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  • @SnootyWimbledon
    @SnootyWimbledon 10 років тому +2602

    I love it that he uses his tie for educational purposes. This guy kicks ass.

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 5 років тому +33

      I know right?! He's a chemical gansta (OG)... he-he

    • @darthanddedeu2580
      @darthanddedeu2580 4 роки тому +4

      Probably quicker to point to tie than get the old worn out chart out when doing talks like this

    • @yesnoblemetalsoxidizetoo3079
      @yesnoblemetalsoxidizetoo3079 3 роки тому

      I'd be happier if he used the tie to h@ng himself

    • @vxtalityone8131
      @vxtalityone8131 3 роки тому +2

      @@yesnoblemetalsoxidizetoo3079 lol attention seeker

    • @yesnoblemetalsoxidizetoo3079
      @yesnoblemetalsoxidizetoo3079 3 роки тому

      @@vxtalityone8131 don't defend this man. He doesn't deserve it.

  • @Dithyrambos-h5e
    @Dithyrambos-h5e 10 років тому +1655

    "Posh way of saying 'chemically boring.'" Love it, Prof.

    • @sparticuzj19
      @sparticuzj19 6 років тому +3

      Matt L I read this comment at the same time he said it. 😂

    • @rich1051414
      @rich1051414 6 років тому +2

      Well, it means 'well mannered'. When said this way, the metaphor works.

    • @dilly2047
      @dilly2047 5 років тому +1

      That comma is the most useless comma ever

    • @Johnny-sj9sj
      @Johnny-sj9sj 5 років тому +4

      deylan 8 not really. To me, at any rate, it indicates a slight pause 🧐

    • @supermelongify
      @supermelongify 5 років тому +1

      You are noble

  • @ryanhampson673
    @ryanhampson673 6 років тому +3103

    I do wear a tie...But only periodically.

  • @WhiteCollarCrimeDNB
    @WhiteCollarCrimeDNB 5 років тому +530

    As a blacksmith you have no idea how jealous I am of people that get to work with platinum. Those ingots are so smooth and there's no scale (oxide) coming off the stock under that hammer.
    I need to change my medium.

    • @ziggy979
      @ziggy979 4 роки тому +39

      I relate to your comment. As a steel fabricator and welder, we are on the messy end of the food chain here. Can you imagine holding those pliers or what you call them as that pneumatic hammer slams down on the platinum. Wow epic energy right? Anything is possible if we want it we can make it. We can also seek out where this place is and I bet with the right contacts get a tour of sorts. Keep blacksmithing it is becoming a lost art I believe.

    • @soaringvulture
      @soaringvulture 4 роки тому +40

      I once welded a platinum heat exchanger. It was a tube and sheet construction and was relatively large. It came with an armed guard. It welded quite easily.

    • @buggsy5
      @buggsy5 4 роки тому +3

      Better platinum than gold, it costs only half as much. But is a lot harder to forge and weld than gold.

    • @harveymoon6004
      @harveymoon6004 4 роки тому

      Shut up, use plwtinum and see hwi much that acheives compared to what the professor does

    • @theangledsaxon6765
      @theangledsaxon6765 3 роки тому +2

      @@harveymoon6004 ???

  • @tac540
    @tac540 8 років тому +1728

    Imagine all the gold and platinum he could steal in just his hair.

    • @christiaanprinsloo586
      @christiaanprinsloo586 7 років тому +106

      lol yeah. too bad you have to enter a metal detector when leaving or entering

    • @simpesfaip
      @simpesfaip 6 років тому +72

      tac540 i bet he went in special chamber at home,comb his hair and start browsing new cars...

    • @daalhead1098
      @daalhead1098 5 років тому +40

      He could *steel*

    • @vargohoat9950
      @vargohoat9950 5 років тому +20

      only about 10lbs before he becomes dangerously top heavy

    • @atalpandey4945
      @atalpandey4945 4 роки тому +1

      😀😀😀

  • @glhf8756
    @glhf8756 9 років тому +3109

    its quite difficult to get into a place like this, i had to wear a ski mask and some black clothes, plus i had to cut some locks and climb through vents. for some reason they dont want you in here without theyre permission.

    • @Localguideldn
      @Localguideldn 9 років тому +238

      Their*
      Perhaps you might want to try it on a library first...

    • @rambo8r2
      @rambo8r2 9 років тому +126

      ***** And buy some ice for the burns on the way there

    • @mkalte666
      @mkalte666 9 років тому +143

      +LazyBoy343 All these comments are gold. or platinum.

    • @glhf8756
      @glhf8756 8 років тому +11

      im scared

    • @viniciodevito3649
      @viniciodevito3649 7 років тому +4

      20LetterMaximum their

  • @LCdrDerrick
    @LCdrDerrick 10 років тому +484

    That is so unreal to see a glowing ingot of metal which is not immediately scaling in the air and no incrustations falling off when forging it, amazing.

    • @pinkypower
      @pinkypower 10 років тому +36

      i thought i was the only one to notice that :) it really looks strange!

    • @zwz.zdenek
      @zwz.zdenek 9 років тому +44

      pinkypower
      It didn't strike me when watching, but it's logical. The interesting thing for me was the precision an cleanliness of the power-hammer. Such tools are usually covered in swarf and grease.

    • @Hitsyfication
      @Hitsyfication 9 років тому +5

      LCdrDerrick Is it because of how clean everything is?

    • @mynamewhatis7254
      @mynamewhatis7254 9 років тому

      LCdrDerrick nice! I appreciate this

    • @Timesmanify
      @Timesmanify 9 років тому +2

      LCdrDerrick Well duh.
      Why do you think it needs an insanely high temperature to melt? For fun?

  • @robertyang4365
    @robertyang4365 9 років тому +1441

    Here in my garage.
    Just bought this new uh platinum ingot.
    Fun to drive up here in the Hollywood Hills.

    • @desena1991
      @desena1991 8 років тому +113

      but you know what i love more than platinum ingots?
      KNAWLEDGE

    • @austenslost
      @austenslost 8 років тому +7

      +Robert Yang you should do a ted talk about it

    • @somefool6409
      @somefool6409 8 років тому +19

      Please, teach me to drive a platinum ingot.

    • @ta0soft
      @ta0soft 8 років тому +24

      +Robert Yang KNAW LEDGE

    • @harperl2
      @harperl2 8 років тому +19

      +Connor Steppie Just buy his new book, 'How To Get SCAMMED'

  • @pup11074
    @pup11074 8 років тому +212

    He just used his tie to outline which metals he was referring too........... I love him

  • @dankole307
    @dankole307 5 років тому +73

    Back in the late 70s the company I worked at/for. Used rodium coated discs in a memory storage device. 250k bytes. The disc was 1/4 in. Thk ( 6mm) and the size of an album. Other ram memory consisted of a 50KUSD mother board with (4) 5KUSD daughter boards. Memory was so expensive then BUT. Our million dollar systems paid for themselves in less than a year. Those rodium plated disc memory system required nitrogen air purges and any destabilizing shocks could make a disc crash. Literally 250 mag pic ups a millimeter from the disc spinning at. 10K rps. A disc crash ment one pickup blew apart and whiped out everything usually scratching the disc and making another nice souvenir. The discs were mirror like. I was just out of EE school and this stuff blew my mind back in 78. My point; engineering was so cool being able to make positive changes to a company and make mgmt changes. Rodium plated discs made me really open my mind to possibilites or improvements not thought of before. It was a great global company in the 80s. I had lunch with Ronald Reagan he visited our plant. Half our biz was export. Inflation was killing the country. I got a 17% raise and I lost money. Later in the 90s we got bought out a couple if times. Everything went to china a decade or so ago. C'est la vie. Great times great people. Witnessing the destruction of the engineering and support of a company can leave one bitter, forget that. What I experienced is a slow roll compared to now. Nothing is sacred. Chose your dreams carefully.

    • @sultanateofoman
      @sultanateofoman 2 роки тому

      great story. inspiring. why not start the company again in the US?

  • @tehking23
    @tehking23 7 років тому +97

    Giving a lecture off his tie. What a legend.

    • @bt7846
      @bt7846 5 років тому

      Legend. Over-used word.

  • @s70rk
    @s70rk 9 років тому +920

    Noble - A posh way of saying chemically boring. I have to remember that one.

    • @ShadowSandy
      @ShadowSandy 9 років тому +19

      +s70rk Perhaps stoic is a better term. 😄

    • @psycronizer
      @psycronizer 7 років тому +13

      in that case I've got to stop meeting Noble women....

    • @AlejandroBelloRD
      @AlejandroBelloRD 5 років тому +17

      Actually, noble was meant as aristocracy does: Doesn't mix well with inferior ones.

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 5 років тому +1

      "Noble" could also mean that way back, the noble men didn't mingle the commoners. ;D

    • @ExpWars
      @ExpWars 4 роки тому +2

      Did you remember I just want to remind you 4 years later

  • @aadfg0
    @aadfg0 9 років тому +2196

    This professor can put a car's worth of dust into his afro!

    • @austenslost
      @austenslost 8 років тому +46

      +aadfg0 much much more that that if it was platinum.

    • @bcat010
      @bcat010 8 років тому +8

      yes he can!

    • @mahound9
      @mahound9 8 років тому +71

      Maybe he did, just unintentionally. He should wash it in a basin and then run it through a lab filter.

    • @BeerbyShark
      @BeerbyShark 7 років тому +3

      Sheogorath: Prince of Madness want some cheese and wine

    • @zackary-z
      @zackary-z 7 років тому

      Noice 1 m8 👌

  • @TheKrensada
    @TheKrensada 9 років тому +155

    I'd love to have a shirt made of that platinum weave.

    • @drsmahmad1730
      @drsmahmad1730 8 років тому +55

      Try staying out of the sun when you put that shirt on.

    • @thomasm7021
      @thomasm7021 8 років тому

      Dr SM Ahmad I have no clue lol xD

    • @silverkoffee8354
      @silverkoffee8354 8 років тому +62

      Your coat would be worth more then the shire. kek

    • @Hamjr193
      @Hamjr193 8 років тому +3

      +Silver Koffee Nice reference

    • @taylorbruening
      @taylorbruening 8 років тому +14

      You have expensive taste my friend

  • @acceptthetruthitwillsetyou2598
    @acceptthetruthitwillsetyou2598 9 років тому +60

    This man is my hero, an inspirational man with loads of knowledge

    • @Reynsoon
      @Reynsoon 8 років тому +5

      +ben barr KNAWWWLEDGE

    • @mattj790
      @mattj790 8 років тому

      Yeah, man. Periodic Videos and Numberphile are both great channels with awesome Professors.

    • @dylanparker7404
      @dylanparker7404 8 років тому +1

      +Kvarnholmen codys lab is a great one

    • @acceptthetruthitwillsetyou2598
      @acceptthetruthitwillsetyou2598 8 років тому

      reaperofthedamned07 I don't like the bee keeping ones at all, I wish he would make a separate page for them

  • @ellepwnzstevedaily
    @ellepwnzstevedaily 10 років тому +120

    Oh, I adore him so. Being able to have crazy hair is definitely a perk to being a guy, especially an older gentleman. I tried to let it go as a girl myself, but it's too much of a matting situation.
    Also, I adore how he's conveniently wearing his mobile periodic table.❤️😊

    • @elblito86
      @elblito86 9 років тому +3

      ellepwnzstevedaily the guy is a genius XD he has like 4 or more of this ties! he also has a bowtie like that so nerdy!

    • @maddiesgamingchannel8163
      @maddiesgamingchannel8163 9 років тому +15

      Ya he's a very interesting individual. I think of him as a modern day Einstein.

    • @Edeinawc
      @Edeinawc 9 років тому

      ellepwnzstevedaily Bah! Who says that? I'm a guy and my hair gets matted all the time. All you have to do is shave every couple years! :D

    • @Shannmeister
      @Shannmeister 9 років тому +4

      And don't forget the half upturned jacket collar! :)

    • @aaronb3024
      @aaronb3024 7 років тому +2

      Im terribly late but doesnt he get a majority of his ties from his fans? I know hes shown off a few fan mail ties in the past.

  • @benjaminlehman3221
    @benjaminlehman3221 8 років тому +64

    Where did you get your tie? I want it.

  • @Bananaboy994
    @Bananaboy994 8 років тому +41

    "Martyn, are you going to wear that hideous tie again?"
    "I need it for work, Janet"

  • @theulfheinn1997
    @theulfheinn1997 8 років тому +458

    I wish he was my grandpa

  • @MRSLAV
    @MRSLAV 9 років тому +940

    You are wrong, gold has a reaction, especially when someone finds it.

    • @buggsy5
      @buggsy5 6 років тому +31

      He says gold does not oxidize - using a rather restricted definition of oxidation (reacting with oxygen).
      Gold is not inert - by using aqua regia, some sort of gold chloride is produced, which can be reduced to pure gold via melting.

    • @lumonox
      @lumonox 6 років тому +145

      buggsy5 it’s a joke

    • @thugasaurusrex6004
      @thugasaurusrex6004 5 років тому +35

      @@buggsy5 woosh

    • @buggsy5
      @buggsy5 5 років тому +11

      @@lumonox Who made a joke, Mr Slav? I got that, it was rather obvious.
      But the maker of the video was the person who made that oxidation statement and he was not making jokes. He supposedly is presenting facts about the elements.

    • @lumonox
      @lumonox 5 років тому +25

      buggsy5 the question is why do you care after a year?

  • @sapientum8
    @sapientum8 9 років тому +233

    5:30 Mythril

    • @dmorgan0628
      @dmorgan0628 9 років тому +2

      +RohanHorse Haha best comment!

    • @ruaway
      @ruaway 9 років тому +3

      +RohanHorse yes.

    • @bobnoble6064
      @bobnoble6064 8 років тому +2

      +RohanHorse much heavier ^_^

    • @ilikecatssomuch.36
      @ilikecatssomuch.36 5 років тому +9

      Mithril’

    • @lorcanowen-gibbons8889
      @lorcanowen-gibbons8889 4 роки тому +2

      ive spent the last hour wondering A) how much, and B) how heavy, a suit made from something like like platinum weave would be

  • @TheGribbleNator
    @TheGribbleNator 10 років тому +574

    "We're going to need the dust you've collected."
    "What? That's outrageous, I haven't been collecting dust to steal!"
    "No, sir, by walking around, your shoes have collected enough platinum, iridium, and gold dust to most likely pay off your car and house combined. We need it back."
    That's the kind of conversation that would put me in jaw-to-the-floor stasis.

    • @TheGribbleNator
      @TheGribbleNator 9 років тому

      Anon Ops Can't tell if you're trolling?
      You serious dude?

    • @zwz.zdenek
      @zwz.zdenek 9 років тому +113

      Funny, but it's worth much less. They said it recovers a car's worth *per year* of daily shoe brushing!

    • @Hitsyfication
      @Hitsyfication 9 років тому +5

      zwz • zdenek Doesn't seem worth the effort for a company that makes shiny logs you could trade for a 4 bedroom house.

    • @Djorgal
      @Djorgal 9 років тому +36

      Hitsyfication It's not that much effort. These brushes don't cost all that much.

    • @ElTurbinado
      @ElTurbinado 9 років тому +2

      hondac55 oh, house, not horse.

  • @JoshJNYC
    @JoshJNYC 10 років тому +16

    An excellent dose of much-needed perspective...I'm going to save this and re-watch it every time I'm tempted to complain mightily about how long it's taking me to save up enough money to buy a platinum flute. Small wonder they're so hideously expensive!

  • @123kkbkkb123
    @123kkbkkb123 2 роки тому +4

    I’m a chemist working in a catalytic converter recycling company, analyzing loads for PGM concentrations. Such an interesting video!

  • @RN-hx1rs
    @RN-hx1rs 8 років тому +44

    This guy is the stereotypical mad scientist.

    • @clemstevenson
      @clemstevenson 8 років тому +4

      Yes, but he's nice mad, rather than nasty mad. It's the "mein Fuhrer" types that are the ones to worry about.

    • @RN-hx1rs
      @RN-hx1rs 8 років тому +5

      Agreed his channel is awesome.

    • @clemstevenson
      @clemstevenson 8 років тому +2

      R0773N
      Yes, he's a very nice guy.

  • @Galejro
    @Galejro 10 років тому +165

    Why brush the bottoms of the shoes. Docs haircut probably caught more super-expensive dust XD

    • @herzikkimolog
      @herzikkimolog 7 років тому +1

      fairly underrated comment

    • @firecrapperXX
      @firecrapperXX 7 років тому +1

      Bry Heisenberg ruines by the XD

    • @colinmurphy2214
      @colinmurphy2214 6 років тому +7

      Most of it’s on the ground because it’s so dense

    • @papaversomniferum5247
      @papaversomniferum5247 5 років тому +9

      Galejro if it was in the air, they would need masks inside, therefore I highly doubt there would even be a trace in his hair, unless he mopped the floor with his head

    • @flydrop8822
      @flydrop8822 4 роки тому +1

      It is very dense dust, so it is unlikely to be carried by the air, therefore it all falls to the ground.

  • @nubeees
    @nubeees 9 років тому +270

    That hammer is slightly terrifying.

    • @nubeees
      @nubeees 9 років тому +5

      Thanatos Gaming ... Crunchy.

    • @chaser4980
      @chaser4980 9 років тому +1

      Indeed.

    • @gramursowanfaborden5820
      @gramursowanfaborden5820 9 років тому +5

      +nubeees POWER HAMMER!

    • @Triblewars11
      @Triblewars11 9 років тому

      +Mikail Elchanovanich No it is called a trip hammer

    • @gramursowanfaborden5820
      @gramursowanfaborden5820 9 років тому +15

      actually that probably is a power hammer, Trip Hammers are much older in design and Power hammers are more modern, might be a trip but i don't see why a processing plant that deals entirely in precious metals would use such old equipment considering how much money they rake in.

  • @johnlong4987
    @johnlong4987 5 років тому +8

    I would've loved to have him as my chemistry professor .
    He's such an interesting speaker.
    Hello from Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

  • @oracleofottawa
    @oracleofottawa 6 років тому +1

    The best chemistry videos on You Tube...just mesmerizing.....

  • @eddiecagle4806
    @eddiecagle4806 2 роки тому +2

    I'm totally out of my league with this channel but I absolutely love it and cannot get enough of it

  • @Jarmo187
    @Jarmo187 10 років тому +282

    I wonder how many kilogram those metals doc hide into his hair ;)

  • @rhubarbpie2027
    @rhubarbpie2027 10 років тому +47

    I want to know who does your hair man.

  • @mohammadfirdaus4206
    @mohammadfirdaus4206 5 років тому +8

    Tons of passion needed to be that prof..u are legend sir

  • @doutorgori327
    @doutorgori327 9 років тому +33

    When in High School I would regularly fail in Chemestry. And because of that I started to hate the subject. Now, watching those videos, I wish this guy was my teacher (I know it's a bit pretentious of me). But if I had a teacher like this guy, who would explain complex things in a way that even someone like me can understand, things would be very different for me in Chemistry.

    • @Rudenbehr
      @Rudenbehr 9 років тому +4

      you're failing chemistry because you're a dumbass and you clearly don't love it. this guy has a passion for it, something you don't have. you either live and breathe chemistry, or you don't.

    • @ShadowSandy
      @ShadowSandy 9 років тому +16

      +AlcatrazSniper Plenty of people can excel at chemistry, but only a select few can translate their understanding for others. You need not be so hostile when someone was offering high praise.

    • @doutorgori327
      @doutorgori327 8 років тому +1

      ***** It's auf wiedersehen, not "Alvedesen".

    • @doutorgori327
      @doutorgori327 8 років тому +1

      ***** I may be bad at Chemistry, but I speak 3 languages, and you don't.

    • @Rudenbehr
      @Rudenbehr 8 років тому +1

      +Doutor Gori Certified by Harvard

  • @klaymonkey9073
    @klaymonkey9073 9 років тому +36

    Smelted ingot is perhaps the most beautiful object I've ever seen.

    • @joshuarosen6242
      @joshuarosen6242 5 років тому

      It looked amazing. I paused the video to admire it.

    • @integr8er66
      @integr8er66 4 роки тому

      @@joshuarosen6242 wow, you are easily amused. I see aluminum parts from a CNC Lathe all the time that are equally smooth

    • @joshuarosen6242
      @joshuarosen6242 4 роки тому +1

      @@integr8er66 How is what comes off a lathe comparable with something cast? No-one said it was the smoothest thing ever, that wasn't why we were admiring it.

    • @integr8er66
      @integr8er66 4 роки тому

      @@joshuarosen6242 They said most beautiful, I think aluminum with radius corners is just as beautiful, no one said why they thought it was beautiful either, so until then beauty is in the eye of the beholder

  • @AJ-ku7nm
    @AJ-ku7nm 10 років тому +61

    I wonder if the security at this place is tight, If platinum is more expensive than gold! Any one up for a little job?

  • @gargalash9191
    @gargalash9191 8 років тому +149

    "Why do chemists call helium, curium, and barium 'the medical
    elements'? Because, if you can't 'helium' or 'curium', you 'barium'! Hm
    hm!"

    • @ilikecatssomuch.36
      @ilikecatssomuch.36 5 років тому +4

      Haha “heal em’,”cure em’,”burry em’,”
      lol puns

    • @Akimoto4u
      @Akimoto4u 4 роки тому +1

      under rated

    • @nancyhobson9710
      @nancyhobson9710 4 роки тому +3

      Ha! Which they're mostly doing in China these days

    • @bur2000
      @bur2000 4 роки тому +2

      @@nancyhobson9710 Or hidefactsium.

    • @JacobRy
      @JacobRy 4 роки тому

      @@nancyhobson9710 ?

  • @pauls0416
    @pauls0416 9 років тому +70

    Did they have to sift through his hair when he left the facility ????

    • @somefool6409
      @somefool6409 9 років тому +10

      Sorry sir, even your dandruff contains too much precious metals for you to just walk out with it.

    • @jengleheimerschmitt7941
      @jengleheimerschmitt7941 5 років тому +4

      They shaved him on the way out the door.

    • @TheSphongleface
      @TheSphongleface 5 років тому

      @@jengleheimerschmitt7941 Hahaha 😭😂

    • @jengleheimerschmitt7941
      @jengleheimerschmitt7941 5 років тому +2

      @@TheSphongleface 😁 Would have been great if he did a little "conclusion" scene where his head was buzzed clean. "So, that was our tour of the precious metals factory, join me next week for..."🤣

    • @TheSphongleface
      @TheSphongleface 5 років тому +1

      @@jengleheimerschmitt7941 Yes! I'd love to see that 😁

  • @hopeisaac4417
    @hopeisaac4417 6 років тому +1

    I just love the way you talk, your eloquence is one of a kind

  • @matkurcher9469
    @matkurcher9469 3 роки тому +7

    I've actually removed and installed these catalyst bags "tea bags" in a nitric acid plant on several different occasions. Also split the heat exchanger train behind the catalyst. Its quite an interesting process. Everything involved once the heat exchangers are opened is sent back for recovery, paper booties, tyvek coveralls, vacuums, tarps and gloves.

  • @giorgosmetalheart1767
    @giorgosmetalheart1767 9 років тому +22

    "chemically boring" I like this guy!

  • @El_Puppy
    @El_Puppy 10 років тому +52

    I only took physics class so I dont even know whats he is talkig about in the chart but he looks so smart and i repect him for being to nice and sharing his knowlage

    • @JackRule16
      @JackRule16 6 років тому

      Oscar Guzman don't repect him too hard lol

    • @nickjohn2051
      @nickjohn2051 6 років тому +1

      Oscar Guzman You dont take chemistry? I though all science stream take the holy trinity of science subjects, Chemistry, Physics and Biology. Math is universal even to non science field.

    • @pietrotettamanti7239
      @pietrotettamanti7239 6 років тому

      Nick John
      Not biology, biochemistry

    • @bt7846
      @bt7846 5 років тому

      Wow, where are you from?!

    • @Kineticwizzy
      @Kineticwizzy 5 років тому

      @@nickjohn2051 In grade 10 in Canada you take basic science and then in grade 11 and 12 you can continue with the basic science learning all 3 or you can choose to take them separately and learn more in depth

  • @carolnorton2551
    @carolnorton2551 8 років тому +30

    I love professor Martin

  • @topten7064
    @topten7064 5 років тому +1

    English speaking is so clear for learning English with chemistry , Great master, thank you very much

  • @Volvith
    @Volvith 6 років тому +2

    Fun fact: Roadside dust often contains more platinum from car catalysts than most lesser quality platinum ores contain platinum.
    Now, before you start sweeping up roadside dust and refining it, just know that making that process profitable would require some major equipment and several years of operating it. :3

  • @jommydavi2197
    @jommydavi2197 10 років тому +8

    You sir are the embodiment of chemistry

  • @samlabo1688
    @samlabo1688 5 років тому +4

    Iridium is 25$ a gram on eBay in powder and can alloy gold, the gold becoming heavy.
    Osmium is the densest iridium is a hair off

  • @adempenver9416
    @adempenver9416 5 років тому +3

    3:40 Most satisfying thing i've seen in my life

  • @jeylful
    @jeylful 5 років тому +2

    Fabulous video.... and tie! Keep them coming, we will keep learning :)

  • @matthewsermons7247
    @matthewsermons7247 5 років тому

    Thank You Noble Metals for that wonderful look at your metals and factory.

  • @Faydid
    @Faydid 9 років тому +50

    Chuck Norris is on the periodic table... For the element of surprise!

  • @ЗаключительныйСталинград

    I'd rather watch these interesting video's than go to school. That is for sure.

  • @LarryTL
    @LarryTL 9 років тому +14

    I clicked on this video thinking the title said explosive metals. Nonetheless still very interesting.

    • @klieu90210
      @klieu90210 7 років тому +1

      I suggest magnesium or phosphorus.

  • @jamesgroomes1812
    @jamesgroomes1812 6 років тому

    I really appreciate you taking the time to show us this and its funny when you point out your tie.

  • @hihu7200
    @hihu7200 5 років тому +2

    This is fascinating. The smelters for getting metals out of the ore used to heat up the ore, melt it, and seperate out the metals by pouring off the different layers of metals.
    Then in about 1915 or so, the Knight-Christensen, now called the Augustine process, was invented where the ore had its metals leached out with acid and the metal-laden acid was processed for the metals.
    Today, liquid based smelting is standard. Obviously it is far more effective and modern, but the basic idea of getting the mother liquor of metals from the ore and processing it is the same.
    So when I saw that platinum is extracted by melting the ore, I was a bit surprised. But the process is far more modern. I guess some elements need unique methods to be extracted.
    Cool stuff. Now I know why platinum is more valuable than gold.

  • @ChargedTTq
    @ChargedTTq 10 років тому +12

    And just think, if we start asteroid mining this stuff could be much more abundant!

  • @irisvaldez-porter4463
    @irisvaldez-porter4463 7 років тому +4

    When he said "one point five million pounds worth of metals", I immediately thought "Wouldn't that break the table?". Then I realized he meant currency.

  • @TheOfficialCzex
    @TheOfficialCzex 5 років тому +3

    I love the fact that his didactic tie functions as a teaching aide, here.

  • @FentanylPopsicle
    @FentanylPopsicle 9 років тому +1

    Dont know how I got here, but I could listen to this dude all day... subbed

  • @ziggy979
    @ziggy979 4 роки тому +1

    This confirms to me that life is absolutely amazing, worth living everyday to experience, witness and share wonders like our genius professor presents here to us. To read that a very fine wire is spun from originally an ingot is one thing. To see this miraculous process in vivid image video to me is spectacular. I build things and it is hard to fabricate metals. Watching the process automated and evolved as it has is epic to witness for me. I am grateful to all of the production staff that produce these videos. They don't have to do this and show it on UA-cam. They give us this because they truly want to give of themselves. It is evident in the passion in which we see their delivery of the material they want us to learn about. Man can be great . This video series reminds me of that fact. Bless you professor and your crew for enlarging my mind and world vision. Ziggy

  • @wb6wsn
    @wb6wsn 9 років тому +5

    There was nothing magical about the coiling of that platinum bar. Notice the three rollers immediately prior to the coil; as the metal moved through the three rollers, it was given a stress in one direction, so after the wire passed the last roller, it simply "relaxed" by assuming a curved shaped. This technique is normally used to straighten wire for multiple industrial processes.

    • @LardGreystoke
      @LardGreystoke 6 років тому

      Yeah. Ruin the trick for the other kids.

    • @dielaughing73
      @dielaughing73 2 місяці тому

      Im pretty sure the prof doesn't believe in actual magic

  • @RichardsWorld
    @RichardsWorld 9 років тому +7

    After many years of exposure to bad chemicals and probably radioactive materials he still has so much hair.Or... maybe some of them grew hair!What a secret.

  • @TheTomuron1996
    @TheTomuron1996 10 років тому +207

    this guy looks like science

  • @lauragarnham77
    @lauragarnham77 7 років тому +1

    I never new metal could be made so fine and woven, pretty amazing.

  • @blainelanders2361
    @blainelanders2361 5 років тому

    Thank you sir. It is great too see the real life processing of materials we use in everyday products.

  • @tohopes
    @tohopes 9 років тому +123

    Surely they have non-metallic belts for visitors to borrow.

    • @hhdhpublic
      @hhdhpublic 8 років тому +8

      +Zheng Zu One would think theyd have non metallic belts for people working there, Or at least suspenders.

    • @danem2215
      @danem2215 7 років тому +36

      They don't, and don't call me Shirley.

    • @zacmc8004
      @zacmc8004 6 років тому

      my old english teacher told me that joke

    • @williammanzer1116
      @williammanzer1116 6 років тому +11

      It's called rope

    • @rogerandlyndabeall3840
      @rogerandlyndabeall3840 6 років тому +1

      What if you have a prince alfred?

  • @Sheograthkiller
    @Sheograthkiller 10 років тому +10

    I would see if I could get away with swallowing some of them platinum pellets and then latter go mining for them in my shit >:-)

  • @jamesonpayne3490
    @jamesonpayne3490 8 років тому +19

    This man's hair is made of science

  • @davidhoskin3312
    @davidhoskin3312 8 років тому +1

    That tie is absolutely brilliant! I'd love to find one.

  • @joshuabrunetti2001
    @joshuabrunetti2001 2 роки тому +1

    The most valuable treasure in this video is the Professor

  • @benb.564
    @benb.564 9 років тому +133

    An 14 kilo metal ingot costs more than a lamorgini

    • @tom-zq4tm
      @tom-zq4tm 9 років тому +30

      ***** NO. A 14 kilo of a certain metal costs more than a LAMBORGHINI

    • @benb.564
      @benb.564 9 років тому +4

      tom w you get the jist of it...Lamborghini, happy now

    • @tom-zq4tm
      @tom-zq4tm 9 років тому +1

      lol dude i was joking

    • @benb.564
      @benb.564 9 років тому +2

      tom w hehehe lololz

    • @AceandDuce
      @AceandDuce 9 років тому

      Roll 20 TES?

  • @Sheldicimo
    @Sheldicimo 10 років тому +33

    If science was a person it would look like this guy

  • @chronischtelaat
    @chronischtelaat 8 років тому +3

    How does platinum work as a catalyst? What happens exactly? That was the only question that really interested me and it didn't get answered.

    • @BIoknight000
      @BIoknight000 8 років тому +1

      +chronischtelaat Essentialy it reduces the amount of energy needed for something to happen and makes it happen faster. Imagine a fence gate tied up with a lock a chain. You could take an axe to the chain to try and get through but a key would be easier and faster. Catalysts are the key.

    • @chronischtelaat
      @chronischtelaat 8 років тому +1

      +BioKnight Yeah, i understand that, but how does the platinum react with the stuff to work as a catalyst?

    • @BIoknight000
      @BIoknight000 8 років тому

      Some reactions actually have multiple steps called elementary reactions. This means that although a simplified chemical equation may be A + B = AB the true process will have multiple steps such as: A + C = AC and then AC + B = AB + C, where C is the catalyst. The presence of the catalyst allows those elementary reactions to take place and they need less energy and happen faster.

    • @yesnoblemetalsoxidizetoo3079
      @yesnoblemetalsoxidizetoo3079 3 роки тому

      @@chronischtelaat it doesn't react with the stuff, that's why it's called a catalyst. It just makes the two substances react faster.

    • @chronischtelaat
      @chronischtelaat 3 роки тому

      @@yesnoblemetalsoxidizetoo3079 Well some catalysts first bond (reaction) to the stuff to then later break off as the same structure again. So catalysts can react to.
      I appreciate you trying to correct my question without answering it, thank you.

  • @jacktraveller8290
    @jacktraveller8290 8 років тому +2

    That tie is amazing. I wish there was an acoustics version.

  • @Omicron91
    @Omicron91 4 роки тому +2

    I know it's a bit out of scope of this channel but I'd love to see a video about how platinum catalysts work. That bit of chemistry has always eluded me.

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 2 роки тому

      It's a bit mysterious, even now. It may function as a lattice where atoms are pushed together.

  • @auroraborealis34
    @auroraborealis34 8 років тому +3

    he's so cute " it's like magic ... i was mesmerized"

  • @PibbXtraPls
    @PibbXtraPls 10 років тому +4

    He reminds me of Dr. Wright from Sim City for the SNES.

  • @Atombender
    @Atombender 9 років тому +7

    Screw all those precious metals, I want that tie!

  • @tekumundati574
    @tekumundati574 3 місяці тому

    I work in a platinum mine in Zimbabwe … thanks for the video… very informative

  • @sofijeffrey9797
    @sofijeffrey9797 5 років тому +2

    I love how he points them out on his tie 0:55

  • @krisanthonysilveira8244
    @krisanthonysilveira8244 9 років тому +8

    posh way of saying its boring ahahaha :P
    The professor is simply epic :D

  • @AdilRas
    @AdilRas 8 років тому +10

    2.17 million US Dollars in metals for those who are curious

  • @dariuscarroll5738
    @dariuscarroll5738 10 років тому +6

    i love how he used his tie for the refrencing now that a try scientist

  • @egustafson
    @egustafson 3 роки тому +1

    This man looks at the world through eyes of wonder. Just fantastic.

  • @alirogers123
    @alirogers123 5 років тому +1

    The most educational flex out there.

  • @nickpollard758
    @nickpollard758 9 років тому +4

    6:43 Tungyongs?

  • @streglof
    @streglof 8 років тому +6

    "chemically boring" lol

  • @TechXSoftware
    @TechXSoftware 9 років тому +3

    This video is so metal

    • @somefool6409
      @somefool6409 8 років тому +1

      Who did you steel that joke from? I'm a bit brassed off at that and might call the coppers

    • @looseleafteabutworse
      @looseleafteabutworse 8 років тому +1

      +Connor Steppie I think you should be more mad at the video it was obviously stolen - i ran just listen to that tin-y audio

    • @somefool6409
      @somefool6409 8 років тому +1

      Meme Team I ferrum running out of metal jokes. It might lead to something bad, and then the Aluminati might do something bad

  • @TheDejfson
    @TheDejfson 7 років тому

    Perfect explication as usually sir! If I had you as a chemistry teacher when I was young, I would probably go the chemistry way. Instead I became an electronics engineer. My teacher of electronics at a time was far better than the one teaching chemistry. He was discussing the electronics as passionately as you're talking about chemistry. And that decided for me. To be said,I have never regretted my choice :)

  • @jacobs83133
    @jacobs83133 2 роки тому +1

    I've always loved metallurgy.

  • @lunar6562
    @lunar6562 5 років тому +7

    By seeing his hair, I knew this stuff was legit.

  • @deekaneable
    @deekaneable 5 років тому +3

    Thumbs up for old man fro!

  • @JLConawayII
    @JLConawayII 11 років тому +10

    Gold is incredibly expensive, especially when you turn it into a ring and give it to a woman. It can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

  • @aborne
    @aborne 8 років тому

    I love these videos! Thank you so much for making these!

  • @namrnam5413
    @namrnam5413 4 роки тому +1

    4:25 It is truly platinum, since it has no oxide falling apart during hammer forging

  • @marcusm5127
    @marcusm5127 5 років тому +4

    I would like to hold a gold bar once in my life.

  • @keirmathieson9603
    @keirmathieson9603 8 років тому +4

    no metals? better take that steel wool of your head.

  • @walkispacheco88
    @walkispacheco88 8 років тому +6

    5:25 Mithril

  • @Emiester1130
    @Emiester1130 4 роки тому +2

    I love how he has the Table Tie: to point out exactly what he’s talking about on the fly.

  • @ДанилоГоренков
    @ДанилоГоренков 4 місяці тому +1

    Cool video, thank you.