Iron (version 1) - Periodic Table of Videos

[sbergman27]

0:40 As the flower pot involved in the making of this video, I should like to register a formal complaint. This was never in my contract. I was not informed of the hazardous nature of the work. And I never signed a release. Furthermore, I simply cannot believe that this has happened to me *yet again*. I was expecting to be home to a nice grouping of petunias, or some such, for some years to come.

-Agrajag

[coolliger]

The smell of rotten eggs was hydrogen sulfide, H2S, a highly toxic gas. I would not do that experiment.

[NANOFORGE]

Thermite is also used in the solid rocket boosters for space shuttles because it burns fast.

[klnine]

WTC haha !

[trishdonya]

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[sammysignal]

2:43 for BIG GOO!!

[therandomexample]

Ah, if only there was silica along with that sand, you might have been able to make sand! Perhaps there was some in the sand?

[therandomexample]

Ah, if only there was silica along with that sand, you might have been able to make sand!

[pingshiyu]

4:42 that noise ROFL!

[ballonman124]

How come neil never talks. He reminds me of Slugworth from charlie and the chocolate factory.....

[schmidtbag]

i'm surprised they didn't bring up its magnetism, seeing as how its one of the only elements that can naturally be magnetic

[Naddig74]

Thermite 4tw...when anyone tells you chemistry is dull, just show them thermite.

[L00NGB00W]

What happens to the aluminum oxide in a thermite reaction?

Is it released as a gas? or combine with the newly formed lump of iron?

[Serostern]

I have a HUGE batch of FeO3 coming along nicely.

Passing a dc current through iron scrap in a saltwater solution.

Produces FeO, and then you boil it down on a campfire until it gets a really nice red colour, that tells you its FeO3.

[asseeninYOURDREAMS]

a better prank would be putting iron-oxide and aluminum on top of your boss's car

[Agentoxedo07]

Holy-Terrorist:>*=* OMG look at is 4:30 the professor garry mod SPARTAANN

[Digadogup]

could you make a weak steel by mixing carbon and iron oxide and aluminum , arrange it so that the carbon bonds with the iron when the reaction occurs? or would something else happen..?

[Serostern]

The carbon would burn. And you get a huge blob of molten iron.

Sorry =P

[weldmaster80]

no the aluminum oxide becomes a slag. glass like junk

[dancetotunes]

No.

[dipteraTradeMark]

maybe I not wonder but does anyone know where was this experiment?

[jbohbot1]

the iron from the experiment melted through the pot but were did the aluminum oxide go?

[Tetrahedron604]

It's the white smoky dust u see , and the molten iron is flowing down.

[JebusGeist]

lol @ 2:15 when he says its gone out.

Assuming it's out too quickly is dangerous. A lesson I learned as kid when I thought a firecracker was a dud. I waited a good 30 seconds after the fuse had disappeared into the casing and the smoke had stopped, and then went to pick it up.

It went off. If it had gone off a second or two later I would have had it closed in my hand and been very badly injured.

I almost learned my lesson the hard way.

The next dud got 5 minutes, doused with water and chucked.

[priscilaroses]

no leas esto porfabor

si no escribis esto en 10 videos tu mama se va a morir es 4hs

[JacobRudduck]

I dunno why, but the guy in the green coat always reminds me of Nick Frost :p

[sonic48051]

OMG SPACE CATS

[hugohugo37]

Now here's a serious question-

Magnetite can be obtained by running a magnet through beach sand ( i.e. it's free) and aluminum can be gotten from old cans (again virtually free). Throw in a sparkler and a match and you have HUGE energy released. Why isn't this used more? Couldn't you use this as a heat source for, say, glass making or jewelry making (melting other metals) or heating water rapidly...?  Why isn't thermite used to heat my house?

[jama463]

The amount of aluminium and magnetite that would have to be used in order to heat a single home for 20 years would probably not be sustainable, but that's just a hunch I have.

However, one could run a magnet through sand and pulverise a few cans and they would have thermite? Fraking awesome.

[skylineaddict]

Question is, how much magnetism is required to make magnetite?

[Chaosblade777]

As well, thermite may damage most heating systems and an accident could burn a house down, as thermite can cut right through a car with ease.

Though it is a good idea..

[teresagem]

In fact, the alumina must be molten (which alone takes a lot of energy as it has a very high melting point and then large amounts of electricity are used to electrolyse this melt. Energy wise, aluminium is an energy expensive metal to extract - that's why so much energy is released in the thermite reaction.

[hugohugo37]

Thanks for the thoughtful response. Clearly there is no such thing as free energy. On the surface it seems that scrap aluminum is cheap (about 85 cents a pound) but I guess it's not really cheap enough to burn considering it could be used for other things.

[BluBreathProductions]

My science teacher did this for us

[samn100]

PROVE IT! THIS IS SCIENCE!

[sn1pe352]

I would like to know how the physics of vibrations and waves play a role in chemical reactions and atomistic modeling of materials,moleculer structures etc

[svillethomas]

Thats more of a physics question isn't it?

[Grundalizer]

You'll probably win the nobel prize if you can figure that out.

[matthew623210]

how much of the iron oxide and aluminium powder did you use?

and where did you get them?

nice though i might do it for my science fair project

[0Sebek0]

you can use 60 grams of Al with 160 grams of Fe2O3, mix them perfectly and do the same as in the video

[MattDoesNotRock]

the guy with the funky hair sounds a bit like Joe Brand :D

[ZomgZ1232]

So eccentric. Love his hair! This guy totally rocks!

[blix797]

It should be noted that thermite is NOT illegal to possess or make, so play responsibly, kids.

[ElveeKaye]

"Our students are much more responsible." XD

[Notyouraverageperson]

That makes me wonder, if you take a bit of rust off of an old car (since rust is iron oxide) and wrap it up in aluminium foil and light it would that basicaly be the same as thermite?

[iwan0t0smith]

no for two reasons.

firstly alluminium is very reactive so the foil will have a very thin coating of al2o3 over it. and secondly the alluminium needs to be powder mixed in with fe2o3 powder.

you also need a lot of heat to start the reaction

[Notyouraverageperson]

That makes sense, it would be a shame if someone was having a cookout on a rusty grill and they all of the sudden have a thermite reaction. Thanks.

[iwan0t0smith]

it would definately liven up christmas

[silendshade]

i have seen someone do it with rusty iron cannonballs. they wrapped the cannonballs in aluminium foil and smashed two of them together, it just made some sparks. but it worked.

[millanrlm]

freaking awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ritzoid]

Wicked video, iron is amazing.

Using magnesium ribbon, can a tablespoon of thermite powder be ignited? Or does there have to be enough thermite powder ("critical mass") for the redox reaction to initiate?

[saintaureus]

Except for crabs.

[Di66en6ion]

And certain squids I believe as well.

[tubeuser1992]

Never stop making videos, I love them! you guys are awesome!

[jamesrherbert]

He's English and he speaks english.

All the other elements that are -UM are actually -IUM.

Shut yo face! :P

[xLightFilmsx]

"Aluminium" . . .

[corght]

''Ion''

[roendm]

theyre talking about hir electrochemisttry and redox reaction to generate aluminum ,wer doing dis in our lab

[zZkatrinaZz]

LOL to the practical joke!!

[bamafb77563]

good to see Einstein sharing his knowledge

[thistlewood]

that professor is so awesome!

[VamLoveAndKisses]

Someone's trying to copy Instein!

[Maddiooo]

You mean Einstein, right?

[VamLoveAndKisses]

yeah, I can't spell. lol

[maekern]

Interesting, informative and entertaining. As always. People like you folks make the interent a better place.

[oobermate]

great job on the videos. i have been a fan of these videos for a long time. keep up the great work! =)

[lvecsey]

hard to say how much it cost to repair but they do have those heavy engineering rail cars to bring on location and fix most problems

[xxCCBBxx]

i wish there were more professors as cool as that guy

[6manchesterutd6]

Last 3 seconds made me smile :D

[xmrwaffles2]

train fire woot

[dfct]

Thermite is awesome. You should check out the latest ep of Mythbusters where they try to cut an SUV in half using ALOT of thermite :D

[thisIStheARTofRUIN]

did anyone else notice the 2 screens behind the dude?? shares the same screen saver

[cheesedude9909]

hîlarious dudes. and informative!

[pitviper12345]

i doubt it if its aluminium..

[pitviper12345]

oh yes, i have a question. what is that rod you guys used to start up the reaction? (the one that created sparks when it was lit up) was it an Aluminium rod? or was it some other metal?

[ytmoog]

Magnesium strip

[pitviper12345]

thanks!

[Ratbiker]

it was actually a simple kids sparkler.

[pitviper12345]

thank you professor you just encouraged me to do this practical joke at purdue ;) :P

[nickwoo2]

I also did the Iron and sulfur and it also started me off in my interested in chemistry.

[musl2009]

what would happen if they mixed all of the elements together?

[finderrr]

its called boom goes the earth XD

[limlynn999]

Wow glowing hot molten iron stuck with flower pot

[xmrwaffles2]

how do you predict reactions?

[Envergure]

In high school chemistry you should learn that. It takes a few hours to explain in detail.

[xmrwaffles2]

im in canada and I was learning about it before just failing because the teacher wont effing explain it anymore I don't care get most of it.

[leekymkween]

The periodic table and experiments.

[jasonguyperson]

by melting a hole around the edges... yeah ok ok bad idea... but still.

[keitaidenwaKern]

That probably costed the railway company at least $50,000 because of that stupid practical joke. I would feel like throwing poop at them if I were the railway company owner.

[RiddickTheKiller]

Precisely Oxyhemoglobin is brighter than standard Hemoglobin

[Intervene]

Good video. Nice stuff.

[reinux]

Thanks for the video!

[magick205]

"Our students are much more responsible". Yeah, right. They just don't get caught! XD

[Paxmax]

dang, that reaction created alot of heat, and was quick about it too.

[Blairwest5]

WAtch BAriniac THermite reactions bigger explosions but Periodic Videos arte way cooler and i would rather watch PS LoVwe the way they explain the chemical reaction

[julian1000]

God damn crabs...

use iron like the rest of us!

[Shankovich]

My friends did this on a beach but with about a 5 times bigger pot filled 3/4 of the way with thermite lol

[jasonguyperson]

now i know how to get into safes.... ;)

[smiguet]

Since Iron effects the color of our blood, then would the amount of iron that is in our blood possibly cause pigmentaton to be different in individuals? I know that oxygen plays a key factor; the more there is the brighter the color.Iron causes the the weight of blood (with more Iron in it)to be heavier.Does this impact the coloring then?

[SarafinaPrettyToes]

thanks for the lesson

[L0LUNIC0RN]

i love the accents!

[claytorpedo]

Nice double screen saver. :)

[ENavarrete10]

You guys are the best.....

[awol09]

the thermite they were using dident look like it was made with Fe2O3. it dident have any red color to it. Looked more like FeO

[ninja4flying]

Very nice and informative video.

[periodicvideos]

things don't always go to plan, and we have put a second video of our "outtakes" over on our other channel, nottinghamscience!

[strek0655]

No problem. I subscribe to that channel as well ;)

[OdracirKill]

Thanks very much for all this cool information. Science is cool! :D

[sciencoking]

HAHA THAT STORY WITH THE STUDENTS!

AND THEN THE "nonono our students are far more responsible" o my god i´m dying hahahahaha

[toshindodisciple]

thank you so much for these videos, you make my want to bust out my old chemistry books.

and i love the way you brit's pronounce aluminum, said with sophistication and class.

[RiddickTheKiller]

Why not trying Thermate instead? =D

[JumpStop1]

how do you explain that!? "... um yeah we just decided to weld the train to the tracks. no biggie." hahaha

[boxant]

"Every time I hear the word Iron, I get quite excited."

Gotta love chemists! ;)

[jmasta99999]

u guys have really gotten me interested in this stuff

[xdfgf]

w00t. Thermite! Another great video guys.

[petercourt]

The noise that came from that basket when he removed the iron tetra made me laugh at the same time as thinking it was disturbing. Great video guys.

[KitsuneCity]

The chemical reaction was really cool. It must release a ton of heat in order to melt like that! Great video, as always.

[Fedja]

You guys are seriously heating up my interest in Physics and Chemistry. Subjects that upon stumbling upon these videos I found utterly boring and uninteresting.

Now, where's my Chemistry textbook...

[Buladitto]

My physic teacher did this last week. Looks great. The professor siting in the chair with the pausescreen in the background is so entertaining and makes me interested in phy/che. Loved the joke about the students and the train :).

[Dries90]

Lovely vid! I once saw a video where they put thermite on a block of ice. The thermite got so hot that the water from the ice turned into hydrogen gas and oxigen. Because the thermite was still burning the H2 exploded and the block of ice was gone in a few seconds! Maybe you guys could do such an experiment too? =P

[Retsam19]

Really good video!!

[bambapabbi]

how ironic

[Ultim8Aggie]

As always, brilliant. You guys have really peaked my interest in Chemistry again. I miss those college days.

[NAMLegolas]

Ok, I'm not getting Oxidized Iron near fire... :P

Thanks For Video !

[zloben9000]

they say the twin towers on 9 11 had their steel beams melted with thermite by the CIA.

[sy1234]

The support beams still had puddles of red hot metal four weeks later.. whoa.

[Gplainsman]

every video u do is better then the last, great info thanks for all the info about the redox reaction and this is the first i'm hearing of crabs and copper hopefully u can explain that a bit soon

[Didrik147]

Some says that Barons have blue blood, but crabs actually have it. That's interesting. At a temperature of about 2500 °C, Thermite is warm!

[hord]

crabs and copper? i wanna know!

Great vid!

[periodicvideos]

go to our copper video to find out! it is already available.

[periodicvideos]

The high quality version takes a bit longer to become live.

[ThScience]

Nice!;)

Thermite is cool!

5/5

[sexysergiy]

Great video

[CitizenErased2007]

Woot thanks for the new video ! :)))))))))))

[XxThatOneKidxX]

5/5 :D