Making uranium glass

Biggest thing I've learned from this channel is that between Amazon and eBay you can buy litteraly anything.

Cons: "It can't make nuclear bombs."

I'm a Boro-silicate laboratory glass blower. I've worked with custom uranium glass before. The trick to keep your specimens from shattering is a technique known as annealing. To accomplish this, you would want 2 separate furnaces. One for melting and the other for annieline. Place your graphite block in the aneeling furnace at about eleven hundred degrees fahrenheit. Open the door once the block and the furnace is preheated. place your spasiman On your graph light block at eleven hundred degrees for at lea half an hour. then Slowly reduce the temperature of your aneeling furnace without opening the door. Over the course of twenty four hours And till your sample is near room temperature And you should not have any internal stress anymore This process aligns the internal crystalline structure of the silica Transforming it into a stress free homogeneous mass. You will want to reduce the temperature on an inverted J curve slowly at first. But once you get past about 400° fahrenheit leaving the door closed u till it has completely cooled you should be fine - James

The mother of an old school friend of mine had a large collection of uranium glassware. She kept the glass in a locked leaded glass display cabinet with and alarm system.The artwork was very beautiful, I believe the collection was quite valuable, most was a light green.

"I never made glass before, so let's make uranium glass"

"Special waste container:" The neighbors trashcan.

When I was a kid in the 60's my Brother-in-law worked at a Uranium extraction plant in North Dakota. The plant had. a huge kiln where Uranium ore was dumped in one end, then heated and transported the length of the device and came out the other end in a different form. Occasionally a bolt or nut would drop in with the mix and come out the other end as a blob of steel imbedded with uranium ore. He gave me a couple of these, with the advice, carry them in your pocket for a few weeks and you will never have to worry about making your girl friend pregnant. Well I never did carry them, in fact I donated them to a. museum to be displayed in their mineral collection, where they still lay, emitting radiation into the pure South Dakota air. The Brother-in-law has now gone to his rewards, as has my sister, he good wife, cancer took them both, hell it attacked me as well and my other sister and my good wife of 51 years and 4 days. Mine, the Doctors say is survivable, where the rest of my family's were not. Funny how that works, I am now healing from the holes in my belly where the doctor cut me open and took out my cancerous Kidney and half my adrenal gland.

Nile: Makes glass once Nile: Proceeds to make the second batch that he has ever made in his life WITH URANIUM

I like how he listed “can’t make bombs” under cons lis

“I’d never worked with uranium before, so I figured I would follow the instructions.” Good plan.

"I simply had no choice. I had to turn the death rock into death powder. I really had absolutely no choice. 😔" -Nile 2020

The forbidden Kraft Mac and cheese sauce 💀

“The government doesn’t really like it when you show how to refine uranium on the internet.” Damn my Saturday plans are ruined

I love how so many of your statements are basically “I knew this was a bad idea. I did it anyway. It was indeed a bad idea.” It just really sells the Scientific Realism.

The yellow liquid adds a whole new meaning to uranate.

On the glass side, did you know, sometimes improperly annealed glass can sit for years, if not decades, before finally giving in to the stresses? There are stories of glass vases sitting for decades and then all of a sudden exploding.

I like how “can’t make a nuke” is in the cons

"I'd like to refine uranium" *The government is watching

Nigel is the definition of “I’m here for a good time, not a long time”

I’ve been picking up uranium ore locally with a UV torch for a bit, and like you found, it’s strange that some of the higher uranium-content materials lose their fluorescent effects. Uraninite and pitchblende both have relatively high uranium content but have little to no fluorescence. While uraniferous opal is much lower (hard to find info, but never exceeding 15% uranium-bearing compounds, typically MUCH lower) and can exhibit some great phosphorescence.