Raney nickel quite reliably sets fire to flammable organic solvent vapors when it dries out...this is a problem when using these organic solvents with Raney nickel in hydrogenations (quite often methanol). Once the reaction is complete you filter off the Raney nickel, which glows orange if allowed to dry (as shown in the experiment in the video). This can ignite methanol vapors if present, and methanol fires are particularly bad because you quite often can't see the blue flame it produces! You can prevent this by not allowing the catalyst to dry out, or keep everything under an inert atmosphere such as nitrogen or argon. Very nice video as always, thanks!
Some extent? Canada's geographic size, biodiversity, and mineral resources make it a big deal on the world stage. I mean yea Trudeau policies are garbage but, Canada has a lot going for it.
2:31 had to pause the video, go to the comment section... i was sure there would be a ton of jokes. But no, this channel has the most mature audience of all of youtube... and i don't count among that :-P
Hi professor. Thanks for the great video. Here's a little bit about chrome plating (but not about bumpers and fenders - the US and Britain use "bumper" to describe the same part of the car. What we call a fender, British people call a wing.) Chrome plating is a three-step process. First is a layer of copper plating. This provides a solid surface for the rest of the system to stick to. Next is a layer of nickel. It's used for two reasons - it's the right color, and it's very easy to polish to a high shine. After the nickel is polished, a layer of hard chromium protects the nickel from scratches and oxidation.
Ni! also works within other professions...the context might be lost on some but it's still a useful ice breaker in most situations and understood in most earth based languages
Two more very important (perhaps most important) roles for Nickel: First as a part in most stainless steels, not what makes it stainless but to make it machinable and usable (makes the steel stay in austenitic phase and not ferritic). Second as a base metal in it's own category, Nickel alloys (also called Super alloys, one example is the Hastalloy sorts). Very strong and resistant to oxidation.
during the reaction, the reactant/s use the catalyst sort of as a place holder for electrons as they have incomplete d-shells. in the contact process, where vanadium is used to create sulfur tri oxide, from dioxide: SO2 + VO5 -> SO3 + VO4 Straight after the vanadium shared electron that it lost to the sulfur is made up with (if enough oxygen is present) 1/2O2 + VO4 -> VO5 this means the reaction is propagated by the vanadium, but it does not get used up, making it a catalyst. Iron has a similar role in the production of ammonia If vanadium were not used, this reaction would be much more energy intensive
I find interesting that nickel much more effectively sank down to the earths core than iron. Effectively depleting nickle in earths crust. The chemical reasons (from both the perspective of nickel and iron) behind that difference in behaviour would be interesting to hear. ... Related to that: ... I recently found out that the very heavy elements thorium (and uranium) are highly concentrated in earth crust but depleted in all of earths interior. This is (as I understand currently) what results of relatively recent neutrino experiments suggest. Generally: Chemistry vs planetary level gravity on large time-scales seem to be an interesting and little investigated topic.
Had some experience working in a canola oil plant that used Raney Nickel catalyst for hydrogenation. On more than a few occasions, the spent catalyst bins would spontaneously combust, but it also contained small quantities of vegetable oil, aiding the process.
Nickel is used in my flute, it's made of silver plated nickel except I've got a more expensive flute that has a solid silver head joint which changes the sound completely
I used nickel for my chemistry internal assessment back in high school. I also used other transition metals like chromium, manganese, etc. I'll be honest, I took a little of them all home as samples.
One correction. The nickel in the Sudbury basin was not delivered by the meteorite, but rather the meteor made large fissures in the earth's crust and the nickel (and copper and precious metals) came up from the mantle. That's why so much of the ore is deep. Several mines are going to start drilling deeper shafts: 2kms plus.
With the Rainey nickel are you sure that the oxidisation didn't take place slowly over time as the water evaporated because in the thermal camera it was hotter than the surrounding surfaces
Most Americans I know prefer bumper, as well. There's a term 'fender bender' that refers to an accident that isn't likely to have done any damage to the integrity of the car, but other than that it's mostly people in(older) commercials that utter the term 'fender' at least in the Mid-West.
Nickel-based alloys are another thing of interest...although that is more of a metallurgical subject than a chemistry subject. I don't know the physical reason why nickel alloys tend to produce very stable results. What I mean by this can best be demonstrated by two alloys in particular: Constantan (copper-nickel 55-45) and Invar (iron-nickel 64-36). Constantan has an extremely stable and "constant" electrical resistance along a broad axis of currents and temperatures. Invar is called "invar" because it is "invariable" in its volume along a broad axis of temperatures. Basically...it doesn't expand or contract very much at all, and for this reason it is used regularly in high-precision instrumentation. Just something I find interesting that I hope others will too.
I could be wrong on this, but when he was talking about the hydrogenation of oils, the professor kept mentioning that the hydrogen 'absorbs' onto the surface of the nickel. Is my terminology wrong or should he be using the word 'adsorb' instead?
I've been playing a game with some fan-made modifications, that add various machines you can make, and ores that you can mine. And one thing it added was the ability to alloy certain things together. One of those alloys is Invar, which, in the game, has the recipe of 2 parts iron to 1 part nickel. This was where I first heard of this alloy, so I found it an interesting coincidence that a similar (if not the same) alloy is mentioned here, as being used for battleship armour. I know that alloys don't usually have such a neat and tidy ratio of components, as what's used by the game, but I think they simplify it so it's not a chore to make alloys; the game should remain fun, is what I think their aim was.
By mixing molten aluminum with molten nickel a homogeneous liquid phase may form. This part could be correct. However solidification of Al-Ni mixture almost always brings about formation of A-Ni intermetallics. Following Prof. case, when lumps of aluminum form upon solidification, it easily concludes that nickel will be in Al3Ni intermetalic phase. So there is no separate phase ("cherries") of nickel but nickel atoms occupy regular positions in the orthorhombic unit cell of Al3Ni.
Atomic Weight 58.6934, density 8.908: Nickel is also a component of stainless steels, and more exotically it is a key ingredient in the nickel-iron superalloys used in jet engines.
I am 35 I'm still working on a masters in social work, probably because I'm a natural social worker.... Im also partially blind so I'm also a dancer (DnB ;)) and a photographer... I'm a rebel ha. I was in advanced learning in middle school but went to one with not many resources and over worked teachers. I loved science when i look back to it, and fell behind fast when we got to such open answers and a big chemical table, which seemed so small on the overhead projector. Now i get excited to see chemistry come my screen again. I don't feel this daunting guilt about not getting it and everything falling behind. Which is pretty easy when you live in inner city Miami in the 90's haha. I am inspired now because I am thankful I get to go check out the eclipse on the lawns of MIT and Can hear cool lectures at harvard now because I love Cambridge (Boston)... I'm truly great full for you guys and gals. What's up with those cool Bismuth extras???I gotta admit I make nerdy pretty cool looking ha #noshame
I used to package Raney Nickel at Aldrich, we would put a little bit on the floor and about 20-30 later, it would go off. The bottle you have is from the early to mid 90s, those are old Sigma Aldrich labels. I actually have a video on my cell phone of us messing around with it. I also have video of us messing around with aluminum chloride, when we would rinse the funnels off, it would create clouds of HCl. Anyway, I remember the Raney Nickel coming in these black metal pails, like 5 gallon paint pails with the covers crimped on. It was only about 1/3 Raney Nickel and the rest D.I. water on top. Stuff is a bitch to weigh and package, sticks to everything.
As the steel in bumpers, etc., has microscopic porosity in the surface (called pitting), & to achieve a mirror smooth chrome finish it's usually nickel-plated 3-5 times & polished afterwards each time, & only then after a final nickel-plating (if smooth enough) is the item chrome-plated! On vehicles built today chrome-trim is usually just mylar with a clear polymer over the top!
I'm not a big car person or pay all that much attention to how people talk, but I'm pretty sure that we say bumper a lot more than fender here in the states. :) We do call some accidents a fender bender though. Maybe because not much rhymes with bumper that is accident related.
I used to do organic synthesis in a research lab, and occasionally needed to use Raney nickel (RaNi) in my experiments. To insure I had really active RaNi reagent I’d take a small amount of the prepared material (stored under water) from the reagent bottle, wash it 2 - 3X with absolute (i.e. dry) ethanol, then put a spatula tip full of it onto a piece filter paper in my hood. As soon as the ethanol had evaporated, active RaNi would burst into sparks & flames, just as Neil’s did after vacuum drying & subsequent air exposure! IF that test failed, I’d either need to open a fresh bottle of the reagent, or prepare it directly from the Al-Ni alloy as was mentioned in this video.
Fenders are the bit that 'fend off' the stuff kicked off by the tires. The Brits call them 'wings'. Bumpers are the bits on the end that get the chrome, as shown in the video.
Since the removal of bumpers, many cars have a single panel that wraps around from one tire to the other on either the front of back end. As a result, these panels are sometimes referred to as fenders today. Cars without bumpers have bumpers, but they are behind the panels now, and are incorporated into the frame, so they don't shine them up anymore.
I thought both those were odd names, here in Oz we call fenders/wings quarter panels or just panels for short and bumpers have always be called bumpers.
Magnificent how scale can change the reaction so much. Even ordinary food products can cause destruction if improperly stored long term through gas buildup or oxidation, on a large scale.
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Just a minor correction to your video, the Mond nickel works shown in the photo is in Clydach, South Wales. It still runs to this day under the vale group
It's great watching this video, I'm currently going to university in Sudbury and spent the last 4 years learning about our history! I'm currently working on the property of the main smelter from Mond Nickel company in 1906-1976 in Coniston Ontario as a planner. I've gotten to read Mond's old field notes and his story about his company. We are currently looking at a project that is re-processing the slag left overnight the property from early smelting that took place to extract all of the metals. Would love to share more info if anyone is interested?
i'm a bit late to the party..... i currently live in Levack, working at the mines loading Ni & Cu ore on trucks to go to the mill. i'm interested in your project , i find geology & mining very interesting
If I remember correctly, the best bumpers were triple plated; that is plated in copper, then nickel, then chrome, giving the most lustrous, liquid finish. Fenders are the bits over the wheels.
As soon as I heard that this Raney nickel stuff was in water, I knew that putting it in a vacuum would be the way to go. I'm glad they actually did it, and feel smart too.
I wish I could go there to try that experiment myself. I just want to study there at all! I wanted to try to study abroad there, but I don't think there's an easy way through my school to go to this specific one, and I've never had a chance to anyways; this is my first semester available to study abroad and I'm going to Berlin. Maybe as a grad student?
On the electroplating of steel in automotive uses, there are actually three layers. The first is copper, followed by nickel and then chromium. The chromium layer is quite thin so that it is translucent. Chromium is more resistant to oxidation than nickel. hth. PS: My understanding on the Sudbury deposit is that it is eruptive in that there was a meteor strike but it was of sufficient energy release that nickel from the interior of the earth was brought to the surface. It is also thought to be an impact crater from very early in the formation of the earth.
"Some of the nickel valves on his plant were found to dissolve." In chemists' publication language, "Readily forms a nickel complex". (To be interpreted as, My spatula dissolved in it.)
Just so you know, Americans do not call bumpers fenders, bumpers are bumpers, the fender is that part of the body that goes over the front tires on either side of the hood or as you would call it, bonnet.
Another effect that would result in the slower than expected reaction rate is the high surface tension of water that causes slurries to dry to clumps instead of finely divided powder. Try mixing into the slurry another more volatile water miscible solvent and dry on vacuum or nitrogen. You should end up with finely divided powder and a nice flash.
I think when they chrome plate car bumpers they do three stages nickel, copper and chrome. I think the chrome and nickel are porous so would allow oxygen to get to the steel and rust so the copper layer is added to seal off the porous layer of nickel. I think it is nickel to make it bond to the steel, copper to seal the surface and chrome to make it shiny.
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Rest assured us Americans do refer to auto bumpers as such. I have always had an eye for nickel plating rather than chrome as it has a deeper color
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Can we get an interview with Neil? He often saves the day with his practical insights.
He talks too much.
@@russellhamner4898 ha
He'll type the answer
im 3600 ft underground in a nickel mine in sudbury ontario right now. love the periodic videos, definitely helps pass the time on standby down here.
Hi from Timmins!
Raney nickel quite reliably sets fire to flammable organic solvent vapors when it dries out...this is a problem when using these organic solvents with Raney nickel in hydrogenations (quite often methanol). Once the reaction is complete you filter off the Raney nickel, which glows orange if allowed to dry (as shown in the experiment in the video). This can ignite methanol vapors if present, and methanol fires are particularly bad because you quite often can't see the blue flame it produces! You can prevent this by not allowing the catalyst to dry out, or keep everything under an inert atmosphere such as nitrogen or argon.
Very nice video as always, thanks!
Can't believe I only just discovered this channel. As soon as I saw the hair I subscribed.
In matters of science that hair just screams "I know what I'm talking about" doesn't it? :-D
Yes, for a science professor, that is some authoritative hair.
Came for the science; stayed for the hair.
That hair is doped with mercury, I bet
me too
11:00 americans call bumpers bumpers as well. Fenders are on the sides, above the tires.
Fenders gonna Fend
Ohh so THAT's why the guitar brand is called Fender. The more you know...
Bumpers gonna bump
Ivan Mazeppa - Nope, they're named after their inventor Leo Fender :)
justyo96 - You have your crazy theory and I have mine. We'll never know which one is true.
Neil laughed!
MOM GET THE CAMERA!
No, I think Neil tried to show his teeth to scare the slurry to combust.
He laughed because he knew he had to clean it up. It was the kind of laughter that you get shortly before a nervous breakdown.
History was made in this video!
He laughed because he knew he'd done a rookie mistake :DD
not the first time! He laughed in the caesium reaction video and other reaction videos as well =D
I always love the few times he mentions Canada in his videos. Makes me feel like our country exists to some extent on the scientific world stage.
He described Sudbury in a very positive light. What a saint!
Some extent? Canada's geographic size, biodiversity, and mineral resources make it a big deal on the world stage.
I mean yea Trudeau policies are garbage but, Canada has a lot going for it.
2:31 had to pause the video, go to the comment section... i was sure there would be a ton of jokes.
But no, this channel has the most mature audience of all of youtube... and i don't count among that :-P
Me too lol
Rule 34
Very cleaver usage of toys. ;p
GET THIS TO THE BAD DRAGON DESIGN TEAM ASAP XD
Ur was funny.
Hi professor. Thanks for the great video.
Here's a little bit about chrome plating (but not about bumpers and fenders - the US and Britain use "bumper" to describe the same part of the car. What we call a fender, British people call a wing.)
Chrome plating is a three-step process.
First is a layer of copper plating. This provides a solid surface for the rest of the system to stick to.
Next is a layer of nickel. It's used for two reasons - it's the right color, and it's very easy to polish to a high shine.
After the nickel is polished, a layer of hard chromium protects the nickel from scratches and oxidation.
We are the scientists who say Ni!
anononomous 😂😂😂😂😂
Ni! also works within other professions...the context might be lost on some but it's still a useful ice breaker in most situations and understood in most earth based languages
We demand... a shrubbery!
_do i smell N-Word?_
The professor is a Knight who says Ni.
Two more very important (perhaps most important) roles for Nickel:
First as a part in most stainless steels, not what makes it stainless but to make it machinable and usable (makes the steel stay in austenitic phase and not ferritic).
Second as a base metal in it's own category, Nickel alloys (also called Super alloys, one example is the Hastalloy sorts). Very strong and resistant to oxidation.
R K don't forget high strength bolts
You know, I've always wondered how catalysts actually work. It would be great if you could do a video on that!
Thanks😊
during the reaction, the reactant/s use the catalyst sort of as a place holder for electrons as they have incomplete d-shells. in the contact process, where vanadium is used to create sulfur tri oxide, from dioxide:
SO2 + VO5 -> SO3 + VO4
Straight after the vanadium shared electron that it lost to the sulfur is made up with (if enough oxygen is present)
1/2O2 + VO4 -> VO5
this means the reaction is propagated by the vanadium, but it does not get used up, making it a catalyst. Iron has a similar role in the production of ammonia
If vanadium were not used, this reaction would be much more energy intensive
@@theoblack6810 That should be V[2]O[5], not VO[5]. Also 2VO[2] instead of VO[4].
I find interesting that nickel much more effectively sank down to the earths core than iron. Effectively depleting nickle in earths crust. The chemical reasons (from both the perspective of nickel and iron) behind that difference in behaviour would be interesting to hear. ... Related to that: ...
I recently found out that the very heavy elements thorium (and uranium) are highly concentrated in earth crust but depleted in all of earths interior. This is (as I understand currently) what results of relatively recent neutrino experiments suggest.
Generally: Chemistry vs planetary level gravity on large time-scales seem to be an interesting and little investigated topic.
mechadense you have a lot of free time
This is in my top 10 channels on RUclips. Absolutely fantastic channel.
Had some experience working in a canola oil plant that used Raney Nickel catalyst for hydrogenation. On more than a few occasions, the spent catalyst bins would spontaneously combust, but it also contained small quantities of vegetable oil, aiding the process.
Is the professor immortal?
?
He will live on as pure knowledge after his death or as a meme 😊
The Professor is eternal.
He is only like 60 -65 I think
Caitlin Thompson Wow. I can't wait to see the professor at 90.
Nickel is used in my flute, it's made of silver plated nickel except I've got a more expensive flute that has a solid silver head joint which changes the sound completely
7:12 Neil can laugh ! It's official ! :'D
He actually spoke on one video, a couple of years ago. Believe it or not.
If you go through the element playlist, he does a couple times in the first few elements.
Neil is like the one they call the stig from Top Gear
Think it's a sort of tradition on that island..
However, even his laughter is mute!
His smile, made me smile, because it was so genuine.
I hope he finds more things to enjoy in life.
list of elements neil reacts to, until now:
- helium
- sodium
- sulfur
- potassium
- chromium
- iron
- nickel
Thank you for this amazing list. Now I must watch all of these videos.
where's the hypothesis of the chemical explanation of why these elements react with Neil, and others don't?
@@omikronweapon most of the time it's because they explode :-)
Maybe his diet is rich in these?
Neilium has the correct number of electron d orbits
I used nickel for my chemistry internal assessment back in high school. I also used other transition metals like chromium, manganese, etc. I'll be honest, I took a little of them all home as samples.
H.I. sent me here, to re-booted videos, and I'm so glad they did!
You're doing a great work, thanks!
6:25
I can't imagine how exciting that must have been for Raney when he realized he found a new catalyst!
If I a dime every time neil laughed I would have a nickel.
I love your pfp, its just your political compass scores lol, I betcha people get angry at you for it all the time lol.
That means you take away 5 the surgeon 👩⚕️ and you have 5 leftover
that would mean he laughed 0.5 times
@@ElliotM2007 Probably not so much on science channels, but elsewhere, no doubt.
@@jadestormbringer3733 which isn't a lot, but it's weird
I live about 1 hr from Sudbury Ontario. .. and you seem to know more about the area then I do! Thanks for the lesson!
[Music + experiment sounds]
Always nice to come back to this channel now and again.
Found a new favorite channel.
One correction. The nickel in the Sudbury basin was not delivered by the meteorite, but rather the meteor made large fissures in the earth's crust and the nickel (and copper and precious metals) came up from the mantle. That's why so much of the ore is deep. Several mines are going to start drilling deeper shafts: 2kms plus.
With the Rainey nickel are you sure that the oxidisation didn't take place slowly over time as the water evaporated because in the thermal camera it was hotter than the surrounding surfaces
Lol, NVM I just watched till the end
I'm from the Atlanta, GA area and we've always called bumpers, bumpers. We call the side part of the car around the wheels, fenders.
Highly informative as usual.
Most Americans I know prefer bumper, as well. There's a term 'fender bender' that refers to an accident that isn't likely to have done any damage to the integrity of the car, but other than that it's mostly people in(older) commercials that utter the term 'fender' at least in the Mid-West.
"And eventually, it glowed slightly"
Well, that escalated slowly.
We put together a huge ball of Plutonium and eventually it glowed slightly.
Nickel-based alloys are another thing of interest...although that is more of a metallurgical subject than a chemistry subject. I don't know the physical reason why nickel alloys tend to produce very stable results. What I mean by this can best be demonstrated by two alloys in particular: Constantan (copper-nickel 55-45) and Invar (iron-nickel 64-36). Constantan has an extremely stable and "constant" electrical resistance along a broad axis of currents and temperatures. Invar is called "invar" because it is "invariable" in its volume along a broad axis of temperatures. Basically...it doesn't expand or contract very much at all, and for this reason it is used regularly in high-precision instrumentation. Just something I find interesting that I hope others will too.
I could be wrong on this, but when he was talking about the hydrogenation of oils, the professor kept mentioning that the hydrogen 'absorbs' onto the surface of the nickel. Is my terminology wrong or should he be using the word 'adsorb' instead?
ASandwichNinja you're correct.
I've been playing a game with some fan-made modifications, that add various machines you can make, and ores that you can mine. And one thing it added was the ability to alloy certain things together. One of those alloys is Invar, which, in the game, has the recipe of 2 parts iron to 1 part nickel. This was where I first heard of this alloy, so I found it an interesting coincidence that a similar (if not the same) alloy is mentioned here, as being used for battleship armour. I know that alloys don't usually have such a neat and tidy ratio of components, as what's used by the game, but I think they simplify it so it's not a chore to make alloys; the game should remain fun, is what I think their aim was.
You've made me fall in love with chemistry. Wow!
Same :D
This guy is really great
Fenders are the side panels connected to the front or back bumper, and the actual front or rear facing part is just called a bumper in US.
Alchemists never die
Chemists*
@@mojeo522 ones that deal with aluminium
By mixing molten aluminum with molten nickel a homogeneous liquid phase may form. This part could be correct. However solidification of Al-Ni mixture almost always brings about formation of A-Ni intermetallics. Following Prof. case, when lumps of aluminum form upon solidification, it easily concludes that nickel will be in Al3Ni intermetalic phase. So there is no separate phase ("cherries") of nickel but nickel atoms occupy regular positions in the orthorhombic unit cell of Al3Ni.
We Canadians are very proud of our Nickel indeed, We display our Beaver on them
And we Turks are proud of our Boron, we make soap with them :D
Aahaha, and it's a grand regal beaver
Atomic Weight 58.6934, density 8.908: Nickel is also a component of stainless steels, and more exotically it is a key ingredient in the nickel-iron superalloys used in jet engines.
My periodic table sense was tingling so I checked RUclips
I am 35 I'm still working on a masters in social work, probably because I'm a natural social worker.... Im also partially blind so I'm also a dancer (DnB ;)) and a photographer... I'm a rebel ha. I was in advanced learning in middle school but went to one with not many resources and over worked teachers. I loved science when i look back to it, and fell behind fast when we got to such open answers and a big chemical table, which seemed so small on the overhead projector. Now i get excited to see chemistry come my screen again. I don't feel this daunting guilt about not getting it and everything falling behind. Which is pretty easy when you live in inner city Miami in the 90's haha. I am inspired now because I am thankful I get to go check out the eclipse on the lawns of MIT and Can hear cool lectures at harvard now because I love Cambridge (Boston)... I'm truly great full for you guys and gals. What's up with those cool Bismuth extras???I gotta admit I make nerdy pretty cool looking ha #noshame
Love your videos! Love from Sweden.
I used to package Raney Nickel at Aldrich, we would put a little bit on the floor and about 20-30 later, it would go off. The bottle you have is from the early to mid 90s, those are old Sigma Aldrich labels. I actually have a video on my cell phone of us messing around with it. I also have video of us messing around with aluminum chloride, when we would rinse the funnels off, it would create clouds of HCl. Anyway, I remember the Raney Nickel coming in these black metal pails, like 5 gallon paint pails with the covers crimped on. It was only about 1/3 Raney Nickel and the rest D.I. water on top. Stuff is a bitch to weigh and package, sticks to everything.
"I was assued that it was probably alright"
> Probably alright.
Once again the professor is the best. Outtake was great and Neil keeps going
You can't spell Nickel without Neil.
Nickel is such a beautiful word
7:13 You've broken your Neal. He is laughing!
As the steel in bumpers, etc., has microscopic porosity in the surface (called pitting), & to achieve a mirror smooth chrome finish it's usually nickel-plated 3-5 times & polished afterwards each time, & only then after a final nickel-plating (if smooth enough) is the item chrome-plated!
On vehicles built today chrome-trim is usually just mylar with a clear polymer over the top!
We (Americans) call it a bumper as well. The fender is the part of the body that sits over the wheel. It's primarily a splash and debris guard.
I'm not a big car person or pay all that much attention to how people talk, but I'm pretty sure that we say bumper a lot more than fender here in the states. :) We do call some accidents a fender bender though. Maybe because not much rhymes with bumper that is accident related.
"And eventually.."
"It glowed slightly"
xD
I used to do organic synthesis in a research lab,
and occasionally needed to use Raney nickel (RaNi) in my experiments.
To insure I had really active RaNi reagent I’d take a small amount of the prepared
material (stored under water) from the reagent bottle, wash it 2 - 3X with absolute (i.e. dry) ethanol, then put a spatula tip full of it onto a piece filter paper in my hood. As soon as the ethanol had evaporated, active RaNi would burst into sparks & flames, just as Neil’s did after vacuum drying & subsequent air exposure!
IF that test failed, I’d either need to open a fresh bottle of the reagent, or prepare it directly from the Al-Ni alloy as was mentioned in this video.
We are the chemists who say "Ni!"
We call them bumpers as well. A fender over here refers to the body part that goes over the wheels. The rear quarter-panel, for example.
Weird! I woke up this morning thinking about nickel and its high coefficient of friction and then this was posted
From now on I will exclusively accept help from this lovely man.
Americans call bumpers "bumpers" as far as I know.
Well we call them either bumpers or fenders, depends on the person.
No, fenders are the quarter panels (around the tires). What the english call "wings".
Bumpers are just bumpers.
Fenders are the bit that 'fend off' the stuff kicked off by the tires. The Brits call them 'wings'. Bumpers are the bits on the end that get the chrome, as shown in the video.
Since the removal of bumpers, many cars have a single panel that wraps around from one tire to the other on either the front of back end. As a result, these panels are sometimes referred to as fenders today. Cars without bumpers have bumpers, but they are behind the panels now, and are incorporated into the frame, so they don't shine them up anymore.
I thought both those were odd names, here in Oz we call fenders/wings quarter panels or just panels for short and bumpers have always be called bumpers.
Magnificent how scale can change the reaction so much. Even ordinary food products can cause destruction if improperly stored long term through gas buildup or oxidation, on a large scale.
2:30 I don't even want to know why you have 4 of them
Felixkeeg To make a Tetrahedron.
Company's comming for dinner
Seeing Neil happy brings me joy.
Omg, look how many icons are on his desktop 0.0
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You guys are awesome. Love from America 👍
When I was a boy & my family visited Sudbury Canada there was a huge statue of a (Canadian) nickel at the entrance to town. I was impressed.
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Look out things from the net and reach out to an expert.
Great idea been put up to you but ignorance won't let you take the opportunity.
@@rebeccaserah7558 Isn't ignorance but due to unprofessionalism in crypto/forex market.
Absolutely right sir!! They're real brokers out there. Though, they're few
I hope we live forever...I would love to work with this professor forever!
Never clicked off another website so fast.
"another website" hmmmmmmmmmm..
Tech2025 do you even vape brah?
I'm always on RUclips tho
lol web site lol
WhiteGenocideResistor how did you know?
In the future whenever I will eat margarine this guy's explanation gonna come in my mind every time, just can't help it. THANKS SIR
nickel Rick
Just a minor correction to your video, the Mond nickel works shown in the photo is in Clydach, South Wales. It still runs to this day under the vale group
Kudos to Neil for thinking about the Raney Nickel reaction in sufficient detail in order to get us a nice whoosh!
It's great watching this video, I'm currently going to university in Sudbury and spent the last 4 years learning about our history! I'm currently working on the property of the main smelter from Mond Nickel company in 1906-1976 in Coniston Ontario as a planner. I've gotten to read Mond's old field notes and his story about his company. We are currently looking at a project that is re-processing the slag left overnight the property from early smelting that took place to extract all of the metals. Would love to share more info if anyone is interested?
i'm a bit late to the party..... i currently live in Levack, working at the mines loading Ni & Cu ore on trucks to go to the mill. i'm interested in your project , i find geology & mining very interesting
Why no Nickelback in the back?
We call them bumpers too. I've only heard fender used in reference to describing a minor accident known as a "fender bender".
Eh Americans call bumpers... Bumpers. Fenders are the parts of the body that surround the wheel wells
I am told that Fenders are guitars.
If I remember correctly, the best bumpers were triple plated; that is plated in copper, then nickel, then chrome, giving the most lustrous, liquid finish. Fenders are the bits over the wheels.
2:51 "Hello, my name's NiNO!!!"
HaHaHaHa,you could have said (C5H5)NiNO-terribly toxic!!
I see that you are a man of culture
Nickelous
Thanks for the great video!
We call bumpers "healthcare isn't for poor people," and fenders are actually called "the rich don't pay taxes here."
I once heard a tale of Knights who say "Ni" ....
Ni!
SH!
Beautiful! And congrats on being 98.3% of the way to a 1 million subscriber award ;)
"I was assured it was probably ok"
Amazing
"probably ok"
"There's a 100% chance it might be fine"
As soon as I heard that this Raney nickel stuff was in water, I knew that putting it in a vacuum would be the way to go. I'm glad they actually did it, and feel smart too.
"Assured it was PROBABLY ok...so i grabbed Neil..."
I wish I could go there to try that experiment myself. I just want to study there at all! I wanted to try to study abroad there, but I don't think there's an easy way through my school to go to this specific one, and I've never had a chance to anyways; this is my first semester available to study abroad and I'm going to Berlin. Maybe as a grad student?
The knight who say NIckel
On the electroplating of steel in automotive uses, there are actually three layers. The first is copper, followed by nickel and then chromium. The chromium layer is quite thin so that it is translucent. Chromium is more resistant to oxidation than nickel. hth.
PS: My understanding on the Sudbury deposit is that it is eruptive in that there was a meteor strike but it was of sufficient energy release that nickel from the interior of the earth was brought to the surface. It is also thought to be an impact crater from very early in the formation of the earth.
isn´t nickel also a ferromagnetic element?
It is. :)
:)
Wouldn't it be Nickelmagnetic? Damm you iron for taking out everything!
"Some of the nickel valves on his plant were found to dissolve."
In chemists' publication language, "Readily forms a nickel complex".
(To be interpreted as, My spatula dissolved in it.)
Ammonia atoms! Oops professor
Just slip - he probably meant _ammonium atoms._
;)
or groups
That wouldn't be correct either.
Ligand.
Brad Schmor ligands are formed after the ammonia molecules are bound to the nickel atoms
The classy bits of youtube (such as this) are really so cool.
We are the knights who say, "Ni!"
boo
Just so you know, Americans do not call bumpers fenders, bumpers are bumpers, the fender is that part of the body that goes over the front tires on either side of the hood or as you would call it, bonnet.
I’m vaping on nickel coils am I going to die?
yes
that depends, some peopel are alergic to nickel, most people aren't.
+Windhelm Guard
No, it doesn't depend.
Death is everyone's destination, I'm afraid.
Nope--the vaping coil is a nickel-chromium alloy making a resistive wire. No problemo. Same thing in hair dryers and toasters.
Huff jenkem like normal people, you degenerate.
Another effect that would result in the slower than expected reaction rate is the high surface tension of water that causes slurries to dry to clumps instead of finely divided powder. Try mixing into the slurry another more volatile water miscible solvent and dry on vacuum or nitrogen. You should end up with finely divided powder and a nice flash.
I liked Nickel back when it was cool.
Ni back was never cool. Never.
I think when they chrome plate car bumpers they do three stages nickel, copper and chrome. I think the chrome and nickel are porous so would allow oxygen to get to the steel and rust so the copper layer is added to seal off the porous layer of nickel. I think it is nickel to make it bond to the steel, copper to seal the surface and chrome to make it shiny.