Thunder & Lightning - Periodic Table of Videos

Thunder & Lightning is a famous chemistry lecture given by experts at the University of Nottingham, including periodicvideos' very own Pete Licence. Here we show some highlights of the lecture with Pete wearing a small camera on his lapel to give you a "lecturer's eye view". More chemistry at http://www.periodicvideos.com/

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Science & Technology

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• chemistry
• lecture

[champ2153]

the most amazing thing ever would be if periodicvideos posted the full length lecture, in parts or in a whole, doesn't matter to me. PLEASE PLEASE post the full length lecture!!!!!

[periodicvideos]

@champ2153: I'm not sure YouTube could do it justice... Thunder and Lightning is best experienced with full sound and smell (and shockwaves)....

And we need to leave the guys with a few surprises for their real life audiences!

However many great bits of the lecture have featured on our channel already (see the musket in our video response for example), but in a more video-friendly way...

And we will continue to take some of its best bits and make them into films for periodicvideos

[trunkszetto]

I wish they did lectures like these in my chemistry courses. Maybe I should go up to Nottingham to study. :)

[MatthewJepson1]

We never did anything this interesting at Manchester Uni, I guess I should have gone Nottingham :(

[aureusyarara]

HOW IS THAT ROOM SO EMPTY? *does not compute*

[Hiphop101ize]

yo, coolest lecture ive ever seen in my life. Why cant all gen chem classes be like this. Youd think atleast theyd reward you with such a demo in analytical but nope just more math. This is what chemistry should be about

[happinesson]

nothing can't beat this experiment.. It shake me up!

[WakaWakaWakaBoom]

If only my uni was like this.... There isn't even a lab bench in the LT.

[dramlee01]

That was white phosphorus and not red phosphorus, I believe. Not easy to get hold of white phosphorus.

[Ephemeron01]

Right now, I'm sitting in the lecture theatre where they filmed this.

[zillionz]

Great stuff Pete... very entertaining... I'm sure you managed to inspire quite a few people with that presentation... I used to do one at the college I worked at for primary school kids and it always pleased them immensely. You've captivated an older audience here, which is great!