Phosphorus (updated) - Periodic Table of Videos

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[nokomarie1963]

I do think it does well but I really advise against getting too smooth in your videos. When the freshness goes out, stop.  Don't get too practiced because you will loose your charm. A slightly surprised professor is interesting, a lecture for the one hundreth time is boring as hell for everybody.

[periodicvideos]

@nokomarie1963 thanks, that's kind of how I feel and said so in my response to @genericmember1

[genericmember1]

I love your videos, but sometimes I wish the cameraman would just keep a fixed position and stick with it. He zooms in and out arbitrarily and keeps shaking the camera, it can be quite distracting.

You can keep something interesting without zooms being done at random; you can keep a video interesting by zooming only when justified. As for shakes, I suggest investing in a tripod.

I only say this to give some constructive feedback, forgive me if I sound mean.

[periodicvideos]

@genericmember1 Hi... you don't sound mean and no investment is required. I own three tripods (that's how we film experiments from multiple angles).... I just feel there's a glut of science videos on YouTube in which people plonk cameras on tripods.

I find them either too amateurish or too obviously professional, depending on the execution. I want ours to look different.

I know it's not to everyone's taste and all feedback is appreciated - especially when it is so polite and well written! :)

[xDestroyer2x]

@genericmember1 but arguably this random movement of the camera unconsciously keeps the viewer interested. Rather a fixed camera would bore the viewer because he or she is looking at someone at the same boring angle which can sometimes gets annoying. But a moving camera makes one feel that they are lively present next to the professor. So I would say that the camera man is doing a great job maintaining the curiosity in the viewer rather than boring them away as you propose.

[xDestroyer2x]

2 people don't require ATP.

[OOZ662]

@1stPal And yet, still about 95% irrelevant to this video.

[girlzrule786]

@FlashAstronomy Thank you so much for the fun fact.. thumbs up :)

[jaghatarkebab]

... If that's a "P" then an "O" is an "X"...

[glenwoofit]

White Phosphours is the most difficult element for me to get hold of in the uk, I can get it posted from the states but it's a pain in the butt... Anybody know of any uk supplier that will sell to an individual collector?

[1stPal]

White Phosphorus was used by Jews against 2 years old children in Gaza strip !!

[japanesepoptart]

@FlashAstronomy That reminds me...my dad told me about that; he said he saw it on a show or something, and to get the phosphorus out, they simply boiled the pee. That seemed way too easy, and it doesn't really make sense to me. Could anyone shed some light on this?

[FlashAstronomy]

Fun fact: phosphorus was found by someone that tried to extract gold from his pee (because of the yellow/gold color), but he found phosphorus :/

[drainocleanser]

so basically we are chemical synthesis machines