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Chemistry: 4.11 Radiation Awareness 38 Views
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Were you aware that there's radiation? Well now you are. Nailed it. Oh...we guess you should probably watch the video too so you know why you should be aware. That might help.
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- 00:00
sweetie didn't some people are naturally klutzy others have nasty sneezing I'm [Man falling over]
- 00:08
talking spell but perhaps no one drew a shorter straw in the physical ailment
- 00:13
department than radiation Randi as you might gas radiation Randy is not Randy's [Radiator Randy on a birth certificate]
- 00:19
given name that moniker was bestowed upon him once it became obvious that he
- 00:23
attracted radiation as it was up came equipped with a homing device on first [Radiation sign and Geiger counter looking for Randy]
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- 00:27
the type of radiation that Randy found himself associating with what of the non
- 00:31
ionizing variety and so it wasn't all that dangerous he was prone to sunburns
- 00:36
which don't feel great and might have some nasty long-term effects of melanoma [Randy stood in the sun]
- 00:41
but at least they aren't immediately life-threatening he also suffered an [His skin starts to glow]
- 00:45
overexposure to radio wave but mostly because he had his cellphone roughly an
- 00:49
instrument faced 24 by 7 so that one's on him but by the time Randy started [Randy looking at his phone]
- 00:55
high school he started having fairly regular run-ins with ionizing radiation
- 01:00
which is significantly more serious radiation is considered ionizing if it [Randy running into the radiation in the corridor]
- 01:05
has enough energy then not electron clean off atom which in turn changes the
- 01:10
electron into ions and electrons that have been changed into ions are bad news [Electron wearing a cap backwards]
- 01:15
because they no longer work the way they're supposed to and they can cause
- 01:20
mutation and yeah not the good kind like x-men as Randy was about to discover it
- 01:25
all started when he made the football team and began to get bones broken on a [Randy being tackled on a football field]
- 01:28
fairly regular basis well after each break or fracture he'd be sent to the
- 01:32
hospital for an x-ray not a huge deal think they put that big lead apron
- 01:37
thingy over but having an x-ray a month isn't a good thing for you no matter how
- 01:41
many fries suckers you get out of the deal well Randy's troubles increased
- 01:45
after his family moved right next door to a nuclear power plant [Randy's home and family appear next to the power plant]
- 01:49
and Randy decided it would be a good idea to practice his spiral near the
- 01:53
stream where the plant dumped off this toxic wave [Stream with bright green water]
- 01:56
Randy was regularly riddled with alpha and beta particles and seriously a
- 02:01
wonder he survived the whole ordeal our theory is that there was some sort of a
- 02:04
vitamin thing going on there without crystals killed [Randy jumps off his balcony into a bush]
- 02:08
anyway the exposure to alpha particle helium atoms that are missing electrons
- 02:13
and have a positive two charge turned his skin a funny color and made his [Randy's skin turns green]
- 02:17
voice go up about an octave he exposure to beta particles electrons or positrons
- 02:23
that have been emitted by unstable isotope resulted in all of Randy's hair
- 02:28
falling out and caused him to grow a third eye it wasn't all that bad though [Randy with an eye on the top of his head]
- 02:33
a third eye really helped him see the field but Randy's lows reached an
- 02:37
all-time high when one afternoon an alien spacecraft landed in his backyard [UFO lands]
- 02:41
and one of the aliens emerged walked right up to the poor kid and fired a ray
- 02:46
gun Randy was suddenly introduced to the fourth type of ionizing radiation gamma
- 02:51
rays which are high-energy photon well suffice it to say Randy doesn't look
- 02:56
much like the other kids anymore in fact he looks almost exactly like that alien [Randy's face changes to an alien face]
- 03:01
who shot in full of gamma rays this high school wasn't hard enough okay so you're
- 03:06
exposed to some of these types of radiation you probably won't experience
- 03:09
quite the physical changes that Randy has but radiation is dangerous and it
- 03:13
can mess you up so take our advice to no practice throwing high spirals anyplace
- 03:18
near where the water is green or the sky is neon pink unless you're in the market [Deer jumps over the toxic stream]
- 03:23
for a third eye there you
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