Antimony - Periodic Table of Videos

[uut0]

fluoroantimonic acid :D?

[Strideo1]

@40390576 Good one. :)

[WeaselWJ]

I have a large sample of antimony that my father gave me and I used to play with it on my desk. It wasn't until I looked it up that I found out antimony was poisonous, despite my father saying it was harmless. It didn't seem to have done any harm though.

[EvaPilot1]

I always forget about antimony.

[Quasi84]

Doesn't CFCs (at least some?) also cause acid rain as it destroys the ozone layer?

[sockington1]

it isn't a metal

[catsfromhell1]

@sockington1 they never said it was.

[sockington1]

@catsfromhell1 0.15 -" is a rather silver metal that looks like arsenic"

[catsfromhell1]

@sockington1 i stand corrected.

[craptastic1997]

i love how all the top comments make sense with the video

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Antimony also expands when cold and shrinks when heated. they used it in type setting so they could keep very sharp lines when typing print.

[sargon6000]

So the antimatter counterpart of antimony is...antiantimony?

[jifyfish]

Alchemist Basil Valentine named the metal, after feeding it to some monks in a Benedictine monastery. The monks got violently ill and some even died, hence the Latin name that means "anti-monk." Spiritually too, monks feel most threatened by their own animal nature. Oddly enough, the Tincture of Antimony cures venereal diseases.

[jwillisbarrie]

Please update captions and add captions in English

[hedleypanama]

@periodicvideos

Antimony is also a drug used to treat leishmaniasis...

[sveegaard]

According to Sigma-Aldrich, antimony is "only" a hazard to the aquatic environment - so the toxicity seem to disagree with other sources :S

[DyingElement]

sb

[69donaldm1]

I mine the stuff everyday, I knew it wasnt real healthy, but I didnt think it was that bad.

[aardvark9100]

I worked at a place that made wheel weights for rotation and balance. Supposedly the weights were 97% Antimony with 3% Lead. Some of the wheel weights were zinc or steel. Each block of Antimony weighed 1 tonne and there were very many of them stacked and lined in rows. We would coat them with a polyester epoxy powder during production cause of the toxicity if corosion took place.

[Mojosbigstick]

Antimony would be a beautiful name for a girl - if it wasn't so toxic.

[scottthecool]

thumbs up for the prof's hair :D :D

[cha00halo]

@scottthecool no :D :D

[BuickDoc]

Classically used in alloys with lead to make printing type. The addition of Sb causes the molten metal to expand into the type mould, producing a sharper cast. I doubt if anyone makes lead type anymore.

[gotzMilks]

i like the dude with the hair and shizzle

[Nguli34689]

Thank you for posting this. I am a pyrotechnitian and sometimes I am called upon to create stars of various hues and/or pyrotechnic compositions which yield spectacular effects. In the case of Antimony trisulfide ("Chinese Needles"), I produced a small amount of stars for my Roman Candle as an experiment. When those starts began to shoot out of their paper casing, they looked like tiny porcupines or pin cushions which burned as they traveled upward through the air. Interesting but toxic stuff!

[schmidtbag]

antimony is also used in gunpowder

[TakronRust]

@schmidtbag It's used to increase sensitivity of flash powders and gun powder. Antimony TriSulfide if I remember correctly.

[TheCaptainLulz]

The flame test for antimony is supposed to show pale green, but every time I try it it burns with a ghostly whitish grey colour. Its fun to work with though and its a beautifu metal when its pollished, even though technically its a metaloid.

[glenwoofit]

Was that a fart at 1:17?

[1RadicalOne]

Not the first time he did that on video... ;)

[entoris476]

@glenwoofit

no that was a squeky chair

[pyrobombs]

Well did the large hole in the ozone layer just pop up for no reason?? Some sort of reaction had to take place that would "kinda" make the large section of the ozone all but dissappear...

[Strideo1]

Not to be confused with anti-money the element of poverty.

[HWGuyEG]

@Strideo1

And Investors(gamblers).

[wb5rue]

@Strideo1 and wives

[SchupkeRox1]

the zhu zhu pets toy has levels of antimony

[mrspacee]

I'm relatively sure that there is Solid Proof that CFC's destroy the ozone layre, anyone here who is somewhat scientific should know how they catalyse the decomposition of 2O3 into 3O2, or somthing like that. (for those who do not know O3 is Ozone And O2 is the normal molecule of oxygen)

I'm not saying that the environmentalists are right, It'll take ages to change a economy completely, however, the less we use of any harmful or hazardous chemical the better.

[RazielKain]

you do know that CFCs are mostly banned in all products since .... 10 years?

[KyuubiNaruto1337XD]

actually it is found that those CFC's never reached the Ozone layer, they all were taken away with the wind and never got close as it never left the troposphere

its the same with the CO2 and global warming

CO2 is heavier than N2 and O2 and its also heavier than water

CO2 is 44amu

O2 is 32

N2 is 28

and water is 18

[Draxis32]

What a load of bullshit you're talking about.

[KyuubiNaruto1337XD]

CFC's are far more dense than the air, in fact they were always carried away by the wind and diluted so much as to only be less than .0001 ppm.

[Draxis32]

Boy, you need to understand that by your theorical speech SF6, and Radonium could never be gases, its gases not liquids boy, they don't form layers of gases, they spread out through the atmosphere equally and almost instantaneously.

So yes, CFC don't affect the O3 layer, but Chlorine element that is expelled by this compounds does.

[KyuubiNaruto1337XD]

It doesn't matter, neither have a definitive shape.

the Chlorine cannot do anything to the Ozone, because it has 7 valence electrons and Oxygen's valence electrons are all used up in O3

[Draxis32]

Boy, I'm a chemical technician...by your understandment O3 would never exist as well, cause O2 is the are 8 electrons in both atoms valence layer.

Chlorine emmited by CFCs react with the air to form ClO compound, wich(is likely to happen in lower temperatures) will break again due to radiation to form Cl- ion wich will steal, since Cl has more electronegavity than O, an oxygen atom from the O3 gas.

That's whats happening in the troposphere, and please, go get some study boy.

[KyuubiNaruto1337XD]

saying you're a professional this or that doesn't mean shit on youtube, first off, you sound like you're just making up shit when you say you're a professional this or that.

8 electrons doesn't have to be the end, thats just a common stability zone for most compounds and Oxygen just happens to be the exception.

and once O3 is formed, it doesn't bond any higher. and electronegativity will rarely effect it.

Chlorine is more dense than the air anyway.

[Draxis32]

Hey Kid, just read what you type after trying to explain shit on youtube you fuckhead, I dont have to show you my degree and neither explain it, you sound like a 8 year old boy that barely knows the language he is speaking and trying to explain a lot of shit you doesnt understand.

So GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT

Or shut the fuck up kid, cause you're a useless pile of steaming cow shit.

[Draxis32]

"8 electrons doesn't have to be the end, thats just a common stability zone for most compounds and Oxygen just happens to be the exception."

What a load of shit, seriously are you on meth kid?

More than 8 electrons in the valence layer can only be achived by a fewer number of compounds and most uses noble gases and fluorine.

"Chlorine is more dense than the air anyway."

By your shit water should be a gas and CO2 should be a liquid in 1kgf atmosphere.

You're just plain stupid.

[KyuubiNaruto1337XD]

unrelated is un/r/elated.

Oxygen is an exception, why does each atom have 4 and its in O3? making 12.

hell Paladium has 18 valence electrons and it is as stable as platinum of the PGM's

[dooki123]

@Draxis32 don't get me wrong, im not rtying to be clever or anything, because you sound like you know what you are talking about, but wouldn't you need 6 chlorine atoms to join to 1 oxygen?

[Draxis32]

@dooki123 Here's what happens, in aerosols and many other stuff they have CFC's(Cloro-Fluorine-Carbon compounds, usually gases at 1 atm) they float up to the atmohphere, where due to solar radiation they break up, Fluorine can react to anything so it doesnt reach top atmosphere, the carbon compounds are broken due to radiation, and in this process liberates ClO- Ion, its an unstable compound and it will react with Ozone in this reaction:

2ClO --> 2CL- + O2

Cl- + O3 --> ClO + O2

So the cycle....

[dooki123]

@Draxis32 ohhh, okay thanx. i feel like a complete idiot, because i didn't understand about co-valent bonding before i posted this comment.

[Planetary0]

I thought it's "antee moany' but I guess they know best!

[wrnchhead76]

I always thought the same thing also, and yeah I thought "they should know". Glad I never opened my mouth in front of someone that knows better, haha

[douro20]

The environmentalists are the problem, not CFCs. There is no solid proof that CFCs deplete the ozone layer.

[insatiableso]

What do you propose it is then, and what proof do you have for that?

[douro20]

The Montreal Protocol was drafted by environmentalists, not scientists.

[douro20]

The thing is that any gas heavier than ozone can displace it. Carbon dioxide, water vapor, various volcanic gases...

[douro20]

Also, CFCs are extremely stable compounds; far more stable than the gases which are replacing it. Even if UV light can break it down into chloride ions which can bond to ozone, it would take considerably more - over a hundred times more CFCs than what exist in the world- to produce a hole in the ozone layer.

[keldonian]

Man you must be really stupid. Rowland, Molina and Crutzen, Nobel laureates in CHEMISTRY (a science), UC and UNAM laureates respectively (i don't remember where Crutzen got his degree)... So,

[invermin1239]

Please pronounce it antimony not antinomy and buy some Brylcream or gel.

[combatdigiq]

i'm looking to alloy tin, antimony and bismuth

into a usable casting metal.

i could use some help in finding info about

the ratios.  tnx :)

[Airsofter1995]

"Wonderful sample" times 118

[Nikolaii257]

I have used Antimony trisulfide together with a pyrotechnic "star" composition and then molded them. When this new coompound shot out of my Roman Cancle, the "stars" had a porquipine appearance to them. Each star had needles of fire surrounding it. I also made fountains and flares with a similar effect. In the fireworks industry Antimony trisulfide is also known as "Chinese Needles". The danger in burning this salt is because of stibnene gas it could generate and this is noxious.

[BluBreathProductions]

I like how he says it's evil. He always uses the terms "Beautiful. or Lovely, or Evil" to describe elements. It's just a

[PeriodicElements]

I have started to collect the elements(As a result of watching your videos). The first pure I got, was Americium, nr 95, and three days ago, 30g of 99,999% pure Antimony arrived... Thanks for giving me a tip to what my username could be...=P

[spayum2]

Did you take apart a smoke detector to get your americium?

[PeriodicElements]

Yes I did. Well, smoke detectors, in fact. But where the hell are you supposed to get it if you don't do that..?

[jih128]

after i memorize the periodic table my goal is to collect all the elements also! (well the 1s you can get)

[PeriodicElements]

I memorized the periodic table about two months after I receved the Antimony.

[jih128]

nice

[michdudeada]

What about Flouroantimonic acid?

[ElveeKaye]

I love it when he goes rooting around in those boxes to find an element. It's like me digging in my closet to find something that fell to the bottom! XD

[GodBlessTheUSA1]

on my test it said what is antimony's symbol

A. An

B. As

C. Sb

D. At I put An :(

[Ducky1138]

Aww, FAIL... Sorry dude, i probly couldn't have guessed any better. xP

[DHoffman2392]

antimony is used to make superbases i think

[animefan4455]

is it possible to buy antimony?

[PeriodicElements]

ebay... search for Emovendo... He sells 30g for 16$ I think...

Don't kill someone with it...!

[PeriodicElements]

I have bought some. Really nice! Look at the video response...

[ammosmith]

I use antimony to alloy lead with tin to make a hard alloy called Lynotype for casting bullets that are nearly as hard as bronze but 97% the density of lead.

[combatdigiq]

what % do you use ?

[ammosmith]

Usually about 2%. It helps the tin alloy into the lead.

[dieper2dieper]

tnx 4 the reply. i use about 2% too.

i've been searching for more info about the characteristics of the different tin-antimony-bismut- and maybe lead alloy's,

but haven't realy found much on this subject.

[rochelimit55555]

how about telling story about the grey wolf? the reaction of molten antimony which appeared to swallow metals and form alloys? i learn it somewhere back in schools... i think..

[themassivebastard]

the program what the victorians dis for us i heard that in

[CharlieBBoy12345]

I was just skimming the wiki on antimony - apparently it gets used in a compound for eye make-up??

[ForumGuitarra]

Isn't the most powerfull brownsted-lowry acid made from antimony?

[NobodyHasThisNick]

Yes. SbF5 + HF

[ForumGuitarra]

Thanks...

[gedasltu]

And the pKa is about (or less) -12, VERY strong acid

[gedasltu]

P.S. Sorry, I wanted to reply to NobodyHasThisNick post :) Someone mentioned a superacid, which is made as a mixture of SbF5 and HF