How do you identify an unknown, radioactive element using affordable tools? I am faced with this challenge from an unlabeled radioactive source. It is radioactive, but what makes it radioactive?
In this video, I use a range of tests in an attempt to identify the radioisotope. Including paper, magnets and a gamma spectrometer.
Will I figure it out or will the source remain a mystery?
Radiacode 103 dosimeter and gamma spectrometer donated by Radiacode.com: https://103.radiacode.com/
They have a YouTube-channel too, including a video of their new manufacturing lab in Cyprus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7EVYZ0Mf54
My Patreon-page: https://www.patreon.com/Brainiac75
Links to other of my related videos:
Mushrooms and Radiacode 101: https://youtu.be/x1UZdLVlBXg
SD Card vs. Radioactivity | Data Loss?: https://youtu.be/vx-lcFD3-BE
Monster magnet meets monitors (featuring Left Hand Rule): https://youtu.be/pu0pIq-ziEA
Did you miss one of my videos?: https://www.youtube.com/user/brainiac75/videos
FULL MUSIC CREDITS
Time codes: 0:01 + 12:40
"Darkness is Coming" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
ISRC: USUAN1100584
Intro part looped by me.
Time codes: 0:54 + 8:17
"Perspectives" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
ISRC: USUAN1300027
Time code: 4:45
"Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
ISRC: USUAN1700081
Time codes: 6:12 + 11:49
"Energizing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
ISRC: USUAN1900040
Time code: 9:02
"Lightless Dawn" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
ISRC: USUAN1100655
Time code: 11:18
"Ossuary 6 - Air" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
ISRC: USUAN1500048
Time code: 14:06
"Ossuary 6 - Air" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Part from 2:34 in the music track.
ISRC: USUAN1500048
All music above licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Time code: 8:36
Mix of two tracks:
1) The Shimmering by fran_ky (freesound.org/s/237363)
Licensed under Creative Commons 0 license
2) "Spacial Harvest" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
ISRC: USUAN1100653
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