A while ago I bought this little tube from Russia,
and I think it's finally time to crack it open. Inside of it besides all the sand is some nice
cesium metal. This is very similar to potassium or sodium, but it's even more reactive. It's kept
in this glass ampule to protect it from air, and having it break open, could be really dangerous.
What's interesting though is what happens, if I hold it for about 20 seconds. Just the heat from
my hand was enough to melt it, and I now have some sligh
tly golden, liquid metal. The melting
point of cesium is only about 28 and a half Celsius, or 83 Fahrenheit. This makes it extremely close,
but not quite a liquid at room temperature. If I hold it for another minute or so, I can
completely liquify it. I just have to be really careful though because dropping it
in its liquid form, would be an absolute disa-
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All the greatest stories start with, “Well, I bought this tube from Russia, and….”
It wasn't the drop that gave me anxiety. It was the thought of him accidentally crushing the glass in his hands, releasing the Caesium.
"because dropping it in liquid form, would be an absolute disa-" -Famous last words from Nile Red
Ah yes, caesium Or as we say in physics: "The atom that's frequency at isotope 133 defines 9,192,631,770 Hz"
For those curious, Nile’s joke and our jokes aside, him for real dropping that cesium container really would be an absolute disaster. Lab go boom, if you’re curious what kind, I believe.
Unfortunately, NileRed did not survive the disaster. Thankfully with his brilliant mind, he had already constructed a robot very identical to him to carry on with the channel as if nothing had happened.
nile is so lucky that he has 3 hands from his past few experiments
The only thing I remember about Caesium is that it was used for assassination in an Alex Rider book. The bad guys made a medal/amulet out of Caesium and covered it in wax (I think). They gave it to a football/soccer player and he wore it in the showers. The coating washed off and it exploded.
For those who dont know, Caesium is so reactive that if it touches air it can explode
It'll never cease to be funny that NileRed can just assert things like "so I bought one of the most reactive stable elements in the world from Russia in a quantity large enough to level the building I'm in if it so much as touches the air" as if it's a compeletely normal thing to do
here in brazil, there was a disaster involving caesium in the city of "Goiânia", basically two street sweepers got inside a abandoned radiotherapy clinic, they found the radiotherapeutic machine and were wondering how much money they could have selling the metal from the machine, then they found a little flask of caesium powder that glowed blue on the dark, after showing it to their families each one picked a little bit for them, and they got infected with radiation, and the pieces of metal got sold wich spreaded even more radioactive material, basically only this flask basically infected hundreds of people, it happened in 13 of september 1987 and was the biggest radiation disaster outside of a nuclear power plant. 31/05/23: one year later and i discovered that this comment actually blew up lol, thanks guys, also corrected the grammar, sorry for any strokes you guys had reading this lol
Big props to the camera man who not only survived the blast, but saved the footage and uploaded it to give us closure. Anyways, RIP Nile Red 2023
Would be an absolute disa- My heart skipped a beat there
Nile: being very careful with caesium Cody: lets make a play button out of it
Heart sank, stomach dropped and the hair on my arms stood up. Well done, sir.
"a while ago i bought this little tube from Russia" oh boy here we go again
"because dropping it in liquid form, would be an absolute disast-" My heart literally dropped for a second Like the caesium
Holy shit I'm a former chemist and the end almost gave me a heart attack. I'm actually shaking rn
Another episode in which Nile is experimenting the meme-iest way to end himself.
This is the most legitimate jump scare Nilered could ever pull and I totally fell for it! In that last frame I went from 🤔 to 😱 and audibly gasped LOL