Magnesium - Periodic Table of Videos

[SYamooraSY]

i want that periodic table !!! much more exciting than the boring original one :)

[xsonicxultimatefan]

"Beryllium is fantastically poisonous..."

Made my day :D

[12co3dy21]

That's not entirely true about lithium being useless, we use it all the time in Lithium batteries, there is a large piece of lithium inside it

[oooooooooorly]

@12co3dy21

Pretty sure they meant "structurally useful."

[HWGuyEG]

I'm still waiting on that magnesium laptop chassis lol

[Level84]

I don't get the ending... So if you light a piece of Magnesium again after it had already burned, it will burn and shine brightly again?

[Zapper1993]

My teacher, being unaware of the fire alarm above his head, managed to set it off all over my school while burning some of this. He forgot there would be smoke. And to top off the madness, they coudn't find the keys to the locker where the alarm could be switched off, so we had to listen to it for an hour or so. xD

[Qieerbushe]

"Green Chemistry!!" as the screen saver? Nice!

[HistoryIsALie]

Isn't Milk of Magnesia Mg(OH)2, not MgO?

[Hyp3r309]

Beryllium is fantastically poisonous! not the best way to put really.

[brainfarth]

I weld magnesium quite often. I'm sure that at the middle of the molten puddle that it is several thousand degrees, yet it dosnt burst into flames. Maybe it has something to do with the argon shielding.

[Conway193]

Magnesium will never combust with nitrogen, helium, argon, krypton, xenon, radon or ununoctium. I further doubt that magnesium would combust with gaseous phosphorus, arsenic, tin, bismuth or ununpentium.

Chalcogens or halogens are another subject altogether - fireworks are assured.

[twycross3]

If you knew the amount of magnesium your burning can you calculate how my UV your producing? I guess magnesium gives off a certain amount of UV per atom so once you know that then you would just multiply it right? So bottom line I'm asking "how much UV do you produce from a magnesium reaction?" THANKS

[twycross3]

If you knew the amount of magnesium your burning can you calculate how my UV your producing? I guess magnesium gives off a certain amount of UV per atom so once you know that then you would just multiply it right?

[cuntylishus]

Classroom claaa-sic. Welshness to the max, boyo!

[SuperTechieJ]

The HP Envy is made of Magnesium to compete with Apple's Aluminum Macbook and Macbook Pro's.

It was a dismal sales failure. People didn't want to pay Macintosh prices for a PC.

[sp1nrx]

I suggest they show what happens when you try and put the flame out with water. That would be a show.... and Mag burns in CO2. Both the gas and frozen.

[GreenDayEmoGirl1]

burn the cell phones!



[alewisgb]

i actually saw someone try to blow a piece of magnesium out that caught on fire

[zeroxtroyer]

His hand is shaking when he is trying to put the magnesium flashlight bulb onto the cell.

[ChRIs23696]

is it true that you will go blind if you stare directly at the burning flame? our science teacher told it to us in year 7 (quite a while ago :)), but is it true? personally i think it was just to stop us stating at it for health and safety but not sure...

[killeroftheshadows96]

@ChRIs23696 burning magnesium puts off a LOT of UV light and could possibly blind you if you stare at if long enough.

[Afrocanuk]

The sweat from your fingers easily reacts with magnesium metal to leave fingerprints. 

[HWGuyEG]

I'm guessing that laptop frame is from a ToughBook or ThinkPad.

[Nanovirus5995]

Who disliked this >:(

[bdhcarbon]

where do i get a chart model of the periodic table that is weighted to the amount present on the earth? Ive tried to google it but havnt been able to find anyone.

[Radl0activE]

Beryllium is "fantastically poisonous" =P

[XenoZenoLove]

poor professor who played the fool had shakey hands =(

[KalahariSurf]

We had a science experiment where we were meant to burn a piece of magnesium ribbon in a cruclible but it was taking too long to burn so we distracted the teacher and filled up the crucible with magnesium powder and tried to heat that up.

After a few mins we got bored waiting for it to burn so we torched it directly with the Bunsen burner and the whole thing flared up in a ball of pure white light and a very dense cloud of smoke. Filling 1/2 the lab with dense smoke

[KalahariSurf]

and we tried to convince the teacher it was only a small piece of magnesium ribbon that we burnt:)))

[brazilniq]

thanks give to us this know knowledge..

[TheCaptainLulz]

To make magnesium nitride you have to blow nitrogen onto the lit magnesium. It wont work if you just light it in a stagnant chamber full of nitrogen.

[Afrocanuk]

Magnesium is also used as a high-quality replacement for cheaper plastic molding.

[JuanLeTwnz]

I've seen the old video but I'm not really sure about the updates on this one? Culd you please enlighten me about it?

Also, dear uploader, did you actually take part in some of those videos or edit them? There have been so many useful responses over the past months. To me, it'd be interesting to take a look at the person managing this channel.

[elena1910]

Mg is also used in fireworks to produce WHite colorss

[JawDog123]

how much shit does he have on his desktop eeyyyy?

[4515jonny]

ever try putting burning magnesium under water?

[djspuddy]

This video has been very interesting, thanks.

[pepquimic]

I'm a young catalan chemist and I'm very surprised and very happy to see our periodic table in your video. I'm beginning my PhD in scientific comunication (in University of Girona). We use popular science and recreational chemistry to bring science to secondary students and, in general, to bring the scientific research from university to the general public. Periodicvideos is my favorite web page. Thank's to you I discovered a lot of spectacular experiments that I use. Thank's! You are the best!

[41dhos]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the amazing corrosive properties of Magnesium. Magnesium is one of the most corrosive metals when put in ocean water and frequently used as a anode. Aluminum is also highly a corrosive metal used in ocean waters as an anode. Though, the amazing thing is, when Magnesium is bonded with Aluminum, it creates Aluminum compound that is not corrosive in the ocean. It is known as a 6000 grade Aluminum and frequently used by Ocean Engineers.

[woodesroger]

fantastically poisonous lol

[Nguli34689]

I need to know that if Magnesium metal (powder) and powdered Aluminum when combined with an oxydizer like saltpeter and not as reactive as Potassium chlorate, would there be a stroboscopic effect as the two metals burn. We use "Magnalium" which is an amalgam of the two, but I need to know what's involved in the flashing effect that you see in firework displays.

[BruckThatsMe]

I love how the professor said that Beryllium was "Fantastically poisonous." Love the videos guys, keep them coming.

[CelticRaven163]

The Professoris a legend! Doing the experiment for 25 years knowing it won't work and playing the fool :)

[sajibaby1]

Awesome, but we we never did such in our labs in Trinidad!!!!!!

[mewrox99]

A very interesting reaction I did once with magnesium was to react it with NO2. Much more powerful than the CO2 reaction

[2oonhed]

Nice wig.

[Doogeedoo12]

Now, am I correct in my understanding that if you stare at a piece of burning magnesium that it can cause you to go blind? I remember my Chemistry teacher in high school advising the class not to look into the light for an extended period of time. Afterall, isn't magnesium and magnesium alloy used for welding? And one should never look directly at the welding surface without a faceguard.

[ereg1300]

I didn't see it burned in the Chemistry lab, my High School never did that experiment. But one of my fellow student go thrown out of Chemistry class for stealing a strip of Magnesium, lighting it in the Math room and burning a hole in the floor tiles.

[bigbookofnothing]

Does the professors screensaver say "Green Chemistry !!!!"?

[nokomarie1963]

Good old Milk of Magnesia. It doesn't get used as an antacid much these days but it is a commonly used laxative in rest homes. Why a metal in suspension would have been considered good for you I don't know. But think of all the crazy concoctions people took in the past; mercury salts, mustard plasters, extracts made of fermented beetle carapaces and the like.  It's a wonder any of them worked.

[AdventLt]

Omg, poor proffesor, his hands shake pretty bandly :(

[homousios]

very interesting thanks. when I took chemistry in high school durind the Dark Ages I did not pay attention to this as well as the periodic table now I see the  elegance of Nature. Thanks

[MihaZ]

Ahhh, good memories! I love that experiment when I was at school haha.

[Lavabug]

I recall from my bio textbook that UV light can move the outer electrons of Mg in chlorophyll to an excited state, which makes it easier for the molecule to oxidize and give its valence electrons to NADP+, which is reduced to NADPH and starts that chain of redox reactions through molecules embedded in the chloroplast's membrane.

The potential energy of those moving electrons is used to make the sugars, but eventually the chlorophyll molecule gets its electrons back and the cycle is repeated.

[Intervene]

Excellent video

[Lavabug]

Burning magnesium = classic redox chemistry! I did this in my 1st year lab course, good fun.

[adeeply]

why the proffesor's hands are shakin? =(

[YamiPoyo]

Do a video about the chemicals used to make the new man made living cell life.

[Xraller]

those sideburns! Has Elvis become popular in the UK?

[hyunchoi98]

LOL fantastically poisonous

[majornewb]

great video! i didn't know they used magnesium in phones and laptops

[jmontello1]

Just burning magnesium in air will form some magnesium nitride... adding the resulting oxide to water will yield some ammonia (enough that you can detect it's odor).

[culwin]

Magnesium thinks it's so cool.

It's like the Matthew McConaughey of the elements.

[shadowblack1987]

If you want a laptop frame made of magnesium, Alienware laptops all have magnesium. I was also told the IBM's i have used also have magnesium frames... Hell my Nikon D3 and D300 both have magnesium frames ;)

[Craydon]

When magnesium burns it's converted into magnesium oxide?

[dharmafreak]

lol the professor loves keeping files on his desktop on his computer.

[shaurz]

Nobody fully understands photosynthesis... there's some amazing quantum physics involved.

[andy16666]

Magnesium ships were vulnerable to ignition if they were shot at, so they phased out the use of magnesium in ship hulls during/after the war.

[Films4You]

0:57 lots of icons on that computer display... (may add a lot more to make one for each element, just a joke

[Kargoneth]

Cool periodic table with the areas of the boxes corresponding to the element's abundance. Does burning magnesium give off lots of ultraviolet light?

[GetMeThere1]

Excellent vid...but the periodic table designed to show relative prevalence of the elements isn't very accurate. For example @1:23, copper has about the same prevalence as silver (and only twice or less as much as gold and platinum).

[douro20]

You can burn magnesium under carbon dioxide...there is so much energy in the burning magnesium that it will literally rip the oxygen right off of the CO2 molecule and react with it, forming magnesium oxide, carbon and carbon oxides.

[CenaxKikia]

@douro20 That's the video response above. They showed this. It is a great reaction though.

[periodicvideos]

@douro20 Our Carbon Dioxide Part II video (currently a video response to this video) shows that very reaction!

[CenaxKikia]

I was so excited to see a purple line indicating a magnesium update! I check everyday. I keep trying to get people to go check out the site but nobody takes enough interest.Everyone says it doesn't matter. It makes me sad.

[periodicvideos]

@CenaxKikia As well as here on YouTube, you can follow periodicvideos on Facebook and Twitter where I keep everyone up to date with my latest videos and updates plus other extras about what we're up to.

[jgordon707]

"fantastically poisonous". thats a new way to say it, haha. 

[lydz121]

i remember we set the fire alarm off when we burnt Mg ribbons HAHAHA

[chrisofnottingham]

A great insight into education from the Prof to continue doing the failing expt because it gets a good reaction from the students, even if not from the elements.

[VmanLee]

haha i like how he called out the other professor to send him the laptop hahah!!

[HandMadeFireworks]

please do more of those videos, and please try to SHOW us the elements!

[periodicvideos]

@HandMadeFireworks have you been to the main periodicvideos website.... we've got the whole table done there!?

[HandMadeFireworks]

@periodicvideos

Indeed I have. Not only have I wathced every single one of them, I collect the elements and know the whole periodic table.

I have about 25 elements in my collection, including cesium, iridium, sodium and iodine, just to mention a few.

BTW, I have another YouTube user, PeriodicElements (Guess who inspired the name? =P) where I have videos of my element samples.

Elements fascinate me beyond the imaginable. When I can pick up something and know what's it made of, it's incredible!

[PeriodicElements]

@HandMadeFireworks

Hehe, here I am... =P

[jeebersjumpincryst]

@HandMadeFireworks If u havent already, have a look at NurdRage on YT - im sure u will be very excited - he(i think a he) details processes for obtaining many elements (sodium, lithium,iodine etc) that we non chemists can actually achieve. Also Kipkay and others. Also there are places that sell many elements! (unusual ones) goodluck it sounds fun!!

[andrebrannan1953]

I remember my dad using flash bulbs like that about forty years ago.

[ashtooon]

I was wondering if you could make a video explaining how a plasma window works please?

[mastercheeok]

how did you set up the magbesium nitrogen experiment?

if nitrogen floats couldn't you turn a flask upside down and put nitrogen in it, then burn some magnesium and stick it into the flask?

[captwasabi]

Hmmmm.....after watching this video I'm thinking that I would love to build my ex a house out of Be and Na. Is that wrong?

[HandMadeFireworks]

@captwasabi

Well, I suppose if you first want to poison and kill the ex, and then watch the body blow up in a gigantic sodium explosion the next time it rains... no further comment...

[captwasabi]

@HandMadeFireworks hmmmmm......that transparent, huh?

[hash1212]

Without Magnesium life could not exist. For example, Mg2+ acts as an essential mineral prosthetic group of our polymerase enzymes.

[wowggscrub]

magnesium sulfate (epsom salt)

[xlrv1]

I remember Milk of Megnesia - loved that blue bottle (wish I has kept some) and didn't really mind the taste.

[Eveoman]

Never knew magnesium was in chlorophyll. Well you learn something new every day :D

[xlrv1]

One would think that the earlier an element was formed the more abundant it would be, so there should be proportionally more lithium in the universe than is indicated in that Catalan table. I guess it isn't so because the random soup of elements that coalesced into our planet happened to be short on Li. Is that right?

[Cream147player]

@xlrv1 I believe that that periodic table is the abundance of elements in the universe, as a pose to on our planet. I can't really explain this well, but although Lithium is smaller, that doesn't mean it should be more abundant. The fusion reactions that occur in stars just don't produce Lithium very often comparatively (I do not know why). Nuclear fusion can skip elements in the periodic table because of the way that it can combine elements with multiple protons together.

[polyatheist]

@xlrv1

According to current models Li, Be and B were formed shortly after the big bang and are "burned" rather than bread in stars after that.

Those elements are also not in the "fusion-chain". If 2 He atoms fuse in a star, you would get Be, but the unstable Be8 isotope (halflife of under 10E-16 seconds). If another He atom fuses within this time, the result is stable carbon C12.

[tclonedelta7]

fantastically poisonous !

[Scrap5000]

"Fantastically poisnous"...cool phrase

[Idtelos]

ah... Remembering Inorganic Chem class.... and messing with this stuff... *evil thoughts.

[1RadicalOne]

Seeing the burning magnesium reminded me of home... ;)

[xKevTiffx]

Fascinating. 

[rcmen231]

as a chemical engineering student, I learn so much from your videos. And truly get more inspired everyday to explore and understand chemistry.

[bemanos12345]

you should keep doing theese kind of videos, they are very interesting.The professor is doing a very good exemplification

[LilReaper1010]

at the beginning...soooooo many icons!!!!!!!

[bettythepumpkin]

@LilReaper1010 LOL! That was so funny!

He should use Folders!

[burpen]

Wow, that's a pretty nifty chart at 1:41.

[bemanos12345]

nice

[jangeds2]

Hey!Where I can get a periodic table like in 1:42 min?

[Wolfcritic64]

@jangeds2 You can get them in Barcelona.

[Infloresence]

so when your battery overheats what actually burns is the magnesium frame?

[Reqrezentin]

The magnesia (if its Oxide) is very healthy for you, its used in many different enzymes in the body. If its the sulfate, it will mostly just run through you.

[JaksProductions]

MacBook Pro's should be made from Magnesium instead of Aluminium. :P

[TheCaptainLulz]

The magnesia (if its Oxide) is very healthy for you, its used in many different enzymes in the body. If its the sulfate, it will mostly just run through you.

[thewiseowl]

@TheCaptainLulz Well the oxide isn't important, it's when the Mg2+ chelates with biological molecules (such as chlorophyll in plants). MgO is used to relieve heartburn as it forms [Mg(OH)2(OH2)4] in the presence of water which acts as a base (due to the hydroxide) to neutralise excess acid and raise the pH.

[TheCaptainLulz]

@thewiseowl did not know that, kewl. Thanks

[CoolMinty]

Brilliant guys, thank you ;)

[JimPrower]

It still IS banned in some auto racing circles, since, when it does catch fire, it's nigh impossible to put out by normal means.

[laurdy]

the science teacher at my old school accidently dropped some burning magnesium on a desk and it burnt into the plastic surface

[mvszao]

"It was meant to be good for you... I'm not sure if it was."

[machewbaccas]

I want a magnesium laptop :(

[Luciano1571]

2nd!

[pikulicluka]

Great as always, guys! I love you, keep it up!

[uniklas]

First! Sparckler stick is made from magnesium mostly. Magnesium is wery hard to lit on itself though.