Thorium element 90: Energy Source of the Future?

Thorium element 90: Energy Source of the Future? | Collecting the Periodic Table

14 днів тому

What is Thorium? Is Thorium Radioactive? What can you use Thorium for? Will Thorium ever be used for a new generation of Nuclear Reactors? What is an Oxide? Is Thorium Rare? How does Thorium gets it's name? #Thorium #Thoriumreactor #Radioactivity #Energysource #Oxide
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@henkvanderklok 11 днів тому

Thor had an element named after him… Tony won’t like that when he finds out.

@CubeChemistry611 11 днів тому

There is also this rivalry between Hulk and Thor. Yet there is no element named Hulkonion....

@spamviking8591 10 днів тому

I know that you can't buy tennessine, and if I recall, it has a half life of a few tens of milliseconds anyway, so do they just send you a radioactive warning sign in acrylic if you order it?

@CubeChemistry611 10 днів тому

Exactly. I know slightly disappointing but yes. I knew this before I got the subscription though and I am ok with it. There are about 20 elements that will show up with just the warning sign in my mailbox because of that reason. But for my purpose I am ok with that, I will discuss them in video's.

@spamviking8591 10 днів тому

@@CubeChemistry611 probably for the best. I don’t want to contemplate just how radioactive a substance with a millisecond scale half life is.

@CubeChemistry611 10 днів тому

@@spamviking8591 I agree since the halftime is so dramatic the radiation will also be dramatic!

@juliandevries2835 12 днів тому

What does it mean to 'discover' thorium in 1828? It was mined before that I would assume?

@CubeChemistry611 12 днів тому

Yes it was mined before. So in this case it was not literally that an Thorium was discovered what was discovered was that it was an element that we did not know the properties off. To be precise Berzelius received a mineral from Morton Esmark who went to his father and he could not identify what his son had found. He send Morton to Berzelius who then found out that that this was a material that was not recorded till this point.

@juliandevries2835 11 днів тому

@@CubeChemistry611 that is awesome!

@icastmoustache9387 11 днів тому

am I being nitpicky or stupid or was there a mistake in explaining what half life is? because as I understand it, in 14 billion years, HALF of that thorium will be gone, not all of it. am I living a lie here?

@CubeChemistry611 11 днів тому

Sharp and no that is not being nitpicky that is correctly correcting mistakes. Yes you are absolutely right. Thanks for pointing this out. Halftime is of course the time it takes for Half of the element to decay. SO to correct my mistake in 14.5 billion years about half of the Thorium in the cube will be left. Thanks for pointing this out!!