Two Years of Radioactive Material Collecting | My Collection in 2024

[@sciguy3128]

Interesting thing about that K-40 that you probably already know. It sometimes emits a positron, or anti-electron. When this positron encounters a regular electron, it annihilates, and produces two 511 keV gamma rays with direction completly opposite each other. This is visible with a 3 inch NaI detector. The two 511 keV gamma rays are each equivalent to the rest energy of the electron or positron. Hence, the leptons that annihilated vanish.

[@abyphysics414]

@@sciguy3128 Yes, that is a neat thing about K-40. It also happens with F-18 in a PET scan and that’s how they work, interestingly. I need to get out my massive Ludlum 44-10 and hook it up to a meter. I need to get a Ludlum 12 for that though. That would be fun to detect the gamma from that.

[@tosieczek]

9:09 How did they let you in?? That must have been such a cool experience, how did you do that?

[@abyphysics414]

I have a distant family member whose mom works there. She was able to set it up so I could get a tour. It wad super cool, though unfortunately all I had was a GQ electronics GMC 500+ at the time, so really no “trustworthy” measurements were able to be taken.

[@Elizebazz]

3:29 I also have that exact same size Halls China Bowl. I’ve been also trying to find Thorium in antique shops that is sealed and intact like how radioactive drew made a video and it was in a plastic sealed. But most of them I find is not sealed and my hands got contaminated from touching it.

[@abyphysics414]

@@Elizebazz You mean Thorium gas mantles or camera lenses, or something else?

[@Elizebazz]

@@abyphysics414 The gas mantles

[@abyphysics414]

@@Elizebazz Yes I can imagine those getting “messy” because of that Mine are just in a vile… and the guy at the lab who gave them to me said they were new. Not antique. I know that’s not true through, he wasn’t even the one who bought them. I think he just assumed.

[@Elizebazz]

@@abyphysics414How do you visit Hot Laboratories and collect radioactive materials? I rarely visit them because of my dads schedule. There is alot of interesting materials there that I haven’t checked with my radeye b20. It

[@Elizebazz]

So that Radeye PRD is the one you bought from eBay?

[@The-One-and-Only100]

Pretty good collection a few easy samples you could get online are radium watches or clocks or aircraft instruments, promethium 147 (old lightbulbs like the PLC 15MM/28W/27 by Philips),and a bunch more to add to the collection (old cdv 700s have depleted uranium check sources)

[@abyphysics414]

@@The-One-and-Only100 I’ve thought about that. I need to get around to buying some of this, but I’m saving for a RadEye B20 right now.

[@The-One-and-Only100]

@@abyphysics414 how much till you can afford one

[@abyphysics414]

@@The-One-and-Only100 Oh gosh I have no idea. Me and my family are moving, so I am gonna get a bunch of jobs doing stuff at the new house and moving our stuff over. That’s the plan, but even that won’t get me enough to get a B20. They’re like $2000 from eBay. I’m hoping I can get one at Christmas time or my birthday. That would be my present that I’ll “three-quarters-buy” myself if you get what I mean. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to get one. Just when I have enough cash gathered up, which might take me a while. A B20 would just be very nice because it’s a compact pancake detector, and a very nice meter. That’s why I’ve bought stuff along the way, like the RadEye PRD. Really to give me something to do and some videos to make you guys.

[@The-One-and-Only100]

@@abyphysics414 if you want a compact pancake the radiation alert ranger is MUCH cheaper than 2 grand it's less than a 1000

[@ramennoodles7221]

@@abyphysics414 Rad Eye B20 is a good detector, but definitely overpriced.

[@Liminaut0]

KZbin turned off the comments on the latest video, btw! 😩 I don't know why youtube hates the radiation hobby so much! :/ I've posted videos on radiation before and youtube either blocked them or kept turning off the comments. :/

[@abyphysics414]

@@Liminaut0 They do it because of my age I think. I’ve got them back on now though!

[@Liminaut0]

@@abyphysics414 Sweet! :D

[@Muonium1]

I am more or less astounded at not only your exceptional precocity for learning about radioactivity and physics generally, but also at the highly accurate and almost entirely factually correct nature of your commentary. Ordinarily for someone interested in radiation at your age, I would give a little lecture about minimizing exposure and understanding the difference between contamination and radiation itself, but I honestly see almost no need here, as I observe that you are already following careful procedures to minimize both. I believe that you may potentially have something very special with your autunite sample here - as it is labeled as being from Portugal, I think it may be from the Infesta mine, possibly giving it a very unique property. If you can see this post and respond to it, I will reply with more details. One small final note - in your "water and air are amazing" investigation, you are observing a very specific phenomenon called "frustrated total internal reflection". When the evanescent wave of incident internally reflected light (which extends a few nanometers above the surface of the glass) is intercepted by the surface of eg. a finger tip, it is decoupled from the glass, scattered in the skin, and becomes easily visible.

[@abyphysics414]

@@Muonium1 I’m glad to hear that you like this stuff! Possibly so! I don’t know the exact mine it’s from, you could be correct. Also, I have not done a “Water and Air are Amazing” video. Maybe you’re mixed up with another KZbinr.

[@chemicode]

The radiacode102 can detect uranium glass and uranium glaze you just have to give it time also for more accurate readings put the source as close as you can to the sensor

[@abyphysics414]

@@chemicode Technically it will pick it up, yes, it can just be stubborn with it. Uranium is primarily an α and β emitter and the Radiacode only detects γ (which Uranium barely emits) If you give it time and really watch the readings you could see an increase.

[@chemicode]

@@abyphysics414 yh I've tried it it's a slow reading cause it's mostly alpha beta

[@abyphysics414]

@@chemicode Oh and also just a side note: You may hear that the Radiacode detects beta but I don’t think it does. It might be a rumor or something. Technically, a CsI(Tl) scintillation crystal should only be able to sense gamma radiation. You would need a beta scintillator, which has a certain type of plastic as the crystal element. Beta could get through the inclosure of the Radiacode, and I think that this might be where the misunderstanding comes from.

[@chemicode]

Overall great video❤

[@igotmesomehorses]

Great video!!!!!

[@duracell1battery]

How did you manage to convince your parents to get you those meters??? That is thousand of dollars worth. I must say I'm pretty jealous. That is a really cool collection though!

[@abyphysics414]

@@duracell1battery “I” didn’t. Ludlum sent me 6 meters for free 😁 (I was also sent the Radiacode) And the rest I also didn’t necessarily “convince” my parents to buy, I just saved my money from doing things around the house.

[@duracell1battery]

@@abyphysics414 Thats pretty cool

[@abyphysics414]

@@duracell1battery Thanks!

[@tosieczek]

@@abyphysics414thats so cool man, how did u get it sent? Is it for being a youtuber?

[@abyphysics414]

@@tosieczek I have an article on my website that brings it up. Just look at my about page. But long story short, my mom reached out to them to get the official shirt as a Christmas present, and when they found out how old I was they asked if they could send some meters and other stuff with it too.

[@brillopad1392]

I was wondering if the 44-9 red probe cover came with your Ludlum, or did you buy it separately. Couldn't find it on the Ludlum site.

[@abyphysics414]

@@brillopad1392 When you buy a Model 44-9, I believe they automatically include that snap-in red front cover just to keep the fragile window safe. It came with mine, but I was sent it already previously used from Ludlum.