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  • He looks like a troll doll..

  • I'd use a high energy centrifuge made from lithium steel with a hole in the center to allow the expanding impurities to escape. Completely energy conservative.

  • tit

    anium

    ... i am anatomical and childish...

  • You couldn't make a car out of sodium. The first rainstorm and BOOM!

  • It is easy to see why titanium is light, but what makes it strong in comparison to close elements in the table?

  • Another very common use for titanium dioxide is the chalky substance in pills, aspirin for example.

  • Do you have a link to that awesome periodic table?

  • cars dont need to be light, cars are light enough, downforce adds weight via air pressure, cars need weight for traction so they stick to the road. lighter isnt always better, have a read of TopGears interview with the japanese designer of the R35

    love the videos tho guys.

  • @TehWingman69 I think you are confusing mass with weight. A car with more mass needs to use more energy to accellerate at the same rate as a car with less mass, even in zero gravity (where both cars have zero weight). A car with more mass has more inertia, so when it turns a corner, its tyres must provide more traction than for a car with less mass, again even in zero gravity. Lighter cars don't need as much traction. Lighter isn't always better, but it usually is.

  • take a shot every time you hear "titanium"

  • They should call the guy in the green coat the "metal wire guy".

  • you know what's even lighter AND stronger? carbon nanotubes.

  • @duhhybrid carbon nanotubes are a geometric object. they are not an element like titanium. you should compare carbon with titanium

  • @ulkord your point? they're an object, stronger and lighter than titanium. wasn't saying it's an element, just saying it's better than titanium.

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  • Titanium is really useful for making frames for bicycles, … especially for use where streets are salted in cities and over usage of automobiles creates a waste of space problem. Saves a lot of fuel too! :)

  • I had a bolt of titanium in my arm!

  • Don't see how Francium is bigger than some elements on that table...

  • " u dont want to be moving a cannon ball " :D :D

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  • Where did you guys get that table of elements anyway? Is that italian?

  • @shadowjsw No, it's catalan. Visit Spain :)

  • @shadowjsw Google Translate tells me that the title of the strange periodic table is in Catalan, which is spoken on the Mediterranean coast of Spain and surrounding areas. My bet is that the Professor or one of his colleagues picked it up when they were on holiday!

  • Next time tape his hands to the table.

  • one guy goes on and on about titanium, and the other guy is like.. heres a spool, its kinda cool eh ?

  • how much does titanium actually cost?

  • @flame123117 Right now it is about 20$ per pound

  • i made a car out of sodium once...wasn't my greatest idea

  • no matter how much the camera man zooms in, he can't keep the good professor's hands out of the frame. ha

  • Is there any element that isn't fantastic, I wonder? Maybe arsenic?

  • I'm a CNC operator, and I can tell you Titanium grade 5 is a BITCH to machine in.

  • I mean on the jets of the sr-71 blackbird

  • Supposedly the plastic cones on the jets are made of a classified plastic.

  • I'm bulletpoof..

  • Why does the table that shows the amount of an element on earth show Francium (Fr) so large compared to some of the other elements there? I'd expect Francium to be very small.

  • @jocob30 It may not be large in it's pure form but it may exist largely with other elements bonded to it.

  • @Mr41432 oh ok ty

  • @jocob30 wondered about that myself when I looked at Astatine.Note that he said the "relative amount of this element that is found on the earth". So if 1g francium exists, much of it is found on the earth. That's how I interpret it at least ^^

  • You know you can trust someone with hair like that

  • Press 7 for Raving Professor

  • I LOVE HIS TIE 0_o

  • sodiumobile

  • i like how a lot of u guyses samples are wire. easy to store, easy to get ahold of, and relatively pure.

  • 4 people cant get ahold of titanium

  • I want a strontium car!

  • i'd venture to say all airplanes. the SR-71 got very hot, but it's frame is titanium.

  • Cesium car! Sodium Car! I would by those.

  • @Superdude1298 Buy*

  • I found it was about halfway between aluminium and steel in strength, seemed about the same as aluminium in weight. Looks cool too!

  • To study for my chemistry test on Monday all I need to do is watch all 375 videos...

  • TiO2 + 2C +2Cl2 ----> TiCl4 + 2CO ?

    TiCl4 + 4Na/2Mg -----> Ti + 4NaCl/2MgCl2 i think, can't quite remember from A Level haha.

  • you cant have a car make of cesium because it is pyrophoric, burning on contact with air

  • english subs please, its kinda hard to hear really well british(?) accent

    greetings from Chile :D

  • Titanium cars? That will never happen. How can they keep selling you a car everyone few years if they aren't designed to rust out and warp mechanical parts lol

  • I want a Sodium car...no, scratch that, I want a CAESIUM car!

  • @ChrisGJ700 I want a francium car

  • albert 2

  • It's a Basher book! That's how I learned the periodic table and now I love it

  • A car made of sodium would a terrible idea.

  • @stambataa dont ever say something like that to the professor or i will kill you

  • Isn't it supposed be titantium (IV) oxide

  • Einsteein says BOOM!

    

  • Titanium in my plastic bucket?! WHAT???

    That's it. I'm suing.

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  • love it :D

  • A few years ago a weld broke on my titanium specs. I was directed to a specialist that can weld titanium and he did this under argon gas.

  • 2:21 , you are welcome.

  • How does polymerisation even work?

  • can you put a link for that periodic table by quantity?

  • you couldn't make a car out of sodium - the first rainstorm and BOOM

  • Light as a feather, and as hard as dragoon scale!

  • Lol, a car made out of sodium.

  • I want to make a francium boat too?

  • Thanks for piquing my interest in chemistry! You guys are so amazing so I just had to sub! :)

  • Wouldn't and couldn't are different. You could make a car from sodium, you just wouldn't. /pedantry

  • The guys' voice compells you to understand better and to feel interested for these videos (both, the professor's and the chubby guy's [sorry, I don't know his name])

  • This guy is so awesome, thanks for the videos!

  • Fact: Bender consists of 30% Iron, 40% Zinc, 40% Titanium and 40% Dolomite, and none of that pansy Aluminium stuff...

  • Please dont stop what you are doing here. These videos Far surpass normal television !!!!!!!!!

  • sodium cars, very appreciated by the terrorist community

  • @jaedcapo Once while watching these, I got the zany comedic idea about how we need vitamins and minerals, and being in compounds, foods and such, we are safe in consuming them. Then, I thought of the far, farcical end of it, compounds not existing so you have to take your minerals straight, and endure the explosions that ensue as they're swallowed. Thank god for Potassium compounds is all I can say about that. Yes, it was late & I was very tired when I thought of this & I couldn't stop laughing.

  • I actually didn't know much of titanium and i was always interested in why people found it so useful. Thank you very much for this explanatory video. It was very informative!

  • Titanium is also used to make piercing jewlery because you can get all the scratches out where the body could stick to . it is also used because it is light and much stronger than steel thus preventing closing balls to fall off

  • @Capsaicin1337 Im not even gonna ask about that last part.

  • 3:01 - wow. looks like flour...or cocaine. definitely wouldn't want to mistake it for flour in cooking. I'd be defecating titanium filled feces.

  • For an interesting account of some of the problems encountered with the chemistry of Ti in the SR-71 read Skunkworks. As always great video.

  • "First rainstorm... and BOOM"!

  • @solarmaximumkade 2:20 for that moment. :D

  • isn't it quite flexible?(the titanium) because i had a pair of glasses whose frame was from titamium(at least that's what i was said) and they were indeed light but also very flexible.

    i thought carbon-fiber was also very rigid but i now hear that with a technique,they can make it flexibe,too.

  • What if you made a car out of sodium, and then coated it with a 5 atom thick film of titanium?

  • @teknotoast lol

  • @teknotoast It would only take a very small scuff or scratch on the body work for the whole car to begin to react with the air.

  • "I'm making a sodium boat with potassium oars." this would be along the lines of making sodium using lithium, by relying on the higher reducing potential of the lithium? and oars of coarse being ores.

  • @lexichronicle2

    Dont even bother with Sodium and Potassium, use Cesium and Francium... you'll be more entertained.

  • I'm full of titanium, broke my spine in six places and it holds me together! 

  • awesome, I thought the first titanium video was a wee bit short for such an incredible metal.

  • unfortunatly... we cant make a car out of sodium.... :(

  • My wedding ring is made of titanium.

  • "You couldn´t make a car out of sodium, the first rainstorm and BOOM!!!"... Martyn, you sure have your golden moments..

  • I would like a tie with periodic table on it!! :D [looking at his tie]

  • I love to have that table

  • I think l saw jesus in that hip X-Ray.

  • Where can we find that awesome chart the professor had that showed the abundances of each element?

  • xD "the first rainstorm and BOOM"

  • Ive seen titanium in its metal form in fairly large quantities My brother needed to get his left leg lengthen by 2 inches because he was born with different length of feet (which could damage his spine over the years). So at around age 18 he went for surgery and received an apparatus known as "Ilizarov fixator". It had several large rings around the operated foot with several large and small metal barbs holding the bones in place. The fixator pulled the bones forcing them to fill the gap

  • we need that map redone for minecraft

  • @NielloEd This.

  • @uberdample em.. what?

  • I have 2 titanium implants in my feet! Whenever they ask why I'm such a fast kicker, I tell them it's cause of the titanium implants! lol!

  • @awesomejoe12

    They should called you Titanium Joe!

  • this definately is a stupid question, but I wonder if Titanum, if brought into shape of a medieval Plate Armour, would fare as good as Steel. I take it it would definately be much lighter.

  • @LutzDerLurch It would have to be much, much thicker, though. Steel is still unsurpassed in terms of strength, especially strength per volume. It is just that titanium alloys can be stronger per weight. Also, steel swords would still cut through your shiny titanium armor.

  • Thank you...I knew there was something that would ruin the effekt. I always thought would be stronger than Steel. Never thought, though, that this meant strength per weight x.x Thanks a lot for the Info,

    Lutz

  • Cool video, thanks. What exactly determines the "strength" of metal/compound/material? I remember from the school: metalic bonds between different types of metal are pretty much the same - some regular lattice and cloud of free electrons around nodes (atoms). What's the exact quality in such a picture that distinguish e.g. Alluminium from Titanium, the thing that makes TItanium stronger then Alluminium? I think this topic could make another fine video.

  • Delorian! 

  • How about a new one on tungsten (wolfram) next? My favourite metal before titanium.

  • Another interesting application of titanium dioxide is in the reproduction of photosynthesis where it is used as an electron donor instead of chlorophyll as far as I know.

    Speaking of photosynthesis, a video that gives a small view in this probably most important reaction in the world would be great.

  • With a hip replacement, since Titanium is non-magnetic like the Professor said, it allows it to be MRI and CT compatible. Thus another benefit for having Titanium used for making orthopedic devices.

  • Another application is in nitinol or nickel-titanium alloy wires and springs which is of great importance as a memory metal used in medicine. It can be deformed into any shape but upon warming, it returns to its original preset shape.

    Titanium metal can also be obtained from TiO2 using the thermite reaction, that is, aluminium powder + TiO2 plus sodium fluoride to prevent the oxidation of hot Ti metal in air.

    Great video as usual, keep it up!

  • yeah, got titanium framed glasses and they have taken fair amount of punishment - and all there is is just scratches on paint.

  • I have a titanium ring and just with a little hot water it will heat up really fast.. but i can't feel it when its inside the water but when i take my hand out i have to immidiately take the ring off or it'll burn like crazy

  • Tit..anium comes from lake titty caca

  • wait... you CAN'T make a car out of sodium..... THAT'S why my last seven attempts have resulted in catastrophic failure :(

  • i use titanium for eating utensils when i go on deep woods backpacking trips that last several days. it's great stuff, super light which is great when your carrying it on your back and super durable which is great when you are hard on your gear like i am

  • I would assume since Titanium is also good for implants because if you ever have an MRI at a hospital with your implant you don't have to worry about your implant causing issues.

  • There was a huge titanium craze for making bike frames (especially mountain bikes) 20 years ago. My father bought me a Kona "Hei Hei" around 20 years ago. I have gone through a few bikes since, but STILL ride that Kona often.

    It may be my favourite bike for both sentimental and performance reasons. It will last forever... unless I crash and need a new hip. Then it's getting melted down and going in me.

    Another great vid - I ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR LATEST UPLOAD!!!

  • I am a titanium fan , check my channel.

  • Brady, you should make a video on mithril metal

  • love his fro

  • aeroespacial, oh-no's!

  • HAHAH come on , this proffesor is seriously keeping the stereotype alive.

  • Even if the paint isn't white, it probably contains titanium dioxide to make the paint opaque. When you buy water-based paint at the store the base is a white titanium oxide opacifier in a medium like latex or vinyl (in CA oil-based paints are no longer sold because of hydrocarbon emissions) and the color is added to that white base.

  • i'm such a nerd.i just watched a 8:31 video on titanium lol

  • @osp80 I'm not even close to being a chemist or chem-geek, but I saw it all - it's fascinating to learn how this fancy aerospace metal has everyday applications like in a plastic bucket. Geez, I'd like to have had the Professor as my Chemist teacher at high school; I barely passed those and the coolest thing I manage is neutralizing chlorine with chloride acid :(

  • Aluminium is lighter and is more frequently used in aircraft and ships. :/

  • 2:21 Love this moment :D very precise explanation of what would happen!

    PS: Natta is also a nobel (can't remember for what exactly, but was something concerning polymers)

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  • Also used in candy, like when you have a chocolate covered with a caramell paint you need a layer of titanium (di?)oxide to make it stick to the chocolate :)

    Some titanium deposites are actually impacts of meteorites with high Ti.

  • Most of these videos start out with "X is an interesting element" or something of that sort. Are there any elements that are just completely boring?

  • @KemaTheAtheist check out our zinc video!

  • @periodicvideos

    ROFL. Will do!

  • I'm getting a Titanium dental implant in a couple of days.

  • Is it a good idea making cars out of it? I thought cars were designed deliberately to crumple to take the force of impact. Also, the pedestrians (and other vehicles) are less likely to survive a crash if the car is made of a stronger material.

  • @Clairenna It's still possible to construct a "crumple zone" out of titanium. As for a car hitting a pedestrian, a steel car has a greater mass than a titanium car. The pedestrian is in trouble either way, but is likely to be hurt worse by a heavier (i.e. steel) car.

    My main criticism of lighter cars is that they skid more easily, but (other than training drivers and teaching pedestrians) there is no way to make cars safe. At least lighter cars save fuel.

  • @Squagnut Thanks for that answer. I found it really interesting.

    I don't think I'll be volunteering as a test dummy to find out which car has the worst outcomes in accidents though :)

  • Sodium cars go boom?

  • i bought a 400$ titanium watch that my friends one year old baby loved for some reason. i took it off and she threw it. its been 9:34 ever since :(

  • I already knew a lot about titanium, but these videos never fail to be interesting and fun to watch.

  • @aluisious thanks... we love hearing that!

  • @aluisious Agreed!

  • It's edible! Powdered 'sugar' on doughnuts contains titanium dioxide for coloring.

  • These videos are just so reliably great!

  • @pagani8 cheers for that!

  • Thanks again. This is a priceless series.

  • the sodium car + water thing made me laugh

  • you cant make a car out of sodium lmao

  • yay

  • Say 'titanium' again. Say 'titanium' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say 'titanium' one more Goddamn time!

  • @LEB4234 titanium

  • Are we ever going to run out of titanium if we keep wasting it as catalysts? What happens then? Are we going to try to recycle Titantium out of the rubbish heaps when that happens? I'm surprised it's is so abundant in white paint... that's a LOT of titanium.

  • @ionParallax Well, in reality, if nothing were ever recovered from garbage, we'd eventually run out of everything.

  • @OOZ662 But we burn and/or bury them, that's a heck of a recycling job. * imagines distillating a hundred elements from melted incinerator ash *

  • @ionParallax The Earth had to do the same thing back when it was being pelted with meteors. :P Point being elements don't go away so easily. We may make them hard to get to, but they'll still be around.

  • @ionParallax We'll have conquered other solar systems long before all the titanium on Earth runs out. We will be digging through dumps to get the plastic to melt down and re-use once all the oil runs out though.

  • @Busterlanger1

    Oxygen isn't found just in the atmosphere. It's very abundant in compounds, and especially in oxides. Nitrogen is very abundant in the gaseous form hence the atmospheric abundance.

  • @Deathdome9 Ah yes that makes sense. Thanks.

  • I wonder if Titanium would be more resistant to road salt. (For vehicles). Another fascinating video! And I really like the 'proportional' periodic table.

  • I thought the earth's atmosphere was something like 70% nitrogen. Why isn't there a larger abundance than oxygen.

  • @Busterlanger1 Nitrogen is pretty unreactive and hangs in the air. Oxygen is really reactive and forms tons of different compounds, so a lot of it is sequestered in the earth and in the oceans.