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  • Опубліковано 19 чер 2018
  • Here it is - a new video about the element Nitrogen.
    More links and info in full description ↓↓↓
    Objectivity: bit.ly/Objectivity
    Chemistry of Lunar Lift-Off: • Chemistry of Lunar Lif...
    Liquid Oxygen 1: • Liquid Oxygen (slow mo...
    Liquid Oxygen 2: • Burning Iron in Liquid...
    Can of Coke in Liquid Nitrogen: • Can of Coke in Liquid ...
    Mercury in Liquid Nitrogen: • Pouring Mercury into L...
    Nitrogen Triiodide: • Nitrogen Triiodide (to...
    Ammonia: • Ammonia Fountain and B...
    Original Nitrogen video: • Nitrogen - Periodic Ta...
    The Professor’s Brain: • The Professor's Brain ...
    Videos on all 118 elements: bit.ly/118elements
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    From the School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham: bit.ly/NottChem
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  • @periodicvideos
    @periodicvideos  4 роки тому +48

    These videos are made by Brady Haran - check out his "Unmade Podcast" here: bit.ly/UnmadePlaylist

    • @BxnkrollBeatKillerBEATKMB
      @BxnkrollBeatKillerBEATKMB 3 роки тому +2

      u are boss

    • @jeremydennard8362
      @jeremydennard8362 3 роки тому +1

      Damn now i wish I would have became a chemist it looks like y'all do a lot of cool stuff

    • @BxnkrollBeatKillerBEATKMB
      @BxnkrollBeatKillerBEATKMB 3 роки тому +2

      @@jeremydennard8362 costs tons to set up :/

    • @jeremydennard8362
      @jeremydennard8362 3 роки тому

      @@BxnkrollBeatKillerBEATKMB my son wants to get into the snake venom extraction I bet its pricey as well to do

    • @BxnkrollBeatKillerBEATKMB
      @BxnkrollBeatKillerBEATKMB 3 роки тому +2

      @@jeremydennard8362 yep. I would recommend less advanced stuff as a work up to reward (extraction you mentioned). It will capture interest in many aspects of chemistry and also allows you more time to afford advanced glassware. Stay well!

  • @kiritgupta
    @kiritgupta 6 років тому +510

    Please feel free to make hundreds of UA-cam videos about Nitrogen (or anything else for that matter) and do not worry about not telling us everything!

  • @AndreAConquerorII
    @AndreAConquerorII 6 років тому +508

    I never want to hear the Professor say "The banana goes absolutely rigid" ever again...

    • @matsko6527
      @matsko6527 6 років тому +40

      Andrea Cordani Get your mind out of the gutter.

    • @taicanium
      @taicanium 6 років тому +33

      ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • @czdaniel1
      @czdaniel1 6 років тому +51

      How do you think Viagra works?
      ...process of erection involves the release of nitric oxide (NO) in the corpus cavernosum as a result of sexual stimulation. NO activates the enzyme guanylate cyclase which results in increased levels of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), leading to smooth muscle relaxation in blood vessels supplying the corpus cavernosum, resulting in increased blood flow and an erection.

    • @czdaniel1
      @czdaniel1 6 років тому +6

      Nitrogen!

    • @professorpoliakoff4837
      @professorpoliakoff4837 5 років тому +42

      The banana goes absolutely rigid

  • @nigeljohnson9820
    @nigeljohnson9820 6 років тому +319

    I once froze a single sugar coated wine gum in liquid nitrogen to see what would happen. It turned to a very brittle glass like material that shattered into very tiny bits when accidently dropped on the floor.. Unfortunately the tiny bits quickly turned back into very sticky sugar. This had spread finely across the whole of the lab floor, sticking everyone's shoes to the floor as they walked across it. Needless to say I was not very popular and had a lot of cleaning to do.

    • @micahphilson
      @micahphilson 6 років тому +83

      "When will people understand sometimes great advancements in science sometimes have uncomfortable repercussions? It's just a normal part of the scientific method!"
      "Shut up and just grab a mop already!"

    • @Lukiel666
      @Lukiel666 6 років тому +16

      But you were able to do a wonderful demonstration of the properties of sodium stearate and/or ammonia.

    • @nigeljohnson9820
      @nigeljohnson9820 6 років тому +5

      Lukiel666 I just about understand why sodium stearate might be an ingredient of wine/fruit gums, but ammonia ?!!!

    • @Lukiel666
      @Lukiel666 6 років тому +19

      LOL Sodium stearate is soap. For washing the winegum residue off the floor. Ammonia also for cleaning.

    • @nigeljohnson9820
      @nigeljohnson9820 6 років тому +6

      Lukiel666 sodium stearate is also used as a food additive, which is why I was willing to believe it might be an ingredient in the process of making wine gums. I think we used sodium lauryl sulphate and water. As I recall the liquid nitrogen was intended to cool an ultra low vacuum diff pump, but I had been supplied with far more liquid nitrogen than was needed for my experiment.

  • @glenmartin2437
    @glenmartin2437 2 роки тому +3

    Dr. Charles Goetz, my advisor as a chemistry major at Iowa State University, made the initial discovery that cream could be whipped when dissolved nitrogen at high pressure was released from the cream (circa 1930).
    I am a retired chemist. Thank you for your videos.
    Rusky

  • @fukpoeslaw3613
    @fukpoeslaw3613 6 років тому +332

    Poliakoff:
    "And it can make quite a spectacular mess...
    ...the sort that Neil hates."

    • @f38stingray
      @f38stingray 6 років тому +33

      Only after "the banana goes absolutely rigid."

    • @Tindometari
      @Tindometari 5 років тому +5

      @@f38stingray Well, if you fancy putting something at the temperature of liquid nitrogen up inside of you.
      Speaking personally, whatever goes up inside me had better be nice and rigid *and at a temperature of 290-305 K*, or I will undergo a sudden exothermic reaction and thermal runaway, with much spatial redistribution of all objects in my reach.

    • @procactus9109
      @procactus9109 4 роки тому +2

      Why quote the video, Do you assume we did not watch it ?

    • @nothingisreal6816
      @nothingisreal6816 4 роки тому

      ProCactus Because it's correct to do so.

    • @chimken_bot6625
      @chimken_bot6625 4 роки тому +1

      Tony Samson boron

  • @paulwirkus4182
    @paulwirkus4182 5 років тому +112

    Neil is the most badass looking chemist I've ever seen.

    • @jhyland87
      @jhyland87 4 роки тому +4

      Yes, chemistry in leather pants. $10 says he has a pair of assless chaps just like those.

    • @Angelito_Valentino
      @Angelito_Valentino 2 роки тому +2

      You got that right. 😎

  • @micahphilson
    @micahphilson 6 років тому +311

    4:45 Man, those newfangled airbags. Can you imagine them putting those in every car in years to come? Progress is at hand!
    Before you know it, they'll be forcing us to use seatbelts too!

    • @Nilguiri
      @Nilguiri 6 років тому +17

      As long as they don't force us to talk like the narrator in the "airbeg" video.

    • @KairuHakubi
      @KairuHakubi 6 років тому +22

      hopefully soon the idea of car accidents will be this laughable thing from the past when people were actually allowed to operate vehicles that move faster than our reflexes can handle, for hours at a time when our attention span lasts seconds.

    • @strider04
      @strider04 6 років тому +5

      Kairu Hakubi seconds? No

    • @KairuHakubi
      @KairuHakubi 6 років тому +16

      forgot to mention, some people have the delusion that their attention span lasts longer than that, not noticing the many little gaps and lapses. Those are the most dangerous of all.

    • @my3dviews
      @my3dviews 6 років тому +9

      Clearly we have attention spans longer than................now I forgot where I was going with that.

  • @DrakkarCalethiel
    @DrakkarCalethiel 6 років тому +44

    Those elemental series videos never get boring. Especially the new ones are great to watch!

  • @omermagen824
    @omermagen824 6 років тому +194

    My friend told me that his Mustang is running nitrous. I told him that my Volkswagen is producing nitrous.

    • @elephystry
      @elephystry 5 років тому +4

      I thought it was only nitric!

    • @billybbob18
      @billybbob18 5 років тому +10

      Volkswagen was pretty embarrassed by that whole scandal.

    • @mitchelltopolinsky164
      @mitchelltopolinsky164 3 роки тому +2

      I wish this comment got the attention it deserves 😂

    • @dextercruise7026
      @dextercruise7026 3 роки тому

      @@elephystry combustion engines produce a multitude of nitrogen oxides, commonly referred to as NOx
      edit: clarity

    • @paintdrinker455
      @paintdrinker455 3 роки тому +2

      My buddy runs on nitrous. Always walking around with balloons of it. Nice guy.

  • @vlogerhood
    @vlogerhood 6 років тому +834

    We need to discuss the elephant in the room...Neal's leather pants.

    • @therocinante3443
      @therocinante3443 6 років тому +31

      vlogerhood I was scrolling through the comments hoping nobody had mentioned it yet!

    • @Gajoobles
      @Gajoobles 6 років тому +105

      Rides a motorcycle.

    • @JurrevanHerwijnen
      @JurrevanHerwijnen 6 років тому +40

      vlogerhood some cool fact about nitrogen and demonstrations.. yet me too had to rewind when he walked down the hall and I was sure It wasn’t normal jeans. Then realizing he is also wearing motorcycle boots.. and the leather pants made more sense... although I wouldn’t be surprised if Neal was actually wearing a pair of leather pants ‘just because’. Haha

    • @ShaunDobbie
      @ShaunDobbie 6 років тому +20

      They are trousers.

    • @2450logan
      @2450logan 6 років тому +25

      Motorbike leathers

  • @electronicsNmore
    @electronicsNmore 6 років тому +51

    Always highly informative

  • @Olimar73
    @Olimar73 6 років тому +29

    Fascinating video as always!
    On a sad point, has anyone else noticed how many funeral cards are collecting on the shelf? :(

    • @shawnhuk
      @shawnhuk 4 роки тому +5

      Oliver73 - I do now....

    • @nothingisreal6816
      @nothingisreal6816 4 роки тому +2

      Why did you make me notice that :(

    • @Xenotrickster
      @Xenotrickster Місяць тому

      The older you get, the more loved ones you will watch die. Maybe immortality isn't so great.

  • @AlonsoRules
    @AlonsoRules 6 років тому +32

    The Haber Process for making ammonia from Nitrogen is the most important reaction in industrial chemistry. Life would be so different if Fritz Haber didn't invent it.

    • @red-baitingswine8816
      @red-baitingswine8816 2 роки тому

      Yes. We might have much more organic farming and a healthy soil biome, sequestering carbon in the soil, with a quite significant reduction in global warming.

    • @cheesehead9555
      @cheesehead9555 2 роки тому

      @@red-baitingswine8816 but there would be much more people dying of starvation and famine.

    • @red-baitingswine8816
      @red-baitingswine8816 2 роки тому

      @@cheesehead9555
      .
      Sources? (see Johnson, U of AZ, for data on increased yields with his methods - cover crops etc. He claims that this alone could stop or reverse accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere/oceans! ).

    • @red-baitingswine8816
      @red-baitingswine8816 2 роки тому

      @Lilith does stuff
      .
      Try using a dictionary. I have explained all this here.

    • @pearsonbrown6740
      @pearsonbrown6740 2 роки тому

      @@red-baitingswine8816 Buddy, ammonia is used to prepare nearly every synthetic nitrogen compound we use. It goes beyond agriculture. Secondly, synthetic applications aren't bad except for when they're overused. You realize that we'd never be able to have fed the growing population with the methods you're describing? I'm an organic farmer.

  • @RT710.
    @RT710. 6 років тому +3

    Yay I absolutely LOVE seeing experiments on Periodic Videos!!!! Always makes my day to see Neil, Professor Poliakoff, and Brady at work!

  • @ChoppingtonOtter
    @ChoppingtonOtter 6 років тому +8

    How I wish my high school teachers taught chemistry like the Prof - he makes it so interesting!

  • @periodicvideos
    @periodicvideos  6 років тому +70

    Objectivity: bit.ly/Objectivity
    Chemistry of Lunar Lift-Off: ua-cam.com/video/JLCrZGgKD-k/v-deo.html
    Liquid Oxygen 1: ua-cam.com/video/7NXfyCezUFk/v-deo.html
    Liquid Oxygen 2: ua-cam.com/video/6NNt0Pup6jU/v-deo.html
    Can of Coke in Liquid Nitrogen: ua-cam.com/video/GIoxY9kECRE/v-deo.html
    Mercury in Liquid Nitrogen: ua-cam.com/video/5I4rxfnCtxY/v-deo.html
    Nitrogen Triiodide: ua-cam.com/video/JME_He6PH4M/v-deo.html
    Ammonia: ua-cam.com/video/NO7V6TMQuBs/v-deo.html
    Original Nitrogen video: ua-cam.com/video/zmvJ54kRpjg/v-deo.html
    The Professor’s Brain: ua-cam.com/video/n9MhSc2YyKw/v-deo.html
    Videos on all 118 elements: bit.ly/118elements
    Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/periodicvideos

    • @borttorbbq2556
      @borttorbbq2556 6 років тому

      Periodic Videos this was a nice video I'm glad I decided to watch it

    • @dangriff12
      @dangriff12 6 років тому +1

      NOx also contains nitrous oxide so it contains NO, N2O and NO2. Though not very much N2O but it's massively important as it has a global warming potential 300 times that of carbon dioxide and a half life of 150 years. My dissertation was on the catalysis of Nitrous Oxide. (6 years ago now. I miss chemistry.)

    • @ReedCBowman
      @ReedCBowman 6 років тому +1

      Have you done, or could you do, some videos on sections of the periodic table rather than just individual elements? The fascination of the periodic table itself is in the similarities among groups. So a video on Group11 would be as interesting as one on the alkali metals would be. Also a discussion of what transition metals are, etc.

    • @chandankumarrana90
      @chandankumarrana90 6 років тому

      Hello I am chandan. I have a question that how to make laughing gas.

    • @ErnstKotze
      @ErnstKotze 6 років тому

      Periodic Videos Hi there. What the NOS that people inject into petrol engines to make them run faster?

  • @ZaneZephyr
    @ZaneZephyr 6 років тому +29

    That man just made a mana potion!

  • @RMoribayashi
    @RMoribayashi 6 років тому +8

    Back in the 1970's my mother would wonder why ocasionally fresh cans of whipped cream would be dead. Turns out kids all around the US were getting a quick high from inhaling the N2O then returning the cans to the shelf. Manufacturers eventually put shrink wrap on the caps to reveal tampered cans to shoppers.

  • @MrYoname1
    @MrYoname1 6 років тому +8

    My favorite thing about nitrogen is, that pretty much all explosives we use, have nitro groups in them. And I love explosions and also fireworks.

  • @barharborbasher249
    @barharborbasher249 6 років тому +62

    ☕️ Love morning lessons

  • @dubbleyou248
    @dubbleyou248 4 роки тому +5

    What I learned today:
    You can shatter practically any object no matter how flexible it is by first putting it in liquid nitrogen

  • @montikore
    @montikore 2 роки тому +1

    Professor, greetings from America. You've inspired the young scientific boy in me time and time again. You're a treasure to your nation and the world. Thank you for all of the videos and all of the years!!!

  • @manuelboucas6951
    @manuelboucas6951 5 років тому +5

    These videos are just amazing.
    And highly addictive.
    Congratulations!!!

  • @csheadtrip
    @csheadtrip 6 років тому +2

    Yay, updated videos! Amazing production, Brady.

  • @acertainscientificloli6392
    @acertainscientificloli6392 6 років тому +67

    Could you do videos on F block elements in general? That would be great

    • @ThePharphis
      @ThePharphis 6 років тому +2

      ya it's interesting how much their chemistry overlaps (at least for the lanthanides)

    • @deralmighty8011
      @deralmighty8011 6 років тому +1

      Tallie Lintra I'd like to see a video on the element of music, as described on the totally not satirical, educational program Look Around You.

    • @ThePharphis
      @ThePharphis 6 років тому +1

      Look Around You is amazing

    • @ThePharphis
      @ThePharphis 6 років тому +3

      not so for the lanthanides... but yes most of the actinides are under very heavy restrictions (plenty of labs make Uranium compounds, but the paperwork and delay is tedious if it's not your specific area of interest).
      I personally have used all the lanthanides except the radioactive one (Promethium). Their chemistry is also very similar to Yttrium.
      However, lanthanides vary considerably in magnetic and electronic properties so they are quite interesting not to study individually but in series since they produce mostly isostructural compounds

    • @KarryKarryKarry
      @KarryKarryKarry 6 років тому +1

      Well if you haven't got the time to watch all of the videos and you need easy answers you can start at Uranium and just go from there. There's a bit of physics in that one as far as i can recall.

  • @ivanrocha1843
    @ivanrocha1843 3 роки тому +2

    Excelente video.... Gracias por los aportes demostrativos de la química a toda la comunidad. Continúen haciendo más Periodic Videos...

  • @bibasik7
    @bibasik7 6 років тому +19

    I make bad science puns, but only periodically.

  • @tom33453
    @tom33453 6 років тому +4

    I’ve been waiting for this video so long! (Nitrogen is one of my favourite elements)

    • @periodicvideos
      @periodicvideos  6 років тому +2

      Hope you liked it

    • @tom33453
      @tom33453 6 років тому +1

      I did! I can’t wait for the next video!

  • @peanuts2105
    @peanuts2105 6 років тому +5

    It's always the tie. Love it

  • @PedroDelimaMarcano
    @PedroDelimaMarcano 6 років тому

    Once again MANY THANKS to the professor, Neal and the team... Best invested 12 minutes of the week.

  • @noxcraft
    @noxcraft 6 років тому +1

    5:12 Those shoes are awesome! Neil style score: 100/10

  • @pietrotettamanti7239
    @pietrotettamanti7239 6 років тому +6

    Thank you! I've always wanted to see the reaction between NO and O2.
    For the petrol/diesel engines, you should have mentioned the catalytic converters. I've always found them really intresting, and I would love a more in-depth explaination of the adsorption mechanisms on platinum and palladium.

  • @so56.dfjkhds
    @so56.dfjkhds 6 років тому +14

    I had my last A level chemistry exam today. I just want to say how grateful I am for these videos. They're all so interesting and really helped me to appreciate the stuff I learnt in lessons. Depending on where I end up at uni I may not study chemistry again. It is a wonderful subject and these videos have helped me realise that. Thanks for making them!

    • @mr123leafman
      @mr123leafman 6 років тому

      Gotta love those electrophiles ay?

    • @zethayn
      @zethayn 3 роки тому

      And how are you, where did you end up?

    • @zethayn
      @zethayn 3 роки тому

      Wow, congratulations! Is chemistry absent from your life now?

    • @dimlighty
      @dimlighty Рік тому

      What are you up to now? Just curious.

  • @roidroid
    @roidroid 6 років тому +60

    I'd recommend showing the hammer smashing banana bit, to anyone on a dating site that sends you unsolicited fruit pics.

    • @StreakyBaconMan
      @StreakyBaconMan 4 роки тому +7

      He should do it again but with an eggplant this time.

  • @Ian_Durr
    @Ian_Durr 6 років тому +1

    One of the best channels!! Thank you so much!

  • @vibraphonics
    @vibraphonics 6 років тому +1

    This is just a brilliant video. Packed full of interesting information and fascinating experiments and so well shot as well.

  • @dylangrigas4355
    @dylangrigas4355 6 років тому +3

    As a learning chemistry student, I love these elements videos, so interesting

  • @cotyniccolai
    @cotyniccolai 3 роки тому

    I have an Inorganic Chemistry exam in a couple of hours, and Nitrogen is one of the main elements I had to study. This video is awesome really

  • @johnnypopulus5521
    @johnnypopulus5521 6 років тому

    Neil's boots are wicked. The Stig always dominates.

  • @WAMTAT
    @WAMTAT 6 років тому +14

    So cool for something we breath everyday.

    • @xevlonperc
      @xevlonperc 6 років тому

      alexander williams I'm not sure...

    • @MrPDawes
      @MrPDawes 6 років тому +1

      Including the NOx

  • @speckledjim_
    @speckledjim_ 3 роки тому +1

    Another wonderfully informative video by our very own Processor Proton, keep up the sterling work

  • @dogerriders868
    @dogerriders868 6 років тому +1

    Always good to see a new video, they are few and far between these days.

  • @yarraktare
    @yarraktare 6 років тому +12

    Poliakoff for president of the world!

  • @ZeedijkMike
    @ZeedijkMike 6 років тому

    Great mix of experiments.

  • @2450logan
    @2450logan 6 років тому +24

    The word you you were looking for when talking about NOx regarding diesel engines is their higher compression ratio thus higher temperatures.

    • @ColCurtis
      @ColCurtis 6 років тому +7

      Plus I believe a large factor in the production of NOx is because a diesel engine normally runs very lean, the cylinder always had an excess of oxygen that doesn't get burnt, and that can combine with nitrogen.

    • @joergmaass
      @joergmaass 6 років тому +2

      @Curtis You are right, and @logan thompson is only partially right. Diesel engines actually have lower combustion and exhaust temperatures than gasoline engines, but the fact that there is always excess oxygen is the main contributing factor for them to have higher emissions of nitrogen oxides.

    • @ph11p3540
      @ph11p3540 6 років тому

      That still leave the diesel engines particulates as part of the exhaust when they start rolling coal.

    • @AtlasReburdened
      @AtlasReburdened 6 років тому +2

      That's a really long word.

  • @djfacts5689
    @djfacts5689 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you sir
    You helped me to remember most of my inorganic reactions

  • @michaelinglis8516
    @michaelinglis8516 4 роки тому

    I love these videos too much! Thank you!!

  • @vtron9832
    @vtron9832 6 років тому +5

    I love your chemistry video, they are fun and curious

  • @kamilduda7704
    @kamilduda7704 6 років тому

    Published 3 hours ago - 1300 thumbs up! - It simply means You have a quite a big audience. Love Your's videos! Can't wait for more.

  • @Alex_science
    @Alex_science 4 роки тому +1

    Professor. Your videos are fantastic. They are very interesting and easy to understand.
    Congratulations from Brasil!

  • @marshallemmett3313
    @marshallemmett3313 6 років тому +1

    This is probably the most interesting video y'all've put out!

    • @periodicvideos
      @periodicvideos  6 років тому +1

      Thanks. Hope you shared it with some friends. :)

  • @alvarofue
    @alvarofue 6 років тому +1

    Great episode! Nice that you ended it with the NOx problem on diesel engines... You could also explain how urea cleans these NOx on modern after treatment systems.

  • @StonyRC
    @StonyRC 2 роки тому

    Neil is clearly a very serious guy - never appears to smile. I guess he's too busy making sure the Professor doesn't hurt himself!

  • @matt4176
    @matt4176 5 років тому

    Thumbs up to everyone watching this video.
    y’all could be watching k pop or cat videos, but y’all sticking to science and educational videos. Y’all are the real ones!

  • @joshuarosen6242
    @joshuarosen6242 6 років тому

    Top notch stuff as always. Keep 'em coming.

  • @typrus6377
    @typrus6377 6 років тому

    Petrol/gasoline engines do make NOx. The lower the compression ratio, the less conversion occurs in general. Diesel engines tend to run higher compression than gasoline/petrol which contributes, as does the general over abundance of air in a diesel engine, to high NOx production.
    I love the videos- thank you so much to the whole team for doing what you do!

  • @DrRich-mw4hu
    @DrRich-mw4hu 6 років тому +3

    Awesome as always! Thank you Professor 🤔

  • @paavobergmann4920
    @paavobergmann4920 2 роки тому

    As a biologist, we would use melting solid N2 to freeze samples. We would pour liquid nitrogen into a dewar, then place it in a vacuum chamber with a plexiglas lid, and pump the air out. The nitrogen would boil viciously until only only the slowest molecules remain, and they would solidify to a slurry. Then we would let air back in rapidly, remove the lid, and you would have a few seconds while the nitrogen was melting to put your sample in. The freezing nitrogen is quite beautiful, it forms like spaghetti ice, litlle growing worms of ice, each wit a droplet at the top.
    The reason we used it rather than liquid nitrogen is that not only is it a couple degrees colder (-212°), it also stays liquid until all the solid is molten, meaning your sample is less prone to the Leidenfrost effect, and you get much more rapid cooling, leading to partial vitrification of the sample which you need to study undisrupted cellular structures.

  • @TheElectra5000
    @TheElectra5000 6 років тому +2

    Have you guys ever made a video on glass? Something so fragile, yet so resistant; the main material in any chemical lab. I would love to know a little bit more about it.

  • @MrSeon123
    @MrSeon123 6 років тому +29

    7:15
    I think that's a bit wrong? Nitrogen has 7, oxygen has 8. Or 5 and 6 in the outer shell.

    • @DarthSagit
      @DarthSagit 6 років тому +5

      Indeed, oxygen has 6 valence electrons not total electrons. It has 8 electrons in total.

    • @czdaniel1
      @czdaniel1 6 років тому +3

      I can't figure out what logic could possibly result in that statement. I definitely can't figure out how it got past any editor during post-production.

    • @pietrotettamanti7239
      @pietrotettamanti7239 5 років тому +4

      Yes, he meant the total electrons for nitrogen and the valence electrons for oxygen. It can get a little confusing sometimes.

    • @forgedwithsteel
      @forgedwithsteel 4 роки тому

      he meant Valens electron

  • @shitbag.
    @shitbag. 6 років тому

    This was really good. Thanks.

  • @colmmcelarney6660
    @colmmcelarney6660 6 років тому

    Absolutely Amazing!!!!

  • @wscamel226
    @wscamel226 Рік тому +1

    Awesome videos!

  • @nano7586
    @nano7586 6 років тому +6

    If I only had watched these videos back in my first semester...

  • @RaExpIn
    @RaExpIn 6 років тому +1

    Nice video! Some time ago I made a video some time ago about magnesium and nitrogen reacting to form magnesium nitride. :)

  • @chunyingzhang6252
    @chunyingzhang6252 4 роки тому

    Hello! I'm Chunying's child and I love your videos.I also subscribed to your channel.

  • @nikoerforderlich7108
    @nikoerforderlich7108 6 років тому +1

    This was an unexpectedly pleasant video. I really loved 9:52 and 10:55. I can't explain why but those two scenes made me smile a lot.

  • @zeromailss
    @zeromailss 6 років тому +20

    5:40 that is a very cute action figure you got there, where can I buy one?

    • @Emil-cj6ey
      @Emil-cj6ey 4 роки тому

      Thats just a playmobil figure.

  • @cappilau7448
    @cappilau7448 6 років тому +2

    7:21 Just to remind that nitrogen has a total of 7 electrons, but has 5 at the outermost shell; oxygen has a total of 8 electrons and 6 at the outermost shell. The professor had a mistake saying that nitrogen has 7 electrons and oxygen has 6, but didn’t note that the conditions are different!

  • @JanicekTrnecka
    @JanicekTrnecka 6 років тому

    Dear Periodic Videos team, thank you very much for every video released...

  • @andrestrujado
    @andrestrujado 6 років тому +2

    Really informative and packed with experiments!!! Excellent video!!!It would have been interesting to show that nitrous oxide is the only other gas besides oxygen that relights a glowing splint. One of the reasons it's used as a liquid oxidiser in racing cars (Drag racing)

  • @ramanboucher
    @ramanboucher 6 років тому +1

    I

  • @markyyyyyyyy321
    @markyyyyyyyy321 6 років тому

    Hi Professor, thanks for your autograph:) regards Mark!

  • @jayscosta8803
    @jayscosta8803 3 роки тому

    Best professor on universe

  • @wendycornscorner1110
    @wendycornscorner1110 Рік тому

    This is a science treasure of all the world!

  • @M7j3
    @M7j3 5 років тому

    Your the best professor

  • @16m49x3
    @16m49x3 6 років тому

    This was the quality video I subscribed for

    • @periodicvideos
      @periodicvideos  6 років тому

      Thank you for being a subscriber. Hope you’re a bell subscriber. It’s getting harder and harder to reach even our subscribers these days!

  • @bryangill9507
    @bryangill9507 6 років тому

    Great video.

  • @98SuperDario
    @98SuperDario 6 років тому

    That's AMAZING!

  • @kaszanafred
    @kaszanafred 6 років тому

    Beautiful video :)

  • @SaengerDruide02
    @SaengerDruide02 6 років тому

    Thank you for the clarification about the remaining N2O in spray cream. Spared me a lengthy experiment :P

  • @IDKLOL555
    @IDKLOL555 6 років тому

    You should make an hour long video on ALL The elements to educate us more!

  • @Oddman1980
    @Oddman1980 6 років тому

    Another excellent video! One thing to point out however, petrol/gasoline engines DO make NOx - it's just easier on petrol engines to make them emit less NOx, using either EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) or adjusting cam timing to keep combustion temperatures down. Diesel engines can't really operate without those high temperatures however, so to deal with the NOx we are saddled with DEF (diesel exhaust fluid) systems in the US, which makes diesel engines, normally dependable, into cantankerous beasts with fierce maintenance requirements.

  • @TheAlexagius
    @TheAlexagius 6 років тому +1

    Useful for sparging for anaerobic work

  • @andyrodriguez1242
    @andyrodriguez1242 2 роки тому

    thanks professor woww

  • @fernsimonwoehllerman
    @fernsimonwoehllerman 4 роки тому

    Great professor

  • @sethmapayapa4509
    @sethmapayapa4509 5 років тому

    9:58 So that's why the blood of Horseshoe Crabs is blue, due to the copper. Excellent video Professor!

  • @illuminati.official
    @illuminati.official 4 роки тому

    I have to say, I know about fume hoods of course, but seeing it at work at 5:10 is really impressive.

  • @wedfrest
    @wedfrest 6 років тому +1

    Nice to see Neil is going through his industrial goth phase.

  • @rursus8354
    @rursus8354 6 років тому +5

    Nevertheless, *organic* nitrogen is the by far most important form of nitrogen.

  • @Tindometari
    @Tindometari 5 років тому +2

    "It's really quite beautiful when you heat it up."
    (sample suddenly bursts into sparking flames)

  • @evanhughes9576
    @evanhughes9576 6 років тому

    I love this channel.

  • @BengalsOfRidanos
    @BengalsOfRidanos 6 років тому

    Very interesting and nicely produced video.

  • @elnombre91
    @elnombre91 6 років тому +1

    You can also very easily generate NO2 by the reaction of concentrated nitric acid with ethanol. I once made the mistake of rinsing through a frit with ethanol then nitric acid, and learned my lesson quite quickly.

  • @kanishanvelavan2153
    @kanishanvelavan2153 Рік тому +1

    This is a nice video

  • @deepfriedsalt567
    @deepfriedsalt567 5 років тому +1

    At the risk of revealing too much about myself, my favourite application for nitrogen is synthesising azidoazide azide. This compound is so unstable, it is actually beyond our capabilities of measurement. If you want to know more about it, I recommend SciShow's video on the 5 most dangerous chemicals.

    • @Tindometari
      @Tindometari 5 років тому

      I read Derek's piece on this. Apparently you have to keep it in an autoclave for a week at a time, take it out to do something with it -- very, very carefully -- and put it back in for another week. Rinse and repeat for months. And then, when it's time to characterise your sample, as like as not you'll blow up three rotavaps before you can even get a sample as far as the spectrometer, and probably blow that up as well.
      There's crazy ... and then there's Klapötke crazy. (Though honestly, if I had my life to live over again, I'd go into chemistry and sign on with his group. You couldn't call it a boring life, really.)

  • @morgansmith6330
    @morgansmith6330 5 років тому

    Love the videos... is anyone else curious about that hitman Neil

    • @Tindometari
      @Tindometari 5 років тому

      They call him "Neil" because his real name is Igor. :)

  • @mathsprocircles2225
    @mathsprocircles2225 5 років тому

    A great great scientist

  • @marius19897
    @marius19897 6 років тому

    Thank you!