Thorium - A METAL THAT NO ONE NEEDS!
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Published 2019-06-01
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Hi everyone! In this video I am going to tell you about such a radioactive metal as thorium which has recently been found in most unexpected places.
Along with uranium and bismuth, thorium is one of the three radioactive metals which is quite abundant in the Earth’s crust. Because of having an incredibly long half life of 14.05 billion years, we figured that almost all the thorium present on the Earth had been synthesized as a result of massive explosion of a supernova or a collision of neutron stars long before our Solar system appeared.
All Comments (21)
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400 years ago Crude oil was also considered Useless.
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"I DON'T RECOMMEND BUYING RADIOACTIVE PRODUCTS" "I WILL LEAVE A LINK" UHHH OK
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Title: Thorium, a metal that noone needs Sam o' nella: Am I a joke to you?
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My god, this guy straight up sound like a mad russian scientist
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Stay tuned for thorium reactors in the near future.
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WOW a radioactive pen? that's the perfect gift for your bully.
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Thorium is very useful indeed. It's used in TIG welding electrodes because being a beta emitter it starts an arc very easily. Also used as a cold cathode emitter in some electron guns.
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"Thorium's is useless" safer nuclear reactors: am I a joke to you?
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Thorium may be a useless metal. But dang, it's a must have mod for Terraria players.
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Be careful about saying Thorium is useless, you might be struck by a thunderbolt.
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I use thoriated tungsten all the time for welding . It's probably one of the best TIG electrodes in the world . Some people prefer cerium , I do not .
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"A metal noone needs" Thorium reactors: say what?
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Because thorium has the potential to produce more than one million times the energy of gasoline by weight it has been called the most valuable worthless element. Of course there was a time when crude oil was also worthless.
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That vapor chamber and the shots you took of it were beautiful
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"No one needs thorium" Mindustry: ...
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Cool literally 5 minutes ago i watched a video where a guy praised Thorium for 4 minutes and 32 seconds.
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Alpha particles in ethanol vapour is one of the best experiment I have ever seen. Great !
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Thorium is a metal that is actually underestimated in importance and underutilized, mainly in fission. Th-232 is not fissile but it is very fertile, and when it takes on that extra neutron it becomes Th-233 for a very short time then BETA decays into Protactinium 233 for 2 weeks then on to U-233. There are times where it will decay into U-232 which is junk and has a half life of 60 years but there are ways to deal with it. U-233 as fuel is the best stuff you can get with a fission to capture ratio of 12 (fission) : 1 (Capture) making U-233 50% better at fission that U-235 which is as rare as platinum and is 4x better than Plutonium 239 which is bred from U-238 because U-238 is not fissile but it is fertile. Also the U-233 fission cycle produces transuranic wastes that are radioactive for 300 years instead of U-235's thousands and U-238 -> PU-239's tens of thousands. It will also produce considerably less waste due to it's considerably better fission ratio. So yeah, Thorium is not a metal that no one needs, it's exactly the metal we need and need to properly utilize.
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Never in my life would I have thought to follow a chemistry channel. After watching a few of your videos after yt recommended them I am hooked. Thank you for making chemistry so interesting!!!
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"Thorium, a metal that no one needs!" sad thor noises
