Allotrope from Hell! // 25K Subs Special
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2014
- Allotropes are really interesting if you ask me. Two samples made of exactly the same element can have very different looks and properties if they are different allotropes. Just by having different bonds between the same atoms.
In this video I concentrate on a specific, infamous allotrope of phosphorus. One of the elements with very different allotropes at room temperature. This features the most reactive one... 
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"Don't drink, if you're already bloated". ;) I got to remember that!
The overwhelmingly positive thin about this channel is how it grows despite less than frequent videos. It is testament to the quality of the output.
Thanks! It is a general rule of thumb on RUclips that frequent videos - no matter the quality - is key to gaining subscribers. It is build into the algorithm of RUclips - being on the frontpage, getting videoes recommended etc.
But I will always put quality over quantity, since I'm not in this for fame. Hopefully over time I will be able to put out high quality videos at a higher pace, but it will never be rushed :)
+Brainiac75 I won't lie, I would dearly love to see a new vid from you every week, but we must be happy with what we have to accept what we can.
Thanks so much for your efforts. Fascinating subjects.
Spot on.
Do they seriously let you buy this stuff and get it in the mail? 🤣
"Don't drink if you're already bloated". Hilarious!
Bill Smith right lol
Bill Smith. If you are full of gas bloat and you cannot belch it up, just drink two or three ounces of this and it will do the job. One or two good long belches and the pain will stop as the gasses exit the body. If you live in an area that sells Sprite™ soft drink it will do the same. Naturally if you are having painful levels of bloating on a regular basis, you probably do not need to self diagnose, but get health care. I have used this method about four times in 35 years. It is a inexpensive remedy you can keep in you medical supply and has a long shelf life if unopened.
Thanks for all the kind comments! I read them all and the comments in the days right after an upload are always a pleasure to read :D
When a video is well received it is the best encouragement to carry on. Stuff for the next video is already bought so it shouldn't be 4 months before next upload...
4 MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
isn't phosphoric acid found in Coca Cola??
Ed McCarren Yes, there is a small amount of phosphoric acid in cola. The formulas are secret but I have seen claims from 0.2 - 0.3% to 0.8-1.4 g pr. 250 ml depending on type (regular, diet etc.).
And your stomach contains hydrochloric acid in low concentration. However, phosphoric acid in your lungs from breathing the fumes from white P is still not recommended ;)
brainiac75
thanks!
brainiac75 I BURNED MY HOUSE DOWN WHEN PLAYING WITH THIS, WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME IT WAS DANGEROUS!!!
I AM GOING TO SUE FOR DAMAGES THIS INSTANCE! UNSUBSCRIBING!!
just kidding lol :D
i like how you said; the best way to handlle it is......
TO NOT HANDEL IT ALL
Hehe, just telling the truth ;)
you are overreacting to the "dangers of phosphorus".
There are 3 main rules about handling it (the white allotrope):
1) Don't touch the element with your hand or with any other parts of your body - the element can enter your body and in big quantities can harm you or even kill you if you put it in your mouth. (you can however touch violet and black phosphorous with your hands)
2) Try to work with it in inert atmosphere or under water so it does not catch fire (this is just for the white phosphorus, the red, violet and black allotropes are much less reactive)
3) The fumes that forms after get it from the water are not that toxic (because they are formed mostly out of phosphoric acid - and that can be even found in coca-cola !), so work with it in a well ventilated area and don't smell the fumes directly.(also, not applicable to the other stable forms of phosphorus that do not fume in open air)
mercury, cadmium, beryllium, lead, antimony, phosphorus and tellurium are all on the same level of toxicity.
However you should not touch the tellurium, white phosporus and cadmium with your hands (they can cross the skin barrier way easier).
You may be ok touching mercury, beryllium, lead, color phosphorus and antimony, but you should know that washing your hands with bleach and soap in water after touching them is a must. You do not want to lick your fingers with some of those elements on them !
And you should know that Thallium, Arsenic and Polonium are the big no-no's. This elements are from hell - highly toxic and, probably, carcinogenic just to the touch.
Other dangerous elements are:
-Bromine -> probably just as toxic as beryllium - but in a liquid volatile form
-Fluorine -> no description needed
-Rubidium&Caesium -> Reactive heavy metals that go KABOOM with water, what do you expect ?
-Strontium&Barium -> Also heavy reactive metals that react rapidly with water but don't explode
-Did anyone mentioned that Osmium is known for reacting with oxygen to form osmium tetroxide (a harmful gas)
what did your neighbors think about the fumes? oh wait maybe they are already dead
God I'm jealous of them now
@@pleasehelpicanneverthinkof5026 XDn't
Great video as always. The end where you repacked the phosphorus back with double water and another box put a smile on my face :D It also shows how dangerous this is if you store it like that :)
Thanks!
At first I considered storing this in my garage - outside my house. The problem is the freezing temperatures at winter in Denmark. Freezing water expands and could break the container so after thawing the phosphorus would be free and my garage would burn down...
So I have to store this inside and I chose a triple packaging. I really respect this sample :)
Brainiac75 why not use salty water to keep it from freezing
+click353 I'm not entirely sure about this, but the salts in the water may or may not react with the phosphorus, albeit salts are stable, white phosphorus is not.
"But.. not without the mandatory safety instructions..."
"Mmmphmh, mMmhmmhh, mhmhmhhmphhmh."
I saw white phosphorus once, it made my jaw drop.
+Hakkı Oktay Literally!
+Hakkı Oktay i c what u did there
Ooo türk varmış yaa
My grandfather was in WWII and fought the Japanese on the island of Okinawa. He was hit by enemy fire and one of the bullets detonated a white phosphorus grenade inside his grenade pouch on his waist belt. He was severely burned across his lower body and legs and only survived because his fellow soldiers covered him in sand to stop the fire. He was affected by his injuries for his entire life, really horrible stuff.
Yes, it really shouldn't be in a warfield at all in my opinion. There are many sad stories about WP used in war.
Well done! Congrats on 25,000! I was very nervous watching this video haha.
Very interresting video, and its so scarrrryyyy stuff :D
Congratz for 25k subscribz! :)
That was really cool cheers Brian I Loved this video thanks for the hard work!
I'v missed you man!! love your voice and all your videos!! keep it up!
Your videos are so educational! Educational and very fun to watch! Thanks!
+krisma12234
Thanks for watching and commenting! More videos to come.
Nice to see another video from you. Always a pleasure.
dam 100k now great channel
Thanks, the last couple of years have been insane for my channel :)
It's been such a long time since your last video that I taught you've given up , nice to have you back and great video !
A NEW VIDEO!!!! Finally. I was just talking about your channel to someone the other day and was telling them I missed your videos.
really enjoy your videos - been subscribed to you for some time now - congratulation on 25,000 - keep up the good content and i will keep watching
Great channel! I learnt a lot from here! Keep it up!!
Thank you for making this video and handling this stuff so I can watch it in pure safety :)
Informative and entertaining. Thanks. keep up the excellent work.
+Maxx B
Thank you very much. More videos to come.
I like how you explain everything about those elements"it's informational".
Fantastic video, thank you for making this channel.
You just earned a new subscriber! Great quality
I like your videos much, even though I don't really deal with that kind of stuff on day to day basis (chemistry and physics, I mean). Nevertheless, you present everything in a great way. My memories go back to school and chemistry lessons and I'm trying to recall some laws etc. By the way, your accent is one of a kind :)
Your videos are awesome!
Amazing how fast it changes color when exposed to air, even when coated with water.
Interesting. Would like to see how the element looks under UV light, however.
Safety suit out of paper ;)~
i am sure it is more safe to us paper in plastic if it catch fire
Thanks for the Video :)
plastic sticks to you when it melts
I thought both you and braniac were dead or something. Good to see you're both still kicking.
I knew what's it gonna be when I saw the title :)
thanks for the vid, always excited to see a new one
Antimatter for 100,000 subs?
now that i think of it yea
Not a good idea. Antimatter MUST be contained and professionally so. If antimatter comes into contact with any kind of matter, the outcome would be an annihilation event. And those are... incredibly destructive.
My congratulations for 30,000 subscribers!)
Congratulations on 25,000! Fairly decent Darth Vader breathing too! Great lesson!
I Feel so dumb watching this, But at the same time. I'm learning as well! Congrats on the 50k Subs!
KnightofDark Dknight00180 Thank you! And I enjoy learning when researching for these videos :)
Almost a year ago, but still awesome! I knew you were from Denmark, i could hear it in your voice :-) I'm from Denmark myself. But it's nice to know a danish youtuber making videos based on science. Keep it up! :D
Fede videoer, hold det kørende! :D
I knew it! as soon as he begun to show the structural form illustration with the magnets. I made I whole work about that, thats my favorite!
just stumbled on this wonderful channel very entertaining to watch but i feel like this kind of stuff is very dangerous haha i plan on watching this more but either way stay safe man
+Jaden Yuki
Thanks and don't worry. I like my life so I put safety first. Put handling dangerous stuff always gives me a little adrenaline rush - very addictive ;)
Awesome video! Keep it up and congrats!
That flaming, sputtering chunk looked nasty. Glad you were able to handle it safely.
"Don't drink if you're already bloated" probably one of the best jokes I've ever heard, seriously xD well done!
great channel to learn...like mr wizard feom back in the days..is this a hobby u do which i think is great or is it for ur job
I have just started to watch your videos because I first enjoyed your accent, but now I am subscribing because you have brought out the wannabe scientist in me, and he is very interested! It seems you have just reached over 50,000 subs, so my question is what will you do to celebrate this?
XANApwns Thanks, and welcome aboard. Yeah, I'm still considering what to do in the 50k celebration video. I will not top this in danger though :)
Thanks for the answer to my Chemistry Unit 1 PBA assessment!!!!!!
Wow man, how much was that sample you got there?? Really amazing video, I've never seen anything like this, awesome!!!
Thanks! It wasn't cheap but not close to being my most expensive element sample (e.g. the shown cesium sample is more expensive).
This guy rocks, subscribed!
keep up your videos, they're the best!
Greetings Brian, firstly I'd like to say I love metal elements and magnets and I never knew there were do many metals until I found your channel so thank you for all the knowledge you've provided to me and everyone else.
Secondly I was wondering if you'd be open to adding in other things for videos. What I had in mind are batteries. A simple item that most people take for granted every day yet it could be fatal if not properly handled. I figured since batteries come in many shapes and sizes and types that it would be plentiful enough for you to make videos of. Sure I could find information on the web but I don't think I'd be quite as intrigued as I would watching you do it. And since almost everyone uses batteries on a daily basis it'd be something that can relate to your viewers.
Goodness me. This was a fantastic video! Great job.
Where do you get the chemicals you do in your epic experiments? Oh and congratulations on hitting the 25k subscriber mark!
Thanks :)
Most elements and chemicals are from eBay but there are also specialized webshops like smart-elements and onyxmet.
WP is however not publicly available - which is a good thing for us all...
love your videos
Science and deadpan humour. Loving it!
Hej. Thanks for this great video. Hope you keep producing great videos. Cheers my friend from England.
Hej in Danish :). I certainly will keep on making videos. Stuff for the next one has already been bought!
Awesome. Yes hope you liked the little Danish :P.
how did you clean up the stone where you burned the sample?
what do you do with the contaminated water?
This guy makes me proud to be Danish
NeXTSTORMING. Rightly so. Just scroll down the comments of any of Brian's vids and see the many different countries represented there. It is more than the subject matter, in addition, people can recognize a decent human being, and that refracts a brighter light onto all Danes. Plus you gave the 🌎 Leggo's™☑👍
Awesome videos!
Wow,I didn't know Wine was also explosive to Mentos!
(Oh and the other thing was cool as well)
I subbed directly after watching this video :)
dam 100k now great channela
Brilliant channel 👍
Thanks :) More to come soon.
Wow I directly subscribed :-)
Can you some videos on top biological hazards ?
Because you have the biological hazard sign in your youtube logo
Learned a new word and suprised my chemistry teacher because of this. How often do you upload anyways?
Abhid Islam Hehe, nicely done. I upload as often as I can. But with a day job to take care of and a lot of time put into each video it is often months between uploads. So it's a good idea to subscribe - then RUclips will notice you when I do upload :)
2:13 - 2:34, tf2 pyro in real life voice
congratulations! :)
This reminds me of when matches were handmade. The women who made them often suffered from a condition called "phossy jaw", which was the rotting of their jaws from all the phosphorus in their environment.
I learned so much it's crazy
"This is your fault, goddamnit!"
"Stop right there Lugo."
"But it is. He wouldn't listen!"
"We didn't have a choice!"
"He turned us into killers!"
I once played with sodium, and it reacts just like the white phosphorus, but in water. It creates a layer of fumes between the chunk of Na and the water, and bounces of the walls of the beker. It was all fun and games until 2 junks collided and exploded the beker, we think it was because of a heighten in heat, which caused a chain reaction.
Where can I get the model that for demonstrate structure of a molecule in video?
The rods and balls are a magnetic playset sold under the brand name Geomag. They are not as scientific like 'real' ball-and stick models like this one: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Organic-Molecule-Structure-Model-Chemistry-Teach-Set-DGK-/221382507907?pt=UK_Stationery&hash=item338b6cfd83
But the Geomags were what I had and their magnetic connections were useful for demonstrating the strain in the molecule :)
what are the uses of white phosphorus?how expensive was your sample? did leave a red phosphorus stain on your driveway?
yay you win a subscriber for the awesome fire!!
+MrMUSIC1981
Yay, thank you and welcome aboard :)
and thanks for teaching me safety on magnets...didnt help not because of you i wanted to see the cause and effect and ive been a subscriber for awhile keep up the good work one day u will get ur own 30 min special on tv
So this is why being stuck inside a tank with this stuff going off is horrifying.
You are amazing! Allotropes unite:) I'm a very big fan of elements and chemistry btw
Ps, my main channel is Beth the Carbon Allotrope. I find carbon and allotropes very interesting lol. You helped with that 😃
+Carbon Allotropes Gaming
Awesome! Gotta love them buckminsterfullerenes :)
Thanks for watching and commenting.
good video!
You sir have another subscriber!
Thank you! Welcome aboard :)
Champagne italiano?? scelta giusta, brainiac!
Comunqe bel video!😃
I think for 1 million subscribers, you should go out somewhere abandoned and crack open your cesium pod, show us /just/ how reactive it is with water!
Where do you get most of your samples? I imagine many of them would be expensive or hard to locate.
+JD Thibodeaux
Yes, elements in high purity can be very expensive. eBay or dedicated element shops like smart-elements.com and onyxmet.com are good places to start.
You forgot to make the links at the end of the video. Very cool though! I didn't know much about white phosphorous, especially not how reactive it is.
Thanks for the reminder! Hopefully the first viewers were subscribers that already have seen the videoes ;)
Where do you get this stuff?
Would you knnow any good sources to get started in this kind of chemestry?
+momoonetwo
If you are asking where to get chemicals I have used eBay, onyxmet.com and smart-elements.com. But white P is luckily not publicly available :)
Ohhhh that's what that square with the numbers means.
where did you find that stuff and how much was it?
Cesium would only have a 3 for flammability because it will not ignite in dry air, whereas white phosphorous will ignite and stay burning pretty much no matter what. It as the ability to react with trace amounts of almost any strong oxidizer
Are using 5.11 Rush series? :D
Btw, nice video!
Thanks and well spotted! It is a 5.11 Rush 12 bag. I'm very happy about it. Seems impossible to wear down...
Been using it for years, still no rip whatsoever, and the ferro fluid video is really nice as well, thanks for making this kind of video
o_O you are from Denmark! for a long time I have been wondering, because of your ascent, and thought it sounded Danish. Så hejsa
@brainiac75
Hej. Engang kunne man se, hvilket land en kanal var fra, men det har RUclips vist droppet... Men ja, jeg er pæredansk :)
Så ved man da der er flere nørder som en selv i dette lille land ;-)
this video is informative and enjoyable , thank you so much for your time sir
Wow, someone finally illustrated bonding for normal humans
Thank you :)
You sound like Pyro from TF2 with that mask on.
Yay a new video!
I've never managed to get a person bloated...I am quite thankful for that....
;)
i cant believe they put that stuff in grenades. id hate to be the poor bastard to get that anywhere near me
All you need now is some anhydrous hydrazine
I think your point about Cesium is a very good one. Perhaps Systeme Internactioinal (or what ever, the ISO) should re-classify Cesium.?!?!?!. Cheers.
each individual cesium molecule releases a lot of energy, but cesium molecules are huuuge! so it isn't terribly energy dense. I think the white phosphorous might have a higher red number due to that.
How did you get ahold of white and red phosphorus(es)? Surely you can't just mail-order it from Aldritch or something.
I can't find any on Ebay
there is a polish shop called onyxmet
they have exactly the same package
Do something with K or Na ... I like them a lot, even more when they make my heart beat .