The prof is just such a fantastic story teller. I thought the running after a crab vs. a rabbit story was genius.
@LardGreystoke
7 жыл бұрын
You don't want to know what he does when he catches them.
@robertimmanuel577
3 жыл бұрын
@@LardGreystoke he extracts metals from it?
@StephenFlynn-xl2fw
8 ай бұрын
You don't want to know how.
@TheCommentor23
6 жыл бұрын
The dude in green analyzing the grade A copper wire was talking so quiet. Atleast to me. He's like, "Its so majestic. We speak softly so we don't disturb it."
@douro20
4 жыл бұрын
It's just the way he talks.
@klausolekristiansen2960
Жыл бұрын
His name is Peter License.
@jasonpatowsky6929
9 жыл бұрын
Niel's wink though... ;___;
@chilling_at_pontiff
6 жыл бұрын
Jason Patowsky 😨
@markanderson1088
6 жыл бұрын
Neil is my favorite. Whenever we get a laugh or wink it makes the video so much better
@calebengelbrecht7812
4 жыл бұрын
why does he never talk?
@Niko69420
4 жыл бұрын
Because why not?
@isaacjacobharris
4 жыл бұрын
@@calebengelbrecht7812 sir ilyn payne
@pofict
10 жыл бұрын
Now I can't help but picture the Professor chasing a lobster.
@mg42sd
8 жыл бұрын
Mr Neil is really weird. He's like that second plan hero, who often is more intresting than the main charachters.
@05017351
8 жыл бұрын
Most lab technicians are like that. They are in the background doing all the work with lecturers in the foreground getting all the glory. I suspect he is also more knowledgeable in the practical and "real world" applications of science.
@darewin3847
4 жыл бұрын
To Neil 🥂
@dreamstuidios9939
2 жыл бұрын
I agree
@PineconeSunset
10 ай бұрын
We'll look back at these videos someday and think 'wow the guy who created the unified theory of everything was just standing there in plain sight the whole time'.
@LCdrDerrick
9 жыл бұрын
My mom used to tell me before bedtime or when I felt overstrained, that there's always and ever a Neil behind me, twinkling and taking care.
@sliceofgarlicbread6868
8 жыл бұрын
+LCdrDerrick What!?!?
@Moishe555
6 жыл бұрын
Wow! That's creepy
@giansieger8687
2 жыл бұрын
where did Neil appear?
@pdjinn
10 жыл бұрын
You know you have a special wife when you can give her a copper ball for christmas and she'll be happy. :D
@luxlucis1386
9 жыл бұрын
Yeah, most want a ring or makeup.
@htc148
6 жыл бұрын
she's a nerd hottie
@WineScrounger
6 жыл бұрын
She’s a keeper 👍
@robertimmanuel577
3 жыл бұрын
@@htc148 My thoughts exactly
@99.99
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine how happy he must be if she's a goldbug.
@jmowreader9555
7 жыл бұрын
They didn't put copper around the tops of buildings because it's pretty, although it is. When architectural copper gets rained on, copper atoms will wash down the wall...killing all the algae that tries to grow on the building. Shingles sold today have copper in them for the same reason.
@wastingyourtime05
7 жыл бұрын
cool
@Reziac
4 жыл бұрын
Take note of very old paint on wooden surfaces that areboth neglected and exposed to the weather. You'll find that the majority that's still more or less intact is green... I expect due to copper-based pigments that inhibit microorganisms that would otherwise decay the surface and let the paint flake off.
@adorabasilwinterpock6035
4 жыл бұрын
Lead was also popular for roofs
@helicocktor
4 жыл бұрын
3 years late but; why would you want copper to grow on a building and what kind of shingles are we talking about?
@helicocktor
4 жыл бұрын
@Intellectual Ammunition ah TIL thanks! I actually thought people were talking about the shingles disease for some reason.
@ursaferrarius
4 жыл бұрын
Having watched several of these "Periodic Videos" I can say, with a strong level of consistency, chemists are a special breed. Like so many Latin students or members of marching band there is a distinct peak and valley for every individual on the electron spectrometer. Still this has to be one of the most underrated channels on YT. I love it !!
@user-ne3ze4zz7r
8 жыл бұрын
I'm gonna go chase down some lobsters on the beach and see how quickly they get tired now. :D
@yourlocalengineer
8 жыл бұрын
Thats unfair because humans evolved to chase down animals
@MuzikBike
8 жыл бұрын
Try chasing plants. Their chrorophyll has magnesium instead of iron or copper and they can't move at all.
@pixelcrafter6666
7 жыл бұрын
Calvin Ball what does going to the beach have to do with this?
@jmowreader9555
7 жыл бұрын
Lobsters don't live in the forest.
@gardensofthegods
5 жыл бұрын
@@yourlocalengineer yes but some animals evolved to chase down humans too , don't forget .
@Rubrickety
7 жыл бұрын
This video would have been vastly improved by some footage of the Professor chasing after a crab. Show, don't tell!
@finndonnelly9062
6 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh you made my day thanks!
@Kamamura2
4 жыл бұрын
"Hey Vinnie, and what if the coppers show up while we are, y'now, at work?" "Don't worry about it, Tony. Coppers have this blue blood, this hemocyanine thing, and they tire real quick, so you just keep running."
@grande1899
12 жыл бұрын
2:09
@overlordgaming5373
3 жыл бұрын
Yes... neil talked
@solomonsisay6550
3 жыл бұрын
Grande 1889 that was when Neil started to blink.
@Nkb3283
3 жыл бұрын
;)
@connorocchialini8451
9 жыл бұрын
Why is Neil such a beast?
@LardGreystoke
7 жыл бұрын
His blood is copper-based.
@Bman-1970
4 жыл бұрын
We used to fire the TOW anti tank missile on the range at Camp Grayling. Each missile has two hair thin copper wires that trail behind it all the way to its target up to 3600 meters away. The warhead of the missile has 2 copper cones with explosives around them.(shape charges). When the charges explode. The copper cones melt and are projected through the metal armor of the tank in the form of a copper rod.
@enderstar5017
8 жыл бұрын
Pun 29 I now have a copper pun, and I'll tell you all about it when I Cu again. That wasn't just a pun, also a song reference. Oh my.
@radiantjet418
7 жыл бұрын
EnderStar501 lol
@maxfeigelson7962
7 жыл бұрын
EnderStar501 songs and puns and copper. Oh my!
@Moishe555
6 жыл бұрын
Ohhhhhhhhhhh snap
@mylerwilson4879
5 жыл бұрын
I C what U did there
@kadorna1
7 жыл бұрын
i immediately fell in love after neil winked at me
@dario110011
4 жыл бұрын
Amazing. I remember watching this video in high school and falling in love with chemistry. Now I'm in the fourth year of my chemistry degree and going to write a research paper all about copper this semester. fun!
@jesscorbin5981
3 жыл бұрын
Isn't that the most daunting part of science? Do you have all the jargon down lol?
@patrickleahey4574
10 жыл бұрын
Well done, as usual. I am using these videos to help me review chemistry as I change vocations. Thank you.
@mheermance
9 жыл бұрын
I've been binge watching these videos this weekend, and enjoying them quite a bit. I've noticed is that everyone has a slightly different accent. Since I'm from the US I can't tell which region of the UK they're associated with, only that they are different. But they seem a bit more pronounced than US regional differences, although I could simply be used to US accents.
@petejt
9 жыл бұрын
"I like to collect shite...shiny things! Pretty things. Here's my copper." haha good save ;)
@RadagonTheRed
6 жыл бұрын
My self esteem has been significantly improved by knowing I can easily outrun a lobster. 👍
@Stonehawk
13 жыл бұрын
oh how I do LOVE these genuinely educational videos! And that professor is just... SO ... EXACTLY what you think of, when you imagine a university professor XD he fits it so well!
@magicicle
11 жыл бұрын
I melted when Niel winked
@phantokamistika2008
11 жыл бұрын
Meeting the professor is near the top of my bucket list! :D
@mrkanenas
4 жыл бұрын
This chanel is better than having a class
@douro20
14 жыл бұрын
@TreVelocita It's a magnet underneath the plate. The rod is made of conformal-coated iron.
@CrystalblueMage
10 жыл бұрын
Copper power cables are becoming a thing of the past for trains here. People simply cut it down and steal it, disrupting traffic badly. Also... what makes Vulcan blood green then if it isn't copper? ;P
@professortrog7742
5 жыл бұрын
Vulcan blood is colored green by the power of their logic.
@lawrencedoliveiro9104
7 жыл бұрын
4:32 the very last part of the Stone Age, prior to the introduction of bronze, is known as the “chalcolithic” period. That was when people started making use of copper metal deposits that they came across for tools etc. Of course, the softness of copper limited its use in this way. Then smelting of copper from ores was discovered, as well as how to mix it with tin to make bronze, which was a much harder metal. (Not as hard as iron--that came later.)
@unstoppablefalse
8 жыл бұрын
What was the solution you used to reduce the Cu(i) back to Cu(ii)?
@tapasmazumdar3831
7 жыл бұрын
Assuming you mean the reduction from Cu(II) in copper sulfate to Cu(I) in cuprous oxide, the solution it was reacted with was sodium potassium tartarate. An interesting thing about this reaction is that it forms a very well known reagent called the Fehling's solution where the aqueous solution of copper sulfate is Fehling's A and the sodium potassium tartarate is Fehling's B. The reagent is used commonly in organic chemistry to distinguish between aliphatic (not aromatic) aldehydes and ketones.
@aleph0x
4 жыл бұрын
H2SO4, or some acid, I assume?
@sollinw
5 жыл бұрын
Love these side-stories like about lobsters and rabbits, make the theories come alive.
@thedunkey27
8 жыл бұрын
ewkay, so COPAH very very very nice sample of very fine copah whyAH
@dielaughing73
14 күн бұрын
Yep.. some people talk differently from others
@shune84
9 жыл бұрын
"he knows what i'm like, he knows i like to collect shi..."
@fornaievibari1797
4 жыл бұрын
Não sabia que usam um composto, chamado composto azul, e que o cobre serve para outras utilidades como por exemplo uma panela cozinha
@idkuthinkofone
12 жыл бұрын
"so if you start running after a crab or lobster, it quickly gets tired, compared to running after a rabbit or something" lollll this guy always cracks me up
@gulllars
14 жыл бұрын
@McPrfctday it is magnetized iron or some other magnetic metal (it has to be effected by magnetic fields), and the plate the beaker is sitting on generates a rotating magnetic field that pushes it around without direct contact. It's an analog to induction heating. The same principle is used in electric motors.
@PopeBarley
14 жыл бұрын
@HerrCameron the stirrer is magnetic and the metal thing beneath it uses a current to spin it
@MystMagus
14 жыл бұрын
@paronfisk There are actually guided tours down into the mine as well. I don't remember if you could see the tree but I remember hearing about it.
@ShaneTheShiggyHiggins
9 жыл бұрын
Chemistry is amazing.
@DerekEncryptedSoulKlehm
4 жыл бұрын
Wilson's Disease is actually a fairly common disorder as genetic disorders go. I have a few family members with it, and I have the fairly descriptive Kaiser-Flescher rings but very few other symptoms of the disease. Copper really is shockingly involved in biological life
@ayoubbelatrous9914
Жыл бұрын
also most of its compounds are toxic to life
@gandreou
14 жыл бұрын
@FUGGINGMAD I believe it is a magnetic stirring bar coated in some hard plastic. You can find much info about it on the web but in essence what happens is that you create a rotating magnetic field under the magnetic bar (inside the base of the device) and this makes the bar spin and then of course use this stirring motion to help dilute your solution.
@mrericsully
14 жыл бұрын
The crystal covered apartment that the professor talked about was done by Roger Hiorns and the work was titled SEIZURE. There is a small Wikipedia article about him, several low quality videos touring the apartment on KZitem, and a descent video of the artist at the site explaining the process and the art itself on Vimeo titled "Artist on site: Roger Hiorns on Seizure" [7184407].
@MoltenMetal613
14 жыл бұрын
@McPrfctday There is a magnet in the heating pad. One knob controls the temperature, and the other controls the spin of the stirring bar.
@utkarshsinghal5
12 жыл бұрын
that is in fact,a very nice question!copper sulphate,in water disassociates into cu2+ and s04- ions.now,cu2+ ions is what gives it the blue color.normally,copper metal is red because it absorbs colors of higher frequency like green and blue and reflects the reddish colors.however,when it is ion(cu2+),it has less electrons.this changes its electronic configuration,and thus it now absorbs lower frequencies like red and reflects higher frequencies like blue.
@JW5090
12 жыл бұрын
I think getting a wink from Neil just made my day.
@CannaPlant
14 жыл бұрын
@sjcwoor Copper(II)- oxide is indeed orange, while copper(I)- oxide is black. The green color on statues comes from copper(II)- carbonate, which is formed when copper reacts with the carbon dioxide from the air.
@Chlorate299
14 жыл бұрын
@Serostern This is true, electrical wire is in the high 90s though. But still, there was some kind of legal thing about copper brake pipes, hence the alloy.
@thomasbrogan8928
10 жыл бұрын
I love these videos
@Dalemonks
14 жыл бұрын
@McPrfctday I believe the bar is like a metal that can be magnetised(iron) and there is a magnet spinning under the beaker.
@Samtheman2001
6 жыл бұрын
I was too busy looking at the zipper earrings
@letsgogaming8112
4 жыл бұрын
Or they're the tabs on Coka-Cola or Pepsi cans.
@Dooobs
14 жыл бұрын
@McPrfctday The heating plate has a rotating bar under the surface and the stirring stick is a magnet, or the other way around. Thus when the bar turns, the magnet follows the turning bar and hence stirs!
@MrSuednym
12 жыл бұрын
@onlyreallifematters Plutonium is actually fairly harmless unless it enters the body. So, as long as you washed your hands afterwards, you should be just fine... Unless you were talking about the weight of the plutonium making you not want to toss it around.
@princesspeach1864
11 жыл бұрын
At a restaurant, one person asked for H2O. Another person sees him order water so he says, 'I'll have some H2O too.' (H2O2) After that, the second person had a terrible day.
@akshathsantosh1022
Жыл бұрын
Prof Neil's wink is legendary🔥
@precocioustoic
14 жыл бұрын
This use of sodium potassium bitartarate is great. As an afterthought. Maybe a video on the Solvay process would be nice to do. I think it would help to actually see it in action. Then maybe a video on cream of tartar or the crystal in jams and wines could be done to show potassium bitartarate.
@owendananmartin9492
9 жыл бұрын
The copper mine at 4:16 is right by my home town!
@kevin87k
8 жыл бұрын
Neil is the actually genius behind everything. Heisenberg *cough cough*
@IngoHuber
12 жыл бұрын
You should visit Vienna. We just love our green roofs: Karlskirche, the opera, our parliament, the Belvedere...I can't imagine the roofs to be in any other color.
@bigdaveoncampus
14 жыл бұрын
@McPrfctday I think it works because there is a magnet in the hotplate that spins the metal bar
@hawks1ish
9 жыл бұрын
Can I go with you to a high school? The looks on the students faces would be priceless when you get excited about showing them copper wire.
@soberek
13 жыл бұрын
@BecuzIt No, it's only coated with a thin layer of copper.
@DexieTheSheep
Жыл бұрын
3:18 yoooo I remember reading through that blue book behind you when I was little the memoriessssssss
@TheDeLeG3nD
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for using metric units. It really means a lot, and I'm not even being sarcastic.
@TheShorts5555
11 жыл бұрын
Crustaceans use haemocyanin to transport oxygen because it can hold onto the oxygen more tightly than haemoglobin, preventing it from bubbling out at high pressures. Some divers experience an effect where the oxygen bubbles out of their blood (they use higher concentrations in the breathing mix) which can cause serious issues. I'm pretty sure haemocyanin has 4 times the affinity for oxygen, but this means it is transported and cycled much less slowly, thus wearing out the organism quicker.
@nblax41
12 жыл бұрын
Gotta love the Professor's analogies
@jessegranstrom4033
11 жыл бұрын
Best youtube channel ever!
@Olumin37
8 жыл бұрын
I think that copper is one of the most beautiful looking elements, but sadly it loses its shine quite quickly because it oxidizes relatively fast. Gold is of course also very beautiful, I adore it. Another really pretty metal is osmium; it has a really nice blue shine to it. Bismuth crystals would be my favorite at the monument, they form a rainbow colored oxidation layer which is absolutely magnificent I think.
@Olumin37
8 жыл бұрын
+Olumin I look forward to the day where we will be able to materialise elements out of energy and that way make them much cheaper and easer available to everyone in bigger quantities. Just imagine your living room with walls covered in pure fold, that would have to look stunning.
@cannack
8 жыл бұрын
+Olumin what you can do is take a peice of un-oxidized copper, put it in a little glass bottle with a screw cap but as you put in the copper spray it and fill the bottle with a gas like argon, or a hydrocarbon gas and it wont oxidize and you hve a pretty piece of copper, ive seen people do it withdepleted uranium instead of keeping it under mineral oil
@Olumin37
8 жыл бұрын
+๖ۣۜCOFFEbiscuit๖ۣۜ 1 Yes, that sound like it makes perfect sense, the unreactive noble gasses prevent the copper from reacting with the oxygen in the air to form the oxidation layer, and therefore preserve the unoxidised, shiny surface. That would be useful to present samples of copper, but sadly it won't prevent pieces of copper from oxidizing which are being handled every day, lets say for example a Pen made of copper or a flash light, But I guess these could be coated with a layer of copper zirconium nitride, that would also make them more durable and scratch/wear resistant. But if you do that you might as well just make the thing out of titanium and just give it that copper look. copper in general is terrible material to machine and use for these kinds of objects, since its relatively soft and dense, therefore heavy and prone to scratching and denting. Same with gold, imagine a Fork made out of pure gold, while it would look great, it probably wouldn't make a very durable fork.
@randomcam11234
14 жыл бұрын
its interesting how she talks about the sulphide to oxide, and that a solution can change that factor in copper.
@covodex516
6 жыл бұрын
we need to recycle our rare earth metals much better than we do right now, especially with those which we need in the semiconductor industry are generally needed for Building electronics. Some of them like Cadmium are extremely rare from the start and are getting wasted in throw-away products like batterys. But i saw another video on the topic of recycling electronics to recover the precious metals which looked pretty much as we are indeed making progress; just needs to be kept in mind by everyone.
@Hannah_Em
14 жыл бұрын
@Tetraglot no - Copper(I) oxide, Cu2O. Copper(II) oxide is just bog-standard copper oxide :)
@placidesulfurik
6 жыл бұрын
I watch Periodic Videos for Neil.
@antoniomaglione4101
3 жыл бұрын
The horseshoe crabs blue blood is harvested (thankfully without endangering the crabs) by the pharmaceutical industry, because it works as bacterial contamination indicator. Thanks for the video...
@kenstr321
10 жыл бұрын
Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Mine is the largest man-made excavation in the world, and is visible with the naked eye from space. 0.6 miles (0.97 km) deep, No we don't have to dig deeper. While mines in Chile have over taken the Bingham's production leadership that mine alone provides about 13-18% percent of the U.S.'s copper needs. One mine. worlds largest consumer up to 18% each year from a surface deposit. P.S. the amount of gold and silver pulled out of the mine is greater than the Comstock Lode, Klondike, and California gold rush mining regions combined. And it doesn't show signs of ending the vain till after 2030.... just sayn'
@Ghaz002
9 жыл бұрын
how is there not a science cartoon for kids starring all these adorable nerds, going on chemistry adventures
@Loomr
11 жыл бұрын
Copper can be recycled, and aluminium wiring can be used. There are cost/practical reasons why this is not currently done more. Suppose copper would really be running out: then the demand rises and the price goes up, the companies then have an opportunity to invest in R&D of new techniques. This is what happened with horizontal drilling of oil. As a free market advocate, my take is that you do not need to force those options thru government. Entrepreneurs will do it when it becomes profitable.
@neilwilson5785
8 жыл бұрын
Just excellent. I keep learning new things here.
@maktham2006
2 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite element
@Yaarbiriah
11 жыл бұрын
Wilson's disease.. ah yes. the only actual medicine I ever learned from ''Scrubs'' :).. and I LOVE the colour change to cuprous oxide.. childish of me perhaps, but just beautiful. Really enjoying your videos, subscribed and slowly making my way through them. I mentioned the series to my son, who is home schooled.. and of course he already knew and was subscribed. Good lad!
@prospero021
14 жыл бұрын
@citrinette Isn't the meat white? There is only a thin layer of reddish orange membrane that covers the meat.
@jeebersjumpincryst
14 жыл бұрын
@1RadicalOne Ahh - she was talking about Wilsons Disease, an inability to metabolize copper. When I was quite qoung, my father got me into chemistry and electronics. I used to grow crystals also.Copper sulphate was a favourite.I was told it was poisonous, so as was my habit, I put a crystal in my mouth, just long enough to taste.Was a metallic salt taste, horrible, not unlike MDMA pill. I didnt get sick or die. And I KNEW u would think I was stalking u, bit I'm not, really! ;)
@Ken-fh4jc
Жыл бұрын
Interesting. I thought it was the other way around that Cyprus was named because of all the copper.
@freddy_boi_5642
4 жыл бұрын
Can you do an experiment where you run after a crab I would love to see that?
@voveve
11 жыл бұрын
Physics of the stirring bar!!! Needed!
@jaynolan7526
6 жыл бұрын
My work takes me to alots of greenhouses. They have drinking water fountains. I noticed on one of them that read "Antimicrobial copper". What makes copper antimicrobial? Any special process?
@jaynolan7526
6 жыл бұрын
There is alot of Copper in fast charge Lead acid batteries. When I change out cells in large batteries. The Lead melts away exposing a copper core in the battery post.
@kmm34
5 жыл бұрын
Only thing more awesome than the whole series of elements, is Neil.
@jeebersjumpincryst
14 жыл бұрын
@1RadicalOne Everythings toxic in the right quantity and /or form. Which bit were u referring to?
@harveyhandbanana
14 жыл бұрын
@lamReptar because no matter how much people say science is boring we all know it is far more complex than we know. complexity strikes interest as a rule of thumb and interest creates videos like this;) thumbs up for science!
@GTHaroFITBMX
13 жыл бұрын
anyone notice from 7:22 to 7:54 the words on the screensaver to the left of him are switching between two different coputer screens?
@NagaJolokiafied
13 жыл бұрын
I was at a beach a few days ago, and I noticed some small crabs running around. I remembers what I heard in this video about their blood containing hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin so chased them around for a little bit, and sure enough the professor was right.
@bunnymaid
14 жыл бұрын
I love the Periodic Table bow tie!
@makego
4 жыл бұрын
You'll never catch me, copper!
@sliceofgarlicbread6868
8 жыл бұрын
Is that ball the same ball in the book,The Elements by Theodore Grey?
@GMCLabs
14 жыл бұрын
@Irishkeyblade at a high enough temp, anything will become a gas. and coppers boiling point is only 2562 °C
@paaaaaaaaq
8 жыл бұрын
Any pros on copper blood?
@BixbyConsequence
7 жыл бұрын
Vulcan death-grip.
@johndifrancisco3642
6 жыл бұрын
I think I might have copper blood. I'm like that crab that tires out quick :( But I love taking naps :) I guess that's a pro.
@QuaziGNRLNose
13 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love this channel, I learn way more from it than i do even in my HS chem class >_
@gognoggler7326
6 жыл бұрын
An enormous amount of that copper is in water pipes in homes. That copper is being torn out and replaced with plastic alternatives. All that copper is recycled because it is valuable and scrap yards will pay you decently for it. This represents kind of a huge reserve of already refined and easily recyclable copper that I predict will ease some of those concerns. It's still a real issue, though.
@davidking1429
4 жыл бұрын
5:19 There is a rather confusing statement about electrical and thermal conductivity. There are many reasons Iron (steel) is not used for wiring, it is not very ductile compared to copper and it is vastly more prone to corrosion. The property of thermal conductivity is not directly related to heat losses. Also I think most of the green buildup on copper and bronze architectural features is sulphates and chlorides. Carbonates form very slowly away from pollution.
@TheCheeseWeel
11 жыл бұрын
4:55 WE NEED TO GO DEEPER.
@pmckinlay653
8 жыл бұрын
Maybe it's been mentioned, but what is Neil's job title? He reminds me of the head of chemistry undergrad labs at my last job...
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