Copper - Periodic Table of Videos

[capricemontie]

is copper a good metal to buy/invest in?

[Theonewhoclimbs28]

Gotta love that boron lady.

[Geebsee]

I should really be studying... after this video.. or the next

[MrJivePirate]

why are crabs so wierd. what is the advantage of being a flimsy little thing that only walks sideways and doesn't even have real hemoglobin.

[anxez]

God I love it when I find my way to the science part of Youtube.

[Diosukekun]

she's smoking hotd

[grande1899]

2:09

[uglymoose89]

@grande1899 who is that guy?

[bladder1010]

A.C.A.B.

[05017351]

I know this is really geeky, but that is why Mr. Spock's blood was green in the original Star Trek shows. His blood was based around copper rather than iron like ours.

[Monxy100]

@05017351 I'm not sure why it would be green. There are some real animals that have copper in their blood (hemocyanin) rather than iron (hemoglobin) and their blood is blue.

[elisaulcordova]

cool zipper earings!!



[sedwarg]

the prof's so neurotic haha

[abzsskola]

Where does the professor gets his periodic table ties and bow ties?

[WolfgangBrozart]

Neil is who I want to be when I'm that age. What a boss.

[emihackr97]

how can you run after a lobster?

[MrSuperZangief]

I run after my lobster

[RatkoUSA]

Is there a limit to how deep companies can go to mine copper before the world starts running out of new copper?

[1234doawee]

is there a copper alternative? (for china)

[onlyreallifematters]

if that had been a ball of plutonium i would definetively not toss it around in my hands

[MrSuednym]

@onlyreallifematters Plutonium is actually fairly harmless unless it enters the body. So, as long as you washed your hands afterwards, you should be just fine... Unless you were talking about the weight of the plutonium making you not want to toss it around.

[Lefty7788tinkatolli]

lol my CuZn did chemistry! (say CuZn fast)

[toothpick93]

Is Sodium Potassium Tartrate the same as Potassium Sodium Tartrate?

[ajinkya120]

i'm so glad that the top comment isn't glasses within glasses, GLASSCEPTION!

[cheetaman472]

Love the bow tie print.

[GTHaroFITBMX]

anyone notice from 7:22 to 7:54 the words on the screensaver to the left of him are switching between two different coputer screens?

[98JMA]

@GTHaroFITBMX

Not particularly impressive, it just means that he has two monitors sync'd.

[GTHaroFITBMX]

chinese/british?

[MaCs1313]

Has anybody noticed the professor clears his thought when he says something not entirely accurate or when he believes he has said something wrong ?

[radiomashedpotatos]

I love his bowtie...

[Jebus495]

That stirring bar at about 2:00

Is that just piece of ?steel? in a rotating magnetic field from the device below or is it mechanically turned through a hole in the ?glass jar?

[Hema8786]

In fact, the bar magnet is a magnet covered with plastic. The device where the glass is placed so the bar remains metal spinning in the background. The device has within it a series of magnets arranged in a circle so that it creates a circular field on which the magnet that rotates inside the vessel.

[Jebus495]

@Hema8786 That was worded pretty confusingly xD

So, I thank Tesla for the agitation of that solution? :D

[SEThatered]

"ok, we are going to be looking today at copper"

naahh i had enough coppers battering me with them batons yesterday...

[TheHammer231]

At 2:10 is the best. It's just awesome.

[Acrimonator]

LOL, her husband's got balls of copper...

[thelonelychemist]

6:09 nice earring ;) 

[Timurv1234]

at 0:02 those buttons to the right remind me of brasilian flag...

[jamesn0va]

Simlobsters



[test123ok]

2:09 .. Like a BOSS

[thekingsora]

neal FTW

[limefrog77]

Amazing... fucking amazing, this man is trying to get it through our thick skulls that our current copper imprint isnt sustainable, and you all worry about the girls being sexy.... well, ok, they are... but get a grip, guys.... or else we can just consign you to America, with all the other cheap garbage

[ThinkFaster66]

@limefrog77 "or else we can just consign you to America, with all the other cheap garbage" .....you sir, are a douche.

[limefrog77]

@ThinkFaster66 May well be but im not in a country that can't pay its bloody bills

[ThinkFaster66]

@limefrog77 hahaha. you know something? that does not offend me in the least. its true, fucking ridiculous and if i could change it, i would. but i guess my point is that not all here is cheap garbage. every country has its refuse, every country has its treasures. just dont throw the baby out with the bath water.

[Lokivoid]

@TheUBNN

Easiest way to remove the +1 oxidzation state would be heating it to a liquid state (AKA Smelting). The aluminium is not required. If you really wish to do a reaction with copper and aluminum though you could try powder CUCI2 and aluminum and use a magnesum strip to start the reaction (warning dont stand anywhere near it, the reaction is explosive)

[onimotoko]

Sick of seeing comments here about how hot that chick was and crap.

[Darko2625]

Show me some uranium or plutonium bitch!

[whotaughtyou]

ENGLAND U S CONGRESS DISABLED

[jason950216]

So a 7N copper is even high grade?

[Stonehawk]

oh how I do LOVE these genuinely educational videos! And that professor is just... SO ... EXACTLY what you think of, when you imagine a university professor XD he fits it so well!

[ki4hou]

both of the women are sexy as hell

[kowalityjesus]

NEIL!!!

[lexichronicle2]

I've wound an entire guitar pick up with something 0.1 or smaller in diameter. Every single turn by hand. It took a looooong time! :D but I was very proud of the result.

[CIoudFire]

this makes me wanna chase a crab. haha

[hromi]

@CIoudFire or a noble man with blue blood ;)

[mcwario13]

@hromi like Neil

[vengance4life1]

@CIoudFire lol ikr

[pennyjack2]

hail king crab

[DrD0000M]

The unnamed clear chemical at the end appears to be more hydrogen peroxide. Google "The tartrate boomerang reaction" for an explanation.

[tomattosfutleimierda]

yo como todo chileno amo a nuestros mineros chilenos :D!!

[youkeylaylee]

the asian girl is a 6 eyes...

[NagaJolokiafied]

I was at a beach a few days ago, and I noticed some small crabs running around. I remembers what I heard in this video about their blood containing hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin so chased them around for a little bit, and sure enough the professor was right.

[bubbajames10]

3:45 Yeah let's shut that biologist up for a second

[FrozenHaxor2]

Funny that the gold many many years ago was almost popular...

[tfrancis13]

I want her copper ball.

[heisenfeis]

The copper on the statue of liberty is from Norway :3

[thisisapass]

is that blue book on the shelf in the background titled "Periodic Table:Elements with style!"?I know it is because I have read that book a long time ago and that is how I started to like chimistry

[stevenrayd]

I like the little extras on the video as in the copper in the blood of some crustations.

[y512516]

hmm electro conductivity

can u do a video about carbon nano tube?

Its getting quite a lot of hype this days

[QuaziGNRLNose]

I absolutely love this channel, I learn way more from it than i do even in my HS chem class >_<

[davnegsep]

Take out the fat dude and put the asian girl to do all the experiment plz!

[DevilMaster]

@davnegsep I watch the periodic videos for the chemistry, not for the girls. If you want to fap with images of Asian girls, go to Xvideos and search "asian".

[GilHeron]

Those earrings kick ass!

[AntiProtonBoy]

Magpie :D

[Jakub0071]

I love watch youre video PERIODIC VIDEOS !!

[boxedguilt]

I have a sudden urge to run after a lobster now :']

[BecuzIt]

the statue of liberty is made of copper?

well considering the price of copper has gone up so i now know what i must do

[soberek]

@BecuzIt No, it's only coated with a thin layer of copper.

[BecuzIt]

@soberek well that's what i suspected, but looking at the thing that's still a lot of green you can see, so the effort would be worth it

unless only a bit of copper goes a long way in coating then i'm screwed

[puncheex]

An interesting anecdote: When the Manhattan Project during WWII needed a whole lot of electrical conductors in the separation plants, copper was not available, being far too valuable in war materiel. SO the government loaned the project some huge amount of silver (tons?) to create bus bars out of. When the silver was eventually returned to the treasury, it was all accounted for, down, I believe, to within an ounce.

[melnadiacillian]

at 0.02 seconds is so funney

[miesrah12]

that looks like chicken soup

can I drink it

[ThatGuyFromAustria]

There is a much better experiment you could have performed: a battery! Copper is pretty good at this, and afaik the (in?)famous company Duracell uses them in their batteries powering those annoying bunnies in the ads ;-)

[jamies41]

has bradys voice broke!!

[cool70200]

interesting stuff,

[MrRoyalclam]

A girl saying ball is sexy :D

[peterhejlejensen]

Unzip her ear!

[MegaHazzer123]

i love the asian girl

[abdiadams]

@MegaHazzer123 I swear i like the asian girl too, she is really attractive and hot:-)

[samusssbm85]

@abdiadams If you are into fat chicks.

[pyrioni]

why not react with oxide first? why statue of liberty reacted with CO2 first?

[puncheex]

@pyrioni: Copper sulfate is a more stable compound of copper, which is another way of saying that it lives in a lower energy state than copper oxide. The sulfate is a lot more available from sea water, so while a copper statue inland (as in Denver Co where I live) will be coppery to blackish, the Statue of Liberty is bright green.

[puncheex]

... Oops, it's copper carbonate, not sulfate. Still green.

[madjimms]

Is there something better than hemoglobin?

[puncheex]

@madjimms: Oh, there probably is. Evolution seeks out solutions which are not perfact, but are "good enough" to beat the competition. If mammals experienced trouble transporting oxygen for some reason, depending on the exact nature of the problem, evolution might improve lung capacity, improve hemoglobin, improve capillary transport, do any number of things.

BTW, the hemocyanin in the lobster's blood is in the serum of the blood itself, not in separate blood cells as our iron-rich blood is.

[coil311]

Great video, thanks for helping to educate the cyber world. Keep up the fantastic work :)

[sophieewohaa]

The prof goes all Cockney when he says "it's quite a soft metal".

[Ibogaine306]

The glasses within the glasses on that lady's face makes me dizzy. Maybe she should get a larger, novelty pair of glasses to wear over the goggles.

[MeMoshRocks]

6:08 nice earrings

[archaedemos]

nice vid!!

[chemkat2011]

Cyprus!!! :)

[KutaPuta]

Neil !!!!!!!

2:10

You ROCK !!!

[precocioustoic]

This use of sodium potassium bitartarate is great.

As an afterthought. Maybe a video on the Solvay process would be nice to do.

I think it would help to actually see it in action.

Then maybe a video on cream of tartar or the crystal in jams and wines could be done to show potassium bitartarate.

[precocioustoic]

Baby Beautiful Asian Honey, please please tell me what you used to change the color in your solution back to blue. I'm not creeping, I just want to wade through all these BS comments and get an answer.

This is practically alchemy and you are a friggin genius.

That is an iron stirring bar.... right?

Does the reaction work as well with a teflon coated stirrer?

[d3modawid]

Debbie is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen, AND she has a PhD. I'm in love.

[pyropakman]

What was the reagent added to change it back to the copper II blue color?

Also, if possible, what were the quantities/concentrations? Thanks!

[promethium144]

gotta love a good redox reaction

[TuneMaestro]

Wow. That's a lot of copper per person! About £924 worth per person!

[rbandgh3]

@TuneMaestro do you know of any places where I can drop off my wife to get the £924 for all the copper in her? Thanks.

[puncheex]

@rbandgh3: It's not in her; it is her share of the copper embedded in the electrical and plumbing infrastructure of our society (English, in the Prof's case).

[mrericsully]

The crystal covered apartment that the professor talked about was done by Roger Hiorns and the work was titled SEIZURE. There is a small Wikipedia article about him, several low quality videos touring the apartment on YouTube, and a descent video of the artist at the site explaining the process and the art itself on Vimeo titled "Artist on site: Roger Hiorns on Seizure" [7184407].

[ben9345]

OMG!! Neil winked!!! WOW!!

[peanutboy41]

it's like inception, we need to go deeper

[OpiatedBliss]

3:17

epic zoom in

[Nyphur]

I wonder how many people heard her say "husband" and went "nooooooo!"

[williambrodie]

@Nyphur You and her husband

[MaBuSt]

She wasn't using gloves!!!!!!!!

[OpiatedBliss]

@MaBuSt

A whitch!!!!!

[heartlessvietboy]

We are adding so many new elements to the periodic table we don't know what the hell to do with it anymore. The Periodic Table is Balogny. Bank on it.

[puncheex]

@heartlessvietboy: Not hardly. All the newly created elements fit right into the table, nd it predicts their physical and chemical properties just fine.

[HarryisI]

I love the storeroom guy. Anyone who gets excited about wire width is awesome.

[mistulac]

each time better and better. love this cannel

[1983Bantam]

The cute Asian girl got married? DAMNIT

[1983Bantam]

@1983Bantam No, wait, it's the other cute nerdy girl. Also sad, but it's not like I have a chance anyway.

[petokyo]

I love the Periodic Table bow tie!

[SvenSign]

I like the longer videos :]

[magicicle]

Neil!!!!! <3

i missed him

[ytmachx]

@DoomFist94 Yes, radioactive and poisonous

[voetsjoeba]

Yo dawg, I heard you like goggles ...

[PenguinLord27]

cheeky wink from neil

[sf200425997]

I've seen the professor in a slightly better shape, hope he's taking care of himself properly :)

[wesleysidney]

OMG WHAT NICE EXPERIENCE x_x

[Draxis32]

Indeed, but the hemocianine is a much more stable compound so the lobsters don't need to inhale lots of air to supply themselfs, or die due to intoxication of the same air they breed.

[puncheex]

@Draxis32: arthropods like lobsters have need of much less oxygen per weight than we do. They're exothermic, their metabolism is much slower, and book lungs work well enough for them. If they were improved, then likely their blood would also need an upgrade of some kind. BTW, the active chemical is hemocyanin. The cyan here has nothing to do with cyanide, a radical of nitrogen and carbon; it is just that they both produce blue colors in various compounds.

[puncheex]

... In fact, the stability of hemocyanin would likely be a detriment to oxygen transport; if it held onto the oxygen too hard, it wouldn't be able to free it and take on the CO2 to take back to the lungs. The stability of hemoglobin linked to carbon monoxide is exactly what makes CO a poison.

[HugoJanKanAl]

The fact that the oxygen transport in mammals is more efficient than in a crab isn't solely due to the difference in efficiency between hemoglobin and hemocyanin. One has to keep in mind the huge differences between the cardiovascular and respiratory system. If crusteaceans used hemoglobin, they still wouldn't be as efficient at transporting oxygen compared to a rabbit.

Just compare the efficiency of the respiratory system in a running lizard (which uses hemglobin) to that of a running mammal.

[puncheex]

@HugoJanKanAl: indeed, over a very long time the chemical and the mechanism have very closely tuned themselves so that the transport isn't a hair better than the lungs, and vice versa. There is, however, lots of capacity over which they both can improve when exercised, as in an athelete.

[ThrowingItAway]

omfg Neil Winked

[Lukesayshello]

2:08

Did Neil just wink? I think I need to sit down for a while and calm down...

[Naddig74]

@Lukesayshello he did. And, to me, that wink said; ''I know where you live...''

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

@Lukesayshello good call... me too ;D

[scorpion779946]

good video...

[CarlGauss]

I study copper II. Cool video.

[carlsontechnology]

Why ruin things and bring practicality into chemistry now. Just Kidding. Great Videos!!!!

[clumbertennant]

OMG i utterly love the proffessors bow tie, it is fantastic. roll on bow ties!!!

[PianoKwanMan]

You should have thrown copper coins into fire!!

[Misterb0z]

@PianoKwanMan What happens?

[puncheex]

@Misterb0z: heating a copper penny (a real one, mind) in a Bunsen burner flame will cause green/blue colored flames, if there isn't so much sodium in the air as to overwhelm it with the normal yellow color.

[Misterb0z]

@puncheex Thanks! I'll give it a try :)

[SchumiUCD]

@TreVelocita There's no hole in the beaker. And don't call me Shirley.

[Merdam9]

That bow tie is perfect professor!

[nybotheveg]

why do i want to drink the product of the experiment

[ConnorXV]

@nybotheveg because it's blue!

[nybotheveg]

@ConnorXV blue AND yummy :D

[smallmadtv]

that why smurfs are blue...

[edheldude]

Double goggles - they do something.

[blenderpanzi]

So in a race between Fry and Zoidberg Fry would win!

[wdm2112]

@blenderpanzi

NOT IF ZOIDBURG CAN HELP IT

WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP

[MrRonybangladesh]

Yes right u r!!

[futuramanut]

@blenderpanzi I was wondering how you managed to bring Futurama into this video. I had to wait to the very end to figure out why. ;-)

[smashbar333]

professor? why would i run after a crab or a lobster?

[citrinette]

So if Crabs and Lobsters have blue blood, why do they have red meat after they get cooked. I wonder what the chemical reaction is. I'm assuming it's the same for shrimp too, right?