Well the aluminium will melt at about 630°C the Gallium will still be a liquid and is about twice as dense as the aluminium so It'll sink to the bottom of the crucible. You could then pour off most of the alumiunium I guess. The remaining gallium/aluminium alloy could be seperated by adding water - aluminium will oxidise and the alloy will liquify as the gallium percentage rises. A few more steps will get you purer alloy but you're going to need some more advanced methods to get it back to semiconductor purity. As for the alumina (aluminium oxide), you can electrolyse it to get the Aluminium back if you like.
Yes, that is exactly what happened because aluminium oxidizes pretty fast. A bit oh Hydrochloric acid or scraping on the surface below the gallium would have solved that.
You are overheating your aluminum so much! Proper pouring temperature shouldn't even glow red. When you heat the aluminum up that high it is molten for much longer and dissolves a lot more hydrogen from the air. This all comes out as it solidifies and causes bad porosity in the metal
NileRed has a good video covering this. You can get some good reactions simply by scratching the aluminum after the gallium is placed on top of it. A good scraping of the surface will do more good than drilling into it, more exposed surface area for the two to interact.
Damn mate I had no idea that could happen🤯🤯🤯 very interesting👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻😁😁. I remember the first time I saw that huge ingot mold you used over a year ago I loved it then and I love it now😍
Fun fact: this is the reason there is an absolute rule of no galium on airplanes. They are made of a large amount of aluminum and this could clearly do tons of damage.
sitting on top didn't work because the aluminum had a protective aluminum oxide layer. drilling the holes which then had gallium go directly in to the material without the presence of oxygen allowed it to penetrate due to the lack of that protective oxide layer
Could you put these degraded aluminium into water? I'm interested how much galium has ben still trapped at this aluminium bar, and how much of galium can be recycled :)
**^^^THIS guy gets it! I had to scroll down a long way to find a comment about the ability of Gallium/aluminum alloys to generate hydrogen and oxygen from liquid water. This point touches on another "issue" he had early on in the video when initially trying to get the gallium to "sink in".** Aluminum INSTANTLY develops a protective oxide layer that prevents further oxidation, AND protects the aluminum from the gallium. As soon as you slotted it with that rotary milling tool, it was automatically re-developing its oxide layer. So, you must pour the gallium into the slot, and then push a scraper or screwdriver through the liquid gallium puddle, and scrape the aluminum underneath, in order to remove the thin, new oxide layer, which would've allowed the gallium to "seep in". Once the gallium alloys with the aluminum, it prevents the aluminum from developing its protective oxide layer, which is why GaAl alloys will easily react with water, to produce hydrogen. The aluminum will disintegrate at that point, but since gallium doesn't react with water, it'll still be there at the bottom of the water container.
If you mix gallium and aluminum until they are homogenous, then you can convert the aluminum to hydrogen gas by soaking it in water. The gallium will be left behind and can be re-used.
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💡You dude!💡Why don't you try to make a working xbox/console controller out of metal or even the console case itself????? You could just cast the plastic casing in metal and try to install the internals and buttons afterwards??? That would be super cool!!! Love your channel btw! Please consider to give this a thumbs up. 👍😉
@@rileyfenley522 theres plenty time for raw aluminium to generate an oxidised film layer, put it on, take a nail and scratch it through the liquid gallium. Once it has a clear route, it's done.
@@rileyfenley522 im not sure you understood me, it takes mere seconds for bare aluminium to oxidise a protective layer, what i mean to say is: By using the liquid gallium as an airtight cover for the aluminium, the metal can be scored through the already placed gallium. This shifts aside any oxidised layer and the gallium can contact the raw aluminium. It should then absorb it through the channel of scratches, not unlike a sponge, but slower. The process shouldn't take more than a few hours, also the amount of gallium required for the structural disintegration was way off, its less than 1/50 Ga/Al
why does everybody insist on heating the aluminum up until it glows? its melting point is only 1200 degrees F, just heat it up to a very faint red glow and no hotter. (best if there is no glow at all)
It is a very interesting interaction no doubt. The holes are completely unnecessary, the same result will happen by simply leaving a dime sized drop of Gallium on top of the ingot for 48hrs.
Man I feel you could've went into more depth about what happened! I have a little bit of knowledge when it comes to Gallium and the chemistry of it, but not a whole lot! I was hoping to learn something new and I'm sure most would feel the same, especially someone who hasn't really heard of Gallium!?! Its actually a pretty cool experiment, but like I said you should've given some more explanation if not let the Gallium sit even longer. After a couple more days the chances are the Gallium would've fully penetrated the Aluminum and you would've had this almost crumbling block of the combination!
I think what actually happened, was liquid gallium entered the drilled hole, it got cold enough out there that it solidified and it broke the ingot, like ice bursting a soda can in the freezer. Reactive destruction doesn’t look anything like that.
well, it DID make a few large inclusions, so the Gallium did react... also.. the Gallium was still liquid when he broke the bar, so I think it was kept in an environment warm enough to stay liquid.
I say pour gallium on an aluminum hook holding a bucket of water suspended above a metric fuck ton of sodium. BONUS: you get brownie points if you stand within 3 feet of the reaction
aluminum oxide was your problem, groove, pour the gallium , then scratch the whole groove to get rid of the oxide layer.. just drilling only exposed a small amount to the gallium, but it did the job
"I hear that the best thing to get rid of Aluminum is to feed it to Gallium. You got to starve the Gallium for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up Aluminum ingot will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta file the top of the ingot, and make a dent in it for the sake of the Galliums' consumption. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through the slurry, now do you? Gallium goes through Aluminum like butter. You need at least 600 grams Gallium to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps Gallium in a lab. They go through ingots that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a quarter of a pound Gallium can consume through many pounds of aluminum every minute. Hence the expression, 'as greedy as Gallium'.
Maybe for the next video, try to make mix of gallium and another metal... Try to see if there is a metal that gallium will not eat... Try to see if you can make another super ingot, very lightly brush only the surface, wipe away after a minute or two. The poibt of tuat is to see what metal (if any) you can give a shiny outer layer like chrome plating.
ever sense i learned of Gallium's mysterious ability to damage Aluminum i've wondered what kind of damage it could do in the modern world like on an airplane or the engine block of a modern car or many other things that use Aluminum today
theese videos are bloody awsome, I can relate to this Ben, I work in a foundry which also cast alsorts of different metals, gun metal,ally,Ab2,lm4,lm25,lm6 the list goes on haha, what you do with the top and bottom is what I do well I did for a year I got 100s of pictures on my phone having to remember there's so many pattens but yeh it's intresting for sure 👏👌
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4:08 gallium goes on aluminum
Legend
noice
Thx
honestly tho why do channels do this "oh you wanted to see title name? too bad you see that after hours of lecture."
Thank you
Try and mix Gallium and Aluminum together when in liquefied form then pour in the Ingot to hard.. lets see those results
I think that wouldn't mix
You would probably have to mix alot but it would get harder to mix also the gallium would not set for ages
@@legit_jebus8607 i think would boil off because of the molten aluminum
I could but it might not be hot enough
@@yes____ The melting point of aluminum is not even close to the boiling point of gallium
What hapen if you melt again that aluminium??
yaa that what I thought too
Ah lol I asked the same w/o coment diving
I am also curious about this, I hope he does it
An alloy
Well the aluminium will melt at about 630°C the Gallium will still be a liquid and is about twice as dense as the aluminium so It'll sink to the bottom of the crucible. You could then pour off most of the alumiunium I guess.
The remaining gallium/aluminium alloy could be seperated by adding water - aluminium will oxidise and the alloy will liquify as the gallium percentage rises. A few more steps will get you purer alloy but you're going to need some more advanced methods to get it back to semiconductor purity. As for the alumina (aluminium oxide), you can electrolyse it to get the Aluminium back if you like.
It’s probable the freshly poured aluminium oxydized, and created a protective layer
Making it difficult for the gallium to interact with the ingot.
True story
Yes, that is exactly what happened because aluminium oxidizes pretty fast. A bit oh Hydrochloric acid or scraping on the surface below the gallium would have solved that.
Oxidized not oxydized
aluminum oxidizes so you'll have to scratch that away first, that's why it only worked when you drilled. The other indent was left out for too long.
I would like to you melt that thing,and see what happends or can you cast something with it.
PS: you do amazing work you are amazing
Can you do more casting with sand videos? They are so satisfying!
I do really miss the pounding sounds AF
You are overheating your aluminum so much! Proper pouring temperature shouldn't even glow red. When you heat the aluminum up that high it is molten for much longer and dissolves a lot more hydrogen from the air. This all comes out as it solidifies and causes bad porosity in the metal
His goal was for the gallium to get into the aluminum and eat away at it. I'm pretty sure he did that on purpose.
But where the H2 come from? The air has only very trace amount of it.
@@tmfan3888 Moisture
@@tmfan3888 the hydrogen comes from contact with moisture in the air.
If you think he got it wrong. Post a video doing it yourself.
“this wasn’t something i expected” you knew fully well thats what would happen if you mixed gallium and aluminium lol
Ikr
he was expecting an even better reaction i think
Love the videos where you speak and walk us through what you're doing.
NileRed has a good video covering this. You can get some good reactions simply by scratching the aluminum after the gallium is placed on top of it. A good scraping of the surface will do more good than drilling into it, more exposed surface area for the two to interact.
Put the gallium in a clear container and put a brick of aluminum vertically on top of it let's see how long it would dissolve it completely
Damn mate I had no idea that could happen🤯🤯🤯 very interesting👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻😁😁. I remember the first time I saw that huge ingot mold you used over a year ago I loved it then and I love it now😍
Fun fact: this is the reason there is an absolute rule of no galium on airplanes. They are made of a large amount of aluminum and this could clearly do tons of damage.
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Bruh the emojis are very cringe
Use less emojis dude.
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Now what happens if you melt it back down?
What happens If u pour gallium into molten aluminium?
Iron in minecraft was so popular they turned into a real thing 😭😭😭
you mean aluminum? or am i missing the joke
Iron in real life was so popular they made it in minecraft
What iron are you refering to , this "joke" makes no sence and is completely out of context
sitting on top didn't work because the aluminum had a protective aluminum oxide layer. drilling the holes which then had gallium go directly in to the material without the presence of oxygen allowed it to penetrate due to the lack of that protective oxide layer
Could you put these degraded aluminium into water? I'm interested how much galium has ben still trapped at this aluminium bar, and how much of galium can be recycled :)
There we go, *completely annihilate the ingot!*
Can you restore the aluminium back to original state if you melt it down after it has been affected by gallium? Love your videos dude
This question needs an answer!
You could've put it in water so aluminum reacts creating hydrogen gas and aluminum hydroxide, leaving the gallium intact.
**^^^THIS guy gets it! I had to scroll down a long way to find a comment about the ability of Gallium/aluminum alloys to generate hydrogen and oxygen from liquid water. This point touches on another "issue" he had early on in the video when initially trying to get the gallium to "sink in".**
Aluminum INSTANTLY develops a protective oxide layer that prevents further oxidation, AND protects the aluminum from the gallium. As soon as you slotted it with that rotary milling tool, it was automatically re-developing its oxide layer. So, you must pour the gallium into the slot, and then push a scraper or screwdriver through the liquid gallium puddle, and scrape the aluminum underneath, in order to remove the thin, new oxide layer, which would've allowed the gallium to "seep in".
Once the gallium alloys with the aluminum, it prevents the aluminum from developing its protective oxide layer, which is why GaAl alloys will easily react with water, to produce hydrogen. The aluminum will disintegrate at that point, but since gallium doesn't react with water, it'll still be there at the bottom of the water container.
The compound produced by gallium and aluminium once compounded can react with water to produce hydrogen bubbles.
Hey Ben!! Try to do this.... Mix molten brass and galium and make an ingot out of it....
If you mix gallium and aluminum until they are homogenous, then you can convert the aluminum to hydrogen gas by soaking it in water. The gallium will be left behind and can be re-used.
Disappointed that you didn't use a karate chop to split that sucker apart...
I feel like you're wasting a ton of gas starting the fire before the crucible is in there. There's no need to preheat the furnace.
YOU COULD'VE USED THOSE INGOTS FOR IORN BOOTS
I like you and your videos verrrryy much
U r a very polite man !!
I knew you were a Belgian instantly when you said "I'm gonna do it in this groeve" 😂 anyways nice video man 💪🏽
I got it when; i'm ben
Hey Ben het is leuk om te zien dat je weer met wetenschap bezig bent.
Daar liggen je roots, lekker met de press alles plat drukken!
Leuk die wetenschap❤️ dat was mijn reden om te abonneren.
Gr,
De buurman
Welke buurman bent u precies? :)
Die aan de andere kant van de grens woont!
I like how you showed the aluminum ingots melting over time
💡You dude!💡Why don't you try to make a working xbox/console controller out of metal or even the console case itself?????
You could just cast the plastic casing in metal and try to install the internals and buttons afterwards???
That would be super cool!!!
Love your channel btw!
Please consider to give this a thumbs up. 👍😉
Precision...
Not enough
@@charadremur333 I don't know. The external controller case isn't too complex is it? It's only moulded from plastic after all.
@@mikej557 i messed up, i thought he meant to make a brand new one processors with a cast, but it likely will work for the case.
Nice. Ben keep making good stuff
Now you can destroy an airplane using gallium
You should have scratched the surface of the aluminium while it was in contact with gallium
Jak exactly! Thats why the drilling worked.
@@rileyfenley522 theres plenty time for raw aluminium to generate an oxidised film layer, put it on, take a nail and scratch it through the liquid gallium. Once it has a clear route, it's done.
Jak I 100% agree, I don’t think I have seen a video where if its not done that way where it works.
@@rileyfenley522 im not sure you understood me, it takes mere seconds for bare aluminium to oxidise a protective layer, what i mean to say is:
By using the liquid gallium as an airtight cover for the aluminium, the metal can be scored through the already placed gallium. This shifts aside any oxidised layer and the gallium can contact the raw aluminium. It should then absorb it through the channel of scratches, not unlike a sponge, but slower. The process shouldn't take more than a few hours, also the amount of gallium required for the structural disintegration was way off, its less than 1/50 Ga/Al
What happens if you pour the gallium in molten aluminium?
The world will end
@@alivenizif lol confusion at maximum
@@summon1456 shh, no telling what
why does everybody insist on heating the aluminum up until it glows? its melting point is only 1200 degrees F, just heat it up to a very faint red glow and no hotter. (best if there is no glow at all)
You should place one of them half’s in water
Can you remelt it and put the other half in the shredder
its aluminum, not some soft material
@@worldmapping4895 gallium makes aluminium soft, idiot
What a great UA-cam channel👍
Yes
Daniel Van Der Knaap yes
Correct!
It is a very interesting interaction no doubt. The holes are completely unnecessary, the same result will happen by simply leaving a dime sized drop of Gallium on top of the ingot for 48hrs.
Can you make an amalgam of aluminum and gallium? Melt the aluminum and gallium together.
An idea but not with gallium. Put mercury on an aluminum ingot and record what happens
Man I feel you could've went into more depth about what happened! I have a little bit of knowledge when it comes to Gallium and the chemistry of it, but not a whole lot! I was hoping to learn something new and I'm sure most would feel the same, especially someone who hasn't really heard of Gallium!?! Its actually a pretty cool experiment, but like I said you should've given some more explanation if not let the Gallium sit even longer. After a couple more days the chances are the Gallium would've fully penetrated the Aluminum and you would've had this almost crumbling block of the combination!
Dont melt it down just drop it in a bucket of water and collect the hydrogen.
5:06 you mean 54 hours
what if you pour the gallium into the aluminum while the aluminum is still molten
I think what actually happened, was liquid gallium entered the drilled hole, it got cold enough out there that it solidified and it broke the ingot, like ice bursting a soda can in the freezer.
Reactive destruction doesn’t look anything like that.
well, it DID make a few large inclusions, so the Gallium did react... also.. the Gallium was still liquid when he broke the bar, so I think it was kept in an environment warm enough to stay liquid.
That is a strange looking fracture in the broken ingot.
I say pour gallium on an aluminum hook holding a bucket of water suspended above a metric fuck ton of sodium. BONUS: you get brownie points if you stand within 3 feet of the reaction
I was so certain you were gonna rip it apart
Why didn't galium solidify?
You should look into how to get gallium out of aluminium.
Once the amalgam is created, can you get back to pure aluminium again?
So how do you get the Gallium Out of the aluminium👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦
Try mercury or gallium on a car engine block (aluminum) to see what does the most damage for those of us that may actually do it.
Try putting some gallium in the aluminum while its molten.
What would happen if you add galium to molten aluminum then let it cool?
You should put the leftover ingot in water. try it on camera.
this guy formed my childhood
Luckily you don't need to put gallium in the burner because it melts in your hand!
Nice vid press tube
Hey, can you cast the SCP-173 out of aluminium in next video??
Melt together aluminium and gallium
I have a feeling the melting furnace is kind of hot, do I have the right feeling? 🤔🤔
Could you try remelting the ruined aluminum block to see if it's possible to salvage the aluminum? I would love to see if that's possible.
he'd have to do some sort of distillation to separate the Gallium from the Aluminum. But.. what WOULD it be like if he just/.. melted it?
Sorry but you talk way way too much. This video should have been 3 minutes
6:24 @bingingwithbabish Ultimate metal sandwich.
Wait where TF is babish at
aluminum oxide was your problem, groove, pour the gallium , then scratch the whole groove to get rid of the oxide layer.. just drilling only exposed a small amount to the gallium, but it did the job
1:28 me in mincraft making my iron tools
What would happen if you put Gallium in Molten aluminium?
Gallium rod please
Re melt the ingot we need to see how it turns out
Cast a toy plane
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"I hear that the best thing to get rid of Aluminum is to feed it to Gallium. You got to starve the Gallium for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up Aluminum ingot will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta file the top of the ingot, and make a dent in it for the sake of the Galliums' consumption. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through the slurry, now do you? Gallium goes through Aluminum like butter. You need at least 600 grams Gallium to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps Gallium in a lab. They go through ingots that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a quarter of a pound Gallium can consume through many pounds of aluminum every minute. Hence the expression, 'as greedy as Gallium'.
😂😂😂 Snatch 😂😂😂
Hallo, zelfs ik kom uit België. Doe je een video in het Nederlands
You should try to gallium in liquid nitrogen
Maybe for the next video, try to make mix of gallium and another metal... Try to see if there is a metal that gallium will not eat... Try to see if you can make another super ingot, very lightly brush only the surface, wipe away after a minute or two. The poibt of tuat is to see what metal (if any) you can give a shiny outer layer like chrome plating.
What happens if you throw a water balloon filled with that shit at an aluminum f150
is the aluminum ruined now? could it be remelted?
Dude at 4:33 there is a face of a human in the unshiny part of liquid gallium
Boged craft T-1000
@@LetsTakeWalk what that mean
@@imranjamal8780 Just google it, its someone from terminator.
@@limenoodle1650 terminator judgement day you mean
@@user-qw1jf7xx9n I dont remember the names of the movies. I have only seen them once, and that was a long time ago
What will happen if u melt that ingot
ever sense i learned of Gallium's mysterious ability to damage Aluminum i've wondered what kind of damage it could do in the modern world like on an airplane or the engine block of a modern car or many other things that use Aluminum today
Add it to gasoline and melt pistons LMAO
Can you do this with Mercury instead of gallium?
Saw the word ingot
Now I wanna play Minecraft
Question: What do you do with the aluminum once it is "infected" with the Gallium?
They are still researching that. Apparently the galium is recoverable and the aliminium can be used as a fuel source
yeah, the gallium and aluminum alloy will react with the water to form aluminum hydroxide, Hydrogen, and gallium metal
Feeling bad for him . With this hard work he had made that giant aluminium . But just got cracked easily
What happens if you melt that block back down?
theese videos are bloody awsome, I can relate to this Ben, I work in a foundry which also cast alsorts of different metals, gun metal,ally,Ab2,lm4,lm25,lm6 the list goes on haha, what you do with the top and bottom is what I do well I did for a year I got 100s of pictures on my phone having to remember there's so many pattens but yeh it's intresting for sure 👏👌
Where can I get my hands on some gallium?
Holy crap!! Keep that stuff away from aeroplanes!!
When he put the fire it sounded like a jp trex roaring
Clickbait aluminum ingots don’t exist only iron ones do
throw one half of this aluminium baar in to a bucket of water and watch wath happen its pretty amazing
Would have been interesting to see what would happen if you remelt it after if it would regain its strength
the aluminium and galium eat each other...
Put it in water and you get aluminum oxide and hydrogen
King 👍👍👍👍
What happen when you melt gallium with alloy
What happens if you stuck that aluminum+gallium ingot back in the forge?
I was thinking the same thing; or maybe you could try cleaning the gallium infiltrated aluminum somehow.