tapping them and thinking that radioactive dust plus glass dust is possibly the worst combination.

[@ToastyClone]

“As far as i could tell, the glass mixture worked pretty well.” BEUTIFUL

[@Lamorak-nu2cx]

The yellow liquid adds a whole new meaning to uranate.

[@U014B]

If you uranate that, you'd di.

[@stoutlager6325]

"The government doesn't really like it when you show how to refine uranium on the internet" Yeah yeah. They're a smidge testy about that sort of thing.

[@Peter_S_]

They're not testy about that sort of information at all because it's been widespread public knowledge since the 1950s, but when ignorant KZbinrs disregard safety and pose a threat to public safety, they act, and they did.

[@Dinnye01]

​@Horizon585 He himself said that he wasn't storing everything perfectly and also had some waste he really didn't have any use for. You guys bagatellise these things, but accidents can happen and nuclear safety is not a game. What you have to understand, that they aren't concerned about you building a nuke. They are concerned about *poisoning* yourself or others.

[@kenny1515gamer]

FullMetal the government let dumbass "challenges" like the cinnamon challenge, choking game, fire challenge, tide pod challenge, etc slide so I doubt they give a fuck about public safety. If you don't believe the government doesn't care about home nuclear testing, you're pretty naïve.

[@megido878]

@@kenny1515gamer that's on them.

[@Masterown35]

@@Dinnye01 exactly what Kendall said. The government doesn't even want other countries to have any form of nuclear testing, let alone a random citizen building a nuke in their backyard.

[@riddlemechris]

"After handling the uranium glass beads with my bare hands, I decided to see how radioactive they were"

[@LaserTractor]

No neutron radiation = No radiation on things

[@SuperBeefcake420]

Test a microwave while running 🧠

[@domi7007]

@mwstar Depends, its not bad, but if you would drinnk from it, it would be not nice. Overall its not that dangerous.

[@domi7007]

@mwstar No, it isn’t, it would be only bad if you would sleep with it, the is mostly Alpha and beta radiation, so that is safe.

[@barodrinksbeer7484]

@@PoliticalJames Most ceramic pieces are poisonous. Its not uncommon to get lung cancer from ceramic pieces with deadly glaze makeups, its also been found through autopsies that certain red glazes from specific potters have poisoned the owners of the pieces.

[@BigHatBoris]

Amazing, thank you for doing this and sharing!

[@cantthinkofaname9285]

This video was what inspired me to start a uranium glass collection!

[@Kaos1382]

"I learned from cody'slab that the government doesn't really like it when you show how to refine uranium" got me laughing

[@See3y]

For those who don't know men in black had made a visit to Cody

[@teaser6089]

@@See3y Is that true? Did he get into trouble??

[@Ilamarea]

@@teaser6089 Nah they just came for an inspection after a tip. Cody operated within legal limits and they green-lit him. Just a bit of stress and boasting rights.

[@See3y]

@@teaser6089 /watch?v=x1mv0vwb08Y 1:30

[@jd_27]

Thats so Cody

[@killzcarrotoutdoors7913]

“Hey guys, this is Nile red, and today I am going to try to purify uranium ore, into uranium 235, and try to make a nuclear reactor”

[@Xnoob545]

50th like

[@2ndlittlekingryan654]

Welcome to the fbi watchlist

[@dalejr183]

How r u going to seperate the .07 percent 235 from the 99.3 percent U-238 that's what was so hard during the war and what keeps us safe from people going rouge with bad intentions

[@adawg3032]

@@dalejr183 obviously a centrifuge time and lots of science brain stuff

[@user-xr3rb6pn9m]

For a nuclear power plant, 5% or U-235 is enough. The nuke requires 90%

[@breadfan262]

Wow! I was skeptical. Nice result.

[@A8exzClan_FN]

This is why i love watching your videos

[@lobsterzworld]

"wouldn't be a good idea to carry around in your pocket" just casually roasting marie curie

[@aliyashahum6655]

Pretty sure she already roasted herself.

[@dumpsterbonfire.]

oh damn

[@IanYanRian]

This comment is EVERYTHING lmao

[@michaelweems679]

@@aliyashahum6655 DAMN!!!!!! (In the voice of Smokey)

[@KaityKat117]

@@aliyashahum6655 that was awful. XD

[@dislike__button]

Imagine this guy's internet search history

[@oliver6659]

"how to refine uranium legally" "how much is uranium" "sexy petite school girl cosplay" "how to uranium"

[@underscoredfrisk]

@@oliver6659 lol whats the 3rd one

[@iluvgeese8114]

Underscored Frisk don’t worry about it

[@Wertdante]

@@oliver6659 "Big tiddy goth gf"

[@dova9836]

How to build bomb

[@valiantwarrior4517]

Gotta appreciate the skill of glass artisans.

[@Rovsau]

Oh, look, it's another episode of *OH MY LORD WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!*

[@pyro_mania]

🧐 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@luisp.3788]

very good

[@daaaduh5]

Featuring this mad scientist

[@nikudayo7927]

Teacher: Why are you laughing? Me: Nothing My Brain: Urinal Nitrate

[@aslimebagthing3222]

MasterCrafter Series you made me laugh. Congrats

[@seancrawford6038]

0

[@incognitoblack8661]

Booooo

[@babushkablyattv2751]

Trashy chemistry joke

[@smerikapokhrel5436]

You actually made me laugh 😂

[@storm_filter]

I'm obsessed with watching these videos. cheers

[@Lizzzz90]

I first saw uranium glass when i was maybe 7 and it was in a place called museum village near where I grew up in monroe ny, which is a 17/1800's museum town with a lot of cool artifacts, including old uranium glass bowls, jars etc...

[@00011theman]

Nile: Super careful about Uranium dust Also Nile: Throws extremely fine silica power around like it's nothing

[@BenJamin-en3jb]

Absolutely :) be careful with that stuff, Nile.

[@stonent]

Silica smoke, don't breathe this!

[@adrianpip2000]

Silica ain't all that dangerous, though, and I'm guessing he did it in a fumehood anyways

[@BenJamin-en3jb]

@@adrianpip2000 Only if you inhale it. I recommend wearing a dust mask and wet wiping everything afterwards.

[@laynethebreadlord7373]

@Igor R. Neves Not even the safety glasses?

[@patrickbateman3082]

"when its dry like this, it is very dangerous because of dust that can come off" *shakes container aggressively BEFORE putting lid on*

[@datnguyen3441]

Patrick Bateman you beat to it

[@nickthompson2023]

Nile: I wanna be careful with this stuff so I used my fume hood. Also Nile: LULZ let’s crack this crap into a billion little pieces all over the lab

[@patrickhoiland2806]

Sounds like you’re going to live a long life!

[@lexscarlet]

"pros: easier to get cons: can't make bombs" LMAO you charmer you

[@finnpom7795]

but why make bombs when you get glass!

[@trentswag9324]

@@KeterMalkuth Also probably glows under black light lmao

[@michaelizquierdo6907]

@@trentswag9324 In Soviet Russia the light glows you

[@krissam7791]

NGL, if a youtuber is capable of making a nuclear bomb with his (relatively) affordable setup, I think it's their duty to share that knowledge with the world.

[@winniepooh8367]

Lmfao XDDDDDDDDD

[@tommyb1088]

Chemical evolution: 7:02 Piss. 8:42 Mango juice. 9:13 Lemon pudding. 10:50 PlayDoh. 11:37 Cheeto dust. 19:30 Solid piss.

[@gn6691]

Lol

[@monster-tr7qh]

Things seem to be going pretty well.

[@TousifUlHabib]

☠️

[@juanfelipeibanezhenao5432]

Oh Mango Juice :D *Dies*

[@AGuyThatMakesStuff]

I told you! it wasn’t frozen uranium pee from an airplane, the sky is falling!

[@devinbrooks136]

So sick man, going to be watching a lot of your videos.

[@marioptera]

This really takes me back... My dad used to have all kinds of chemicals in his photography lab back in the day, including small amounts of ferrocyanide, uranyl nitrate, high purity sulphur, copper sulphate and permanganate and a lot of other stuff (boric acid was dirt cheap and found everywhere). Back to uranyl nitrate what fascinated me (i was but a child back then) was that the container it was in always had water droplets forming on the inside. I used to say it ¨sweated¨. :) And i used to take it out in my own hand, clean the water and put it back it. But the little glass bottle would ¨sweat¨ again. I also played quite a lot with elemental mercury. It's amazing i am still in one piece :) But in any case, i have come to learn that chemistry is a very beautiful science if done properly and safely. I do wonder though how he managed to get his hands on uranyl nitrate, especially since he lives in a Western country (i.e. very strict rules regarding access to such stuff).

[@Morlev44]

5:38 "and it can lead to heavy metal poisoning" Mad guitar riffs in distance

[@ambulocetusnatans]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eojIYodrhMmZqLM

[@endorsedvampire7581]

heavy Metal Poisoning sounds like a cheesy metal band of mad scientists, ngl.

[@ishtara9470]

Clever one

[@rageface-blt7008]

exactly. I think I got that yesterday after listening too too much Tenacious D

[@ogami1972]

@@ambulocetusnatans HAH! I knew it was a song, but i thought it was spinal tap

[@underpressurecolon3]

I was absolutely expecting "the uranium was too chunky to go into the mixture" to be followed by "so I put it in my blender"

[@Cobalt985]

Rama “Uranium gas. Don’t breathe this!”

[@jonasgrill1155]

Will it blend? Well, we'll never get our answer because I'll be dead soon after I turn the blender on.

[@Mylryyt]

Nile usually does pretty good with the safety but every once in a while he just has a pants on head moment.

[@bottlebound1860]

@@Mylryyt like handling the glass without cheaking the raidioactivity?

[@FolstrimHori]

@@Mylryyt let's continue to enjoy his content for as long as he lives. Which might not be long.

[@Lisa1111]

I would love some Prince Ruperts drops using this method 😍 Have a foe? Give them a beautiful "green" goblet to sip from. 😂

[@GunsmokeZ_]

I remember watching this and went to a store today that had so many antique pieces!!

[@okayiguess74]

Instructions were unclear, made a nuclear warhead instead.

[@johnladuke6475]

If that's what happened when you tried to do this, I would be very interested to see what you manage to do with IKEA furniture.

[@thewanderer4564]

Oh crap,China's dead hopefully😈😈😈

[@lucasokeefe7935]

Instructions unclear, accidentally completed North Korean missile program

[@aksh4wty]

@@lucasokeefe7935 nice

[@Aakraos]

Instructions were nuclear, made an unclear warhead instead

[@lucasliang376]

Broke: 24K diamond necklace Woke: Uranium 24K necklace you wear once a month and store in a safe

[@StrokeMahEgo]

Lead-lined safe

[@michealtaormina1561]

In a lead safe

[@humphrey7079]

It'll leave a lasting impact on everyone who hold it

[@someweeb3650]

Could probably wear it all the time considering uranium's multi mullion year half life

[@xxdeadoutxx761]

Idea what if you were to coat it in a thin layer of resin that had lead powder

[@tw42333]

I remember watching it when it shows '2 hours ago', now it says '3 years ago', time really flies

[@while_coyote]

17:33 Nile some dust flew off

[@Stradominous]

"Hey dude that jar of mustard you had in the fridge went great on my sandwitch!!!"

[@wiselychosenname2867]

Him:THE *WHAT*

[@bigdogdan0377]

I’d probably be more concerned about the fact you put mustard in a sandwich I still stand by my argument.

[@ashtonsenko536]

Daniel Mooney mustard is great in a sandwich! As well as pickles

[@bigdogdan0377]

The Golden Boi am I actually the only one who thinks mustard was made for hotdogs? Edit: sorry, I don’t know what the fuck I was saying ignore me.

[@myrealusername9998]

Daniel Mooney I only put it on cheeseburgers.

[@MrGreglego]

"I tried to create as little uranium dust as possible" *Proceeds to crack uranium glass and spew glass shards everywhere*

[@senselessnothing]

@Curunir Low concentration though, the original dust he had must've had much more than his first count showed.

[@8b8b8b]

0.25% is nothing

[@donaldviszneki8251]

After he ground it up, when pouring into funnel, a huge cloud is ejected.

[@GigsVT]

the glass vitrified uranium is basically biologically inert. When he had it in the salts was the only time there was danger.

[@jake28363gaj]

And he "thought it was really cool..."

[@enby_clown]

Heavy metal poisoning... i didn't know it was possible, i will not listen to it anymore! Thank you, NileRed, for all the priceless knowledge

[@joaogabriel-fr5dt]

Hey Nile, i was talking to my chemistry professor and he told me that this amount of radiation was like viable to handle between 1-5 minutes, because this is like what you get in a year, so isn’t it bad to handle or use this for decoration or some thing like this?? Thanks for your time (btw loved de video and sorry for my English, im from Brasil)

[@annikadunow399]

Nile: *is afraid of creating a "death cloud" * Also Nile: *shakes bottle without the cap on*

[@mindaugasverikovskij2759]

bottle goes shakey shakey brrrr

[@gfdtjkitsxn7775]

@@mindaugasverikovskij2759 pog

[@kylealexander7024]

Just ignore the fume hood

[@deafmusician2]

And obliterates uranium glass into clouds

[@jamesfleming5830]

Nigel is a true madlad

[@renatomanfredini2679]

*geiger counter having a seizure* Nile: "It was slightly radioactive"

[@heliveruscalion9124]

I mean, with a geiger counter it's pretty much either a seizure or a magnitude 10 earthquake

[@expertoflizardcorrugation3967]

@@heliveruscalion9124 if something is immensely radioactive a geiger counter will inform you in no uncertain terms. this was it saying "ey, dude das radioactive, like... put it behind a sheet of paper or two" but there is a period in which your geiger counter starts screeching at you like a discount banshee

[@pizzaobecna8191]

LOL

[@defendrr_ru]

Not bad not terrible

[@LolLol-ok4lr]

defEnderr_ru Nice reference

[@xWatexx]

NileRed: oh boy, I can’t wait to live a long life of teaching chemistry to people! Radiation-induced carcinoma: (:

[@rorriccarlson1108]

Selfie reflection in the darker shot showing the crescent crack... in the crescent crack

[@irchonite1953]

When NileRed says words like "It should've..." or "It would've..." you know it's gonna be followed up shortly by "Unfortunately..."

[@benbaselet2026]

Maybe it's because he knows how to language.

[@RBeast111]

NileRed: "When its dry like this though, it has a tendency to give off dust and powder, which is obviously really horrible to breathe in" Also NileRed: *SHAKES* *IT* *VIOLENTLY*

[@CommonApathy]

Dude is going to live to 50 if he's very, very lucky lol.

[@thatsstoguy]

CommonApathy do you mean 30

[@michael_nagik]

he is a new member

[@leo_brine25]

@Evi1M4chine he is a channel member, the "join" button next to subscribe buutton, its helps the youtuber and the person get some few things, like the image and Early video access, etc

[@la24dogg21]

methyl ethyl keytone👍

[@SavageLucy]

Love the Bobby Duke shirt!

[@seanspartan2023]

12:30 I'm not surprised your Uranium wasn't fluorescent under the UV light, because glass blocks most UV. You probably would have seen it glow if you had taken it out of the glass container.

[@papilionidae230]

"When it's dry like this though, it has a tendency to give off dust and powder which is obviously horrible to breath in." *Shakes container without a cap*

[@solojoe1193]

🤣 I was sitting there thinking the same exact thing🤣

[@brewcityboatclub8299]

Glad other people were like "jesus christ you just said you didn't want dust"

[@Dienow3xw]

He's likely wearing a gas mask or hazmat suit. Failure to do so may lower his lifespan by many years

[@papilionidae230]

@@Dienow3xw This actually makes sense.

[@kateh.2324]

@@Dienow3xw I also think he’s mentioned in a video before that he has a very good fume hood that he uses when working with dangerous chemicals.

[@Feenix102]

Interesting. The only radioactive glass I've heard of really is trinitite, which is still too hot to go near. I know they used it in glazes and stuff, for crockery etc, but I didn't realise it could be made into glass in its own right. Cool. :o)

[@ambermay7032]

I inherited some original uranium glass cups from my grandparents. They are super strong when they glow and personally I don't like the idea of keeping them around me so they live in my garage. I also have some colored glass that looks like uranium glass but doesn't glow or make a Geiger counter go crazy. Much safer and just as pretty imo.

[@aurifulgore]

You could probably get a lead case if you ever wanted to move them inside

[@voidseeker4394]

​@@aurifulgorei'm pretty sure it mostly emits alpha and beta particles. Alpha particles are blocked by literally anything, even sheet of paper, or few centimeters of air. Beta is blocked by metal foil or normal glass of standard thickness. And you can't block gamma rays by any meaningful(for a home use) amounnt of material - like few centimeters of solid lead. So leaded glass isn't really better than normall glass in this regard.

[@ant1h4t3rz]

"...it can lead to heavy metal poisoning" *laughs in guitar solo*

[@AC-vi6wp]

ahh thank you lmao

[@polarisation]

@@AC-vi6wp DC radiation struck

[@NeerdRaider]

ant1h4t3rz LMAO thanks for laughs 😂

[@lick28]

The heavy metal, it gets in your nerves and up your brain.

[@Razcuzyes]

Effects are: headbanging Screaming And seeing everything as a moshpit

[@inebriatedengineering6288]

"I don't want to buy cyanid and end up on a government list." - proceeds to purchase uranium -

[@ra_alf9467]

Joke on him, he's already on government list

[@blixer4740]

Haha