Ytterby Road Trip (version 1) - Periodic Table of Videos

[samn100]

Milkshake :D or is it hot coco?

[smbhax]

"We didn't see any fences..." :D Fascinating adventure!

[bazookatim]

You should visit the Falu copper mine :)

[Wallacewvs]

Exist that's elements in other place? they can "mixed" with other elements?

[anssinie1]

great to see you greetings from Finland, other side of the gulf !

[mrericsully]

ASM International is an international professional organization whose name is simply "ASM International". They claim they are the largest professional organization in the world.

The acronym used to stand for American Society for Metals, then later they changed it to American Society for Materials. When they eventually went international and changed the name to just the acronym since "American" didn't make sense any more.

Their members are mostly metallurgists, material scientists, and engineers.

[Sharkness77]

"Then you basically take Grubagen, no sorry, it's called Speltzfartzvagen!"

Awesome street name

[Svanoyama]

I live in Ytterby :D

[akahamlet]

wow, that's really cool! i was there just this summer, walked by this place several times and i had no idea!!! i actually even recognized the path leading up to the quarry. well done!

[BTR74]

Ytterby is really fun to say

[AzcariaX]

haha I live 10 kilometres from ytterby:P

[TheKennethShow]

"An" historical landmark?

[Acavemancandoit]

Screw Ytterby stay in Amsterdam!

[dismutased]

This is so interesting, I'd love to see more history of the elements and stories like this one.

[peanutsdream]

thanks for sharing your trip! This is really interresting!

kisses from France!

[coreyfmiller]

Holy Crap... how did I end up watching this?

I was looking for Superbowl roadtrips lol.

Still interesting though...

[ElveeKaye]

Such beautiful scenery! Did you go sledding or skiing? I hope you at least had a snowball fight! :-D

[flaphoofd]

still, remembering from my old chemistry classes, didn't Mendeleev predict the existence of all elements that weren't even found yet, when he discovered the concept of the periodic table?

So without the mine, the periodic table would still be complete, only some elements would be unaccounted for. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[flaphoofd]

that was nice. very interesting.

[wemfO]

Wohoo Sweden!! I live there :)

[wwwhexxycom]

but then what happened????!!! Did you pick up any rocks to test back in the lab?

[SymAmineC8H11N]

badass...

[indiebobo07]

very awesome.

well done!

[anderzofsweden]

Yeah! Im from sweden!

[OrezUMoM]

Ah Sweden, naighbor country of Norway ^^

[ftwelve12]

I love this. I'd love to learn more about Ytterbium!

[hollymoon21]

i really liked this video but i thought it was somehow longer than it could be ... it only started to grab my attention from 4:00 to the end (when we get more solid scientific/historical information on the place and all) but anyway the place seems awesome, im looking foward to more of these videos.

[chemboy47]

Wow, the ultimate geek road trip! I thought I was bad for driving 3200 miles to see the Trinity site (first nuclear explosion). But great work! Come on out and see the site that Berkelium and Californium were discovered. Much warmer.

[paulruddick]

Chemical road trip. Awesome.

That looked pretty chilly though, I think you should be sending them somewhere warmer next time... maybe a volcano to look at naturally produced sulphur?

[kaitusunique]

I'm truly fascinated by your videos. i wasn't really into chemistry because of the lack of teachers giving such an interesting approach to it. But now, it's completely different. anyway, i was wondering if they still have samples of the elements in Aalborg Universitet, since i study production development there and it would be extremely great to have a close glimpse of them.

Thanks for spreading the knowledge and i'll stay tuned!

King Regards

[Charactereyes]

neat

[Didrik147]

That was a really interesting video, I learned a lot about where those elements was discovered. Nice done!^^

[lucialight4]

Very cool; looks like it was a cool adventure. Great video!

[johnclavis]

Absolutely wonderful. And such helpful locals! :)

I love the idea of doing "Science at Large" - traveling to locations of scientific interest. Looks like you've got your first entry, and it's terrific!

[JumpStop1]

SCIENCE FEILD TRIP!!!

awesome stuff guys!

[nineaclock]

Very interesting video, I learned something new today. I never knew that that those 4 elements were discovered there. Thanks alto Periodic vidoes.

[ZorkFox]

AWESOME chemistry field trip. Also awesome: you drive a Mini Cooper. I'm making this comment from the lounge at my Mini dealer right now while they perform the service interval on my Cooper S! :D

[keepup32323]

wow you just took the plane on 2:45 am to show the town on YT?

well thanks for posting and for the devotion

[RussellJakeBrutus]

You guys are doing a great job and these videos!!!

[cat980089]

I perfer this than any science website ever!Cant wait to see the next part! U guys are awesome!

[cat980089]

This vids awesome, ive seen every vid, even the bloopers, 5 stars!

[periodicvideos]

Thanks cat980089... for those who don't know, bloopers can be found over at our other channel, nottinghamscience

There were a few more bloopers while we were away in Sweden... I just need to decide to what extent I will embarrass Dr Licence by showing them to the world!

[dfct]

What about Holmium, Scandium and Thulium? If i'm not mistaken they were also found in the Ytterby Mine, which makes the total count seven.

Holmium is named after Stockholm, Scandium is named after Scandinavia i guess and Thulium comes from Thule, latin for "land in the north" or something like that.

[tomandjj]

no it's terbium, erbium, Ytterbium, Yttrium, holmium, thulium and gadolinium that were discovered in the Ytterby mine. the count is still seven though.

[dfct]

Hm, the sign in the video says Scandium. Wikipedia says Gadolinium but the swedish Wikipedia says Scandium. Confusing.

[tomandjj]

definitely gadolinium. if you look up web pages on scandium it was discovered in a completely different place by a completely different person.

[leekymkween]

You shouldn't be depending on Wikipedia in the first place. Wiki can be written by anyone.

[christiankarlsson]

Yes, but so is books, videos and everything else... In wikipedia you have sources, which means that you can verify the facts and you have the history tab where you can check every changes made. Wikipedia is actually much better than most other pages on the internet because of those two features.

[christiankarlsson]

I have long wondered why there isn't a standard for archiving web pages. If you're using Wikipedia as a source, you can specify the exact revision used. Which is excellent. You can't really do this with any other web page on the internet, because they lack a searchable archive, making them useless.

[Lostfaith1980]

I always love these videos, educating, fascinating and entertaining. But most of all an excellent example of how the internet should be used instead of *Gags* social networking sites like myspace.

But thats just my opinion.

[Stebon24]

Awesome. What a cool trip that would be.

[limlynn999]

Keep it up!!! Love the video =P

[Konkaver]

Very cool :)

[Paxmax]

ahh.. cool....

[TristianTV]

wow, you cant even see his breath

[gulllars]

And as i'm sure you've noticed, most Scandinavians (Norway, Sweden, Danmark) speak english, and those of higher education often also speak german or french. Good pronounciation of Ytterby gruve ;)

Looking forward to the continuation next week.

[alenrosic]

Very nice! I watched all yours videos, I think you guys should explain little more about those 4 elements and its Importance in today society and chemistry! Love your videos cant wait every week for an new update keep a great Job guys!!!

[test123ok]

very nice to see these kind of videos...exploring the outdoors...and educational. Thanks

[BoatRepairMan]

Very cool literally!!!!!!!

[mclight81]

awesome

[saintaureus]

This is an awesome view, thanks! But for next snow-covered mine you visit, you might want to bring gloves!

[SilkSwe]

You didn't look to have the right clothes to be climbing around in the snow. Wasn't it cold?

Haven't been to Ytterby, but I did know that they had discovered some new elements there. :)

[GaryCancer]

They should have quietly played some Darkthrone or Satyricon in the background. Periodic Videos IST KREIG!

[gulllars]

@GaryCancer:

Darkthrone and Satyricon are NORWEGIAN, not Swedish. If you want Swedish metal you could go for something like Hammerfall. And "IST KRIEG" is german.

On topic:

I agree that you could have gone in the summer for a more plesant trip, but i salute you for your eagerness ;) It would be great if you could put in something more about practical uses and chemical properties of these 4 elements. I've watched all your videos and i'm subscribing. Thanks from a Norwegian chemistry student.

[periodicvideos]

Updates for our videos about Yttrium, Ytterbium, Erbium and Terbium will all be uploaded soon. Those films will deal more with things like chemical properties and uses.

And for us, the fact it was snowy made it more pleasant... It only snows a few times a year in Nottingham and never heavily, so we found the deep snow a big novelty! The day we went to Ytterby was the first snowfall of the season... The day before we filmed there was no snow at all, according to locals!

[Sonic88Reducer]

awesome, looked like a fun trip

[ENavarrete10]

I'm going.

[prodigy00073]

That was really interesting.

[GetMeThere1]

Very cool!

It was EXCITING but....I probably could have contained my excitement until summer--when your trip would have been more pleasant, perhaps.

[j0mj]

Thanks for going to all the effort. Great Vid.

[Wonderboy0046]

That is interesting, thank you. I have studied Chemistry at the university (of Lund) in Sweden and I did not know this.

[xdfgf]

Fascinating.

[kongotech2]

Cool, I'm from Sweden! :D

[OpenEyeVisuals]

Good effort, men!

Carry on rocking the world in periodic fashion.

[acies37]

man I'm cold just lookin' at ya.

[fragmad]

That's very cool.

[flyonawndshield]

I wasn't expecting much from a snow-filled quarry in Sweden, but I was very surprised! It definitely isn't a tourist trap, but I think it's much more charming that way.

[Vichama]

Cool trip but did they not have a later flight? Thats just too early for this guy.

[woodchuck1022]

cooooool

[helmus2000]

This is really amazing that you guys go all the way to sweden and make a video about if for us.

Very intresting! keep it up!

[laurence1211]

Scientists on a pilgrimage...lol. Good vid.

[andrebrannan1953]

What is weird about saying maths do these people only study quadratic equations? These videos are getting better.

[GooGeL85]

Heh, I hope you took the opportunity to make some snow angels!

Thanks.

[christy13131]

Wow, there was I, thinking now you had covered all the elements in the periodic table, there was not much else you could do. How wrong was I. This is really exciting stuff now. Thank you so much.

[sciencoking]

DAM! ok here are 5 pounds...

[Woad25]

"An historic"??

[Craydon]

Let's assume this is another example of how the language has changed.

[revender13]

Historic may have 'a' or 'an' in front of it.

[DrBones666]

They also say 'Maths", plural. Just another weirdity.

[deathcrunch]

Since Math/Maths is slang to start wit it seams fine. The historic thing I knew thought of.

[koolakalle]

Interesting, great to see you visit us here in Sweden.

[periodicvideos]

We also have Swedish captions on this video (among other languages) which can be seen by turning them on at the bottom right corner of the player... though most Swedish people we've encountered speak brilliant English already.

[TheRomans]

<3 <3<3<3

[windyshrimp]

Sweet, I wonder how many elements actually have a landmark of where they were first discovered.

[Runeshady]

So that is what it was. Interesting to know.