06 - Freezing Liquid Mercury with Acetone and Dry Ice [Poor Man's Liquid Nitrogen]

Video on how to freeze the liquid metal mercury to its solid state by dropping the temperature below -39°C by using dry ice which is at -79°C. *

I'm very curious to know how/why this video got 160+ views yesterday (March 2, 2010).


I created this channel for the sole purpose to help spread the interest in science, mainly chemistry. The decline of scientific interest in the United States is rather disappointing. After I cruised YouTube a bit I noticed all the other channels similar to mine and I thought about canceling this channel; however, after thinking about the decline of science, I decided to keep making videos until I just run out of ideas.




* Temperatures are rounded.

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[yessonful]

dude cool video

[AmatureChemist]

@yessonful Thank you. Much appreciated!

[TheSupertecnology]

lol stupid water condensation

[AmatureChemist]

@TheSupertecnology It really was quite annoying. I just wanted to marvel at the beauty of the mercury.

[AmatureChemist]

@TheSupertecnology It really was quite annoying. I just wanted to marvel at the beauty of the mercury.

[PlacidRationale]

I have never been so intrigued in my life so thanks for this

[AmatureChemist]

@PlacidRationale Not a problem. Glad I could intrigue some people out there.

[TheHortond]

He's melting metal with his hand. Witch!!

[lexichronicle2]

@Xankar1 "no it isnt if you were to melt plastic and then let it cool to room temperature would you call it freezing?"

Yes, I would. Glass is a frozen supercritical fluid at room temperatures. By calling it freezing you're only making things more complex, just call it the melting point.

Now shoot that mercury with a D Eagle AmatureScientist, I want to see if it explodes like the T2000

[watchthiszebra]

u can actualy buy mercury

[ImperialHyper]

@TheSupertecnology he obviously didnt

[TheSupertecnology]

@ImperialHyper o no you gotta be kidding me, c´mon let´s tell it to NASA. damn man, every body knows that!