Nitrogen is... ironic.
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Unfortunately, I had to cut out the part that goes ‘What makes things worse is that humans have to use high temperature and pressure to break it open but some bacteria can just do it outside.’ So yes, we can get at it, but it’s not easy for us.
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iron must be the truly ironic element :)
you get my vote.
You best me to it.
Read the captions that appear while he’s talking. He wrote “Apart from Fe obviously”.
@@keithbromley6070well then, Steel.
+1
Hm, I just remember when you light a heap of magnesium powder, it will form a solid magnesia shell on the outside, so no fresh air can get inside. At some time the magnesium will have burned with all the oxygen inside, so it just continues reacting with the nitrogen.
Oh, and if you burn magnesium inside a cube of dry ice, it will get the oxygen out of that and leave you with carbon.
I didn't know that so thank you for the comment. It led me to this fantastic (as always) video by Periodic Table of Elements that demonstrates exactly that effect: ua-cam.com/video/LclOOAT6pvA/v-deo.htmlsi=6mvXrN3j11uERkyP
Oxygen is quite ironic. Cuz theres so much of it in our crust. Only a small percentage is in the atmosphere
I think technetium, because it should've never been radioactive.
Well, if N2 wasn't that strong, it won't get its percentage in the atmosphere, because it would then be easily absorbed by living things.
I believe lightning also produces nitrogen that plants can use.
Nitrogen can create relatively stable covalent bonds with its vast electron clouds configuration. Valence electron are 3 and 5, but can also form bonds of multiple 2 and 4. That is versatile.
OUTSTANDING! In a few seconds you provide the "jist" of ... that I can use to see how to approach organic chemistry. Awesome!
Nitrogen fixing has to be one of the coolest evolutionarily-created processes
When you gotta pull out the vanadium just for a little nitrogen
Molybdenum and Vanadium are required just to get at elemental Nitrogen necessary for life? Wow! That is an amazing accidentally evolved enzyme.
Lightning also separetes atmospheric nitrogen, i think
Hydrogen is ironic because although it’s the simplest and most abundant in the universe, we don’t quite know where to put it in the periodic table.
"My stand, nitrogen molecule, has no weakness"
The fact that nitrogenase uses Molybdenum and shit like that is CRAZY
"just nuke it"
- that one friend
The iron in our blood cells used to make haemoglobin does not make our blood attracted to magnets. In fact, blood it slightly repulsed by magnets.
If there's a challenge somebody is gonna crack it
The guy who made it available was simultaneously the best and worst people ever.
My work is precisely trying to activate this bond to make it useful for us
The really ironic part here is the Iron catalyst in the Haber Bosch process.
Thats where lightening strikes comes in clutch.
That's why our brain loves those amine/amide groups.
Ironic could be the Noble Gasses, but ironic in a different way...
Phosphorus 5 bonds. And most of boron chemistry...
I guess sulfur 6 bonds can have an honorable mention.
That's probably why 78% of our atmosphere is nitrogen. It's the only major gas that doesn't react much.
The oxygen from photosynthesis comes from the water molecule, not CO2
Water is ironic because both hydrogen and oxygen are flammable, but water puts out flames
Nitrogen + shugar = power explosion.
Oxygen is the most ironic IMHO. Alone, it makes things burn. But combine it with extremely volatile and flammable hydrogen, and it makes water, that can douse fire.
Of course I have heard of organic chemistry, but never ironic chemistry. I like the idea.
Radon is "ironic", because it is a noble gas (nonreactive), but "radioactive" at the same time!
gold is truly ironic because despite being a metal it makes only acids and salts but no bases
Basically , gold is costly !
All the lighter elements are more common than heavier elements because all the elements, up to iron, can be created in the cores of large stars. Elements above iron, however, are only created during super nova explosions. The gold in the ring on your finger, was created in a super nova.
So inert as N-2, so very much...not inert as N-3
Luckily for us, those bacteria came across that insanely complex enzyme by chance, knew how to use it, somehow put the recipe in their DNA and made life on earth possible for us.
Water is ironic. Separately oxygen and hydrogen are explosive, but together equals life.
Some Sodium and Chlorine makes it even better :-)
damn i would agree that those clusters are pretty... metal
Whatever the most ironic element is, it's not iron. That just would not be ironic enough.
We can supply sufficient pressure and heat to create diamond (extremely durable), but gold ( a pretty soft metal) still eludes us.
Transmuting elements is a much more difficult task than turning carbon into carbon.
nitrogen is #7 (a prime number)on the periodic table of elements. The way prime numbers work also reflects the way matter works. Seven is an anomoly of math.
This dude must apear in Beaking Bad😅
This seems to imply we NEED to get at N. How badly do we need it? Is available N in short supply for certain uses? (Medicines, chemical compounds, or anything?)
Yes I'll share a bit of ironic chemistry.
The reaction 1/2 N2 + O2 -> NO2 is thermodynamically a total reaction. Given this, all the oxygen in the atmosphere should be consumed, and NO2 is a notoriously toxic gas (part of NOx, which are all known to be harmful to humans and pretty much any breathing organism).
The only thing which prevents this from happening is chemical cinetic - the reaction actually takes forever and in practice, never happens. We have that to thank for being alive.
How do bean plants extract it from the air? Same process?
I remember seeing a video about a type of corn that produces this slime on these 'air roots' on its stalk, and the slime slowly drips onto the soil. What is going on there is that bacteria live in the slime and they get ahold of the N2 in the air, then when dropped on the ground they metabolize the N2 and it makes it into fertilizer for the corn, kind of wild that a plant figured out how to use N2 for its fertilizer.
The most suprising element obviously is Ah.
"Apart from Fe, obviously."
Guy knows his audience.
N also has a poorly understood geochemistry. There are few or no mineral reservoirs in the interior, but it does substitute at trace levels in diamond. There are a few nitrate minerals at the surface but none at high pressure. In highly reduced meteorites there are nitride minerals like osbornite (TiN) and sinoite (Si2N2O).
Sniffing nitrogen makes your hair messy.
Xenone making compounds is ironic for me
You think the high percentage in the atmosphere and the low bioavailiability are related?
I mean, it's common because it's hard to break.
not so much ironic but cool: i love that the ore you typically refine tungsten from is wolframite which is where we get the "W" symbol, and that tungsten translates to "heavy rock," which, of course, wolframite is given the typical tungsten content and tungsten's relative density.
Maybe no ironic but wierd. NileRed has turned vinyl gloves into nordihyrocapsaicin
I would label iron as the most ironic element. But okay.
And Fe. Fe works fine to crack N triple bond.
Is biophysics the right degree to study if I want to figure out what's up with molybdenum in bacteria?
Lightning breaks it down
i know what the most ironic metal is !
Galvanised iron :)
I don't understand how nitrogen can be the oxidizing agent in explosives 😮 compounds
Barrel of electrons 🤟
Because you can only see it during the day?
can you do a video about ozone
So then I suppose Lithium is not the most lithe, Boron is not the most boring, Flourine is not the most flourishing, Silicon is not the silliest, and so on.
How is it ironic? Exactly because it's so stable in N2 form the atmosphere is filled with it in its stable form
You can feel it when you hyperventilate 😅
Why are we attacking nitrogen, again?
Ok I understand from all the subjects Chemistry is the biggest pain in the ass
Definitely oxygen, for me. It supports life but speeds up dying and decay.
আমরা নিজেরাও নাইট্রোজেন চক্রের মাধ্যমে আমাদের শরীরে N2 পাই, এটা সত্যিই খুবই কমপ্লেক্স প্রসেস।
nobody claimed that, like never.
Wow if we crack that the implications 😮
Whole organic in ironic to me
isn't it iron-ic?
What about Daytrogen
Love your explanation on any topic. It’s described adequately for my brain to understand it with what I would like to think is pretty close to optimal efficiency…. Of course this has probably been ran by some AI as far as this subject of learning is concerned in proving that humans are not that efficient at all without some sort of technological help, you have to be one of the best… wouldn’t be surprised if you were to be an professor….. Thank you so much….
God's design is amazing
magic.
What i also find ironic about nitrogen: When it is so hard to get out of the atmosphere, then why do some agricultural areas have a problem with over-fertilization with nitrates?
Usualky because humans made the nitrates and used them stupidly. Too much of anything is bad. Though bird poo can "doo" it too.
That's because farmers use too much nitrogen-containing fertilizer (originally made using a high energy industrial process).
what is the most sexy element?
Unobtainium
Richard Hammond?
Ironic? More like ionic.
Unobtainium 😉
very interesting
U can get it under pressure while doing diving
Or just pop the nos. Whip cream I mean
😂😂
Moly be damned
I found a slither glow rod under the dirt next to A highway during a early morning freeze... Very thin..a couple centimeters long 1 half milimeter thick.. * I ate them, ha ha ha.. molecules.. bacteria 🦠..
12/27/20.... It was 😎
Fritz Haber:
Why, it’s Am of course (Alanismorissettium)
"So complex, we are still unravelling how it works." but we're 100% sure it couldn't have been an intelligent and mighty act of creation by God.
And FERTILIZER
knew it
Ionic or Ironic
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Nitrogen chemistry keeps going. Not only is N2 nearly impossible to do anything with, if you can manage to get nitrogen into a compound, it usually VERY MUCH wants to go back to being N2 and will destroy whatever it needs to in order to make it happen. N2 is one of the most stable molecules, made up of two of the most reactive atoms.
For the same reason, nitrogen is found in most high explosives. N2 is nitrogen’s lowest energy state. Explosives are usually complex nitrogen-containing molecules, and converting them back to N2 suddenly releases all that spare energy along with a lot of other gases.
@@timothy098-b4f, that's a dynamite explanation
@@timothy098-b4f So what you want to tell me is that dynamite is just a giant bunch of very horny nitrogen molecules waiting for the weekday to end.
@@エルフェンリート-l3iThey don't wait. They don't bother getting a room. They don't even make it to a closet...
Ah yes. Free radicals. Oops
All that effort by a bacteria to crack it open only for it to snap back into N2 and cause chaos
It's also ironic because atmospheric N2 is extremely inert, yet Nitrogen in other compounds is the basis for most major explosives!
While that may sound surprising at first, those two aspects of the reactivity of nitrogen are actually just two sides of the same coin.
The reason why nitrogen compounds are such good explosives is exactly *because* the N2 molecule is so incredibly stable - there is a great gap in the energy states of basically any nitrogen compound and N2, driving those explosive reactions.
Basically it will blast its way through anything to link up again with another N and become N2 again.
@@andrewg.carvill4596 which, ironically is the best analogy for love there is.
I mean they are linked : Nitrogen wants to be that stable REALLY BAD!
Even if that means a bang
Nitrogen exists in two states:
1. So stable, it is almost as inert as a noble gas.
2. Explosion.
I'd say oxygen is also pretty ironic because we can't live without it, but it creates reactive oxygen species in our cells that contribute to aging and cancer. Also, the fact that the oxygen molecule exists as a double radical despite valence bond theory suggesting it should have a double bond is also trippy
Great point!
O2 doesn't have any radicals but a double bond..?
Well spotted! Sometimes editorial compromises have to be made.
@@yohanaf4325 Apparently according to a popular chemical theory called 'molecular orbital theory', Oxygen has two unpaired electrons that do not pair with each other... Hence it is a radical.
@@theyoutuber1200It is a proven theory. It’s just that we don’t need to always refer to it for certain purposes when it’s anyways more complex than the valency/lewis structure version.
The nitrogen cycle is so crazy. The fact that we have terrestrial and aquatic cycles of nitrogen let's you know just how important it is to life.
Edit: I would love to see you do videos on the nitrogen cycle, I feel like A LOT of info is left out by many sources explaining it as well as contemporary science just not knowing everything about it.
Added to my list!
@@ThreeTwentysix you're the best, thank you! Your video topics are always congruent with a lot of my chemistry/physics day dreams. Odd/niche topics that just don't get covered, but they also require some requisite knowledge. It's all really enjoyable.
@@ThreeTwentysix I've said it before and I will say it again. I just LOVE your chemist perspective! I'm a physics nerd and it is amazing to see things from different angles. 💕
Iron being not the most ironic element is the real irony here 😮
... So it is the most Ironic because it is not?!
He wrote in the first few frames:
“Apart from fe obviously”
@@yonimaor1005😂😂😂😂😂
Did a presentation on Haber Bosch recently. This took up two entire slides and a short video