It's not a good Idea to reupload videos because it tanks the clickthrough rate making RUclips less likely to promote it, but I felt I could do better. I'm still not completely happy with the video but I had to draw the line somewhere.
I love your videos. Been watching them for years. I have learned so much from you. I wish you would do more Videos. I understand why you can’t as I am sure you are busy with other things in your life
Hi Cody! I hope you can make another version with _another_ 60% more explanations, and keep doing that until you have the longest video on RUclips that covers literally all of chemistry and metallurgy.
Well in order to be relevant while increasing explanatory power it would make more sense to get into quantum physics and that whole theoretical rabbithole before branching out horizontally to other fields
I thought i had seen that thumb nail then saw how long ago it was uploaded the saw the title. You sure did send me on a roller coaster of thoughts. I am excited to see the 60% more
Thanks for the reupload, it answered a lot of my questions from the first version. The demonstration with gold was especially interesting, for a noble metal, gold has a lot of unusual interactions with other elements. For example, the gold on the mineral patents/claims at my work forms exclusively with arsenic, despite being unable to react with it. It took decades of research to figure out that it was acting like a sponge and absorbing it into the structure.
Always happy to see more explanation in a CodysLab video! Just adding another comment to hopefully boost engagement and satisfy the almighty algorithm (or at least help offset any lower clickthrough rate) :)
Man, I love your videos! Don't care if its a re-upload or whatever! You have a great personality and your love of all things science really shines through!
I pointed it out in the previous video but i'll point it out here too; The vast majority of us will ever put in the time, effort or money to work with mercury safely, much less have the knowledge to create that AWESOME shot of the gold absorbing the mercury at 6:05, so thanks so much :)
This was seriously helpful, I was kind of missing a chunk of metallurgical understanding in this specific area, and this explained the whole thing quite well, thanks. :) (I've had the intuition about how this worked, but seeing it explained really helps wrap things together)
I can fill in the blanks. Mercury has mystical powers. People used to do all sorts of mystical crap with it. Permafrost melt is going to release insane amounts of it into the environment and we will all be enlightened mystical beings after that. Lastly you can use it in your washing machine and it won't stain your clothing unless they are made from copper threads and you add hydrochloric acid instead of bleach. Mercury coated clothing looks sick like a mid evil style of clothing that looks like you would be protected from damage.
10:00 Maybe this seems overly pedantic, but Gd is Gadolinium, not Gladminium(?) and Lu is Lutetium, not Lutium. Doesn't really matter much for this video, I was just a bit confused hearing those names. I'm not really a chemistry buff, just learned the element symbols/names of the periodic table years ago out of boredom and I guess a lot of it stuck.
@@ezforsaken Sure, but also that is a special case, since the name "aluminum" was one of the official suggestions when the element was named and is now handled as a regional alternative name. Iirc he even has a video on it and why he says it. This seems to be just him misremembering the names of two more obscure elements. Happens, but still wrong.
Sort of along the same line, could you do a video on red mercury? Pretty much every video about mercury has a comment section full of people asking about obtaining it, and its magical properties.
Man... I want to make a guilded helmet in exactly the way a medieval armorer would make it, but in order to do that I need mercury. mercury is proving to be a right pain in the arse to get ahold of. Its not illegal to own, its just really hard to get ahold of, so I see this old boy playing aroubd with the stuff like its something he can just pick up at the local poundland and im just sitting here creatively starving.
Oi, if that way is fire-gilding, I'd rather not try it. Mercury vapors are very toxic and can affect other people in your surroundings, like your neighbours, too.
He actually owns land that has a mercury mine on it. This guy has litterally gallons of the stuff. And if he is brave enough he can go down in the mine and get more. He didn't have to buy any of it. He owns it along with the land the mine is on, or at least he used to was my understanding unless he sold it for some reason. So yeah he has litterally tons of the stuff, no pun intended because mercury is so heavy!
cody I can't keep opening new accounts on more and more foreign websites. I have an account on youtube, not going to open an account on patreon. I want to send you a donation but it seems the only way for me to send you donations on youtube is if you go live. Happy new year Cody.
i didn't actually get around to watching the first one, so seeing a new version that implies it is better than the previous made me more intrigued. very fascinating, thanks for the great demonstrations and explanations!!
I linked the old one in the description. There's not really anything wrong with it other than people had a lot of questions that I thought I should have answered.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Shaky camera, background noise, improvised containers, rust, out of focus without proper lighting... yes, this is the oldschool youtube-style quality content we all know and love
SO Murcury act just like solder or pretty much all metals that can be melted without destroying the donor metal I assume, is donor the right word? sounds right but yeah to pull Solder off contact using that woven metal is amazing and it works so well but if you just try a paper towel you will only sad up the flux. I Love Cody's way of explaining and showing chemistry, its just so personal and easy to understand! TY for so many years of amazing content I've been watching since what 2015-2017 I think. Thank YOU!
6:12 Doesn't the gold dissolve in Mercury ? Assuming there's a gold braid, wouldn't it dissolve away before absorbing Mercury - if it dissolves then it certainly contaminates the mercury which does not happen when we soak water in cloth
I saw something fuming near the mercury at about 7:45 and I was wondering if it was coming off the towel because of the HCl or maybe something steaming off camera?
Regardless of the re-upload, I was rather bemused by the replies to my comment about the acid on the copper acting like flux when soldering (or specifically desoldering using solder wick), people only just realising that you needed flux to desolder effectively, which is a mild acid & cleans the copper, to make the solder (as represented by the mercury here) wick and stick to the copper braid, science is fun, especially when you can apply its' logic to everyday activities... :P
I still think the mercury through the sintered glass is so cool. Question, did you have the vacuum pump running or was the Hg heavy enough to just fall through? And i still want to see some cool flowing mercury electro dynamics experiments or demonstrations. Thanks to the 60% more explanation im curious about what interesting things you can do with mercury... electromagnetodynamics is pretty cool, I think Tech Ingredients did a video featuring that a while back. Moar Hg pls!
There can be emergent entropic forces that drive them apart. This is the case with the hydrophobic effect that causes e.g. oil and water to separate. The main cause of this phenomenon is that water molecules on the interface between water and the non-polar substance essentially become locked into specific orientations and form a "cage" around the interface. This is entropically unfavourable compared to bulk water where each moelcule can rotate basically however it wants. Therefore, there is an entropic driving force behind minimizing the interface between water and non-polar substances as much as possible.
7:30 here is the explanation timecode. Electrons won't change their orbitals, change spin state and difference in electronegativity is too high. Is this the reason?
I have one question, I understand why the oxide layer needs to be removed off the copper so the mercury can be picked up. But with soldering wick, which is the same stuff, I don't need to take the oxide layer off to absorb soldering tin. Why is that?
Have you ever encountered the activity series? Tin is below copper so metallic tin can reduce copper oxide. The reaction is the same kind as thermite but releases less energy and can occur in a solvent. Basically the tin is cleaning the copper.
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It's not a good Idea to reupload videos because it tanks the clickthrough rate making RUclips less likely to promote it, but I felt I could do better. I'm still not completely happy with the video but I had to draw the line somewhere.
I'll watch re-uploads every time Cody, I've been watching you for years now, you're so awesome and wholesome bro. We'll always support you!
Long time lurker first time poster. You rock man. Don’t worry about the algorithm. You just be awesome. The internet will follow you.
I love your videos. Been watching them for years. I have learned so much from you. I wish you would do more
Videos. I understand why you can’t as I am sure you are busy with other things in your life
All good buddy, have my 100% rewatch for the effort
We, your subscribers will always watch every single reupload still.
Hi Cody!
I hope you can make another version with _another_ 60% more explanations, and keep doing that until you have the longest video on RUclips that covers literally all of chemistry and metallurgy.
Yes please
HAHAHHAHAAH
Well in order to be relevant while increasing explanatory power it would make more sense to get into quantum physics and that whole theoretical rabbithole before branching out horizontally to other fields
i propose the exact opposite:
make the video 60% shorter every time and make the shortest video on youtube ever.
Hooray! Now 60% more Cody!
😁
I thought i had seen that thumb nail then saw how long ago it was uploaded the saw the title. You sure did send me on a roller coaster of thoughts. I am excited to see the 60% more
Cody has forgotten more chemistry than most of us will ever know.
Thanks for the reupload, it answered a lot of my questions from the first version.
The demonstration with gold was especially interesting, for a noble metal, gold has a lot of unusual interactions with other elements. For example, the gold on the mineral patents/claims at my work forms exclusively with arsenic, despite being unable to react with it. It took decades of research to figure out that it was acting like a sponge and absorbing it into the structure.
One of the last places I expected a hololive pfp, based af
chemistry content thats comprehensive like this is such a valuable resource, thanks cody
"Alright everyone, welcome back to Cody's lab". Music to my ears. Happy New Years!
Always happy to see more explanation in a CodysLab video!
Just adding another comment to hopefully boost engagement and satisfy the almighty algorithm (or at least help offset any lower clickthrough rate) :)
Man, I love your videos! Don't care if its a re-upload or whatever!
You have a great personality and your love of all things science really shines through!
I just got done working a night shift and still decided to stay awake to watch this.
You're not alone. I also clicked this first after getting home from work
all the additional details were greatly appreciated. I feel like I really do have a better understanding of the concept as a whole.
I wish you were my chemistry teacher, your enthusiasm is contagious!
He'd also make a superb geology teacher.
I’m happy for the extra explanation… wishing a happy New Years to Chicken Hole Base.
A banger as usual, Cody! You always manage to explain things in a way that captures my curiosity like few others.
I pointed it out in the previous video but i'll point it out here too;
The vast majority of us will ever put in the time, effort or money to work with mercury safely, much less have the knowledge to create that AWESOME shot of the gold absorbing the mercury at 6:05, so thanks so much :)
i dont understand 60% more but im loving the idea that im clever enough to. Happy NYE Cody.
I think RUclips should recommend this video to more people :D Happy New Year Cody!
Love the vacuum filtration at the end. Fascinating!
The first video that I could thumbs up twice 😁
If it is about Mercury, I'll watch both videos! Thanks Cody!
I've always looked forward to your uploads and was pleasantly surprised with this new and improved re upload. Thank you!
Rraaahhh I love it when Cody explains complex topics in a simple manner!
This was seriously helpful, I was kind of missing a chunk of metallurgical understanding in this specific area, and this explained the whole thing quite well, thanks. :)
(I've had the intuition about how this worked, but seeing it explained really helps wrap things together)
It's always a good idea to watch Cody though! Twice through is twice as good!
Top tier bed time content creators
End the video at 1:55 as it's obvious that Cody has mystical powers
I was wondering why this was appearing below my videos. I had already watched it. You made a new version I see. Time to watch again.
It was more informative. Thank you, Cody.
60% more explanation and a 100% reason to remember the video.
Thank you for the reupload Cody. This was much more informative and nice
Your Videos always make my day better
Your videos always make my day at least 60% better :)
Love this new video that builds off of the previous, different, video!
glad i watched the reup. thanks, cody.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. Missed the first video and im happy i got the enhanced edition ❤
More like 58% more explanation... Been swindled twice... Have a great new years!
I can fill in the blanks. Mercury has mystical powers. People used to do all sorts of mystical crap with it. Permafrost melt is going to release insane amounts of it into the environment and we will all be enlightened mystical beings after that. Lastly you can use it in your washing machine and it won't stain your clothing unless they are made from copper threads and you add hydrochloric acid instead of bleach. Mercury coated clothing looks sick like a mid evil style of clothing that looks like you would be protected from damage.
Always love your metals videos Cody! Thanks for reuploading with more info!
Tasty mercury salts. Awesome video as always.
Who else watched it all the through and didn't just click through
nice reupload. love it. the cat is doing great.
Awesome! watching both regardless!
Bonus wisdom!
Thanks for the video, Sir
Awesome video, Cody, as always! Thank you very much for these, that's what learning science should look like.
9:43 "This is in the wrong place. Let me fix that"
Cody: ***stretches out your periodic table of elements***
10:00 Maybe this seems overly pedantic, but Gd is Gadolinium, not Gladminium(?) and Lu is Lutetium, not Lutium. Doesn't really matter much for this video, I was just a bit confused hearing those names. I'm not really a chemistry buff, just learned the element symbols/names of the periodic table years ago out of boredom and I guess a lot of it stuck.
i mean people from the us cant even say aluminium so what do you expect
@@ezforsaken Sure, but also that is a special case, since the name "aluminum" was one of the official suggestions when the element was named and is now handled as a regional alternative name. Iirc he even has a video on it and why he says it. This seems to be just him misremembering the names of two more obscure elements. Happens, but still wrong.
Sort of along the same line, could you do a video on red mercury? Pretty much every video about mercury has a comment section full of people asking about obtaining it, and its magical properties.
Its about as real as the tooth fairy.
@@theCodyReeder I know, I get so tired of the myth
@@RiehlScience Everyone knows there are only two kinds of mercury: regular mercury and Freddy Mercury. 😁
Might be confusing it with Cinnabar (mercury sulfide)
I can sell you some if you'd like
160% yield video
Thanks Cody, you make learning enjoyable.
First time seeing this video! re-uploads are welcome on my watch
for the algorithm! (thanks for the extra info too! loved it)
This was great. Thanks Cody
Mercury going through a filter at the end was super cool!
Awesome explanation! So cool to learn about metal solubility
Im glad I’m not the only one who watches Cody while they sleep, then I dream about Cody….
Thanks for the extra information! Great video!
Man... I want to make a guilded helmet in exactly the way a medieval armorer would make it, but in order to do that I need mercury. mercury is proving to be a right pain in the arse to get ahold of. Its not illegal to own, its just really hard to get ahold of, so I see this old boy playing aroubd with the stuff like its something he can just pick up at the local poundland and im just sitting here creatively starving.
Didn’t he source and refine it himself? I don’t think he bought it online or anything.
@@The_RC_Guru He did, one of his early videos. iirc it was from mine tailings or something from families mine.
Oi, if that way is fire-gilding, I'd rather not try it. Mercury vapors are very toxic and can affect other people in your surroundings, like your neighbours, too.
He actually owns land that has a mercury mine on it. This guy has litterally gallons of the stuff. And if he is brave enough he can go down in the mine and get more. He didn't have to buy any of it. He owns it along with the land the mine is on, or at least he used to was my understanding unless he sold it for some reason. So yeah he has litterally tons of the stuff, no pun intended because mercury is so heavy!
Good stuff Cody. 👏
What did your cleanup procedure look like? What did you do with the contaminated cloth and copper? Do you even consider the cloth "contaminated"?
Always like extra info about cool effects of elements. Dont mind rewatching the pieces i watched in the first one.
Commenting for the algorithm gods, support Cody!
woah amazing video with 60% more filling in it
Haven't seen the initial vif, but this explanation was excellent!
cody I can't keep opening new accounts on more and more foreign websites. I have an account on youtube, not going to open an account on patreon. I want to send you a donation but it seems the only way for me to send you donations on youtube is if you go live. Happy new year Cody.
is the atmosferic presure preventing the mercury being absoved or an mirco sponge able to absorb it?
Glad to know my algorithm is similar to Cody's.
Thanks for the content!
Whoa deja vu
Thanks, im happy you did this
This is such an incredible demo! I wish it was safer, this is a great way to teach basic chemistry
Thank you so much for the information!!!
i didn't actually get around to watching the first one, so seeing a new version that implies it is better than the previous made me more intrigued. very fascinating, thanks for the great demonstrations and explanations!!
I linked the old one in the description. There's not really anything wrong with it other than people had a lot of questions that I thought I should have answered.
I love more explanation! 🎉
Sweet perfect timing
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Could you please make a video about the health risks of mercury, especially by breathing in the vapors ?
I feel 100% smarter. Thanks Cody!
How do you clean mercury? Was that cleaning it at the end? Another great video Cody!
Yes. He is using a vacuum filter to clean it. He has also distilled it in the past.
Good explanation
Shaky camera, background noise, improvised containers, rust, out of focus without proper lighting... yes, this is the oldschool youtube-style quality content we all know and love
Cody... could you make a video on making fiberglass resin from 2 liter pop bottles? I understand that is possible
SO Murcury act just like solder or pretty much all metals that can be melted without destroying the donor metal I assume, is donor the right word? sounds right but yeah to pull Solder off contact using that woven metal is amazing and it works so well but if you just try a paper towel you will only sad up the flux. I Love Cody's way of explaining and showing chemistry, its just so personal and easy to understand! TY for so many years of amazing content I've been watching since what 2015-2017 I think. Thank YOU!
Woild murcury mesh well with magnesium? I saw you touch all the way around it. You just never mentioned it. Great video. Cody. Keep up the good work.
Awesome channel.
A reupload from Cody’s lab is certainly some kind of existential warning or something. But as usual whoosh.💨
あan example of sintering being useful for something Im stoked
6:12 Doesn't the gold dissolve in Mercury ?
Assuming there's a gold braid, wouldn't it dissolve away before absorbing Mercury - if it dissolves then it certainly contaminates the mercury which does not happen when we soak water in cloth
did you do some experiments to find out soludability of metalls in Hg?
yes
Great explanation, Cody. Just be careful with that mercury.
Cody out here giving 160% . I thought the 1st video explained it well enough.
I saw something fuming near the mercury at about 7:45 and I was wondering if it was coming off the towel because of the HCl or maybe something steaming off camera?
Regardless of the re-upload, I was rather bemused by the replies to my comment about the acid on the copper acting like flux when soldering (or specifically desoldering using solder wick), people only just realising that you needed flux to desolder effectively, which is a mild acid & cleans the copper, to make the solder (as represented by the mercury here) wick and stick to the copper braid, science is fun, especially when you can apply its' logic to everyday activities... :P
I've actually used hydrochloric acid as a soldering flux. The fumes are a lot more harsh but it definitely works!
@@theCodyReeder If it works, it's a good job... :D
(but, yeah, I'll stick with the scent of rosin, it's nice, probably not good, but smells nice!)
@@theCodyReeder Rosin flux doesn't work for soldering to stainless steel so I've used acid for that. It definitely stung the nose a bit.
I still think the mercury through the sintered glass is so cool. Question, did you have the vacuum pump running or was the Hg heavy enough to just fall through? And i still want to see some cool flowing mercury electro dynamics experiments or demonstrations. Thanks to the 60% more explanation im curious about what interesting things you can do with mercury... electromagnetodynamics is pretty cool, I think Tech Ingredients did a video featuring that a while back. Moar Hg pls!
Cody are you familiar with any other arrangements of elements? As in other periodic
tables
I have a follow-up question: are there any repelling forces between substances not soluble in each other?
There can be emergent entropic forces that drive them apart. This is the case with the hydrophobic effect that causes e.g. oil and water to separate. The main cause of this phenomenon is that water molecules on the interface between water and the non-polar substance essentially become locked into specific orientations and form a "cage" around the interface. This is entropically unfavourable compared to bulk water where each moelcule can rotate basically however it wants. Therefore, there is an entropic driving force behind minimizing the interface between water and non-polar substances as much as possible.
7:30 here is the explanation timecode.
Electrons won't change their orbitals, change spin state and difference in electronegativity is too high. Is this the reason?
Viewer interaction for algorithm purposes on this video.
Cody os good at explanatioms.
BUDDY! You're the only one panning raw cinnabar on RUclips and now that videos gone too! You may have to redo that one brother. Thanks!
I've been meaning to do that one better too
@theCodyReeder better? Man it was good, but you know your stuff! Will wait for it. Appreciate your response
It cannot be absorbed with a rag: Every accidental mess I made at 3 am when a bottle of sauce falls out of the fridge.
I have one question, I understand why the oxide layer needs to be removed off the copper so the mercury can be picked up. But with soldering wick, which is the same stuff, I don't need to take the oxide layer off to absorb soldering tin. Why is that?
Have you ever encountered the activity series? Tin is below copper so metallic tin can reduce copper oxide. The reaction is the same kind as thermite but releases less energy and can occur in a solvent.
Basically the tin is cleaning the copper.
@theCodyReeder Oh yeah, I forgot about that! Makes sense now, thank you.