Pulsating Electrochemical Reaction: Mercury Beating Heart

[ScLeprae]

What if you had more then 1 nail touching the mercury?

[Varlwyll]

if robots laid eggs...

[bagofchips13]

Simaler to the gallum beating heart

[bagofchips13]

This is very simaj

[tingyuyan12]

this is a heart wow im pretty sure the person would be dead by now

[Uwaikai]

If this were to be a real human heart, the poor man/woman would've died by now. xD

[915Jdawg]

.......what?

[ps7109]

The Forging of the Triforce.

[ToryuMau]

COOL

[jonathan3979701]

where do u get mercury from?

[trumpeteerxx]

@jonathan3979701 buy it online

[dereileak]

@jonathan3979701 probably the planet, he took a rocket ship there, ha ha

[dexcox]

story of me

[Trifu22]

it's like a battery

[surplusdriller]

i tryed it and its amazing

whent on for houres.

to big a drop and it will splash!!

[superwhiz88]

dangerous experiment,, i mean the fume

[vitorix24]

@superwhiz88 nop

[chanchan84]

SCIENCE!

[NutterButter777]

anyone know were to get gallium with out acid in it ?

[nemanume]

that is gallium ... not mercury.

[CarnalDiafragma]

No, this is mercury, but it works for gallium too.

[vitorix24]

@CarnalDiafragma Mercury needs iron but gallium doesn´t need.

[CarnalDiafragma]

Gallium doesn't need iron? Didn't know that :)

[vitorix24]

gallium doenn´t need iron nail. sry :s

[bedgell]

definitely want to replicate this experiment

[thiti1732]

wooooooooo...........

[o0Murray0o]

0:30

Zelda triforce???

[sirmikeydotcom]

Will it go steady if mercury temperature is regulated?

[sirmikeydotcom]

Surface Tension, not temperature?????

[WhrsTheMoneyLabowski]

I mean, eventually the nail would run out of electrons and the process would cease, or the solution would evaporate enough as not to cover the mercury, but otherwise it would prob continue

[derkozten]

Classical... one of my all-time favourites

Tried to do it... hmmmph, it wasn't as easy as I thought :S

[proffesorcat]

isn't science fun?

[PRFrancis]

You google that? :D

[prototype9000]

interesting would make a good interrupter for electrical experimentation

[creationode]

the triangular lozenge shape the mercury attains near the end can give you ideas into lighter than air craft design.

[phj1990]

"electrons flow from the nail to te mercury".

So the power source in this video is the iron metal on the nail, which is slowly oxidized to Fe(2+) and probably Fe(3+). The oxidizing agent is the chromate ion. So this is nothing more than a very slow redox reaction between chromate and iron, katalysed by the mercury. The chemical energy of the high-energetical chromate and iron is simply transferred to kinetical energy. So this is not a "perpetuum mobile", and not a source of energy at all.

[AlchemistShaman]

This experiment was orginially published in a 1940s Scientific America magazine I believe. They used potassium permanganate for the blood red color, but said the experiment also works with just sulfuric acid.

[Bradido1]

Try again. It was first reported as early as 1858 by Carl Adolf Paalzow

[AlchemistShaman]

Oh lordy...I was saying when it was first published in America and became well known. If you want to get into when it was actually discovered, it was the alchemists who discovered it hundreds of yeats ago can called it the living mercury.

[alysdexia]

not living, quick or live or lively silverr

[shenkhar]

I'm wondering how long this reaction would go on for, would it continualy absorb and give off the mercury ions, creating motion in the water? If so... scientists should find a way to capture the vibrations and transform them into electrical energy.

[BulletProofLincoln]

that would be highly impractical and useless

[shenkhar]

How so? movement can be harnessed into energy, just like anything else. Impractial maybe, but not useless.

[vmelkon]

You do know that iron is getting oxidized in the process so it is the energy source?

You do know that the iron nail was produced by using coal + iron oxide/hydroxide from nature?

[yojimbojango]

They're getting this reaction by electrons moving from the iron to the mercury then dispersing the electrons into the potassium.

[AlchemistShaman]

On MythBusters they proved propetuel motion using the Hamel device. Just 3 cones sitting inside each other with magnets around the top ring. The barrel they sit in has 3 rings of magnets which repel the cones. The cones can never get settled and move and vibrate forever. Done perfectly to exact size measurements, the vibration is strong/fast enough to produce a lot of electricity if hooked up to a generator type wheel. But they were doing the experiment to disprove antigravtiy

[sirmikeydotcom]

Hamel Device? Any links?

[MikeReedKS]

Interesting.

[Panasper]

cool