All Elements Explained Pt. 10 (Protactinium - Oganesson)

Описание: A short video continuing from part 9 and the last part to explaining every single element, this video on protactinium to oganesson! I hope that y'all learned something new from this video :)

(slacked for 2 weeks playing Tears of the Kingdom oops)

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:19 Protactinium + Uranium
00:56 Neptunium + Plutonium
01:42 Americium + Curium + Berkelium
02:08 Californium + Einsteinium + Fermium
02:29 Mendelevium + Nobelium + Lawrencium
02:57 Rutherfordium + Dubnium + Seaborgium
03:22 Bohrium + Hassium + Meitnerium
03:47 Darmstadtium + Roentgenium + Copernicium
04:14 Nihonium + Flerovium + Moscovium
04:42 Livermorium + Tennessine + Oganesson
05:14 Conclusion

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Sources:
https://interestingengineering.com/re...
https://elements.wlonk.com/ElementsTa...
https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table
https://education.jlab.org/itselemental/

Transcript:
Starting with protactinium, which unfortunately isn’t very interesting. It is very rare, poisonous, and expensive, and only found in uranium ores. You need around 55,000 kg of ore and $500,000 just for 125 g of this element, so it doesn’t really have any uses.

Next, we have the famous uranium, the king of nuclear power. Its radioactivity, which I did a separate video on, allows it to be used as a fuel source in fission nuclear reactors for tremendous amounts of energy. Other than nuclear energy and weapons, uranium can also be used to make shields against radiation and counterweights for aircrafts.

Next, we have neptunium, a mostly artificial element produced as a by-product of the production of plutonium in nuclear reactors, though it can also be found in very small amounts in natural uranium. Its only use so far is in neutron detectors and mostly in research.

Next, we have plutonium, the other king of nuclear power. It is commonly used in nuclear weapons, as even detonating 1 kg of this element is equivalent to 10,000 tonnes of chemical explosives. Alongside uranium, plutonium is used for nuclear power as well, as commonly seen on spacecrafts such as the Curiosity rover on Mars.

And now, for all the remaining elements, 95 to 118, all of them are never found in nature and only being human-made. Furthermore, most of them don’t have significant uses, so we will do a lightning round of how each of the remaining elements are made!

Americium, named after America, where it was discovered, you bombard plutonium-239 with neutrons.
Curium, named after Pierre and Marie Curie for their works in radioactivity, you bombard plutonium-239 with alpha particles.
Berkelium, named after Berkley, California, where it was discovered, you bombard americium-241 with alpha particles.
Californium, named after California, where it was discovered, you bombard curium-242 with helium ions.
Einsteinium, named after Albert Einstein, you combine 15 neutrons with uranium-238.
Fermium, named after Enrico Fermi, creator of the world’s first nuclear reactor, you combine 17 neutrons with uranium-238.
Mendelevium, named after Dmitri Mendeleyev, creator of the periodic table, you bombard einsteinium-253 with helium ions.
Nobelium, named after Alfred Nobel, creator of dynamite, you bombard curium-246 with carbon-12.
Lawrencium, named after Ernest O. Lawrence, creator of cyclotron, a particle accelerator commonly used, you bombard the californium-252 with boron ions.
Rutherfordium, named after Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics, you bombard plutonium-242 with neon-22 ions.
Dubnium, named after Dubna, Russia, where it was discovered, you bombard americium-243 with ions of neon-22.
Seaborgium, named after Glenn Seaborg, discoverer of transuranium elements, which are any elements above the atomic number of 92, or uranium, you bombard californium-249 with oxygen-18 ions.
Bohrium, named after Niels Bohr, pioneer of quantum mechanics, you bombard bismuth-209 with chromium-54 ions.
Hassium, named after Hessen, Germany, where it was discovered, you bombard lead-208 with iron-58 ions.
Meitnerium, named after Lise Meitner, discoverer of nuclear fission, you bombard bismuth-209 with iron-58 ions.
Darmstadtium, named after Darmstadt, Germany, where it was discovered, you bombard-208 lead with nickel-62 ions.
Roentgenium, named after Wilhelm Röentgen, discoverer of x-rays, you bombard bismuth-209 with nickel-64 ions.
Copernicium, named after Nicolaus Copernicus, theorizing that earth revolves around the sun not the other way around, you bombard lead-208 with zinc-70 ions.
Nihonium, named after Nihon, which is Japanese for Japan, where it was discovered, you bombard bismuth-209 with zinc-70 ions.
Flerovium, named after the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Russia, where it was discovered, you bombard plutonium-244 with calcium-48 ions.

(Can't fit all of the transcript in, so feel free to turn on the subtitles! :)

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