+Pyrosaurus_Rex It should be the other way around, no? The coolest element should be the one that stays solid despite high temperature... Then, amazingly, it's again carbon ;-)
I liked his simple answer to the question too. I thought it was equal best to the guys who were saying carbon was although it was an answer far more literal and simple than their reasons. Their reasons for carbon being the "coolest" were very interesting and if we are taking the word "cool" to mean anything other than a reference to temperature then in my opinion carbon is the kewlest :) still yea, ya gotta love the prof. and how he sees the world of chemistry. He always makes it interesting
Mercury for me! It looks so extraterrestrial and so incredible. How it flows like water, yet it so dense and heavy like tungnsten...how it forms amalgams, and (slightly morbid i know) how potentially toxic it is, yet at one stage in history it was seen as an elixir of life. Which to be fair, if you saw a shiny liquid flowing like water, youd probably think it an exilir of life too
Titanium - Incredible metal, very strong, very light and that name just has this epic ring to it. You know you can rely on something when its made of titanium
@@ciarangale4738 Since I posted this I got into blacksmithing and actually made a titanium Katana :) (I said MANY cursewords making it), but as much as you actually use a Katana (because I'm not John Wick lol), it holds an edge great enough, and the lightness makes it quite a dangerous thing. I wouldn't go against a folded steel katana because it would snap before before bending, but it's reasonably quick to resharpen, so it totally works! (More of a neat thing that hangs on my wall now, 1085 and 15n20 damascus is easily the best performing steel combo I've found though.
Probably gallium. I love how at normal temperature it stays a solid but with a bit of pressure or heat applied to it, it passes it's melting point and melt. I think it's super cool
I've always been fond of nitrogen. Probably the second or third most important element in organic chemistry, important in inorganic chemistry, has very interesting biochemistry, and widely associated with explosives. It's a highly electronegative element that is surprisingly non-reactive.
I do like gallium for its entertaining properties, but it is, and always will be Bismuth(Bi). Mostly because of its suprisingly long radioactivity, but it also looks beautiful in solid form!
Mercury is my favorite. Not only is it distinct as being one of only two elements on the table that are liquid at room temperature, but it's fascinating to watch the way it moves on a solid surface. Also, it has that brilliant silver sheen when it pools.
I always liked any of the transition metals - Cr, Co, Fe, etc., and the study of coordination complexes back in the day, porphyrins, cryptands, en, edta, etc. Interesting spectra, colorful chemistry, interesting reaction rate and equilibria studies. I also had fun with a cerium project on cyclic chemical reactions. But that's just me, a clumsy, butter-fingered, lab-fearing non-chemist.
Iron and sulfur are my favourite elements. I love iron and its role in biochemistry and catalysis of biochemical reactions. I also like sulfur for many different reasons; imagine your proteins without disulfide bonds for instance.
Get yourself some gallium. It melts at body temperature, looks like mercury when it does, is nontoxic, and forms into cool crystals when it solidifies.
My favorite is the literal answer at the beginning "helium, it boils at 4 degrees". Plus even in a figurative sense helium is cool. Especially superfluid helium.
+THE UNKNOWN Just google Thorium MSRs or LFTRs. Extremely safe. essentially wasteless, impossible to weaponize nuclear power. No need for pressurized chambers or SCRAM shutdowns, no risk of uncontrolled chain reactions. Thorium is plentiful and cheap as dirt compared to plutonium and uranium, easy to obtain, we have reserves for thousands of years. It is the holy grail of energy.
I'll go with Helium. Helium-4 specifically because not only is it the coldest that we know of, but it exhibits super fluidity at temperatures below 2.18 K, which is pretty cool!
As a geologist, the rock forming elements are cool. Iron, Magnesium, Aluminum, Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Carbon, Silicon, Sulfur, Hydrogen and Oxygen are ubiquitous. My specialty is asbestos, which currently centers on Serpentine, certain Amphiboles, fibrous chlorite, and fibrous biopyriboles, but will soon include Zeolites, fibrous silica, fibrous talc, and carbon nanotubes.
Helium is the coolest for me: it's atoms moves faster than the 1st cosmic speed at normal conditions, so it is the only material that can leave the Earth forever only because of its temperature. (That's why scientists avoid the loss of it so hard: our world has a finite and decreasing amount of it.)
Platinum is a good one but I'm partial for Bismuth myself, I am in the field of bio medical and we don't look at Bismuth much, but it's the strongest diamagnetic mineral which means it repulses the entirety of the magnetic spectrum to a certain degree, also for being a heavy metal in the same class as Lead arsenic and antimony it's toxicity in the body is almost non-present to the point it can actually act to help the body recover from certain reactions especially within the Gastro Intestinal tract hence it's use in products such as Peto-Bismo. Also when allowed to oxidize and crystalize it tends to generate crystals of varying colors color depths and in pyramidal spirals.
Hey what about Silicon!! all computer revolution happened due to it and no one mentioned silicon :( I'm electronic engineer and Silicon is my element :)
RonJohn63 Well thinking the same way, you could say that heat is a relative state of cold... Temperature. Lets just agree on that... Also, now that I think about it, LHe is a poor conductor to begin with. The only "cool" property about it is the fact that it has a very low temperature at liquid state. The same temperatures could be achieved with every other element/compound/what have you in existence...
I also like copper, but for its medical properties. If you filled a bowl made of copper or an alloy with copper (brass), with water from the Ganges river, in two days, the bacterial count will be nearly zero.
The fact he distances himself from the impending reaction, the reaction takes place outside, the camera had to zoom in towards the beaker, and that the scientist was forshadowing contact with water being a violent reaction.... None of these things prepared some of you for a boom? That's more scary than any boom, and I'll be grateful those scared are not going to ever tinker with chemistry. :)
Amin Yusuf Yes, ist is a heavy metal. But so are almost all Metals (except alkaline Metals, alkaline-earth metals, Aluminium and Silicon). All the other Metals (Iron, Gold, Silver, Copper, Zink, Chrome etc.) are heavy metals.
Now that is interesting. I would have thought that the other radioactive metallic elements would be conductors of electricity too. Is what you are saying true? You have me very curious now
☭_DRINK_CCCP_420_☭ Nobody knows the properties of tennessine or just about all of the post actinide elements. Even as metals they're not going to be conductive unless you have more than 5 atoms of them. Which is all they ever make of the post actinides.
Im a biochem major so i should say carbon, but fluorine is so awesome! no other element is so violently reactive! it can react with every other element except helium, neon, and argon i believe, even forming compounds with noble gasses!
No one asked me but I love fluorine, the ability to put things in unusual oxidation states is very cool. Also it bonds with everything except helium and neon
Radium(#1), Carbon(#2) and Gold(#3). Radium because it was the first real radioaktive element, discovered by Marie Curie. Carbon because it's very important for modern life. And gold because it's one of the expensivesed, and most known metalic element, well for me. The first elements i've ever heard were Gold, Silver, Iron and Oxygen.
I have two tied at the top, Roentgenium and Titanium. Roentgenium simply because it's element 111. Titanium because it is an incredibly hard yet light metal, and it looks awesome.
my favorites: carbon (nanotubes, buckyballs, diamonds, graphene) silver (conductivity) tungsten (favorite by far(density, melting point, corrosion resistance)) iridium (totaly chemicaly inert, most (proven) dense element) yeah i call the W Re Os Ir the fantasic four of the periodic table.
Caesium's not only interesting for it's reactivity with water and air, but also because when it does react with water CsOH is formed, a corrosive super base. Two-sided blade. Also, does anyone else wish they could have 118 coolest elements instead of just one?
+Peter Timowreef feIII ions etc are, feIII et feIV are pretty awesome. the allotropic form found from supersun fragment or failed burnt out neutron star would be awesome too. yay for an astronomy/astrophys perspective eh? bonne chance mon librepenseur!
Craig Diamond Hydrogen is also cool because it is really reactive, yet is the most important building block of life when it reacts with Oxygen to water.
I don't know much about it, but for me it's gotta be element 114. They have only recently synthesized it, but haven't been able to make enough to examine many of its properties. It has also opened doors the the island of stability with there could be thousands of new elements just waiting to be found.
Bismuth, it is a heavy metal that is considered to be safe to handle for the most part in toxicity. Also, Bismuth-209 is virtually stable due to the long half-life of about 1 billion years older than the age of the universe.
As a fan of exciting and colorful elements, I have to say that Argon (for its blue discharge) and Bromine (it's a maroon liquid. Nuff said) are the ones I find coolest.
I have to agree with the professor. My immediate reaction upon reading the title was, "Helium!" If we are talking coolness factor though, I'd say Tungsten is the coolest element.
Dan Desprez "Why not Hydrogen, isn't that everything in a nutshell?" Jochem Kuijpers, "Not really..." Sure it is, all the other elements were made from fusion of Hydrogen, without it they would not exist, it's my favorite for that reason :)
I have to say iodine, because it's very reactive and is a great oxidant but it has low toxicity compared to the other halogens and it sports a beautiful purple color.
my favorite element is gallium, it has a very low melting temperature and is a metal, so you can literally melt it in ur bedroom and shape it to something else and let it solidify and then you have a whole new shape of metal, and it's non toxic.
For me its Plutonium because it has so many oxidation states and each state has its unique chemistry. And in concentrated solutions the colours are verry intense.
I love this guy, "What Element do you think is the coolest, and why?", "Oh, I think Helium because it boils at 4 degrees absolute."
+Pyrosaurus_Rex
SHOTS FIRED!
+Pyrosaurus_Rex I honestly thought that's what the question was about.
+Pyrosaurus_Rex It should be the other way around, no? The coolest element should be the one that stays solid despite high temperature... Then, amazingly, it's again carbon ;-)
genious :3 i love that guy too
I would have said iridium is because it can take the heat (I don't know how to do a grabs sunglasses picture)
Q: What's the coolest element
Scientist: Helium, it boils at 4K
I gotta love that guy :D
I liked his simple answer to the question too. I thought it was equal best to the guys who were saying carbon was although it was an answer far more literal and simple than their reasons. Their reasons for carbon being the "coolest" were very interesting and if we are taking the word "cool" to mean anything other than a reference to temperature then in my opinion carbon is the kewlest :) still yea, ya gotta love the prof. and how he sees the world of chemistry. He always makes it interesting
40 Kelvin lol
Sir Iodine 4*
lol
"When you do chemistry with [uranium], it always surprises you!"
I can't imagine that being surprised by uranium is a good thing...
Twice as many arms = twice as much chemistry.
@@ae4164 I am here fairly recently too wow
I jumped even though I knew what was about to happen with the cesium-water reaction at the end.
I love the professor so much. I wish I went to this University and had the chance to attend his lectures.
3:31 damn, i jumped of my chair :D
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+Drux Music i jumped too, a half second before it happened i told myself is it explosive?
+Drux Music i saw the video where they did the reaction about 10 minutes before seeing it here and i STILL jumped!
Hydrogen, becouse by nuclear fusion you can make all the other elements in the periodic table.
Mercury for me! It looks so extraterrestrial and so incredible. How it flows like water, yet it so dense and heavy like tungnsten...how it forms amalgams, and (slightly morbid i know) how potentially toxic it is, yet at one stage in history it was seen as an elixir of life. Which to be fair, if you saw a shiny liquid flowing like water, youd probably think it an exilir of life too
same here.
I said to a chemist that the noble gases aren't real.
He didn't react.
Tridecalogism I'm not surprised, as they clearly do and refuting that is red flag for a useless argument.
hassi44 It... it's a joke.
RocketGurney I got that. It's pretty self-explanatory.
Tridecalogism badummtsssss XD
Tridecalogism oooohhhh jeeeeez. . . .
Titanium - Incredible metal, very strong, very light and that name just has this epic ring to it. You know you can rely on something when its made of titanium
Yes
+red toasti But yeah Titanium is awesome. Strong and sharp, I think it would be so cool to have a katana made of Titanium.
isnt titanium very bendy and bad at holding a sharp edge?
@@cybertree titanium is actually really bad at holding an edge. that said, i am now imagining a titanium katana edged with tungsten
@@ciarangale4738 Since I posted this I got into blacksmithing and actually made a titanium Katana :) (I said MANY cursewords making it), but as much as you actually use a Katana (because I'm not John Wick lol), it holds an edge great enough, and the lightness makes it quite a dangerous thing. I wouldn't go against a folded steel katana because it would snap before before bending, but it's reasonably quick to resharpen, so it totally works! (More of a neat thing that hangs on my wall now, 1085 and 15n20 damascus is easily the best performing steel combo I've found though.
as an Electrical engineer, I'm disappointed no one mention the carbon of electronics; Silicon. there is a vally named after it too
Bismuth. Its crystal formations are amazingly beautiful.
Liquid helium, the ultimate liquid to rule them all.
Juan Pretorius Solid Helium, the most improbable solid to rule them all.
Tyler Bennett Lord of the Elements, when you have to drop the solid helium into molten aluminum
Probably gallium. I love how at normal temperature it stays a solid but with a bit of pressure or heat applied to it, it passes it's melting point and melt. I think it's super cool
the coolest element is the element of surprise ;)
ok i need to stfu now
You've won UA-cam Comments.
I've always been fond of nitrogen. Probably the second or third most important element in organic chemistry, important in inorganic chemistry, has very interesting biochemistry, and widely associated with explosives. It's a highly electronegative element that is surprisingly non-reactive.
I do like gallium for its entertaining properties, but it is, and always will be Bismuth(Bi). Mostly because of its suprisingly long radioactivity, but it also looks beautiful in solid form!
Got a sample of it at home. Truly awesome. It's funny that in 1.5x10^19a, half of it will be Thallium-205!
RedInferno112 My favourite is praseodymium just because of the name.
My favorite is probably Fluorine because of it's extreme electronegativity.
I LOVE GALLIUM (31GA) BISMUTH (83BI ) COUS IT COULD MELT IN YOUR HANDS AND BI FOR IT CRASTELS
Iodine because it's so reactive, purple, and the only soild stable halogen. It's also probably the safest halogen.
When niobium is supercooled, under the right conditions, you can pass two electrical currents through a ring of it that go in opposite directions!
whoa, this is new to me...
The coolest alloy known to man is composed of Chromium, Yttrium, Oxygen, Germanium, Nickel and Caesium.
CrYOGeNiCs
Why? Just why?
Nathan C
Let's call it a _pronouncement_. ;)
oxygen isnt a metal.
Thewhiplash1231
You wrote:
_oxygen isn't a metal_
Well, thank you, Dmitri Mendeleev..
I didn't say it was.
+Jack Sainthill
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"Alloy"
Mercury is my favorite. Not only is it distinct as being one of only two elements on the table that are liquid at room temperature, but it's fascinating to watch the way it moves on a solid surface. Also, it has that brilliant silver sheen when it pools.
agreed!
Haha The Prof really did go for the coolest. As in coldest.
I always liked any of the transition metals - Cr, Co, Fe, etc., and the study of coordination complexes back in the day, porphyrins, cryptands, en, edta, etc. Interesting spectra, colorful chemistry, interesting reaction rate and equilibria studies. I also had fun with a cerium project on cyclic chemical reactions. But that's just me, a clumsy, butter-fingered, lab-fearing non-chemist.
Iridium, it just looks beautiful to me, and it has beautiful name, too!
I like iridium as well. Check out bismuth as well though, I made my own crystals of that once. Really amazing iridescent effect.
The prof's utterly literal reply has a hilarious feeling of "screw your stupid question". I love it!
The first guy! I'm dead XD
Super nerd lol
Iron and sulfur are my favourite elements. I love iron and its role in biochemistry and catalysis of biochemical reactions. I also like sulfur for many different reasons; imagine your proteins without disulfide bonds for instance.
Mine is Mercury. One of the only shiny metal liquid at room temp, and always reminds me of Terminator!!!
Get yourself some gallium. It melts at body temperature, looks like mercury when it does, is nontoxic, and forms into cool crystals when it solidifies.
My favorite is the literal answer at the beginning "helium, it boils at 4 degrees". Plus even in a figurative sense helium is cool. Especially superfluid helium.
Thorium
+Funke Motor But only because of the name not the properties.
+THE UNKNOWN Couldn't care less about the name, thorium is the future.
Funke Motor How so?
+THE UNKNOWN Just google Thorium MSRs or LFTRs. Extremely safe. essentially wasteless, impossible to weaponize nuclear power. No need for pressurized chambers or SCRAM shutdowns, no risk of uncontrolled chain reactions. Thorium is plentiful and cheap as dirt compared to plutonium and uranium, easy to obtain, we have reserves for thousands of years. It is the holy grail of energy.
I'll go with Helium. Helium-4 specifically because not only is it the coldest that we know of, but it exhibits super fluidity at temperatures below 2.18 K, which is pretty cool!
Bromine...the halogen in a class by itself.
As a geologist, the rock forming elements are cool. Iron, Magnesium, Aluminum, Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Carbon, Silicon, Sulfur, Hydrogen and Oxygen are ubiquitous. My specialty is asbestos, which currently centers on Serpentine, certain Amphiboles, fibrous chlorite, and fibrous biopyriboles, but will soon include Zeolites, fibrous silica, fibrous talc, and carbon nanotubes.
flourine is by far the coolest element . . . its really pretty when it reacts with stuff and i think its hydoflouric acid which is really brutal:)
This channel made me interested in chemistry more so than any chemistry class Ive had when I was a kid/teenager..
OSMIUM!!! It is great, I love my sample.
I love Dark Matter. The curiosity of what it actually is fascinates me. Not an element yet but the theory is what keeps me interested.
Helium is the coolest for me: it's atoms moves faster than the 1st cosmic speed at normal conditions, so it is the only material that can leave the Earth forever only because of its temperature. (That's why scientists avoid the loss of it so hard: our world has a finite and decreasing amount of it.)
Platinum is a good one but I'm partial for Bismuth myself, I am in the field of bio medical and we don't look at Bismuth much, but it's the strongest diamagnetic mineral which means it repulses the entirety of the magnetic spectrum to a certain degree, also for being a heavy metal in the same class as Lead arsenic and antimony it's toxicity in the body is almost non-present to the point it can actually act to help the body recover from certain reactions especially within the Gastro Intestinal tract hence it's use in products such as Peto-Bismo. Also when allowed to oxidize and crystalize it tends to generate crystals of varying colors color depths and in pyramidal spirals.
Hey what about Silicon!! all computer revolution happened due to it and no one mentioned silicon :(
I'm electronic engineer and Silicon is my element :)
second on you...I think they approached only to some basic science people
Don't forget the nanotubes of silicon.
I like these kinds of videos where they ask each person the same question.
Obviously, *copper* is the coolest element, since it transfers heat away from your skin the fastest...
Helium in its superfluid state is the best thermal conductor.
allen tipton There's no such thing as "conducting cold", since "cold" is just a *relative* state of -heat- temperature.
RonJohn63 Well thinking the same way, you could say that heat is a relative state of cold... Temperature. Lets just agree on that... Also, now that I think about it, LHe is a poor conductor to begin with. The only "cool" property about it is the fact that it has a very low temperature at liquid state. The same temperatures could be achieved with every other element/compound/what have you in existence...
I also like copper, but for its medical properties. If you filled a bowl made of copper or an alloy with copper (brass), with water from the Ganges river, in two days, the bacterial count will be nearly zero.
Smoothbluehero That just screams "Citation please".
Definitely one of the coolest videos... it shows people's character very well!
Francium
agreed
"Having said that...." I always think of Curb your enthusiasm now when i hear that
The coolest has to be Oxygen. Without it reactions would not a cure. Oxygen likes to make friends with nearly everyone. Its the life of the party. :)
Yesssss
fluorine:
Gotta love the last guy’s reference to Top Gear’s (Clarkson, Hammond and May) Cool Wall.
the most deadly alloy is chromium, actinium, and potassium because CrAcK kills
The fact he distances himself from the impending reaction, the reaction takes place outside, the camera had to zoom in towards the beaker, and that the scientist was forshadowing contact with water being a violent reaction.... None of these things prepared some of you for a boom? That's more scary than any boom, and I'll be grateful those scared are not going to ever tinker with chemistry. :)
Palladium. It's what my wedding ring is made of. And I picked that because it's what Tony Stark's chest plate is made of.
Is it a heavy metal?
It rocks if thats what you mean? :P
David Marsden pretty sure it's radioactive
Le Egg no, only some isotopes of it. But every element has radioactive isotopes
Amin Yusuf
Yes, ist is a heavy metal.
But so are almost all Metals (except alkaline Metals, alkaline-earth metals, Aluminium and Silicon). All the other Metals (Iron, Gold, Silver, Copper, Zink, Chrome etc.) are heavy metals.
Have to agree with Carbon, just so friendly and inclusive to most other elements:)
Coolest element? Veritasium!
Verily? Lol!
Loved the cesium reaction. It is a beautiful element.
Promethium. It's the only radioactive electrical conductor.
Now that is interesting. I would have thought that the other radioactive metallic elements would be conductors of electricity too. Is what you are saying true? You have me very curious now
Electrical conductivity is a trait of all metals. Do you mean practical and industrially usable electrical conductivity?
☭_DRINK_CCCP_420_☭ Not many other radioactive metals besides isotopes are available in sizes large enough to be useful as conductors
☭_DRINK_CCCP_420_☭ Nobody knows the properties of tennessine or just about all of the post actinide elements. Even as metals they're not going to be conductive unless you have more than 5 atoms of them. Which is all they ever make of the post actinides.
☭_DRINK_CCCP_420_☭ I'm not sure why you felt the need to highlight all metals are conductors. Never said they weren't.
Majoring in EE and being a musician, I love Germanium. :)
Uranium or plutonium would both be my favorite
samir alsouaijet Plutonium ions are colorful, so are neptunium ions
Im a biochem major so i should say carbon, but fluorine is so awesome! no other element is so violently reactive! it can react with every other element except helium, neon, and argon i believe, even forming compounds with noble gasses!
The *coolest* is Unobtainium because....well...isn't it obvious?
**claps**
love to cool wall reference (@ 2:55). Gotta love top gear!
Bismuth because of it's weird crystals and half life much greater than the age of the universe.
No one asked me but I love fluorine, the ability to put things in unusual oxidation states is very cool. Also it bonds with everything except helium and neon
no one said mercury :
Radium(#1), Carbon(#2) and Gold(#3). Radium because it was the first real radioaktive element, discovered by Marie Curie. Carbon because it's very important for modern life. And gold because it's one of the expensivesed, and most known metalic element, well for me. The first elements i've ever heard were Gold, Silver, Iron and Oxygen.
Plutonium is mine, a kilogram of plutonium and a one neutron can ride the world of most of your enemies.
I have two tied at the top, Roentgenium and Titanium. Roentgenium simply because it's element 111. Titanium because it is an incredibly hard yet light metal, and it looks awesome.
Pshhh, obvious that nitrogen is the coolest, since it gives you freezer burns.
(srry for making this)
helium?
1toW4mB0to9
Awesome.
(Did u get my horrible joke/pun?)
no, obviously not
1toW4mB0to9 -.-
2:38 got that London look.
Trees are made of carbon, and the carbon comes from the air. Yeah, trees are made of air that is pretty amazing.
my favorites: carbon (nanotubes, buckyballs, diamonds, graphene) silver (conductivity) tungsten (favorite by far(density, melting point, corrosion resistance)) iridium (totaly chemicaly inert, most (proven) dense element) yeah i call the W Re Os Ir the fantasic four of the periodic table.
liquid nitrogen coolest get it?
thats not an element
Elijah Seabock I know
Nitrogen is actually an elenent
liquid helium is the coolest.
Shining Armor Liquid nitrogen is diatomic nitrogen and therefore not an element.
Caesium's not only interesting for it's reactivity with water and air, but also because when it does react with water CsOH is formed, a corrosive super base.
Two-sided blade. Also, does anyone else wish they could have 118 coolest elements instead of just one?
Iron, because it's stronger than Stars.
+Peter Timowreef feIII ions etc are,
feIII et feIV are pretty awesome.
the allotropic form found from supersun fragment or failed burnt out neutron star would be awesome too.
yay for an astronomy/astrophys perspective eh?
bonne chance mon librepenseur!
That explosion at the end scared tha livin shit outta me
Hydrogen by far....The fuel of the stars and from which all other elements are made from...
Craig Diamond Hydrogen is also cool because it is really reactive, yet is the most important building block of life when it reacts with Oxygen to water.
The first guy is the "Coolest" chemistry scientist. He answered the question objectively and didn't attach any personal favourite
I don't know much about it, but for me it's gotta be element 114. They have only recently synthesized it, but haven't been able to make enough to examine many of its properties. It has also opened doors the the island of stability with there could be thousands of new elements just waiting to be found.
Bismuth, it is a heavy metal that is considered to be safe to handle for the most part in toxicity. Also, Bismuth-209 is virtually stable due to the long half-life of about 1 billion years older than the age of the universe.
No, he understood the question. He just went literal with his answer, and played a nice pun.
I like the professor's response. Liquid helium. Definitely the coolest
I actually jumped at the end! hahaha great now on to the cesium video
As a fan of exciting and colorful elements, I have to say that Argon (for its blue discharge) and Bromine (it's a maroon liquid. Nuff said) are the ones I find coolest.
I like prosperous. It has a dangerous, but fun allotrope (P4), is used in explosives and flashbang grenades and has multiple colourful allotropes
"Which element do I think is the coolest? Helium because it boils a 40 degrees Celsius." I love the professor.
great video, personally have to disagree with one of your comments - selenium is great! what element or chemical would you not want to work with?
People turned Coolest Element question into Favourite Element. Only Professor gave the best answer.
The explosion at the end scared the crap outta me lol
I have to agree with the professor. My immediate reaction upon reading the title was, "Helium!"
If we are talking coolness factor though, I'd say Tungsten is the coolest element.
Dan Desprez "Why not Hydrogen, isn't that everything in a nutshell?"
Jochem Kuijpers, "Not really..."
Sure it is, all the other elements were made from fusion of Hydrogen, without it they would not exist, it's my favorite for that reason :)
This video is actually really cool!
I have to say iodine, because it's very reactive and is a great oxidant but it has low toxicity compared to the other halogens and it sports a beautiful purple color.
I think this is the coolest channel on UA-cam
my favorite element is gallium, it has a very low melting temperature and is a metal, so you can literally melt it in ur bedroom and shape it to something else and let it solidify and then you have a whole new shape of metal, and it's non toxic.
My absolute favourite is gallium... it's so cool
For me its Plutonium because it has so many oxidation states and each state has its unique chemistry. And in concentrated solutions the colours are verry intense.
Curious on what the reaction between liquid oxygen and cesium would appear like.
The explosion at the end really surprised me for some reason. I mean I knwe it was coming.. but all of a sudden POP! "I'M AWAKE! I'M AWAKE!"
Oxygen. I just can't live without it.
Phosphorus, its a really aggressive element and it is essential in nature, going to be using it alot in organic chemistry when i get to collage
the pop at the end scared me so badly! LOL
It is definitely Chromium guys ! Shiny bumpers on the lowriders, very bright différents colors also
Top twelve favorite:
1. Iodine
2. Bromine
3. Sulfur
4. Copper
5. Bismuth
6. Carbon
7. Sodium
8. Potassium
9. Chromium
10. Nitrogen
11. Hydrogen
12: Florine