Strontium - Periodic Table of Videos

[kiddolols]

ohh different hair style! Professor!

[pietzeekoe]

In dutch it translates into shit-ium

[knightnicholasd]

Wow, the old man definitely got himself a haircut. Lookin good Professor!

[AsciaBipenne]

Did you know that "Stronzo" in italian means something kinda like 'asshole'(referred to a person) and a "stronzo" means actually "piece of shit"? That's silly but tough pretty hilarious!

[AsciaBipenne]

Doesn't explain my hair.... *__*! XD

[mcwario13]

YOu didnt put into water

[aprilhareau]

Interesting he mentioned Sr-90 and it's propensity to accumulate in bone.

As I understand it, the non-radioactive Strontium can be used to densify bone - handy if you're suffering from osteoporosis, for instance..

Call it a post Cold War happy ending for Strontium. :)

[spongebob7285]

CAPTIONS WHY U IN ITALIAN?

[DazIOM1140]

Doesn't stuff burn with a purple flame when they contain potassium?

[Caswalle]

Since there is an magnesium flint. I wish there could be an Strontium flint but they would have to mix it with something to not react with the air....

[dradeel]

I think you could have shown more clips of George Fox. Seems a little wasteful to make the trip, have him take time of his day to talk with you and show you the mine, and only have him speak for one minute in total of the almost 7 minute long video. I would've liked to hear him tell more about the history of the mine and discovery etc. Seems like a lot could be said about what you summed up in one brief sentence at the end of the video.

Other than that though the video is great as always! :)

[VocaRockrawr]

2:40

this was unexpectedly funny

[thatoneguy12ize]

Did he say rainboa?

[ericwongty]

2:48 gives me a giggle

[potterclubtv]

4:37 one of the warmest & cutest smile ever! <3

[luigi14444]

double rainbow all the way 0:46 

[ilvmusiclol]

Can I ask, what nationality are you Brady, or at least, your accent intrigues me, I can't quite work out where you are from :)

[greattimed]

@ilvmusiclol He sounds a little bit Australian imo.

[pepsibookcat]

The Professor is so very adorable.

[TheMasterminding]

Watching how she handles that alkaline earth gets me all fired up and ready to react.

[FiliPinoy95]

the professor's hair just went through a half-life

[Somethingyoumayknow]

Very Cool.

[whiterottenrabbit]

Why is the aspect ratio all wrong at 1:45?

[cuntylishus]

@whiterottenrabbit It's not. People just looked weird back then ;p

[HurdyGurdySwede]

"People like me are radioactive"

Well yes, but so is everyone else. We all contain enough carbon atoms for it to be almost certain that we have at least a few carbon-14 (the radioactive carbon) atoms within us, so the claim to fame of being radioactive isn't really worth much.

Sorry prof! :)

[Sassar]

Then what does explain the professor's hair? It's not a simple substance known as gel, it must be a compound far beyond human comprehension!

[lexichronicle2]

you know you're in the right place because it's raining

[SabretoothSnowMan]

So there is no strontium crystals from after all the nuclear tests that have occurs.

Imagine how much that would be worth?

Would such a crystal have new age crystal healing properties?

[captwasabi]

@SabretoothSnowMan Considering that no crystals have "new age healing properties" I would say no.

[SabretoothSnowMan]

@captwasabi I don't really believe in that new age crap.  Igt was just a joke.

[Erikur17]

Strontium is also the only element with a Gaelic name. The village name Sron an T-Sithein means "Nose (ie as a geographical feature = Peak) of the Fairies (Sithein = people of the Sidh, the burial mounds, the same Sidh in Ban Sidh (or Banshee); thus strontium like nickel and cobalt is named for a supernatural being.

[QwoPhasaArius]

@Erikur17 Oh, neat.

[rtpoe]

@Erikur17 So, Strontium was discovered by digging in someone's nose?

[clearmenser]

Big Periodic Videos fan here (and all of Brady's other video works).

And after watching the strontium video I can say that I would have been fine without the preview.

I think that since youtube is such an archival medium that unlike television or radio we don't really need teasers for what's coming up next. If we like a channel then we're subscribed and it will come up when it comes up. There's even no need for sorry-for-the-lack-of-recent-u­pdates apologies. Just keep doin what you're doin :)

[periodicvideos]

@clearmenser only in hindsight does the archival nature of YouTube make them seem redundant... there are still people for whom there's excitement in knowing what's to come.... I own Jurassic Park on DVD, but I still enjoyed its movie trailer before the film was released!!!

Besides, I enjoy making them occasionally... Don't take away my small pleasures... Just don't click on videos with preview in their title! :)

Thanks for watching.

[clearmenser]

@periodicvideos Muah ha ha ha, all your small pleasures shall be mine! All of them, forever and ever I will keep them in a Strontium lined box which is 1.3 meters long by 55 centimeters wide by 73 centimeters tall, with a very clever lock, ah ha HA! Lol ^_^

No worries, I just finally had a complaint after a bajillion good feelings.

Thanks for all the hard work, sirs (and madammes)

(^-^*)

[bereal666]

at the end of this rainbow, there would be a pot of strontium, and a very very green greenhaired Professor



[djehuty13]

You get strontium over the world, but THIS is Strontian's strontium!

:)

[DeltaPhi79]

Might I ask HOW you kept your composure when he said "People like me are radioactive. Doesn't explain my hair..." ?

[DeltaPhi79]

I want to go to Scotland now.

[PianoKwanMan]

Brady, you are becoming more and more like a chemist like at the end of the video you seem to know your stuff :)

[ironmonkey187]

awsome video's, I just discovered them yesterday and I watched the majority of them, I would love to see some more drug related videos, like how to make LSD and methamphetamine . I read that there is only a handful of chemist able to make LSD. It is not something I would be able to do or wanting to do myself, just a facinating subject in my opinion.

[OOZ662]

I've been waiting for this one, being an EVE Online player.

[hitachi088]

@OOZ662 whats so special about this game?

[OOZ662]

@hitachi088 In this case, because you use an item called "strontium clathrates" to allow your starbase to enter "reinforced" mode when attacked so that you have time to muster a defence.

[seahawk124]

1:47 "and these Jenkins is what my wife likes to used to pleasure herself while I'm away. As you can see, they sport the latest fashion in sex toy design.... but now let's get back to some physics."

Sorry Brady, I can't resist.

[d3st88]

Ah, I love periodic videos. I throw my arms up whenever I find one in my subscription box.

[dwarner1]

2:40 i freaking love this guy. i wish would have been my chemistry professor.

[Ben79k]

I know you guys are in the UK there, but i like paniced when i saw both cars at the beginning driving on the left.. haha awesome videos still, keep it up!! :D

[AntiProtonBoy]

cobalt-60 next plz

[dahmer1552000]

yup. she definitely needs to appeared more often ;)

[Barnekkid]

Good video, I really enjoyed watching that.

[foely1]

pete freakin' loves reations



[tomattosfutleimierda]

i love heeeeeeeeeer *-*!

[MarkusNemesis]

@tomattosfutleimierda meee tooooo... But she's married...

[tomattosfutleimierda]

@MarkusNemesis i know :C

[Nipsofjustice]

Oh scientists, you so silly :).

I have always loved the elements but I am doing horribly in honors Chemistry with a C. I still find these very entertaining and informative!

[localfuckingized]

"The village that gave its name to the element Strontium." What an excellent and exciting motto.

[FiliPinoy95]

holy cow the professor's has a half-life I think

[Shockszzbyyous]

@FiliPinoy95 awesome



[williepie]

we're all radioactive, put a giger counter over melting hail, you'll get a reading, blame the japanese and our dumb goverment for setting off atom bombs.

[punishedexistence]

Wow, I can say I learned something today...these videos should really be more famous; maybe they already are, because not everyone spends hours out of their day watching these. I however do not represent everyone!

Thanks for the upload, very interesting!

[Mulletsrokkify]

6:07 lol!

[dot1337]

Great video!

[wolgreth]

rainbow? did you guys try to find a leprechauns pot of gold?

[FrostPegasus]

Scotland aaaaaand it's raining. Naturally.

[heyandy889]

:-D Great work, loving the Periodic videos

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

Excellent video!

[FrozenHaxor2]

Gotta try Strontium Nitrate flame now :S

[PifWorks]

I always loved that Element, cause in Italian it sounds pretty similar to the word people uses commonly to say "Feces".

[Omudincartier]

@PifWorks Stronzo maybe ?haha

[pyr0ph1L]

I love strontium nitrate. Gives a great red colour in fireworks :)

[dylanlawless1]

I wonder will Mr Fox appear on Backstage science. I'm sure he had other interesting things to say.

[GerbrandThunder1]

stront means shit in Holland

[ELLo1997]

i klicked to 4:35 and saw: O.o

[stsrawmos]

so what happens if you lick the rock?

[davidrv17]

I seriously love Pete and his passion... but I guess anyone would be that passionate when you get to ignite stuff like that all the time

[tchunu]

Great video, thanks for uploading.

[CYFilmStudent]

Love your videos, looks like a nice trip.

[tchunu]

The National Rifle Association of America. 

[yrachmani]

love it keep it up sixty simbole i realy great too thnk you

[rs666sathan666pk]

stront = shit in dutch

So for me this element is quite hard to say without laughing my 'ass' off :)

[DevilMaster]

@rs666sathan666pk It's also funny for Italians, because in Italian "stronzo" means "turd" when it's used literally, and "asshole" when it's used to describe the attitude of a person.

[Inu992]

@DevilMaster yes it is! I was shocked when i found it at the very first time, when I was younger... And everytime I want to offend someone, I say him "Stronzio!" :P

[vusiliyK]

finally

[wyvernlord23]

What does he mean he's never seen strontium. He saw the entire periodic table (save the radioactive man made ones) when that guy who builds periodic tables came.

[skilllol101]

gotta love those flames :)

[scott6525]

Another great video

[DeoMachina]

Woo Scotland!

[BurningArtsStudios]

I have a 10" speaker with a strontium magnet lol

[fugehdehyou]

I love how everyone who wears a labcoat vandalises it by drawing or writing things on it. I am one of those people haha

[heloizyjhenifer]

@fugehdehyou Makes scientists look like bums :(

[chaos00113]

@fugehdehyou its people like YOU! I always have a penis on the back of my labcoat!

[killermonster555]

Strontium is used in red fireworks. It is also given quite a lot of stick in the netherlands and belgium as "stront" is dutch for a certain word that starts with sh- and rhymes with wit. XD

[saberwing505]

@killermonster555 haha was about to say the same:P

[sakokosa]

@periodicvideos Love your videos and appreciate your work. Bit off the topic, would please make a video about carbon dating and archeological dating system used now a days. I saw a video from prof. a long time back talking about why carbon dating cant be used now a days due to changes in C14 in the atmosphere after invention and use of nukes (I guess i am right). But I always wonder what technique they are using now, to date all the historical sites and other things .

[sakokosa]

As far as i know they still date the animal remains or seeds at major archeological sites to date the site accordingly or sometimes they use pottery and tools excavated from the sites to match the time period. thanks

[passwordresetisbroke]

@sakokosa Carbon dating is seeing how radioactive carbon 14 in samples is (as things get carbon 14 in them from being exposed to the air (cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere create carbon 14))

The longer it has been inside an object, the less radioactive it is because it has a relatively short halflife.

At least thats my understanding of it, I hope I am not wrong :D.

[sakokosa]

@passwordresetisbroke ya you are correct, but I was asking about the technique used now a days. I have heard many a times that you can not use carbon dating anymore because of all the atomic tests, the balance of C14 in atmosphere is changed. In short if you have some amount of C14 in a piece of a cloth, which is suppose 1500 years old, that amount wont be correct as after 1940s that cloth may have acquired more C14 in it due to nuclear use in open air.

[metfan89]

@sakokosa still use C14 dating, just cant use it to date anything post nuclear age reliably, if you want to learn more visit potholer54's channel. he has a few good videos on it.

[sakokosa]

@metfan89 thanks mate.

[TheCaptainLulz]

regular Sr has been shown in Dbl blind studies to have a positive density effect on patients with Osteoporosis. It incorporates itsself into the bone but seems to be more resistant to degradation than CaPO4(OH).

[somorastik]

Hi, I love your videos, for experiments where you film explosions and burning, you should use a filter for the camera to lover the exposion. Especialy for slow motion videos.

Keep on rockin!

[talshiarr]

I'm guessing he gets one haircut a year...perhaps two. Perhaps all that radioactivity makes it dangerous for the barbers to do more ;).

[oBLACKIECHANoo]

a strontium archivist? That guy clearly has a very, very, sad life.

[ScotsmanRS]

@oBLACKIECHANoo That is not what it says. He is a Strontian archivist not a strontium archivist.

[oBLACKIECHANoo]

@ScotsmanRS Same thing, the guy spends his life collecting lumps of metal, to make it worse, lumps of the same metal.

[ScotsmanRS]

@oBLACKIECHANoo No, it's not the same thing. Strontium is an element; Strontian is a village. His speciality is the village, not the element. Did you pay any attention to the video at all?

[oBLACKIECHANoo]

@ScotsmanRS No, actually i didn't. That doesn't change the fact that the guy collects lumps of metal.

[ScotsmanRS]

@oBLACKIECHANoo He is introduced as the village archivist, not the Strontium archivist. In other words, he'd collect information about the village in general, and strontium is only a part of that. Besides, the things he had weren't lumps of metal, they were lumps of strontianite. Is there anything else you'd like to be wrong about or are you finished?

[oBLACKIECHANoo]

@ScotsmanRS What am i wrong about? Are you fucking blind or did you just not watch the video? He had shelves of lumps of metal and rock...

[ScotsmanRS]

@oBLACKIECHANoo Most, if not all, of what was on that shelf was lumps of minerals, presumably strontianite. That is not a metal. That is one of several things you are wrong about.

[gonegonego]

"I am radioactive, it doesn't explain my hair..."

Epic

[passwordresetisbroke]

You drive a mini? I am strongly considering unsubbing now :/

[toratorasama]

I see the professor has gotten a haircut. :3

[igext]

@toratorasama His wife told him to :P

[hanish1997]

sickkk

[minninulsi]

YAY

[MrLol333]

Only 1 word: amazing ...



[rimwydas44]

New haircut ?

[Scruffalot]

Sick vid.