Methane - Periodic Table of Videos

[gredangeo]

I always thought it was Meth-ane not Mee-thane. Weird.

[Ali3nat0r]

@gredangeo

Depends where you're from. It's mee-thane in Britain, meth-ane in US and Canada, not sure about other places.

[FXrubiP]

3:17

He meant fart it out lol

[gummel82]

@FXrubiP thanks captain obvious!

[FXrubiP]

@gummel82

was I talking to you?

[HWGuyEG]

The stuff added to natural gas to give it a bad smell is poisonous(an aritfical thiol, skunk spray is also thiol, but generally you'll never be exposed to enough to be harmful), methane itself is somewhat harmless.

[newcarscent7]

i did that with an almost empty can of spray paint

[HitLyrics10HD]

5:01 for the flamethrower from the start.

[TheArengorn]

i like him

[miesrah12]

Me-than Mea-than tomato tomoto

[Doomzdayxx]

Woah. MEEEthane is pretty cool

[Jebus495]

"I have a reservoir of gas in my can..."

OH GOD!

[xSmielage]

This is pretty cool.

[canyoufeelitmrkrabs7]

If you're wondering what makes farts smell, it isn't methane. It's a disgusting mixture of hydrogen sulfide (smells like rotten eggs) and methylmercaptan (smells like rotten cabbage).

[douro20]

Yep, methane production is more prevalent in herbivores than any other type of mammal.

[KiwiTibb]

I'm going to set fire to the top. *flamethrower*

[guillermogarza212]

so does that mean that farts are flamable? i just want to know so i can try farting at a match. but seriously i want to know.

[pinksock133]

@guillermogarza212 Yah, they are. Always end up doing that when i get drunk.

[limefrog77]

@guillermogarza212 yes farts are flammable.... my younger brother was also curious about that and unfortunately for him he found out

[Versudan]

"Neil and I"* Sorry, couldn't help myself. Interesting experiment though.

[TimmyTordah]

Farts.

[GreenKoldAid]

MEEEEETHANE lol

[damian13531]

I m getting just a bit tired of Neil always being the one to jump and run. One day, he's going to take a bottle of Ethanol and O2 and make a gigantic flamethrower and walk from room to room torching everyone that ever made him clean up a mess. This is how serial killers are made. And I wouldnt blame him, well actually that would be a bit extreme. Maybe hell just get really rude and grumpy and start dropping things on peoples toes. Dont take such people for granted.

[Gozaburo1]

@damian13531 let's hope he just gets a pay raise and no people get hurt......

[uxa1]

@damian13531 Jesus walked on water, Neil walked on Liquid Oxygen.

[Ormaaj]

Hopefully nobody decides to play a nasty trick and weld the top onto that can.

[justcuzineedacont]

you can do that soap thing with hair spar instead of using methane

[link0911ds]

YouThane burns better.

[micol018]

green flame? where did that come from?

[moomilkboy]

@micol018 copper from the can

[ductape95]

It's so much more fun if you have the lid on the bottom.

[MikeoWar]

Nice video :D

[AlChemicalLife]

i like you acsent i dont know why but it's realy cool : )

[pikachuthesquirtle]

can't u just collect it from ur farts? :P

[Cheejyg]

why is there a green flame??

[XJproto]

Wrong.

Not an explosive combustion in an internal combustion engine. It's a controlled burn that takes only a few thousadths of a second to complete.. I'm a mechanic, I should know XD

[TheKarlaxx]

It's like the can has a fuse... made of fire!

[tripy666]

you can belch it out or expell it as wind through the other end.

im sorry but i laughed pretty damn hard when you said this, love this chemist, if only they could make copies of you to teach the world with your brilliant yet funny methods

[iSynOSX]

LOL man I was expecting a little pop that made me jump! that was brilliant!

[Agentoxedo07]

Holy-Terrorist:>*=* 2:40 a power Sasuke or/and Naruto, lol xD

6:25 a sodium azide explosion xD

i speaking french and little english

[khonlaox]

expell it from the other end as wind haha

[lk0056]

@khonlaox and light ti with a match xDDDDD

[FlashFizz]

How about some videos about propane and butane?

[aashish7kumar5]

3:19 "expell it as wind from the OTHER end... a big, loud, smelly methane-fart.

[melchior00625]

Methane explosions like the one Pete did are fun, but it's also a stern reminder to those in charge of maintaining natural gas pipes to keep them up to date...

[Cickarn]

Hi there!

how long does it takes for the exploision?

thanks!

[wnatry69]

the asian lady has 6 eyes

[lemut]

Love this stuff - well done and thank you - please, please keep them coming.

[hempseed57]

My Dad makes a lot of this stuff. I am talking a supernatural amount. You should study him.

[goodiezgrigis]

@hempseed57 just hook him up on home heating and burn the gas, presto, you got yourself smaller heating costs... lol

[hohohyhy]

"the flame dissappears, cover you ears" LOL it ryhmes!

[captwasabi]

@hohohyhy Rhyme is often the easiest and most simplest of mnemonic devices. My grandfather, who is now in his late 90's, can still recite flight lessons he learned during ww2 because they were all mnemonic devices.

[HRHooChicken]

Oooh this was uploaded on my birthday

[YellowMagi]

*worships periodic table of videos*

[ryukenden198891]

just wondering, i hear this from English people and Amerikan. They say Me and Neil.

But here in The Netherlands it is more polite to say Neil and me, putting yourself on the 2e place. I was wondering if anyone could give me some feedback on that thx :)

[Clairenna]

@ryukenden198891 It's just like with any language, a usual arrangement develops. Doesn't mean it's the correct way we should speak! I'm sure the Queen is always gracious enough to say 'Neil and I....' Us common folk are just plain rude (or self obsessed) lol We ought to take lessons from the civil Dutch :)

[vusiliyK]

me-thane hahahahah

[frosty956]

In highschool, my chemistry teacher did a similar exploding can trick, with hydrogen. There was a hole in the top and bottom as here, he lit the top, and told every body to 'lean close and listen carefully, you can hear the flame whistling in the top of the can' then once every body was close by silently listening for the sound, the can would pop!

[emedf001]

1:30

But....that bunsen wasn't connected to anything!

[slyberspace]

This is also very cool :D

[duskguardian]

the guy with the grey hair's holding a baby toy

[TimVS4000]

i wish that crazy haired guy was my grandad....

[MehProductions2000]

5:06 O.o

[MehProductions2000]

2:43  O.o

[dialchemy]

Global Warming.............you people are not scientists you are theorists.

[mkusch734]

@dialchemy global warming is a natural process that occurs naturally on the earth over time...the big debate is whether human actions are speeding up the process and not if its actually occurs...

[dialchemy]

@mkusch734 If we are still debating it why are there so many measures and regulations ulready been put upon us to slow it? Is this the same way we "debated" acid rain? or millions of lakes that were meant to have dried up by now? My what a large industry we have built up around this natural occurence.Global Warming is just a part of a larger and long term agenda. The term "global warming" has been altered to "climate change"

to make the lie fit more snugly with what is actually happening.

[magicicle]

Is "mee-thane" the UK pronouciation?

I've always pronouce it meth-thane (I'm from Canada)

[mariotaz]

@magicicle

Yep, that's how we're told it is. But If you say Methane oh well. Same thing

[itsJustinJ]

Can anyone explain to me why having equal amounts of methane and atmospheric air caused that violent explosion at the end of the vid? At 6:25 to be precise.

[pudge789789]

fascinating

[1993gandy]

WOW nice flame thrower :P

[avidgolfer08]

This was informative till they started talking about global warming.

[laharal90]

Global warming isn't a reality.

[coppurt]

So if you shot a cow in one of it's bellies, it could blow up?

[thrasher729]

what about me-tha-ne

[Butandiolmonoacrylat]

does it also work with hydrogen, ethine or other gases? what about a drop of C4H10O? does this work? We have no methane at our school...

regards

[fitzgel1]

Me-thane Britain

Meth-ane America

[ultrachemist13]

farts are usually hydrogen sulphide!

[JacobRudduck]

The resemblance to Nick Frost is uncanny... :D

[Joejonash]

methane is fart too

[dubmywub]

haha so you can say " i just CH4'ed!" lol

[LegoFTW9]

interesting!

[gaussman08]

OMFG RANDOM SUBS XD

[dudeandy12]

well you can split the words up into two parts... me-thane.. or .. meth-ane.. there both right.. i loooove methane!

[getzkazer]

methane rulz

[uut0]

if you fart you also produce methane lol

[snateraar]

Actually the bacteria produce methane, but that's explained in the video.

[uut0]

i know. but its funnier to say that you produce it when you fart then that the bacteria make it and that you then fart it out. thats why i said it like this :D

[Aythamie]

Last year I Got an extra exam question for an extra point:

Does CH5+ exist?

I had no idea if it does, i'm still curious...

Do you know if it exists?

[taofledermaus]

@svensigh,  I'm sure the British wonder why we pronounce some words so oddly too. They just have a different meethod of speaking :P

[periodicvideos]

@SvenSign: It's a mystery to me.... Or should I say a mystery to "meh" to use your pronounciation! :)

[TheRimDoctor]

@periodicvideos

Its the same thing as Aluminum.

There is no i in 'Num', yet you pronounce it instead of Aloom-in-um as Alu-men-i-um.

Pet peeve of the british of mine.

[columbusmozart]

@TheRimDoctor

Well, when you spell it in the UK, it DOES have an "i" in "Aluminium."

[TheRimDoctor]

@columbusmozart

Now thats a wonderful discrepancy in the English Language. Canada uses UK english, yet it uses the American spelling of elements, some nouns and a few other such things. Not to mention I live in Newfoundland, which has its own dictionary for newfoundland english which screws the language up even more.

[GeorgeHurst08]

@TheRimDoctor We spell it differently you fucktard. You spell it "Aluminum" we spell it "Aluminium" You've just taken an 'I' out, genius.

[TheRimDoctor]

@GeorgeHurst08 Well aren't you important

[GeorgeHurst08]

@TheRimDoctor Why does that make me important?

[TheRimDoctor]

@GeorgeHurst08 Responding to an 8 month old question with such pretentiousness and indignation you could pass for a New York Times movie reviewer.

[GeorgeHurst08]

@TheRimDoctor So are New York Times movie reviewers important? Sorry I don't understand theinsult, seeing as im from England.

[TheRimDoctor]

@GeorgeHurst08 I'm sorry, I'll rephrase. (I'm in Canada, and the New Yorker is just as unimportant to me. Which is why I asked the question you responded to so rudely, assuming I'm american, shameful, Canada uses British Spelling, but Aluminum is spelled without ium here, which is what prompted the question) "Responding to an 8 month old question with such pretentiousness and indignation you could pass for a member of Camilla's Family.

[GeorgeHurst08]

@TheRimDoctor Where have I once assumed you were from America?

[TheRimDoctor]

@GeorgeHurst08 Interesting you ignore the rest of my comment. Anywhore, "We spell it differently you fucktard. You spell it "Aluminum" we spell it "Aluminium" You've just taken an 'I' out, genius." Which I took to assume you talking about the discrepancy between UK English and US English, but the reason I asked the question is because in Canada we use British spelling (Its spelled Aluminium in Canada but pronounced without the I, so which is what prompted why I asked the question to begin with)

[GeorgeHurst08]

@TheRimDoctor You said, "Canada uses British Spelling, but Aluminum is spelled without ium here"

Where exactly is here?

[Aviatorsmith]

@GeorgeHurst08 America agreed to standardise the spelling of Aluminium. England agreed to standardise the spelling of Platinum. It was changed such that the elements could have just one spelling and so compromises were made. It's just the citizens who do not follow such "trivial" details.

[KingOfTheShrews]

@SvenSign

I am by no means a nationalist, but what I don't understand is why Americans can't see any sort of oddity in their criticism of how English people speak English.

Methane was discovered by Volta - an Italian - around the time the US was in its infancy, so by protocol his work would then have been translated by a UK University, who then decided it would be pronounced just like so^. :-)

[bb0ypants]

@SvenSign its just the way things are pronounced in different places. like the way some things are spelled differently in America than they are in Canada.

[emedf001]

@SvenSign

Maybe because they're British? Duh

[Vennificus]

@SvenSign One does not criticize the English on the use of English. It is their language, and however they pronounce it is how it's supposed to be pronounced.

[wendighoul]

@Vennificus True enough, but it would help if any to English people from more than 5 miles apart could agree on how it should be pronounced! I mean, there are what, 3 or 4 London accents alone!

[Vennificus]

@wendighoul I've seen worse

[wendighoul]

@Vennificus oops, I mean any "two" not any "to"

[theturbocow]

@Vennificus There are a dizzying amount of regional accents in England. Despite the fact that one can sound completely different than another, are you saying ALL of them are the "correct" way to speak the language? What about certain dialects from the south of England where they pronounce "th" as "f." "Fink" rather than "think," "fought" rather than "thought." Does that sound correct to you?

[Vennificus]

@theturbocow 8D nope, but who am I to judge?

[limefrog77]

@Vennificus English formed the English language. Americans adopted it cause they had no other. Learn some humility, Vennificus

[limefrog77]

@Vennificus sorry i meant svensign

[Evan2718281828]

@Vennificus

Um, actually English in the 1700s was spoken with an 'American' accent, and over time England's speakers changed the pronunciation. Americans have the original pronunciation.

But I do like the English pronunciation better.

[Phant0mads]

@Evan2718281828 mostly true. in fact the farmers and other poor people were the ones with the 'american' accent, these were the people which emigrated to america, and thus contributed to the american accent. The noblemen of england, who usually knew multiple languages, spoke with a strong british accent, which spread to the middle class citizen in times of the industrial revolution.

[Legofan78]

@SvenSign Its because were british - gota a problem?

[DeltaPhi79]

@SvenSign Because they speak English the way it's SUPPOSED to be spoken... They're English!

[captwasabi]

@SvenSign The Prof and his mates are speaking British English. In the States we speak American English. British English traces it's origins back to the 5th cent AD when the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes crossed the North Sea and invaded Britain. Before that time the "British" spoke a Celtic language. Later, when the British colonized the New World their spoken langauge evolved on a different path. That is why their accents are different.

[09876124]

@SvenSign hmmmmm why their accent in so think? They are english they speak the way its meant to be sopken.

[Legofan78]

@SvenSign it was discovered in england and called me-thane

[GeorgeHurst08]

@SvenSign its our language to pronounce however we like.

[darkdjo]

Big flame in the hand ! Waoh ! Great video :)

[quietthomas]

@nige369, whether climate change exists - and if so or even if not - whether it's man made or not.... I still like green science, and green industry - if not for any other reason, than that I personally don't like pollution. For me the issue is just that simple.

[darthRaduLego]

@nige369 sad about what???

[eirikstran]

but metan is heavier than air, so it will come out on the bottom

[quietthomas]

Perhaps the thermodynamics of the convection current caused by the flame pulling up from the inside of the pressure chamber might cause a greater retention of methane in the vessel than there would otherwise be had the flame not been there (sorry for the run-on sentence).

[superdau]

No need to make up new theories ;-) Don't believe everything you read in youtube comments. Just check the numbers and you will see that methane is lighter than air.

[quietthomas]

I should have done my research!

*caught out*

[taofledermaus]

True! I filled a baloon with natural gas and it almost had the boyancy of helium. The baloon flew away. Even the soap bubbles flew away when I duplicated PTV's experiment.

[superdau]

@eirikstran:

Don't know where you got that from. Methane is much lighter than air. 0,72 g/l vs. 1,29 g/l (at sea level, 0°C)

[eirikstran]

yeah, i know,i was thinking about butane:-P

[superdau]

@nige369:

Ok, keep on believing your conspiracy theories. And please clear your home of at least all things that run on electricity. Because it was scientist using the same methods to develop them. Next time you get sick try some herbs. Isn't it arrogant that man trie to cure illnesses with science?

Btw are !!!s free around here anywhere? Or is that key stuck because it's so cold at your place?

[Cellogamer]

Let's get over the argument over climate change and learn chemistry instead! =)

[quietthomas]

Did you see the articles on the wall behind the mad scientist looking scientist?

I'd say he's smarter than I.

[superdau]

"Scientists predicted warmer and wetter winters! Not the case so far in the Northern hemisphere this winter"

Please! Don't repeat such stupidity. You look out the window, see snow and claim "Still seems cold to me". Forgot the "global" again? Watched some news lately? There's something called the winter olympics. Vancouver, Northern hemisphere. Convoys of dump trucks and helicopters carrying snow since weeks. Currently heavy rain is washing it away, event tickets are already being cancelled.

[superdau]

You mean the green house effect? Without it we would be in an ice age. But without what's commonly called global warming we would approx. be where we've been 100 years ago (temperature wise).

Nature can't balace out temperature. Nature is the "guest" on the planet. It doesn't control climate (though it definitely influences it). It has to adapt to it. Most probably some life will always survive any changes. The problem is: our current standard of living can't be sustained after an extreme chang

[tailr]

WOW!....methane is this cool

[highrollerzzz]

or expel it as wind from the other end :D

[MagaCarey]

I'm addicted to these videos.

Thank you!

I love them, love them, love them.

[P00P0STER0US]

I love these demonstrations.

[Kev888]

A teacher at my school did the methane bubble experiment. You can still see the burns he made on the ceiling!

[superdau]

That's why climate scientists speak of climate change nowadays. Because of many people saying "it's so cold today how can this be global warming" and ignoring the fact that the average global temperature set quite a few new records in the last decade. You can't look at the weather of a small region or just for a week and conclude there is no change. There's a reason why it is called "global".

[nanomid2007]

Doesn't science require tractable 'isolation' and 'repeatability' ?

Is AGW a phenomenon than can be isolated and repeated? In a lab? In a computer model?

[superdau]

No, that's no requirement. There are theories about how stars and planets formed. Nobody ever repeated this "experiment" either. Science is a way to explain nature through observation or experimentation and be able to make useful predictions.

One prediction of climate change actually is more precipitation due to more water vapor in the atmosphere due to warmer oceans. So more snow is a validation of predictions. No scientist claimed that the first sign of climate change is "green" winters.

[kawaiichico]

omg i seriously want to do that in my college XD

awesome video! *****

<3

[Anonymouzor]

that can experiment was cool :D

[260830107]

flammable fart xD

[HeroinMethod]

Dumb

[greensparks75]

hahaha ME-thane

you way you pronounce it is halarious

[taofledermaus]

One thing I discovered today is if you try this natural gas bubble experiment, the bubbles will actually float like they have helium in them. I did not know it was lighter than air!

[imanerd36]

The soapy water methane/hydrogen has been around for ages.

[TemplarLucas]

You realize that the reason they did it in the first place is that a fan sent it in as a suggestion, right?

[douro20]

Methane is the largest component of natural gas, but there are several other light hydrocarbons which are contained in natural gas, including propane and butane.

[Intervene]

Good video

[grieva666]

wow @ 2:42, "when it absolutely positively has to erupt in flames, don't wait -- Incinerate!"

[theyetunusedname]

Neil and me.

[superdau]

@theyetunusedname

Actually "Neil and I"...

[Wher3Wuzi]

GLobal warming is very possible. The logic behind it makes perfect sense but idk

[jamies41]

5:07 lol flame thrower

[pikuorguk]

@jamies41 With a second hole connected to an air blower...

blowtorch :)

[imaball]

lol ME thane