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Making uranium glass
NileRed · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2020–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 15 other demo videos tagged Chemistry, the mean is 1.5 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 1.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
25% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2020–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 30 minutes 3 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2020-02-15.
- Channel / speaker
- NileRed
- Verified runtime
- 30m 3s
- YouTube upload date
- 2020-02-15
- Hacker News mention years
- 2020–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Chemistry. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Making uranium glassCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 25% | — | 30m 3s | 2020-02-15 |
| Etching small patterns in Glassdemo · Huygens Optics | 4 | 3 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 14m 40s | 2021-02-23 |
| Fluorine - Periodic Table of Videosdemo · Periodic Videos | 4 | 3 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 6m 42s | 2010-07-15 |
| DIY mass spectrometer measures potassium in dietary salt substitutedemo · Applied Science | 3 | 3 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 26m 45s | 2019-11-30 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems”. Its short rationale: NileRed making uranium glass in a home lab, illustrating radiation perspective.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear energy more safely”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Collectors who hunt down radioactive glassware”. Its short rationale: NileRed made his own uranium glass.