Beryllium - Periodic Table of Videos

[masluxx]

Beryllium = don't lick your fingers....got it.

[Arazand]

Funny that Focal use Beryllium in their tweeter domes. I have no idea why, probably because its very light but it not very strong or stable... Strange trade-off that one. But considering the cost off pure beryllium its possible they use a alloy or compond of several other elements, its them most likely scenerio to me.

[ActionReplayPerson]

You are hereby conquered. Please line up in the order of how much Beryllium it takes to kill you.

[Mariolover24]

Imagine you are eating cheese puffs in the lab, then you touch the beryllium. What do you do?!?

[deathrooster14]

@Mariolover24 Die. That what happens. :P

[nowiecoche]

@Mariolover24 DANG, my cheese!

[zwest135]

So. The beryllium in the jar is toxic because its in dust form which allows it to get in to the lungs and i guess the beryllium on that dome is fabricated in such a way that it doesn't flake off at all like that in the jar. interesting.

[ijunkie]

Beryllium dome, or new car... hmmmmmm.. BERYLLIUM DOME!!! :D

[Fullmetalminos]

Beryllium laden...ehi, why does that remind me of Osama???

[darkj3am]

hey you can use byrlium metal to export illegal stuff ::P

[MrUbertubers]

Beryllium is transparent to x-rays... hmm.... *makes beryllium knife*

Problem TSA?

[pooppeeyoupants]

@MrUbertubers lol

[BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

@MrUbertubers You rich sonova gun! Where'd u get all that beryllium?

[MrUbertubers]

@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies The black market

[qoaa]

Beryllium sphere is also used to power the Galaxy Quest :)

[WhipCool97]

that's $21,345.14 USD

[KarbineKyle]

I have a sample of Be metal. It's ~1 gram sphere. It's lightweight, and feels like plastic, but inside a glass vial, it sounds like any solid metal. Ingestion of Be dust is nowhere near as dangerous as inhalation. It's great for focusing X-ray and gamma ray wavelengths in nuclear science. It has great properties to slow neutrons to its thermal state (thermal neutrons). They're used in nuclear fuel rods and weapons as a moderator. It's light, very hard, with a very high melting point of 1287 ºC.

[BrillWill1]

clssic mad proffessor

[bharathi8018]

Very simple and understandable .Upto now i learned about silver ,copper,aluminium,

iron,titanium,hydrogen,oxygen,­helium and this one (i.e)beryllium

and i still want to learn more elements .Thanks a lot .

[bharathi8018]

Hi . I am Bharathi doing second year in aviation engg. In my early age chemistry is the unlikely subject bcos my father is a physics teacher .But now by listening to yor periodic table of videos - it makes me to learn about our nature i mean some basics about the elements and in our books in india no visually shown the elements .But here u show all variety of elements and their properties.It is very helpfull for me .The essays given by you are very simple and also understandable.

[antienjigglement]

I imagine the majority of the cost of that Beryllium dome there was from the manufacturing of it. I have a flat Be window about the size of a nickel and it only cost $40 bought surplus.

[xNi4LLx]

LoL His Hair is Awesome 2:10

[omfgwtf666obamahater]

...Hold 4, I dare you

[onthecuttingedge2005]

also, if you are cut by beryllium the wound will not heal.

[davnegsep]

lol hi Fred Flintstone

[MattCadillac]

How many U.S. dollars does 15000 euros equate to?

[JosephGubbels]

@MattCadillac

15,000 euros = 19,845 usd

for future reference, just go to the google home page and type, for example:

"15000 euros in usd"

[sammysignal]

Chemist dont know much about it

(1 second later)

So beryllium is a fantastic metal - its got a lot of strange metallic properties

[cem719]

so the only option to get weapons through airport iscover it in berrylium orr make a weapon out of berrylium

[MattCadillac]

@cem719 X-rays go through beryllium, so nice try, terrorist.

[GRAHAMAUS]

Beryllium Oxide (BeO) is used in high power RF transistors as a heatsink as it has very high thermal conductivity but no electrical conductivity. It means that some kinds of discarded electronics (e.g. old radiotelephones) can be hazardous to you health though.

[Opticradiation]

If you put Beryllium (Be) and Erbium (Er) together it spells Beer XD

[voltarus007]

@Opticradiation Yay Youtube, youve taught one person to spell beer using the periodic table. woot.

[Opticradiation]

@voltarus007

Sure did. It's scientific research at top it's finest form :P

[blueduderanch]

berylium is so expensive because its ore is emerald.

[DUKCyclone]

@blueduderanch mmm Its ore is beryl, from which a small fraction of the Al3+ is replaced by Cr3+ to form Emerald. Correct me if in wrong because i'm such a newbie

[connorblue1]

is it active or inactive??

[Rannyfash]

why did he repeat what he said twice?

[victoneter]

Kinda funny, The old Greeks ate liquid Beryllium because it tasted sweet.

Originally it was called Glucinium which comes from the Greek word glykys which means sweet.

The early scientists who reported this were dying tough because Beryllium is toxic.

[sciencemile]

<.< knowing what I do now about Beryllium, I think all the people from Galaxy Quest probably all have Berylliosis from pushing that Beryllium Sphere around <.<

[usrevolution2]

Fr. Michael DeLisle Lyons, SJ (a Jesuit) of Detroit, Michigan supplied beryllium to the US Government for the initiators of our nuclear weapons from 1945 until his death in 1974 from Chronic Beryllium Lung Disease (Berylliosis). For the rest of the story Google "WWJ, A Jesuit and the Bomb," by me (Jeffrey Allan McQueen . . . Fr. Lyons' nephew).

[jimday666]

we will not lick our fingers! :D

[ShipsAreBurned]

beryllium...more like BOREyllium

[burchified]

This guy looks like Doug Heffernan.

[TheRolemodel1337]

so you should make a gun out of beryllium if you want to kidnap a plane

[TheArmo1]

#1 how do you "kidnap a plane"? Don't you mean HIJACKING a plane??? And THEORETICALLY you can create a firearm out of Beryllium that would be impervious to X rays but you heard the man, that TINY sample cost 15000 Euros which is like $25000, & your bullets have to be made of beryllium as well because lead would tip off the metal detector, but then again the reduced weight of the bullets would make them useless. So now you got a VERY toxic, EXTREMELY expensive & UTTERLY useless gun. So, YOU=IDIOT

[TheRolemodel1337]

@TheArmo1 well if your a terroist whos planning to HIJACK a plane with enough money and without a will to live this gun would come really handy

his terrorist friends will pay for the gun when he touches it he doesnt care of getting poisoned bacause he will die anyway

and the bullets can be made of keramic so you=idiot

[TheArmo1]

@TheRolemodel1337 #1 CERAMIC NOT KERAMIC, #2 you missed a KEY point that a Beryllium bullet should not generate enough impact force to hurt someone or damage anything. Beryllium is VERY soft and every at high speed it would fall apart rather that bend like lead. Ergo a Beryllium gun is STIILL Poisonous enough to kill the maker and user within 24hours, costs over 1,000,000 Euros and WOULD NOT WORK. Therefore you + USA = stupid. My God you Americans are ignorant and arrogant fools arent you?

[TheRolemodel1337]

@TheArmo1 well in german its KERAMIC

im not judging your german too

if you make it with gloves etc you wont die after making it

if you you keep it safe so you wont die if you only keep it

when your in the plane you can take it out kill like 10 ppl (before it destroyed itself)

but thats far enough to hijack an airplane and you wont need more than 24h to steer it into a building causing many deaths and alot more that 1000000$ damage

so it would be still an effective weapon im no american stupid

[tommmmmmmmx]

i have welded this metal it is very hard and very toxic

[Maxzoe20]

In the 1970's Yamaha of Japan made the world's first Beryllium loudspeaker drivers through a process they invented called beryllium vapor deposition. The metal is close in hardness to titanium but about 5 to 7 times lighter, and 100 times more expensive. The acoustic propagation was equal to man made diamond and the Be diaphragms' shape didn't distort within the human audible range, and still have the lowest harmonic distortion of speakers even today. Interesting piece of history.

[sierrxhadlin]

@Maxzoe20 Today they are still state of the art speakers, and fun to look at.

[Cubetastical]

does anyone realize that pete looks like kevin james...

[dafyd4]

The original name for beryllium was glucinum from Gk. glykys 'sweet' because its compounds are so sweet (and also toxic),  Alas, chemists were once expected to describe the taste of chemicals too, Scheele, the great Swedish chemist, died trying to describe cyanide. OOPS.

[geon79]

@dafyd4

This is actually half-true...

Beryllium is extremely toxic by inhalation but not as toxic by ingestion: that's why many chemist of the past tasted its compounds to detect it and survived the experience. However, even very tiny amounts inhaled are carcinogenic (class 1).

Scheele died slowly of comulative heavy metals' poisoning, not because of cyanide.

[cc3814]

Thats how the first artificial sweetener was discovered, because a chemist trying to create a PESTICIDE liked his fingers and it tasted sweet. Whaabam artificial sweetener.

[KarbineKyle]

I have a small sphere of Beryllium metal, and it's so lightweight! It's also a good metal to use for thermal neutron emission experiments from an Alpha radiation source, i.g. Polonium-210.

[culwin]

I wear a beryllium helmet to protect my brain from Xrays.

[simonthewarrior]

good plan..

[danielkirk1]

@culwin then you should sell it and buy a house lol.

[trustthewater]

"Good chemists shouldn't lick their fingers."

I need that made into a poster!

[GaseousNobility]

Beryllium is also a component of gemstones called beryls. Amazing how something poisonous can create something pretty.

[TheCaptainLulz]

Just found 2 emeralds in a beryl pit yesterday. Everything beryl is gorgeous.

[Drag0nfoxx]

Fascinating element.

[Elliwise]

Lol. I'm using this video in my sience project video. I think its the only one ANYWHERE on the internet that actually describes stuff abot Beryllium. I have written a five page long paper about this element so lol =P

[Tonjevic]

"The Beryllium Sphere, of course!"

[minerofblood]

beryllium is only found in nature as a compound, such as emeralds.

[jedus1]

Beryllium was one of the first atoms to have been forced to be in 2 places at once.

[LaughingManRa]

Wow, I had no idea beryllium was so expensive!

[Videostealer1]

Beryllium causes lung diseases?

*Drops sandwich*

Oh Fuck

[BeanangelTreon]

Beryillium is alloyed with metals to make nonsparking alloys

[kas00078]

how much Beryllium is there in that sample?

[Patrick1Bateman]

Beryllium is an urban myth

[mclight81]

excellent practical application point. Note to self... don't lick fingers.

[pillcrow]

@mclight81 Thats how they discovered Aspartame.

[degausser8]

Chemistry is much more interesting with english accents

[wwwhexxycom]

One would agree with that comment. ;D

[captgunner]

amazing video =] i love em all

[swyft187]

I just want to take those 2 machines and take them apart and reassemble them. They are so sexy.

[Mrpwnage333]

"Good chemists shouldn't lick their fingers." XD

[J2zday]

this is bad but the first chemists often relied solely on their sense of taste and smell to identify compounds.

[Paxmax]

Beryllium copper is a really nice alloy. Makes lovely hard but thin water slicing propellers!

[kwakhed23]

beryllium copper is also used in making high pressure cells, because of its hardness. if you need to apply a pressure of thousands of atmospheres to a sample, BeCu is what you make the encasement from.

[kttazzy]

wow so we can make guns out of beryllium

lol just kidding

[Academicidiot]

true, wouldn't be picked up on X-ray machines at airports.

[oilslug]

sup Be...

[Jiraya12345]

I...I...I don't even know what to say to you.

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[dylz]

love these videos

[limlynn999]

=P Cool Be

[TadRaunch]

What a great idea

from now on Ill always lick my fingers when dealing with strange substances

[atomic7732]

... ok then...

[GetMeThere1]

"good chemists shouldn't lick their fingers..."

Nice to know that one could compile a guide book that would work for both chemists and proctologists...

[Ballpythondude420]

Haha nice

[Psilo007]

I like this series, keep it up. I'm glad I subscribed!

Note: Only lick your fingers if you 99% sure you've made pure lysergic acid diethylamide 25 :)

[iamastomata]

ill bear that in mind

[atomic7732]

what?

[iamastomata]

it was a reply to psillo comment on the last page

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[xdfgf]

Great video to start the new year.

[NAMLegolas]

Beryllium. Hmmmm I remember learning it in the periodic table but you are right, don't know any about it! until now! :D

Thanks for another great video! happy new year

[Lexicon1971]

That guy's hair rocks!!!!!!

[arctechnologies]

To me he is a freak-of-nature.

[1trip711]

ATOMS

[aquamammal]

Beast video.

Thanks for these.

XVX for life, R.A.S.H. 'til death.

[Jtking3000]

7th! :(

[sciencoking]

why on thursday??

[kaviaari]

BeCl2 is linear but in it's solid form it's rather like polymeric chain. Chlorine atoms form a tetrahedron around a sine Be atom.

[ENavarrete10]

BeCl4 is a tetrahedron. Not BeCl2.

*Erm thats prollay what your were saying, though.

[kaviaari]

Nope, BeCl2 forms a polymeric chain. In this chain one "monomere" is BeCl2. The chain looks (in 2d projection though) like this:

Cl  Cl Cl Be Be ....

Cl Cl Cl

Whereas BeCl is just Cl-Be-Cl

[armedbronco]

PROFESSOR NEEDS CORN ROWS

[speedstackinggirl]

Cool!! love the hair of the person that has an afro.

[Zaddtheman]

Great, interesting video, as always.

[polonium9]

second and nice beryllium

[2naruto1]

first!!!