Making Uranium

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[@RaVen99991]

The uranium play button will be such a cool project

[@NuclearFury8]

Maybe an enriched one that goes supercritical when you smash it

[@noimnotarobotcanubeleiveit7024]

Then place it in a slow neutron beam and convert into fissible fuel?

[@RaVen99991]

@@noimnotarobotcanubeleiveit7024 yes

[@somerandomuser5155]

Not necessarily uranium, Just make fluorescent glow in the dark

[@RaVen99991]

@somerandomuser5155 no it doesn't have to glow uranium doesn't glow on its own. And the flex of having a URANIUM play button is pretty cool because most people think that uranium is the most radioactive thing even tho it isnt

[@somethingforsenro]

reminder that uranium-238, the most common form of uranium by far, has an extremely low passive radiation level. if you ingest it, you'll be at least a factor of ten more likely to die of heavy metal poisoning than of radiation poisoning. (lead isn't the only poisonous heavy metal, it's just the most common to be exposed to. uranium has similar effects.)

[@somethingforsenro]

addendum: arsenic, mercury, and the cadmium from cigarette smoke are all also poisons for the same reason as lead and uranium are!

[@chadkline4268]

​​@@somethingforsenroall elements except the lightest in each group are generally toxic to life because they have similar chemistries, but not exactly the same. U238 is about 96-97%, U235 is about 3-4%. Nobody has ever demonstrated any useful amount of nuclear energy, excepting tiny amounts of current in a wire. Heavy elements have complex chemistry because of all the electrons and forms of bonds.

[@joaovicentefazziocosta4733]

I would like to eat some uranium

[@hukaman88]

Here before the nuclear safety guy does a reaction to the vid

[@jesusdlh]

He don't claim to know everything that is nuclear but he can certainly share some knowledge

[@frogz]

and yet he still wont check out kreosan, i've asked like 30 times!

[@vagesector6161]

same here

[@twitterforandriod1560]

what's hid channel @?

[@Tityboi22]

Same

[@swampmonkey420]

Nuclear chem is the whole reason Im back at Uni at 45. Great Video DO MORE!!

[@Chemiolis]

Unfortunately not too much stuff I can do, but there are still some fun uranium things to try.

[@davonitos]

​@@Chemiolis make a bomb

[@johanea]

Lol, you will come out from uni with purple hair, pierced all over and gender fluid with the pronounce zer / ze. Plus vote Biden.

[@ShikaTheDio]

@@Chemiolis can u make a mini nuclear 💣

[@Molecule_Madness]

​@@Chemioliswhere did you buy this?

[@BackYardScience2000]

The Tetrafluoride is such a beautiful color. My sample of it looks so good sitting next to all the rest of the compounds in my collection. Great video! Thanks for sharing.

[@captainchicky3744]

does it discolor at all due to daughter nuclei forming or no

[@Tunkkis]

​@@captainchicky3744 Over a _very_ long timeframe, sure. I can't imagine you'd be able to notice any change over a single lifetime.

[@lallomes]

honestly the scariest part about this was that you used HF ☠

[@Very_Grumpy_Cat]

True. HF is some nasty stuff

[@aaronclair4489]

"I add a random excess of 48% HF" "a random excess of HF" uhhh

[@Very_Grumpy_Cat]

@@aaronclair4489 what ever. He did not die

[@kylejacobs1247]

In a glass container no less

[@tonyflamingo3285]

You kidding? Do you know how toxic water soluable uranium is?

[@tql1209]

Ah yes, the good old Cody's lab method. I still remember that legendary video.

[@thatredditor5]

Refining uranium ore into uranium metal? Yeah, you can still watch a reuploaded version.

[@apo_chromatic]

Any chemistry video that brings the literal FBI to your house is going to be a banger

[@ryelor123]

Some dirty feds harassed him because of that.

[@iammaxhammer]

*We are all on a watchlist now.*

[@THYZOID]

Uranium chemistry is so fancy! Great video bro

[@swampmonkey420]

Are you going to bake some thorium cakes with your cat ears for us?

[@THYZOID]

@@swampmonkey420 maybe UWU

[@thesciencefurry]

I just wish I could do a video about without the German government fucking me over :/

[@puo2123]

Plutonium is better. More oxidation states

[@GoldenEyes-rw6kp]

​@@thesciencefurry I dont think that German government is interested by an amateur chemist isolating .20 grams of uranium metal just for the skill.

[@mrgreenguy]

I wish I could do this! But I don't think Australia would like that very much lol

[@andromeda7063]

You made a nuke in your older video and austraila didn’t do anything, depleted uranium metal shouldn’t be a problem

[@tomaszkarwik6357]

​@@andromeda7063that was not him. That was mark rober and kidnapped nirered. He was only trying to follow a tutorial

[@andromeda7063]

@@tomaszkarwik6357 I refuse to believe that mr. green and nilered are two different people.

[@tomaszkarwik6357]

@@andromeda7063 / unjoke, watch the video again. I was summarising it

[@nilepink]

Dude, I can not emphasize how frustrated I am about this. I wanted to publish a video like this, but I had to stop it. Because they can fuck you over so fast here in Germany 😤 I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT!!!

[@Arycke]

Hmm Uranium playbutton? Do ittt

[@GregoryMcBride-qf7hx]

Don’t give him any ideas he still might want to have children someday 😂

[@MrApple-yw9vp]

I can finally add another video to my ''Blacklisted due to youtube' class action lawsuit

[@petrolak]

Justice for Cody!

[@Kenionatus]

Huh, there is/was a class action lawsuit around uranium videos?

[@strapkins4999]

@@Kenionatusit’s a joke brother

[@NatashaB2]

Love seeing this, I work with depleted uranium every day in my lab researching future nuclear fuels, so it’s super cool seeing the process to make the depleted uranium.

[@davidfetter]

Fertile uranium is a wonderful nuclear fuel in a fast reactor. I suspect you can make fuel with it in a CANDU or similar PHWR, but I'm guessing the codes to figure out where to place it and for how long might be a bit complicated.

[@joshp6061]

Wow, nice result! I didn’t expect a very metallic looking product after you described your “heat it in the ampoule” method, but not bad

[@ashW110]

For the moment I thought you are colliding two neutron stars or at least supernovae. But it makes more sens you just reducing a metal salt to metal. This is also interesting though. :D

[@Chemiolis]

Next video I will be using a nearby neutron star for my synthesis

[@dalitas]

You make this nuclear chemist proud, love to see the uranium dissolve in organic solvents. solvent extraction is amazing.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Nuclear chemist? Make vids!

[@Thunderf00t]

molten lithium in glass is a hard NO! Liquid lithium is ferocious at destroying glass. It also mostly reacts with the glass to give lithium oxides and silicon.

[@DemetriosMPapadakes]

Hey I found a thundef00t comment right when I was thinking what would thunderf00t say about this video! 😂

[@Prussian_Blue]

I see you did the last part cody's lab style! very nice prep man, you should try doing the whole process of extracting uranium from ore, you could even get some radium as well :p

[@thesciencefurry]

I actually wanted to make a video about that( or maybe I did and took it down, who knows👀) but the government here in germany would probably freak out and ruin me :/

[@scienceisthewaytogo8645]

@@thesciencefurry Yeah, Germany is generally radiophobic. Too bad, too, because they dismantled their nuclear plants and switched to coal and Russian gas. Idiots.

[@Levent_Ergun]

I am not sure if I should watch the video or start downloading it immediately

[@丫o]

Why not both?

[@hayliae]

Hello FBi. Yes, this guy. Take this guy!

[@nayeem7359]

We need more inorganic chemistry videos 👏

[@Atomic_Chemist]

Specifically of uranium ;)

[@PoorMansChemist]

Nice work. I'm surprised the tetrachloride held up that long. I've tried making a couple U(IV) compounds but I've had limited luck with them.

[@ZoonCrypticon]

Depleted uranium, health issues and after-war diseases in the countries it has been used as armor-piercing mass projectiles in the documentary "Deadly Dust" (2007) from the German director and filmmaker Frieder Wagner.

[@daniellassander]

Yes Uranium is a heavy metal, where the health issues come from not the radiation. They say you shouldnt eat of a uranium glazed plate, that is also not because of radiation but due to uranium being a heavy metal and has a rather high toxicity.

[@Tunkkis]

The thing is, the only meaningful alternative is a tungsten alloy, which also carries negative health effects.

[@ZoonCrypticon]

@@daniellassander The problem is not from eating eat, but from breathing it in. Thatfore deadly dust. Most of the anti-tank missiles produce a hot liquid metal jet, which oxidizes in the air , that is then spread via fine dust particles. All uranium isotopes are radioactive. If you breath it in , than multiple lung and blood injuries may occur. And the dust doesn´t vanish immediately after deployment.

[@durshurrikun150]

@@ZoonCrypticon Uranium is very weakly radioactive, it's its toxicity that is the danger

[@ZoonCrypticon]

A look at the uranium-based anti-tank ammunition the U.S. is sending to Ukraine Politics Sep 7, 2023 3:50 PM EDT (PBS News hour)

[@The-One-and-Only100]

Uranium play button would be awesome Also thunderf00t was on the path to make a uranium ring but abandoned that project and i think it would be really interesting to see uranium being casted in a ring shape then machined to clean it up

[@dman5909]

You’re reaaaaaal close to 100k my man

[@1.4142]

An enriching experience.

[@jordoncailifours4488]

Great, we need more. Do thorium next.

[@oasntet]

I love all of the colors involved in the process. I wonder how each step fluoresces...

[@mernokimuvek]

Nice priject. What would happen if you electrolyze a uranium or thorium salt solution?

[@highlander723]

I'm going to download this video I remember what happened to Cody!

[@LordBrainz]

The problem with Cody was that he extracted uranium from a rock, which means that it contains a considerable amount of U-235, but Chemiolis is using depleted uranium, which barely contains U-235, so he's not doing anything illegal

[@buildingstories2470]

Congrats you’re all on a list now

[@TheXshot]

You sound Dutch. Loving the content!

[@markiangooley]

Depleted uranium is pretty much 238U, which has a longer half-life than the other isotopes! Better for a collection! (Though for most isotopes there’s little practical difference.)

[@davidfetter]

A video on what you did with all the waste from this would be awesome. Of particular interest would be what you did with what was left over from that "random excess of 48% HF." I have guesses at these things, but those are just guesses.

[@Mobin92]

Just pour it down the toilet. 👌

[@scottanos9981]

​@@Mobin92Not my problem

[@nerd1000ify]

He neutralised it with potassium carbonate. End product will be potassium fluoride (KF) which is far less hazardous than HF. Small quantities could probably be disposed to sewer, so long as you can be sure there's no uranium still in there.

[@Know_Sparks]

Could you make enriched uranium pls?

[@christopherleubner6633]

A bit better way of doing this is to seal it in a stainless steel pipe that is lined with pressed magnesium oxide then fill the center with a mix of UF4 and magnesium. Backfill with argon and seal. Next heat the pipe in an oven till bright yelliw white hot and allow to cool on its own accord. When you open it you will have crumbly MgO, a slag of MgF2 with some uranium in it, and a glob of uranium metal.

[@mikeydudek2885]

Saying depleted uranium isn’t so expensive is a bit misleading, depending on the application. Like with the above stated bullets made from depleted uranium. Those are crazy expensive and super hard to get. It could be more of a regulatory thing but I just know that you don’t see them everyday for a reason.

[@PrabhashwaraRavihara]

Please make a video about How to make Pure Radium, Even though It isn't cost effective! I'm so exited about it! please ! Please! Please!

[@freakcascade6809]

Just what I needed thank you!

[@spiderdude2099]

I’m hopefully gonna land a job doing radiochemistry. Sounds like a lot of fun

[@nickpekor4450]

I love uranium chemistry so much.

[@Atomic_Chemist]

So did heating the UF4 make a difference between unheated?

[@yunusemregelir3644]

when you don't upload a video for a long time, you understand how something will come

[@markpeene4757]

Sugestion can you synthesize a schiff base (primary amine with a ketone or aldehyde) some of them smell really nice

[@hristobarbolov5953]

1:37 As a Bulgarian should I be concerned that you bought uranyl nitrate from a pottery store?!

[@George_Soros.]

I’m learning

[@robinalemon]

Question here: he clearly has all the compounds and precursors for several drugs, for example Methamphetamine, @chemiolis are you sometimes tempted to try and make these compounds?

[@CaptivaLP]

I would love to see a video where you are making enriched uranium

[@ElectroXa]

would displace the chlorine work instead of converting UCl4 to UF4 ? for example, would UCl4 + 4 Na ---> U + 4 NaCl work or not ?

[@ootman4687]

A fuel cell play button or if we're really trying to get a friendly knock from your friendly fbi agent make a nuclear reactor play button.

[@mortlet5180]

Well done and congratulations on graduating to real (inorganic) chemistry! So what difference (if any) did the pre-drying step make, and could you measure the shiny piece's density for a crude indication of purity? TL;DR Metallic U really does react incredibly quickly with H2O and O2 *AND* N2 gases, such that attempting to cast or re-melt it without a continuous flow of Argon cover gas (or, at a minimum, vaccuum sealing with a very large excess of Li metal and covering the reaction mass in 2-3cm of liquid Li-Na-K-Cs with a suitable flux mixture on top), usually results in a fairly poor yield of multiple small corroded pieces of metal; though even in the best case, where a single metallic mass is obtained, it will be riddled with numerous defects, slag inclusions and poor porosity. Getting to a solid block of metal that at all resembles the common metallic element samples, is most easily done by cleaning, washing and drying the obtained U granules/shot under an inert atmosphere or under vacuum and then re-melting everything into one solid piece (only using inert and oxide free materials in contact with the U, such as Oxygen Free Copper or Tungsten).

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Actually they do use Tungsten for armour piercing ammunition.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Tungsten and depleted uranium are both used. Uranium tends to be used for larger munitions but the KZbinr “Oxide” did testing of uranium rifle bullets.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 Mostly, although both Germany and the UK use tungsten in their 120mm APFSDS anti-tank munitions. It's a few percentage points less effective than DU APFSDS rounds but doesn't come with the same political "baggage" as DU weapons.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 So my comment _should_ say _some_ nations use Tungsten penetrators instead of DU.

[@Moritz___]

Pls do a cleanup second channel type video. Feels relevant for that one Noice

[@placeholder-k9n]

It's videos like this that make me question why I didn't get into nuclear or chemical engineering.

[@Ozcanium]

dammit i was trying to do this. Though instead of UF4 I wanted to explore methods using UCL4 instead of UF4 due to its rarity at amateur scales (excluding you ofc haha). Im surprised to find that the nranyl nitrate can be directly used to produce UCL4 , rather than the typical, baking in an oven to make UO3

[@anttikangasvieri1361]

I like the title, very nice.

[@rocketlauncher6207]

I think we can safely say that Chemiolis is the Nuclear Chemical KZbinr

[@WetDoggo]

Definitely make a play button 😂❤

[@thesciencefurry]

That's exactly what I wanted to make a video about aswell. But I don't because the police would probably come by and take all my equipment and chemicals :/ Idk how it is in the netherland or with your qualifications.

[@erpetek]

Thank you, very useful video.

[@reecec626]

What a fascinating video!

[@grebulocities8225]

What happens if you try to reduce UCl4 with lithium directly rather than using HF to convert it to the fluoride first?

[@bromisovalum8417]

fascinating material, nice work!

[@alexdrockhound9497]

I have a significant amount of thorium ore i collected from a local closed thorium prospect. Would you be interested in it at all?

[@brumomento-so2nd]

yummy, thanks for the food recipe

[@alexpotts6520]

Is there a way of isolating the metal that doesn't use bone-hurting juice? (And if you *are* using HF, shouldn't you be doing the reaction in a plastic or passivated-metal container, rather than glassware?)

[@thesciencefurry]

I researched it a bit and I think the fluoride way is the easiest (unfortunately), Going with UCL4 works too but you need to do the reaction with hexachlopropene which is a bit more complicated. Wikipedia says you can also react calcium and UO3 but I don't think that happens at any reasonable temperature and speed.

[@talavs-jekabsriekstins578]

More uranium chemistry! We want more! More! More!

[@milano007100]

I did not expect the ANVS would allow us dutch's to handle this, would it be possible to legally make a sub-critical reactor? I'm not sure if I'm correct but if you bombard the U-238 with neutrons from a neutron source (or even cooler a small fusion reactor) it becomes unstable U-239 & neptunium-239 that decay's with allot of beta decay giving you more heat than power put into it. Also there would be some plutonium-238 created further helping the reaction but it cannot runaway since it has a sub-critical mass. I wonder if this is legally and psychically possible on a small lab scale.

[@fenzo4939]

thanks

[@ioeter5]

Wouldn't electrolysis of Uranyl Nitrate solution also work?

[@StarDust-zo8gd]

HF - Hydrogen fluoride at high levels or in combinations with skin contact can cause death from an irregular heartbeat or from fluid buildup in the lungs. Even small splashes of high concentration hydrogen fluoride products on the skin can be fatal !

[@dominiktrzmielewski9164]

Why don't you simply use borax with na2co3 as reductive agent directly on UF4?

[@TaylorMavrik]

Can I drink the extra leftover?

[@mechanicbasic]

Do Methaqualone!

[@KeremYesilirmak]

UCl4 looks yummy

[@trashcompactorYT]

That actually seems like a fair amount of gamma for what is a primarily alpha and beta source

[@vinniepeterss]

more like this pleasee😢

[@ConcreteBombDeep]

Do you not think you created more Uranium oxide than Uranium metal? It's just that your kiln barely gets to the temperature than Uranium would melt and it's not under an inert atmosphere. I studied how one might do this in a home lab and the part that seems the hardest to overcome is building the furnace suitable for such a project and then having a big enough amount that the slag can be easily separated from the Uranium metal.

[@Chemiolis]

Yeah there’s definitely a bunch of oxides. In the future I want to get a smaller furnace that can go a little bit higher in temperature. This one is really unnecessarily big and it takes a long time to even heat up, got it off an auction. And the radiative heat is of course crazy when opened.

[@deatheternal720]

such a pretty blue

[@vinniepeterss]

great video

[@firenation8406]

jak zrobic uran wez kawale,k zelaza i obij go nastepnie wymieszaj wegiel z olejem rzepakowym i natluszczaj kawalek bitego zelaza rekami i uderzaj w niego lekko nastepnie do wody z dyrgo nadazotanem dodaj 5g sodku zelaza troche wegle i krzemu i pomieszaj mocno nastepnie zakwas roztwor delikatnie i dodaj kilka ziaren soli dorzuc troche miedzi. to gotowe. znajdz kawalek metalu o duzym uziemieniu typu blaszka i polóż pod pojemnik z roztworem wrzuc do srodka ten kawalek bitego zelaza tylko najpierw zakwas go kwaskiem cytrynowym i po sekundzie wrzuc do srodka nastepnie jonuj powierzchnie substancji obojetnie jakim napieciem tak wzbogacisz go do dowolnego stopnia o ile ladunek sie nie skonczy

[@Shonty_on_gfuel]

"I'm Tyler folse, im a nuclear engineer with a little over 10 years of experience in the commercial nuclear power industry from engineering operations to emergency response, I don't claim to know everything there is nuclear, but I can certainly share some knowledge"

[@LtKernelPanic]

Cool video. Sadly Cody's original video got him a visit from the feds.

[@liamanderson6424]

Doesn't HF degrade your glassware??

[@clairewithbanjo4992]

Delicious,there’s nothing like home made

[@hrisigyuchanov3523]

How did you end up buying from a Bulgarian pottery store ?

[@shakaibsafvi97]

Excellent video.... how about reaching critical mass ??? :D

[@venelinaemilova8287]

Chemiolis is Bulgarian?

[@ZeL-iq5sf]

Cody's lab made it from ore before but the video was taken down

[@Salt_and_Peroxide]

great video man

[@Kargoneth]

Careful.

[@heypbolon1941]

Anyone seen bug at 4:08?

[@Crimetvuk]

Two, a cat and a dog.

[@Max-xx4pz]

Idea for next videos: sunthesys of repelents like DETA, and others

[@Molecule_Madness]

Where have you bought the Uranylnitrat?

[@R-Tex.]

Why are the screenshots of this video so fuzzy?

[@pacukluka]

Awesome!!

[@jozsiolah1435]

When a missile is turned toward the Earth on the Moon, the Uranium starts to boil. Water doesn't boil on the Moon at 200 degrees, it evapourates. After a nuclear explosion, the movements of the tetra molecules can be speeded up by making earthquake, the cutter blades such as Titanium tetra oxyde will have a faster movement in the body, and a 2 cm long blade can form, 50x sharper than the razor blade. Its movement is similar to the boiling water in a dish. Boiling is caused by the oceans for water, for uranium the amount of uranium in the Earth's crust causes its boiling. If the Uranium is alloyed with diamond, its moving capability will be faster because of the amount of coal under the ground. The moving capability f the deltaeder oxygen is 0, because there is no oxygen belw the surface. The most dangerous nuclear molecule doesn't have a name, that's the combination of the deltaeder and the tetraeder. It is formed, when an explosion proof highway is hit by a warhead, and the rezonance of the concrete creates it mechanically.

[@Gunbudder]

i feel lucky because i can just go outside and literally pick uranium ore up off the ground where i live, but also i feel cursed because there is radon gas everywhere and everyone has a radon gas system that vents their basement every day lol. background radiation here is an extra chest x-ray per 80 years (give or take)

[@嘉靖郭]

Good job！amazing！

[@Drsteezymcgee]

10:07 cracked me tf up lmfao

[@335mati]

Photolytic chlorination of chloroform to carbon tetrachloride next please