Nuclear Engineer Reacts to The Man Who Tried to Fake an Element by Bobby Broccoli FULL Version

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• TF

  @tfolsenuclear · 2 years ago · pinned

  By popular demand, here is my full reaction to The Man who Tried to Fake an Element in one video

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• NA

  @nanananenanu · 2 years ago

  So in reality all nuclear physicists are gambling-addicts and all that science stuff ist just to cover up the fact? I KNEW IT!

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• ME

  @Merennulli · 2 years ago

  The chart he's using is the Karlsruhe nuclide chart. It's been around since the 50s and had a similar predecessor, the Segre chart. The Segre chart is where this fanciful ocean language like the "island of stability" originated and there are pictures from 1946 of Glenn Seaborg standing in front of a copy of it. If you'd like to play around with one, I believe Dr. Ed Simpson formerly of Australian National University has a 3D nuclide chart online.

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• NO

  @novasolarius8763 · 2 years ago

  Concerning the nuclide vs nucleide thing, it's probably based on one's native language. Bobby, who made the video, is Canadian. About a quarter of Canadians speak french. In french, you call it a "nucléide".

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• JE

  @jesuizanmich · 2 years ago

  I was in school when 118 was first "discovered". My chemistry teacher wanted us to make a presentation about it. I knew it as Ununoctium (also the first time I learned about the Latin naming convention). I had no idea the discovery at Berkeley was fake. It was I think 2016, I was in the middle of my PhD, when it was named Oganesson after Yuri Oganessian (ending in -on for noble gasses). This is the first time I hear why this was! It was Dubna that actually ended up discovering it and not Berkeley! Wow! I've finally fixed this misconception I've had for maybe 20 years.

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• SU

  @Sundablakr · 2 years ago

  The universe is wild, the fact that you can change 1 neutron to a proton and your element swaps from Carbon to Nitrogen, two elements that are so incredibly different in terms of their physical properties is crazy.

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• XA

  @xavier1964 · 2 years ago

  I'm so happy you found Bobby Broccoli's stuff, absolutely love his work

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• TY

  @TylerAven10 · 1 year ago

  My favorite part about this videos, having watched BobbyBroccolis video several times before watching this one is just how many times Tyler will say something, and then Bobby (Kevin) will bring that same thing up later in the video. I’m usually not a fan of reaction video, but I love educational reaction videos from real experts in the field of the video they’re watching. I learned a lot more because of this video, great insight. Thanks!

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• JR

  @jr637-1 · 2 years ago

  Scorigami is a fun concept in football of having a final score that has never happened before. There’s a huge graph depicting every score that has and has not happened, which looks a lot like the isotope chart.

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• SP

  @SpitFir3Tornado · 2 years ago (edited)

  Nucléide is the french spelling, and you occasionally see it in English as well (without the accent aigu) in Canada (where BobbyBroccoli is from) although nuclide is definitely still much more common.<br><br>The customs officer name change thing is also very common, not just a Seaborg thing. Your last name even could have been changed from Volz or Voltz which are surnames in Germany or the French border region. Quick bit of geneology research says the Folse name originates from German immigrants to the US in the 1800s, recently got interested in geneology and this stuff is interesting being able to trace your name changes, sometimes doesn&apos;t even happen with immigration just with anyone who didn&apos;t know how to read/write getting new documents. It was just especially common with immigrants as they would have had a wide variety of different names from different places, and would have happened more commonly earlier in history when fewer people could read/write to correct them!

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• RO

  @robertcasey2490 · 2 years ago

  Hendrik Schon got canned at Bell Labs. &nbsp;I too got canned there, not because I tried to fake research, but I had a boss who absolutely hated me.

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• KI

  @kisaragi-hiu · 2 years ago

  You&apos;ll want to read the footnotes in the original video&apos;s pinned comment. In footnote 4, for instance, the chart is explained to have been plotted with a common method, where the height is the rank (1st shortest half life = 1, 2nd shortest = 2, and so on), then colored by percentile.

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