mercury was used to create creases in the felt you'd apply it allowing the felt to be folded into sharp edges and then heated off thus giving the maker mercury poisoning
Originally when they made hats once they were sown they would shrink them to do this they used the urine because it was very in expensive but after years of having the hands in urine they got ciffles (sorry about the spelling) to treat it they used mercury based salt witch go in to the urine and they breathed in all day witch caused the sighns of madness !
@cyndassprites What, makes no sense. If you want to remember mercury... just remember ... mercury... I dont get the point you were making. Who forgets mercury once you have learnt the name.... like the planet even.
Interesting fact about mercury that he left out.Around the Year 1000 in Cairo and Baghdad they had huge (and i mean HUGE. Like 50 feet in diameter) mercury pools because of the awesome look of it. And there is an awesome mercury fountain made by Alexander Calder thats still working. Of course, it is sealed away airtight.
Also, the fumes are more dangerous than the mercury in its liquid form. You can touch it, it won't do harm to you. You can actually even swallow it, breathing fumes is worse.
@djteac That's very interesting. So the mercury vapours exist because the metal is evaporating? If a blob of mercury is left alone in the open air will it eventually disappear like a blob of water?
@Numboss if it is warm enough and you give it enough time, yes. I had a formula to calculate that time somewhere, but i my files are a mess, need to sort them again. But if i remember it correctly, A drop of 3mm diameter, takes about 2-5 hours at room temperature. Of course it is depending on air pressure and whatnot. But just as a rough guideline.
@djteac Thanks for your informative reply. I am impressed by your knowledge and fascinated by the subject. I make my living as an artist (painter) but there is another side of me that is very scientific and particularly attracted to chemistry. This duality is something I live with and keep secret from my other artistic friends (mostly musicians).
@SuperNoteBlocks It's worth quite a bit nowadays, or you could pour it into someone's engine...it would amalgamate with all the metals and compromise everything.
@SuperNoteBlocks storys like that have been told for ages at every place that handles higher amounts of mercury. At the BASF in Germany, they tell a story about somebody smuggling it out there in the frame of his bike, until his bike fell over, and he couldn't lift it back onto its wheels. I honestly don't believe any of those stories, even tho they sound like something that really could have happened.
Mercury apparently was once used in the curing process for felt hats. It was just about impossible for a hatter not to inhale the fumes during the process.
The most awesome and interesting element in the whole earth, Not being expensive only, But nooo, It has to be highly poisonous too, Fuck you chemistry for making all the awesome things harmful.
4:14 Jeah, dental amalgam fillings contain 52% mercury, can you imagine, this poisonous element in your mouth? And yes, it vaporizes constantly, more so by warm drinks and food, teeth cleaning, acidic drinks, ...! Then bacteria and fungus in ones body make methyl-mercury by adding HC3 (HG -> Hg-CH3) which goes into the brain. Now, you can play with all kind of acids but you DON'T play with methyl-mercury and such. See "Karen Wetterhahn". Hg-Fillings in your mouth cause all kind of diseases !!!!!
I am not a chemistry major, no. I am an Atmospheric Science Major. Physics is more important to me. That is beyond the point. I love these videos so much, and the more I watch the more I get enthralled with the series you guys have put together.
Thank you for taking the time to do this, and well, thank you.
And then Al Gore and his cronies have the audacity to promote the use of fluorescent light bulbs which contain a fair amount of mercury vapor. Very irresponsible.
ignoring all of the politics involved with this issue, it really is a choice between the worst of two evils: which is worse? polluting the air with coal to power our incandescent lights, or polluting the ground with our energy efficient lights?
@charlieslilyflower exactly, people call it wasting time, but truthfully knowledge is everything. if your wasting your time getting more knowledge then it's not wasting time, plus it's also fun, and if done correctly it's safe
Yes mercuric nitrate was used for treating pelts/fur for hats back in the day. It served as an oxidizing agent which gave the fur good qualities for being compressed into felt.
Like Pete says, it is beautiful. Really interesting how the mercury sticks to itself. I wonder if that has to do with valence electrons. Or, maybe a different sort of macro-property
@periodicvideos the mercury is used for the tanning of hats and I think it isn't mercury but mercury nitrate p.s. Best wishes from the US of A in your post as foreign secretary in the royal society
In middle school our science teacher gave us a small amount of mercury to hold in our hands for a while, but I never knew it was poisonous. How could he not know? Good thing nothing happened :)
The type of mercury he gave you was probably the kind that is safe to touch and only dangerous in ingested. Still, a bad idea, but at least not a flat out hazardous one.
@TheDimension26 I don't think it's true with metallic mercury at least. It's way to dense to seep into skin. The only real danger is if you ingest it, or inhale it's vapours. So, unless you have an open would on your hand, or your hand is covered with something that reacts with mercury, it's quite safe.
its all BS, the health department said that mercury is healthy and it is now used in vaccinations, dont believe me ? research for yourself, what do you have to say about this ?
enjoy your trace amounts of MERCURY my friend, your comment is wise indeed, if you knew the agenda you would understand why they mind control the masses by telling them "ITS OK TO TAKE, ITS TRACE AMOUNTS" and the sheep reapet like good slaves, mercury accumilates you wise WISE man, how easy is to mind control you people, :D , "The key word here is "trace amounts" really ? the world is massed up
I heard a story where ancient chinese alchemist believed that mercury is the key ingredient to immortality. some consumed so much their remains didn't decay for years because of the high mercury content in their body.
@charlieslilyflower Wow I didn't know you shared the love of science and chemistry...that is one of my most favorite things ever...at this moment I am holding my very well sealed bottle of mercury and admiring its density and fluidity. Yes, this is true worthy material that is a rarity on youtube anymore. My friends aren't so well versed at chemistry, but thanks to me, they at least know the difference between a teterahedral and linear molecule. Ahh, the wonders of science!!
Mercury is poisonous. It's similar to Cadmium, which is also poisonous, but Hg melts at room temperature. It also doesn't leave a film on the glass, because it's so dense. You don't want to inhale Hg fumes either. Also use gloves too. Pure Hg is expensive. Hg is found in the mineral cinnabar. Bismuth (Bi-209 is 100% abundant in nature, weakly radioactive) is the safest element in the row after Gold: * = Radioactive, ! = Toxic:
why does mercury not leave a small film on the glass like water when you pour it out of a glass there is always that little amount left and why does mercury not do that.
@CharlesStudios thank you very much but its a bit out of my price range so if anyone knows of someplace cheaper then $32 per 2 grams please let me know and thank you Charlesstudios for that information
To the cast and crew and Professors at Periodic Videos and Sixty Symbols,
Hi. Last trimester, we were studying a pretty shallow amount of Chemistry, and at the end of the trimester, our teacher gave us the link to these videos. I now love them, as they are informative and very interesting. Now that we are learning basic Physics and I have just discovered Sixty Symbols, you have now made my life so much easier and Physics so much more fun! Thank you.
Sodium is coolest. Intended to be a pharmacist, so took chemistry classes. But after a semester or so, I gave in to what I REALLY wanted, Music Theory. Gave up a salary 5 times what music's ever made for me, but I had been in music since age 6 or so. But at least I had some chemical-fun during those few months. We'd steal sodium from the lab, packed in little oil-filled vials, and chunk it off the bridge, into the creek that flowed through middle of campus. Nice underwater fireworks, :) :)
Very cool video. Sad these type aren't more popular. The average IQ of world population has plummeted for many years, people are more interested in the latest Hollywood divorce & what Beebler said on Twitter last night ... rather than real-life which exists all around us, nature, geography, sociology, geology, etc. Those things, once you make a little effort to understand them, are MUCH more interesting than what color of toenails Lady GagGag flashed at the Important-People-Only club last night.
@offamychain I could not agree less with you my friend... Also in my country ( Greece ) many people like to babble about what dress wore a famous TV star on MTV awards or who is the new girlfriend of a famous singer, or that a Hollywood star broke up with his wife or... etc etc etc... Lame....
Do you know if you rotate mercury at a extreme high speed inside a smooth tubular shape circle , you can generate anti gravity. But to rotate metal at kind of speed you need extremely solid walls and large amount of mercury. And inside the tube you must be able to flip the flow of mercury with turbines at a short distance.
naw. it's much simpler than you think. it's really dense, so it can exert sufficiant force on the glass to break it. much like shaking a big lead weight around in a glass.
It's just a comparison. -_- If I told you that it was like shaking a fluid with a density of 13.55 g/cm3, would a normal person get any idea what that's like at all? I'm aware that the two aren't equal, but just comparing it to a jar of water wouldn't give it justice at all. I've held a bottle of mercury before; It's NOTHING like holding a bottle of water.
mercury was used in the gold rush days, they would pour it at the top of the mountain and it runs down and forms gold-mercury malgum which you can still find today when u pan/sluice for gold. the u just burn off the mercury in a secluded place and you have a gold button!!
Mercury(ii) nitrate was use to manufacture felt. This was known as "carroting" because aside from being highly caustic and highly poisonous, it turned everything a bright orange color, including an unfortunate feltmaker's or hatter's fingers. Animal pelts were soaked or brushed with a solution of HgN2O6. Owing to the caustic nature this caused the fur to fall out. It also loosened the microscopic scales on the cuticle layer of the hairs, making them "rougher" and more easily made into felt.
my fillings have no merucy, mine start like a liquid, i cant renember what kind of filling, but i got the tuffest one... as they easly break D: but yea, ugh mine are like a liquid at first, then hardven under UV light...
Elemental mercury isn't toxic to swallow (in small amounts!) because it can't adhere to the mucus lining of the gut, and it just comes out the other end. Organic forms of mercury are toxic because they can be absorbed easily, such as the contaminated fish in Minimoto. Hatters used to stiffen hat brims with mercury vapour, which the lungs can absorb, and this would cause them to slowly go mad. The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was based on this, and then Lewis Carroll used this to create a character
mercury was used to create creases in the felt you'd apply it allowing the felt to be folded into sharp edges and then heated off thus giving the maker mercury poisoning
fatmonk1 2 days ago
Why would you steal mercury?
Jackfirecracker 3 days ago
@Jackfirecracker well theres tons of stuff you can do with it or you can sell it
Kesh789 1 day ago
"And the mercury started to amalgamate with the metal of the bucket.....It was a metal bucket!"
HAHAHA I love him!
aei05h1 6 days ago
I like nicely formed balls.
Rdtackle82 1 week ago
how to get rid of elements? send it out to space lol
garrysmod102 1 week ago
Originally when they made hats once they were sown they would shrink them to do this they used the urine because it was very in expensive but after years of having the hands in urine they got ciffles (sorry about the spelling) to treat it they used mercury based salt witch go in to the urine and they breathed in all day witch caused the sighns of madness !
theabh101 1 week ago
Bing Bong! :)
TheAliatta 3 weeks ago
If you want to remember mercury just remember Freddie Mercury :)
cyndassprites 3 weeks ago
@cyndassprites What, makes no sense. If you want to remember mercury... just remember ... mercury... I dont get the point you were making. Who forgets mercury once you have learnt the name.... like the planet even.
gumbie008 1 week ago 3
Interesting fact about mercury that he left out.Around the Year 1000 in Cairo and Baghdad they had huge (and i mean HUGE. Like 50 feet in diameter) mercury pools because of the awesome look of it. And there is an awesome mercury fountain made by Alexander Calder thats still working. Of course, it is sealed away airtight.
Also, the fumes are more dangerous than the mercury in its liquid form. You can touch it, it won't do harm to you. You can actually even swallow it, breathing fumes is worse.
djteac 1 month ago
@djteac That's very interesting. So the mercury vapours exist because the metal is evaporating? If a blob of mercury is left alone in the open air will it eventually disappear like a blob of water?
Numboss 1 month ago
@Numboss if it is warm enough and you give it enough time, yes. I had a formula to calculate that time somewhere, but i my files are a mess, need to sort them again. But if i remember it correctly, A drop of 3mm diameter, takes about 2-5 hours at room temperature. Of course it is depending on air pressure and whatnot. But just as a rough guideline.
djteac 1 month ago
@djteac Thanks for your informative reply. I am impressed by your knowledge and fascinated by the subject. I make my living as an artist (painter) but there is another side of me that is very scientific and particularly attracted to chemistry. This duality is something I live with and keep secret from my other artistic friends (mostly musicians).
Numboss 4 weeks ago
I think I'll just remember mercury with my initials Heidi Gruber Hg
heidigruber98 1 month ago
I wonder why a window cleaner would want to steal mercury...
SuperNoteBlocks 1 month ago
@SuperNoteBlocks It's worth quite a bit nowadays, or you could pour it into someone's engine...it would amalgamate with all the metals and compromise everything.
poofnsauce 1 month ago
@SuperNoteBlocks good question lol
jesusxd1000 1 month ago
@SuperNoteBlocks storys like that have been told for ages at every place that handles higher amounts of mercury. At the BASF in Germany, they tell a story about somebody smuggling it out there in the frame of his bike, until his bike fell over, and he couldn't lift it back onto its wheels. I honestly don't believe any of those stories, even tho they sound like something that really could have happened.
djteac 1 month ago
:35 stereotypical science nerd
ballietbran 1 month ago
Mercury apparently was once used in the curing process for felt hats. It was just about impossible for a hatter not to inhale the fumes during the process.
douro20 1 month ago
Mercury used to be called quicksilver...even the German word for it is "Quecksilber"...
douro20 1 month ago
@douro20 Yea i can't believe they left that cool fact out, it's an awesome nickname.
poofnsauce 1 month ago
Spain is Exotic?
ShockwaveMCPlayer 2 months ago
The other two metals which may be liquid at room temperature (in a hotter climate) are Gallium and Cesium (Elements #31 and #55, respectively).
rayandreina 2 months ago
if its a metal and a liqiud can you take a magnet and control it?
jerellemoon 2 months ago
@jerellemoon yes
galatisnik5 1 month ago
Stupid Cleaner. Should've used a plastic bucket.
MrsMayalicous 2 months ago
why must it be toxic.......
TheItalianPerson 2 months ago
What did the hell did he want with so much mercury?!?!
GnomeClubProductions 2 months ago
he says u can't destroy an element...but what happens when u combine an element with it anti counterpart?
VictorVonFox 2 months ago
@VictorVonFox it converts it into pure energy. not destroyed transformed.
cweida111 2 months ago
How are mercury/silver amalgams non-toxic (presumably, the should be)?
What was the motivation for the theft of the mercury?
TheLawlbreaker 2 months ago
Why would someone steal mercury?
Lukos0036 2 months ago
@Lukos0036 Motives like that are usually for money.
ActionReplayPerson 2 months ago
mercury was found in the adhesive used in making hats... sniffing glue would make you mad...
krisptreats 2 months ago
dude, look at his screensaver. it goes back and forth between his two monitors. i gotta do that now, but on a more epic scale!
TheGeebz1 2 months ago
learn how to pronounce metal you damn aussies.
It's MEDAL NOT ME-EHl
Wiintendoh 2 months ago
The most awesome and interesting element in the whole earth, Not being expensive only, But nooo, It has to be highly poisonous too, Fuck you chemistry for making all the awesome things harmful.
Avarthas 3 months ago
youtube.com/user/japsotc88
japsotc88 3 months ago
dude HATS?!?!! SO INTERESTED!!!
pallymander 3 months ago
@pallymander It was used to stiffen and smooth felt.
phookadude 3 months ago
@phookadude that's actually pretty cool.
pallymander 2 months ago
Is it still in thermometers?
DazIOM1140 4 months ago
@DazIOM1140 Not new ones.
WeaselWJ 4 months ago
man too bad its poisonous, this would be better than an iphone :D
Dontpickmelast101 4 months ago
When I was in school we used to put it on the bench and play football with it! But youknowum, lots of people don't like us to do that anymore.
Sofar2 4 months ago
This is madness!!!
No...this is mercury.
filosofizer42 4 months ago
@charlieslilyflower
The great thing is, there's plenty of room for both.
92benno92 4 months ago
the screen saver is interesting too !
CaIrOOMaLi 4 months ago
this is fucking shit
MrLucas1441 5 months ago
Mercury doesn't amalgamate with iron.
spotlightman1234 5 months ago
@spotlightman1234 it was prolly an aluminum bucket
jeff77789 4 months ago
@charlieslilyflower pay attention in Chemistry class and you won't need youtube to get your GED.
stiffdogg06 5 months ago
Is mercury magnetic?
plasma070 5 months ago
@plasma070 No.
spotlightman1234 5 months ago
@plasma070 no
IWPRO 4 months ago
4:14 Jeah, dental amalgam fillings contain 52% mercury, can you imagine, this poisonous element in your mouth? And yes, it vaporizes constantly, more so by warm drinks and food, teeth cleaning, acidic drinks, ...! Then bacteria and fungus in ones body make methyl-mercury by adding HC3 (HG -> Hg-CH3) which goes into the brain. Now, you can play with all kind of acids but you DON'T play with methyl-mercury and such. See "Karen Wetterhahn". Hg-Fillings in your mouth cause all kind of diseases !!!!!
WakeUpSleepIsDeath 5 months ago
they used the mercury in the glue for the hats
aftershock5313 5 months ago
Mercury fillings release a toxin when exposed to air.
LucifersDisciple6 6 months ago
They Used The Mercury To Stiffen The Brims Of The Hats
SuckMyCocks8llllllD 6 months ago
I am not a chemistry major, no. I am an Atmospheric Science Major. Physics is more important to me. That is beyond the point. I love these videos so much, and the more I watch the more I get enthralled with the series you guys have put together.
Thank you for taking the time to do this, and well, thank you.
icemasterk 6 months ago
@icemasterk they have a physics channel, you should check that out
craptastic1997 6 months ago
@craptastic1997
Amazing!
icemasterk 6 months ago
And then Al Gore and his cronies have the audacity to promote the use of fluorescent light bulbs which contain a fair amount of mercury vapor. Very irresponsible.
oomblikkies 6 months ago
@oomblikkies
ignoring all of the politics involved with this issue, it really is a choice between the worst of two evils: which is worse? polluting the air with coal to power our incandescent lights, or polluting the ground with our energy efficient lights?
japanesepoptart 6 months ago
@charlieslilyflower Pardon me? I like the cannabis videos on Youtube...
madjimms 6 months ago
H.G. Wells doesn't remind me of Mercury it reminds me of Mars. I didn't get it :/
juanarruti 6 months ago
science is fun. :D
apappipap 6 months ago
@charlieslilyflower exactly, people call it wasting time, but truthfully knowledge is everything. if your wasting your time getting more knowledge then it's not wasting time, plus it's also fun, and if done correctly it's safe
drewnickel 7 months ago
Yes mercuric nitrate was used for treating pelts/fur for hats back in the day. It served as an oxidizing agent which gave the fur good qualities for being compressed into felt.
mlcoo17 7 months ago
Mercury is my favorit metal.
bilyisbored92 7 months ago
lol the guy playing with the Mercury DOES seem to have a bit of "madness"...
WHOWHAT11 7 months ago
These are fantastic tutorials! thanks for making them!
AxelTiger 7 months ago
Like Pete says, it is beautiful. Really interesting how the mercury sticks to itself. I wonder if that has to do with valence electrons. Or, maybe a different sort of macro-property
heyandy889 7 months ago
Didn't get the "Hg well" part.
radexpp 7 months ago 22
@radexpp H.G Wells was a British ( I believe ) Science Fiction writer.
EType1993 1 month ago
@radexpp H.G. Wells was a science fiction writer in the late 19th and early 20th century. Go to school.
570nicnacboi 1 month ago
@570nicnacboi I highly doubt they teach that in Polish schools...
radexpp 1 month ago
@radexpp he's an author
jjskier253 1 month ago
@radexpp H. G. Wells is a sci-fi writer. He is best known for his book 'War of the Worlds'
MrSkinnyBill 1 month ago 2
@radexpp
Mercury is quite abundant in ground water, so if you have a well it is likely that there is mercury in it.
ArsonistInUrFirewall 1 month ago
@radexpp
H.G. Wells, war of the world's author.
boomguy12345 3 weeks ago
Mercury comes out of a well?
Every1Tubes 8 months ago 25
@periodicvideos the mercury is used for the tanning of hats and I think it isn't mercury but mercury nitrate p.s. Best wishes from the US of A in your post as foreign secretary in the royal society
jaelkoury 8 months ago
1:43 And with such habit, Lewis Carroll created his Mad Hatter. Very Clever.
Fullmetalminos 8 months ago
In middle school our science teacher gave us a small amount of mercury to hold in our hands for a while, but I never knew it was poisonous. How could he not know? Good thing nothing happened :)
TheDimension26 8 months ago
@TheDimension26
The type of mercury he gave you was probably the kind that is safe to touch and only dangerous in ingested. Still, a bad idea, but at least not a flat out hazardous one.
ArtypNk 8 months ago
@ArtypNk But I heard if you leave mercury in your hands for too long it can actually seep into your skin and cause metal poisoning, is this true?
TheDimension26 8 months ago
@TheDimension26 I don't think it's true with metallic mercury at least. It's way to dense to seep into skin. The only real danger is if you ingest it, or inhale it's vapours. So, unless you have an open would on your hand, or your hand is covered with something that reacts with mercury, it's quite safe.
ArtypNk 8 months ago
@D01n6u4m0m I dont think so. unless you ate it
roinable 8 months ago
@D01n6u4m0m I dont think so
roinable 8 months ago
its all BS, the health department said that mercury is healthy and it is now used in vaccinations, dont believe me ? research for yourself, what do you have to say about this ?
WishingBones 8 months ago
@WishingBones
The key word here is "trace amounts".
ArtypNk 8 months ago
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@ArtypNk
enjoy your trace amounts of MERCURY my friend, your comment is wise indeed, if you knew the agenda you would understand why they mind control the masses by telling them "ITS OK TO TAKE, ITS TRACE AMOUNTS" and the sheep reapet like good slaves, mercury accumilates you wise WISE man, how easy is to mind control you people, :D , "The key word here is "trace amounts" really ? the world is massed up
WishingBones 8 months ago
Not chemical formula-- chemical symbol is Hg
crawfordsjamie 8 months ago in playlist Chemistry
If ya like Mercury, go look up; Ferro-fluid! that sh!ts the bomb!
AxelTiger 8 months ago
1:10
sammysignal 8 months ago
I heard a story where ancient chinese alchemist believed that mercury is the key ingredient to immortality. some consumed so much their remains didn't decay for years because of the high mercury content in their body.
dpsrush 8 months ago
@charlieslilyflower Wow I didn't know you shared the love of science and chemistry...that is one of my most favorite things ever...at this moment I am holding my very well sealed bottle of mercury and admiring its density and fluidity. Yes, this is true worthy material that is a rarity on youtube anymore. My friends aren't so well versed at chemistry, but thanks to me, they at least know the difference between a teterahedral and linear molecule. Ahh, the wonders of science!!
punishedexistence 8 months ago
"forms quite nice balls..."
Vectorr4Emperor 8 months ago
@charlieslilyflower Eh entheogens bear worth in my opinion
Albatross5050 8 months ago
As far as I'm aware, in hat-making, mercury was used to cure felt.
blackplatypus 8 months ago
@blackplatypus
Mercury in the form of Mercuric Nitrate salt. Mercury exposure can cause mental illness. Hence, mad as a hatter.
acronus 8 months ago
Thus, when stealing mercury, make sure you use a plastic bucket.
OOZ662 9 months ago
Mercury also expands in hot temperatures, and it decreases in cold temperatures.
ThePullaMies 9 months ago
@ThePullaMies no duh, every element expands in hot temperatures and contracts in cold temperatures
YoutubingSince1996 9 months ago
In Germany it's called "Quecksilber", which means "quick silver".
ThePizzahero1 9 months ago
@ThePizzahero1 It is also known as that.
ThePullaMies 9 months ago
who the hell steals buckets of mercury? unless there is an illegal underground market for the stuff?? garage dentists maybe.
yellowdart137 9 months ago 35
@yellowdart137 Plenty of chemical factories sell this... its not un-common
TwistXUK 5 months ago
should i be proud or terrified
because my country has the 2nd largest mercury mine
in europe
TheHaloCEfan 9 months ago
Out of curiosity, whats the metal that is a liquid if you live in a very hot country? Is there another metal that is liquid at less than 140°F?
Effedup 9 months ago
@Effedup yeah. Gallium melts at a little below body temperature... its fun to play with too, and its not considered toxic.
123unknownsoldier126 9 months ago
@123unknownsoldier126 Interesting! I shall have to find me some Gallium to play with :)
Effedup 9 months ago
@Effedup actuually it melts at 86 degrees F.
123unknownsoldier126 9 months ago
I used to break our thermometer to play with the mercury when I was a kid. It's no wonder I'm crazy today!
jhartist123 10 months ago
Mercury is poisonous. It's similar to Cadmium, which is also poisonous, but Hg melts at room temperature. It also doesn't leave a film on the glass, because it's so dense. You don't want to inhale Hg fumes either. Also use gloves too. Pure Hg is expensive. Hg is found in the mineral cinnabar. Bismuth (Bi-209 is 100% abundant in nature, weakly radioactive) is the safest element in the row after Gold: * = Radioactive, ! = Toxic:
[Mercury!>Thallium!>Lead!>Bismuth*>Polonium!*>Astatine!*>Radon!*]
KarbineKyle 10 months ago
is spain exotic???..... -.- americans
OuTRunner12 10 months ago
@OuTRunner12 They aren't from America, dumbass
Fishlom 9 months ago
why does mercury not leave a small film on the glass like water when you pour it out of a glass there is always that little amount left and why does mercury not do that.
ps3Gamer23100 10 months ago
i want to buy some mercury but i cant find it anywhere do you know how much it cost if possible in euros or even better dollars and where to get it
thank you thumbs up if you want this to or you want me to get some mercury
THANKS
Kesh789 10 months ago
@Kesh789 Go to ElementSales
CharlesStudios 10 months ago
@CharlesStudios thank you very much but its a bit out of my price range so if anyone knows of someplace cheaper then $32 per 2 grams please let me know and thank you Charlesstudios for that information
Kesh789 10 months ago
@Kesh789
just google gallium source and click the one that says buy Gallium and go to online store and you will find Mercury the price is 110$ /250g
lightsuit 10 months ago
Thumbs up if you like th professor dude's hair.
trade4599 10 months ago 3
World's ONLY liquid metal just HAS to be poisonous. >:(
japanesepoptart 10 months ago
I remember Hg because of hydrargyrum.
behnamasid 10 months ago
Why is it that all of the cool stuff is either poisonous or dangerous... T_T
japanesepoptart 10 months ago
is our mercury cavity fillers poisioning us ?
Why is mercury even allowed in dentistry?
indyfan22k 11 months ago
@indyfan22k Because... you.. touch yourself at night? Idk. I have cavity fillers though and nothing's happened to me, so my answer is no.
Skaarjguy 11 months ago
@Skaarjguy
don't be a douche.
indyfan22k 11 months ago
@indyfan22k I was trying to be funny. Obviously it wasn't very funny to you, so in that case, sorry if I offended you =/
Skaarjguy 11 months ago
@indyfan22k have you ever heard of google? i found the answer to your question in like 30 seconds. maybe you're lazy?
defect530 10 months ago
@defect530
Bing kicks google's ass. and you can't always find the best answers on the internet.
indyfan22k 10 months ago
fail
siwonpaek 11 months ago
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Hi. Last trimester, we were studying a pretty shallow amount of Chemistry, and at the end of the trimester, our teacher gave us the link to these videos. I now love them, as they are informative and very interesting. Now that we are learning basic Physics and I have just discovered Sixty Symbols, you have now made my life so much easier and Physics so much more fun! Thank you.
ddr9248 11 months ago
Sodium is coolest. Intended to be a pharmacist, so took chemistry classes. But after a semester or so, I gave in to what I REALLY wanted, Music Theory. Gave up a salary 5 times what music's ever made for me, but I had been in music since age 6 or so. But at least I had some chemical-fun during those few months. We'd steal sodium from the lab, packed in little oil-filled vials, and chunk it off the bridge, into the creek that flowed through middle of campus. Nice underwater fireworks, :) :)
offamychain 11 months ago
Shouldn't you handle this beaker in a fume hood and wearing protecting gloves Pete???
ChemistDrummer 11 months ago
Very cool video. Sad these type aren't more popular. The average IQ of world population has plummeted for many years, people are more interested in the latest Hollywood divorce & what Beebler said on Twitter last night ... rather than real-life which exists all around us, nature, geography, sociology, geology, etc. Those things, once you make a little effort to understand them, are MUCH more interesting than what color of toenails Lady GagGag flashed at the Important-People-Only club last night.
offamychain 11 months ago
@offamychain I could not agree less with you my friend... Also in my country ( Greece ) many people like to babble about what dress wore a famous TV star on MTV awards or who is the new girlfriend of a famous singer, or that a Hollywood star broke up with his wife or... etc etc etc... Lame....
ChemistDrummer 11 months ago
Do you know if you rotate mercury at a extreme high speed inside a smooth tubular shape circle , you can generate anti gravity. But to rotate metal at kind of speed you need extremely solid walls and large amount of mercury. And inside the tube you must be able to flip the flow of mercury with turbines at a short distance.
garysaran 11 months ago
they shined the hats with Hg
Coredeath 11 months ago
my mouth is full of Mercury
luigi90900 11 months ago
I say we drop the mercury nobody wants into a volcano :) so its dissolved in the lava
MniToster 11 months ago
Mercury and Cesium (or Caesium) are the only liquid elements in nature.
LOREepic 11 months ago
"Quite nice balls...." I lol'd
TheSk1dd 11 months ago
I am fairly sure they used it as a cleaning fluid for hats
senilesovereign 11 months ago
Its the only natural liquid metal.
ManectricPup 1 year ago
@ManectricPup Cesium.
spotlightman1234 11 months ago
transcribe audio and you will roflmao , i promise
tomattosfutleimierda 1 year ago
I sniff mercury for breakfast.
ralphfirst 1 year ago
@ralphfirst no Chuck Norris sniffs mercury for breakfast
dynamiteproduction12 11 months ago
balls of mercury
teleman07 1 year ago 84
I still have 10 kilograms of mecury.
I keep it in a double walled polethylen container and outside of the house.
Really fascinating stuff but I have no practical use for it.
conoba 1 year ago
@conoba Trow it in someones face. Or get glasspipes and build a large thermometer ! ;D
QBMan 1 year ago
Mercury is really hard to get out from under your fingernails, and if you leave it there, it can cause lesions. Nice.
Mojosbigstick 1 year ago
All metals are liquids. Well can be. Mercury can be solid at very cold temperature
Rockflier 1 year ago
3:35 BING BONG XD
smoothyy95 1 year ago
...It can get into the human body, particularly in the brain, where it shows signs of Sparta.
wheetcracker 1 year ago
really quite nice balls
derickhaywood 1 year ago
How did it go through the bottle?
It go through the bottle by breaking the bottle or without breaking the bottle?
bbsonjohn 1 year ago
@bbsonjohn
naw. it's much simpler than you think. it's really dense, so it can exert sufficiant force on the glass to break it. much like shaking a big lead weight around in a glass.
japanesepoptart 1 year ago
@japanesepoptart Actually, mercury is more dense than lead. Lead has a density of 11.35 g/cm3, but mercury has a density of 13.55 g/cm3.
BlackSkullRacer613 1 year ago
@BlackSkullRacer613
It's just a comparison. -_- If I told you that it was like shaking a fluid with a density of 13.55 g/cm3, would a normal person get any idea what that's like at all? I'm aware that the two aren't equal, but just comparing it to a jar of water wouldn't give it justice at all. I've held a bottle of mercury before; It's NOTHING like holding a bottle of water.
japanesepoptart 10 months ago
Chemical formula for Mercury, Hg? Errrr, don't you mean the symbol rather than formula? Remind me not to go to Nottingham to do chemistry! lol
strange6 1 year ago
mercury was used in the gold rush days, they would pour it at the top of the mountain and it runs down and forms gold-mercury malgum which you can still find today when u pan/sluice for gold. the u just burn off the mercury in a secluded place and you have a gold button!!
ReaperAHHH 1 year ago
check out the guys screensaver
BasementFights 1 year ago
Mercury(ii) nitrate was use to manufacture felt. This was known as "carroting" because aside from being highly caustic and highly poisonous, it turned everything a bright orange color, including an unfortunate feltmaker's or hatter's fingers. Animal pelts were soaked or brushed with a solution of HgN2O6. Owing to the caustic nature this caused the fur to fall out. It also loosened the microscopic scales on the cuticle layer of the hairs, making them "rougher" and more easily made into felt.
TSorovanMHael 1 year ago
I thought mad as the hatter was from alice in wonderland
JJR234 1 year ago
@JJR234 Lewis Caroll didn't invent the phrase. It was well known by the time he wrote "Alice."
TSorovanMHael 1 year ago
lol, the thumbnail of this vid looks sooo wrong :P
rietveen26 1 year ago
It's a liquid me-al. Lol I love that accent
hcvideoproductions 1 year ago
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MrKillerCanadian 1 year ago
my fillings have no merucy, mine start like a liquid, i cant renember what kind of filling, but i got the tuffest one... as they easly break D: but yea, ugh mine are like a liquid at first, then hardven under UV light...
iToasterman 1 year ago
They used the Hg in hat making to make them harder.
MillionMilesAnHour 1 year ago
How I remember it is that the lead singer of Queen had a "H"eart of "g"old...
noamben2 1 year ago
Elemental mercury isn't toxic to swallow (in small amounts!) because it can't adhere to the mucus lining of the gut, and it just comes out the other end. Organic forms of mercury are toxic because they can be absorbed easily, such as the contaminated fish in Minimoto. Hatters used to stiffen hat brims with mercury vapour, which the lungs can absorb, and this would cause them to slowly go mad. The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was based on this, and then Lewis Carroll used this to create a character
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
@Roxy222uk
Not only that, but the most toxic form of organic mercury is dimethylmercury.
A single drop on the human skin is enough to kill within months. It even passes through latex, PVC, butyl and neoprene almost immediatly.
Read the story of Karol Wetterhahn. Tragic.
frenchmen88 1 year ago
@Roxy222uk they kind of say that in the video...
hcvideoproductions 1 year ago