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Uploaded by on Jun 8, 2011

The periodicvideos team recall their first exposure to chemistry - and share a few embarrassing childhood pictures!

Extra pics on the blog at http://periodicvideos.blogspot.com/2011/06/young-chemists.html

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  • Extra pics, including another one of Neil, are on the periodicvideos blog... Link in the video description.

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  • in 20 years probably some on is gonna ask me the same question and my answer would be "well when i was 15 i used to watch these videos from a website called youtube by a profesor..." :D

  • I'd love to see an interview with Neil.

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  • Bill...Bill...Bill...Bill..Bil­l...Bill Nye The Science Guy!!!

  • I went through the microscopes and telescopes as a young child. I became aware of chemistry around 9 years old when I learned how to make gunpowder. Back then you could get sodium nitrate and sulfur at the corner drug store. I began experimenting with formulae and methods of making, increasing the charcoal % and grinding under alcohol and evaporating to “plugs” I used as rocket fuel. I had some spectacular failures and still have all my digits.

  • On your site- I love that baby picture of Neil!

  • @ericfam01

    It'd probably be just three to five minutes of silence.

  • We mixed a copper (ii) fluoride solution into a beaker and places a strip of aluminum into it. It started to realease energy and produce heat and that really hooked me be cause I wanted to work with other chemicals that I have yet to interact with. Also 5 words: periodic table of the elements.

  • From when I was about 6 all I wanted for Christmas was a microscope! I wanted to see everything! I got one when I was about 7 and I decided to look at a tiny, tiny bit of cheese, then I thought, I wonder what it looks like moldy! Lol! So I put it away for a while, but then forgot about it! 1 year later I found it again hen we moved house....and it smelled quite bad haha! But now I really love chemistry, and I'm 14 years old :)

  • I've been watching your videos from the first to the most current for the last week or so. Loved the short video of Neil at the end. He's certainly a man of few words :)

  • @linjedomarn99 That was from an experiment involving an alkali metal. Potassium I think.

  • @un2mensch agreed

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