Gallium is interesting historically as its discovery was widely seen as proof of the validity of the periodic table. When Mendeleev first came up with the idea, there were some gaps in his table, which he assumed would be filled by undiscovered elements, and he assigned properties to these elements based on their positions in the table. A couple of years later gallium was discovered, precisely matching his prediction of the existence of a metal with an atomic mass of around 70 and a preferred oxidation state of +3.
He also called it Eka-aluminum due to where he found it on the table. When it was finally isolated as a pure element it was named Gallium after being discovered by the French chemist Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran who named it after the Latin name for the French region "Gallia" or as we know it Gaul.
Fun fact about gallium: a little while ago, scientists used to play pranks on people by making spoons out of gallium, and subsequent using them to stir tea, and when the spoon melted, the other person freaked out
Fun fact about gallium: it is a liquid at room temputure and therefore this comment is most likely fake as the "spoons out of gallium" would've almost immediately melted either way
@@westie430 I hadn’t. Thank you for the contempt. After all once you’ve seen something, that’s the most important thing to happen involving it. I swear dude we all have a sensorial center in our perspective, but you greatly overestimate the usefulness of yours. Maybe we could all have our own limelight without acting as if others don’t exist.
@@chickenmonger123 what are you even talking about? It wasn't your comment I was replying to. If you pay attention, it literally shows up in the comments *repeatedly* as if the commenter is the big brain who created it in the first place. People constantly copy funny comments on here and use them as their own *for likes* That's the only reason. It's getting old. Be more creative.👋
as an aviation worker, i can't describe how freaked out i am over the thought of what plane crashes gallium can cause, if it wasn't banned to carry or ship it via aircraft in ANY form.
@@Anon26535 no, because it takes way too long to have an effect on the material, AAs would always stick to immediate results, so Explosives. However, galium has been used by the SOE and supplied to the French Resistance for sabotage.
@@TreacherousFennec Maybe a gallium coating on standard shells so that the plane would fall apart eventually if it took a glancing hit, but I guess that might be more expensive than it's worth. Plus there's probably something in the Geneva Conventions about slow-acting weapons that will put the pilot in danger even if he tries to retreat.
@@Anon26535 that little may not have an effect on structural integrity, but pure galium has been placed in critical areas of planes by saboteurs, since it creeps up into the metal and has no visible difference once it does, therefore very hard to detect.
For someone who has never held a baseball bat, it was way too surprising that the inside is hollow.. For a second I actually thought Gallium just somehow eroded all the aluminium inside
new prank idea get a bat like that and do the same thing with gallium but then tell your friends you are so upset then grab the bat and crush it with your hand
For those that are wondering, galluim is used in liquid metal thermal "paste" solutions in PCs or in any other areas where heat transfer is CRITICAL but you can't weld the two things together. It's usually a compounded by some other kinds of metals tho
I'm more concerned about what the fuck is the difference between gallium and aluminium because in my country it's the same, but aluminium is an unofficial (not national) name - and this is the moment when I looked up on google and remembered it's "glin" not gallium 🌚. I didn't even have to edit it ...and don't ask why am I posting it
That part at the end where you smashed the bat in half, followed with a pop up of your vaporizing chicken in acid video couldn't have been more chaotic. Wonderful. Very good. Do more.
This is actually why you cant bring gallium on a plane, "gallium induced structural integrity failure" Depending on the amount of gallium, you can rend aluminum to a consistency of wet paper. P.s aluminum naturally produces it's own protective barrier against reactions because on exposure to oxygen, it creates an aluminum oxide layer, the reason the gallium didnt make the bat weak as paper is because scratching the surface removes very little oxide. Apply a small amount of hydrochloric acid briefly to remove that oxide and maximize the reaction. Just be sure to wear adequate protective equipment!
Hm...why do I get the feeling this is a mystery tool we can use later? Like, in the third act of my life, I'm gonna have a tub of gallium and some aluminum I need to break, and I'll remember this moment...
I don't quite know why, but there's just something about Nile's timing whenever he hits something that's just so comedically perfect. By far not the only reason I love his vids, but definitely one of them :)
@@buddyclem7328 I'm guessing tgt = together. And by liquid metal I'm assuming they use gallium as the thermal carrier instead of water. Which is great until it gets cold in your room and your liquid cooling freezes up.
@@falconerd343 No, liquid metal is used to transfer heat from the cpu/gpu plate to the heatsink (preferably nickel, but copper is also fine) instead of thermal paste that is ceramic and has much lower thermal conductivity. It is not pure galium so it has a wider operable range (suitable for regular pc users). On the other hand, it also conducts electricity so extra care should be taken when applying it to your pc. It is actually pretty good, but the problem is you have to reapply it more often than regular thermal paste (at least in my experience).
@@falconerd343 im not sure that matters much, when you have it on a 100w heater it shouldnt stay frozen for long, and even it it freezes that pretty much just means you now have a soldered heatsink
Honestly if I had Gallium available to me back in middle or high school, I wouldve so done this to a friend or someone's bat so that the time they went to use it the base ball would shatter it on impact and leave everyone in shock and confusion, this would truly be one of those ingenious pranks, especially to do before someone's game xD
The best fact i have, is that supposedly in some chemistry labs it was a common prank to make a spoon out of Gallium, so that when your colleague would go to stir their soup or coffee or tea, it would melt away.
@@yargolocus4853 Luckily its quite an obvious prank, so practically any chemist would notice it, still there is that tiny possibility, though liquid gallium is quite heavy so it would stay in the bottom of the cup.
I would love to see an entire chunk of aluminum soaked in an acid to remove the oxide layer, dipped into either mercury or liquid gallium, and then filmed as a time-lapse.
It was fun to learn about some of the properties of gallium because I'm a massive Spider-Man nerd and in the 2018 game, doctors ock uses gallium and the properties kinda match up to how it was used
I love performing this experiment. You actually only need a very tiny drop of gallium for this to work. I like to heat up the aluminum first to about 100C then place a small drop and make a small scratch. It really doesn't take much of a scratch and within a few minutes the aluminum has usually cooled down to room temp and you can crush it with your bare hands. Its important to use the right chemistry of aluminum, certain alloys slow or completely inhibit the replacement reaction.
yes you can just drop the aluminum scrap into water and gallium will settle on the bottom i think this can be useful to produce hydrogen at home to fill party balloons for cheap without using aggressive hydroxydes
I'd be interested in seeing NileRed make a video about galinstan, which is an alloy of gallium, indium, and tin that's liquid at room temperature. It looks a lot like mercury (and it's replaced it in some applications), but it also really likes to stick to glass. However, I saw another guy on youtube add a small amount of dilute acid to the container it was in, which stopped it from wetting the glass.
It's pretty easy to acquire now too. Sold by Cryonauts as a thermal compound for computer processors. Not a good idea to use it for that, the gain in thermal conductivity is huge but the actual effectiveness compared to safer thermal compounds is laughably small. Also we use a lot of aluminum in out computers which it will react with and despite what we know about aluminum oxides, does so pretty easily.
Nice to see metallurgy for uncommon elements. Hopefully it will lead to a new generation of curious scientists and engineers. The next 30 years will see tremendous opportunity in the fields of materials science and extractive metallurgy. For those considering a future in chemistry, physics and engineering, I can attest that after 30+ years in the industry there is no end to the learning process. McGill University graduate. 🇨🇦
Yeah, "Can melt at some room temperatures" would be more accurate. I've already been to cities where it's 40°C all day every day. Imagine an engineer that thinks like this designing a product only for it to have it fail if it gets anywhere near the equator.
NileRed: I have this nice countertop. It isn't really damaged at all. [audience knowing what'll happen next] NileRed: Proceeds to wail on countertop with bat.
Yes, this can be really dangerous, If Im right, its called oxidation and it can happen with many more elements. For example in Guadalajara, Mexico, 2 pipes of different metals oxidated and that made a hole in it, causing an oil leakage into sewers causing an explosion during the high temperatures. And I also saw it myself- I had 2 seals, one silicon, one rubber and when I accidentaly left them laying on each other, and when I came back, one was swollen and one brittle-like.
@@anthonycassola4241 oh, so it looks the same, but indeed, is something different? 🤔. Like, i think i get you. Not just electrons but whole atoms and molecules?
@KEX CZ Yes. The individual metal atoms are forming an alloy, so the gallium is distributed among the aluminum. No chemical reaction is taking place. it's just physical. The aluminum does start oxidized, though, and that's why Nigel had to scratch it to get under the layer of oxidation that formed when aluminum is exposed to the air.
@@cerulity32k ok, I know now that I was probably wrong, sorry, chemistry is not my main subject , I have only basics from primary ... 😅. Although, now I am thinking, I come across oxides almost every day, since I am machinist, almost every metal I work with usually has an oxidated layer already , so yea, I am probably just dumb lol. Thanks though....
It's weird that I was initially thinking that I had learned about this reaction from NileRed before, only to remember after the video started that it was in fact the LockPickingLawyer, who I first saw showcase this sort of thing by using it to eat away at some locks.
I think it could have been clarified that the scraping was to remove the layer of aluminum oxide that quickly forms on aluminum when exposed to air Cool demonstration nonetheless
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Imagine giving a painted gallium/aluminum alloy bat to someone for a baseball game and not telling them it had gallium in it.
How to prank your friends on epic ways (Gone wrong)
*ball goes through bat and the player gets hit in the face*
Someone should test that and put it on RUclips.
Great ways to sabotage opponent
or use it in a prank where you have a gallium weakened baseball bat, and hit your friend with it in public so it looks like they’re invincible
I don't know why I expected him to hit a gallium bat with an aluminum bat.
I mean i did too ngl
@@supremecommander4311 you- WHAT
@@gallium-gonzollium i was expecting him to hit a gallium bat with an aluminum bat
@@supremecommander4311 same lol
@@gallium-gonzollium instead of 2 ice cubes in your drink, I put 3
Gallium is interesting historically as its discovery was widely seen as proof of the validity of the periodic table. When Mendeleev first came up with the idea, there were some gaps in his table, which he assumed would be filled by undiscovered elements, and he assigned properties to these elements based on their positions in the table. A couple of years later gallium was discovered, precisely matching his prediction of the existence of a metal with an atomic mass of around 70 and a preferred oxidation state of +3.
He also called it Eka-aluminum due to where he found it on the table. When it was finally isolated as a pure element it was named Gallium after being discovered by the French chemist Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran who named it after the Latin name for the French region "Gallia" or as we know it Gaul.
Thank you, that's very interesting and I didn't know that
@@ApofKol same, love it when people leave cool comments like these. Thanks Alex Potts!
Damn we got this in our science books and i never payed attention to it
its like how we (previously) theorized black holes. Logic dictates something is there, but we just didn't know what yet
Fun fact about gallium: a little while ago, scientists used to play pranks on people by making spoons out of gallium, and subsequent using them to stir tea, and when the spoon melted, the other person freaked out
Imagine someone just running they try to explain the situation then someone sneaks out and drink the tea or coffee. 😱🔫💀🔫☠🔫
@@bhargavjitbhuyan9394 good, less stupid thief are in the world.
the guy definitely europe, its a tea.
Fun fact about gallium: it is a liquid at room temputure and therefore this comment is most likely fake as the "spoons out of gallium" would've almost immediately melted either way
@@godofatheism5869 The first second of this video invalidates your 'fact'.
I think Nigel has completely embraced the fact that this channel is the HowToBasic of chemistry.
Literally broke the countertop
I don't think I've ever heard this comment before. Thank you for your originality.
@@westie430 I hadn’t. Thank you for the contempt. After all once you’ve seen something, that’s the most important thing to happen involving it.
I swear dude we all have a sensorial center in our perspective, but you greatly overestimate the usefulness of yours. Maybe we could all have our own limelight without acting as if others don’t exist.
@@chickenmonger123 what are you even talking about? It wasn't your comment I was replying to. If you pay attention, it literally shows up in the comments *repeatedly* as if the commenter is the big brain who created it in the first place. People constantly copy funny comments on here and use them as their own *for likes* That's the only reason. It's getting old. Be more creative.👋
@@chickenmonger123 ratio
You know you’re getting older when you’re annoyed he damaged a perfectly good bench top
I think even young teens interested in chemistry wishing for a similar set up would feel the pain. Them and of course the OCD kids.
True
I have OCD, am interested in chemistry, and am not old
Can confirm I was cringing at the dents in that table
Yeah what was he actually thinking when he did that? Surely that can't be a benchtop in his house?
@@ats-3693 it's probably his lab.
Everybody’s talking about him breaking the bat but nobody’s talking about the _perfect_ one-handed flip he did with it.
literally like that's skill
he's secretly batter off
I was slightly impressed cuz he's holding a camera with the other hand isn't he?
@@namesarenotimp0rtant So he's Jerma?
@@Soulraven2735 yes
as an aviation worker, i can't describe how freaked out i am over the thought of what plane crashes gallium can cause, if it wasn't banned to carry or ship it via aircraft in ANY form.
Wonder if they've ever tried firing gallium shells from AA guns...
@@Anon26535 no, because it takes way too long to have an effect on the material, AAs would always stick to immediate results, so Explosives. However, galium has been used by the SOE and supplied to the French Resistance for sabotage.
@@TreacherousFennec Maybe a gallium coating on standard shells so that the plane would fall apart eventually if it took a glancing hit, but I guess that might be more expensive than it's worth. Plus there's probably something in the Geneva Conventions about slow-acting weapons that will put the pilot in danger even if he tries to retreat.
@@Anon26535 that little may not have an effect on structural integrity, but pure galium has been placed in critical areas of planes by saboteurs, since it creeps up into the metal and has no visible difference once it does, therefore very hard to detect.
@@Anon26535 and how o you make sure the galium just splatter in all directions from the gun? Firing it will probably liquify it.
For someone who has never held a baseball bat, it was way too surprising that the inside is hollow.. For a second I actually thought Gallium just somehow eroded all the aluminium inside
I am pretty sure what he was using was a tire checking bat, and not a baseball bat. Simi drivers hit their tires with them to check tire pressure.
@@uneducatedgeek aluminum game bats are still hollow though.
Yeah, they have to be hollow. If they weren't they would be heavy af and useless for baseball.
@@uneducatedgeek Yup, that's a tire thumper. I always used a 4 lb drilling hammer for the job because it had other uses.
Well have you ever held a solid block of metal before? if that bat wasn't hollow it would weigh 50+ lbs.
Actually the gallium didn't weaken the bat, Nigel's just really strong.
@DON'T READ MY NAME ok
snake III, I was playin it on my Nokia X02-00
It actually makes it 10 times stronger. He was really testing his grape flavored strength serum.
new prank idea get a bat like that and do the same thing with gallium but then tell your friends you are so upset then grab the bat and crush it with your hand
@@PugnaciousProductions ok
For those that are wondering, galluim is used in liquid metal thermal "paste" solutions in PCs or in any other areas where heat transfer is CRITICAL but you can't weld the two things together. It's usually a compounded by some other kinds of metals tho
And that is why when u buy liquid metal thermal contact for your laptops they say aluminium heat sinks not allowed with it.
Gallium-tin I think...
I'm more concerned about what the fuck is the difference between gallium and aluminium because in my country it's the same, but aluminium is an unofficial (not national) name - and this is the moment when I looked up on google and remembered it's "glin" not gallium 🌚. I didn't even have to edit it ...and don't ask why am I posting it
@@keks7494 two completely different metals. Look up the periodic table
@@TheHighborn are you blind or too lazy to click "show more" or whatever it's called
“This little chunk of metal”
The Metal: *literally a chrome Lego figure*
Gallium is some cool stuff. The only downside is that it can stain things.
Don't spill it on your carpet, you'll never get it out..
and make aluminum break like glass
@@skrimper There's nothing that would combine with the gallium to make a colorless compound?
feel like the staining is the least of its downsides, i would say rotting airplanes is kind of a big downside.
is it toxic?
That bat flip was real smooth
@👇Not RickRoII 🤣 don’t know who you think you’re fooling, but it’s not working
Its taken him years to perfect that flip lol
Is it just me or was that dink sound sooo satisfying
You should see him do it with a chef's knife.
There we go, was looking for someone to bring this up. It was really cool and I just audibly wow'd lol
That part at the end where you smashed the bat in half, followed with a pop up of your vaporizing chicken in acid video couldn't have been more chaotic. Wonderful. Very good. Do more.
That whole ending part was so unexpected it has my face hurting lmfao, finding this comment made it 100x better 🤣
I was about to comment the exact same thing, this man is losing his mind
Who's paying for that counter top he busted up 😂
I just came from that video lol!
NileRed: now we'll be testing what gallium does to aluminum
Scout: *WHERE THE HELL IS MY FRICKING BAT*
NileRed is now the force of natire
@@efj4624Nile red now uses the force o nature
"Hey medic have you seen my-"
"OH GOD WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BAT"
Honestly I can see this being a scout weapon
He even did the bat flip
He didn't just ruin a perfectly functional bat, he also damaged a nice piece of furniture 😭
In the name of science
@@thecraftedfilms4513 what science? He didn't explain anything at all lmao
@@spartan963300 I was joking
@@thecraftedfilms4513 my bad lmao
the counter looked perfectly fine. im actually surprised how the counter looked after breaking the bat
Nigel: It felt pretty sturdy, however...
Viewers: we know what must happen next
Nigel, after dramatic pause: S M A S H
B O N K
This is actually why you cant bring gallium on a plane, "gallium induced structural integrity failure"
Depending on the amount of gallium, you can rend aluminum to a consistency of wet paper.
P.s aluminum naturally produces it's own protective barrier against reactions because on exposure to oxygen, it creates an aluminum oxide layer, the reason the gallium didnt make the bat weak as paper is because scratching the surface removes very little oxide. Apply a small amount of hydrochloric acid briefly to remove that oxide and maximize the reaction. Just be sure to wear adequate protective equipment!
I doubt is anyone is going to check and if you will be capable to infect plane aluminum with your gallium. since you need to scrape off the paint.
If this is happening on an plane, then "adequate protective equipment" includes a parachute and possibly breathing apparatus.
"Sir, you can't bring liquids on this flight"
- "But that's not a liquid?"
*pulls out hair dryer*
It sounds like aluminum is an organism trying to protect itself from a pathogen, gallium.
Rend? Lol
"Think fast, chuckle-AHHHHHH MY BAT"
Hm...why do I get the feeling this is a mystery tool we can use later?
Like, in the third act of my life, I'm gonna have a tub of gallium and some aluminum I need to break, and I'll remember this moment...
@enrique amaya May he bless me with a life or death situation involving alumimum and a convenient tub of gallium. Amen.
@@Basil-Spice Amen
@@Basil-Spice airplane
it's for the side quests
And hopefully you get 24 hours to wait for it to work
I'm just saying, Scout would be proud of that baseball bat flip .
Nice flip pal! Let's see how well you can smash some BLU skulls.
I hate auto-balence
Thanks pally!
Boink! Bonk! Bonk! Boink!
@@mr.101.8 Silence
I don't quite know why, but there's just something about Nile's timing whenever he hits something that's just so comedically perfect. By far not the only reason I love his vids, but definitely one of them :)
It has a bit of a HowToBasic vibe I think.
0:43 "think fast chucklenuts" ahh metal bat
i love how the legomans uper body became more realistic when it started to melt
Congrats u got 2 bots to reply to your comment
@Ziko your father sees you as a disapointment
You liked that?
@👇Not RickRoII 🤣 your a dissapointment
Maybe something something thermoconductivity something something evolution Idk
For those who had experiences with building pcs, liquid metal is often not used tgt with aluminium cold plate heatsinks due to this very reason
"tgt"? What was that supposed to be? By liquid metal, are you referring to tin solder?
@@buddyclem7328 I'm guessing tgt = together. And by liquid metal I'm assuming they use gallium as the thermal carrier instead of water. Which is great until it gets cold in your room and your liquid cooling freezes up.
it's also why gallium is probably forbidden on airplanes
@@falconerd343 No, liquid metal is used to transfer heat from the cpu/gpu plate to the heatsink (preferably nickel, but copper is also fine) instead of thermal paste that is ceramic and has much lower thermal conductivity. It is not pure galium so it has a wider operable range (suitable for regular pc users). On the other hand, it also conducts electricity so extra care should be taken when applying it to your pc. It is actually pretty good, but the problem is you have to reapply it more often than regular thermal paste (at least in my experience).
@@falconerd343 im not sure that matters much, when you have it on a 100w heater it shouldnt stay frozen for long, and even it it freezes that pretty much just means you now have a soldered heatsink
Honestly if I had Gallium available to me back in middle or high school, I wouldve so done this to a friend or someone's bat so that the time they went to use it the base ball would shatter it on impact and leave everyone in shock and confusion, this would truly be one of those ingenious pranks, especially to do before someone's game xD
Till someone gets a fragment to the eye.
That’s a good way to blast shards of metal in your friends eyes.
@@Destroyer0092 it's character building
I’d hate to buy a new bat that would break my bank
Especially when metal shards fly into everyones eyes 😂
1:12 average dentist visit
2:32 scouts doesn't like this.
Why not now tye bat can inflict the bleeding effect
The best fact i have, is that supposedly in some chemistry labs it was a common prank to make a spoon out of Gallium, so that when your colleague would go to stir their soup or coffee or tea, it would melt away.
Oh! That's a good one! Chemistry teacher did it to his wife in the cafeteria, scared the ever loving life out of her
sounds dangerous if they don't notice/brainfart the spoon to be missing, and down the coffee anyway
@@yargolocus4853 Luckily its quite an obvious prank, so practically any chemist would notice it, still there is that tiny possibility, though liquid gallium is quite heavy so it would stay in the bottom of the cup.
@@yargolocus4853 gallium isn't toxic, fortunately, and technically can be consumed
Me: (Stares at piece of gallium intently)
can we appreciate the flip at 0:44
Can someone stop making these smooth-brain comments
@@skrimper can someone tell you to get a life
Can we appreciate I love how we appreciate
@@skrimper then why did you replie making it probably more popular
Meet the Scout
0:17 is some terminator 2 T-1000 stuff right there
I would love to see an entire chunk of aluminum soaked in an acid to remove the oxide layer, dipped into either mercury or liquid gallium, and then filmed as a time-lapse.
Amazing content as always Nile. Keep it up!
@@KG.00 youtube is going to shit
His name is Nigel
Too bad he stole the idea from an other YTer
2:46 golden tools in minecraft be like:
It was fun to learn about some of the properties of gallium because I'm a massive Spider-Man nerd and in the 2018 game, doctors ock uses gallium and the properties kinda match up to how it was used
imagine giving a bat infected with gallium to a baseball player and then pitching a ball for them.
I love performing this experiment. You actually only need a very tiny drop of gallium for this to work. I like to heat up the aluminum first to about 100C then place a small drop and make a small scratch. It really doesn't take much of a scratch and within a few minutes the aluminum has usually cooled down to room temp and you can crush it with your bare hands. Its important to use the right chemistry of aluminum, certain alloys slow or completely inhibit the replacement reaction.
@@zegel9580 Hmm, that's an interesting question! I would think yes but I have no idea where to start. That would make a great Nile Red video :)
@@bbrazen react it with water, it releases gallium, forms aluminium hydroxide and liberates hydrogen gas
yes you can just drop the aluminum scrap into water and gallium will settle on the bottom
i think this can be useful to produce hydrogen at home to fill party balloons for cheap without using aggressive hydroxydes
0:50 the reason of scratching was to remove protective Aluminium Oxide layer so that Galium can react with it.
I'm sorry but every Nile fan knows this
@@online-v982 Ohh. Ok. 😂. Actually i studied it recently. Thatswhy. curiosity you know😂😂😋
@@online-v982 i dont lmao
@@blendyboi5023 🙂🙂. Thatswhy i have written 😎
"A man has been liquified in Lego City!
Quick! build a baseball bat!"
Can we all just recognize the countertop Nigel litteritally smashed with a bat for this video?
I was wondering how much he spends on counters and also how sturdy that one is lol
The counter still seems pretty usable and fine to me.
You mean the baseball bat he smashed with a counter top.
Yeah, I felt sorry for it. Hope it isn't ruined.
It’s a steel countertop, it’s not going anywhere
2:41 I'd be pretty useless too if someone slammed MY head on the corner of a table like that
real
0:17 I want to turn this into a meme so much...
Glad someone understad the joke on this video
what the joke
@@OmniSync The tragedy, the terror...
Bro got the scout's bat from tf2
I'd be interested in seeing NileRed make a video about galinstan, which is an alloy of gallium, indium, and tin that's liquid at room temperature. It looks a lot like mercury (and it's replaced it in some applications), but it also really likes to stick to glass. However, I saw another guy on youtube add a small amount of dilute acid to the container it was in, which stopped it from wetting the glass.
It's pretty easy to acquire now too. Sold by Cryonauts as a thermal compound for computer processors. Not a good idea to use it for that, the gain in thermal conductivity is huge but the actual effectiveness compared to safer thermal compounds is laughably small. Also we use a lot of aluminum in out computers which it will react with and despite what we know about aluminum oxides, does so pretty easily.
People's Republic of Galistan
0:22 Change Da World… My Final Message
Goodb ye
*insert low quality windows 95 startup sound*
1:12 every dentist be like
*you give me ptsd*
Right? The last dentist I had seen was digging at my molars so fiercely, I thought he was gonna make my tooth break.
@@RavenclawDaisy95 my dentist stabs the hell outa my gums
You had to, right?
Nice to see metallurgy for uncommon elements. Hopefully it will lead to a new generation of curious scientists and engineers. The next 30 years will see tremendous opportunity in the fields of materials science and extractive metallurgy. For those considering a future in chemistry, physics and engineering, I can attest that after 30+ years in the industry there is no end to the learning process. McGill University graduate. 🇨🇦
If the police deploys aluminium robocops, we'll know how to defend ourselves.
@@Ash_G spray em with a gallium gun and sit still for 12 hours
@@amaan6845 The gallium experiments on RUclips are quite fascinating. An amount should be kept in all prepper basements.
@Ash_G the aluminum oxide in question
2:46 Counter Strike or something, idk, never played the game
Person: Spent days trying to make that lego from gallium
Nile: HAHA Warm Air goes burrrr!
@Don't read profile photo nobody gives a shit
Nah it just takes a few minutes and Nile probably made it himself
It's so easy take Lego piece create a mold for it then put gallium in it and cool it
It's so easy..........
It's a silicon ice mold. Lego itself sells them. He just poured the gallium into it and let it cool.
Lets be honest, we all expected him to break it in the end lmao
hey shouldn't you be working on that project due tomorrow??
@DON'T READ MY NAME shup
everybody gangsta until the gallium started getting the shape of a person when melting
Plot twist: the gallium didn't do anything to the bat, Nigel was just testing his brand superhuman serum
Rest in peace Lego man
Nigel: It Was Now Completely Useless As A Baseball Bat
Also Nigel: *aggressively destroys the bat*
to be fair that bat was pretty useless even before he destroyed it
True
@@mrmaksl They’re mainly for checking truck tires with, not to be used as an actual baseball bat
One gets the feeling that NileRed was traumatized by school sport as a nerdling.
"You know what I do with useless things!"
Loss: 1 Baseball Bat
Gain: 1 Reusable Ice Cream Cone
It's no longer a baseball bat. It's now a really weird champagne glass.
"Almost melts at a room temperature (29.8°C)"
*glances at thermometer showing 31°C*
Well, that thing would be toast by now
Yeah, "Can melt at some room temperatures" would be more accurate. I've already been to cities where it's 40°C all day every day.
Imagine an engineer that thinks like this designing a product only for it to have it fail if it gets anywhere near the equator.
@@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart To my knowledge, that exact thing already happens with some imported chocolates
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Room temperature is not the temperature in your room, it’s a standard measurement of temperature, 25ºc in Chemistry.
@@XochiCh i think you are replying to the wrong person providing that information.. seems OP of the comment is more likely to not know.
@@XochiCh Congrats for being aware of what exactly I'm saying is stupid.
2:54 when you run out of Ice-cream cones.
Do you gonna eat the aluminum too?
@@syafannyes
I saw you smacking the bat against the table and got some instant Nile Green vibes, had to check to be sure I was actually on your channel!
00:42 BOINK!!!!!!
haha scount tf2
@@sourhill2292 haha
@@sourhill2292 I'm actually a battle engineer, so it's kinda'o the opposite, partner.
Think fast chucklenuts!
"I'm a force of nature"
I feel sad for that table... :(
the table has seen worse abuse
I feel bad for literally every object in this lab :D
LPL used gallium to destroy and open a lock. Cool to see it used on a bat. Thanks for sharing.
I hated how when a Lego guy looked human when it melted
I really want to test pouring gallium on a piece of metal before making a weld over it to see how quickly it changes
1:34
I didn't think at first that he was going to be careful
0:26
it looks like its trying to escape from melting
it looks like a hand is reaching out
Such a Tragedy 😔
That when he flipped the bat was sooo satisfying
I feel bad for the table. 😂
Strangely, the table was the sturdiest object in this experiment...
I am so doing this to the local soft ball teams batts this spring. What an April Fools joke that would be!
Truly a Scout TF2 moment, Nile
0:44 bro flipped the bat like he is scout tf2
NileRed: I have this nice countertop. It isn't really damaged at all.
[audience knowing what'll happen next]
NileRed: Proceeds to wail on countertop with bat.
The way he just drops the broken handle and walks away like "what have I done"
Evil Nile: Makes normal stuff with the bat
Scout called, he wants his bat back
can we just talk about how nile can toss, flip, and catch a metal bat with one hand?
He's the canadian scout
@@IAMHAPPY5290 he does have the semi-chaotic energy of the scout
c-...c.....- uh... can you not? as in, you're not able to?... :/...... :( ... jeeze.
@@thepjup4507 I would just fumble and drop it on my foot
"And is now completely useless as a baseball bat"
*PROCEEDS TO BREAK IT EVEN MORE*
Amateur: "Destroying a Lego figurine with a baseball bat!"
NileRed: "How about...
no"
"Destroying a bat with a lego figurine"
NileRed: much better!
I saw the thumbnail and thought “PREPARE THYSELF”
NileRed just used a hair dryer to melt metal which is interesting ngl.
You really did my boy Gallium Lego man like Obi-wan did Anakin huh?
Good old days are back
I missed his art of breaking ......
A man has turned into gallium in LEGO City
The table be like.. "What were my sins for me to deserve these atrocities..??"
Yes, this can be really dangerous, If Im right, its called oxidation and it can happen with many more elements. For example in Guadalajara, Mexico, 2 pipes of different metals oxidated and that made a hole in it, causing an oil leakage into sewers causing an explosion during the high temperatures. And I also saw it myself- I had 2 seals, one silicon, one rubber and when I accidentaly left them laying on each other, and when I came back, one was swollen and one brittle-like.
Bro, it's forming an alloy. Oxidation is a loss of electrons or in organic chemistry It's literally the addition of oxygen.
@@anthonycassola4241 oh, so it looks the same, but indeed, is something different? 🤔. Like, i think i get you. Not just electrons but whole atoms and molecules?
@KEX CZ Yes. The individual metal atoms are forming an alloy, so the gallium is distributed among the aluminum. No chemical reaction is taking place. it's just physical.
The aluminum does start oxidized, though, and that's why Nigel had to scratch it to get under the layer of oxidation that formed when aluminum is exposed to the air.
Oxidation is collection of oxygen on the outside. This is creating an alloy (amalgamate iirc).
@@cerulity32k ok, I know now that I was probably wrong, sorry, chemistry is not my main subject , I have only basics from primary ... 😅. Although, now I am thinking, I come across oxides almost every day, since I am machinist, almost every metal I work with usually has an oxidated layer already , so yea, I am probably just dumb lol. Thanks though....
Yessss! The ending was definitely the one I was expecting 😂. Great 👍 Please keep going like this.
For some reason, when he put the pin into the gallium on the bay, I thought it was going to a different universe
1:35 expected a hammer to hit the screwdriver
That would be an airframe NIGHTMARE.
00:09 Here in Rio de Janeiro it would be liquid at room temperature.
this is why petropolis was built, it was a summer house to the royal family to escape the heat
2:30 Well, that escalated quickly - Ron Burgundy
It's weird that I was initially thinking that I had learned about this reaction from NileRed before, only to remember after the video started that it was in fact the LockPickingLawyer, who I first saw showcase this sort of thing by using it to eat away at some locks.
Big same. Might be a fan as well.
I love how he throws everything at end of every video
2:18
That bat spin was smooth asf
I think it could have been clarified that the scraping was to remove the layer of aluminum oxide that quickly forms on aluminum when exposed to air
Cool demonstration nonetheless
0:01 Legoman with hardware
Would it be possible to do this to create easily breakable metal for movie props?
Looks possible, yeah.
Imagine when you have gallium and have a Lego and then you Hardened it and you added ice and hot water then it created to Melt and become warm