Candles at Halloween - Periodic Table of Videos

[elflordbob1]

4:40

...what sort of black magic is this

[masluxx]

nice demo and great explaination

[Jebus495]

Sounds like someone taking an epic shit like 3 times in this video. O.o

[androwbmx]

This guy needs a haircut I swear its gonna go up in flames

[THEGAMINGRULER]

@IqsMontegro yes u did and thank you ^.^

[THEGAMINGRULER]

can some on answer this: why doesnt the flame go up when he puts it on the "smoke" after all the "smoke" is going up ?

[IqsMontegro]

@THEGAMINGRULER because as the wax is cooling it dissapates into the atmosphere. therefore the molecules which make up the wax are spreading apart as it goes away from the source. A bit like if you sprayed some air freshner, you smell it for a bit, then it dissapates and fills the whole room up.

[IqsMontegro]

@IqsMontegro so theres less concentration of it! so if u relate that concept back to the wax...there isnt enough wax to be burnt above where he put the match stick.!

hope i answered ur question.

[AnotherRedditor]

105 people never had birthday candles on their cake

[jrtman]

He's not very good at blowing out candles.

[DjInsomnia420]

very interesting and cool

[Ime44gen]

reddit sent me

[zxlcesinxz]

I love his hair!

[ChaoYun]

What's he doing with that spoon? OMG is that heroin?!?

[youtubasoarus]

Sounds like he could have kept going. I would have liked to hear what he had to say after that.

[artyen]

@youtubasoarus Agreed, there definitely was more he wanted to share!

[lusvii]

watched this

tried this

got laid.

[Rossgrahampaxton]

I wish he went on. I could listen to this professor for many hours. He has an amazing technique that somehow captivates me into wanting to hear more, which in itself is a rare thing.

[suburiboy]

I read that book when i was 12 and my life has never been the same... well i guess that goes a little far, but i do love the relighting candle trick, which i did try immediately upon finding it in the book (I recall it being very early in the book).

[ArtypNk]

I actually learned something. Never again will I be ignorant when it come to the candle.

[forsurenoob]

onetime, i left candle wax with a burning paper for a few hours until it boiled, then tried to put it out with water [dropped a very small droplet, it immediately re-acted and created a meter of flame or so]... well yeah, that incident made me not able to play with candles again for a long while..

[LLaappee]

Duuude, the Professor was just about to tell another wicked cool candle fact and you interrupt him!

[Odelle5]

Hahaha cool

[TheNorcon]

Am I the only one who went and played with a candle for an hour after watching this? I love these videos!

[DjWeezyFBoy]

I will definitely buy him some Shampoos and Combs !

[DjWeezyFBoy]

He is Einstein's Son :D

[DerAnstifter]

The Cameraman was mean to the professor, he was about to continue explaining something, but cameraman just interrupted.

[Defonthana]

wow...this was back then the first video i have ever seen from this channel...the beginning of a longtime friendship with this.. :D thanks to faradays candle book...^^

[TheSchimmi]

Holy fuck i would be so lucky to look like that guy when i'm whatever his age is. Is that Dr Goddamn Frankenstein?

[luigi90900]

I like the pumpkin candle! Is it a seasonal thing or can i buy it?

[DJBigz1988]

he can even make make candles interesting. i love this guy

[trevor6744]

lol trick candle :)

[BlackSkullRacer613]

How do trick candles work? I am talking about the ones that reignite themselves.

[HWGuyEG]

Why the hell is there a licensed music tag on this video?

Brady, get that removed.

[1000wrongdecisions]

Happy birthday!

[DeltaGale]

I would give anything to have that hair LOL...

[Rascal157]

OKAY THAT WAS SO COOL.

Im 17 and have been watchin your videos ever since i did a chem project on tungsten and used your video... but this ...was awesome and im going to have to use it sometime.

[XxWearsMexX]

omg the wax and the match was awesme :D

[ryondixon]

CUT YOUR HAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ZPurpleNinja]

@ryondixon why would he do that!

[sam199166]

@ryondixon WAT NOOOOO, this prof got awesome hair,

[92blink182]

Awesome :D

[shaddow123caroline]

I wanted to hear more. =[

[ijunkie]

Wow. That was one of the most fascinating of all the videos!

[Furiouslyfappin]

"Very good, fine"

Haha, sounds like The Professor wanted to talk about candles a little bit longer.

[ohnoitsho]

i watch this video every october haha

[DrD0000M]

I see the professor is going as a Mad Scientist for Halloween.

[macnutz]

I've noticed the flame leaping effect before but didn't know what caused it. Thanks.

[mooood911]

i will try ^_^

[MrTechGuy1995]

Omg this makes the Scene from House of Wax way clear, You know the scene where the moltan wax catches fire!

[ninjaswordtothehead]

I have done that little experiment a few times and it was really cool to see the slow-motion take of the flame jumping. It's too fast for me to see with the naked eye I guess and that makes me want to find a candle right now!

[LTEK4NZ]

i want to see how a candle burns in a oxygen rich environment.. sadly in my country a layman can't get hold of bottled oxygen. :( it would make a great video.

[AmetuerChemist]

@LTEK4NZ

I've done this before, and your right it does look pretty cool. Also, there are other ways of getting pure oxygen. My method was the decomposition of H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) sped up with a catalyst of MnO2 (manganese dioxide). You can get H2O2 at any grocery store, and you can also get MnO2 out of any new "heavy duty" battery.

[smbhax]

Great stuff! I had no idea candles were so awesome. :D

[homousios]

chemistry is truly the "Central Science" and your videos prove that. This was interesting. Thanks

[SacValleyDweller]

Fascinating! Turns what i thought that I knew about how the simple candle worked upside down.

The fuel is the melted wax, not the wick as I thought.

[Salladsdressing]

I just learned a new party trick! =D

[sagarcooldirector]

made my day

[raishisou]

Best professor eva xD

[Muscleduck]

The trick at the end with the match and candle will be my new party trick from now on!

[GlobalWTF]

Very insightful videos. Thanks for taking the time to do them :)

[MUSTANGmaniak2010]

You guys Rock!!!!

[TheArmo1]

Who are the 103 sods that would give this video a thumbs down? For Shame!!

[ailuvmie]

amazing. ♥

[totalgamerz]

nice hair all scientist have their hair like this v cool bro

[akczenaiwok]

really nice hair; such hair makes a real scientist; really good looking

[gagstx1]

don't know if anyone realised

BUT HE HAS MAD HAIR!!!

[edresonate]

Agreed. This is waxwonderful.

[barkulator]

A good teacher loves his subject and that enthusiasm inpires the students. This is a good teacher.

[TheBassam1990]

thanx, so nice !!

[albgk]

wow he seemed kindof put off at the end lol... "Ok... fine".... great video

[pyropakman]

Yeah, I'm happy I'm not the only one who recognized that.

[mccdotedu]

@albgk thats exactly what i was thinking. I think he had more to say! and id love to hear it!

[Aruthiand]

@albgk Haha, I don't think it was his intention, he was just a bit surprised by the sudden end most likely...

[MrGetoutahur]

hehe he look funny

[whiterottenrabbit]

That's entertaining as hell!

[rash5568]

Making decorative candles is my hobby and after watching this informative video, i feel that making candles has just become more interesting for me....... thanks a lot

[yoye11]

niceeeeeeeeeeeee

[cplai]

The wick is burnt off because it bents outside the flame to get oxygen. It is possible because the flame is teardrop shape due to the updraft of the hot air. I am curious what a candle flame looks like in zero gravity. will the flame get larger as more wick is exposed? Or the flame would suffocate itself as it grows? Please speculate based on laws of physics.

[cplai]

I found the answer in another youtube clip at watch?v=2fGszMlf6n8

[Arkalius80]

They've actually lit candles in zero-g. The flame is more spherical and harder to see and it usually extinguishes itself due to the lack of convection to circulate fresh oxygen in.

[Badokami]

wow this is awesome! I had no Idea that wasnt smoke.

[ElmerLuckySutton]

this guy is so gangsta.

[sergiosergioable]

Turned out to be bloody intriguing instead

[ufewl]

because hair grows out of the brain and his brain is very nutritous

[shaftymcshifterson]

this is wierd because a couple of days before i saw this vid i asked what fire was made of, and its carbon.. this answers my question.!! thank you

[furiousharry]

fires not made of carbon it is just very hot gas vapour reacting

[ocean514]

in this case hydrogen AND carbon.

[furiousharry]

yes but i meant its not always made of just carbon

[Farweasel]

I only started watching it kinda by mistake 'cos I thought it was going to be funny.

Turned out to be bloody intriguing instead.

[RealVNC]

Superb!! Very informative!!

[ce45642]

who wants to be a clown in the next Halloween?

[Mykai73]

this guy is teh awesum

[jasleil]

he's like my science teacher. FUN FUN

[hanzo082001]

porfavor no lea esto porfaaaaaa no lo leais

el 13 de octubre de 1991

un niño llamado nick se tiro de un puente devido a problemas familiares

si ya leiste esto deves copiar y pegar

en otros 5 videos mas o si no

nick vendra por toda tu familia

haslo o moriran porfavor hasme caso

jeje yo lo e echo por si acaso si lo aveis leido ke putada

[JacobRudduck]

Something about his voice is really relaxing to listen to. :)

[akkuyuki]

i know, right

[Cyrathil]

I've always loved candles... Never knew exactly what was going on, but this just makes me like candles all the more.

[matshroom]

i hope he got rid of the sooty spoon! lol... he could get accused of being a smack head... :) great videos by the way! x

[psieth]

fascinating

[KCL1013]

Isn't michael farraday a character in LOST?!

[pontypagla]

LOL! Nice one...

[kimo1369]

I was always told that a flame is plasma, what is plasma?

[penitent2401]

plasma is super-heated gas. basically gas that has been heated to the point that it gives off photons (light). the sun is a giant ball of plasma, pop a grape into the microwave and you might see some lights flashing from it, that's plasma (don't go crying to me if the whole microwave blows up though)

[papercut043]

Ya Plasma i believe is a format of element too- which might just be a different way of saying what u said- like Solid, Liquid, Gas, And Plasma- Mostly it only exists out of the earth

[alonderis]

condensate is liquid that has formed from gas so you are kinda wrong

and plasma exists on earth with more and more quantities... its the thing you know as a flat screen TV..

[NapalmFacepalm]

"condensate is liquid that has formed from gas so you are kinda wrong."

I was kinda wrong on a semantic level in that I was using a loose colloquial term for the superfluid phase/state of matter because the only examples of which are a form of condensate.

superfluid, solid, liquid, gas, plasma

This is JebusGeist by the way, my other account is having serious trouble posting comments on videos right now for some reason.

[Onyxwolf3]

yes, i'm going to agree with you, because although plasma exist on the earth, it is in very very small quantities compared to those with which it exists outside the earth. usually plasma is created in small quantities either by man, or by something like lightning. also, a superfluid is generally considered the fifth state of matter, so yes, you're correct.

[junvalera]

bose einstein is supercooled state that has reached absolute 0 temp. know that base on the quantum wave model all atoms vibrate even solid even though they vibrate very little. in bose ein. atoms nearly don't vibrate at all xD

[jackvenom1]

I love these videos. This guy is great.

[JonThm]

A burning candle gives off radaiion as it does molecular nuclear fusion: Safe nuclear, like the deep sea does.

[SergiusLens]

i was like.. eh? whaaad? *snore*

and then the professor blew the candle and light it again in a unique way.

Thought i'll show that cool stuff to my nephew.

Love it love it love it.

[NateNStuff]

Wow, I need him as my professor!

[GIGASOLsoyYO]

I am a master candlemaker, and i still have learned a lot in this video. Thank you!

[dragonbrat]

I'm a novice candle maker who has set the toaster oven on fire making candles, and I've learned a lot from this video. Thank you!

[akkuyuki]

i actually saw this movie about 4 days before i had a school presentation about carbon cycle. this really helped me. i got an 5 out of 6. or B as some may call it

[grassvalleystudios]

ah, i remeber watching their videos when they only had about 30-maybe 50 views each, now their all popular. that was back when i acttualy sent them a message and they replied and talked to me.

thoses were the days.....

[periodicvideos]

we're still pretty good at replying

[Ch3w3h]

ooo lol... so what made u guys start doing this? and what state of matter is the yellow part of the flame in? is it a plasma? and who replies to these comments?

[1RadicalOne]

How about now?

[kitkitmeow24]

@periodicvideos but u only reply once 4each video

[kitkitmeow24]

4:21 u can see the fire reaching the string

[TheGarryModder]

@grassvalleystudios haha that was great

[welshpete12]

thank you for that , its very kind of you to use some of your time tell explain this . FACINATING STUFF !

[nicolewisemann]

lol his hair makes me laugh

[scaleop4]

i gotta wach all his vids.

[kativilaga]

I have just discovered your videos, and can't stop watching them one after the other!

I like the relations you show with chemicals in everyday life.

You must be a great teacher!

The editing is also very nicely done, always with a touch of humor, it's great!

I subscribed!

[seanarrative]

aren't they awesome? I usually get really really bored or skip these kinds of videos, but for some reason I can't stop watching his. their so interesting!

[seanarrative]

wow! 4:18 - 4:22 was really really cool!

great stuff, I really enjoy your videos. keep it up!

[K2Tanner]

I noticed the trick aroud 4:25 or so with my p tex candle when i was filling in gashes in my skis.

[cheezecakeV2]

I used to think of a candle as a lighty thing and not much else, but man, you sure showed me.

[bigtank2185]

Is this guy not the mad scientist in the Robot Chicken intro?

[Tuzji]

Lol o.o

[resipsa666]

that was cool

[stupidmanni]

wow i always thought it was smoke :)

[kixnet]

This was very interesting, I might try relighting the candle like that.

[ElveeKaye]

I never knew that about candles! Thanks for a fun and interesting video.

[estefincorporation]

Awesome!

Faraday was such an interesting scientist...

I really like videos from the Periodic Table.

Congratulations for the interesting as well as amusing videos! :)

[DrewFullerFancomfan]

i love halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sableJester]

yeah right.

that doesn't work.

[gamemeister27]

um....yes it does. It's a pretty common party trick.

[PeopleNotTalking]

that candle trick at the end is pretty sweet.. gotta try that

[DJPears]

I wish my chem prof had half of his ability to break it down in valence terms (No pun intended).

What university is this??

[chalky5678]

Nottingham.

[deistgirl]

makes me want 2 light a candle....I'm gonna.

[srwboy]

That's some cool facts about candles, and he put out the match with his tongue!

[chalky5678]

when? how many seconds in?

[5OPERA5]

Interesting in the last20 seconds

[Ratbiker]

i dont think he was finished explaining it and got interupted. i'd be pissed too.

[JealousInquiry]

If more science was like this, I think more people would find it fun.

[G0ldenGoose]

Agreed, but for some reason the goverment loves it to be boring.

[JealousInquiry]

Wouldn't say it's all government. Some teachers and proffesors are naturally boring themselves.

[tomandjj]

if your passionate about science the boring stuff is fun too.

[thisIStheARTofRUIN]

i learned more in this video than i did after 2 years of science at school

[FlacaMuchacho]

Indeed :D

[Odjii]

that was very interesting

[Tryd2008]

what about the candles you cant blow out?

[Envergure]

They can ignite at a very low temperature, so when you blow them they don't lose enough heat to go out.

[gopatas]

nice hair,by the way watch my action fight clips on my channel.

[PunkKTiLLiDiE]

wicked hair lol

[effeffeff]

I never realised how much thought had gone into something as simple as a candle. We take everything for granted, don't we? :-D

[GlennHayworth1889]

very true we do

[ununhexium]

man he doesnt look happy

[hedlundman]

That was very interesting.

[nosotroscuatro]

I learned something new today. Thanks once again.