Uranium - Periodic Table of Videos
See some real life uranium in this new video about element number 92 - the so-called "bogeyman of the periodic table". More links in description below ↓↓↓ Our older video about uranim...
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So this is one of our glove-boxes. Yeah, if you just look to the right of the glove-box you’ll see that we’ve got these air locks and basically what you do is you put whatever it is you want to take into the box in there and then you evacuate it and then you refill it with dry, oxygen-free nitrogen so then you can take compounds which react with air and moisture into the box safely and store them. So this is a bit like what you see pictures of a nuclear industry when you’ve got people handling things. Ok so next up is uranium, which is my favourite actinide, it’s the one I handle in the lab, it’s also the bogeyman of the periodic table, I think. As soon as you say uranium to people, people start going “Ooh, not sure about that.” This is the ...
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So this is one of our glove-boxes. Yeah, if you just look to the right of the glove-box you’ll see that we’ve got these air locks and basically what you do is you put whatever it is you want to take into the box in there and then you evacuate it and then you refill it with dry, oxygen-free nitrogen so then you can take compounds which react with air and moisture into the box safely and store them. So this is a bit like what you see pictures of a nuclear industry when you’ve got people handling things. Ok so next up is uranium, which is my favourite actinide, it’s the one I handle in the lab, it’s also the bogeyman of the periodic table, I think. As soon as you say uranium to people, people start going “Ooh, not sure about that.” This is the ...
