http://www.periodicvideos.com/#
Interesting site from the University of Nottingham. They do a short video on every single element. I haven't watched all of them yet but the ones I have watched were interesting.
:lulz:
Did you watch the one about Mercury? Who would want to take it, and what the hell would you do with it when you got it home? :x
Quote from: Raphaella VonMercer on July 22, 2008, 02:09:42 PM
:lulz:
Did you watch the one about Mercury? Who would want to take it, and what the hell would you do with it when you got it home? :x
But liquid metal is awesome to play with!!!
"It used to be used in the UK to make hats" :lulz:
Cesium is an awesome metal. Liquid at 27C. Melts with body heat, and very, very reactive.
Yes Cesium is a wonderful gold color, but I love the way he strokes that ampule :oops: makes me hot for Cesium.
I've really been enjoying this videos. Thanks for the post, Jason!
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on July 22, 2008, 06:20:05 PM
Quote from: Raphaella VonMercer on July 22, 2008, 02:09:42 PM
:lulz:
Did you watch the one about Mercury? Who would want to take it, and what the hell would you do with it when you got it home? :x
But liquid metal is awesome to play with!!!
Yes, yes it is. In chem lab this past year one of the students broke a mercury thermometer. Luckily it fell into a beaker. That shit was absolutely memorizing. You know what else is fun? Playing with dry ice.
Small amounts are fun to play with, I have a small amount in glass that came out of our old thermostat. It really is quite memorizing.
Quote from: Vene on July 23, 2008, 09:39:24 PM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on July 22, 2008, 06:20:05 PM
Quote from: Raphaella VonMercer on July 22, 2008, 02:09:42 PM
:lulz:
Did you watch the one about Mercury? Who would want to take it, and what the hell would you do with it when you got it home? :x
But liquid metal is awesome to play with!!!
Yes, yes it is. In chem lab this past year one of the students broke a mercury thermometer. Luckily it fell into a beaker. That shit was absolutely memorizing. You know what else is fun? Playing with dry ice.
Hell yes!! I get to play with it every once in awhile at work. (I have to check the shipments of CO
2 when they come in). It's fun to put some in a bottle with a tiny bit of water and then watch it explode. :evilmad:
Just now watched the Sodium video. Hilarious! They enjoyed playing with it a little too much.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on July 24, 2008, 05:44:00 AM
Quote from: Vene on July 23, 2008, 09:39:24 PM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on July 22, 2008, 06:20:05 PM
Quote from: Raphaella VonMercer on July 22, 2008, 02:09:42 PM
:lulz:
Did you watch the one about Mercury? Who would want to take it, and what the hell would you do with it when you got it home? :x
But liquid metal is awesome to play with!!!
Yes, yes it is. In chem lab this past year one of the students broke a mercury thermometer. Luckily it fell into a beaker. That shit was absolutely memorizing. You know what else is fun? Playing with dry ice.
Hell yes!! I get to play with it every once in awhile at work. (I have to check the shipments of CO2 when they come in). It's fun to put some in a bottle with a tiny bit of water and then watch it explode. :evilmad:
*note to self: don't piss off the chemists*
They can blow you up...
with ice!
You can get dry ice at most any ice cream store... Liquid nitrogen at any welding supplies place.
Bump for special Halloween video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZjfoJmOt1I
They actually took a trip to the Ytterby quarry in Sweden to see where yttrium (Y), ytterbium (Yb), terbium (Tb), erbium (Er), gadolinium (Gd), holmium (Ho), and thulium (Tm) were all first discovered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9QmVM536Ks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUCNoxEdiAk
:fap:
Bump because they finally figured out a way to do caesium in water. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aD6HwUE2c0
made my day :D
pfft, they've been able to do that for ages. I'll be impressed when they manage francium.