When You Shine Deadly Radiation on Glass (and food)

In this video I show you what happens when you shine radiation on glass. Why does it turn purple? I talk about how to revert the glass color change and how you can use Co 60 to shine gamma rays on food and glass!
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[@TheActionLab]

All my antique bottle collectors, let’s make some noise!! *cricket sounds*

[@FUCKwax]

FIRST

[@anas8183]

Please could you do an experiment with uv light

[@ellitt1148]

Tik Tik Tik Tik Let's create a beat together!!!

[@EzeePosseTV]

That *POOR* beautiful antique bottle. It has been fine for 100 years and within seconds you go destroy it! ... _Wiggles Finger at You_ ... Well at least it was done in the name of science, so I'll let you off Mr Action Lab. lol

[@mybackhurts7020]

I could probably find you some old glass in the desert that was already broken

[@superfishman3243]

As an Archaeologist, the coolest thing is finding a bottle half stuck in sand completely purple on one side and almost clear on the other side.

[@TheActionLab]

That would be cool to find!

[@JohnCena8351]

This bottle survived 2 World Wars, but it didn't survive The Action Lab.

[@Zellonous]

Most people are disrespectful to old things. Not many people even want to learn from history to avoid past mistakes. Greedy people copy things from history and claim its their idea. Historic things are so abused....

[@MammaOVlogs]

lol so true

[@sohithbandari5989]

How tf can action lab see you?

[@crazyguy_1233]

I would have loved to have had those bottles I mean why didn't he use a broken one.

[@resetcoder]

@@crazyguy_1233 He did after all.

[@jakesimm5889]

There's windows in Boston that turned purple due to manufacturing impurities. It was an accident at first then other people bought them as a sign of wealth. The company went out of business so now those windows are insured for a lot of money.

[@johnderat2652]

Last time I was this early that bottle was still clear

[@misakamikoto8785]

Last time I was this early that bottle was still sand.

[@taejunchang396]

Last time I was this early that sand was still hydrogen and helium.

[@misakamikoto8785]

Last time I was this early the hydrogen and helium were still quark-gluon plasma

[@makecreate110]

Last time I was this early that the whole universe only consist of a small dot.

[@nashi_1111]

Iron Man you fcked it up. Shame

[@ChirsSmedely]

For a second I misunderstood the way this was going to go and thought you'd somehow acquired some Cobalt 60 to turn the other one blue with, I was very concerned

[@jonathannadeau6218]

But if you radiate people with gamma rays I heard they turn green

[@rodriguez7282]

We should test it

[@hyperpesgamers357]

Hulk smash 💪

[@Playerofakind]

@@hyperpesgamers357 hulk smash hulk smash and then hulk smash 😏

[@roybm3124]

More red like a sunburn in the beginning and black after some time. But if you really want to see it search for Tokaimura nuclear accident.

[@Walkerl-zc6dp]

Yea, I’ve seen a dude turn green from them

[@593jorge]

***Heats glass at 500+ °C** "That's cool"

[@Nuhfjdkmdn]

No its hot

[@angiekalas-caldwell8825]

Hahahha

[@americannomadnewsthecardbo4339]

As your bottle was hanging on a metal rod which conducts electricity very effectively and your room might have been a bit cool. When you heated the glass right at where it contacted the cold rod of metal it got a differential of expansion and popped. You also put the flame right on the glass and and left it there where if you had put it in a kiln and slowly raise the temperature you probably could have gotten away with it and made it work without breaking the glass. You need even slow heating with glass that has a sensitivity to expansion differentials

[@benlee803]

We bake out glass mirrors used in radiation quite often. You could have used an oven, slowly heat it up over 30 minutes and then slowly turn the oven down over 3 minutes or so.

[@MohammedNameerAnsari]

I thought you were gonna shine deadly radiation on the glass

[@fusionwing4208]

Pretty much anyone that thinks radiation is just what we see in nuclear stuff would assume this xD

[@just_a_rock]

Heat is deadly radiation if there's enough of it.

[@gam1ng_pr0d1gy7]

Idea for a video... can you untoast toast? (turn toast back to bread)

[@christianstclaire5706]

Hydrogen Peroxide LOL

[@theeggturtle2940]

Are you serious I mean wooosh me if you aren’t but I can’t tell because it is hard to tell if people are dumb or not

[@DANGJOS]

@@theeggturtle2940 Seems insane to me too, but The Action Lab guy has surprised before by reversing things that seemed almost impossible.

[@gam1ng_pr0d1gy7]

The Egg Turtle I don’t know if it’s possible, but he did turn a boiled egg back into raw egg. I think it would be an interesting video if he could get it to work. I don’t know the chemical reaction that occurs when bread is toasted so I wouldn’t even know how to begin reversing this, but I’m sure he could figure it out.

[@zeuxlaught2797]

no, its a chemical reaction.

[@TheBritishPatriot]

"for the teeth and breath" probably an old mouthwash bottle!

[@yasyasmarangoz3577]

Yes

[@Bob5mith]

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[@yasyasmarangoz3577]

@@Bob5mith lol, wasn't heroin used for coughing people?

[@Bob5mith]

@@yasyasmarangoz3577 It was used for all kinds of stuff. Opiods are good cough suppressants, but it got its trademarked name because "she" was going to be the "heroine" that saved people from morphine addiction.

[@yasyasmarangoz3577]

@@Bob5mith who?

[@MammaOVlogs]

way cool! Where did you get 100 year old bottles? l loved it when you said "and then they feed it to us"!

[@mytube001]

You could've tried to heat it evenly and slowly in a furnace, starting from cold. I don't think it would be stressed enough to break that way.

[@gnostaoticanarchangautand]

Wait i think that there's some kind of law stating that that type of stuff is illegal to destroy...

[@gabrieldelatortilla1]

yea it'd like... Melt

[@jhoughjr1]

especially with the bottle mounted like that, the metal rod will conduct more heat than the glass creating a heat differential. Also the hottest part of the flame is beyond where you can see it.

[@DanHiteshew-oneandonly]

The hottest part of the flame is at the point of the darker blue inner flame.

[@izy3792]

that was such a valuable bottle .I want to cry, I would have loved to have it in my collection.

[@pavel9652]

It was one of the dumbest things I have seen on this channel...

[@vincentrobinette1507]

What you really need, is a kiln, similar to what is used for firing ceramics. Bring the temperature up slowly, then, allow it to cool naturally, over several hours. That will avoid thermal shock, or temperature gradients, keeping the coefficient of expansion from exceeding the elastic limit of the glass. The whole process should take 4~5 hours, so there is minimal difference in temperature between any parts of the glass.

[@RoguishlyHandsome]

Here's an idea for Christmas for the lab: heat resistant sheets for when you torch things on your floor.

[@Zpicismrad]

that's a sheet of drywall he was heating the glass on

[@lexign]

Who would randomly think to melt sand Inventor of glass: Am I a joke to you?

[@MelodicTurtleMetal]

That's not how the joke works, and if it was how the joke worked, then you should still feel ashamed for using it. Please kind sir, let it die

[@dustbitten]

His excitement over this stuff is the entertaining part for me

[@skateordie9628]

"this bottle is 100 years old!" 3:34

[@vishnuc2682]

@1:25 you said Mn is used to reduce Fe(2+) to Fe(3+). This is actually oxidation of Fe. Manganese gets reduced.

[@slamer80]

True, maybe he meant Mn, because it gets reduced, and Fe gets oxidized.

[@flatfingertuning727]

Some forms of colored glass will turn one color in a reducing flame and a different color in an oxidizing flame. One such transition is between pastel blue (oxidizing) and brown (reducing). I'm not sure whether the glass color was changed just by the temperature, or if the fuel/air mixture may have also affected it.

[@coriscotupi]

So this might explain why a set of dark grey drinking glasses I bought a few years ago turned blue.

[@vishalksahoo3599]

1:21 Hey isn't 'Fe' oxidizing not reducing, as Fe 2+ "loses" e- to form Fe 3+ (Reduction).

[@Electronics61]

Yes true, ordinary glass must be temperature increased slowly.

[@evgeniinekhoroshev8204]

The purple color is caused by Fe4+ ions forming in the glass matrix; the electron which was knocked out from Fe3+ stays nearby in a vacancy but cannot recombine until the glass is heated up. It has nothing to do with manganese, manganese oxide is used to oxidize intensely green Fe2+ into almost colorless Fe3+ during production - otherwise you would have a green beer bottle glass

[@semichiganandy2127]

Something else that you might want to demonstrate, very related to this, is a Farbe-center, also called an F-center or color-center.

[@thewhizard]

I like the blur bottle better. might want to use a pottery kiln.

[@TSGEnt]

Very cool. I wasn't sure if that would happen of it time played a factor making it go back to clear. Sorry you broke your cool old bottle. I gave up an "Awe..." when it broke. Do you have a resource to gamma rays or cobalt 60 to speed up the blueing of bottles?

[@xj9779]

The title is misleading... I thought you radiate the clear bottle and reverse it effect... It was intressting and disappointing too

[@maxximumb]

Van Buskirk's Sozodont was promoted to clean and preserve teeth; harden gums; and delightfully refresh breath.

[@carbon_no6]

Action Lab: Manganese can be hit with gamma rays! Manganese: You won’t like me when I’m angranese!

[@daafrofungus5437]

I saw reduction a few weeks ago so it's fresh in my head

[@Mister_NO.]

This is the kind of videos we need more of!

[@gauravpainuly1800]

That's amazing...... something new

[@nixxonnor]

Cool. A temperature controlled chamber, slowly rising and lowering the temperature, would do the trick without braking the bottles

[@chrisfuller1268]

Amazingly cool! I want a cobalt 60 food irradiator!

[@Origmist]

I thought he was gonna make like the left one look like the right one

[@danmannz]

this channel is probably one of the only few channels that don't get demonetized

[@EvilOttoJrProductions]

Oh, I'm sure he does, especially on any chemistry stuff. Educational channels seem to be getting hit the hardest.

[@danmannz]

@@EvilOttoJrProductions if so.. KZbin is truly unsustainable. Fuck it. Its not worth it anymore

[@bluegizmo1983]

Hey what magnetic stirrer/hotplate are you using there at 3:10? I'm looking to buy one myself. How do you like that one?

[@Leonardokite]

2:33 I didn't know what the "irradiated" symbol was. Great! I will look for it as a preference!

[@bungwohlio]

Wow, it's clear but broken!

[@TheRainHarvester]

"And then they feed it to us" LOL

[@Leonardokite]

People freak out about radiation. If you got a days worth of solar radiation in 15 to 20 seconds you would be smoking. As in on fire! Acute versus chronic is huge when it comes to radiation.

[@lorriecarrel9962]

I love how smart this guy is,I'm thankful our world has people such as this to understand and share knowledge that most would never know.thank you for being you.

[@evgeniinekhoroshev8204]

Well, citron and amethist are both quartz with traces of iron and amethist got naturally irradiated, it's the same phenomenon with formation of Fe4+ in the silica matrix

[@user-pe5jj8wm7w]

does he explain why/how shorter wavelength electromagnetic radiation ‘knocks off’ an electron from manganese? also good to hear he explained what happens behind heating up the glass to make it clear again; it makes sense that energy had something to do with reintroducing its missing iron oxide (i’m not sure what that is, though, and that’s on me 😅). nice video + short!

[@ksravi6636]

If I go 65 million light years away from the earth, will I be able to see dinosaurs from there?

[@alholmes4125]

Hey Action Lab, that was cool! Not to change the sub, but why do soda bubbles seem to burn your mouth and tongue? 🤔🤙

[@leslietaylor4458]

I dont know about burning the mouth or tounge, but if you take a sip and accidentally breath the CO2 it can have a burning effect. Thats cause co2 drowns out all oxygen

[@mistervacation23]

All I know is my teeth have never been whiter and my garden is spitting out 50 lb tomatoes

[@Rumunsko8]

Since you are delving into radiation and glass could you make a video about uranium glass?

[@spardakitten]

*cries over broken antique bottle*

[@joshWUa915]

Learned something new! Thanks 👍🏽👍🏽

[@matgggg55]

What would happen if you ignited HHO in a vacuum chamber ? Would it explode ?

[@hi.moriarty]

That was cool! I am oddly satiated watching this.

[@h7opolo]

very neat, thanks for sharing, action labs.

[@kurokoro]

Waiting to turn into Hulk for eating food with gamma radiation.

[@EddieVBlueIsland]

Heating glass or any thermal shock susceptible materials require moving the torch back and forth to make the rising temperature as uniform as possible.

[@micah2936]

The iron gets oxidized when going from 2+ to 3+.... not reduced. If it were reduced it would be gaining electrons or losing charge.

[@WR4TH8101]

Correcttion pls ✌*oxidises from fe 2+ to fe3+ .love ur videos

[@elizabethtorres3491]

Hello 😁, That was AWESOME!

[@youknow8754]

Try a kiln with a slow heat up cycle ...

[@daafrofungus5437]

Lol now I want to heat up my brain to make my mind clear

[@teoskrn1518]

In a certain way, you can clear yourself catching fire...

[@candycerynee6802]

That one blew my mind!

[@bnpatel6309]

You are a genius .

[@hardiksinghvi9615]

Please do a water bath heat, i want to see that process!

[@TheHearseAroundJimThorpe]

It would be a cool photo if you could put the clear pieces back where they broke off of the purple part.

[@pozzowon]

Is that really clear, or is it more "brown glass"? The old one I mean

[@davidschimp9753]

U have to work the flame back and fourth on the glass if careful and patient it will get hot without nraking. Yes i am a glass heating pro.....

[@andyweb7779]

i noticed amethyst looses its colour when heated. Is that a similar process?

[@shazamshazamski4490]

If Fe2+ is being converted to Fe3+ isn't the iron being oxidized?

[@swordfish815508]

Could you bake the glass to turn it back to clear?

[@Naiki_Eri_Vescida_Yanmi]

I hope you don't run out of antique bottles super science man.

[@u.e.u.e.]

The left bottle was probably for Sozodont mouthwash. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozodont

[@RichardHartness]

Retrobriting for glass!

[@Audio_Simon]

Please follow up on Alexa laser. I think if you put a bit of ali foil on top it will act as a diaphragm for the laser and let Alexa hear it. Alexa mics are on the under side of the PCB so not directly under the grill opening.

[@Audio_Simon]

It would also be fun if you turned the laser in to a microphone. It can be done by measuring laser deflection from a vibrating surface like a mirror in a room where people talk.

[@matrixtech6917]

I totally dig this video 😎

[@MrDjafal1]

That was a nice science video again :)

[@anakzerdadu]

What about plastic/TPU that turned brown? Im talking about my phone case..

[@kristaliaastari2856]

Now i want purple glass bottles

[@gabor6259]

I'd like to see more videos with fun facts in them.

[@SianidaOwh]

chemistry ! loved it

[@MelodicTurtleMetal]

Past tense?

[@ssjineon7032]

Radiation...yum! 😋

[@TheOneZenith]

Wouldn’t it have made more sense to do this in an oven with a window or a furnace with a peephole? I mean, slowly heating the bottle may have saved the bottle from shattering and may for an incredible transition.

[@Sasha-gq7mr]

"Reduce the Fe2+ to Fe3+" 🤦‍♀️

[@DanHiteshew-oneandonly]

Reduction is a chemical reaction that involves the gaining of electrons by one of the atoms involved in the reaction between two chemicals.

[@Sasha-gq7mr]

@@DanHiteshew-oneandonly yup, but in this case the electrons are being transferred from the Fe2+ to the Mn ions

[@DanHiteshew-oneandonly]

@@Sasha-gq7mr Oh I gotcha.

[@24-dinitrophenylhydrazine29]

what a silly dude the +2 denotes that it is missing 2 electrons the +3 denotes that it is missing 3 electrons Reduction is a reaction that makes the oxidation number increase.

[@diegonti]

@@24-dinitrophenylhydrazine29 Fe2+ is losing an electron- so the Fe2+ is oxidising to Fe3+; meanwhile the Mn3+, is gaining an electron-, reducing to Mn2+

[@MatthewHartsuch]

Awesome!

[@Safeguards95]

what is a Fe2O? Should it be Fe3O4 or something else?

[@angiekalas-caldwell8825]

Why would anyone want to reverse the beautiful purple colour 💜 😞 I mean you get a pass because it's for science, but I love the old purple bottles

[@prussian7]

Don't make glasses angry, you wouldn't like glasses when it's angry.

[@gamekakeeda2118]

Thats sick

[@Techspotter]

Silica gel also turn purple after absorbing moisture...

[@kevindupuis4750]

1:18 I still can feel the anxiety even after 14 years

[@sakshamk4009]

Why in this world the purple glass bottle looks clearer than the clear one

[@warrenashburnwa]

Keep playing fella

[@iangreen4409]

I'm really surprised that the wrong term is used here. He means colourless, not clear. Both bottles are clear at the start as we can see through both of them, but the purple/blue one has colour. The opposite of clear would be cloudy. It is very important when scientifically describing things that you recognise the difference.

[@rnttreed]

Can you bend fire?

[@MrPoc100]

so "natural" color of glass is purple blue ?

[@versag3776]

You should have slowly heated the glass to keep it from shattering. It fractures from thermal expansion