I'm so used to this guy speaking English, as soon as he started reciting "chejik pejik", it took me like 3 seconds to switch to the Russian language center in my brain xD
For anyone interested, this is the research paper mentioned in the video is titled "A New Continuous Method for Performing Rapid Phase Equilibrium Measurements on Binary Mixtures Containing CO2 or H2O at High Pressures and Temperatures" and was published in Journal of Chemical & Engineering data (by ACS). You can find it easily on ACS website (acs . org).
I love this professor. I had absolutely no interest in chemistry until I stumbled upon these videos and they way he describes elements and processes is so easy to understand.
It's a bit more complex than that. There are the subtle flavor molecules, and as the video stated, a small amount of residual sugar. Distilled alcohols are usually mixed with a portion of the original liquid they are distilled from to make a drinkable concentration, which is why they come in so many flavors: vodka, scotch, whiskey, rum, ...
Wonderful video. I actually stumbled across words of the world awhile ago and subscribed immediately. You guys do wonderful stuff and I greatly enjoy your videos. Excellent content! Keep up the great work.
Dear professor, please do never drink alone! Truly, drinking vodka in Russia has become a tradition well recognized abroad. However, scarcely does anyone see the heartily aspect of this tradition. People would exchange emotions in the course of drinking, such that they could never share otherwise. Therefore, this process creates a deep and affectionate bonds between people, and yes, this is universal among all Russians.
For polish people Vodka stands for a vine made of potatos or grains or difrent combinations including fruts, herbs ect, destiled cuple of times or once by fractional destilation depending on how much falvour (of grain for instance) you want to keep, then water is added, spring watter or other, actually every brand is made in different way.
Chizh (Carduelis spinus) is not a sparrow. It's a siskin, a kind of finch. It's greenish with yellow stripes. In Tsarist times there used to be an institute of law on Fontanka river in St. Petersburg. Its students wore green uniforms with yellow stripes, which is why they were called siskins (chizhiks). The song is about them.
@StillToListen as a non drinker (of alcohol) I find it depressing when I see young people damaging themselves with excessive drinking, but it surely the peer pressure that affects them to drink to excess rather than the simple existence of the substance itself. Social drinking has been a very strong part of our society since forever, abolition doesn't work and knowledge/education of it's affects would help...
kind of. the first distillery that produced a drink known as vodka, although it was mainly used for medicinal purposes, was in poland in the 8th century. although it wasnt the vodka we see today, it was named vodka because of its original polish name - wodka. it really evolved from there. many countries throughout Europe, including poland, imported alcoholic beverages that were considered vodka to russia for medicinal purposes and the drink later evolved there. pretty interesting history.
There's always a bit of residual sugar in grain spirits, even some of the best distilled. After all alcohol is sugar, just in a different form, ethanol. Either way Stolichnaya is damn good vodka.
actually song name is "PlyushkO Polye". "PolyushkA" is a diminutive form of female name Polina (Pauline)/ Also, in Russian "Polyak" (поляк) means "Polish" (man from Poland). So this last name might indicate, that some of his grandparents are from Poland. That's even makes sense because, for example Kuznetsov = Kuznets (Smith) + -ov (related to) ~ Smithson And so on: Popov = Pop (priest) + ov Bondarev = Bondar' (barrel maker) + ev (-ov and -ev virtually the same) Medvedev = Medved' (bear) + ev
@periodicvideos No mention of vodka historically being used as a solvent in many experiments because of cost and avalibility, and 40/60 alcohol/water mixture being good for solving a lot of things?
@MrChemify Did you even watch the video? Vodka is alcohol diluted with water, everything else is either flavouring or impurities. The video says what the relation of vodka and Mendeleyev is.
Fun Fact. The Fact You said on who named/Invented vodka is a debated fact. Russia and Poland are arguing over it and If I remember last court case was won by Russia. Wodka I think is the modern name for vodka in Poland and I think they use to call it something else.
"...and the reason it is empty is because the vodka in this bottle was used by one of my students..." :D Just couldn't contain myself, I apologize. Thank you for another great video!
It's quite interesting, especially because I'm Polish :) Maybe the word самогон is more Russian :P But seriously, I think that Slavian nations use the purest water solutions of ethyl alcohol for drinking in the comparison to other nations, e.g. whisk(e)y. I'm also curious which other chemicals we can find in the bottles of different alcohol drinks, like sulphites (now: sulphates (IV)) in cheap wine.
also, alcohol as a chemistry topic is lovely. lots of measurable actions there, and lots and lots of behaviours. lots and lots of things to make papers from :)
PoliakOFF is a Jewish distinction of the Slavic last name Poliakov, which is based of slavic word meaning Land or Field, Polye. Ever heard of the song "Polyushka Polye"
Vodka contains the alcohol called ethanol, so yeah it's not pure alcohol cause most of it's water, but you can't have pure ethanol either because it would just instantly react with the oxygen in the air and form water.
Another great thing you can do with vodka: Pour it into a bowl, add the contents of a full ashtray, strirr and then let it sit for a while. Afterwards you sieve out the unsolved particles and - voilà - instant Whisky!
@graffias79 capsacin is a carboxylic molecule, and it's not in the professor's field, but i agree, a video about capsacin would be very entertaining indeed, especially when put to the test. look for a video from the mythbusters and capsacin.
Two little known facts: 1) it's "Na zdorovie". 2) Russians never say that before drinking. It's a polite phrase often used by host showing that he happy to provide this food and drinks for guest.
I disagree. By definition, "Alcohol" Refers to the group of chemical compounds, ethyl alcohol in specific, or any intoxicating beverage containing ethyl alcohol, such as Vodka.
"to drink when something sad happens. A friend dies, or a grant is not funded" This guy has his priorities straight
Vodka is the most important element. Its more common than even hydrogen in Russia.
I'm so used to this guy speaking English, as soon as he started reciting "chejik pejik", it took me like 3 seconds to switch to the Russian language center in my brain xD
I love this man so much. He is so interesting that I have no choice but to be humbled.
"This is Vodka. I drink it when I'm sad."
Finally, a sentence I can understand from this series. :{
-Чижик-Пыжик, где ты был?
-На Фонтанке водку пил!
Выпил рюмку, выпил две-
Зашумело в голове.
Best youtube channel ever...
I'd want to see if I could do an experiment on how well my alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes are working, I'll need about 500 mL please....
Vodkium is an essential element!
This is my favorite element
For anyone interested, this is the research paper mentioned in the video is titled "A New Continuous Method for Performing Rapid Phase Equilibrium Measurements on Binary Mixtures Containing CO2 or H2O at High Pressures and Temperatures" and was published in Journal of Chemical & Engineering data (by ACS). You can find it easily on ACS website (acs . org).
I love this professor. I had absolutely no interest in chemistry until I stumbled upon these videos and they way he describes elements and processes is so easy to understand.
where do you buy the Mendeleev vodka...cant find it anywhere
Could you tell me what brand-name the Mendeleev Vodka is? I would love to acquire some!
A professor appearing after the student on a published paper? Most grad students are lucky to get mentioned in the fine print somewhere.
Chemistry, wild hair, and a love of Vodka. I think I just found my new favorite person on earth.
Your student looks like Walter JR.
Gotta love your videos.
I'm studying Food Chemistry at University of Kaiserslautern.
Interesting video. Might I suggest doing a video about capsaicin?
It's a bit more complex than that. There are the subtle flavor molecules, and as the video stated, a small amount of residual sugar. Distilled alcohols are usually mixed with a portion of the original liquid they are distilled from to make a drinkable concentration, which is why they come in so many flavors: vodka, scotch, whiskey, rum, ...
I want that specific bottle! Where can i find it? :O
I once told a russian friend of mine about this little poem, and she said it is a silly one... but I quite like it.
Wonderful video. I actually stumbled across words of the world awhile ago and subscribed immediately. You guys do wonderful stuff and I greatly enjoy your videos. Excellent content! Keep up the great work.
"Vodka's played quite a role in my life." Ah, so we have something in common, professor....
Well, I could tell English isn't your first language, but that is extremely impressive! Good luck on your instructional videos!
This guy is the coolest professor ever.
Interesting... as always!!
by the way, how come you have IISER Pune cup? (I am from Pune)
These videos are so interesting and entertaining. Excellent uploads, Guys and thank you.
Periodic videos are much better you learn so much from them
Dear professor,
please do never drink alone!
Truly, drinking vodka in Russia has become a tradition well recognized abroad. However, scarcely does anyone see the heartily aspect of this tradition. People would exchange emotions in the course of drinking, such that they could never share otherwise. Therefore, this process creates a deep and affectionate bonds between people, and yes, this is universal among all Russians.
For polish people Vodka stands for a vine made of potatos or grains or difrent combinations including fruts, herbs ect, destiled cuple of times or once by fractional destilation depending on how much falvour (of grain for instance) you want to keep, then water is added, spring watter or other, actually every brand is made in different way.
Interesting video. Could Periodic Videos upload
something about the early history of whiskey?
Vodka has played quite a role in my life as well, I knew we would find some common ground sooner or later Professor.
Chizh (Carduelis spinus) is not a sparrow. It's a siskin, a kind of finch.
It's greenish with yellow stripes.
In Tsarist times there used to be an institute of law on Fontanka river in St. Petersburg. Its students wore green uniforms with yellow stripes, which is why they were called siskins (chizhiks). The song is about them.
Anyone have any idea how to get the Mendeelev Vodka Bottle? I don't even drink but it's so awesome!
Ill be doing some of my own experiments with Vodka over the weekend...
The Professor is just great to watch, no matter what he's talking about.
Dear Professor, I like your lectures and videos. Respectfully yours, from Odessa
@StillToListen as a non drinker (of alcohol) I find it depressing when I see young people damaging themselves with excessive drinking, but it surely the peer pressure that affects them to drink to excess rather than the simple existence of the substance itself. Social drinking has been a very strong part of our society since forever, abolition doesn't work and knowledge/education of it's affects would help...
I just love all you Periodic Table of Videos :-)
kind of. the first distillery that produced a drink known as vodka, although it was mainly used for medicinal purposes, was in poland in the 8th century. although it wasnt the vodka we see today, it was named vodka because of its original polish name - wodka. it really evolved from there. many countries throughout Europe, including poland, imported alcoholic beverages that were considered vodka to russia for medicinal purposes and the drink later evolved there. pretty interesting history.
The professor is such a genuine person.
Where did you obtain that bottle of Mendeleev vodka? Who makes it?
So this man refuses to drink Coca-Cola?
There's always a bit of residual sugar in grain spirits, even some of the best distilled. After all alcohol is sugar, just in a different form, ethanol.
Either way Stolichnaya is damn good vodka.
actually song name is "PlyushkO Polye". "PolyushkA" is a diminutive form of female name Polina (Pauline)/
Also, in Russian "Polyak" (поляк) means "Polish" (man from Poland). So this last name might indicate, that some of his grandparents are from Poland.
That's even makes sense because, for example Kuznetsov = Kuznets (Smith) + -ov (related to) ~ Smithson
And so on:
Popov = Pop (priest) + ov
Bondarev = Bondar' (barrel maker) + ev (-ov and -ev virtually the same)
Medvedev = Medved' (bear) + ev
You're a living substrate of Carl Sagan and such.
Keep up the good work, very inspiring!
Have you done a video on botulinum toxin?
Where may I buy that Vodka with Mendeleev's picture and the periodic table?!!!
(what's the brand name?)
I searched for this video merely for the vodka poem, I like how the professor makes it sound.
this man is a wealth of information, id love to have him for my sons teacher
does anyone know where i can order that bottle of vodka with the periodic table on it?
In soviet Russia vodka drinks you!!
Where did you purchase your tie? Please tell me.
@periodicvideos No mention of vodka historically being used as a solvent in many experiments because of cost and avalibility, and 40/60 alcohol/water mixture being good for solving a lot of things?
Where does he get all his stuff from i wonder
Where can I get that periodic vodka?!! I can't find it anywhere.
You have got to be the best chemistry teacher ever!!!! Love you hair too!!
:O Where can you get Mendeleev Vodka WITH a periodic table on it?
Is 'Stolicznaya' name really taken from "stolica", and not from "stol - stołowa" (table)???
no, name from table would be someting like "stołowaYA". so yeah..
@MrChemify Did you even watch the video? Vodka is alcohol diluted with water, everything else is either flavouring or impurities.
The video says what the relation of vodka and Mendeleyev is.
were did you get the tie
Fun Fact. The Fact You said on who named/Invented vodka is a debated fact. Russia and Poland are arguing over it and If I remember last court case was won by Russia. Wodka I think is the modern name for vodka in Poland and I think they use to call it something else.
"...and the reason it is empty is because the vodka in this bottle was used by one of my students..." :D
Just couldn't contain myself, I apologize. Thank you for another great video!
Haha!! I have an empty bottle of Stolichnaya in my bottle collection too!
Chemistry FTW!!
"Vodka has played quite a roll in my life." is another that I can understand from this series. :)
I don't like Vodka, but I love the flasks they come in. Great ornaments.
"i would not like to be judgemental about my colleagues" ~ translation. it's better but i'm too polite to say so.
Where can you get the Mendeleev (sp?) vodka?
I love this man
I think that I've had Poliakov before and it... wasn't exactly nice. I could be mistaken about the brand though.
It's quite interesting, especially because I'm Polish :) Maybe the word самогон is more Russian :P But seriously, I think that Slavian nations use the purest water solutions of ethyl alcohol for drinking in the comparison to other nations, e.g. whisk(e)y. I'm also curious which other chemicals we can find in the bottles of different alcohol drinks, like sulphites (now: sulphates (IV)) in cheap wine.
I'm pretty sure ALL Russian poetry involves vodka - either in the poem, or as fuel and inspiration for the writer.
where can u get mendelevium brand vodka? please respond (im from USA)
GREAT VIDEO!!!
also, alcohol as a chemistry topic is lovely. lots of measurable actions there, and lots and lots of behaviours. lots and lots of things to make papers from :)
I wish Professor Poliakoff was my Chemistry teacher a few years ago. I probably would taken it at university.
PoliakOFF is a Jewish distinction of the Slavic last name Poliakov, which is based of slavic word meaning Land or Field, Polye. Ever heard of the song "Polyushka Polye"
Vodka contains the alcohol called ethanol, so yeah it's not pure alcohol cause most of it's water, but you can't have pure ethanol either because it would just instantly react with the oxygen in the air and form water.
The Professor is AWESOME!
Another great thing you can do with vodka: Pour it into a bowl, add the contents of a full ashtray, strirr and then let it sit for a while. Afterwards you sieve out the unsolved particles and - voilà - instant Whisky!
Indeed. I would love to know as well.
the professor has his own brand of vodka! respect!
Cantonese (mother tongue), English, Mandarin, Russian and a very little bit of German (beginner's level).
Love this video... shows a new side to the prof i've never seen before... we both like vodka! lol :)
@graffias79 capsacin is a carboxylic molecule, and it's not in the professor's field, but i agree, a video about capsacin would be very entertaining indeed, especially when put to the test. look for a video from the mythbusters and capsacin.
Love this channel ;)
I want that bottle, but is impossible to find!
"And the reason [this bottle] is empty..." and the answer was quite different than the standard :)
he should try Royal Vodka. really smooth and easy to drink stuff.
do some shots with the professor! yeah!
Where the hell can I find vodka with that label? It's nowhere to be found on the internets!
a new channel you say?
well off i am, subscribe i must!
Two little known facts:
1) it's "Na zdorovie".
2) Russians never say that before drinking. It's a polite phrase often used by host showing that he happy to provide this food and drinks for guest.
"So I drink it when something bad happens you know? a friend dies or...a grant is not founded. "
thumbs up for Cyroc
Damnit where do I get a bottle of that vodka with the periodic table on it?
wow....that poem. so deep.
Student: Please Professor, can I borrow some vodka.
Professor: Of course. This IS for an experiment, right?
Student: Sure, sure ... ;)
Также она является электролитом и не противоречит свойствам теории электролитической диссоциации) и имеет экзотермический характер
I disagree.
By definition, "Alcohol" Refers to the group of chemical compounds, ethyl alcohol in specific, or any intoxicating beverage containing ethyl alcohol, such as Vodka.