This one of the few channels that actually give more than factoid-level info. Almost all other RUclips channels basically just read you the first few paragraphs from Wikipedia, but this excellent channel actually goes into some deeper info.
A 23 minute deep dive into the history and development of synthetic foam wasn't really on the agenda. Glad I made the time. Outstanding video, per usual.
Being in the composite industry, I can tell you more than you'd ever want to know about various foams mechanical information, but I absolutely appreciated the depth of this vid and even learned a few things about the finer details. 👍
TIL "Sparkling microplastic" can only be called "Styrofoam" if the extruded closed-celled polystyrene foam was made by the Dow Chemical Company in the Midland Michigan reigon of the United States.
I can't tell you enough how much i appreciate and enjoy this channel. It literally feels like a visual audio representation of what it would feel like for Neo when he plugs in a new subject in the Matrix neural machine. Lol idk, it was just a random analogy that seemed suitable for the level of your high quality content. Keep up the amazing work 🤘🏻
I dont usually get excited about video releases but these always contain information i havent heard, and learning stuff is my drug. This is my hit from one of the best dealers i know. TY
You go into impressive depth when explaining these topics, like you've worked in the industry or have hands-on experience. How do you research this stuff?
Everything is on the internet nowadays from an enthusiast's blog post to entire universities programs, corporations patents, an endless sea of academic papers... You just need to search
The copy of this script has got to be AI-generated or at least AI-assisted. No human other than corporate lobbyists would say hydrofluorocarbons are ecologically-friendly. 😂😂😂
Great video. I built the largest urethane spray foam plant in the U.S. Awesome to see a video about the many uses of foam. You should do a video on elastomers too.
It'd be interesting to see more on the environmental aspects of these materials, and their weathering modes - many foams break down into small particles that join the other plastic nanoparticle load. Are they toxic?
This is a very specialized topic and one you wouldn't cover in your standard chemistry survey courses in college, but it's important nonetheless. As you observe, the concept is found ubiquitously. I really appreciate the deep dive here. You earned a sub with this one!
foam is so genuinely complex & all encompassing. i’m seeing foam everywhere now, what is a beanbag chair other than a bean foam filled bag membrane that’s in the shape of chair. once you start thinking of fibers & papers it all just really helps fill in the gaps
i worked at a packaging company for 20 ish years in the foam conversion department, mostly cutting big blocks or sheets up, for others to glue or heat seal together into the 'end cap' or other fitting, design required ,
where i worked XPS was the term for the expanded type polystyrene not EPS ! maybe a UK/US difference? 😉 in the last few years, i cut up loads of the blue denser extruded type ,
With whipping real cream, freeze the bowl and mixer blade first. A dash of cream of tartar and less powdered sugar than you think you need or it calls for. Get it from a farm if you can. The ones I'd get you couldn't pour out till you broke the slug of milk fat on top. Don't add the milk fat though if it separated. Takes longer to whip peaks and it stays softer. There is my contribution to foam technology.
Great video as always 👍. Though it has very cool physics chemistry and mathematics, with lots of great properties and uses. Synthetics in general have also been the bane of our modern world, especially with careless and money driven practices.
I was recently looking up how defoamers and anti-foaming agents work (defoamers actively kill foam while anti-foaming agents prevent its formation - the terms are often used interchangeably). Unfortunately, I haven't found a good explanation apart from the defoamers spreads better than the surfactant and lowers (or increases? I dont' remember) surface tension. One such example is dimethylpolysiloxane - I've used one such product to remove foam residues from laboratory glassware. It is also useful for reactions that would otherwise foam or froth too much, escaping the container. It would be great to make explaining video on how that actually works - why little amount of defoamer has more effect than tons of soap? What are the differences between cationic, anionic and non-ionic (zwitterionic) surfactants? What are the differences between tensides and detergents? Why quaternary amine compounds are specifically used in fabric softeners? etc. etc.
Hi. I'm so very happy that I found your channel!! You, sir, are a rock star. You present some of the most deeply complex and esoteric stuff and make it both fascinating and accessible, without dumbing it down...if that makes sense. Anyway, lots of new ideas to dig into. I have a newfound appreciation for sandpaper, thanks to you. I started another video (Pulling Energy Out of Thin Air) and the title had me thinking you would be exploring the theory (?) of Zero-Point Energy. Given your understanding of quantum physics, would you please consider explaining that for us superfans? 🤓🤓😁 I read about it in a Neal Asher novel, full disclosure... And, I forgot to respectfully also request an explainer on Smith Charts. Maybe?
So what youre saying is that if you take the ultra partical matrix and COMBINE it with the unilateral motion flux dimension, youll be left with a hyperkenetic radial collapse?
Beer Foam has nothing to do with fermentation. Fermentation can cause Foam, but it isn't necessary to have Foam. They're completely unrelated. RUclipsrs are getting comically lazy about research
21:18 "It has become so integral to numerous everyday items that its difficult to envision our daily lives without the benefits of fu-" What was that xD
Stop and think about this for a s cond, how many mattresses do you think are made each day...how many mattresses go unused or get put into storage to never be touched again?
Sometimes the old way is better than the new way / French traditional butter tastes better and lacks questionable substances like pesticide residue thats present in petrochemical industrial agriculture America where GMO cows eating GMO corn make GMO milk and GMO butter and dairy products that have strange hormonal effects on people that consume them. Why do so many people take multiple drugs instead of addressing lifestyle issues that cause preventable sickness. Why is fasting not a normal part of modern disease of civilization? Why are there thousand pound people now? Why do we allow light and sound to cause sleep disorders? Why are buildings not more insulated for better energy efficiency? Why so many leaking natural gas pipes and power wires under wind bouncing tree branches? Why so many pot holes in roads and failing infrastructure? Why so much hatred in the world? Why do people not love each other and nature and animals more? Why are people so selfish? Why do we not care about one another more? America been on a social decline for decades. America outsourced a lot of its critical industries in what amounts to ignorantly chasing the maximization of profits with the lowest possible operating costs. I am thinking of dutch ovens made in France that cost $400 when similar are made in China for $60 // but I would rather send my money to France than China, I like France more for many reasons. Especially because the French government does a better job of treating French people well! Shame on the USA for allowing people to go bankrupt because of injury or illness and not giving everyone basic public healthcare options.
I'm here because my neighbor has a millimeter wave or multispectral or hyperspectral imaging system trained on my home that among other things can (and has) turned my porcelain toilet into a type of camera obscura that can form perfect images. These images are from the point of view as if one were looking out from the two of the larger holes around under the rim of the toilet, as well as from the flushing hole at the bottom of the toilet. After accidentally seeing a few images of myself "using the toilet" (straight out the Mooning sequence in the movie American Graffiti, but with an emergent tootsie roll), I came up with the idea of filling the bowl with Dawn blue dishwashing soapsuds before use, I think that this acts to at least reduce the unfortunately excellent resolution that my neighbor previously enjoyed. Now I just need a quick way to make a beachball sized glop of suds quickly and with no mess.. so the search continues..(I'm encouraged by the comment below that mentions a "Foaminator" that sounds promising..
This is just a hypothetical thought: I've always thought that the science of Bubble's is such a unique aspect of our natural world. It has many aspects to it's overall structure & behavior through out our world and possibly throughout space as well in some ways. I like to ponder about the structure and properties of the fabric of our own universe. Maybe with every black hole a bubble in the overall universe is created? Thus creating a structure of unique bubble stability and instability throughout the overall lifespan of the universe...? (Just a hypothetical concept that's fun to ponder about.) In the past people talked about space as a ether. Maybe bubble science theory could end up being a new way to theorize about space and universe as a whole..? On all sorts of different levels.. because im sure bubble science plays roles in all sorts of different types & levels of our universe. From the very small to the very large.. We even see that our own sun has a bubble around it, that is just a single bubble created by our sun's impact and it's interaction create a boundary layer that seems to imply that this is a aspect of the nature of our universe and we are just now starting to learn about it, and measure it, visualize it, theorize about it... It's fascinating
I love your videos for both the insight into our industrial world and the detailed history and evolution that you pour into it❤. This is perfect for nerds like me, but if you want to reach a wider audience I feel that you'll need to bring in the human stories attached to the history or tangible wider impacts like whether polystyrene foam reduced the cost of delicate appliances as it reduced the number of damaged units from transportation. Compared to, for example, Veritasium you have higher quality information but less, to put it bluntly, 'drama'
While this video is amazingly well made and very informative, it was still hard to take seriously at times just hearing him say "bubble" over and over XD
I haven't seen the video yet. I am quiet exited to see the Video, because Foams have similar Properties to periodic lattice Structures. I write currently on my bachelor's thesis about those structures. I am quiet interested in which properties they highlight of foam.
Very interesting. Like so much modern industrial science, unfortunately price beats eco credentials every time bc regulation is slow and hogtied by economic realities of global markets.
In fact there's a method to increase its foamy properties by mechanically aerating concrete to increase the amount of air bubbles, increase its volume, and decrease its density. It's called "foamcrete."
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Make me.
Are you saying that Engineering Technology has been used to improve this material? Or in other words, E.T. hones foam.
Booooo. Have an upvote
Quality joke 👏🏻👏🏻
Good shit, buddy. Good shit lol
That was awful. Well done.
Jooooker looooll
This one of the few channels that actually give more than factoid-level info. Almost all other RUclips channels basically just read you the first few paragraphs from Wikipedia, but this excellent channel actually goes into some deeper info.
Beat me to it, he makes quality content.
Veritasium, smarter everyday, Stephen mold, alpha Phoenix, there are tons of RUclips channels that make a great content.
I didn't even list half
Technology connections and their secondary channel to name more...
A 23 minute deep dive into the history and development of synthetic foam wasn't really on the agenda. Glad I made the time. Outstanding video, per usual.
Being in the composite industry, I can tell you more than you'd ever want to know about various foams mechanical information, but I absolutely appreciated the depth of this vid and even learned a few things about the finer details. 👍
Do furniture fillers really degrade over time?
@@papapatriarchy5372yes
Same here working in the composites industry as an engineer, foam is under-appreciated as a material
TIL "Sparkling microplastic" can only be called "Styrofoam" if the extruded closed-celled polystyrene foam was made by the Dow Chemical Company in the Midland Michigan reigon of the United States.
Lol underrated comment. ;)
I like to think of it as the Parmesan Cheese of the microplastics world.
not really true anymore because its been used so universally that the trademark no longer holds
I can't tell you enough how much i appreciate and enjoy this channel. It literally feels like a visual audio representation of what it would feel like for Neo when he plugs in a new subject in the Matrix neural machine. Lol idk, it was just a random analogy that seemed suitable for the level of your high quality content. Keep up the amazing work 🤘🏻
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21:18 of what?
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Having worked with foams on a civil engineering level for years, this video helps a lot. Happy I learned something good today 😁
having worked with foam on the level of a beachgoer who comea across seafoam, i am glad this helped you a lot.
Having found that my urine contains a powerful foaming agent, would you like to join my foam party in the pub urinals?
Having been a foam, thank you for your service.
I dont usually get excited about video releases but these always contain information i havent heard, and learning stuff is my drug. This is my hit from one of the best dealers i know. TY
thanks for this analogy, if you hadnt used drugs as a comparison i would totally be lost as to what you were saying 🙏
Did someone say something about drugs?
I have definitely overdosed on new mind videos a couple times. I keep coming back though
21:18 You cut yourself off there, buddy. "The benefits of f-"
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I love your videos on why some seemingly mundane products are much more interesting than they might seem.
You go into impressive depth when explaining these topics, like you've worked in the industry or have hands-on experience. How do you research this stuff?
Mind-reading a professor
Everything is on the internet nowadays from an enthusiast's blog post to entire universities programs, corporations patents, an endless sea of academic papers... You just need to search
The copy of this script has got to be AI-generated or at least AI-assisted. No human other than corporate lobbyists would say hydrofluorocarbons are ecologically-friendly. 😂😂😂
Really looking forward to this episode, hope it touches on upcoming bio based foams
Great video. I built the largest urethane spray foam plant in the U.S.
Awesome to see a video about the many uses of foam. You should do a video on elastomers too.
Another culinary foam: bread dough and when baked, bread.
It'd be interesting to see more on the environmental aspects of these materials, and their weathering modes - many foams break down into small particles that join the other plastic nanoparticle load. Are they toxic?
This is a very specialized topic and one you wouldn't cover in your standard chemistry survey courses in college, but it's important nonetheless. As you observe, the concept is found ubiquitously. I really appreciate the deep dive here. You earned a sub with this one!
It was covered in My Chemical Engineering courses in college
Its crazy to think we applied this technology to chocolate 🍫
foam is so genuinely complex & all encompassing. i’m seeing foam everywhere now, what is a beanbag chair other than a bean foam filled bag membrane that’s in the shape of chair. once you start thinking of fibers & papers it all just really helps fill in the gaps
i worked at a packaging company for 20 ish years in the foam conversion department, mostly cutting big blocks or sheets up, for others to glue or heat seal together into the 'end cap' or other fitting, design required ,
where i worked XPS was the term for the expanded type polystyrene not EPS ! maybe a UK/US difference? 😉 in the last few years, i cut up loads of the blue denser extruded type ,
Did you seriously get me to watch a video on foam? Congratulations! You're a great speaker.
yawn. Plastic is destroying our earth and that is where we are getting these commercial foams.
Bread is basically a nutritious type of foam. Do with that information what you want.
I need that 3D Redshift Shader for a bread animation, and there I am, looking for foam, thx!
With whipping real cream, freeze the bowl and mixer blade first. A dash of cream of tartar and less powdered sugar than you think you need or it calls for. Get it from a farm if you can. The ones I'd get you couldn't pour out till you broke the slug of milk fat on top. Don't add the milk fat though if it separated. Takes longer to whip peaks and it stays softer.
There is my contribution to foam technology.
Great video as always 👍. Though it has very cool physics chemistry and mathematics, with lots of great properties and uses. Synthetics in general have also been the bane of our modern world, especially with careless and money driven practices.
I had a fever, and the only prescription was to watch this at 5:00 am during the week day.
I needed to know this information, thank you
I was recently looking up how defoamers and anti-foaming agents work (defoamers actively kill foam while anti-foaming agents prevent its formation - the terms are often used interchangeably). Unfortunately, I haven't found a good explanation apart from the defoamers spreads better than the surfactant and lowers (or increases? I dont' remember) surface tension. One such example is dimethylpolysiloxane - I've used one such product to remove foam residues from laboratory glassware. It is also useful for reactions that would otherwise foam or froth too much, escaping the container. It would be great to make explaining video on how that actually works - why little amount of defoamer has more effect than tons of soap? What are the differences between cationic, anionic and non-ionic (zwitterionic) surfactants? What are the differences between tensides and detergents? Why quaternary amine compounds are specifically used in fabric softeners? etc. etc.
Hi. I'm so very happy that I found your channel!! You, sir, are a rock star. You present some of the most deeply complex and esoteric stuff and make it both fascinating and accessible, without dumbing it down...if that makes sense. Anyway, lots of new ideas to dig into. I have a newfound appreciation for sandpaper, thanks to you.
I started another video (Pulling Energy Out of Thin Air) and the title had me thinking you would be exploring the theory (?) of Zero-Point Energy. Given your understanding of quantum physics, would you please consider explaining that for us superfans? 🤓🤓😁 I read about it in a Neal Asher novel, full disclosure...
And, I forgot to respectfully also request an explainer on Smith Charts. Maybe?
Does the type of gas inside the foam bubble affect foam properties?
Yes.
Foam is neat. It made the RC airplane hobby cheaper and therefore more easily accessible to more people :)
Surely it's van der Waal, not van der Wall
wanna guess why english exist and we dont speak flemish dutch or another german? why no one speaks latin? guess how language evolves 🤷🏻♀️
Names of one particular dude at one particular point in time don't evolve though. They can be objectively spelled right or wrong. @@swell07_
Hydrocarbon fluorides being considered the environmentally safe switch is crazy. Also, memory foam breathable😂😂😂😂
So what youre saying is that if you take the ultra partical matrix and COMBINE it with the unilateral motion flux dimension, youll be left with a hyperkenetic radial collapse?
Can you just hire a professional voice actor? You are really difficult to understand.
Replying to @igbatious: **YOU CAN HEAR THIS PERFECTLY!!**
Honestly. Dude has never read out loud before
Beer Foam has nothing to do with fermentation. Fermentation can cause Foam, but it isn't necessary to have Foam. They're completely unrelated. RUclipsrs are getting comically lazy about research
As someone just spent two days building an insulation layer for 3d printer using matalic flim foam boards this video couldn't be timelier 😂
Its good to see that this channel ALWAYS delivers its usual extreme high quality!
10/10 as per usual.
I appreciate a science program that doesn't give weight to the viewer in African elephants of liquid amounts in Olympic swimming pool units .👍
It's only Styrofoam if it comes from the Styrofoam region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling polystyrene foam
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Vulcanization was not invented by Goodyear it’s from the native peoples of Central America
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the universe is a foam
I'm 564lbs and suffer from mental illness. I have an obsession with foam that causes strong arousal for no reason.
21:18
"It has become so integral to numerous everyday items that its difficult to envision our daily lives without the benefits of fu-"
What was that xD
As I saw the thumbnail, a quote came to my mind. „We are the Foam. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.“
Stop and think about this for a s cond, how many mattresses do you think are made each day...how many mattresses go unused or get put into storage to never be touched again?
I just learned NASA is responsible for our comfort technology
Finally Dude. A good Video about Foam. Fucking love Foam.
As an American I appreciate that you put it into pyramids I didn’t really visualize it before that
You left out epe foam which is used in packaging, boat positive buoyancy etc.
Foam steel? Come on.
Does this apply to foam manufacturing in footwear mid and outsoles?
When you realise you are watching a video about the loteral lore of foam... bruh that hit me hard.
Interesting video. I enjoy your videos. Seem well researched.
How are zeolites and 3a molecular sieves made? Their like rock foam.
You cut half of you last utterance of "foam" before skipping to the sponsor spot.
This guy foams.
Good Video. But you have not mentioned thermocol by BASF
Sometimes the old way is better than the new way / French traditional butter tastes better and lacks questionable substances like pesticide residue thats present in petrochemical industrial agriculture America where GMO cows eating GMO corn make GMO milk and GMO butter and dairy products that have strange hormonal effects on people that consume them. Why do so many people take multiple drugs instead of addressing lifestyle issues that cause preventable sickness. Why is fasting not a normal part of modern disease of civilization? Why are there thousand pound people now? Why do we allow light and sound to cause sleep disorders? Why are buildings not more insulated for better energy efficiency? Why so many leaking natural gas pipes and power wires under wind bouncing tree branches? Why so many pot holes in roads and failing infrastructure? Why so much hatred in the world? Why do people not love each other and nature and animals more? Why are people so selfish? Why do we not care about one another more? America been on a social decline for decades. America outsourced a lot of its critical industries in what amounts to ignorantly chasing the maximization of profits with the lowest possible operating costs. I am thinking of dutch ovens made in France that cost $400 when similar are made in China for $60 // but I would rather send my money to France than China, I like France more for many reasons. Especially because the French government does a better job of treating French people well! Shame on the USA for allowing people to go bankrupt because of injury or illness and not giving everyone basic public healthcare options.
Dude. Its a video about foam. What are you even talking about…
Nice segue to the foam pyramid...I see what you did there.. lol
Such a smart video. I wish there was more of this kind of media.
First
Bubble party!
You forgot to mention that, this industry destroyed the ozone layer.
If this was voiced by Walter White it would be perfect
0:11 one measurement that most of the world understands and one for the americans
The foaminator! For when you need foam but lack it
1:55 nothing like an ice cold, frothing bear when the day is done.
Nobody gives a fk about that Swedish patent.
That’s what you say when you hit 🥊someone Foam 😅
But why is there only foam when you pee sometimes and not others?
Thank god the algorithm introduced me to this channel 🙏
I’m high as fuck and learning about foam
Child: Why do bubbles form?
Me, profusely sweating: It's complicated
Kid: Try.
Me, panicing: I CANT
Might need to know this one day while being held hostage by aliens
There really ain't no business like foam business
I'm here because my neighbor has a millimeter wave or multispectral or hyperspectral imaging system trained on my home that among other things can (and has) turned my porcelain toilet into a type of camera obscura that can form perfect images. These images are from the point of view as if one were looking out from the two of the larger holes around under the rim of the toilet, as well as from the flushing hole at the bottom of the toilet. After accidentally seeing a few images of myself "using the toilet" (straight out the Mooning sequence in the movie American Graffiti, but with an emergent tootsie roll), I came up with the idea of filling the bowl with Dawn blue dishwashing soapsuds before use, I think that this acts to at least reduce the unfortunately excellent resolution that my neighbor previously enjoyed. Now I just need a quick way to make a beachball sized glop of suds quickly and with no mess.. so the search continues..(I'm encouraged by the comment below that mentions a "Foaminator" that sounds promising..
Same music as the Dave Cullen show
How is the world not lagging with this much going on?
bubbles bubblesbubblesbubblesbubblesbubblesbubblesbubblesbubbles
oh my god thats why its called micellar water
Thanks for the video, I didn't even realize I really wanted to know how to about this.
Recently worked with a company using a Nickel blend foam for batteries. Pretty cool.
Phenomenal video.
This is just a hypothetical thought: I've always thought that the science of Bubble's is such a unique aspect of our natural world. It has many aspects to it's overall structure & behavior through out our world and possibly throughout space as well in some ways. I like to ponder about the structure and properties of the fabric of our own universe. Maybe with every black hole a bubble in the overall universe is created? Thus creating a structure of unique bubble stability and instability throughout the overall lifespan of the universe...? (Just a hypothetical concept that's fun to ponder about.) In the past people talked about space as a ether. Maybe bubble science theory could end up being a new way to theorize about space and universe as a whole..? On all sorts of different levels.. because im sure bubble science plays roles in all sorts of different types & levels of our universe. From the very small to the very large.. We even see that our own sun has a bubble around it, that is just a single bubble created by our sun's impact and it's interaction create a boundary layer that seems to imply that this is a aspect of the nature of our universe and we are just now starting to learn about it, and measure it, visualize it, theorize about it... It's fascinating
I love your videos for both the insight into our industrial world and the detailed history and evolution that you pour into it❤. This is perfect for nerds like me, but if you want to reach a wider audience I feel that you'll need to bring in the human stories attached to the history or tangible wider impacts like whether polystyrene foam reduced the cost of delicate appliances as it reduced the number of damaged units from transportation. Compared to, for example, Veritasium you have higher quality information but less, to put it bluntly, 'drama'
While this video is amazingly well made and very informative, it was still hard to take seriously at times just hearing him say "bubble" over and over XD
I haven't seen the video yet. I am quiet exited to see the Video, because Foams have similar Properties to periodic lattice Structures. I write currently on my bachelor's thesis about those structures. I am quiet interested in which properties they highlight of foam.
are you telling me im on the spectrum?
Very interesting. Like so much modern industrial science, unfortunately price beats eco credentials every time bc regulation is slow and hogtied by economic realities of global markets.
Is concrete a foam?
Yes.
In fact there's a method to increase its foamy properties by mechanically aerating concrete to increase the amount of air bubbles, increase its volume, and decrease its density. It's called "foamcrete."
minecraft grass block.
Loved the video! If you could add subtitles that would be helpful! Thank you, keep up the great work!
I have always been curious about foams. Especially since i love crocs so much. Pretty cool stuff, foam is.