Aluminium - Periodic Table of Videos

[scottycatman]

a loo min um

Sure, Brits may have named it differently... but that's a wasted syllable.

[chopperboi89]

I searched for "Anadin" on google to find out what that "pill packet" was xD

[TheFckya]

fuck the police

[cityfrags]

He looks like a white black guy

[Najwalaylah]

His accent, and the way he says "aluminium".

The vulnerable shaking of his hands, implying a long life of exposure to dangerous chemicals.

And, my gods, the hair.

[Desmaad]

I have a couple of ideas on what you could cover in your next video on this element:

- How it gets it's famous corrosion resistance

- The refinement process

[davesmith20092009]

ONE MINUTE AND 27 SECONDS JESUS CHRIST

[Ben19042011]

Thumbs up for the periodic tie!

[bananaphone65]

Ever since these videos, ive been pronouncing aluminum like the professor lol.

[bugisami]

You can remove aluminium foil from a hot oven with bare hands and not burn yourself. Why? Is this a property peculiar to aluminium or has it to do with the thinness of the foil? Could you do it with, say, copper foil?

[blackplatypus]

0:35

Bah! American periodic tables.

[Ricalloo]

Go to the English Wikipedia page and replace Main_Page with Aluminium#Name.

Though Noah Webster is credited for many of the variants that Americans use for spelling, Aluminum has a very different reason.

Basically Humphry Davy (a British chemist) first called it alumium, then later changed to aluminum. Later, a British journalist proposed changing it to aluminium because it sounded more "classical". Charles Martin Hall, who dominated American production, misspelled it on a handbill Aluminum.

[MrSweetmore]

i weld with this stuff day in day out is it true it sends u mad and sticks in your brain due to yor body absorbing it through cuting/dust etc ?

[japanesepoptart]

Actually, i read that before the process for seperating aluminium was invented, the aluminium was so had to seperate, and so energy intensive, it was considered a precious metal! at one point in history, aluminum was more valuble than gold!

[matthew11174]

Wait, that's how you pronounce aluminum?

[PissOutMyAssBarf]

@matthew11174

Aluminium instead of aluminum. My English friends tell me I sound weird when I say it as Aluminum.

[douro20]

And how do they coat glass with aluminium? They place it in a vacuum chamber with a pellet of aluminium on a heating coil, pump out the air and then heat the pellet until it vaporizes.

[Desmaad]

So, when will you guys cover the Hungarian red mud fiasco? It involved an alumina plant and dodgy safety measures.

[douro20]

@Desmaad

They just talked about it today.

[wesleysidney]

in portuguese translation it says XIV >.> someone fix please.

[manboobmanifesto]

who spits on their fucking mirror?

[uut0]

why is it called tin foil if its made from aluminium?

[andrebrannan1953]

@uut0 I think the first metal used as a foil in things like tea containers where tin and the name just was used for any foil.

[shidoink]

@uut0 its not. its called aluminum foil. tin foil has tin in it. ding lightbulb

[uut0]

@shidoink i kno. most people say tin foil while they mean aluminum foil most of the time.that was my point :P

[tgz1000]

Aluminum.

[yellowmetalcyborg]

@tgz1000 No, it's pronounced aluminium : P

[ajuk1]

is that it?

[zombieX111222333]

@ajuk1 omg! thats exactly what i thought when the video was over! i scrolled down here and saw your comment and i was like duuude!

[Drag0nfoxx]

Anadin?

That's a painkiller O_O

[noname7913]

lol Is your self esteem so low you must spit at the mirror? Spit in the sink! Yes I know liquid splashes everywhere in the bathroom I just thought it funny what he said. "so when you spit when cleaning your teeth you don't damage the mirror."

[TheCaptainLulz]

what???? 1 minute and 27 seconds for one of the most important metals of our times....... for shame sirs.

[periodicvideos]

@TheCaptainLulz : A longer one will be coming... We did all the elements in a hurry and are now going through and updating them one-by-one.

In the meantime, perhaps go watch our updated iron video for a bit more on aluminium (thermite!)

[sweetbob67]

um don't they use silver nitrate for mirrors now i believe it was called that

[donnelrj01]

No, aluminium is used due to cost reasons...

[jaedcapo]

@periodicvideos thermite is the sh*t

[donperry1]

@periodicvideos Still waiting. Gimme some flash powder

[Righty101]

Who cares how it's spelt :D

[punishedexistence]

Actually, aluminium is the correct way to pronounce it, but us rednecks love to corrupt language. Whatever. But seriously, I wonder if that guy has some heavy metal toxicity; watch his hands shake. Regardless, these people are brilliant.

[whitehiliter]

It is because he is old.

[furiousharry]

its pronounced both ways it just depends on where u are

[mattaluminum]

yeh , the periodic tie is really cool , but don't think i have something that will swit with it ;)

[xja85mac]

You can do some explosive chemistry with aluminium too: it develops hydrogen when reacting with a strong acid, if the proportions and the surface area are right, hydrogen explodes.

[grooveclubhouse]

I wonder what else he keeps in that desk? Every episode he pulls something else out...

[Guinnie]

Periodic Tie and matching coffee mug LOL

[MythomanicJef]

I know, this guy is awesome!

[Burgandy1920]

I just noticed that. A periodic table tie AND coffee mug. This guy is so cool.

:D

[slateflash]

And umbrella0.o

[Phily911]

My beer has Aluminium.

[AlmightScoop]

Well, Americans should use IUPAC names and call it aluminium, not aluminum. After all, us brits had to adopt the american spelling of sulfur despite us having used sulphur. I was shocked to discover aluminium being spelt aluminum in the Shriver and Atkins inorganic chemistry textbook, despite Atkins being british.

[NardolTheElf]

Why? Americans don't really speak English, so we should do what we want (which we're going to do anyway). If you doubt that Americans cannot speak English, go to Philadelphia (sarcasm implied).

[tomandjj]

when American chemists write stuff down for reports and thing I believe they use aluminium because they have to follow the IUPAC name.

[Burgandy1920]

I know, I can't help but correct people on their pronounciation, and I still use Sulphur (which led to a rather funny episode involving a chemistry lesson and Microsoft Word's spellchecker)

(And for the record, I'm neither British nor American. Where does that put me? :D)

[robotwarsfan03]

americans r wierd

[JimC]

What, no thermite demo? Darn. :)

[Konnrade]

IUPAC nomenclature rules be damned. Americans refuse to accept that second "i", and we're proud of it.

[NASCreations]

Americans love to change the spelling of words just because it makes them feel superior. I love how they think that spelling the word "tyre" as "tire" is supposed to be progressive, when "to tire" also means "to get tired". So in that case they haven't made things easier, just more confusing.

[evillutionskate]

We don't pronounce and spell things differently because we "Want to feel superior", but because language evolves and changes over time.

[NASCreations]

Although most average Americans might not feel this way, the reason that the English language was altered by the founders of American English was because they wanted to separate themselves from their English roots. In doing so, they felt it would somehow make themselves more superior than their English counterparts. That mentality exists *very much today* by those in the upper echelons of power.

[slonamu]

I oersonaly think English os long overdue for speling reform. You need to get more letters in your alfabet - as much as there are sounds and start speling foneticaly. You know that cat should be speled as ket. Or something similar... That goes for British and American English...

[kirbyman1kanden7pf]

are you stupid? That's just the spelling we use.

[NickTony29]

No, he's not stupid, and he's well aware that that's the spelling Americans use. But one thing's for certain -- you're very rude.

[TheCaptainLulz]

actually its a speach issue. just like if youre from london a resident of newcastle will sound wierd, its the same thing. the spelling reflects the speach.

[NickTony29]

Umm, I think you mean "it's a SPEECH issue". In any case it's not a speech issue. Americans pronounce "tyre" exactly like anyone from Ireland, say (with the rhotic "r"), however Americans spell it "tire". In most cases pronunciation has little to do with why Americans use different spelling.

[sweetbob67]

dude i would know my dad was born in cork, ireland

[chemboy47]

Also known as Aluminum.

[Toxie207]

You mean know INCORRECTLY as Aluminum. :)

[chemboy47]

Yeah, well do you still use "J" for Iodine? :)

[Toxie207]

No. Do you??

[DeoMachina]

Wait, if we don't and they don't...who does?