Tungsten - Periodic Table of Videos

[fkeopfkeop]

Tungsten is also called wolfram in other parts of the world

[basalisk335]

lol, the balls and the tip. im so mature

[NewBenne]

i'm swedish and it sounds so funny when they say tungsten xD

[GraydonW]

@NewBenne properly 

[ArtypNk]

Tungsten is also used in Russian army to make anti-tank shells.

[TheDominicRichardson]

That guy has wire of every metal!!!

[Shilag]

Tungsten literally means "Heavy stone" in swedish.

[elflordbob1]

its used in nature

fireflys

[dfgheghdfgnn]

i love how the professor refers to filament bulbs as "ordinary" and the other guy refers to them as "old" bulbs

[Virtuoso80]

I told my family I want some Tungsten for Christmas. They think I'm crazy, but I think it would be awesome to have a hunk of super-heavy Tungsten as a paperweight on my desk.

[richie2101]

why does tungsten have the symbol W?

[ChrisGJ700]

@richie2101 It's from its old name "wolfram", like how iron's symbol is Fe (ferrite), sodium Na (natrium), gold Au (aurum) and so on...

[WeaselWJ]

I like Tungsten.

[blackchidori97]

Oliver Sex

[Alubrab]

Yes, interisting,

but will it blend ?

[NANOFORGE]

I'snt tungsten also used in bullets and other projectiles?.

[vmelkon]

@NANOFORGE That might be tungsten carbide.

[halosux4life]

i use tungsten every day.... electrodes for my tig welder

[Olhado256]

I came up with a drinking game to be played while you watch these videos. Every time you hear "really quite nice," "really quite beautiful," "really quite amazing," etc., take a shot.

[pacloro]

ok i khow i sound geeky and stuff but isnt that the same material that the humans use on the MAC cannon in the halo games? i always herd stuff like: "this cannon fires a 2,000 ton tungsten round pushing it to almost half the speed of light,nothing is getting in the middle of that in one piece".

[dan999ification]

@pacloro there is a real one aswell msg for details if interested

[craptastic1997]

lol there was a tungsten jewlery ad in the sidebar

[iorixs]

amazing how Allah gave all the elements their properties in such a well arranged manner. imagine a creation where the elements have different properties. Allah has power over all things

[noobownzify]

rhenium has a higher boiling point than tungsten.

[EFAJE]

Sometimes found in upmarket cars... or any car built since the late 70s

[scorpserpent]

the column in gas chromatography machines is made from tungsten if im not mistaken.

[Versudan]

Yes it's used in lightbulbs, but it's used in much, much, MUCH more than that.

[lumabi25]

I have a watch and a ring both made from tungsten carbide. Fantastic material. So hard that only diamond can scratch it, though it can shatter like glass if struck with enough force.

[TungstenOrWolfram]

hey, that's me!

[CrazyMegaOmega]

the old guy kind of sounds like salad fingers... D:

[OnnomonnomonnO]

what a moron has disliked this amazing explanation???

[radexpp]

What a wonderful/beautiful/fantastic/­amazing sample/material

[nosirrahx]

I have tungsten, tantalum, titanium and tin rods on my desk, the tungsten one is my favorite due to its density. Most people identify it as titanium because they associate the perceived strength of titanium with requiring high weight. My daughter has some tungsten carbide jewelry that looks real cool, they stand out due to the combination of high polish and being clearly darker than silver.

[UMBATAY]

I'm surprised you didn't say that Tungsten got its periodic symbol from Wolfgang Tungsten, the discoverer of this element. That's why it's a "W".

Good work all in all though!  Keep it up!

[migkillertwo]

I've got balls of tungsten

[CCooki33]

Cool tie, lol

[Matt0I0Attack]

slap rounds woohoo 7.50 a bullet :/ thans barrett

[deathsquad54]

you guy need to listen to some death metal

[saintnate325]

@deathsquad54 hell ya

[DevilMaster]

@mrlittlemack Nothing's "wrong" with his hair... his hair is awesome! Check out the video where he got the world's smallest periodic table etched on a single hair of his!

[LOREepic]

What I know is that Osmium is the hardest metal element.

[spotlightman1234]

the hardest metal is actually chromium guys. well on the mohe's scale of hardness it's a 8.4 i believe i could be wrong but it is the hardest metal

[phumsquacken]

No metal in the universe is heavy as Metallica

[feracat07]

I hated chemistry at school even at college I dropped it in school and college. This is good I almost understand it

Lynn From Scotland

[pad085]

Why is it used in tungsten carbide drill bits? Is it tough?

[QBMan]

@pad085 well its the hardest metal i think.

On drills or an a lathe or so you use it for having less wear. Its only coated with tungsten carbide ;)

[MikeofWyoming]

@QBMan

Pfft...Everyone knows Slayer is the hardest metal....\m/

[TheRimDoctor]

@MikeofWyoming ffs

[sti302man]

@MikeofWyoming. your a true clown.lmao.

[neutrillium]

how is tungsten manufactured are there videos

[FiliPinoy95]

oliver sex

[Tarra303]

anyone noticed the periodic table tie @1:45?

[TheReaverOfDarkness]

I've heard that tungsten is very springy and by itself makes excellent springs. Is this true, and if so can you demonstrate?

[TheReaverOfDarkness]

@kristijanadrian You are correct. Arc-lamps (like LEDs) are much more efficient. I've heard that larger arc-lamps are difficult to produce and/or dangerous to use, but since LEDs are so safe, effective, efficient, cheap, and long-lasting, it would seem to me to make sense to use them in most applications.

[Midnighter169]

isn't it kinda a bad idea to keep all of his samples mixed in a large wooden box....?

[nafativedec]

wolfram?

[Frresh123]

Isnt there any element which isnt nice? No, beacuse science is amazing!

[cerealguy500]

I read Uncle Tungsten. Great book.

[waybogus]

3 people failed chemistry class!

[Djmankiewicz1]

man. good thing he was wearing safety goggles. that tungsten sample looked really dangerous.

[neutrillium]

in natural form does or can tungsten grind down like a powder and how does a person melt it down at home that you

[DoubleHelix46]

That's quite a snazzy tie.

[dufusrunescape]

where do you get clothes with the periodic chart on them?

[maurotamm]

isnt it widely known as Wolfram? Therefor the symbol W (originated from the wolframite ore name)

[dradeel]

@maurotamm In main land Europe and some other places you would use Wolfram. Like here in Norway, for instance. Norwegians wouldn't use the name Tungsten in physics and chemistry class, even though Tungsten actually has a Nordic/Swedish origin. I think Tungsten is most widely used in the English languages. But yes, I think they in a re-edition of this video should speak a little bit about the names of the element and why it essentially has two names.

[MasterTonberryV1]

They are also combined with other elements such as Fe and are used in drills, as they get immediately burning, for Tungsten has the highest melt point in all of the elements that doesn't have radioactions.

[Buzztubah]

it's albert tungstein

[vaughan4082]

ive got tungsten darts is that right?

[vmelkon]

It's not just old style bulbs that have tungsten filament. Fluo bulbs also have them. CRT tubes have a filament too. I guess the market for the big W is still big.

[JustWickedSwede]

These videos makes me interested in chemistry. I wish I'd had you as teachers in high school.



[kakitembak23]

thanks for this vid

i hope all facts, stories in lab are english subtitle

not portugese because i dont understand portugese language

i hope periodic table will make many interesting experiment

[Zigats]

Hehe on danish Tung Sten means Heavy stone :P

[AICorp]

Watching these videos makes me want to stop doing software engineering and transfer to your chemistry program!

[UncleKennybobs]

More and more stupid car manufacturers are using bulbs that are TOO BRIGHT and blind drivers, but they're legal!!

[EPICGUYDUDE]

what u didnt know is that tungsten is *very slightly* radioactive. check wikipedia

[1RadicalOne]

Lightbulbs? My illumination sources are all LED.

[ukanid]

some ot the videos have english subtittle and are very helpfull to undestand your accent.

[trader0108]

Has anyone noticed that element Tungsten W 74 is associated with the USA as W is like an abbreviation for Washington, 74 is like the USA 7-4 ( July 4 ) the USA holiday called independence day. Also .UN.STE. within the word tungsten is like "United States". Tung is like the tongue that talks or states, such as stating the phrase United States ? Is uncle tungsten like USA uncle sam ?

[ThatGuyFromAustria]

Nope, for the element's German name actually is Wolfram, but I may be wrong that this has anything to do with it ;-)

[2camjohn]

@trader0108 no

[RandomGuy0987]

@trader0108 Wow let me guess you're one of those crazy conspiracy theory people who see a conspiracy in everything?

[paronfisk]

cool tie

[ashleycoles]

can you make a tungsten amalgam? and if so what would it be like?

[Afrocanuk]

It seems one of the reasons the Tungsten filament was in a vaccuum environment in these older lightbulbs was to prevent premature oxydation despite its high melting point.

[havoc873]

Tungsten? I myself prefer the name Wolframium.

Cheers,

Havoc

[douro20]

@havoc873

You mean Wolfram, the German word for tungsten? That's where the symbol comes from.

[havoc873]

@douro20 Wolframium is the second latin declusion of Wolfram. The name Wolfranium was first used popular in English literature somewhere before 1914 (Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology by Robert K. Barnhart (Jan 1, 1900).

I myself am Dutch and familiar with the German language. In both languages it is pronounced as Wolfram but spelled respectively Wolfraam for Dutch and Wolfram for German.

[darksideofthebrick13]

oliver sex

[TheLolomolo]

no its oliver sucks lol!

[18superdev]

thats what i tought

[darknesscomingalive]

the helped tremendously with my science project. :) Go Tungsten a.k.a The Big W! xD

[darknesscomingalive]

this*

[foxlake02]

It is also used for TIG welding (tungston inert gas).

[Travisdjtg]

Melting point: 3410

Boiling point: 5660

[XXRainingAcidXX]

The melting point is actually 6500˚F

[darksideofthebrick13]

melting point 25,000˚ C

[GaseousNobility]

I knew that tungsten was use in lightbulbs for a long time. Goes to show when happens when I read my sister's science books at a young age...

[crazyforsuger]

wonder if you could make a katana out of it, a sword.

[TheCaptainLulz]

it would cost a fortune but you absolutely could.

[jeff61813]

not really the secret of the Japanese swords was that they had a hard edge but a flexible core if it was just tungsten it would be far to brittle

[Assi2004]

not to mention the heavy weight...

would be almost 2,5 times more heavy than the same sword made of iron

[drokles]

In scandinavia (at least in Denmark) it's called Wolfram, even though the name, as someone else pointed out is derived from Heavy rock. Maybe the ore containing tungsten is especially heavy or something.

[Helicopterpilot16]

Thats right you are!

[LePeintreOrageux]

If you divide the word "Tungsten" in the parts "Tung" and "Sten", they become two Swedish words - the words for "Heavy" and "Rock" (as in stone, not music genre). xD

[Tokaitok]

same in Denmark

[DailyGrower]

Same in norwegian :P

[death4hiro]

@LePeintreOrageux Tungsten = Heavy Rock.... Wow, never knew Thomas loved Heavy metal and Hard rock

[MRCMBify]

oliver "sacks"

[Bryan6446]

Love the tie.

[TheNewTwinkieLord]

The Balls lmao

[RSSDBAM2]

The little uncle on this video need a clap on the hair, its very high....

[froggymaan]

if u translate Tungsten to english from swedish u get Heavystone ;)

[kobeSR1]

@froggymaan if you would translate tunsten to english from dutch u get wolf-window it's wolfraam in dutch :D

[zomgerln]

@froggymaan nix, översätter man tungsten till svenska får man volfram.

[froggymaan]

@zomgerln du fattar nog vad jag menar. Tung sten. = Heavy Stone. elementen heter självklart Tungsten = Volfram :P

[zomgerln]

@froggymaan jo, såklart.

kände bara för att jävlas lite.

[tr41]

@froggymaan : I believe that tung sten was the common Swedish name of the mineral now called scheelite, when Carl Wilhelm Scheele(for whom the mineral is now named) discovered the metal, it was called Tungstenum, for some reason the -um ending is now lost in English, perhaps due to confusion with the mineral name, though I seem to recall the scientific name for the mineral was tungstenite back then. The word wolfram comes from the name of another tungsten mineral, Wolframite.

[WolfDOuka]

@froggymaan Cool!

[nybotheveg]

@froggymaan same in danish :P

[XshlomoX]

Also tungsten is used in knife sharpeners

how?

heck if i know i just know its used

[cyberdemon107]

tungsten carbide is much harder than steel

there's your solution

[Mynotoar]

This is quite interesting actually, and it's helped me for my homework research ;-). So iodine increases the melting point of tungsten by adding another protective heat layer?

[pHzerodotcom]

@mynotoar:

Not quite. When the tungsten evaporates off, it reacts with the iodine to make tungsten iodide. When the tungsten iodide touches the hot filament, it undergoes thermal decomposition into tungsten (deposited on the filament) and iodine (evaporates off to start the process again). It's called the halogen cycle.

[clnmyjts]

Is this person.Einsteins hidden cousin..LOL The hair is a dead give away....LOL

 Parden the pun....LOL.

[penitent2401]

einsteins is more of a physic person, this guy is more toward chemistry.

but they do look similar lol

[clnmyjts]

Yeah..Einstein was a interesting person threw out his life in history. His speed of light theory is now up for debate. Quantum entanglment is questioning almost everything Einstein stood for at the top. It won`t be long and he will be the Newton of the new age...LOL

I just found Humor in the hair simularites.

What I would like to learn more about is the elements of particals and how they mix in zero gravity. You can bet their playing with this in space as we speak..

[0oEmoKitteno0]

CHEMISTRY IS SO COOL

[Midnighter169]

@0oEmoKitteno0 so is physics! lol

[TheSprinklerSystem]

love the tie!!

the little, "that's lovely" at the end too! :D

[eveplayer12]

lol periodic table tie thing

[luiza2166]

0:22 Shouldn´t that be melting point? From what you said I was under the impression that tungsten sublimates like iodine instead of melting first but it actually melts before evaporating.

[InBloom10]

I believe tungsten is used in some types of bullet-resistant armor, and also to make armor-piercing bullets and tank rounds.

[matsnailboy]

wow the samples seem quite old

[jacobssandy]

you forgot the most important usage of tungsten, and as Englishmen it should be even moreso known, for darts! Most good quality darts have a high tungsten content so you can have a dart of the same weight as a brass one which is much thinner so you can group them much more tightly.

[LukeL007]

Yes indeed, the best darts are upwards of 90% tungsten, expect to pay about $100 for a set, I guess that would be about 50 or so pounds.

[cauberallies]

My dad threw darts semi professionally like 10-15 years ago, and I just found a whole bunch of his old darts, and I took one and stripped it down to bare metal and I'm trying to figure out something fun to do with it.

[LukeL007]

If they are 90%+ tungsten you could get $10-13 per pound.

[musl2009]

Do you know what household items contain tungsten besides lightbulbs and ballpoint pen? It's really important for a project that i have to do? I will be happy if you guys can help me out.

[finchleyboyn2]

im a welder and tig welding meens tungsten inert gas, and tig welding is used in most small engineering prosseses so there will be tungsten in your computer, boiler, car and your tv

[Qabach]

It's also used in fluorescent lamps, certain fishing lures, plastics, and musical strings. It is also used in many saw-blades, as tungsten-carbide is very resistant to dulling. Some people even use it as jewelry, because it is much easier to keep shiny than gold or silver.

[acronus]

A cheap source of tungsten is TIG electrodes.

[snakedad]

Translated from swedish, Tungsten means Heavy stone. A pretty suited name I'd say.

[bazookatim]

Yeah that´s right.

[Doomside]

Ironic that in Swedish it is more commonly known as volfram.

[Shannariano]

That is the older name of tungsten: Wolfram (or wolframius can't remember exactly in english). That's because of the letter W

[sy1234]

I get it now. ALL samples are beautiful.

[kostya121212]

yeah he should really stop saying that

[juggarnaut0]

lmao i was thinking the same thing

[kite973]

Some of them are lovely, or "really quite lovely".

[alanna4858]

at the start of this video Prf Poliakoffs hands look comically huge. he is such an intersting guy though eh.

[MisterElliott89]

i associate tungsten with killing, nothing to do with lightbulbs.

tungsten or tungsten carbide, not sure, but the hardness of it makes me want to have all my tools made out of it. a tungsten axe would come in handy in a zombie apocalypse scenario, you could use it for cutting open cars or sheet metal doors, and it would still remain razor sharp for splitting zombie's skulls.

[randomUnhold]

:D lol, thumbs up for your pragmatism !

[Chaosblade777]

I think it might be a little bit too expensive for that kind of application, especially since there is no scientific proof of the existance of zombies.

[calrogman]

His tie is awesome!

[TheGreatSteve]

Those eco bulbs make me feel ill.

[Leeamee]

He looks like a typical mad scientist

[vmelkon]

Tunsgten is also very hard. There is a video on youtube of a guy who sells tungsten rings. He was hitting it with a hammer pretty hard and there was no dents at all.

[joeionnojitsu]

How about talking about those long-half-lived isotopes of tungsten?

[shotgun12321]

pause at 0:17 and you will understand why his hair is so strange

[sciencoking]

and what are we expected to see?

[puck1310]

his hairstyle is so cool!

[rzamrycki]

Because of its hardness, tungsten carbide is also used in a lot of machine tool cutting surfaces (like drill bits for use on concrete). I couldn't find a reference, but I think it is used in the little wheel on a glass cutter (it's been over 15 years since I've cut glass).

[pur36054]

i like these vids but i would like to see more of them useing the sutff other then talking about it..

[theleftorium]

Tungsten is Swedish for "heavy stone" (I'm from Sweden). Thanks for the informative videos, I'm learning lots!

[AfricanButtScratcha]

I think it was also once known as "Wolfram" which is why its chemical symbol is 'W'.

I'm hoping the University of Nottingham will send me a few kilos of Gold (Au) so I can make a video showing some of the practical applications of that particular element.

[Blargonfire]

Wolfram is latin I belive. PS: I'd be more than happy to acept some mouldings of platinum.

[Morpun]

These are brilliant videos. I realy learn something .

[OoAwwRange]

thanks for making these vids i'm learning something from you guys

[periodicvideos]

You're welcome... make sure you come back because we will be re-doing many of the videos with even more facts, samples, stories and experiments in the coming months.