Questions for The Professor - Periodic Table of Videos

The Professor answers a series of questions from American school students. You can pose your own question via video or email us via our site at http://www.periodicvideos.com/

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Science & Technology

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• martyn
• poliakoff

[atourdeforce]

i could listen to this man for hours.

[periodicvideos]

@neanderslob: Appreciate your thoughts... The kids asked countless questions and many about science... Magnetism was a popular theme. Blame my editing for the questions used.

My view (as a journalist), when asking The Professor a direct question, why ask something you can find on Wikipedia.

If I met Neil Armstrong, I wouldn't ask him what the Moon is made of or how a Saturn V works?

Better to ask something personal... you always get something new and interesting, like the story of the chain!

[ArsonistInUrFirewall]

Unununium took me ages to learn to pronounce and now they changed it to röntgenium.

[marleyboro]

great job with the videos, ive enjoyed them all!!

[Tossphate]

molybdenum is always hard at first, but put the accent on the y rather than the e and it rolls off the tongue nicely :)

[donatgashi2]

@atourdeforce me 2

[Aviatorsmith]

@100alexdel The IUPAC calls it aluminium. The IUPAC wins.

[100alexdel]

The man who discovered aluminum named it "aluminum"

[glenwoofit]

I always have to be doing something with my hands too but i roll things, you can always tell where I've been by rolls of paper everywhere!

[nerdyl0l0l]

Just think about it... Poliakofyum (think that's how it should be spelt) sounds badass XD

[mehn19364]

Aluminium Aloominium, Tomato Tomato,

[DevilMaster]

I find it funny what the professor says about his old teacher saying "elephant" instead of "element", because a year later he made the same mistake in the darmstadtium video! :-D