Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Thought Emporium "Negative Ion/Anti-5G Products are RADIOACTIVE"

[@tfolsenuclear]

Thanks so much for watching! If you want to see more really bad radioactive ideas, please check out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/haGzeGampdSgbM0si=AwfSwRW135YjqGm5

[@dougkyle685]

Look at the second video.

[@gdude2775]

He makes a follow-up video on this

[@nepsoundfont4035]

Nuclear engineer plays fallout?

[@Shoomer1988]

Reminds me of the anti-5G router "shields" that were literally a Faraday Cage. Cue people demanding their money back because their WiFi didn't work properly any more.

[@andrewmackenzie2638]

these (or products like them) are definitely still being sold. Amazon doesn't care, just as they don't care about the numerous power saver/power factor correction scam devices being sold.

[@martenkahr3365]

There is, fortunately, a follow-up video from thethoughtemporium that shows some additional Negative Ion products even worse than those depicted here. "Fortunately", because that video also has a section where he talks about how reports from him and his collaborator with the Electron Microscope resulted in some of these vendors being shut down by the NRC and a large number of Negative Ion products getting removed from Ebay.

[@ozzymand1as]

Would really like to see him react to the follow up!

[@natespurgat6245]

fun fact, because we thought it was funny, a friend of mine bought the pen thing for me and now I have some Thorium Dioxide powder in my bedroom. although I'm fairly sure its radioactivity is low and its a Beta emitter(please correct me if I'm wrong here) so I'm not really in any more radiation than background

[@radiant9273]

@@ozzymand1as He did already kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y33EfZmFqs6DaKM

[@tfolsenuclear]

Here’s my reaction to the follow up: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y33EfZmFqs6DaKMsi=8YNwp0Lq6DXJ_kjQ

[@RMX7777]

​@@natespurgat6245You are probably fine, but thorium does emit quite a few energy levels of gamma rays due to products in its decay chain. On top of that, the beta rays will produce X-rays when they hit the metal frame of the pen. Assuming the pen is well sealed, there shouldn't be any real risk unless you keep it close to your body all the time.

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

Good news; the reason you haven’t heard of these is because that video you just watched was so concerning to nuclear regulatory agencies that Amazon was forced to crack down. There’s a follow-up video on similar products that were still on Amazon after that which could also be interesting.

[@syntaera]

For cases like this, I like to combine Hanlon's Razor, and Clarke's Third Law. That gives: "Sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from malice."

[@vicroc4]

That works as a pretty good corollary to Hanlon's Razor. Even better when you're talking about politicians.

[@mariawhite7337]

Considering what we already know what just playing around with radioactive things gets us? Like the thorium girls, the people who were dying from drinking radium water and so forth. It's not ignorance. There is no excuse for a modern day company, in a fully modern country to not know this. It's 100% malice.

[@Sha.ll0w]

"If you want a lot of negative ions just stick a fork in a socket" LMAO

[@LocusNevernight]

I *really* wasnt expecting our favorite nuclear engineer with a little over 10 years of experience to tell us to stick a fork in a wall socket. The negative ions just emitting from that tone was lethal lol. Amazing video as always

[@tfolsenuclear]

Lol, thanks!!

[@bubbleentity]

Amusingly enough this is actually a thing and only serves to further confuse the issue. See once upon a time ( see the 60's through 80's) you could buy plug in negative ion sources, which did produce actual negative ions. They were marketed as a health product that "cleansed the air" and actually did what they claimed. Sorta. These things contained transformers and capacitors arranged to step up voltage to high voltage ranges, and would thus ionise the air. No radioactive sources required. Now ionizing the air is great for encouraging the particulate in smoke to settle on a charges surface, so they would in fact cleanse the air, when people were still smoking indoors. Infact bigger industrial versions are still used in power plants (the combustion type ones anyway) So why did ghey go away? Two reasons: people smoked cigarettes faster than particulate would settle, and they were also great at turning your electronics into awkwardly shaped paperweights. They also would become covered in unsightly stains quickly. The stains being the smoke particles that they were successfully removing from the air.

[@theheresiarch3740]

Hey, you watched it! His second video on the subject is mainly about the response to the first video. He got contacted by the NRC and after some information gathering they dropped the hammer on a lot of these companies and put them out of business. Unfortunately more companies selling this stuff pop up all the time, though, so some of it is still getting into the country.

[@madmax2069]

A few months ago they was littered on Walmarts store website, now they're pretty much gone.

[@ArtisChronicles]

​@@madmax2069 yo that's actually crazy

[@ethanbrandt8617]

The best way that I'm understanding the difference between alpha, beta, and gamma particles is in terms of bullet types. Alpha particals are like hollow points, they lack penetrating power but will do some sersious damage. Beta particles are like regular bullets, they have decent penetrating power and will do a bit of damage. Gamma particles are like armor piericing bullets, they have a lot of penetrating power, but because they penetrate so well, they dont do a ton of damage as they go straight through.

[@dylandreisbach1986]

Products like this make me want to buy a Geiger counter to just have to see if I am being exposed to anything.

[@TheCrustyFry]

I did. Amazon has them

[@alexanderflack566]

Incidentally, wouldn't a Geiger counter distinguish between alpha and gamma just fine if you look at the reading normally, then put a piece of paper over the window and read it again?

[@mattsains]

​@@alexanderflack566 Geiger-Muller tubes generally have a metal casing which would block most alpha particles

[@dylandreisbach1986]

@@TheCrustyFry I also did. Though then I had to test it out so I got some uranium glass from ebay. So now I know for sure there's only one measurably radioactive thing in my house.

[@nematrec1]

In his second video on the topic, he did actually mention he contacted the interested authorities, and along with Amazon had the listings taken down.

[@madmax2069]

They was also being sold on Walmart as well.

[@leechowning2712]

Using a vpn, Japan and India still have a LOT of these... including maxi-pads for women. While I would love to assume most of these are not radioactive, without getting some to test, we could not be sure. The scary thing is that checking right now on Amazon US, there are actually a entire new trend of negative ion shapeware, otherwise known as nylon clothing with these dots of an unknown material on them. I am not equipped to test them, and telling you and TE, maybe Kyle as well, is about all I can do as one of those civilians you were talking about. Thank you, Lee.

[@ninjasiren]

oh I have a few of those here, because of my mom and extended relatives were into this trend early in this "negative ion" thingy. I knew it was a scam early on, was not wanting to be part of it, but was forced to. I did wear the black necklace with that black circular thingy, almost everyday I did stopped wearing it later on, until I found out the original video you reacted here. Now I am trying to find them to make sure to put them in a proper container for radioactive materials

[@hakuchan738]

Im going exactly trough the same dilemma and don't know what to do, here they call them "Nume card" and want me to pay 150 dollars for it, I only wish I had more time to confirm what I already suspected, I don't have a Geiger counter, but if these cards do emit negative ions then I guess they are radioactive as well, don't know how much, but I'm worried, there are other members of my family that had recommended them to us and already bought them, if I start saying they don't do anything and are radioactive I'm going to cause a scandal I don't want to go through.

[@YunxiaoChu]

@@hakuchan738oh no!

[@DrakeLuce]

11:20 small correction that photomultiplier tubes don't multiply light/photons directly, rather they have an initial photocathode which turns photons into photo-electrons before those are multiplied by the plates for detection

[@TheCouncilofDev]

Oh! The thought emporium, I was thinking of recommending his videos to you. May I suggest you watch him make a meat berry next?

[@gallium-gonzollium]

The whole series, if you like

[@guilherme-cv9rl]

That video is crazy good

[@zanforian]

Oh hey, it’s my video suggestion! Thanks for reacting to it. There’s a follow up video on the same channel in case you’d like to know more about this and what happened to these companies.

[@Elnufo]

I know the term "wet water". It is used by people in modeling Miniature Terrain eg. Dioramas. Wet Water is basically regular water with few drops of dish detergent added. The Soap breaks the surface tension, allowing the water to penetrate materials used in modeling more easily, such as gypsum, garden soil, wood etc. Often it is mixed with PVA Glue, allowing the glue to form a stronger bond due to deeper penetration into the materials. The more you know 😊

[@Shaun_Jones]

Yea, those ads are talking about something else entirely. They are actually claiming that adding negative ions will make your drinking water more hydrating. Needless to say, it’s complete nonsense.

[@c.jishnu378]

Underrated.

[@CMDRSweeper]

Making water more "wet" is very common for your clothes washer, that is what they say is the purpose of the washing detergent. Since water is a great substance to dissolve dirt and other things into, making it more "wet" so it can flow easier through garments and carry more dirt is beneficial. Which by wetness is supposed to break the water's surface tension... Of course there are other things in the washing detergent as well as enzymes, perfume and the like, but the wetting agent is probably the most important one.

[@unnamellie]

"Wetting agent" is something that improves the liquidity of the water, makes hydrogen bonds between molecules easier to break, and, in return, the water becomes more liquid, getting in between of the threads, or something, I'm not a water scientist. I mean, you can say it's more "wet" too, because more water molecules will stay on your skin with that agent

[@daboss640]

@@unnamellie They're also called surfactants, and they actually work by essentially adding compounds that both attract and repel water molecules. This causes the water molecules to want to separate which results in a lower surface tension. Also it's actually the opposite, less water molecules should cling to you if you use a wetting agent due to the lower surface tension.

[@ransombot]

Fairly sure the water more wet thing in a "toy" has a completely different meaning that many seem to "Astro" glide over with a different type of wetting agent. I had a rain stick as a kid so I know exactly what it means. It makes a sound when you tip it over.

[@b.balazs6301]

"Go back to the sonic convension with your chaos emeralds nerd"

[@Enderdragon91]

You should check out his follow up of this video! He actually managed to get the US nuclear regulatory body's attention

[@madmax2069]

I was wanting to get one of the pendants just to have a source for my Geiger counter, BUT i didn't know what the pendant itself was made from (not talking about the radiation source but the material of the pendant). I didn't want to risk it if there was a possibility that it could transfer anything from the pendant by touch or if it was to break down and turn into a powder over time (ive had quite a few cheap and expensive things made from plastic where the plastic would break down and turn into power or would get brittle or transfer some material when you touch it). Dont want to have a powdered Alpha source as that could be all kinds of bad. I just ended up buying one of those spicy business cards (its what i call those united nuclear Geiger counter test cards).

[@nathanpfirman625]

You NEED to do more videos on this channel. He has some of the most unique videos out there.

[@ScarlettStunningSpace]

I love your reaction videos. You add information that makes them more than just a generic reaction video, and I really appreciate that. Your intro is dialed in :)

[@McLovinMods]

Imagine claiming your product makes water more wet when people still argue on whether or not water itself is wet....

[@Lauert_von_Berndsen]

17:52 that's almost 2.5 time the annual dose limit in Germany (20 mSv/a). It's interesting to see how different countries set different limits. It seem that the limit for the average Joe is the same though (1 mSv/a). So I wanna ask how thing are in the US. In Germany we have three zones: Überwachungsbereich (monitored area @ > 1 mSv/a), Kontrollbereich (controled area @ > 6 mSv/a) and Sperrbereich (barred area @ >= 3 mSv/h). We also have two different groups of professionally exposed personal: group b (> 1mSv/a) and group a (> 6 mSv/a), for which different rules apply.

[@Cs137matt]

I actually have some fake EMF blocking stickers intend to be put on your cell phone that are radioactive. I bought them knowing there was a good chance they were radioactive because other people posted review pictures of them next to their Geiger counters, I bought them 3 weeks ago, I messaged Amazon about this but they haven't responded and the product is still up.

[@liesdamnlies3372]

Heck, you may have better luck going to your nuclear regulator. We don’t mean anything to Amazon; your complaint probably got filtered-out by an AI and never saw human eyes, if we’re being honest, and if it did it certainly wasn’t by anyone who understands the severity of these sorts of things. A nuclear regulator contacting them with the implicit threat of millions in fines would light a fire under their collective asses.

[@YunxiaoChu]

What did the reviews say?

[@wessltov]

That video is actually the reason why I never bought anything decorative like rings and bracelet from those buy-anything websites. Thank you for spreading the message! I have considered buying a small Geigercounter to test any items I do want to try, but without that prerequisite I'd rather play it safe (because no one knows what might be in there)

[@foogod4237]

On the plus side, usually if these sorts of things contain these materials, they actually _want_ you to know and will heavily advertise them as being "negative ion" or "ion generating", or "energy producing", etc. Thorium powder isn't _that_ expensive, but it's still more expensive than just not including it at all, so if they're going to spend the money and manufacturing effort to include it, they're probably gonna make sure to hype its effects (as a selling point). So I wouldn't worry too much about buying some random bit of cheap jewelry (which was not touted for its health benefits) and discovering it's actually radioactive. That's probably pretty unlikely...

[@moodfm5673]

if its just a random decorative ring why would people be wasting money putting thorium in it though? instead of buying a geigercounter maybe just use that money and save up a little more money and buy some silver or gold rings or bracelets from a local shop. no point in wearing something so cheap that your worried it might be highly radioactive.

[@Nick-rs5if]

Thanks for your input Tyler!

[@joemck85]

"The real danger happens when the products are used as intended." Amazing. If I recall after this made the rounds on KZbin it got reported to the NRC. I think current "negative ion" products are just inert bracelets etc.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Don't bet on it, these grifters are actively trying to murder people through inducing cancer.

[@TruthIsTheNewHate84]

I've been recommending this video. Glad you're checking it out.

[@zeph0shade]

For the record, as someone who's not an electrician but deals with electrical projects as a hobby (so there's a larger chance that I'm wrong than if an actual electrician were to speak up): Sticking a fork in an outlet shouldn't give you all that many "negative ions", because home outlets are connected to AC circuits, which means ~60x per second you gain a few ions, and then immediately lose them again, as they're being pushed and pulled rather than just being shot into you as a constant stream.

[@mattcally5027]

Thank you so much for all the wonderful insight! I have been watching some of your videos and you have vastly increased my knowledge on all things nuclear in a very educational and entertaining way. Keep up the great work!

[@scientificidiot4165]

Please watch his video on curing his lactose intolerance. It is amazing, and an amazing example of how advanced you can get.

[@limbaksa]

Yep, the south korean government detected 620Bq of radon in negative ion bed mattress, created because of those negative ion powders.

[@Gloriath1]

Little anecdote: A very kind person I knew once informed me, that the radius and mass of the hydrogen atom had dropped by 75% since the seventies, and that the government (edit: the German one in this case, but who cares, is all gubbernmint) had us all kept in the dark about that. I was something between shocked and amused and just replied that I hadn't come across that in my physics lectures. Her response: "See, you didn't learn ALL about physics at university." The fuck you even respond to that.

[@dkexpat2755]

I have been binge watching your channel the last 2 days, I really love it! Specially the NileRed and Veritasium ones, really interesting. Thanks for these videos.2

[@halfcircleworkshop]

This reminded me of a product we used to buy that was called water wetter. It was just a non foaming surfactant to help water soak into and move through small tubing and purge air faster.

[@kamatsu8]

Thought Emporium is great and does a lot of nuclear related stuff! I hope you check out more of his videos.

[@VoidHalo]

Was great to see this video! I was really hoping you'd have a look at it at some point. The second one explains how he got at least a couple of places shut down. But, I'm sure there are a whole bunch more that popped up in their place. It's a really unfortunate situation. Even with things like mercury and arsenic and strychnine, real snake oils would have probably been safer.

[@PsychoticEwok]

I have a salt lamp just because it looked cool i put a rbg light bulb in it gives you great mood lighting 🙂

[@weatherguyar]

love seeing reactions to these things i have watched

[@CaptainFalc0nPunch]

Love your channel and commentary! Always look forward to your videos you post almost daily!

[@JingleHellTV]

Fun video, have fun with the sequels, the rabbit hole deepened.

[@generalprincecodyhedgewolf2944]

Me after Eating a banana and hearing that I have potassium 40: We’ve all been in that Nuclear Submarine

[@unknowngamer37415]

I think when you mentioned as particles being ignored is because if you're trying to block the other forms of radiation, you were going to block the alpha particles as well. So you can effectively ignore it if you're also shielding against other forms of radiation. That's the only context I've heard it in anyway

[@fmwyt95]

This is only tangentially related to the video but I just want to say thank you for mentioning "workers" in leiu of "women" when bringing up the special NRC stipulations regarding pregnancy. The fact that a lot of STEMtubers like you and Dr. Wagner can so casually separate gender from genitalia/reproduction when the discussion calls for its mention really helps Me and (I imagine) the rest of your trans/enby fanbase feel included. I greatly appreciate all of you that do that and I don't think people like you get enough recognition for it.

[@tfolsenuclear]

Thank you! I really appreciate that!

[@mikegLXIVMM]

Thorium oxide is often an unwanted byproduct of refining certain ores for rare earth metals. Rather than just let it lay around, they try to make money off of it.

[@yurikz9]

YESSS, my absolutely favorite channel on youtube

[@pirobot668beta]

Way back when (mid 1970's), anti-static devices were being made for LP vinyl records...wave the thing at an LP and the dust would fall right off! We dissected one of them...really dumb thing to do, but at least we washed our hands afters. We didn't have a GM counter, but a bit of photographic film showed us the activity in the strips. The Am241 was a fine dust suspended in a green plastic resin, crudely painted onto metal strips. Don't recall if it had a does-rate warning...

[@Coastal_Cruzer]

Iirc some were even made with polonium. FUCKING POLONIUM!

[@buttershush8895]

I love that shirt you're wearing! On a different note, it'd be nice to have a clear concise explanation of the different units for measuring radiation dosages, since there seem to be so many of them. You briefly touched on it, but it'd be nice to have a bit more.

[@5688gamble]

A nucleus on its own IS technically an ion, H+ is an ion, it is also a particle-a proton. An alpha particle is an He2+ ion travelling fast, it is a very reactive ion that will strip electrons from just about anything, thus ionizing them, hence ionizing radiation.

[@hawkeye454]

Your videos are so enjoyable to watch and very informative. Thank you for sharing your nuclear knowledge with us! Please watch Carl Willis's channel on nuclear topics.

[@scorinth]

Oh, man, I didn't realize you hadn't already done Thought Emporium's videos or I would have recommended them. If I recall correctly, there's a sequel to this one.

[@ex5080]

Omg Thought Emporium is such a great channel

[@ExActa]

I recommend you check out the follow up video he made, where he talks more about what happened to the companies and tests more - even more dangerous - products.

[@janpapai9205]

Even if you go by the higher 50 mSv limit for radiation workers, if you count in everything else that gives you radiation, youre probably over that limit by a lot. Like have two xrays and be a smoker (for some reason tobacco really likes to pick up background radiation and one zig has 9-15 mBq polonium 210) and there you go.

[@conclaveofthelost513]

My daughter bought some Thorium Oxide nail powder from Temu a few months ago. Glows a treat if subjected to UV. It's in my mineral collection now, partly for safety reasons, mostly because I think it's cool. Can't wait for the Plutonium edition to be released.

[@charleshendry5978]

A step up from the old Q Ray bracelets! 😅

[@mikefochtman7164]

We used to make water 'wetter'in our absorption refridgeration system. We lowered the surface tension of water by adding a small amount of ethyl alcohol. This was in the Navy where I was a 'nuc' and we certainly didn't use radiation to do that. lol

[@aalhard]

Now I am worried about thorium contamination in products via malpractice or malintent. That powder is so easy to find it seems😮

[@NetherStray]

The placebos don't bother me so much because... Well, they're placebos. The placebo effect, though caused by nothing, means that there is a real effect taking place. Is it necessarily doing everything purported by the maker? No, probably not. But there's likely _some_ benefit, even if it's caused by nothing. So really the problem here is the hazardous materials and the idea of people spending way more than they should on what's effectively make-believe. Any time the placebo effect is brought up I feel the need to mention the nocebo effect as well, where nothing is there to physically cause a reaction, but the belief in such has caused a reaction anyway. Nocebo describes a negative reaction while placebo describes a positive reaction. Things like people getting actual headaches and nausea from wind farms and 5g, that kind of thing. Do wind farms and 5g cause nausea and headaches? No, but a person's belief that they should can do that.

[@aidenpearce5275]

An extremely example of the nocebo effect is that one lawyer from Better call Saul that claims to be allergic to electricity Throughout the show he is shown having a real reaction to it, however when Jimmy slips a a battery into his pocket without him knowing he doesn't have a reaction *until* he knows about it even though he claimed to be able to detect if there was a source of electricity combined

[@Meow_Tse-Tung]

I'm going to call wood thick paper from now on lmao

[@cameronwebster6866]

Paper precursor.

[@1over137]

I was taught that: Water predominantly exists as ions. It's a polar molecule. It also likes to partially separate into ions in an electrical field hodge podge. The O has 2H on average, but at any one time to the next it might not be the same H atoms. It's a bit like an orgy. All of this starts as soon as you introduce an ionic tending impurity, like almost any salt. Almost immediately the water around such impurity will diassociate into ions of H and O and get all polygamistic with it's partners. Importantly when this occurs the electrical conductivity of water goes from nearly zero to being significant for your safety.

[@UsernameXOXO]

re: penetration Wood is often structured in such a way that even a thin sheet will block more radiation, but the natural liquids (plant fats, water) will likely retain radiation.

[@AlexW-]

You need to watch more of his videos... He makes so much good content

[@timramich]

You actually can make water more wet, with a surfactant. It reduces the surface tension. Dish soap does this to water.

[@AdVapidKudos]

A theory I have heard of is that this is a method of laundering various radioactive wastes produced in China. Mix it into commercial products instead of disposing it properly.

[@johnettipio]

China does have a history of getting rid of waste products that way. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_drywall

[@nmccw3245]

Usually surfactants (soap, detergent) makes water “more wet” by lowering surface tension.

[@MadScientist267]

This is the second description I've heard of the photo multiplier tube on here that is incorrect. The photons stop at the detection screen (behind the scintillator). This knocks an electron free from the screen that heads toward an electrode called a "dynode", of which there are several in cascade. The dynodes are progressively more and more positive as the electrons encounter them. Each time an electron strikes a dynode, secondary emission takes place (the incoming electron knocks another electron off the dynode itself) which gets directed toward the next dynode. This process repeats until the now "shower" of electrons finally hits the anode, where it then generates the signal the external circuitry uses. No photons are actually in play within the tube itself; they are destroyed at the sample window screen.

[@alt8620]

my man is sarcastic when saying the things make the water more wet(the one who gets reacted) and he did build that reactor

[@jimstanley_49]

I think the "stopped by paper" analogy is trying to reassure you that being _in the vicinity_ of an alpha source is not that dangerous. I assumed they lost a lot of energy just moving through the air and that was why your T-shirt was adequate PPE. The paper "armor" statement should probably include the disclaimer "seriously though, don't rub it on your face."

[@belljoxer]

On the two inch pancake detectors like the one shown in the video, they can detect alpha particles because the window is made with Mica. This is a natural mineral that can be split into very thin sheets and is transparent to alpha particles. There are some other materials which can also be used, but without the right choice of material, the Geiger-Mueller tube will be unable to detect alpha particles.

[@soundslike8454]

Can confirm that even today, these ship to many countries. Some of us have used them to test Giger counters and cloud chambers

[@robertk1701]

This video of Thought Emporium and its follow up along with my wife's habit of buying random stuff from suspicious Chinese retailers is why I bought a geiger counter. That and there was an empty(?) container for a medical isotope in my office. They would use these things as paper weights... Between the geiger counter and the math (half life on this stuff would've had it at negligible levels probably decades ago) and the only thing dangerous about those containers is probably the lead I suspect they were made out of.

[@MrAkukomen]

In tiktok there are selling this like crazy

[@viscache1]

What is amazing is that people get excited about this and buy clothing, jewelry, pillows, mattresses etc. and no, these haven’t been ended. There are more of these products available now than ever before.

[@lynndonharnell422]

Makes about as much sense as the gadget that produces "hydrogen water"

[@robertcasey2490]

I assume radiation workers will be too smart to use these things....

[@defaltcondition249]

3:50 I never thought I'd see someone reacting to a reaction.

[@puellanivis]

Linus Tech Tips in the last year had a video where they had a wireless electrostatic discharge bracelet, and they didn’t even know, but it was these freaking radioactive bracelets again.

[@thetinpin]

I was SOO CLOSE to sticking a fork in an outlet...

[@nathnathn]

One thing i don’t get with the ridiculous 5g conspiracies is that they always focus on the most ridiculous parts to claim problems with. If they wanted a leg to stand on they could just focus on the fact it would need far too many transmitters for a true 5g system in a number of bands instead of the extended 4g they currently call 5g. and the waste energy bands that most electronics dump some energy into which is tenuously linked to minor health issues “no actual major studies as far as I’m aware have ever been conducted”

[@4shotpastas]

That fork joke was so good

[@gerrya4818]

Oh man, you kicked a hornets nest now... the anti-5g wackadoodles are gonna come after you now haha /s

[@RealBelisariusCawl]

I long for a day when ALARA is an acronym everyone knows by heart. Radiation safety is cool, yo. ❤

[@mattsains]

"oh, it's a fun glowing rock to play with" - Tyler

[@gdude2775]

I love these videos. The thought emporium has many more super cool videos

[@WillowFox]

Water more wet, or wetter.... Is literally what soap does, breaks the surface tension.

[@orchdork775]

It's worth considering that a lot of people regularly exfoliate the layer of dead skin off to try and get softer skin, which I imagine could be the difference between alpha particles penetrating to dividing cells and not penetrating to dividing cells. I've always wondered if there have been any studies/experiments on this, because that could impact regulations for people who work in industries that expose them to ionizing radiation.

[@jamesbarton1969]

Just checked, these things are still for sale.

[@Rathmun]

We know some of the products just stopped adding thorium, so it's _possible_ the ones you saw are just frauds, instead of dangerous frauds. You'd have to get one and check with a geiger counter to be sure. (Not defending them, it's illegal either way, but knowing _which_ crime they're committing is important for reporting them.)

[@agentvx8320]

I gather that the reason (or at least a major contributing factor) is that large amounts of thorium are produced as byproducts of rare earth metal refining, and there aren't a whole lot of good uses for it unless someone starts building thorium fuel cycle power reactors.

[@Rusty-METAL-J]

Yeah Alpha(α) has a bit of trouble surviving a collision with mere paper. Beta(β) is a Lil tougher but, Gamma(γ) & X-Ray(χ) tear through most materials.

[@Rusty-METAL-J]

Yeah wood definitely trumps Alpha(α) particles because the molecules are arranged where nature makes them a million or more times denser, than we leave them when we make it paper.

[@dwavenminer]

30:18 unfortunately in the UK thorium creams were being sold in those health shops a few years back...what's worse, it was being marketed as a cure to skin cancer.... On the plus side, a know a few people that got some cheap check sources for their detectors...

[@soundslike8454]

"Scalar energy" products are the new name for these thorium dioxide trinkets

[@LookingForLoo]

I don't think I've ever actually had a single doctor explain to me exactly why getting an x-ray/being exposed to radiation when you're pregnant is a bad thing, so thank you for touching on that bcs yeah I already knew radiation + fast dividing cells = A Problem but like, I'd never put the pieces together. And I know tons of afab people who have no idea why doctors hound them about testing/signing waivers and stuff, they just think it's cuz it's "dangerous" which it is but like, the doctors never EXPLAIN the real danger. I think if someone actually explained why it's so dangerous then more people would be more comfortable with the process. This is def information I'm going to hold on to.

[@Codcj2]

Ah thorium dioxide, as a welder i am very familiar with this. Getting to melt metals together using a thorium doped tubgsten electrode that gets ground to a point is fun when you know what thorium is. I legit cant even use the thorium electrodes without at least a p2 respirator mask on because im not too keen on inhaling any more thorium dust from sharpening the electrodes or from any fumes from the vaporising electrode tip while welding. Sure the hazard may be low given 1-2% is a tiny amount, but still the risk factor of inhaling thorium fumes or dust and having my lungs irradiated doesnt sound like a fun game to play

[@Coastal_Cruzer]

Invest in (or build) a fume extractor

[@WR3ND]

Mmm, spicy snake oil.

[@EricHonaker]

It's probably not what these weirdos mean, but when artists talk about making their water more wet, it means adding something that reduces surface tension. Important for airbrushing, paint washes, etc.

[@ttolene9656]

In South Korea, the 'neagtive ion' marketing is banned, after the radon detection from monizite-coated mattresses in 2018.

[@michaelmoorrees3585]

3:40 - You can buy those large salt rocks, for relatively cheap, at the Tractor Supply, as a "lick" for your horse, or goats.

[@Arcron]

LinusTechTips made a video about something similar with anti-static bracelets with that ElectroBoom guy. I think they have thorium as well.

[@madmax2069]

The one that ElectroBoom was wearing in that video looks oddly like Power Ionics Prism 2000 wrist band you get from AliExpress.

[@cameronwebster6866]

Radiation can increase static dissipation.

[@MolecularResearchLab]

@@cameronwebster6866 So all i need i an RTG to carry with me during thunderstorms