Freezing the Liquid Metal Mercury - SOLID

[computergeekman12]

Hey taofledermaus, next time.. use liquid nirtogen. Please reply!

[Porglit]

There are multiple different types of mercury.... Only the most dangerous types will kill you even with one drop through latex gloves. The most common type isn't as dangerous as people think... I know quite a few people who ran their fingers through it when they were little, and they're still fine. Not all mercury is super duper dangerous...

[NIMHFS]

Vaccinations are full of mercury...

[Knightyme]

@NIMHFS *sigh* which vaccines, in which countries, and what years? I expect you will find virtually 0 have mercury in 2012.

I might be wrone, PM me with the links *if* you find any.

[IronMan6123]

metalic mecury is not dangerous thats what you were playing with

[xXxAr7ur0xXx]

you broke alot of termometers

[espectro2n]

Chuck Norris drinks one of these every day...... 

[lief1250]

it's so cool how when he pulls the frozen mercury out it drips liquid metal

[AtariFTW]

thats one heavy martini. Mercury is heavy!!

[pvszrox1997]

Blood from a stone

[kalphitekil]

it's the movie evolution

[kalphitekil]

it's gonna be the movie evolution

[pigeonmaster1]

that poor glass...

[zenkaizer12]

Sexy music lol

[ahfat83]

Science illiteracy is REAL!

There are things that are more dangerous than Hg.

[JasperSystems]

Elemental mercury isn't *that* dangerous to handle a couple of times. You wouldn't want to make a habit of it, but if you got some on your skin, it wouldn't kill you. At the very worst, you'd get a role in the next Alice in Wonderland movie as the Mad Hatter. There are many mercury compounds that are far more toxic than elemental mercury.

If you want to play with some liquid metal, try out Gallium. It's less toxic than Mercury but it does have a slightly higher melting point.

[jallaguri]

What if you could levitate liquid Mercury in a magnetic field, then wait till it has settled as a perfect sphere - then freeze it gently...

[wkendahl]

@jallaguri Sounds good, unfortunately mercury is not magnetic. Only iron, cobalt, and one other metal that I can never remember are magnetic.

[FlyingPastaLin]

that is some durable glass :D

[DvdVishnya]

its like jello =D yum.



[2thetrace]

it looks squishy

[beeohhski]

all these comments about how one drop will kill you are retarded ive played with murcury in my hands more than a dozen times and no death ive had thermometers bust in my mouth and no big deal maybe im magicly immune to murcury but magic is fake and so is one drop in your skin killing you 

[taofledermaus]

@beeohhski Lol, I get some crazy comments on here. Everyone has access to Wikipedia when all else fails.

[VitiosusAdustum]

@taofledermaus No, we've just got some seriously smart guys, that know everything, and obviously you don't. Can't you see their PHD's? You should listen to em. (Total sarcasm, by the way)

[africanrangermike]

@taofledermaus

How will mercury be like in non-gravity conditions?? Is there any video like that?

[ComedyHomeVideos]

@beeohhski liquid mercury does very bad nerve damage after prolonged exposure, it can go through pores in your skin. btw thermometers arent made with liquid mercury anymore.

[beeohhski]

@ComedyHomeVideos this was when i was a kid in the 80s i was just told not to swallow it but how hard is that when there is glass in your mouth

[praetoriuscody]

@beeohhski it wont kill you, but it willl make you crazy over time

[beeohhski]

@praetoriuscody too late for that

[swat105]

@beeohhski you know if you continue though you will go mad....

[beeohhski]

@swat105 im already crazy but who says crazy is a bad thing

[knifemakejake]

@beeohhski it does seem to have killed your ability to use commas.

[beeohhski]

@knifemakejake i always enjoy grammar nazis thats why i leave out punctuation because if someone doesnt lay bait to point out nazis they will never be caught

[lobat0674]

@beeohhski Mercury Poisoning

Skin discoloration

pink cheeks,fingertips and toes

swelling,shedding of skin,

persistently faster-than-normal heart beat.

profuse sweating,increased salivation,

and hypertension (high blood pressure)

[irllcd13]

@beeohhski No, one drop won't kill you but Mercury IS a nuerotoxin.

[suprflcn]

@beeohhski Mercury does make you go insane. That would explain your terrible grammar, spelling, and asshat comments.

[Notapoth3ad]

@beeohhski Im with you ive only touched it once but i was playing with a little ball and 4 years older im still kickin it.

[beeohhski]

@Notapoth3ad dont worry you will go crazy soon and then you will die its known as a creeping death you touch it once and BAM youre gonna die someday it may be 50 years later and dont think that is natural causes mercury caused that

[kingaxron]

@beeohhski they are talcing about industrial you had elemental

[kylebossify]

With repeated exposure, or a few large quantity exposures (i.e. ingestion), mercury can reach toxic levels in the body. It isn't like HF; a few drops of which could wreak metabolic havoc, and quite possibly cause death.

[samueltheboss1]

How and why is mercury dangerous.

[nerdygamer11]

@samueltheboss1 If I recall correctly, it has a certain property that makes it bind to fat really well. Your body is then unable to process this mercury out of your body. This becomes a problem when the mercury starts binding to the fat that surrounds the nerves in your brain. This fat that surrounds your nerves speeds up the signals that travel through them; add mercury and presto-bango, you start to have problems.

If I'm wrong, would someone please correct me?

[Wolvehound]

you know latex gloves dont always protect you from mercury. A scientist died once cause she spilled a drop on her latex gloves

[ItsTheJizz]

@Wolvehound he don't give a fuck haha 

[taofledermaus]

@Wolvehound good thing the gloves were not latex then.

[5150whiteboys]

@taofledermaus that was the best thing i have read all night lol

[ccoker95]

@Wolvehound a drop on the skin will not kill you. The symptoms from mercury poisoning are usually chronic, not acute. Especially a drop through latex gloves.

[PwntifexMaximus]

@Wolvehound

Dying from one drop of mercury? Are you utterly retarded?

Unless it was "spilled" from a gun into her cranial cavity, or injected directly into the bloodstream, one drop CANNOT kill you.

[BoobPainting]

@Wolvehound The scientist in question died after she spilled dimethylmercury over her gloves, not elemental mercury.

[SandboxFedaykin]

@Wolvehound That was dimethylmercury, and has nothing to do with this video.

[182alasdair]

@jie332211 not true i have a friend that takes mercury out of the tube and plays with it he is not dead but i am not saying its good for you either

[kruse001]

Mercury is not hazardous if briefly touched. It's only bad if there is long-term exposure. If this guy held mercury in his hand every day for a month straight, that's when I would get worried. Just look at Isaac Newton: he died of mercury poisoning but only after long-term exposure.

[papitosabe]

can't wait til the benefits of mercury is fully tapped.... We're not even close...

[Danny86176]

@xXUSMCGRIFFXx Latent not late*

[Danny86176]

@xXUSMCGRIFFXx they are kindas frozen but not quite it is called the Specific late heat of fusion wich means what temp it needs to be at for it to boil and harden

[billibu]

cool :)

[lonhumphrey71]

if you quench tool steel in mercury it does amazing things to the tool steel. i wish i had a gallon or so of it :)

[Zammitellu96]

Thanks for watching? You're welcome you gentleman.

[PaparoniFilms]

true men drink mercury

[canadarm2008]

your body dosent actually absorb pure mercury very well, well.... it dosent actually , the glove is purely a precautionary measure against some of the impurities that might act as a solvent

[TwinKnights]

I dont know but that looks like what that evil terminator was made out of in terminator 2.

[zzahmetzz2]

technically, yes the everyday metals that we observe within our lives (aluminum, iron, steel, etc) are frozen.

[Nimesh89pwns]

The thing thats cool about mercury is that its a liquid....

[alexotree]

Haha. "Don't eat mercury"

[rosaceastinks]

I AM ONE AF SOME WHO WAS TOUCHED MERCURY

[FedeBL4]

Just need an olive and you are ready to party!

[taofledermaus]

@jie332211 Oh my!

[TheEmpyrios]

@taofledermaus bull shit i had a old thermometer and i had to keep my little cousin from getting all over it and I did not die.

[supersesqui]

@jie332211

really ? just one drop on the skin eh ?

Well you obviously know nothing about anything and fuck all about everything.

[keinve2]

@jie332211 ... no. A small amount daily over a large period of time can kill you, but one drop on the skin? That wouldn't cause anything unless you left it there till your skin soaked it up (in which case, you are doing the gene pool a favor by removing yourself from it).

[Maafa1619]

@jie332211 That's not true. People used to have mercury thermometers break in their mouths all of the time. Mercury is, of course, toxic, but not as much as you suggest.

[nickbhalo]

@jie332211 If you got a drop of mercury on you... you'd be perfectly fine. Only mercury salts are horribly toxic. If you spilled literally a cup, yeah you would need to get the hazmat crew

[lordzeppo]

@jie332211 I used to play with mercury when i was 10,bare hand,about 2 ounces,no big deal.

[Durwagon]

@lordzeppo Were your parents mad hatters?

[lordzeppo]

@Durwagon my grand dad thought it was cool. Still, I'm not dead,nor am I diform, and I'm pretty clever also when you look at it ;)

It doesn't kill you,as long as it's not IN your system. Skin absorption is rather pretty slow.

[graymic]

@jie332211 This is not true.

[HomeGamesKiro]

@jie332211 when i was 5 years old i eated a small quantity of mercury and in still here -_-

[TJDTaylor]

@jie332211 No. Mercury cant be absorbed into your skin like water can. You could dip your hand in mercury and pull it out dry. Now if you happened to have a cut anywhere that would tough the mercury, youd be dead.

[ccoker95]

@jie332211 That's a rumor. Before they knew mercury was toxic they would let children play with (handle) it. They also used to put mercury in every newborn's eyes to prevent infection.

[xbasket12x]

@jie332211 you are sincerely one of the stupidest people I have ever met

[xXUSMCGRIFFXx]

Just out of curiosity...would regular metals that we see around everyday (ex: aluminum, Iron, magnesium, etc.) be considered "Frozen"? This has always befuddled me and I could never think of the right answer

[taofledermaus]

@xXUSMCGRIFFXx I think technically metals are all frozen, but everything is relative to temperature, and what "normal" ambient temperatures are. It just sounds odd to most people since when they think of freezing, they just think "cold".

[miaufun]

@xXUSMCGRIFFXx actually you could say that mercury is actually melted

[xXUSMCGRIFFXx]

@miaufun That one I was positively sure of. I was just more dumbfounded by the fact that aluminum and iron are technically frozen.

[7mikethebike]

@xXUSMCGRIFFXx metals in everyday use are in the state of solidity. Frozen means to become solid from expoisure to cold. Lead will liquify somewhere around five hundred degrees, and it would probably appear much as the hg appears at room temperature. Of course, you would need a different type of insulated gloves to handle it.

[siberianhuskybud]

@xXUSMCGRIFFXx the scientific community considers solid metals frozen... the four phases of matter... solid liquid gas and plasma... are defined by theenergy levels of the matter, not the temperature. so if i took a bit of silver, and it was solid, it would be frozen, even if it was hot to touch it. it would be a liquid if i melted it. it would be a gas if i super heated it, and when the atoms start to break apart, it would be a plasma...it's not by temperature, it's by energy

[prarpin]

@xXUSMCGRIFFXx

The correct term would be solid state. Even water, when frozen, is in it's solid state. Look at it that way and you will no longer be "befuddled." Remember your basic elementary science class; liquid, solid, gas. Almost all elements can be in each state or status.

[audi97x]

@xXUSMCGRIFFXx Technically there is no "Frozen" state in metals. The reason that Mercury is so interesting as a metal is that its MELTING point, is about the same as our atmospheric temps. Where as your other metals (Iron, Magnesium, ect) melt at MUCH higher temps, in the 1000's of degrees C. Its more a matter of when the crystallin structure in the metal deforms to make it a liquid, and what temp this occurs at. Hope this helps understanding it a little better ;)

[Zbochenez]

hey, major question - isn't that dangerous?

[Xhuri]

Where do you aquire that much mercury?

[tisMrJoo]

@Xhuri watch a couple more of his videos on the stuff, it's in the description of at least one. i mean, i could tell you, but this gent deserves the views :)

[Transfusiionz]

They should make mirrors out of it :P



[RobertWeekes]

it's cool how the metal ball doesn't get "wet"

[ZoruaZorroark]

unrelated topic, but do you sometimes transform at night and eat moths and such:)

[taofledermaus]

@ZoruaZorroark  only when I mix sleeping pills and booze.

[GPazosL]

@taofledermaus HA!

[berballadans]

chilled murcury martini, shaken not stirred

[EuanGuiney]

sorry for my dumbness but does it melt?

[GerrettJihad]

Mercury is awsome, I play with it all the time!!!

[supersesqui]

@GerrettJihad

As you are capable of using google, look up 'As Mad as a Hatter'.

You may still be able to understand the results ! lol

[GerrettJihad]

@supersesqui yes yes, I know what that means, I am not crazy though.

[w00zyl00]

So ... why again did you do this in a martini glass ?

[taofledermaus]

@w00zyl00 It looked good on video.

[w00zyl00]

@taofledermaus Fair enough, i thought it was on special occasion.

i like you videos, mercury seems cool to play around with ;)

[clicklord1]

is that counted as a form of ice, or a form of metal while frozen?

[KingDefile]

great cocktail! :D

[skiie]

What do you put into your mercury? mine always taste sorta funny.

[onionmon]

lick your fingers

[MrJee28]

playing with mercury is very good for ya!!!

[timolgreek]

t1000???

[imhevenly]

i hope noone mistakes that for some kind of cocktail O.o

[bccritters]

Don't drink the water! LOL



[strattgatt]

I don't get it. If mercury makes you so smart, why is it illegal?

[Arlaul]

Mmmm mercury cocktail, this is what James bond would drink if he wanted to die.

[84llistic]

is mercury and quicksilver is a one thing?

[mrbutburp]

drink it

[SaboeMC]

@KaLaMaDaMa Solid mercury is about as strong as tin

[KaLaMaDaMa]

Just how strong is solid mercury? (comparison please)

[taofledermaus]

@KaLaMaDaMa  I didn't do any strengthness tests on it.

[lunarwolfxlord99]

@KaLaMaDaMa it was frozen so it would shatter

[woainikmban123]

what did put on it ?

[vjstudio]

mercury does not freeze it just gets solid like any other metal only mercury melts at normal tempertures

[taofledermaus]

@vjstudio I didn't define the word "freezing"  but don't believe me, look it up.

[impero101]

@vjstudio I'm sorry mate. Freezing is defined by being the phase change of a substance from liquid to solid - exactly the same as you described. Things freeze differently though, and mercury might not solidify in the conventional sense, i.e. as water would (crystallization), though I do not know if this is the case. Anyways, this might be what you meant.

[nonchalantgamer]

@vjstudio What are you talking about? That's what freezing is. Solid materials are frozen, they just don't feel cold to you. Everything has a liquid, solid, and gas state, they teach you that in elementary school.

[the3dsmanpat]

@vjstudio

gallium or Ga is non toxic and also becomes liquid at normal tempatures

[zachrfields]

@vjstudio What would be a ''normal temperature"?

[ProjecttoPreserve]

@vjstudio "freezing" and "solidification" are practically synonyms

[manuelntu]

what about liquid nitrogen?

[Ilovelazers]

were can i get Mercury?

[gricka31]

why is "freezes" in apostrophes?

[taofledermaus]

@gricka31 Too much attention to insignificant details will make you go crazy.

[jeezuschryst]

@gricka31 why did you call quotation marks "apostrophes"?

[gricka31]

@jeezuschryst Because I'm an illiterate idiot.

[jeezuschryst]

@gricka31 Poor you.

[PCGeekProductions]

cancer

[darkevil88188]

now....lick it O_O

[MarcoLueftner14]

boring!

[Incubated81]

cheers.

[leonso100]

were in the world did you get liquid metal mercury!?

[zhengjdc]

Dude.... rule No.1: whenever posting a science vid, plz plz plz use metric terms for temperature, be it Celsius or Kelvin!!!! and NO Fahrenheit!!!!!!!!

[rundom32]

and were did you get that mercury?

[usmcpvtswat]

Fascinating.

[austifarien]

always be fascinated an keep posting videos,we are in the the age of the greatest transfer of knowledge an science in history!we cant rely on the government with their public school systems as the basis of knowledge.That system is mundane. so keep posting videos!!! find me soon experimenting with sterling dishes,The Venus project, zeitgiest, Ron Paul!, grow rooms, and pseudoscience like experimenting behind John Hutchisons work on anti-gravity or spiritual contact using spiricoms or franks box.

[anonymoustruther1]

dont get sick

[urawesomestperson]

So bizarre with all the manhandling of the mercury that at the beginning and end it weighed the same! This is a vid I thought I'd never see or even though of seeing. Thanks for that! :)

[mpkastan55]

It looks like WALL-E Getting Raped by MegATRon

[DStud29]

Remind me not to have any martinis at your house.

[kdc43]

I loved drinking mercury martinis, but I had to give them up because I died.

[VoreTechz1985]

Clearly there is nothing more exciting than watching ice melt...

NEXT!

[CloudFrosties]

Shiny! O3O

[hiijjh100]

Drink the mercury so we can see you die in slow motion. :P

[TheNathanQaz]

Thats one deadly cocktail.

[kthxplzdrivthru]

@yo90bosses I was more curious as to where I could acquire Mercury, is it legal to buy?

[yo90bosses]

can any one buy dry ice or do you need a licends like everything does

[taofledermaus]

@yo90bosses I might depend on where you live. I think here they won't sell it to kids, it can burn them, or they might put it inside a bottle and blow themselves up.

[ConstipatedLemur]

@taofledermaus like, blow themselves up as in explosion? blood?

[antney1108]

@yo90bosses What is this licends thing you speak of?

[blistex239]

@yo90bosses if ur 18 or older or with a parent ur good

[TheScienceGuy513]

@yo90bosses you have to be 18 to buy dry ice but yeah anyone can buy it

[sanity599]

@yo90bosses Here they sell it in the local grocery store but only during canning season. If you can't find it there look in the phone book and you will find places that sell it.

[gearsofwargod3295]

u wont eat tht.man challenge.

[royoffg]

one question. Are you using Dry Ice.?

[fuckyeah009]

@royoffg Pretty sure it's liquid nitrogen

[taofledermaus]

@royoffg Yes, I bought 10lbs of dry ice from the grocery store.  I think it was around $12.

[thedma100]

@taofledermaus what store?

[taofledermaus]

@thedma100 It was just a local grocery store called Save Mart. I was surprised they sold the stuff at a grocery store .