Platinum (version 1) - Periodic Table of Videos

[1Jason1Smith1]

Want Platinum???? GOTO MOON U WILL FIND PLATINUM. SERIOUSLY

[michel6]

@1Jason1Smith1 I went there and nothing.. you fooled me !

[GelandnaleG]

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[gaussman08]

a nice sample , beutiful sample , a really good sample , nice sample , lovely sample CMON YOU LOVE SAMPLES

[enzyme20056]

Is 148 USD worth is for 1 gram of rhodium

[bdhcarbon]

Platinum spot price is ~$US1700/oz

28g/oz

1 gram = ~$US61

[bertocaster]

dang found in South Africa lol

[urantivirus]

sixtysymbols, this channel. Am I missing out on any other great youtube channels from the University of Nottingham?

[wesleysidney]

in an electrolytic cell with platinum electrodes in aqueous sulfuric acid solution, why does the water reduces, rather than the anode of platinum?

[Frresh123]

Are you working on a update of Platinum? It would be cool if you could show some catalytic properties of it.

[PlayActiv]

what my car has platinum in it?! i wild dissemble it right now!

[rovusss]

BEAUTIFUL sample !!

[kitkitmeow24]

Hello Einstein!

even though if Einstein looked nothing like you when he was young :)

[Antikaku99]

Gold still owned platinum...

[Sheggy6626]

I love that Einstein guy too!! He'z smart... lol! =)

[EPICGUYDUDE]

you wear safety glasses when you take platinum... afraid it would poison you?

[MisterClean121]

I think platinum teeth look intresting.

[EezyMacaroni]

Lil Wayne has platinum teeth.

legend has it that it's what causes such a voluminous sound in his music.

[EezyMacaroni]

wow, this geurgeury guy is a racist and I am the one getting two thumbs down.

Funny how that works.

Besides....the guy's not a singer. So, stop acting niggardly, geurgeury; and do your homework.

No more racist comments.

[manolis1080]

according to new research the substance "tungsten carbide" which is much cheaper (since tungsten is more abundant in nature than platinum) can replace platinum in most chemical -catalitic uses e.g. car catalysts , fuell cells ,reaction electrodes etc makeing them much cheaper

[mrcss]

Where did you get the source?!!! I wanna see!

[manolis1080]

check for "superatoms platinum " in the ScienceDaily website ,its the first on the list of results

[blueshadow1996]

I have to check that out also..

[Afrocanuk]

I think he forgot to mention that since Platinum doesn't oxidize easily it is also used as filament in glow-plugs in both diesel and model aircraft engines.

[ineeddollars]

if anyone has some platinum the dont want send it to me please i need about a ton then i can retire

[cplai]

I understand it is easy to make alloy, melt and mix. Getting them apart is a different story. Perhaps you can make some video about some common chemical processes such as refining pure metal from alloy.

[macserv]

If the British add that second letter 'i' to "Aluminium", why do they not call this element "Platinium"?

[donnelrj01]

It's not that the British add an extra 'i', rather it is Americans who remove the it, due to their constant struggle with spelling.

[mattlycra]

Hardly explains the inconsistency.

[kane38885]

no one ever makes fun of the Australians English, just Americans

[Roovensally]

GANGSTA METAL.

[Gumbypotty]

Platinum doesn't look that good, really. It looks silvery like many other, and cheaper, metals. You can fool most people by showing them a stainless steel ring and claim it's made of platinum.

[eutectics]

only if the ring has a matt finish. and it you could hold the ring for even a second you'd tell due to the weight.

[Chi7es]

Wish we could make platinum. I will come tears when we run out of it in like 50 years.

[marsCubed]

found this on a science blog.

"metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earths crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites"

"about 160 metallic asteroids of about 20 kilometres in diameter would be sufficient to provide the concentrations of these metals.. found in the Earths crust."

So chances are space will become ever more attractive a proposition for mining.

Might even be cheaper eventually considering low G ,if there were an orbital platform to launch from.

[Chi7es]

Thats a very promising prospect. i've heard of the iridium part of that from what I know of the dinosaurs' extinction theories, lol.

[agungk]

imagine if all known deposits of rare metals such as platinum all used up!

i think lots of our technologies would grind to halt or became extremely expensive.

[ThirdOfOne]

@agungk immpossible but very interesting.

[Vennificus]

@ThirdOfOne He's right, We're not far from exhausting out resources. Then we get to turn to commercial, high-output recycling

[dunnobutwayne]

@agungk

that is why recycling is so important :D

[davedavedaveannoy1]

@agungk Then we would have to find an alternative, Mankind acts very much like a virus, its not sentinel and linear in the direction of its advancement, when it confronts a problem or an obstacle it will rapidly adapt and just like a virus, find new ways of sustaining itself. Call it techno-economic evolution if you please, where there is a will...there is a way.

[cryptsys]

@agungk By that time we would be mining out asteroids and having our drink on in a bar on mars.

[draconite420]

@agungk its called recycling there is prob so much it be almost impossible to run out, cuz by time we are living spaceships platinum is found around the galaxy as well. Hell they think they found a planet made mostly completely out of chrome

[BuickDoc]

@agungk No problem...Just mine the oft-maligned land-fills. Most stuff we use ends up there...

[blueshadow1996]

Fuel cells..cool!

[BluBreathProductions]

Did you know that platinum is worth more than gold?

[xxfinnellxx]

did you know that your a dumbass for not knowing that

[chinesepinguin]

love that Einstein guy

[blueshadow1996]

wonder if can be used for carbon capture?

[blueshadow1996]

wow...I got some wire out of an IBM sytem34....I wonder if it is platinum..Its still shiney???

[Ch3w3h]

you might want to do research before you do this but... you could stick it into hydrogen peroxide and if it bubbles then it probs is platinum...

Hydrogen peroxide very slowly degenerates into Water and Oxygen gas but platinum is a catalyst so it speeds up the reactiion and very quickly forms bubbles... but it wont harm the platinum in any way.

[blueshadow1996]

I will do that...Thank you very much Ch3w3h

[Ch3w3h]

no problem... tell me how it turns out =)

[blueshadow1996]

it bubbles..

[blueshadow1996]

..I tested alot of the metal and also some parts..There is alot of platinum.along with the boards,there were crucbles ..I was researching PEMs and was going to experiment by grinding the boards and placing them between some polymer..then build a generator..kind of doing it backwards.

[Ch3w3h]

Woah thats really cool! glad i could help!

[jih128]

i didnt no it was an element! thats awesome.

[b101aa2]

holy crap. heck with the platinum. that dude has one serious afro i couldn't take my eyes off of. lol

[OrezUMoM]

its actually pretty small there :/ he must have cut it

[BirdValiant]

10 micrometers in diameter... now that's one fine wire.

[saifking35]

look who got a haircut

[TheMojoTribe]

nice and shiny and looks nice ... i love this guy

[Blargonfire]

Yes, although the substance used in catalitic converters (Excuse the spelling if incorrect) as far as I know has been changed multiple times. I'm sure as out understanding of the substance increases we will find an alternative material and make better use of platinum.

[Henrync35]

That's worrying about the use of platinum for hydrogen cars, when oil runs out for pretty much most people in 2050 we'll need all the platinum we an get.

[Toxie207]

Is platinum, therefore, the rarest naturally ocurring metal?

[AlmightScoop]

No. Iridium is the rarest occuring metal on this planet. The most expesnsive is Rhodium, although Rhenium sometimes is depending on the market (source: wiki).

[Toxie207]

Iridium hmmmm. Thanks!

[Craydon]

That's why I prefer solar / electric. Burning hydrogen feels like a half step forward.

[mattlycra]

You don't burn hydrogen in a fuel cell. In the cell, it combines with oxygen to form water and electricity. A fuel cell powerplant actually *generates* power from a hydrogen supply, negating the need for large, toxic batteries.

Now, to produce hydrogen (via electrolysis or other procedures), we need a green energy source, or we're just robbing Peter to pay Paul.

[mattlycra]

(continuing...) In the immediate future, that source is nuclear fission, but it's not the final solution.

In a few more decades, solar and other technologies must replace nuclear. A few decades after that, hopefully we'll have fusion as an option.

Long story short, for the next decade, we need nuclear power over the grid, and hydrogen with fuel cells in mobile applications.

[tomandjj]

who says our energy source needs to be green if you look at the benefits global warming can bring us they largely outweigh the negatives.If the whole world was to see things like this then we could easily run the world off methanol produced from human and animal waste. and even if you wanted to be green you could still make methanol and then trap the gases that come from its burning to make more mathanol and continue a cycle where no extra greenhouse gases like H2O or CO2 escape.

[ergotwotwo]

Yes, platinum is $1800 per ounce, gold is $960 per ounce.  Also more rare.

[Toxie207]

Is platinum rarer/more expensive than gold?

[polonium9]

YES you have to be in the gold market to know this stuff