URANIUM CRAYON? - Nuclear Engineer Reacts to INSANE 1933 Chemistry Recipes by styropyro

[@tfolsenuclear]

Thanks so much for watching! If you would like to see my reaction to more GREEN GLOW URANIUM, please check out my reaction to NileRed's Uranium Glass: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5qviI2Zgq10nJosi=qam7vgkYA9bu8QAq

[@Skinnamarink.]

Reaction channels are the WORST! **Don't Recommend Channel**

[@hannahpumpkins4359]

So, if I come within sight of Cerenkov radiation, in person, does that mean I'm already screwed in terms of radiation poisoning? Every story I've read about that blue light seems to be 'if you see it in-person, your life is over'.

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

i have 7 PDF volumes of this book series he is referring to. a LOT of spooky stuff in them. i am comfortable playing around with funky chemicals/processes. but there's shit in these books that completely creep me out.

[@clemsonbloke]

You are always saying you don't know everything about Nuclear but you are a Nuclear Engineer. Well shouldn't you know all of it? I mean if you are a nuclear engineer. As a civilian, I want the best of the best people running those power plants. Anything less than that is somebody I don't want running those. I mean shouldn't you be on the top of your game and know it all?

[@clemsonbloke]

And you have some good videos on here.

[@_-KR-_]

Ive always found it ironic how Styropyro's youtube presence has more to do with optics and electrical engineering, but the area he is most studied in is chemistry. Totally reccomend watching everything he has to offer on his channel, he is unironically the most 'chad' science communicating youtuber to bless our screens!

[@WildEGHatch]

I feel blessed to live less than 3 hours from where his workshop is, hope to eventually run into him since he seems like such a chill science KZbinr that has actual fun with his ridiculous projects

[@nikkiofthevalley]

@@WildEGHatch How do you even know that?

[@asdrake1327]

Ah one of the best icons to have from RA2

[@coolcatcher126]

And then there's Explosions&Fire

[@supertornadogun1690]

he lives near chicago@@nikkiofthevalley

[@feldamar2]

He DOES have a good safety record. That is to say, he's done FAR scarier things in the past repeatedly and still is alive.

[@tfolsenuclear]

That’s great to know!

[@RobertCraft-re5sf]

​@@tfolsenuclearHis recent thing with the 100 car batteries in parallel is crazy.

[@waynemacleod3416]

I pretty sure thats his act or angle/style for his content.

[@Chewsiffer18]

Styro may be my favorite science KZbinr, if only because I am constantly terrified for his safety, yet he always seems in complete control

[@StorymasterQ]

So it's like the science to the engineering of "I did a thing"?

[@neruneri]

@@StorymasterQ I'm not convinced "I did a thing" actually does anything safely, I think he just has plot armor and the writers don't want to kill him off

[@TantalumPolytope]

@@irreverend_ He isn't gone?

[@irreverend_]

@@TantalumPolytope Well he's certainly not dead to the best of my knowledge, just real life things became more important. He disappeared for about 5 years, came back for a little bit and he did make a video explaining why he'd been absent for so long, then he's gone dark again for the past couple of years.

[@vsGoliath96]

It's always wonderful when Styro uploads. Not just because it's a good video, but because it means he hasn't blown himself to pieces yet.

[@MrDevintcoleman]

This dude is like… I don’t know. Modern Tesla? Wildly genius and humble and sarcastic and death-defying because of his self-taught prowess in this stuff!?!? Please do watch more of him. You won’t be disappointed.

[@TheMNWolf]

NileRed did a video about making uranium glass and he went through the process of refining the uranium and was testing it for phosphorescence throughout. It's an interesting video.

[@NewUser000NewUser]

I second this

[@The_Infidelis]

Would love to see his reaction to that one.

[@gkchong4240]

HE LISTENED

[@marconiandcheese7258]

Cody's lab did one showing how to purify and extract uranium out of ore. The feds asked him to take it down but he put it back up last year

[@Ndetonados]

styro's content is wild, i don't know how much it'll cross between your knowledge of nuclear eng. but it'll sure be a fun time to watch and react to his stuff

[@markandrew5968]

If I had to guess, the green glowy idea of uranium probably came from uranium glass, which was extremely popular for ~20 years around the 60s and 70s. It probably used the same salts as in this video, because the glass is yellowish under normal lighting but flouresces incredibly bright green under UV. It's much brighter and more effective than you would guess from the "crayon" in this video.

[@kmn7899]

gotta love styropyro

[@Random_scug]

You rn 🍷🗿

[@ddg-norysq1464]

How is your comment older than the video?

[@arkhilious]

stryopyro*

[@YagamiMagatsuko]

Pretty cool, right

[@anotora9362]

11:20 that's a really cool mnemonic for recalling the difference between flammable and inflammable! Never noticed it was the same rule as valuable/invaluable

[@quaztron]

Invaluable is like priceless, impossible to set a value on or set a price for because it's too large. Nonvaluable and worthless things have no value. Inflammable is the same as flammable, not more flammable. You don't flam something or flame it; but you could inflame it, which usually means irritate it, but conceivably could mean adding flame to it, rendering it "in flames", setting it aflame, ablaze, afire, alight, or on fire. Nonflammable means it won't flam, and you can't flam it, even if you try... Inflammable means you can inflam it... What you want is non-inflammable.

[@Rainyjax]

It's not, really! "Invaluable" just means you can't place a value on it, either because it's too valuable to YOU that you wouldn't sell it for any price, or because it's just outright not worth anything. So to say, it applies equally to an ancient portrait of your great-great-great-great-grandfather, and a fistful of dirty glass shards.

[@jbug64]

"Building a fire death machine using soviet military tech" might be my favorite video from styropyro if you want something interesting to watch either on or off the channel

[@guypie5479]

lab coats are generally the least important of the common PPE in my experience so its often the first to be ignored, although obviously still helpful/important.

[@WoobertAIO]

9:23 what I find fascinating about that recipe is how close it was to being an actually effective asthma relieving cigarette instead of an extremely poisonous version of tear gas.

[@themement3616]

I love smoking tear gas 🚬😋😋

[@Chara_Dreemurr1]

Wait what?

[@marryof995]

more styropyro ? yes yes yes. He's so interesting, even the FBI got curious about his experiments if i remember correctly. :)

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Yeah, they tend to be suspicious people depending on what you buy.

[@vsGoliath96]

Yes, two FBI agents showed up at his house, if I remember correctly.

[@DefaultFlame]

You might not need a reactor to get cool glowy colors, but Cherenkov radiation is so pretty.

[@garythecatastrophe7535]

Styropyro is a legend, I highly recommend his "laser microwave" video. Good stuff.

[@Bigtoedilemma]

"How a man survived the strangest accident in history" by thoughty2 is a really fun retelling of the very much real story concerning the man that survived being shot in the head by a particle accelerator. If you haven't heard of it before it is definitely worth a watch!

[@Nyx_2142]

There are far better sources for that story than Thoughty2, who regularly peddles misinformation and pseudoscience, not to mention he doesn't cite sources. Just another pop "science" tool, and that's without getting into his less science specific videos where he acts like an insufferable prick.

[@bjrn-oskarrnning2740]

Unlike steel, copper can't be hardened by quenching, but the pipe has probably been work hardened. Heating it up actually anneals it, making it softer. I bet the quenching liquid actually makes a hard coating on the surface while the copper itself actually gets softer, which would align with the results.

[@MeepChangeling]

Urine contains several chemicals which like to crystalize. The color the pipe turned is also similar to oxidized copper, but had black bits in it too. If the other chemicals are helping to speed up the crystallization process, then it's possible that the heat causes crystals to rapidly form on the copper's surface, creating a hard layer.

[@jerryfick613]

I taught my kid that flammable burns, non- flammable doesn't burn, and inflammable doesn't bother with burning; It just blows the f*** up

[@Chara_Dreemurr1]

Yep. Non-flammable doesn't burn. While inflammable just... doesn't bother. It just explodes

[@mduvigneaud]

I just paused at 2:59, my understanding is that it's fluorescence of some compounds that makes it glow green. Uranium glass is a very classic example.

[@VoidHxnter]

“Hopefully this guy has a good safety record.” He puts himself in a literal Tesla coil arc. I’d recommend that video to show you a glimpse of how insane he is. Something talking about if it’s volts or amps that kill. You should be able to input something on that since you work in a power-related industry.

[@rawhidelamp]

Amps kill

[@tfolsenuclear]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@VoidHxnter]

@@tfolsenuclear You're very welcome, my good man.

[@JazzyFizzleDrummers]

​@@rawhidelampit's more complicated than that actually there's a pretty scary chart that shows all the way electricity can end you.

[@CommanderNoob]

17:13 "Let's drop the base" That shit floored me lmao. I knew exactly what the joke was the moment I saw the powder and heard the word "base". I love Science lmao

[@stevenbryant3055]

6:50 I think his reasoning for the lack of long sleeves for this particular part of the video is probably because of the flammable chemicals and chance of auto ignition, you don’t want anything that can soak up fuel and prolong the amount of time you have fire against skin if things go wrong, and it’s much easier to wash off the particular chemicals he’s working with than to get burns treated as well as being much cheaper

[@Chara_Dreemurr1]

Yeah. The lack of protection was in fact. More effective for protection than if he had it. Which is cool. In that instance. Having a small amount of protection. Namely gloves. Is safer than having a full suit.

[@heretichazel]

As far as I'm aware styro hasn't had any known serious safety incidents, but us fans of his are always relieved he isn't dead whenever he uploads just because he does this kinda crap LMAO he once shaved some of the hair on his arm off with a laser while talking about how if it hit his skin it'd instantly give him third degree burns

[@lukethedank13]

Cody from Codys Lab actualy extracted some uranium from ore. Aaaand he got visited by the FBI soon after.

[@TheMrblobbie]

you're the best reaction channel out there man, keep it up

[@tfolsenuclear]

Thanks so much!!

[@Sarah-with-an-H]

He’s so casual about things that it adds to the humor

[@Salaaran]

It's interesting that Styropyro is wearing gloves when he knows flames are involved. During my studies we were told nitrile/latex gloves and so on are a no no when working with fire (risk of melting polymer and making a hot and sticky material that will burn you bad). So we always had to remove our gloves.

[@houjisaifeddine5524]

you know it will be a good video when the first line he says after opening the book is "anyway, let's see how much further i can get through this book without violating the geneva convention"

[@Daedwartin2]

11:09 Its not actually English's fault. The prefix in- comes to english from the common Latin prefix in-, which means "into, in, in, or upon". This is BTW NOT the origin of the extremely common word "In" which has almost the exact same meaning. In the word comes to us from proto-germanic. Ultimately, both however get the word from the Proto Indo-European word *en. BTW, the asterisk is there to represent that the word has been reconstructed and as such it is only what linguists believe the origin word most likely was based on studying descendent languages. This version sometimes is spelt im-, il-, or ir-. This is as opposed to how we usually think of the prefix in-, meaning "not" which English gets from the common Latin prefix "in-" meaning not. THIS in- is believed to actually from a different PIE prefix, *ne-. There is actually in English a cognate to this version of in-, un-. A reasonable accurate way to tell if a word using a not prefix is native to english or a latin import is that generally latin imports have in- for this purpose while un- is words that are using the native version or heavily nativized versions of a word. Yes, It could be a source of confusion in latin as well. For example, the latin version of impress, Impressus? Could be pressed or unpressed.

[@Justin_Ebright]

I did nuclear remediation for a while, so I've been intimately familiar with ore, tailings, and yellow cake etc. I've never seen it glow either but I did max out my Ludlum when we found out this rancher somehow ended up building rock retaining walls with the densest pitchblend I ever encountered. Dude was like 80 so it clearly didn't hurt him, but only God knows how. Was up near Ambrosia lake NM.

[@Justin_Ebright]

Pitchblende, missed an e and KZbin is acting up not letting me edit that 😂

[@cmlemmus494]

Somewhere in a box I have a book published in the 1880s collecting articles from a British magazine from the 1830s & 40s. One of the suggestions for a display at a garden party was to take a block of ice, one foot on a side, and drill a hole 1" wide and 6" deep, then drop in a piece of sodium the size of a walnut. It will make a nice display of sparks and flame. @11:30 The difference is that "flammable" means something can be set fire to using a flame, "inflammable" means something can burst into flame without an ignition source other than ambient heat. To be fair, it's worth noting that some words, and even prefixes, have changed meanings over time. For example, older texts refer to magnetic attraction and repulsion as love or hate. 17th century scientists weren't ascribing emotions to metals, just using terminology that could be translated into multiple languages including Latin (since the church funded a lot of science).

[@theoriginaltubeofyous]

well if "eau de toilette" is french for "grooming water" then I think toilet milk is probably "grooming milk" since it's basically just a perfumeded soap

[@GageEakins]

Styropyro is really great. You should watch more of his videos. His electronics and laser videos are very fun.

[@nikushim6665]

@2:20 a lot of Uranium salts have a green fluorescence. Diuranate is pretty common in old green glassware or pottery glaze.

[@Poodleinacan]

18:42 I have an old medical book with a recipe for medicial soap (and other things). It's pretty cool. I've never tried to do it, though It is NOT regular soap. It's very special..... But it's basically a disinfectant.

[@AlwaysBolttheBird]

“Let’s see how far I can get in this book before I violate the Geneva Convention” what a line right there haha

[@The_Blyatman]

I am BEGGING you to watch more Styropyro vids! He’s got a ton of cool stuff on his channel, especially about Lasers.

[@sv98753]

urainium salts : "oh the forbidden sparkle sugar" xD

[@soylentgreenb]

Uranium used to be added to procelain tooth caps for the fluorescense. Normal teth have a bit of a bluish glow under UV but there’s nothing easy to add to porcelain that glows blue I guess.

[@2old4gamez]

Every time Styropyro posts a new video I inwardly sigh with relief that the mad genius hasn't accidentally offed himself.

[@OmegaBlue-gb5bu]

So with the mineral oil and glycerine in the toilet milk makes me think it was a laxative because both of those are used to treat constipation.

[@CatbertDeVil]

17:50 The melting point 168 farenheit is close to Cerrosafe (168F) but it's lacking cadmium. Rose metal is the only one that uses exclusively Bismuth+Lead+Tin and nothing else and the melting point is 208F (1 part Tin, 1 part Lead and 2 part Bismuth), so this might be why the recipe didn't work as expected when boiled in water.

[@thorin1045]

uranium is naturally phosphorescent so yes, it will glow with a nice light green light if under uv light, and keep glowing enough that it is used for glow in the light paint for many application, like exit routes or watches. since it is used in tiny quantities and usually only alpha decays, it is mostly safe. uranium glass is extremely cool with the inner light green glow, but for some reason most people do not want to eat or drink from them... oh, and they rarely if ever produce nowadays, so you have to hunt them in sales and such.

[@picax8398]

seriously styro is a legend when it comes to his projects. so much so that he has his own fbi friend!

[@napoleon6221]

Would love to see more StyroPyro reactions, his videos are great.

[@ThatGuywithNoFacecam]

5:44 ROCKET SCIENCE

[@sLmp.]

being told nuclear chemists have a boring job is not what i expected to hear today

[@MrPopTarted]

I'd love to see more styropyro on the channel, his videos are great!

[@russianbigbird4161]

12:53 OKAY I HAVE TO PAUSE THERE the eyes are the quickest and most direct method of ingestion, you'll also get a stronger affect because theres less dilution in the blood stream, out of all the ways to ingest two highly toxic compounds through the eyes has to the worst

[@Vegetable-Jesus]

"let's check a look" is insane but it works so well

[@nonpondo_]

Aw this is such a good channel to react to, this man is actually unhinged

[@patchvonbraun]

My father was an industrial metallurgist and chemist,. When I was a kid, I'd pour through his early-20th-century chemistry texts, and there was a *LOT* of stuff that today we'd consider fantastically questionable. I ended up with all his books when he died. I don't know if those texts are still among them....

[@TheGrumbliestPuppy]

Your camera makes your wall look absolutely crazy. I had a brief panic moment of "Wait I don't remember taking anything this morning".

[@agranero6]

I read some of those old books and they are completely insane on their recipes. Some are interesting, some are completely illegal today (like cleaning products that use spermaceti), some are so out of proportion absurd like using cyanide and things like that. The threshold for security at that time was completely different and I bet most of the recipes were just copied from other sources without the minimum understanding of them. Lets remember that old (I mean 70's) chemical sets for kids had lead salts, sulfuric acid and worsts things yet.

[@gimpyio]

:O no sam o nella today? Thats okay, ill watch your reactions to anything!

[@JimFeig]

Heating and quenching cooper makes it soft.

[@FluffyShadowSky]

18:50 this is lotion for use after washing hands in the caustic lye soap

[@Nelsonsridesandattractions]

Interesting, i worked with depleted uranium many years ago, aircraft manufacturers use it as counterbalance weights for the control surfaces Sometimes its a ball, moulded onto a threaded rod, sometimes its an intricate cage shape, made of what looks like many rods, bent into shape and braised together Very interesting stuff, very heavy compared to mild steel, and it sets off the radiation detection systems at junk yards I think junk yards will take it, but they like to keep it separate from other scrap metals

[@MeriaDuck]

That book is trolling chemists even 90 years after it was written 😂.

[@humansymphony]

Always funny to see @styropyro wherever I go now. lol. Back in the day, some 15+ years ago, we were just acquaintances on a laser pointer forum. Now homeboy has completely blown the fuck up.

[@kylebaumgartner408]

would love to see you react to more of his stuff :)

[@lexikdark3392]

Quenching Copper in water or oil after heating it up to critical temp is how you soften the metal. Unlike steel or Iron, which hardens when you do that. same thing with bronze, it goes soft. BUT, Copper & bronze work-hardens, so to harden it up you simply hit it with a hammer to compress the metal closer together. simplified way of saying this. but basically what happens.

[@soylentgreenb]

Uranium glassware is quite popular and still being made today. Uranium is about as toxic as lead and you can hardly leach either from glass without extreme temperature.

[@GregJumpscare]

CONGRATS ON 20K!

[@tfolsenuclear]

Thank you so much!!

[@thalastianjorus]

Definitely Kurzgesagt, Sam Onella, etc. As he is also in school to become a Nuclear Enginner, and his content is right up your alley - may I recommend Kyle Hill? Great content, very in depth concerning nuclear energy from science to history to theory. He also does many OTHER things, but all are science based. He formerly was with the channel Because Science - another great reservoir of videos.

[@Eliphas_Leary]

Safety precautions: 1. Safety squint. 2. Mother on speed dial.

[@ekojar3047]

I wouldn't be near him in his experiments, I would be in another building and watch from a distance in case something goes horribly wrong, then call an ambulance and fire department if something did go wrong. How about that instead? Haha. I'm not going to have myself melt off of my bones while an explosion sends shrapnel through me. Plus, whose gonna call 911 if it goes wrong?

[@danbrit9848]

eating yellow cake wile watching this ....o wait with the subject of this channel i shuld specify its the well known civilian stuff not the military grade....lol

[@tylerhansen1892]

I miss Styropyro after KZbin practically told him to get lost as people were replicating his experiments especially during covid lockdown.

[@hannahpumpkins4359]

I collect fossils, and sometimes minerals too. Every time I've seen uranium ore/rock 'in the wild' it always has that metallic look, but also a black-ish crust. In fact, it's the only mineral I've seen that has that particular look, and to me it' sop unique I can spot it from quite a distance.

[@nsr-ints]

That's probably where the green glowing uranium artistic license comes from tbh.

[@construct3]

"Toilet" is being used here in the sense of "toiletries," substances that you use in washing yourself and preventing the body from smelling. So if the toilet milk is a cream or lotion, I guess it's a moisturizer maybe.

[@Canthus13]

He likely wore eyepro. He's pretty big on that, since he really loves lasers. And since he hasn't died yet, I'm guessing his safety record is pretty good. DUde does some insane high voltage experiments, too.

[@Nerdnumberone]

He said that the uranium crayons acted more like chalk. Sounds like you could get some airborne dust. Inhaling an alpha source probably isn't good.

[@BirdDogg]

Pretty interesting video. I live near a facility that makes peletized nuclear fuel for subs and such, always kinda sketched by it as it is right in the river.

[@ito5430]

something about this guys makes me super happy idk what it is tho

[@Oddman1980]

Now I have a silly question, does metallic uranium glow under a blacklight?

[@KamiNoBaka1]

Styropyro's great, man. Also, you're talking about people eating the uranium crayons and kinda skipping over the danger of breathing in the dust, since they're more like chalk... And on the cyanide poisoning procedure, of course you expect them to die. We're talking about a dose of cyanide in the early 1930s. Your best hope is that it was a fairly small dose and you can save them from the acute primary effects. They deserve a drink after lol

[@IIGrayfoxII]

I have a bottle of ferric chloride powder as I use to my own circuit boards and this stuff is used to etch the boards

[@russellbonesteel1115]

Such an bright and adventurous young man! He May Live Long Enough to change the world if he can become an apprentice to a knowledgeable master so he does not off himself or the entire neighborhood!

[@HFRG-zq1qm]

As I understand it (And I am no chemist, just have an avid interest in science and chemistry), active uranium or plutonium will fluoresce a bright green or yellow under a black light (Especially actinic UV). And unprocessed uranium in the form of salts does tend to have a lighter hue showing more of a green, but not a glowing green like we see in the video, he probably uses UV for appearances to make it more interesting. Uranium salts under normal lighting have more the coloring of ancient roman uranium glass, a dull sickly earthen green. The samples you show for the Uranium you know are processed and enriched, having a more solid mass and higher density causing them to appear a dark green-black.

[@Bloodbound89]

funfact copper reacts way diffrent to quenching than for exammple steel .... copper gets somewhat softer when you quench it with a hih temp , if you quench it after heating it to 450 to 500 °C it is in its softest state. xD

[@notaperson-wx2vs]

Been watching your vids for a while, and never get this early before

[@digitaltoaster]

I use strontium-aluminate powder's to get a similar effect, tho not strontium-90, no radioactivity required.

[@omega1575]

You’re going to love his video on his Soviet death machine

[@Xnoob545]

You need to look at him building a death machine with soviet millitary tech

[@constantinewolf7545]

i especially like the line break demon- stration at cold fire :D

[@communitycollegegenius9684]

We listen to safety meetings every morning, that include catch-all statements like: Safety is first priority, Stop work is your right, No job is worth getting injured etc... We have one particular data center that is protected so the safety team, cops and even the fire marshal have never been inside. There is a sign inside that reads *"It's OK to kill 1 or 2 people to keep this data center online."*

[@FireofPrime8]

Wood is actually more resistant to Acids than to Bases (something i learned in the school for Carpentry)

[@Soyinutul]

Check out his explanation on talking to a squirrel while being asked by the goverment why he bought enough chemicals to blow up a building

[@blackflare]

Im just guessing here, but since english has words from a lot of different root languages, the "inflammable" or "invaluable" words might have inherited the prefix from a different language than our other use of it, ie "infrequent".

[@skygrizzle5676]

All the Elite Marines right now slamming creditcard on desk to buy that Uranium Crayon o.o

[@Dreron]

I stumbled upon your videos, and find them quite enjoyable, informative and funny. Perhaps you'll like to do Eminemium by Acapella Science?

[@gorkskoal9315]

2:18 and yet it was used safely in glass and Tupperware. A bunch of videos on the stuff. it's not the horrid shadow, boogy monster people make it out to be. These days we have more options for glowing stuff.

[@sipofsunkist9016]

ya know how black markers are actually just a really concentrated blue? well Uranium metal is just really concentrated green. a guy named nile red made uranium glass, and it would glow green. the ore is yellow (close to green i guess) most salts that have uranium as a component are green just like the one in this video. but when its pure and solid the way light bounces off of it, it just looks almost black

[@OpalholicsAnonymous]

4:01 doesnt opals florescents come from trace uranium? Australian light opal even has phosphoresence in this awsome green

[@jasonsummit1885]

I do have one of those carbon tet fire extinguishers that is about half full.

[@jakobodachocobo]

bro you gotta check out explosions and fire / extractions and ire!

[@NovaNinja_]

I was raised bilingual, English and French.. Inflammable is French for flammable. I had no idea that inflammable differed from flammable in English. I find it kinda hard to believe tbh