Some say his regular voice can kill people from miles away, and that he once survived an explosion involving plutonium. All we know is, he's called Neil...
He talks in some of the other element videos. I don't know which ones specifically, but if you go back and watch them you can hear the sweet serenade of his voice
I am surprised you didn't talk more about Zirconium Oxide (zirconia). It is a great high temperature ceramic with low thermal conductivity and cubic zirconia is often used a diamond substitute.
@1stPal the coating would interfere with the nuclear reaction, but they do have a concrete shell all around the reactor, which is meant to be able to withstand those high temperatures and building of hydrogen.
"I gave them my zirconium sample to see what they could do with it." ----- Great minds and so much equipment for other reactions... They sprinkle it in a burner I lulz
I thought I was finally going to hear Neil talk! And then they censored him! Although... It is clever of Periodic Vidoes to keep mystery living; well done!
@Ubojica6661 He's the head technician, if I remember correctly from previous videos; where the chemists and students specialize in knowing what's going on in the mixtures, a technician understands, supervises, and handles the general mechanical equipment.
Could you make a video about Thorium ? I recently saw a video describing it's advantages for nuclear power and I would be very interested to hear more about it. If you want to see the video I'm referring to, just search for "Thorium" on RUclips. Might I ask for a thumbs up, so Brady can see this comment?
#TheIdeanator is right. A careful look shows that the list is in the order of the periodic table. From that is was easy to figure out that the element listed as MATRIX is zirconium. It's similar to the geological use of the word matrix as the surrounding material in a rock containing crystals. If you listen to recordings of Apollo astronauts exploring the Moon (especially Apollo 14 to 17) they use the word matrix quite often when describing the structure of an interesting rock.
@1stPal When the core is operating normally, the fuel rods are completely submerged in water and will not overheat. When something goes wrong the water level drops (or the fuel rods are raised) and they start to come out of the water (exposure). This causes rod temperatures to rocket. The reaction between the rods can be halted by inserting the control rods between the fuel rods, however, at this point the reaction will continue for a long time WITHIN each fuel rod. Clay would not prevent this.
Important to note that Chernobyl was not a hydrogen explosion. I was a criticality incident (a massive increase in power) which in turn caused a steam explosion that destroyed the reactor building. Hydrogen had no time to form, no less cause an explosion.
I have a really good sample of zirconium. It's the cap that goes on the bottom of a fuel rod for nuclear reactors. It's solid, low hafnium, zirconium. I have a hole drilled in one end and I use it as a key chain. Most people have no idea what it is. They think it's some strange bullet or something.
Why no mention of Cubic zirconia (or CZ) ? - The cubic crystalline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2). Maybe you can make another video about CZ ? (Compairing it to Carbon and diamonds.) I would like to see that.
Chemistry is so incredible... It's like it's an electrophile and my mind is benzene. Even if it's a complex E+, I have the electron-donating search for knowledge that provides the aromaticity of my mind with an awesome functional group to motivate me to obtain chemistry's vast power of extended intellectual resonance. The H+ that gets replaced represents contentment with simplicity, which can go stick itself on a hydroxide for all I care. Yes, I'm a nerd. Sue me.
@eltotoX he's called Neil. Except on the Starship Voyager. There, they call him The Doctor. That's how he can hold his hand in fire for so long: he's a holigram. Compare him at 00:43 to 00:45 to the holigraphic doctor on Star Trek Voyager.
No, i did not see the video of the roof blowing off due to hydrogen build-up. Did you? I did see the roof of Unit 1 collapse. And i did see the roof of Unit 3 over the spent fuel pool explode due to steam buildup. "I coming from" Croatia, assuming you were genuinely interested in my whereabouts.
@hornsofthebull Look at 5:20. The great silent one is not flame proof :). His hand is not directly above the flame. The airflow in the fume hood is pulling the flame inward and it is also pulling the Zirconium powder into the flame.
Majdi Abu Omar: If you coated the zirconium tubes with a ceramic, there are two probable problems. First, you have to make sure that elements and compounds in the clay don't absorb the neutrons which make the nuclear reaction go. Second, as the temperatures increase, the zirconium expands, it will break the ceramic coating and jam in the reactor.
Some say that his voice causes 1H protons to resonate, and that the majority of his hair was used in the creation of the SI meter. All we know is he's called The st.. Neil
@lhrmeonom Easy: The Professor was holding him by the neck & Making him hold it there to punish him for what he said at :44 he would do with the sample!
But just like Titanium and Silicon, Zirconium oxides are extremely stable and need very high temperatures + electrolisis to produce the pure metal(and most of the times will require Argon atmosphere to avoid reacting with Nitrogen gas too). That is why this metals are taken as rare(due to price), when they are actually very abundant.
Didn't the Chernobyl incident result from a steam explosion and subsequent brief power excursion? (nuclear fizzle) As far as I understand, the whole incident took place in a few seconds, so there wouldn't have been enough time to produce any significant quantities of hydrogen.
@TheGCoast That's the actual sound of his voice. It's something like when Alanis Morissette in Dogma speaks up, and one of the angels die. I'm sure Neil was whispering because he didn't want the windows to blow up.
Jeezus. Chernobyl disaster and Fukushima incident had absolutely *nothing* to do with Zr cladding. On top of that, there are catalytic hydrogen recombiners in nuclear reactor buildings, whose sole purpose is to keep the hydrogen levels within the limits that ensure there can be no explosive recombination with oxygen. The Professor really shouldn't talk about things he's not versed in.
Neil voice was muted in consideration for all viewers and their computer speakers. If you were to hear his voice in real life; afterwards the ringing in your ears would be so loud, other people could hear it.
@totoritko Yeah, unlike Fukushima it was definitely a steam explosion in Chernobyl, followed by the graphite fuel rods burning as the main source of fallout.
Some say his regular voice can kill people from miles away, and that he once survived an explosion involving plutonium. All we know is, he's called Neil...
I was NOT expecting Neil's distorted non-voice. And there's no explanantion. That was a proper David Lynch moment; it scared the shit out of me.
"So, Neil, what're you gonna do with this powder?"
SNIFFFFFFF
They sure went to a lot of trouble to cover up Neil's voice ;)
Neil's voice is made of antimatter. Your eardrums will combust into flame if you hear.
"When I need cheering up, I drink from it."
Classy.
That is his actual voice. They just added the pixelation to make it less obvious.
That white noise? Yeah. Not white noise. Try decoding it.
He talks in some of the other element videos. I don't know which ones specifically, but if you go back and watch them you can hear the sweet serenade of his voice
I am surprised you didn't talk more about Zirconium Oxide (zirconia). It is a great high temperature ceramic with low thermal conductivity and cubic zirconia is often used a diamond substitute.
For the love of god, Brady. Why do you scramble Neil's voice ?
My brain simply can't handle the mystery..
Hahaha I was so excited to hear Neil talk for once, and then you censored it! WE WANT A NEIL INTERVIEW
Neil is The Stig of Periodic Videos. Some say his voice is so powerful, once you've heard it you hear nothing else.
"So, Neil, what are you gonna do with this powder?" *SHHHHSHSHHSHHSHSHHSHHSHSHHSHHSHSHHSHHSHHSHHSHHSHSHHSH"
Why cant Neil talk?
because mortals cannot handle the voice of Neil, havent you noticed hes never spoken before?
ZrO2 is also used in the dental medicine to make artificial teeth
Dang, now I want to take shots with the professor one time :P
Because only those who are worthy may hear the epicness that is Neil's voice.
And the oxide is used for grinding and sanding disk and pads. Used for stainless steel as aluminum oxide contaminates the metal.
Niel speaks binary.
Dragons breath shells are made with buckshot made of zirconium, it's awesome stuff.
1:00 thank you brady for that reassuring confirmation there
@1stPal the coating would interfere with the nuclear reaction, but they do have a concrete shell all around the reactor, which is meant to be able to withstand those high temperatures and building of hydrogen.
I read that zirconium is used for fuel-rod cladding because it has a small neutron cross-section, meaning it allows most neutrons through.
Zirconium also makes nice fake diamonds and Ceramic knifes
"I gave them my zirconium sample to see what they could do with it."
----- Great minds and so much equipment for other reactions...
They sprinkle it in a burner
I lulz
I thought I was finally going to hear Neil talk!
And then they censored him!
Although... It is clever of Periodic Vidoes to keep mystery living; well done!
@Ubojica6661 He's the head technician, if I remember correctly from previous videos; where the chemists and students specialize in knowing what's going on in the mixtures, a technician understands, supervises, and handles the general mechanical equipment.
Neil, is the Stig of chemicals... lol
Excellent, even better than I would have ever imagined!!!!!
Could you make a video about Thorium ?
I recently saw a video describing it's advantages for nuclear power and I would be very interested to hear more about it.
If you want to see the video I'm referring to, just search for "Thorium" on RUclips.
Might I ask for a thumbs up, so Brady can see this comment?
#TheIdeanator is right. A careful look shows that the list is in the order of the periodic table. From that is was easy to figure out that the element listed as MATRIX is zirconium. It's similar to the geological use of the word matrix as the surrounding material in a rock containing crystals. If you listen to recordings of Apollo astronauts exploring the Moon (especially Apollo 14 to 17) they use the word matrix quite often when describing the structure of an interesting rock.
I love this series.
@periodicvideos I think it would be a great effect if when Neil speaks, there is a different sound effect each time, like ducks quacking!
you're the man neil
@1stPal When the core is operating normally, the fuel rods are completely submerged in water and will not overheat. When something goes wrong the water level drops (or the fuel rods are raised) and they start to come out of the water (exposure). This causes rod temperatures to rocket. The reaction between the rods can be halted by inserting the control rods between the fuel rods, however, at this point the reaction will continue for a long time WITHIN each fuel rod. Clay would not prevent this.
@StereoSpace No, the heat released from the fission reaction is what heats up the steam and drives a steam turbine
Important to note that Chernobyl was not a hydrogen explosion. I was a criticality incident (a massive increase in power) which in turn caused a steam explosion that destroyed the reactor building. Hydrogen had no time to form, no less cause an explosion.
Fire doesn't burn Neil, Neil burns fire.
I have a really good sample of zirconium. It's the cap that goes on the bottom of a fuel rod for nuclear reactors. It's solid, low hafnium, zirconium. I have a hole drilled in one end and I use it as a key chain. Most people have no idea what it is. They think it's some strange bullet or something.
Niel's voice had to be suppressed, it is too powerful of us mortals to endure.
How does the technician hold his hand above the Bunsen burner for so long ?
It's used a lot in indoor pyrotechnics with smokeless powder usually for sparks that don't "burn"
Why no mention of Cubic zirconia (or CZ) ? - The cubic crystalline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2). Maybe you can make another video about CZ ? (Compairing it to Carbon and diamonds.) I would like to see that.
@TheNoiseySpectator The word is cladding, which means a covering or coating.
When you showed the list of what's in the zirconium sample, one of the quantities was listed as "Matrix." What exactly does that mean?
Neils hand is flame resistant to a bunsen burner doped with Zirconium powder.
Chemistry is so incredible... It's like it's an electrophile and my mind is benzene. Even if it's a complex E+, I have the electron-donating search for knowledge that provides the aromaticity of my mind with an awesome functional group to motivate me to obtain chemistry's vast power of extended intellectual resonance. The H+ that gets replaced represents contentment with simplicity, which can go stick itself on a hydroxide for all I care.
Yes, I'm a nerd. Sue me.
@kpYak Very good suggestion, although it needs to be really dark to be able to see the characteristic atomic emission spectrum.
0:44 LMAO!
It's said that Neil's voice is forbidden to mortals.
@eltotoX he's called Neil.
Except on the Starship Voyager. There, they call him The Doctor. That's how he can hold his hand in fire for so long: he's a holigram. Compare him at 00:43 to 00:45 to the holigraphic doctor on Star Trek Voyager.
What makes hafnium in particular absorb neutrons?
@ewalshe I don't think the airflow is pulling the flame, the flame is cowering away from Neil's hand.
@Kurtlane That is cubic crystalline zirconium oxide, aka cubic zirconia.
Neil's voice is too powerful for the internet. Censored for your own protection.
He probably advises on mechanical safety, but Prof. Poliakoff is actually the head safety officer for the department. :P
No, i did not see the video of the roof blowing off due to hydrogen build-up. Did you?
I did see the roof of Unit 1 collapse. And i did see the roof of Unit 3 over the spent fuel pool explode due to steam buildup.
"I coming from" Croatia, assuming you were genuinely interested in my whereabouts.
I thought, OH NO! Neil is going to talk than I rolled on the floor with the pixilation! Good show!
@tomvanuijen Cubic Zirconia is the crystalline form of ZrO2.
My guess is that it was referring to Zirconium which was the material matrix that they were testing.
@hornsofthebull Look at 5:20. The great silent one is not flame proof :). His hand is not directly above the flame. The airflow in the fume hood is pulling the flame inward and it is also pulling the Zirconium powder into the flame.
Yup, Neil just putting his hand over a bunsen burner, like a boss.
I want to see a video involving Neil and a gatling gun.
Neil's Thu'um is too powerful for RUclips.
I added Martyn Poliakoff as one as the people who inspire me on my Facebook its the first person you see.
Majdi Abu Omar: If you coated the zirconium tubes with a ceramic, there are two probable problems. First, you have to make sure that elements and compounds in the clay don't absorb the neutrons which make the nuclear reaction go. Second, as the temperatures increase, the zirconium expands, it will break the ceramic coating and jam in the reactor.
Ah very interesting Prof., oh... back to the same shot again with Zirconium sprinkles...how exhilarating.
Some say that his voice causes 1H protons to resonate, and that the majority of his hair was used in the creation of the SI meter. All we know is he's called The st.. Neil
Neil needs not to speak. He can communicate telepathically. Very cool video, love those bic chunks of Zr, I wish I had one a' those!!
@lhrmeonom
Easy: The Professor was holding him by the neck & Making him hold it there to punish him for what he said at :44 he would do with the sample!
@fruubful you are going to love this. Search the first perodic video(hydrogen), then go to 3:20.
GREAT cameraman, I like the zooming and out and focus (no sarcasm) :)!
No, Neil just doesn't speak. It's a running gag.
There used to be a toothpaste marketed in the USA back in the early 1970s that advertised that it contained zirconium.
But just like Titanium and Silicon, Zirconium oxides are extremely stable and need very high temperatures + electrolisis to produce the pure metal(and most of the times will require Argon atmosphere to avoid reacting with Nitrogen gas too). That is why this metals are taken as rare(due to price), when they are actually very abundant.
I always remember zirconium by the "Will it blend? Diamonds" video
@fruubful Neal's voice isn't a sound wave it's a sound tsunami
It's Magic! It looks like magical sparkles!
I don't get it. Why is Zirconium chosen to be the container of the uranium oxide and not any other metals? Is there any special properties?
I just can't understand What he said at 1:16!
Zirconium is used for Clouding, clotting, "canning, clatting"?
@Dayumhesgood I think that ventilation in that box sucked the hot gas from the flame away from Neils hand.
why did brady censor his voice? hes spoken plenty of times in the older videos
Didn't the Chernobyl incident result from a steam explosion and subsequent brief power excursion? (nuclear fizzle) As far as I understand, the whole incident took place in a few seconds, so there wouldn't have been enough time to produce any significant quantities of hydrogen.
Neil drops the powder from directly over the bunsen burner. Did you use wind to bend the flame?
Do you like how i dance? i got zirconium pants
@Kurtlane They're made out of Zirconium dioxide and called cubic zirconia
Thumb up this comment if the professor should be given a Nobel prize along with every member of the team
@TheGCoast That's the actual sound of his voice. It's something like when Alanis Morissette in Dogma speaks up, and one of the angels die. I'm sure Neil was whispering because he didn't want the windows to blow up.
0:44.. why? I don't get it? Was he swearing or something?
@mikeymikemikey1 some say his voice has the same reactivity as francium when in contact with ear drums
Jeezus. Chernobyl disaster and Fukushima incident had absolutely *nothing* to do with Zr cladding. On top of that, there are catalytic hydrogen recombiners in nuclear reactor buildings, whose sole purpose is to keep the hydrogen levels within the limits that ensure there can be no explosive recombination with oxygen. The Professor really shouldn't talk about things he's not versed in.
@Kurtlane sorry, meant to say "dioxide". (ZiO2)
How did Neil put his hand above the bunsen burner for such a long time?
Neil voice was muted in consideration for all viewers and their computer speakers. If you were to hear his voice in real life; afterwards the ringing in your ears would be so loud, other people could hear it.
"When I need cheering up, I drink" :D
@fruubful The last time Neil sneezed, they called it hurricane Katrina
Where can i buy that zircaloy vodka glass? It's really impresive.
@Kurtlane That is ZrO2. I'll learn to type, one day.
@totoritko Yeah, unlike Fukushima it was definitely a steam explosion in Chernobyl, followed by the graphite fuel rods burning as the main source of fallout.
Learnt something new today !!