damn, why is there a german AI voice layed over your original voice? this youtube is getting worse and worse, seriously, instead they force me to watch some adverts i dont even can cancel
@im11yearsold63 Which names did I misspell? If I did, I apologise for the mistake. I'm only human. For the autodubbing (which has been done by RUclips, not by me), you can always go to the cog icon, select 'Audio track', and choose English.
If I recall correctly, LSD‘s unique properties were discovered by accident, when a chemist accidentally got a drop on the back of his hand. The substance can be absorbed through the skin, and so on his bicycle ride back home, he experienced world’s first LSD trip
I dont believe it can actually be absorbed through the skin. I think that just may be one of those myths. I knew i had heard it somewhere, but I did more research and lsd25 is not liophilic. Which a substance needs to be to be absorbed through the skin. It needs to dissolve into the fatty tissue in order to be absorbed
Look up David Nichols presentation called Hypothesis on Albert Hofmann's Famous 1943 "Bicycle Day.” The text is on erowid. Nick sand put LSD in DMSO and painted it on his skin with no effect. DMSO greatly enhances the ability for chemicals to absorb through skin
silicone was a acciddental discovery as well. Richard Müller tried to make artifical fog to hide cities in a war. he didn't manage that, but found silicone while trying that.
The discovery of Gram staining was also accidental and kickstarted a hunt for dyes that were antibacterial, in the end that didn't lead anywhere but it did result in synthetic dye manufacturers switching to medicine and essentially kickstarted the modern pharmaceutical industry. It's also why one of the biggest pharmaceutical manufacturers today is called I.G. Farben, Farben is just German for color.
You invented a new word! Around 24:00 you say 'monumentous', which I believe is an event both monumental, and momentous. I think we can get this one in the dictionary.
I grew up in a Kodak family. My dad’s dad, my grandpa was vice president of Kodak, the film division. When the company died, he did too. There’s since been a renaissance in film. Thank God. When I was a kid everyone’s dad was getting pink slipped left and right
great video! interestingly some of the earliest alchemical works we have from the ~1st or 2nd century CE contain recipes meant to produce purple dyes, as it was just as valuable as the gold and silver alchemists are more famous for trying to produce. I love those instances when chemists from modern times suceed at the much older goals of alchemists!
Glad you enjoyed it. Great work with your channel too! I watched your 'I Learned Alchemy from Medieval Manuscripts' video a while ago and thought it was great.
One thing I really enjoy is that we kinda did end up proving some of the central ideas of Alchemists right. Like they believed that everything is made of the same elements just in different configurations and while that didn't pan out we did discover that basically all living things is just carbon in different configuration and that you can make almost anything out of carbon depending on it's chemistry. We even figured out how to turn relatively worthless graphite into diamonds. Alchemists would have loved organic chemistry if they had been able to witness it.
It's really cool to see these interesting narratives behind scientific discoveries. Science is more than a collection of facts and laws, it's a collection of stories and plot-lines if you look a bit deeper.
Think this has been my favourite video so far!! So interesting. Shellac is also a nail gel I have used! Would really love to hear any other accidental discoveries you have found as well.
Glad you like them! When I was researching this video I actually came across loads of other examples, so if this video does well, I might make a sequel 🤔
@@Chemistorian There are thousands of accidental discoveries like these, but very few of them are recognized like the big ones. Probably because they're several steps back from end user, so the only people who know about them are the chemists because what average person cares that the first N-heterocyclic carbene was discovered by accident (hypothetically, I have no idea if NHCs were found by accident, but wouldn't be surprised!)?
20:44 Nitrocellulose is also used as a laquer, especially for musical instruments. It makes a very hard, but very thin coat, very good for acoustic instruments. I worked with it this spring on a guitar. Looks good,but it needs fairly warm temperatures to work (60-80 f) and has the worse smell possible. Yes.. and the fire thing too…need lots to ventilation in the studio space.I like the channel. Thanks
Hey, it's me! (I go buy the moniker Ira Remsen's Ghost, since my account name doesn't show up, just the handle) I went to grad school at Johns Hopkins, researched in Remsen Hall, 40 feet from Remsen's ashes
More indirectly. Gram staining lead to loads of companies starting the search for antibiotic chemicals, that in itself didn't lead anywhere but it did mean that suddenly people were actually looking for them and money was being poured into research and that eventually did mean that they were discovered.
12:59 and here go the recycling myths.. unfortunately most plastic isn't recyclable or easily recyclable. I wish it was, cuz you're right that we don't need any more
This reminds me, have you guys encountered anyone who somehow thinks the danger of CFCs is made up and the hole in the ozone layer never happened? I did and I was basically shocked into silence because my brain couldn't even wrap around how stupid the person had to be. They also have to be really young too or they would've actually lived through it. I have no idea what their logic is beyond "It isn't a problem any more!", even when you explain exactly why it isn't AS BIG of a problem as it was in the late 80s and early 90s. As you can imagine though with science deniers and conspiracy theorists, it doesn't really matter what you say because they don't care about facts or evidence.
Wow, la traduction française est trop mauvaise. J’aurais préféré pouvoir regarder la video en anglais sur mon téléphone, mais c’est malheureusement pas possible. Un conseil pour le créateur de la vidéo: évitez d’utiliser les traducteurs automatiques bouseux, ils dévalorisent votre contenu. Merci pour cette chaîne que j’adore. Vivement de nouvelles vidéos.
Merci d'avoir regardé! That's weird about the inability to watch in English. I just checked on my phone, and if you go to the cog icon, you should be able to click on 'Audio track' to select a different language.
It doesn’t show up on my iphone. Perhaps it’s an automatic feature related to my ip adress, and thus my location. Thanks again! Keep producing these lovely videos, your fans are insatiable (y)
Do you even proof read these AI scripts at all? You just said the guy used PTFE tape (plumbers tape) to insulate wires, then he was tasked with inventing a PTFE tape to make plumbers tape. I'm so sick of this AI slop.
Firstly, as I said in the video, the PTFE tape he was tasked with inventing specifically needed to be stretched 50x its length. Apologies if that was unclear, but it wasn’t a mistake. Secondly, I would never use AI to write my scripts. All of my scripts take me weeks to research and write. Any errors are my own. Thirdly, for the future mate, a slight issue in a video doesn’t automatically mean AI is at fault. Humans make mistakes too. Cheers for watching.
@@ChemistorianMy apologies for coming on so strong. It's just that that is the exact kind of error that AI is likely to make, and with the flood of AI content already taking me to the limits of sanity I might have been over-sensitized and started seeing it where it isn't.
If gore used Teflon plumbing tape to discover the wire insulation then why was his son trying to invent Teflon plumbing tape? You've explained something badly here.
@@ChemistorianI have an idea for your next video. Since you did a video on the noble gases, why not make a video on the noble metals? And if that doesn't work, why not a video on the discovery of the alkaline metals and the halogens?
10, sure. "TOP"? Come on.... Sweet 'n Low, hardly a game changer. As for Teflon, it's invention has done more to damage home cooking, sacrificing the flavour boosting Malliard reaction for (toxic) non-stick. Every pedestrian recipe now starts with "heat non-stick pan" for whatever. I use non stick pans for eggs, that's it. Sure, Teflon was a game changer for nukes, but like most "accidental" chemistry discoveries, chances are it's discovery did more to harm than benefit society.
Sorry, but I really hate when channels have this kind of video when you have to wait for them. I like the videos to be available at the same as they show up on youtube.
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is that AI speaking? How can you misspell famous names?
damn, why is there a german AI voice layed over your original voice? this youtube is getting worse and worse, seriously, instead they force me to watch some adverts i dont even can cancel
@im11yearsold63 Which names did I misspell? If I did, I apologise for the mistake. I'm only human.
For the autodubbing (which has been done by RUclips, not by me), you can always go to the cog icon, select 'Audio track', and choose English.
@@Chemistorianin the app I can not change it of.
If I recall correctly, LSD‘s unique properties were discovered by accident, when a chemist accidentally got a drop on the back of his hand. The substance can be absorbed through the skin, and so on his bicycle ride back home, he experienced world’s first LSD trip
not "a" chemist, it was the almighty Albert Hoffman
I dont believe it can actually be absorbed through the skin. I think that just may be one of those myths. I knew i had heard it somewhere, but I did more research and lsd25 is not liophilic. Which a substance needs to be to be absorbed through the skin. It needs to dissolve into the fatty tissue in order to be absorbed
Look up David Nichols presentation called Hypothesis on Albert Hofmann's Famous 1943 "Bicycle Day.” The text is on erowid. Nick sand put LSD in DMSO and painted it on his skin with no effect. DMSO greatly enhances the ability for chemicals to absorb through skin
Other than the Bergamotte poisoning.
I heard he was investigating compounds to cure the common cold when he stumbled upon LSD.
21:36 wife: where's my apron?!
This guy: gone, reduced to atoms 😂
lol
Eating Vaseline for health is bound to be an Internet fad one day
The etymologies of these accidental products are pretty interesting.
silicone was a acciddental discovery as well. Richard Müller tried to make artifical fog to hide cities in a war. he didn't manage that, but found silicone while trying that.
The discovery of Gram staining was also accidental and kickstarted a hunt for dyes that were antibacterial, in the end that didn't lead anywhere but it did result in synthetic dye manufacturers switching to medicine and essentially kickstarted the modern pharmaceutical industry. It's also why one of the biggest pharmaceutical manufacturers today is called I.G. Farben, Farben is just German for color.
You invented a new word! Around 24:00 you say 'monumentous', which I believe is an event both monumental, and momentous.
I think we can get this one in the dictionary.
Wow, I didn't even notice. You heard it here first! #monumentous
Your post bemused me 😁 befuddled and amused
(ok it didnt befuddled me...let's just call it artistic license lol)
The best new words roll off the tongue and are automatically understood. 2/2, my only complaint is that it wasn't a word already
Very cool video. Now we need 10 completely planned chemical discoveries
When I was studying chemical engineering, we always credited Solvay (and especially Leblanc) as the fathers of industrial large-scale chemistry, tbqh.
I grew up in a Kodak family. My dad’s dad, my grandpa was vice president of Kodak, the film division. When the company died, he did too. There’s since been a renaissance in film. Thank God. When I was a kid everyone’s dad was getting pink slipped left and right
great video! interestingly some of the earliest alchemical works we have from the ~1st or 2nd century CE contain recipes meant to produce purple dyes, as it was just as valuable as the gold and silver alchemists are more famous for trying to produce. I love those instances when chemists from modern times suceed at the much older goals of alchemists!
Glad you enjoyed it. Great work with your channel too! I watched your 'I Learned Alchemy from Medieval Manuscripts' video a while ago and thought it was great.
One thing I really enjoy is that we kinda did end up proving some of the central ideas of Alchemists right. Like they believed that everything is made of the same elements just in different configurations and while that didn't pan out we did discover that basically all living things is just carbon in different configuration and that you can make almost anything out of carbon depending on it's chemistry. We even figured out how to turn relatively worthless graphite into diamonds. Alchemists would have loved organic chemistry if they had been able to witness it.
Gunpowder (from Tang Dynasty in China) was an accidental discovery.
It's really cool to see these interesting narratives behind scientific discoveries. Science is more than a collection of facts and laws, it's a collection of stories and plot-lines if you look a bit deeper.
Couldn't agree more! The history and the human factor both make weird scientific concepts so much more approachable.
The history of scientific discovery is also the history of the development of science itself since each discovery helped refine how we do science.
$200k in 1850 is 7.5 million in today's money. Poor guy died massively in debt before he could capitalize on his discovery
Think this has been my favourite video so far!! So interesting. Shellac is also a nail gel I have used! Would really love to hear any other accidental discoveries you have found as well.
So many examples in this video harkens back to Hank Green's video a couple days ago- we solve problems, but in doing so create new problems!
Polyethylene ( Polythene) was discovered by accident in ICI laboratories in England
Amazing vid again bro you've become one my fav channels lately
Vaseline oil is good for toilet problems, and tis inert. Vet even prescribed it for my cat so the vaseline dude wasn't wrong, kinda
Remember using it as a kid for the same problems. It worked.
@kruksog also it did for my cat, here it's sold in human drugstores, as a laxative. Never had to use myself though
Some even say you can use it for plumbing.
I was expecting penicillin to be in this video but I learned something new today! (or rather 10 somethings)
Ikr tho tbf, that's a microbiology discovery not chemistry.
He went into his lab and started tasting random chemicals? Was he insane?
amazing video, usually it's all the same stories that one has already heard before but these ones are new to me
Glad you like them! When I was researching this video I actually came across loads of other examples, so if this video does well, I might make a sequel 🤔
@@Chemistorian There are thousands of accidental discoveries like these, but very few of them are recognized like the big ones. Probably because they're several steps back from end user, so the only people who know about them are the chemists because what average person cares that the first N-heterocyclic carbene was discovered by accident (hypothetically, I have no idea if NHCs were found by accident, but wouldn't be surprised!)?
great video , loved the vulcanization of rubber one as i just read it in a book :)
You can find lots of similar stories in Roystom M. Roberts' Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science.
5:00 Rather painful that we’ve come full circle and now have exploding refrigerators again. But the environment! Or something.
20:44 Nitrocellulose is also used as a laquer, especially for musical instruments. It makes a very hard, but very thin coat, very good for acoustic instruments. I worked with it this spring on a guitar. Looks good,but it needs fairly warm temperatures to work (60-80 f) and has the worse smell possible. Yes.. and the fire thing too…need lots to ventilation in the studio space.I like the channel. Thanks
It is me that is delicious…!
Not only recycle but also upcycle.
This even better economically and ecologically
this is so good
'Eureka'... 'That's funny'... and 'OH, SH*T.'
Hey, it's me!
(I go buy the moniker Ira Remsen's Ghost, since my account name doesn't show up, just the handle)
I went to grad school at Johns Hopkins, researched in Remsen Hall, 40 feet from Remsen's ashes
Not watched it yet, but I'm guessing discovery of PTFE that formed inside a tank of fluorine will be in here.
The Discovery of flatulence was big😅
The power of an accindent should never be understimated
brb eating vaseline, I'll finish watching this video when I'm 100
1500 GALLONS OF URINE?!
*Nilered wants to know your location*
What about Silly Putty
didn't artificial dyes lead to the discover of the first antibiotics? would be an interesting video....
More indirectly. Gram staining lead to loads of companies starting the search for antibiotic chemicals, that in itself didn't lead anywhere but it did mean that suddenly people were actually looking for them and money was being poured into research and that eventually did mean that they were discovered.
@@hedgehog3180 fascinating stuff!
Scientists should do more studies at comedy festivals...
so the most toxic chemicals poisoning or world, that's a happy accident?
Kevlar is another DuPont/Stephanie Kwolek discovery.
12:59 and here go the recycling myths.. unfortunately most plastic isn't recyclable or easily recyclable. I wish it was, cuz you're right that we don't need any more
I've never seen aa study related to ptfe being toxic. Please enlighten me...
This reminds me, have you guys encountered anyone who somehow thinks the danger of CFCs is made up and the hole in the ozone layer never happened? I did and I was basically shocked into silence because my brain couldn't even wrap around how stupid the person had to be. They also have to be really young too or they would've actually lived through it. I have no idea what their logic is beyond "It isn't a problem any more!", even when you explain exactly why it isn't AS BIG of a problem as it was in the late 80s and early 90s. As you can imagine though with science deniers and conspiracy theorists, it doesn't really matter what you say because they don't care about facts or evidence.
Plastics including PTFE have inarguably done more good than harm to us. Hurts to see such a bigoted attitude towards these materials.
Silly Putty was accidental, yes?
21:50 Would his wife believe him?
HYPE
16:10 It's also easier for the whales.
when talking about Vaseline dont joke about eating it, its a by product from refining oil to fuel.
So why exactly is that a bad thing? Or does it just sound scary?
Wow, la traduction française est trop mauvaise. J’aurais préféré pouvoir regarder la video en anglais sur mon téléphone, mais c’est malheureusement pas possible.
Un conseil pour le créateur de la vidéo: évitez d’utiliser les traducteurs automatiques bouseux, ils dévalorisent votre contenu.
Merci pour cette chaîne que j’adore. Vivement de nouvelles vidéos.
Merci d'avoir regardé!
That's weird about the inability to watch in English. I just checked on my phone, and if you go to the cog icon, you should be able to click on 'Audio track' to select a different language.
It doesn’t show up on my iphone. Perhaps it’s an automatic feature related to my ip adress, and thus my location. Thanks again! Keep producing these lovely videos, your fans are insatiable (y)
Lsd, fission ...
I'm living in Germany - I got a (AI?)-translated Version - not good - please disable this Function in YT
You should be able to click on the cog icon, select Audio track, and change to English.
Sucralose?
The german audio translation is horrible
What about the Neanderthals that discovered methane by lighting mastodon farts?
Some of these, I wonder why they have made the list.
Do you even proof read these AI scripts at all? You just said the guy used PTFE tape (plumbers tape) to insulate wires, then he was tasked with inventing a PTFE tape to make plumbers tape. I'm so sick of this AI slop.
Firstly, as I said in the video, the PTFE tape he was tasked with inventing specifically needed to be stretched 50x its length. Apologies if that was unclear, but it wasn’t a mistake.
Secondly, I would never use AI to write my scripts. All of my scripts take me weeks to research and write. Any errors are my own.
Thirdly, for the future mate, a slight issue in a video doesn’t automatically mean AI is at fault. Humans make mistakes too.
Cheers for watching.
@@ChemistorianMy apologies for coming on so strong. It's just that that is the exact kind of error that AI is likely to make, and with the flood of AI content already taking me to the limits of sanity I might have been over-sensitized and started seeing it where it isn't.
PTFE, what a _happy accident_
If gore used Teflon plumbing tape to discover the wire insulation then why was his son trying to invent Teflon plumbing tape? You've explained something badly here.
Apologies if this was unclear but I think I mentioned it specifically needed to be stretched 50x its length.
@@Chemistorian You did. And by the way, amazing video!!!
@@ChemistorianI have an idea for your next video. Since you did a video on the noble gases, why not make a video on the noble metals? And if that doesn't work, why not a video on the discovery of the alkaline metals and the halogens?
@limpid_runaway1879 Thanks mate! Great suggestions. Some of them may or may not already be on my list for the future... 🤐
Yeah you explained it well, you said he was tasked with discovering a replacement for it
10, sure. "TOP"? Come on.... Sweet 'n Low, hardly a game changer. As for Teflon, it's invention has done more to damage home cooking, sacrificing the flavour boosting Malliard reaction for (toxic) non-stick. Every pedestrian recipe now starts with "heat non-stick pan" for whatever. I use non stick pans for eggs, that's it. Sure, Teflon was a game changer for nukes, but like most "accidental" chemistry discoveries, chances are it's discovery did more to harm than benefit society.
Sorry, but I really hate when channels have this kind of video when you have to wait for them. I like the videos to be available at the same as they show up on youtube.
What do you mean? The video is here and we can watch it?
What are you on about