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 @?

[@panosrobs9749]

Same

[@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?

[@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 💣

[@3AM_Ideas]

​@@Chemioliswhere did you buy this?

[@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

[@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.

[@Arycke]

Hmm Uranium playbutton? Do ittt

[@GregoryMcBride-qf7hx]

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

[@Hexane630]

I’ll eat it.

[@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

[@monika7063]

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

[@tomaszkarwik6357]

​@@monika7063that was not him. That was mark rober and kidnapped nirered. He was only trying to follow a tutorial

[@monika7063]

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

[@tomaszkarwik6357]

@@monika7063 / 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!!!

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@nayeem7359]

We need more inorganic chemistry videos 👏

[@Atomic_Chemist]

Specifically of uranium ;)

[@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

[@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.

[@mernokimuvek]

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

[@jordoncailifours4488]

Great, we need more. Do thorium next.

[@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.

[@LtKernelPanic]

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

[@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.

[@dman5909]

You’re reaaaaaal close to 100k my man

[@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)

[@oasntet]

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

[@buildingstories2470]

Congrats you’re all on a list now

[@CryptoFrenzyX]

Could you make enriched uranium pls?

[@George_Soros.]

I’m learning

[@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.

[@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.

[@Atomic_Chemist]

So did heating the UF4 make a difference between unheated?

[@CaptivaLP]

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

[@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!

[@1.4142]

An enriching experience.

[@ElectroXa]

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

[@spiderdude2099]

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

[@Moritz___]

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

[@dominiktrzmielewski9164]

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

[@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).

[@hrisigyuchanov3523]

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

[@nickpekor4450]

I love uranium chemistry so much.

[@RittifiHffjdidi]

Wouldn't electrolysis of Uranyl Nitrate solution also work?

[@335mati]

Photolytic chlorination of chloroform to carbon tetrachloride next please

[@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.)

[@rocketlauncher6207]

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

[@liamanderson6424]

Doesn't HF degrade your glassware??

[@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?

[@mechanicbasic]

Do Methaqualone!

[@KeremYesilirmak]

UCl4 looks yummy

[@markpeene4757]

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

[@talavs-jekabsriekstins578]

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

[@Jim1971a]

To make uranium I think you need a supernova.

[@ZeL-iq5sf]

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

[@missyclark6732]

Stewy griffin is looking for his uranium lol 😂

[@freakcascade6809]

Just what I needed thank you!

[@KobyAustin1]

I got to see this before the government makes him take it down!!

[@eringotkilled]

its strangely terrifying to me how much of the process really is straight up homestuck green

[@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 !

[@placeholder-k9n]

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

[@anttikangasvieri1361]

I like the title, very nice.

[@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)

[@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.

[@clairewithbanjo4992]

Delicious,there’s nothing like home made

[@rian0xFFF]

Next video Uranium enrichment, pls

[@SamsulUdin-f5n]

No anti radioactif googles??

[@Drsteezymcgee]

10:07 cracked me tf up lmfao

[@voodoochile7581]

Is that not dangerous?

[@bromisovalum8417]

fascinating material, nice work!

[@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.

[@erpetek]

Thank you, very useful video.

[@AnonP2X3YZ]

Episode 2: Enriching Uranium

[@Tylerx-z]

Episode 3: building the bomb

[@Quinazolinking]

Are you uranium because I'm Iodine and if it was up to me I would rearrange the periodic table around and put U and I together 😻

[@Raven99991]

Daammm nice

[@antonyanexen7080]

Yo we getting out of the reactor with this 🗣🗣🗣

[@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.

[@shakaibsafvi97]

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

[@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"

[@juslitor]

not an insignificant chance of having a slightly contaminated vacuum pump now.

[@deatheternal720]

such a pretty blue

[@runed0s86]

You can get real raw uranium from ruggles mine in New Hampshire USA.

[@yume2727]

Blud bouta summon em glowies 😩😩😩😩😩

[@blg53]

Did you just add hydrofluoric acid to a glass beaker? :(

[@justme1174]

am i legally allowed to watch this?

[@Salt_and_Peroxide]

great video man

[@billynomates920]

'self-sharpening' as well, apparently

[@heypbolon1941]

Anyone seen bug at 4:08?

[@Crimetvuk]

Two, a cat and a dog.

[@canonicaltom]

Make a full-size play button! :D

[@radov22]

keep doing centrifuges until you have 99.99999% purity, that's where the magic begins

[@BxBxProductions]

can you make uranium play button fuel rod

[@daveduna1]

I have absolutely no need for that radiocode, but I still kind of want one. But I have no use for it ha. I can't justify it.

[@ioanbota9397]

Its interestyng this video

[@fenzo4939]

thanks

[@Side_Cuber2521]

hey! your gonna get Uranium Fever

[@DenshyOwO]

Cool, now build an M829 projectile out of it

[@嘉靖郭]

Good job！amazing！

[@phobos1963]

Dang, 2 fluorine atoms away from enriching it

[@Kargoneth]

Careful.

[@captainchicky3744]

wait oml fluorine chemistry too wow

[@madent2103]

2021 exam had the same formula 😂 2:25

[@chanheosican6636]

After cody yes depleted uranium is much better.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

There’s a chemical enrichment process called “CHEMEX” but it’s probably best to avoid trying that without the proper licensing.