What Is a Molecule?

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  • Опубликовано: 25 июн 2019
  • Atoms, elements, molecules... What's the difference? This is part 3 in the Stated Clearly series: An Introduction to Chemistry. In it you will find a simplified definition of a molecule, you will learn how we model molecules, and you will see actual images of real molecules and their vibrational modes!
    You can play the Bond Breaker game at testtubegames.com/bondbreaker...
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    MORE ON OUR DEFINITION OF A MOLECULE
    In this video we describe a molecule as "a group of atoms stuck together, usually through chemical bonds"
    This definition is great because it's so easy to make sense of, but there are some problems with it. Biologists will sometimes consider a double stranded chain of DNA to be a "single molecule", even though each half of the strand is bound to the other via non-chemical hydrogen bonds. The same is true for some protein complexes composed of multiple sub-units.
    Alternatively, some crystals (such as quartz) are made of repeating patterns of atoms all chemically bound. Using our definition, you'd have to consider an entire quartz crystal to be a "single molecule". Chemists don't usually do this, instead they consider each repeating sub-unit to be a molecule. Pure metals have a similar issue.
    Language is a living, evolving mess! Even in formal scientific fields where you might expect more consistency.
    MORE ON HYDROGEN MOLECULE FORMATION
    In this animation we show a hydrogen molecule forming in space via a collision of just two atoms. Normally, this reaction also requires some sort of dust or ice particle to trap atoms as they bind together.
    To avoid distraction when teaching the basic concept of a molecule, we chose to ignore this technicality in the animation. You can read here about how hydrogen molecules normally form in space: www.sciencedirect.com/science...
    PAPERS DISCUSSED IN THIS ANIMATION
    Here is the molecular image by Leo Gross at IBM in 2009: www.researchgate.net/publicat...
    Here is the paper on molecular vibrations by Joonhee Lee in 2019: www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
    Arabic CCs by Mustafa Farqad

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  • @MrCaotico666
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    I'm almost 40 and untill today I never really understood what a molecule is (althought I completed school, university, etc). And now I do, thanks to be feeling humble and for this awesome video. Seing an actual real molecule was just beautiful. Thank you man (and your team)!

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  • @cougar02000
    @cougar02000 5 лет назад +1

    That is one of the simplest ways of describing what a molecule is plus the difference between an atom and a molecule I've ever heard it was concise, clear and accurate, well done.

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    @wilhelmsarasalo3546 5 лет назад +69

    An atom (or an ion at this point) goes to a bar and says: "Last night I think I lost an electron." "are you sure?", "I am positive".

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      You mean (or cat ion at this point)

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    @mkaatr 5 лет назад +2

    I never knew that it was possible to scan a molecule, nor its bonds. What an amazing thing to know.

    • @EdwardHowton
      @EdwardHowton 5 лет назад +1

      You think that's impressive? I saw recently that someone had managed to take a photograph of an atom. Required a bit of trickery to do it; changing the wavelength of the laser used to be able to get the right resolution and then changing the wavelength back to see the resulting image, but it's still a photograph.
      Or at least, that's my understanding of the process involved. It's a bit over my head.

    • @mkaatr
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    @xflipsyx9878 4 года назад +1

    Wow the image of a molecule taken by IBM was fascinating. And also, I never knew watches worked based on the vibrations of atomic bonds ..
    so uh
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    i learnt something new :D

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  • @dudegamer992
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    Brilliant channel!!

  • @helens5484
    @helens5484 2 года назад

    thank you this helped us understand molecules more

  • @thejesuschrist
    @thejesuschrist 5 лет назад +60

    "For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -Saint Carl Sagan

    • @marcopohl4875
      @marcopohl4875 5 лет назад +8

      Jesus Christ, that's good!

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      Ironic coming from you.

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    • @konstantinrebrov675
      @konstantinrebrov675 4 года назад +1

      Carl Sagan was no saint. He was a plagiarizer who took credit for discoveries of other scientists. Apparently he could get away with it. The only reason he became rich and famous was jumping on the media bandwagon and becoming a tv show host. Same story with the so called Genius Albert Einstein who practiced intellectual property theft while he was working in the patent office and he also had his wife do all his math for him.

    • @konstantinrebrov675
      @konstantinrebrov675 4 года назад

      @Roderick Stoutamire and neither are you

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    @auerroland9464 3 года назад +1

    Wow, this actually helped a lot!

  • @V4nz9
    @V4nz9 5 лет назад +3

    How I wish my Chemistry class way back 10 yrs ago explain atoms behaviour like these so I won't need to retake the subject 3 times to pass the subject.
    I love how the complex behaviour of atom simplified so an ordinary person knows the basic overview of an atom before memorizing table of elements and solving stoichiometry. :(

    • @sajidmahmood8974
      @sajidmahmood8974 3 года назад

      Yes same here... I would understand it much better if such videos were available 29 years back for me

  • @tjmcqueen3998
    @tjmcqueen3998 4 года назад +1

    This is amazing!

  • @drosophilamelanogaster9488
    @drosophilamelanogaster9488 2 года назад

    Fantastic video. It should have more views.

  • @user-qs2jy8mi8e
    @user-qs2jy8mi8e 4 года назад +3

    "Language is a living, evolving mess! Even in formal scientific fields where you might expect more consistency." Found this in the description and I agree on so many levels.

  • @pixelart0124
    @pixelart0124 5 лет назад +1

    I learned this in university over two weeks. I learned it here in 4min (first half of the video) and learned it better.

  • @cloudcat2652
    @cloudcat2652 3 года назад

    thx for uploading it rly Helps :)

  • @haifasm2614
    @haifasm2614 5 лет назад +1

    Simple and clear
    Bravo