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  • Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
  • All about Element 13, whatever you want to call it!
    Slow motion: • Aluminium Powder Ignit...
    Triethylaluminium: • Holey Experiment - Per...
    A bit extra from this interview: • Aluminium (extra footage)
    Copper Chloride: • Copper Chloride - Peri...
    Featuring Professor Martyn Poliakoff.
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  • @grahamlive
    @grahamlive 10 лет назад +149

    05:19. I can't imagine Prof Poliakoff getting angry with anyone. He seems such a gentle soul. :)

  • @POKker1996
    @POKker1996 10 лет назад +335

    It would interesting to see a video on aerogel

  • @CHAS1422
    @CHAS1422 10 лет назад +24

    One of the largest uses of Aluminum (Aluminium) is in the construction industry for window frames, door frames, panel walls and as extruded framing members for curtainwalls (exterior skins of high-rise buildings). When Aluminum is heated, then pushed through a high pressure steel die press, it comes out with very accurate prismatic, useful shapes. It has very nearly replaced cold formed steel for this purpose. Also, when you anodize the Aluminum it has great adhesion characteristics for the application of silicone based sealants (leaking buildings are a bad thing).
    Loved the oversized Aluminum model (9:40) at the end of the video.

  • @Ytbehandling11
    @Ytbehandling11 10 лет назад +133

    He cut his hair :(.

  • @BigNWide
    @BigNWide 10 лет назад +16

    Thank you so much for redoing your aluminium video. I've been waiting four years to see this important element given a "proper" treatment in one of your videos. Again THANK YOU!
    Note: My computer's spellchecker thinks aluminium is a misspelling, so there is still more eduction to be done.

  • @orlandoquaranta577
    @orlandoquaranta577 10 лет назад +8

    Aluminium is also widely used in micro- and nano-electronics. In particular in the form of Sapphire as substrate for the deposition of thin films of other metals and in the form of superconducting tunnel junctions, where the AlOx is used as the insulating layer in the junction. These are at the base of the entire superconducting electronics.

  • @Anonymous-jo2no
    @Anonymous-jo2no 10 лет назад +132

    Film by Brady Haran? The same Brady Haran from Numberphile?

  • @Cruisey
    @Cruisey 10 лет назад +58

    Sir Humphry Davy originally called it 'aluminum' but somebody suggested changing it to conform with other 'ium' elements, many of which had been discovered by Davy himself.
    Personally, I could never stop calling it aluminium. It's too late, it's somehow tangled in with my identity as an Englishman.

  • @QuaabQueb
    @QuaabQueb 10 лет назад +24

    Please do a video on fluoride! Would love to see it!

  • @1w15h1w45m0ngu
    @1w15h1w45m0ngu 10 лет назад +2

    I have learned more through these video about chemistry, astronomy and physics than my entire college career (though I was a Psychology major). I hope that one day Psychology and Neuroscience will be as respected as your profoundly important fields. Thanks to all the professors taking time to share their knowledge and the filming/editing gentleman for making this information public. Keep it up!

  • @Tangobaldy
    @Tangobaldy 9 лет назад +5

    RUclips is famtastic. Your videos are great. I so wish i had this media when i was at school. Im learning so easily how. I dont even do chemistry.

  • @DdosedRS
    @DdosedRS 10 лет назад +1

    I'm going to school for biotechnology and eventually i would like to get my masters in microbiology or toxicology i haven't really made my mind up yet. But ever since i found this channel i have increased my productivity in school because of these videos!! lots of experiments i get to try with the hand of my proff's and its nice to show my class these as well. Learning so much because of this channel.

  • @OllieBonugli
    @OllieBonugli 10 лет назад +301

    Lets just call it Aluminuminium.

  • @bryangill9507
    @bryangill9507 7 лет назад +5

    Thanks Professor this is great for all ages!

  • @OrionFyre
    @OrionFyre 10 лет назад +2

    I love the new video Brady and Professor!

  • @wyvernlord23
    @wyvernlord23 10 лет назад +25

    5:18
    Oh no! It's an Elephant's Foot!

  • @MagicTurtle643
    @MagicTurtle643 10 лет назад +3

    Fascinating as always!

  • @bitmaxim
    @bitmaxim 10 лет назад +3

    Always interesting. I would never have guessed Aluminium and Silicon to be so similar in abundance.

  • @KingKurlz
    @KingKurlz 10 лет назад +1

    This video is long overdue! Thanks. :)

  • @TheMechanic2
    @TheMechanic2 10 лет назад +2

    Always informative. Great videos.

  • @leonardodavila5270
    @leonardodavila5270 10 лет назад +1

    Awesome, I was looking forward to a new one just a week ago and there it is.

  • @AnonymityIx
    @AnonymityIx 10 лет назад +32

    the way he said Nomenclature sounds far too difficult

  • @voveve
    @voveve 10 лет назад +12

    3:00 Looks like the Death Star Exploding!

  • @LFTRnow
    @LFTRnow 10 лет назад +1

    Great new video on Aluminium! Nice work guys!

  • @zenjon7892
    @zenjon7892 10 лет назад +4

    What I need: a time machine, all the aluminum bottles, cans, pots, pans, foil and house siding I can get.

  • @sciencefreakdog
    @sciencefreakdog 10 лет назад +2

    We had to work on a whole chapter on aluminium production in class once. It was boring as hell.
    Well, this mentioned the most important takeaway (and more, of course) and was really interesting.
    I love the fact that aluminiumoxide is a solid acid. That sounds really exciting.

  • @mustardistasty
    @mustardistasty 10 лет назад +1

    These videos are so wonderful.

  • @AlecBrady
    @AlecBrady 9 лет назад +16

    His periodic table is titled in Catalan! I guess he must have been to a conference in Barcelona.

  • @jochemvanl
    @jochemvanl 10 лет назад +2

    Great anecdote at the end!

  • @MrGreycoat
    @MrGreycoat 10 лет назад +1

    Brilliant update.

  • @TjuckNL
    @TjuckNL 10 лет назад +1

    Cant wait to see the whole periodic table again, are you gonna make a 2.0 version of every element or only the ones in need of such ''update''?

  • @Nexus2Eden
    @Nexus2Eden 10 лет назад +2

    I grew up calling it Aluminum in the States - but I agree with the Professor that Aluminium sounds more fun to say even if my autocorrect tags it as incorrect. lol

  • @THEWATERENERGY1
    @THEWATERENERGY1 10 лет назад +3

    Thanks,Prof...a lot of info here , i hope will be along time around to make as many video you can,...you are a source of information and is is good to hear the facts confirm,by a Professor...himself, Great one thanks,..

  • @xylo599
    @xylo599 10 лет назад +1

    Great video!

  • @julwin1985
    @julwin1985 10 лет назад +4

    7:00 Now we can build the Enterprise!

  • @TheSwimmingMango
    @TheSwimmingMango 10 лет назад +1

    Spotted a nice little Void Cube on the professor's desk :)

  • @hameedo617
    @hameedo617 10 лет назад

    i like your videos a lot, especially prof. martyn's. I've always wondered how chemist identify different materials and things, like for example, if you see some liquid or some material that you know nothing about, how do you identify it and know what elements and molecules are there? i'd very much like it if you could make a video about that. thank you :)

  • @punishedexistence
    @punishedexistence 10 лет назад +3

    I've actually used both pronunciations, although I grew up calling it aluminum, after school I've learned to call it aluminium. Either way works for me. It's like measuring temperature...I always used Fahrenheit but now I use metric just as much and I've become pretty proficient at interconverting between the two. To me, there's no real right or wrong, but I agree, aluminium just sounds more "science-y".

  • @MrCanigou
    @MrCanigou 10 лет назад +5

    11:19 Could Neil with its most serious countenance cook some cabbage-made Union Jack in the Prof's way ?

  • @sayabukanhasan
    @sayabukanhasan 9 лет назад +256

    the correct way to say it is "levi-O-sa"

  • @OttawaOldFart
    @OttawaOldFart 10 лет назад +1

    Longest video ever but well worth it for something that is in everyone's life in so many forms. I sometimes wonder if it's heavily subsidized since you are right about the amount of energy that is used to manufacture it and the relatively low cow of purchasing it. I will endeavor to mention it's correct pronunciation although I suspect I will get looks from those here in North America.

  • @LynneSkysong
    @LynneSkysong 10 лет назад +2

    So, I live in the US, so it's pronounced "A-lu-min-um" but I've always spelled it Aluminium. There's so many words in English (or American English I suppose) that aren't pronounced the way they are spelled, so I never really thought about it until now. At least I spell it the more correct way.

  • @FireBird7766
    @FireBird7766 10 лет назад +32

    Thanks for this. I've had so many arguments with people in my chemistry class due to them antagonising me with the American pronunciation at every opportunity. I'll have to email this to them!

  • @Xaelum
    @Xaelum 10 лет назад +2

    Wow, the periodic table is in catalan! I'd never expected that.

  • @mrmob11
    @mrmob11 10 лет назад +1

    awesome tie.

  • @Takeithome345
    @Takeithome345 10 лет назад +1

    I luv the small details this guy tells you

  • @nishantshenoy2591
    @nishantshenoy2591 9 лет назад +21

    I love his ties

  • @idkuthinkofone
    @idkuthinkofone 10 лет назад +3

    people would laugh at me if I started saying "aluminium" also my computer corrects it to "aluminum"

  • @Antenox
    @Antenox 10 лет назад +5

    The main thing I took away from this video:
    We know how to make transparent aluminum.
    Obviously, Star Trek IV was a documentary of actual events.

  • @SO_DIGITAL
    @SO_DIGITAL 7 лет назад +15

    nature has time... lovely saying

  • @MCTimTime
    @MCTimTime 10 лет назад +1

    This guy was my mum's professor!

  • @johnjhill3
    @johnjhill3 10 лет назад

    This stirred my curiosity about the difference between American pronunciation and elsewhere, so I went to Wikipedia.
    Briefly, Humphry Davy used "Alumium" in 1808, but in 1812 called it "Aluminum", although it had not yet been purified. Contemporaries quibbled about adding another "i" toward the end to make it sound more classical. It seems that thinking dominated in Europe.
    In North America the major producer of the metal used the -um spelling in advertising from 1892, so that became common usage there.

  • @mandydax
    @mandydax 10 лет назад

    Two interesting things I know about aluminium that weren't mentioned here:
    The apex of the Washington Monument was made of aluminum because it was an incredibly valuable metal. At the time, it was the largest piece of aluminum ever cast at 100 oz. Only a couple years later, the method that made aluminum cheap to produce made it nearly worthless as a chunk of metal, although it is still a good lightning rod, which is good, since the monument is the tallest thing in the area.
    The patina of aluminium oxide that protects the metal against further oxidation can be disrupted by introducing mercury. The mercury catalyses a reaction between aluminium and water, with aluminium hydroxide as the product. It's extremely destructive. This is why metallic mercury isn't allowed on airplanes. I'd love to see you make a time-lapse of that, Brady.
    Also, Neil makes fireballs, doesn't even yell "HADOUKEN!" because he's just that badass.

  • @martinblouin3639
    @martinblouin3639 10 лет назад +2

    could you make a video about the new element please? :)

  • @marcps12
    @marcps12 10 лет назад +12

    the weird periodic table is in catalan! "Els Elements Químics d'Acord amb la seva abundància a la Terra!"

  • @olie854
    @olie854 10 лет назад +1

    Nice video, however when aluminium melts it does not turn glow like he says, rather just stays silver like aluminium.

  • @Safrout007
    @Safrout007 10 лет назад +1

    thank you very much

  • @ShakalDraconis
    @ShakalDraconis 10 лет назад +1

    I understand the history of the whole aluminium/aluminum debate (first called aluminum, changed to aluminium to match the names of other elements). What I don't understand if why this didn't go further into other elements that don't fit the standard. Why haven't hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, iron, gold, lead, etc been changed to an -ium name as well?

  • @darkangel759812
    @darkangel759812 10 лет назад +1

    this info is awesome

  • @RedNut666
    @RedNut666 10 лет назад +2

    where can I get that periodic table of the elements? I love it and want it on my wall.

  • @SouthwesternEagle
    @SouthwesternEagle 10 лет назад

    At least we know that both spellings are correct.
    When Bill Coors, an American, invented the first Al beverage cans in 1959, they had printed on the bottom (for the next 25 years) "All Aluminum Can. 12 Fluid Ounces"

  • @thebestofall007
    @thebestofall007 9 лет назад +2

    @8:00: you would do better if you used sunlight for your reaction to make it more efficient, unless you needed a constant 24/7 source of light.

  • @NSXTypeRGTRLM
    @NSXTypeRGTRLM 10 лет назад +1

    Can you talk about the reaction between aluminium and mercury in a future video?

  • @simeonadonai
    @simeonadonai 10 лет назад +13

    Transparent Aluminium is so Star Trek!

  • @mcmh9523
    @mcmh9523 10 лет назад +2

    I'm watching this video with an aluminum(aluminium) phone.
    Such an interesting element...

  • @LFTRnow
    @LFTRnow 10 лет назад +3

    Time for a new thorium video (discussing new nuclear reactor tech, and the fact it is found with rare earths, and that the US considers it a nuclear fuel - but doesn't use it). Fascinating element.

  • @234dragoman
    @234dragoman 10 лет назад

    Aluminium sulphate is widely used for purification of drinking water.

  • @koroshiya564
    @koroshiya564 10 лет назад

    so is it a good idea to blow the flames in the direction of the gas connection and over those rubber hoses?

  • @vwoxy1
    @vwoxy1 10 лет назад +21

    I think it should be "aluminum" because that's what Humphry Davy settled on and the oxide is alumina (not aluminia). The spelling "aluminium" was proposed by an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review in 1812. While many metals end in "-ium" (strontium, cerium, radium), "-um" endings are not unheard of (platinum, molybdenum, lanthanum). The oxides of "-ium" elements generally end in "-ia" (strontia, ceria, radia), whereas those of "-um" elements (if they are given special names) tend to end in "-a" (lanthana).

  • @warwickrobertson1438
    @warwickrobertson1438 10 лет назад +3

    aluminium powder reacts nicely with iron oxide :)

  • @DeoMachina
    @DeoMachina 10 лет назад

    That grin at the end!

  • @DogsBAwesome
    @DogsBAwesome 10 лет назад

    Aluminium pans are still used in industrial catering, stainless steel pans in a large pan tend to burn

  • @sidraket
    @sidraket 10 лет назад +4

    You guys feeling all superior for calling it aluminium realize that the first person to use -ium was basically a 19th century troll anonymously criticizing the discoverer for calling it 'aluminum' in his book, right?

  • @xxilluminatixxxx
    @xxilluminatixxxx 10 лет назад +1

    i like your tie

  • @satire9298
    @satire9298 10 лет назад

    What a fun word to say!

  • @ivarkrabol
    @ivarkrabol 10 лет назад +1

    Fun fact: aluminium and some of its' alloys are the only metals that can't be affected by steel pushing and iron pulling.

  • @fredrickkalirande348
    @fredrickkalirande348 10 лет назад +1

    Why can't I hear the sound?!?! it's only with Periodic Videos!!! all other videos are working o.0

  • @Muchacholv
    @Muchacholv 10 лет назад +2

    It's a shame that you didn't use liquid gallium on aluminium metal (e.g. can), it's a nice thing to watch. But I guess it's better to include that into the video about gallium.

  • @PhysicsOfParkour
    @PhysicsOfParkour 10 лет назад +197

    Thumbs up; if you have squished Aluminium as small as you can possible at school after eating sandwiches.

  • @Tupster
    @Tupster 10 лет назад +53

    Transparent aluminum

  • @mawns
    @mawns 10 лет назад +17

    It's interesting how English speaking people call aluminium foil "tin foil".

  • @mynameisHOPKIRK
    @mynameisHOPKIRK 10 лет назад +1

    I would love to see a demonstration of the cabbage transformation, is a remake on the agenda?

  • @will3346
    @will3346 10 лет назад +1

    Is there away I can keep the aluminum oxide off the aluminum after I have smelt it into a bar

  • @arerayace
    @arerayace 10 лет назад +2

    Do it again!!! Cook all the cabbages!

  • @smaakjeks
    @smaakjeks 10 лет назад

    Take a shot every time the word "aluminium" is spoken.

  • @MattSiegel
    @MattSiegel 10 лет назад +3

    i love that kid's giant lolecule! XD

  • @h2_
    @h2_ 10 лет назад

    Can you talk about that chart? What is the deal with the weird shape and those random looking voids on it?

  • @jewiesnew3786
    @jewiesnew3786 7 лет назад +2

    my favorite metal

  • @tauceti8341
    @tauceti8341 10 лет назад +1

    That's a really cool Periodic Table. I want one!

  • @obliviousfafnir01
    @obliviousfafnir01 10 лет назад

    I seem to remember reading an article some time ago that said the original discoverer of aluminum pronounced it aluminium. I can't remember what country he was from (I suppose I could google it, but whatever), but he named it, and pronounced it that way. That puts the American vs British way of saying it to rest, as it's not really the "British" way of saying it, it's just the correct way.
    Anyway, don't have anyway of siting that as fact, just what I remember reading.

  • @TheBetterGame
    @TheBetterGame 10 лет назад +1

    I'm rather confused. around 7:00 you talk about melting aluminium oxide into that glass crystal tube. A few seconds later you start talking about sapphire tubes. Are they one in the same? Or is this some mix-up of footage? Is sapphire just an aluminium oxide?

  • @justuspickle
    @justuspickle 9 лет назад

    the differences in pronunciation between america and england (or europe) has caught me off guard before. a british youtuber pronounced controversy ( CONtroversy in america) as conTROVersy, and for a while i had no idea what he was saying.
    aside from the barely related discussion on pronunciation, i really wish you guys (periodic tables) would go more indepth on 'exotic' metals. there was a video on osmium and not much was said other than "it exists and is used in stuff". what's interesting about the metal? how does it compare to other metals? does it create any weird reactions? what i'm starting to get is that chemists tend to focus on elements they know they can do stuff with, which makes no sense to me but i'm not a chemist so what do i know. i just think it would be terribly tragic if some life saving and easily made compound was made out of one of these elements that could have been developed years ago but wasn't because no one had any interest in the elements used. there are a lot of different combination i know and it would be impossible to map out every single possible reaction and mixture possible but i always thought to point of experimentation was to discover the unknown. or maybe people HAVE experimented on these metals a ton and they really are that boring. i don't know

  • @scowell
    @scowell 10 лет назад +1

    I love that old guy.

  • @matthiasBdot
    @matthiasBdot 10 лет назад +3

    melting point is ~660°C

  • @EJConrad
    @EJConrad 10 лет назад

    2:30 So in powder form there is no aluminium oxide? Is it the particle size or the lack of the oxide that allows it to be so reactive? Please and thanks!

  • @benng4406
    @benng4406 9 лет назад +1

    Nice hairstyle!

  • @alllucky7s
    @alllucky7s 10 лет назад +1

    Oooh, the periodic table at the start is in catalan!

  • @rafaelpaiotti7011
    @rafaelpaiotti7011 10 лет назад +9

    That was a Lucalox tube.
    Alumina (aluminum oxide) + Magnesia (magnesium oxide) sintered together.

  • @alexsmith5606
    @alexsmith5606 10 лет назад

    Aluminium was actually predicted by Mendyelye"yev or Mendeleev before it was actually discovered. He predicted that the empty spot in the periodic table is not a flaw, but an undiscovered element

  • @DesViper
    @DesViper 10 лет назад +1

    0:25, where can I get one?!