Iridium metal 1" cube - World's largest object made out of pure iridium
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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2019
- 99.95% pure iridium metal cube
Here's a one-inch cube made out of 99.95% pure iridium metal, the world's largest item ever made out of iridium. Yes, you heard us correctly, the largest item ever made out of iridium. Over $25,000 worth of iridium and thousands to manufacture this cube making this one of the most expensive cubes we have ever made (except for osmium and rhodium 25.4mm cubes)! The weight on the scale proves this as based on the weight of over 370 grams, nothing else in the universe (osmium would weigh just a smidgen more) could weigh this much in such a small space. Of course, a fake made out of osmium would make little sense, as they are both extremely rare, extremely expensive, and almost impossible to work with. What would be the point of that and to boot osmium looks blue, so it would be extremely easy to tell which metal was iridium or osmium.
This metal is twice as heavy as lead but is, unfortunately, a property very few people will get the chance to experience. You see, iridium is breathtakingly rare and expensive. That it is mined at all is really only due to it riding shotgun as a minor "contaminant" of other precious metals, particularly platinum-bearing ores.
Most of the annual supply of iridium is turned into crucibles: shot glass-shaped molds that can withstand extremely high temperatures without melting or corroding. These crucibles are bank-breakingly expensive acquisitions for even well-funded laboratories... not exactly the type of item you expect to find on eBay.
Iridium is also notoriously difficult to work with. The metal refuses to melt (which again explains why they'd be made into crucibles) so shaping it requires special methods. While not brittle it is nevertheless very inelastic. An imaginary lengthy bar made of pure iridium could be made and when held up would shatter under its own weight rather than bend even a little.
While "only" as expensive as gold - currently a bit less, actually - the difficulties in manufacturing push it well past the price point of the yellow metal in finished products. These little cubes are no different and the king's ransom of a price for each reflects the high cost of labor and specialized equipment used in their making.
We do sell 10mm cubes which weigh in at 21.9±0.3g. Larger cubes are possible on a made-to-order basis if you have money burning a hole in your pocket. We do have 10mm cubes in stock and you would be one of the few people (less than 100) on earth to own a pure anything made out of iridium, let alone a perfect, beautiful cube that is a true piece of artwork!
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“There’s nothing else in the world or universe that can weigh that much in this amount of space”
Osmium: Hold my beer...
*Laughs in neutron star
Hassium. Hold my 2 beers.
osmium has a very similar density (if not slightly more)
Bønzëaux Błëuxgrēn You think so?
John Doe More like hold my neutrons... Also atomar weight and density are two different things .
You can see his hands shaking, he's really delicate with it and nervous with it I think
and it is heavy
@@Mardikuz i mean 370 grams is like a basketball holding it like that must feel weird
Only neutronstars and black hole are more dense in universe I think.
@@fredrikandreasson3092 or your typical anime protagonist around girls.
@@fredrikandreasson3092Osmium is denser
I am pretty sure that essentially pure Iridium is used for making crucibles for melting and recrystallizing silicon in semiconductor industry. These crucibles can be pretty big (over 10 kg of iridium sometimes), and costs millions of dollar in engineering and manufacturing them.
Still, cubes are awesome too :)
You are correct. and here ruclips.net/video/cuovE4OQi2g/видео.html is a 3.8 kilo bar or Iridium as well as sheets (used for making those crucibles).
Yeah this is a clickbait title, but still cool lol
Biggest iridium thing I have ever seen made of the stuff was a 13 inch crucible for use in making silicon crystals. Though the crucible was thin, about an 8th of an inch it weighed many pounds empty. It went in am induction furnace that melted the silicone inside and the temperature was just above the melting point. Then a pure silicon crystal button on a silica rod was dipped in and slowly pulled out until you got a 12 inch diameter crystal. Though the iridium was millions of dollars worth, the amount of chips made from that crystal more than paid for it, and the crucible was good for about 2500 heat cycles before it needed to be cleaned with HF/HNO3. Then it was good for 2500 more. The stuff is amazingly durable.
Wow, that is so cool! Thanks for sharing :- )
Holy crap. That's the most insane cube I've ever seen!
Riven of a Thousand Voices than wait till you see osmium over here!
@@oarriaga82this one actually looks a lot cooler than the osmium ones, its also rarer and more expensive...
Thanks for the videos. I want to see you upload more youtube videos showing these precious metal cubes, include gold, silver, 6 platinum group metals, and rhenium, with different sizes, and including those with mirror surface version. Thank you very much!
Wow, that is awesome! I'd love to hold that and see it in person. I love rare metals. Thank you for uploading this!
Where can I buy this
Edit: can I like order it or something like that or is it like completely not for sale
HAITI HAS MOUNTAINS OF THIS METAL!
Iridium cube: i'm the largest and the most dense in the universe
neutron star: lol
black hole: rofl
infinite kilograms in -1cm^2
all unknown elements: ;o)
finally a vault hunter's dream come true
Can you elaborate on how you forged this awesomeness into a cube?
at 0:45 he says they "beat it into this shape."
@Ed never heard of polishing?
Could you upload more videos to show the 10mm and 1 inch cubes of many other different expensive and precious metals (Ru Rh Pd Ag Re Os Ir Pt Au)? Thanks.
Wow I’d love one of those in pure osmium
I have one of your tungsten cubes from the company
Pretty cool man .
I saw from the other video the Osmium cube weighed less yet is denser than Iridium. I hope one day the Osmium cube will be made to unlock its full density!
Can it scratch Tungsten?
Today that's over 60,000usd in value right there
Where do you even get these?
That is a big chunk of Iridium, you wouldn't want to pay for it!
Although as someone already mentioned Osmium is actually denser, but this has only been known since 1803, so I guess the video producers have been out of touch for a while. 😵💫
Can you please do one experiment, iridium and copper is common? Who does that material works
Could you upload a video to tell us how to make Thallium cube,and why it is very difficult to make it?
Thanks!
Bc if u touch it you die
Thalium's one of the most toxic metals. Don't take that one out of the vial!
It would be interesting to do the cavendish experiment with this cube.
I thought that you were wrong about the record for largest iridium object, since what was the the standard for the Kilogram since the 1890's are cylinders of platinum and iridium. As it turns out the old Kg standards are 90% platinum and 10% iridium, so you are correct.
he is wrong, crucibles are made out of that stuff.
There is a video of one guy holding a 6kg or so pice in his hands on yt.
Please my contact
I want a gunbarrel made out of it!
That's enough to build a future fountain pen company around. Lol
Wikipedia says a lot of these pens actually dont contain any or just a tiny ammount of iridium.
I'm speaking of a future company
making them,
not whats already been made.
@@williamjhunter5714 Yeah, sure.
Yep, positive.
You sure about nothing else? Osmium can!
Do you have an Osmium cube?
Same size?
I heard that metal weighs a touch more.
Yes, look at his latest videos.
@PixelRelatedismyname no its not.
@PixelRelatedismyname no, its 22.56 vs 22.59 for osmium www.technology.matthey.com/article/33/1/14-16/
@PixelRelatedismyname Yeah, I read that too , but you know what 3 GPa is?
Thats 30.000 bar or 30.000kg per square centimeter.
For comparison the mariana trench reaches 1/30 of that pressure ,lol
@PixelRelatedismyname yeah, found the 2014 article : www.technology.matthey.com/article/58/3/137-141/
I wonder how it was shaped, given that any form will melt at the temperature at which iridium can flow? ...
like he said, it sintered
where can you buy this ?
Smithson Tennant sell rings out of this material . I’ll be getting one soon
We actually sell Iridium cubes if you check out our website. The cube density cube can be purchased at: luciteria.com/metal-cubes/iridium-metal-cube-9995 or a more affordable option in Lucite: luciteria.com/element-cubes/iridium-cube-50mm
I’ve been trying to do this for decades now. I have cubes and spheres of tungsten and aluminum side-by-side, but I’ve never found anyone who’s willing to make an an iridium sphere or cube. Alas, The Luciteria.com website allows me to “add to cart“ but not find my cart. ☹️
$20k for material $30k for labor? 🙄
@@ckeilah Try to find a degussa troy ounce.
Where can we purchase some
You gotta special order one.
Is not the biggest handmade object made from pure iridium there are biggest crucibles made from pure iridium used fro growing corundum cristals at high temperatures. There is even a video from the periodic table of videos where Prof Poliakoff holds a 10kg iridium bar.
What…
“Hey Doug, check out my cruthibles made of pure iridium…Very expenthif” -Mr.Dink
I want small pieces 😍😍😍😍
I want an iridium anvil.
The two most dense metals in the universe is Osmium & Iridum as those metals only from single massive star going supernovae or rare kilonova, a two neutron stars colliding.. Eariler formation of Milky Way galaxy alot of supernova and hypernovas going off as now supernovas rare now and very exterme rare two neutron stars make a kilonova as I think those heavy elements came from them as Osmium and Iridium so dense came from kilonovas they are very rare event..
Its more than one Inch,
16,387 x 22,56 =369.692976 Gramm
Its 2.5 gramms to heavy.
Okay, he replied somewhere that it is a little oversize.
Where can I buy one like this ?
$20,000+ just saying
@@de1ta_85 okay? And? You think everyone is broke like you?
@@de1ta_85 Around 100k now...
Osmium?
Isn't that heavier than iridium? I mean it's kinda radioactive but...
its not radioactive
they actually sell them too!
How much rate for iredium /kg??
90 dollars/g
40 dollar
Well fun fact
Black hole same of of this cube would weight equal to the planet earth
no there are way bigger bars
No. Well this is very neato (and I would like one! ;-) There are plenty of crucibles in laboratories that were manufactured of iridium that are much larger than this little cube. Also, about 20 years ago a guy got together with a manufacturer to produce what I recall being a 10 kg sphere of iridium! His video is probably up on the web somewhere. Screw yootoob and it’s 4000 advertisements to watch a 20 second video though.
those are probably less pure
You want the cube?
Get ready to pay 250 000 dollars.
“1 inch in every dimension”
Including the fourth dimension? Is it 1 inch in time?
Well, yes, unless you expect the dimensions to change from one moment to the next ;-)
Can someone please tell me the precise dimensions of this cube?
25.4mm x 25.4mm x 25.4mm
@@luciteria Thank you.
watching this I realized something about iridium, its extremely reflective, more so then silver. It would make the perfect mirror rather then glass or any other material
No, its just because iridium doesnt react, while silver forms silversulfide.
Look at mirror polished tungsten too
I'm pretty sure silver is more reflective
@@vibaj16 yep
Silver is the most reflective
If you just look down, you probably have more in your line of sight.
WANT!
I need!
I need enought to make a rifle barrel from it !
So-how much does it go for?
By weight its about $16k dollars 10.oz cube . now at $1600°° per ounce . its was cheaper 1 year ago . gold is $1900+. Manufactured labor is a different story .
Its no $25k by weight.
cool
Is the lead cubes safe to touch? I just saw it on your website.
Yes lead is safe to touch, just wash your hands after, and don’t eat it!
If it's not in fine dust and your not eating it, it's perfectly safe to handle, it's not like it's radioactive or something.
Yes, lead is fine to touch. Just don't put the cubes in your mouth and always wash your hands after handling lead.
Anyone that has a pellet gun you're touching lead all the time.
Go watch periodic table of videos video on iridium. There are much bigger peices, bars, even
it weight 0.82 lb per cubic inch or nearly 1,400 lb per cubic foot
In other words it weights 78965 grains of rice per medium sized lighter fluid bottle.
so you cant make barbells from this to prank strongmen?
I'm a bit surprised that someone who are so deeply interested in this makes so many factual mistakes
uh, like what?
@@Metal_Master_YTlike the fact that this isn't remotely the largest iridium object ever made, nor is it even close to being the heaviest object in the universe within that volume.
@@timg2727 yeah, I thought that was a bit off... although I think he was referring to matter in its standard stable state when he referred to the densest object.
Very cool, but this isn't anywhere close to being the largest iridium object ever made. It's also not anywhere close to being the heaviest object in the universe within that volume.
All the Osmium fan boys getting spicy here😂
$180,000 cube!!!!
how u get up with that number?
price of Ir has increased more than 3 times in 2021...
"Nothing else in the universe that can weigh that much in this amount of space"
Guessing you haven't heard of neutron stars?
"In this amount of space" neutron stars and black holes don't count. If you had a piece of neutron star this size, it wouldn't have enough gravity to hold itself together.
@@CyberJellos True, weight would be largely irrelevant in that situation.
I was confusing it with mass.
I only have 1.05g of iridium, amazing metal though.
I made 2 myself!Both made from spark plug inserts that I refined myself through the very serious process of smelting with rhodium metal and further reacting it with molten potassium hydrosulfate that left pure iridium powder for me to melt into those two pieces!By the way I am actually going to make much more of these in the nearest future and film this process!
By the way the iridium content is 85 to 90 percent in the inserts!
@@johnsheppard1476 That's awesome! I melt scrap sterling into bars. I plan to cuppel in a furnace with lead or bismuth when it warms up outside to refine it without acids.
@@ngantnier I usually do this with nitric acid and that is for a reason!The reason for this is the clear presence of palladium metal in some of silver jewelry that I came across!Also rhodium metal from some other silver jewelry that comes as the coating and even some stuff that doesn't dissolve in nitric acid!This stuff turned out to be mix of gold and platinum!But mostly you will have palladium metal in your jewelry!
@@ngantnier so acid refining seems to give me a lot of additional profits when it comes to silver jewelry refining!
What's next? Osmium cube?
We have made many 25.4mm osmium cubes
@@luciteria Super excited to see!
This is most decidedly not the largest single piece of iridium in the world. Not even close.
Johnson Matthey Precious Metals routinely make 3 or 4kg ingots of iridium for processing into crucibles and other items.
Diamond: bruh am i a joke to you?
?
diamond is made from carbon, which is pretty light, not to mention it's a crystal making it more hollow
25000 долларов???дорого что то.
Nothing else in the world was a bit of a stretch, isnt even Osmium heavier? Also, be careful when you say in the universe because Neutron stars have a density of 10^17 kg/m3 compared to 22560 kg/m3 so 4 trillion times heavier than Iridium :D
This guy: This is largest object ever made out of iridium
Science guy: ruclips.net/video/cuovE4OQi2g/видео.html
1:12 Ehh not QUITE true, Osmium weighs a bit more, but its 100x more rare than Iridium. 1 particle per 4 billion on earth if memory serves.
No, they're both 1ppb. Only rhenium is rarer at 0.7ppb. Source: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
I wanna sell
Well it is $6000 an ounce now, so that cube is worth about $140k. LOL
U mean 140,000 or 1,400,000
Osmium is heavier
*denser
Actually, people debate this all the time. Technically the density of iridium and osmium is exactly the same.
They only make a few tons of that stuff a year- are you a millionaire?
Did you felt any things with your body when you touch metals? It must have great energy field, i think that we can cure some desease throught this kind of energy.
I have a 1 cm cube of wolfram , which weight ~17-18 gramms , and i feeling each time something happening with my body when i hold it in my hands for a while time... Wolfram relate to the noble metals too , with these huge weight. Those metals somehow relate to the dark energy and dark matter!
I'll stick to medicine, thanks
@@billabobyt That's ok. You will be graced by the knowledge of truth one day if you deserve it.
Could you make it heavier by diffusing smaller elements between the Iridium atoms? There is always some space left...
That would lower the density, as you'd be making an alloy it would have an intermediate denisty.
You can't just squeeze more atoms in the same space. There's electron clouds and orbitals involved. Something about the Pauli Exclusion Principle IIRC.
@@ngantnier All atoms have not the same radius, that's how diffusion hardening works.
@@ngantnier What is diffusion hardening?
First step would be to melt a cube, this one is just mode out of pressed powder, and has tiny air pockets inside it.
@@yaykruser Yes, my comments we're in reference to solid metal, not sintered powder.
@@ngantnier But he is right, there are some gasses diffused in metals.
Hydrogen for example, makes steel brittle.
Ok hand it over.
Sad that the price went up so much , material alone is 70k now :(
Today this cube could cost close to 100K to make. Interested in having one made? :)
@@luciteria Sure, let me rob a bank first🙂
But I am actually considering buying a 1cm one when the price goes down again.
Iridium is such a fascinating metall.
Wrong. Osmium is heavier than Iridium.
That is correct, osmium is a tiny bit denser than iridium. Almost exactly the same though. Iridium is much harder to work with (not saying osmium is easy) as with osmium you have to deal with a toxic by-product (osmium tetraoxide) when it is in sponge form. In a cube it is perfectly safe as to handle, holding one right now!
They have virtually the same density, but yeah.
1:13 Osmium is denser.😋
Yes, but Iridium has the densest stable isotope
@@yaykruser Iridium-193 is denser than osmium-192?
@@10thMorales idk which Isotope it was, cant find it anymore :/
my wallet is crying
Today this would cost close to 100K
@@luciteria is it radioactive?☢
Why are you shaking like that ?
Probably because he’s holding one of the rarest elements in the world.
@@wtf-hc3tp no, its far from being the rarest man.
the Silent Sniper , NΣMΣSIS'S COMRAD I said *one* of the rarest, and yes, there are rarer elements.
@@wtf-hc3tp Like anti matter
the Silent Sniper , NΣMΣSIS'S COMRAD Not very rare.
Sorry, but this is NOT the world's largest object of pure iridium. Not even close.
You would think getting a hold of one of the rarest metal, the dude would make a longer video, even both to switch from Grams to lbs? What kinda sweat & tears he talkin bout? As far as i know diamonds are the hardest material, so it shouldn’t be that hard?! This video do no justice how “hard” is is to mold iridium into 1 cubic inch. Thanks for nothing, guy
That's nothing. Try a 3.8 kilogram bar.
ruclips.net/video/cuovE4OQi2g/видео.html
Gold is overrated
I beg to differ this proves nothing. only a specific gravity test can prove that is real.
How can a gravity test prove its real? Heavy objects fall at the same velocity as the lighter ones.
They weighed it, and its the right weight, that should prove it unles the rigged the scale, and I don't think they would
@@iriditium197 or the dimensions of the cube are fake, but why would they do it?
Iridium is the densest in the universe.
Black hole - Am I a joke to you?
Hl
Pretty much everything this guy said is false. Lol periodic tables has a guy holding a rod of this stuff
well, he says if it gets longer and longer...
This is a lie,
Not the largest object made. There are bars that have been made way bigger. Change the video title
Try Os on a scale, Osmium is a bit denser. Get an education and us the periodic table. Again Osmium is denser, almost as solid as your bonehead.