@Trinsid
I love Nile's arc on YouTube. I remember when he was totally serious in every video he did, and now, "I BOUGHT A GUN, AND TODAY, I'M GOING TO USE IT"
@octaviarolle9820
Nigel bought this x-ray gun for the sole purpose of flexing his homemade grills (without having to wear them again).
@booomfight
for those who are wondering it's price $12590.00
@ahaziahjoshua1397
The most ominous opening line (for a Canadian)
@FoolishBalloon
Hey Nile! I'm a doctor and have spent a fair bit of time together with X-rays during surgeries. Just letting you know that X-rays do bounce from things, so while you are generally correct that staying behind the gun while pointing it at your grills is a good idea, it is still likely that the grills themselves reflect some X-rays. Probably not enough to be an issue with just this short video (though I have no idea what the emissions of your "gun" are). Just letting you know in case you weren't aware of this phenomena. If you do a lot of these "tilted" scans, it might be wise to increase your distance and/or add some shielding between you and the device.
@seancurrie5488
Geology student here, for a practical I was one of the handful of students to use the thing to analyse a field sample quickly. I nearly froze when the supervisor told me the thing was just about $30 000. I put it down very carefully.
@basile_edits
18K Gold is 75% gold, so perfect
@VPCh.
XRF guns have been incredible for the mineral exploration/mining industry. We used to have to wait months to test minerals or samples at a lab, but with these, we can do a quick test in the field. The one weakness is that it often doesn't give a representative sample. For example, if there is a layer of a different material on top, that will show up instead of the true composition. There's no way to tell if those gold teeth have lead cores.
@DaleEarndhardt
Nile got trigger discipline
@skateruwu
I've seen people use these XRF guns to do prospecting in mines. They cost thousands of dollars for one that is even half decent. You are a mad lad Nigel
@jordanharrington7138
Hey there, my name is Jordan. My brother and I run GP-Technical. I'm the one who sold you the Delta XRF gun in this video. If you guys need anything else in the future give me a shout! I had no idea and watch your videos all the time! Great Channel!
@Antifrost
"I bought a gun, and today I'm gonna use it" Is this the start of Nile's villain arc
@Froxyze
Somehow, I bought a gun isn't even in Nile's top five scariest video openings
@TheTottle2
“It’s got lead!” Nile says excitedly, while referring to his tables paint.
@Sawsquatch
As an actual firearms enthusiast, these guns are really cool too. They're a little bit of a pain in the donger to keep calibrated, and super important to keep clean! If they're abused, and grubby, they can someone get a little confused with Pb/Au/W, especially if they're switching between Ti/Au a lot. I'm not sure exactly how I know this, but that's been my experience with them.
@NedstarYouTube
"I bought a gun, and today, I'm going to use it" top 10 nile quotes of all time
@MrDavidMoyer
More cool science facts: Lighter elements - anything on the first two rows of the periodic table from H to Ne - aren't able to be measured directly by XRF. So you can't use this to determine the precise amount of carbon in your steel, or how much oxygen (usually in the form of oxides or hydroxides) are in a geology soil sample, or the composition of PLASTICS like the coating on your lab benches there. But it works pretty well for heavier elements. With some caveats... a few elements emit at multiple frequencies, some of which overlap with other elements. Those elements are hard to detect at low levels because they tend to get buried within each other's signals. And whatever the element inside the gun is that produces the x-rays also can't be detected... because its response will look the same as the beam that leaves the emitter and you cannot mathematically separate the original beam from the same element in the sample. So it's primarily used for detecting metals in paint, minerals in soil, or alloy compositions of metals. I used to work with a bigger free-standing XRF machine that could also detect dangerous metals like lead and mercury in plastics, which we tested for some toy manufacturers to comply with government safety regulations. We also used that same machine to look at mineral composition and corrosion compounds from leaky oil and gas pipes, oil spill soils, etc. It's pretty cool.
@Metalrasputian
For folks worried about bouncing emissions, I used to work for a company that used these for Positive Material Identification (called them PMI guns usually). The techs who used them on the regular never really used shielding but still treated them very carefully. Like, only taking out of the case when the worksite was prepped. Checking exposure zone, etc. They also usually carried dosimeters to track their regular exposure (we worked with other radioactive NDT, so lots of folks ran with dosimeters). But even with all that, it's usually WAY less exposure than other NDT analysis methods. EDIT: This is not official radiation safety advice, please check your local regulations and safety procedures TL;DR it's likely WAY less exposure than most people are making it out to be.
@ASerokai
Closest thing we have to the "Appraisal" skill in isekai animes 😂
@theguythatbeileved