Primo Levi - Periodic Table of Videos

[AsciaBipenne]

I am Italian and I live in Italy, shamefully I didn't know Primo Levi was a chemist, I'd like to thank you very much for your videos and your sincere passion for chemstry :)!

[bluemoonrising26]

Just read the book: wonderful

[thedingdoeatyourbaby]

It's not LAY-VEE, it's LE-VEE!

[iorixs]

im tired of the holocaust crap. jews werent the only ones who died. stop playing that holocaust car, it's annoying

[rogerdotlee]

@iorixs Nice troll. What do you feed it to get that extra spicy stench?

[AmoiNoir]

I bought this book the other day. Thanks for this video, very interesting! The periodic videos are getting me through a summer without studying!

[KeystoneKorner]

Chemistry was always my worst subject as an undergrad. I couldn't memorize all those mechanisms in organic chemistry. To this day, I don't understand what physical chemistry was all about. But your videos (and this one in particular) have invited me back into the chem lab.

[Bassfully]

HOLY MOLY the Professor was in my hometown and nobody told me anything?!? Bummer!

[MrMarcodt]

Thanks for this video!!!

p.s.

I'm going to buy the book!

[PandaMagicFTW]

4:02 - Primo Levi looks like Tony Stark :D

[rushianokun]

Professor made me cry, hell science is worth it

[pcleddy]

u 2

[archaedemos]

love this channel

[Scrap5000]

Thanks for this video from an Italian American!

[periodicvideos]

@Scrap5000 you're welcome... glad you liked it!

[Badgerinthenight]

This was great. Nice to know the 'everyman' scientists are given due credit for their passion as well as those who made landmark discoveries. Thank you! :)

[periodicvideos]

@Badgerinthenight Thanks, we agree!

[murphyld66]

Thanks for another great video. I've spent a lot of time in chemical plants and refineries working, so I've had many opportunities to "enjoy" the smell of chemicals off-gassing, more than I would prefer.

[allochthomas]

Thanks guys! Still busy with the introductions. Already had a small tour of the labs and i felt right at home! There's something about the smell of a chemistry lab indeed. Thursday and friday will include some more tours of the labs, safety training and the handing out of out lab coats. Next monday will be the start of all the lectures and experiments. Will be in the labs doing practical work from 9 till 5 on a thrusday and friday(oh yes)

[stmtrionfa]

Thanks for this video from an italian material scientist

[periodicvideos]

@stmtrionfa great to know we have some Italian viewers!

[The360Route]

@periodicvideos I come from Turin : D

[TheSoundDepo]

Is it to do with the bottom period where the elements with Rutherfordium (Rf), Dubnium (Db) being mixed up

[bemanos12345]

nice video

[williamkendrick]

when i was in school, no subject fascinated me more, or was as easy for me (perhaps besides certain advanced mathematics) as chemistry. i was good at it. unfortunately for me, i was in an orphanage, and they felt that my education wasn't as important, and made me leave school, and put me in job corps. biggest disappointment i ever experienced. to this day i wish i could have had more chance to study chemistry. I'm good with computers; but i wish i had a chance just once, to study chemistry.

[MyOverflow]

@williamkendrick

I want to send you links where you can learn Chemistry (videos, online books, etc) for free on your own time, but I can't because you have friend lock on.

I sent a friend request so I can send them to you, but you don't have to accept it if you turn off the friend lock long enough for me to send the links.

[williamkendrick]

@MyOverflow done and done. send the links! i cant wait!!

[perfect1oNN]

I like Chemistry, I find it the easiest subject, but what I love is the combination between Physics, Biology and Chemistry and even Mathematics in some cases, like what you find in the Human body.

[2007ASpaceOdyssey]

Primo Levi's book If This is a Man is one of my favorite of all time, despite its depressing subject manner, he was a Pynchon-esque wordsmith

I highly recommend it 

[singlespies]

You should also mention Levi's book "Survival at Auschwitz." More than anything else I've seen or read it reveals the experience of daily life in that evil place.

[MADNEXXION]

awesome touching vid, thanks professor. by the way 4 fools didnt undertstand the video, go read some books

[arabstar7]

lol nice haircut

[TeoTheAwesome]

1:10 "Quite an incompentent band" I hope you were talking about the Germans and not the Italian Partisans...

[Brianthehax0r]

Im 15, I go to a decent school and I have to say this channel is one of the reasons chemistry is my favorite subject :D thanks man

[periodicvideos]

@Brianthehax0r Thanks, that's great to hear. Always makes us really happy to know people share our love for chemistry!

[b1u3too]

I'm sad to say the sound level seems a tad low on the last couple videos.... oh, and you all make me want to go on a field trip. =]

[vevenaneathna]

very good video. thanks for uploading.

[BibleBurnr]

LOL the smell is wonderful

[allochthomas]

Monday will finaly be my first day studying chemistry at university, can't wait! Been looking forward to it for the past months.

[periodicvideos]

@allochthomas Good luck!

[andrewpoopoo]

@allochthomas Hope you had a great day :D

[crusiatusblack]

@allochthomas Good luck and have fun :)

[carlsontechnology]

The rogue in me wants to believe that Levi pulled a fast one on the Nazis and made inferior rubber.

[acrophobe]

@carlsontechnology

Levi's rubber: the real reason the allies won world war 2.

coming soon to a bookstore near you.

[scorpion779946]

could you please try and make a video about diamonds?

[vevenaneathna]

@scorpion779946

youtube. com/watch?v=wmC8Dg4n-ZA

theres a couple videos of people burning diamonds in a cup or bowl of water, thats pretty cool too.

[1mb0123d]

You make chemistry interesting and inspire me to learn more about it and science in general, great video as always. Grateful for your work professor, and the rest of the team who participate in these entertaining and informative videos

[somorastik]

For the past months Ive been watching periodic table of videos, I got very interested in chemistry and in all areound it. Thank you

[moonreft]

The german name for this new rubber like compound is called buna. The US counter part is nitrile. Chemically the same and still used in your modern tire.

[mrvesteraas]

The professor really has a talent for making even the dullest subjects fascinating!

[CoolMinty]

Thank you for another masterpiece ;)

[AllAtheism]

I know what the smell of laboratories is. Not the shiny new ones but the ones with wooden furniture and old plastic bottles that turned yellowish over time. If I would need to connect a feeling to chemistry it would be this smell...

[Digeridude]

The professor loves the smell of chemicals in the morning.

[TheRomans]

I think that exam he had to take, given by the nazis, would be so much worse than any other finals ever given lol

[norxcontacts]

Chemistry saved his life.

[geyser]

Very interesting...

[FraggedMind]

3 people missed the "Like" button. They fail at science and technology.

[schmidtbag]

@FraggedMind

and history

[525047]

I'm sorry if I'm in a chem lab and smell something different I'm getting the heck out of there.

[oOoxelAoOo]

@525047 That would really depend on what you can smell.

[8nwidth]

Now I really want a Backed Cake that smells of chemicals. And I am really happy I can get it at any SuperMarket!

[xKevTiffx]

Wonderful insight. :)

[TonyUnplugged]

I wonder if the chemists experienced "flavor transfer" while baking cakes in environmental chambers typically used for drying chemical samples. ;-)

[homousios]

That was very interesting. Thanks

[wildwolf111]

Reminds me when I first entered the chemistry storeroom in primary school (out of bound to students, how I got in... secret :P). I think I felt the same way. The lovely smell! Lol!

[gypcnme]

Thank you for sharing your visit with us. Very interesting & exciting.

[ryutard]

perioic.

[Firesoar13]

u_u,

I'm stuck in culinary school... seeing this just makes me miss chem class even more.

I wish I'd gone to Millersville University first.

[Lavabug]

Remarkable story.

[anrade86]

!!Hey guys, typo in the title!!

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Ciao dall'Italia! ;)

[FrostPegasus]

Slight mistake in the title. =)

[TTerboLasers]

if i want to become a chemist what sort of things would i do?

[Muscleduck]

@TTerboLasers There are several kind of chemists. You could for example go for biochemistry, about the chemical processes inside living beings such as fotosynthesis, or petrochemistry, which is all about crude oil, diesel and gasoline, and probably about plastics too, but maybe there is a seperate kind of chemist for that.

Chemistry sure is very interesting to learn about.

[edrianquintos]

turin is a great place to live in. :)

primo levi

cinema

Castle

egyptian museum

and more. :p

[rageagainstthebath]

I agree with gundrag000, the videos are too quiet. Please try doing soundtrack normalization before posting. That's be very helpful not to adjust speakers for this channel only.

[peanutboy41]

i'm hungry for cakes right now

[1993gandy]

lo li thought this video was going to be about how they make jeans

[gundrag000]

plz add some.. english explanation subtitle with talking...

[periodicvideos]

@gundrag000 Nearly 100 of our videos have English captions and more are always coming in stream... but there is usually a lag between the video being posted and the subtitle team making the captions...

we also have captions in other languages on many videos.

[gundrag000]

@periodicvideos what's mean ??... dose this video have captions ??...... or do you mean other videos have caption ?..........

[Drag0nfoxx]

@gundrag000 - Most of the videos have captions. This one does not have them yet, but they will come soon.

[xxmtgxx]

@periodicvideos Always wondered who makes the subtitles? Is it the poster of the videos or does youtube do them?

[insanic1]

Here's a fun fact, Levi fell down ill with scarlet fever in Auschwitz and was treated and nursed back to health in the camp's hospital by the Nazi's whom were hell bent on eradicating Jews

[FelipeZucchetti]

amazing story professor...

[rabbitsib]

Must smell must be like my old high school chem lab. They built a new school but the old one had crappy ventilation which kept the chemical smell in. I think it stays bc the vapors stick to the walls and just everything I don't think you will ever get ride of it. Those smells are special you don't get any where else that I know of :)

[Willoq01]

will someone please invent the smellervision!

[Intervene]

Great stuff. Interesting.

[irivanova]

very inspiring :)

[funnyboy2]

Nice smell of chemicals? <.<

[killermonster555]

Has Primo Levi got anything to do with the jeans?

[jackprat17]

Great video 

[NZWG]

very nice

[assqwert]

"somehow" the smell would survive ...

good luck.

[gundrag000]

and max sound volume is low.. volume up plz ..

[acefire]

Primo for the win.

[CzRZeromus]

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[MadMacheart]

good video