These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2024
- What are these electric blue ponds in the middle of the Utah desert? And why do they keep changing color?
Join Derek Muller (Veritasium) as he looks into the weird, bizarre, and seemingly inexplicable images found on Google Earth to discover what on Earth they actually are. It’s a travel vlog, documentary, and science show wrapped into one. It’s Pindrop.
0:00 Intro
0:29 Electric Blue Ponds
2:13 Finding The Truth
5:47 Importance Of Potash
8:41 Potash From Rocks
14:04 Safer Ways To Mine
15:02 Droning
17:28 Potash The Savior - Розваги
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I never really realized how annoying "TV Style" editing like this was until I stopped watching TV.
Especially the explosion sound effects are really annoying me. I just want to hear what the actual explosion sounds like, why the hell add another effect on top of it
So what you're saying is you prefer a smaller production budget?
@@BigDaddyWes not at all. I am sure you can spend a pile of cash on a product that feels closer to other things he makes. This isn't what I subbed for and it feels manufactured and actually feels cheap not money wise but content wise.
yeah, if could be edited without that 'TV' attitude and result in a much better video.
@@sirhenk5910 sorry to burst you bubble but there is no such thing as slow motion explosion sounds. High speed camera's don't record high speed audio. So everything you have ever watched with sound in slow motion has been edited. So any vid of the slowmoguys is also edited to hell.
I'm a 35 years old scientist, and this is the first time I learnt that the name "potassium" came from "pot ash". One of those trivia facts which you don't really learn in education.
But what gender is the potassium and how is it oppressed?
Maybe at your school. I learned this in 6th grade.
@@walperstyle are you trying to be funny
Looked at your acc, seems like ur just a lying creep that subs tonevery woman he can find
Kazakhstan has the best potassium
This video has such videography. The script is also very well written, in such a way that it generates curiosity to know more and more. It felt like I was watching a show on BBC or Discovery and it brings back so many memories, felt super nostalgic. Kudos to the writer, director, videographer, producer and everyone else involved in making this video, absolutely loved it!
bbc
To compare this to Discovery channel and BBC today is an insult to this video.
The difference between this video and most other Veritasium videos is ART DEPARTMENT! Models are always dope.
@@manicmartyr69 I mean, I get people are salty with the BBC for whatever political reasons they don't like but they have been at the forefront of broadcasting technology since forever. A lot of core tech that's used throughout the entire industry comes from the BBC's RnD departments from colour science to audio specs (I say this having worked as a colourist for the better part of a decade). Plus they do make some super pretty stuff. David Attenborough's shows have been the high bar for documentary film making since forever and always put a focus on pushing technology and film making forward. They might make some ropey looking scifi every now and then (looking at you Dr Who) but shows like Peaky Blinders show they can make some good looking TV when they want to. Can't say I dig Discovery's style much though. Only so many cheesy "the truth is out there" documentaries I can stomach :D
Absolutely, but what's with the weird caricature of Humphry Davy, you'd think he'd deserve some respect.
I work in oil refining in a sulfur recovery unit. I recently took a class. We learned how sulfur is essential to life, and it's just a coincidence that sulfur production from refining has increased at the same rate that the population demand for sulfur. I think this could also be an interesting subject for a video.
There’s too much Discovery Channel in my Veritasium.
? Mythbusters style I might say...
Maybe let it dry out in evaporation ponds and scrape the Veritasium off the top?
Ye, remove that TV mayonnaise from my youtube.
@@stanbinary Mythbusters was a bit more toned down and just about rode the line of bad and cheesy, but enjoyable.
I couldn't have said it better.
I think he should be given the budget of the UA-cam show but they don’t force him to use their commercialized editing and video structure.
But the props were nice.
I hate the whole low frame rate vibrating stuff aesthetic that this has
Agreed
That would be amazing. Same budget, but fire the graphics guys and spend it on science instead.
It was way too shaky. It's like the viewers are expected to have ADHD.
My wifes family is from Moab. She graduated HS there and we lived there in the mid 70's.
The Potash industry there employed alot of locals but it was just one of many mining type jobs in that area. Uranium was also big business in the Moab area. If you weren't mining the minerals you were trucking them and if you weren't trucking them you were processing the minerals in some mill or shipping them out on railcars to points unknown. But even I didn't fully know the history of Potash.
This was very interesting and informative. I had no idea the overall impact and importance of that Potash. Thank you. I'm a new subscriber ✅
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The amount of work you put in your videos is outstanding. You take your time explaining the details with great animations and experiments!
These are the videos I pay my internet bills for, very informative and entertaining, also value the hardwork put in...
What a compliment
These type of people are why I keep living
Yep, not for ur channel lol
Damn I pay my internet for memes lol
Such great vids the school system can revolutionize the education system if they change just a two things. Hiring the right teacher that is passionated about other learning like this guy and what you teach. It's no secret school are teaching so many useless topics that wont help you grow in life leaving other topics that are far more important like financial and what not and let me tell you, old ways dont open new doors... Education needs to change as time goes by.
This is like 90's Discovery Channel, before it all went to reality show crap.
And shark week
2000's also had some good shows tho😣
This reminds me of Nat Geo
What if we have a reality TV show between a married couple of Potassium, Hydrogen, and their whiney kid, Oxygen?
@@runed0s86 Those would be some explosive episodes that's for sure 😂
Awesome presentation!
Btw, I wish Derek did one presentation for each element in periodic table. It will be very insightful and educational to know the discovery, uses and properties of each element.
The channel Periodic Videos has an old series like this, check it out!
i'll second that! I would definitely watch.
damn this is a great idea! :D lets hope he makes it happen!
Read the disappearing spoon by Sam Kean. It is exactly that
It is not a good thing, that we re over populating.
When you mentioned that mining is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, it reminded me of another dangerous job. Saturation diving! I'd love to see an episode of that!
Dear UA-cam: I love you because you're not TV. Don't try to become TV.
yeah I was like, if I wanted National Geographic I'd watch National Geographic
Why you are not happy with high quality content ?
@@zaidrahman1398 I've been subed to Veritasium for more then a decade. Derick is a great youtuber, but this video just reeks of that same vapid corporate energy that plagues shows on TV, and that destroyed the Discovery and History channels
@@zaidrahman1398 It's not about the quality, the style of filming and commentating made the video drag a bit imo. It's the same reason I hate most documentaries.
@@MadMadCommando the production values were unnecessarily high. It didn't improve the content at all.
I love how that bucket jumped all the way out of camera shot and then landed back on the table, that was so cool
That whole sequence had some pretty great accidental comedic timing.
I searched up raining indoor potassium for this and I couldn’t find this video but I found the channel and found the video on the channel.
Learn some other adjectives. Nothing cool about an explosion.
@@kenbellchambers4577 thanks for sharing your subjective opinion buddy
@@mranonymous3554 Seeing so many people brainwashed to the point of being literal monosyllabic morons is not a 'subjective analysis'. Every one wants to be a hipster. It is so cool to say 'so cool'. There are many other words in our diverse language, but it always 'cool', 'cool', 'cool' You know what is cool? A freaking dead penguin. Try some other words for a change, it doesn't hurt.
I saw these ponds on my flight from Denver to Bakersfield Ca and have wondered what they were ever since. They are so stark and noticeable in the terra cotta-colored landscape. I've shown them to several people with google maps because I think there so cool and unusual THANK YOU!
My meth addicted brother thought he could smoke it
There is lots of potash mining in Saskatchewan (my home province) and it was really cool to learn about the history. I had NO IDEA of the origin with burned hardwoods. I have only ever known it as a mined substance.
Thanks UA-cam! I used to be the plant engineer at this potash plant from 2004-2007. It's still owned by Intrepid Potash Inc. out of Denver. Pretty accurate in all accounts technically. The solution mining method was at first just flooding the original room and pillar underground mine. In 2005 they drilled a set of interconnected horizontal boreholes through the potash bearing strata using the same tech used for horizontal oil and gas drilling. A small point of clarification, but the majority of the evap ponds are actually sodium chloride and the KCL is separated in the plant a few miles east via an amine bubbling process. The remaining sodium saturated water is actually recycled back down the pump shafts. KCL is preferentially soluble in water and this keeps the sodium byproduct from building up. All the feed lines are kept as saturated as possible to minimize corrosion, which as you might imagine can be a big problem.
How much danger is there of the pumped liquid leaking out into the nearby river? I know fracking has dangers of introducing contaminants into the water supply, but that is often due to the fragile nature of the rock where the natural gas is present. Does the potash have a similar structure and therefore similar dangers?
you mean thank veritasium
@@PrinceKaladin - The underground solution mining is not done under pressure like hydraulic fracturing (I also spent 18 years as a petrophysicist in the oil and gas industry) so no leakage from underground to the surface water. The ponds are lined with a synthetic rubber liner and they don't scrape it clean when the harvest the evaporated product with converted road scrapers. There is a rock hard layer of salt on the bottom. That said, there is no 400 acre ponds that do not leak, and there is some from the ponds. The water flows across some less permeable rock layers under the ponds and comes out near the river. There are a series of sumps and pumps to catch and recirculate the leakage. Honestly there is not much in the way of harmful contaminants in the water. Mostly just salts and some of the CuSO4, but in very trace quantities. I used to do mass spec analysis on occasion. But it's not great to salinate the Colorado either, so yea they do the best they can but it's not perfect.
Must be pretty weird seeing a place you're familiar with in a series about mysterious locales.
Is the copper sulfate in the formation or added? That wasn't clear to me. Thanks for expanding on the chemistry.
So, I think this is due to the UA-cam originals, but the editing and pacing of this one are in contrast with the cozy and polite Veritasium-style. I can feel a "The History Channel" vibe here, it's just odd.
Yes, because this for UA-cam Original which means technically IT IS a TV show/series format
@Abhinavv Arora In this case it doesn't work. I sincerely appreciated Mindfield, because it wasn't in this TV-esque style.
@@farifairis7388 I know, but UA-cam has to be different from TV. I chose it for this reason. You have to be hooked by content, not from the fancy style. Feels like you miss the message, here. Even though the content is great as always
i don't like it at all
liked it, but I would've like the show a lot more if it didn't have all that way too loud, hyper-active music and sound effects. Also, those incredibly shaky graphics and camera angles are really hard to look at.
I personally prefer the much slower pace of the usual videos, rather than this more traditional TV-like pacing. They don't need to keep their audience's attention on such a tight leash, we're all here because we like his usual videos, which are generally calmer, slower paced, and less saturated (like geez it's like the colors are screaming at me in this video). A documentary-style series would've been much more in-line with that rather than... whatever this is
Outstanding video, Derek, as always. Fun to learn, interesting topic, and expertly narrated. Well done.
Fun fact: The biggest consumer of fireworks in the world besides the US Department of Defense...is the Walt Disney Company! With firework shows performed nightly like Enchantment at Magic Kingdom, Momentous at Hong Kong Disneyland, and HarmonioUS at Epcot, Disney has to keep up with how many fireworks they need to perform every night, and for every time a new show debut. Disney spends 50 million on them every year!
I will check it out.
ok, SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
“I’ve seen this demo before, but never with such a huge explosion”
Mark Rober: “is that a challenge?”
Mark Rober: w o r l d s b i g g e s t p o t a s s i u m e x p l o s i o n
"Please do not try this inside at home kids...."
Rober? You mean styropyro?
@@well_as_an_expert_id_say
Styropyro would get a kilo of potassium and light with a laser
@@well_as_an_expert_id_say marks also a great scientist,
I was more amazed by how strong that bucket is
looks like it got pulled up with strings or sum. very sus that it landed back upright
@@keatonspersonalemail9689 force of explosion was evenly distributed through the water so the bucket didnt spin much, plus the water kept the bucket heavy when it hit so it didnt go much of anywhere
@@keatonspersonalemail9689 why would they fake an explosion
@@pootzeketzi1233 cuz I’m high asf
@@keatonspersonalemail9689 hahaha
This is super interesting to me since I work for Nutrien Agriculture, the largest producer of potash in the world. They are based in Saskatchewan, and formed by a mergre of Potash Corp and Agrium. Thanks for the great video!
I'm going to watch this at least 2 more times, to cement all of the ways it can be made and which version creates which composition of Potash and then how each can be used!!! AWESOME video!!! Definitely knowledge worth knowing for sure!!!
So proud of you, this is such a GREAT SHOW!
Don't talk to me! I am famous! Don't dislike my good good GOOD videos! Don't talk to me, dear dario
I won’t buy UA-cam original
Like it
Curious.. a "show".. when i thinked this channel was all about science.
Totally agree, I like better the previous cozy style
Fascinating video. Potash is also mined at the Bonneville Salt Flats outside of Wendover, Utah, which is like this place one of the stranger landscapes you'll ever see on Earth. Looking forward to more! -John
I know this is random, but yeah. This is why America has so much ammunition.
No one asked, JOHN!
Same company as the Moab plant. They bought it while I was with the company. Obviously different process though because of no underground mining. Same amine separation process. I liked the management at the Wendover site better though!
I live in Utah but I’ve never seen these
Not to be confused with Wendover Productions
Amazing video! The quality is way up. The shots, the interviews and on-screen guests, the script that builds tension and invites other voices… well done sir.
So glad I found this video! I noticed these huge pools of - something - on Google Earth once, in the middle of a desert in China, and wondered what on Earth they could be. I mean, they were out in the middle of absolutely nowhere, with no cities, towns or habitation sites for what must have been hundreds of miles around, and they had to be enormous to show up at the altitude I was viewing from. Now I know what they are. Cheers!
The editor of this video: "I paid for the whole software and I'll use the whole software"
I think we should cut Derek some slack. He is clearly excited to be doing something he's always wanted to do, which is filmaking with a high budget. I think over time their editing style should find a good balance between "look how much this cost" and "we don't need to use all the takes".
the production value of this is insane...
Yeah really, wow... Giving me some strong Mythbusters(?) vibes.
Yoo i used to watch ur videos
Yeah, and it makes it feel dead. Like it's some corporate mayonnaise.
I far prefer his usual style, not overloaded with 'cool' TV crap.
@@Steelrat1994 Agree. The over the top producing (music, footage, script...)makes everything so exaggerated and over acted...
Everything used to be much simpler, and that’s not bad at all.
it is insane indeed...
I love the way you connect somewhat weird esoteric things like potash to Potassium to real historical facts and everyday usage. This synthesis is what makes for great content in the hurricane of crap and sensationalist baloney I must sift through online. Great job and thank you for doing it righ!
Great video. It shows the interconnectivity and importance of another, largely unknown, industry to the rest of society.
feels a little bit like i'm watching a commercial disguised as a documentary
welcome to entertainment
Word
Accurate
Yeah... this dude clearly in the pocket of big pot ash...
@@Heywoodthepeckerwood big potash 10/10 lol
Please don't lose the personal touch and turn into an overproduced version of TV.
It would be shame
I love Ve but the editing made me cringe and the pace was so slow for the complexity of the subject. I felt like this video was aimed at children.
@@user-fs7eq8lq4w I hope that this is sarcastic like some kind of parody
@@ericcartman1929 ikr lmfao
@@user-fs7eq8lq4w Worse, it was aimed at boomers.
The Davy lamp is actually the second lamp that was designed to be used in areas where firedamp was a concern. The first lamp was created by George Stephenson, up here in the North East of England. In fact, the "Geordie Lamp" was in use for a couple of years before Davy demonstrated his own lamp. The reason the Davy lamp became common was purely down to discrimination - nobody believed that a poor, uneducated enginewright could possibly have created such a device. It wasn't until a committee of enquiry was held that Stephenson was exonerated, but by then the damage was done. Interestingly enough, the Geordie lamp was actually superior - with a high enough concentration of firedamp, the Geordie lamp would self-extinguish. This was in contrast to the Davy lamp, which would simply increase in temperature until it became unbearable to hold, and the lamp failed and the firedamp exploded anyway.
Are you saying George Stephenson was a African American? Or Mexican?
@@carpballet What part about "North East of England" don't you understand?
Geordie lamps for the Geordies of Yorkshire?
@@NorthernScrub - My daughters just returned to the U.S. from two weeks in the U.K. I shocked them a little when I knew who the Geordies are and that Newcastle is the castle built in like 1010 to replace the Roman 'castle' which I think was just a fortified settlement.
@@NorthernScrub Gosh. Sorry. I read “discrimination” and in the US the first thing we think is it must have involved blacks or Mexicans. My bad.
Those pot ash ponds look amazing from Anticline overlook. Which is about a 45 minute drive from where I live but until now I never knew how the mine worked or operated. Very interesting and educational. Thank you for the video.
If Veritasium was a school there would not be a single person that hated science or maths. The way he explains with so much hard work i never wish to leave his videos unwatched.
So true. Leaders in education should take notice on how it should be done
@@TheHunter2 except the actual part of learning people hate is the repetition needed to understand a subject completely. Veritasium is a great teacher because he isn't forcing you to do the homework it takes to keep knowledge in ya brain.
Exactly schools are failing kids big time
@@SpeedomusicSM its super sad.
I had this one math teacher who knew exactly what to say and i got straight A's.
Then i got another math teacher who was always goofing around and i got C's and D's.
One person can make such a big difference explaining the same stuff.
Cause even the same type of math gave me different grades just because of the teacher.
@@napoleonbonerfarte6739 I don't know... Watched it once; remember it all.
This episode is like a nat geo documentary
... But without the dry narrator.
Nah, much more History Channel
Yeah, I found it disturbing as well. Not the usual Veritasium video I signed up for
@@panda4247 I have a headache
@@DictateGPT same
That’s interesting. I actually didn’t realize the origin of potash was so deep. I love these videos. Keep on posting
Great video, thank you! I've seen these ponds since 1978 and never inquired into their purpose, lazy me! That area was also part of a uranium mining boom in the 1950's. When I first visited Canyonlands Natl. Park, it was the 2nd least visited park in the entire system. Moab was "discovered' by the fat tire bikes in 1985-6, and it's been transformed since then. Such a fabulous part of the world!
I’m sensing a conflicting point of view here.
Derek thought it was an educational video about an odd subject.
UA-cam thought it was a murder mystery.
Exactly
While the video is amazing, I found the constant cuts around the explosions, and the broad, awe-filled, Discovery Channel-esque intro and tone of writing to be a bit distracting
I think we can all agree that potash is far more riveting content than murder trials.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I can agree. I was on the edge of my seat.
@@Yorb. living life on the edge
No one talking about how freaking epic was the bucket jump.
Good thing it was plastic!
I didnt notice that my jaw was dropped for about 3 minutes after that just trying to process what i had just seen
I know!! LOVED it!!! And I can't believe how he remained relatively mild in his amusement the whole time. Every time I've done an explosion demo, I jump like 5 feet in the air and yell "OH SH**!!!!"
You are
WHY did it jump tho ?? You would expect that water rapidly blowing up should push bucket down, but instead bucket just flies after water, like rocket flying backwards, weird.
It's been a while I have watched your video fully.
Great video series to watch.
And never seen that much excitement on that Potassium hydroxide blast
Wow, I just flew over these today and didn’t know what they were! So glad you made this!
I am a 64 yr. man from Rochester, NY and I want to thank you for all that you have taught me. You're never to old to learn new things. I have spent my life composing music and I really think watching your show has made me better at it. I am happy to support your show. Your energy really drives the show. See ya!
I'm 65, we're not old. 60 is the new 50
didn't you know?
@@elcruzer6706 Really, you don't HAVE to comment.
He aint 64
Thank you for this! I'm still in my 20s and already feel like I'm too old to learn music (I never had the access/connection/proper introduction). My own brain is making me doubt myself, even when I'm aware of how wrong the thought is.
@@darksuprise1564 he actually is!
I prefer Veritasium suspended in the middle of giant illusion attached to celing spinning and talking
yes hahaha, i want him to have a higher budget but this style of documentary video is meh compared to his usual style
Just wanted to say thank you for all these eye-opening videos you make.
I really got answers to all the questions I had during this video.
One question remains, what does the end date for when the potassium will run out, and does scientists looking for alternative solutions?
Thanks
I have a brand new and deep respect for Potash now!!!! I had no idea of it's importance. Looking forward to other videos from you. Thank you!!
"it's so reactive that it'll react with anything"
So basically, twitter is a potassium
I am wheezing hard
trueeee
i fully advocate for submerging all of twitter in a vat of oil, so it doesnt even get to react with the moisture in the air
Amen
Hahahaha. Similar.
"Potassium, along with nitrogen and phosphorus, help crops grow far larger, and makes them drought resistant."
Wait, so electrolytes really are what plants crave?
Indeed.
But you also need to sprinkle enough toilet water on them, or they'll just dry out.
Brawndo's got electrolytes
Water? Like, out the toilet?
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Oow
@@davidpadilla1354 Hail Satan
This guy deserves his own TV documentary series.
He has one. Uranium, Chasing the dragons tail.....google it/
Two things: One, a great novel I read once, I think it was called Destiny's Road? Was about a human colony on an alien world, that had been there so long the colonists forgot they were colonists. The downside, there was no natural potassium on this planet. The pseudo-government were the only entity that knew how to grow potassium-rich plants in the alien soil, guarded very heavily. The plants were harvested and 'speckles' were sold in shakers, like salt and pepper, that people would buy from traveling merchants to put on their food. There was even a saying, "speckle-shy", as people who couldn't afford enough speckles would often end up with developmental disabilities...
Also, we learned from Borat that Kazahkstan is the world's number one exporter of potassium, right?" :P
"That's a nice drone, man. So you trust me to fly this thing?"
"Umm... no"
Lets the professional fly the drone. In other news - great Discovery Channel style content, not too bad. Checked all the boxes for "content"
15:51 Mark he was really working that right camera joystick like a pro
@Jayden Tan SO THAT'S WHY MY OLD TEACHER PRONOUNCED IT AS "POTASHIUM"
The amount of work put in this video is blowing my mind!!
True
Blowing my mine! 😂
@@DrManhattan84 He had a chance and missed it. 🤣🤣
Ha!..So vast
Just shows such a contrast on how most of these UA-cam science videos have little to zero new created content and little interest in informing. Many UA-cam channels are mostly parasitical, they just copy stuff to get short views.
As the holder of a USA Patent! Can I suggest that the conscious decision to avoid the Patented Davis lamp under license to avoid expensive fees, was a major factor in the loss of all those miners lives? This report into the disaster should be looked at again to expose the true reasons for such terrible inexcusable “reasons” offered in the report.
Greed is pernicious then and now!
Congratulations of this outstanding source of knowledge!❤
nicely explained. the illustration @14:20 and analogizing water molecules to miners is brilliant
I like how they're just interviewing people in the middle of the desert lol
Yea
Yea
Google money brought them out there and back.
That's Dead Horse Point State Park. Near Moab. Yes, next to Canyonlands NP.
Yes, it's in the middle of a desert.
At least that guy got an interview. How about the guy making glass? They probably spent hours with him and he only got 5 seconds of screen time.
This looks like a show that would run on the Discovery channel back in the day when it was actually good. Wow, Derek this is a new level of quality!
I agree, smb
I like the nod to James Burke's 'Connections' series. Keep up the good work!
OMG I JUST found these on Google Maps as I was planning a road trip to Texas for the eclipse, and BAM Derek's video pops up in my feed!
So UA-cam Originals did an episode with Veritasium.
Can we have a Veritasium version please
“So I can fly your drone?”
“No, you can control the camera on the drone.”
Lol 🤣
🤣🤣🤣
What type of drone was that?
@@2inchANDY dji inspire 2 i think
Nicest way of saying "HELL NAH!"
Thanks for the explanation. We saw these pools from a viewpoint in canyonlands national park back in 2014 and I always wondered about the meaning. Now i know, thanks to Derek!
THANK YOU. I've been seeing these for years on Google Earth, all over the world, and was always so curious about them.
My science teacher in high school once dropped a piece of potassium in a glass container of water, and caused the same explosion seen in this video. He had dropped a piece way bigger than intended. I still remember the terror we felt till this day, 40 years later.
Yeah, my science teacher wanted to show us how we could create hydrogen gas and then to show that it was hydrogen gas by the whooping sound it makes when burning. Except by mistake he used way higher molarities than intended and thus there was glass and acid everywhere in the room when the whoop instead turned into an explosion. He was shocked. We were shocked.
@@hen-rex Yeah, that was our case also. 😀
i would thought sodium would be more explosive, i see potassium is just as reactive as Na.
@@andrewcannon587 Both are Group 1 elements, potassium being one period lower has greater atomic radius, and lower ionization energy which means it's easier for K to lose the lone outer electron than Na. Gain or lose electrons = "reaction". Potassium therefore more reactive than sodium.
Our science teacher did the same thing and a small piece shot up and lodged into the drop ceiling tile and the fire dept had to be called.
I think were all blown away by the fact that the bucket stayed upright after the explosion.
YESSSS
Yes of course I am
Not as blown away as that bucket
As well as intact!
Most intriguing part!
Fabulous! Thank you. I sold many Davy lamps in my Antique Shop days in the 90's.
"I did not expect it to do that!" backs up, carries it with a 6 ft pole, has safety glasses on
whoever did the soundtrack and foley got a little carried away...
yeah it was a bit intrusive but the video is great otherwise
agreed
Agreed. I would have liked to hear what the actual explosions sounded like.
0:20
The music is so much compressed I get a head ache, and had to stop watching.
Audio engineer: Which dials and buttons should I use?
Producer: Y E S .
"UA-cam Originals"
Me: Hmm, I wonder if that means...
Music in this video: Yep!
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@@davidpadilla1354 just stop, goddamnit.
@@davidpadilla1354 take your meds
@@davidpadilla1354 You're gossiping about Obama.
Once again ,another holy grail video. I mean, I always loved your channel forreal, but the consistency of your content is just unmatched to me.
These videos are amazing! You have become a true master of engaging and entertaining education. Thank you for making these!
Oh, also, what is that song at the beginning of "Safer Ways to Mine"?? I love it!
The style of the vid isn’t Dereks fault, it’s UA-cam’s. He mentioned in an earlier comment he fought hard against this editing style and will try and stand his ground for the next episode.
Where is this comment btw ?
i'm not following - how can youtube force creators to edit their videos a certain way?
@@Tomas-rl5dx This series is produced by Google, who own UA-cam
The fact is that he still gave in. He could have asked for money via Patreon like other creators, but instead he signed up and sold his personality and channel. I know it may sound brutal but it honestly is an act of distrust towards his viewers, and a statement he is choosing to pleas the algorithm over pleasing the viewer.
@@foorack Greed but he is lying puppet anyway so its good that ge got himself fked.
Dear UA-cam: I don't need an explosion every 2 min to keep me interested in science.
...But you do need to complain about UA-cam twice a video apparently. Also, this is just a channel on UA-cam... not the entire thing. 🙄
@@megamanx466 It's a sponsored UA-cam Original. This is what the UA-cam execs think the people want
@@MadMadCommando UA-cam is always trying to be more like TV for some reason. These shows always have good content because of the people making them, but really annoying and cliche style and presentation which makes it feel like I'm watching some dumbed down version for wide TV audiences.
@@MadMadCommando Well I and a number of other viewers like it, but many don't. Seems like he should do both formats. Both are fine to me anyway. 😅
@@ronanmcintyre It's only "dumbed down" if you're intelligent enough not to learn anything from it. The info is key; the format is arbitrary.
In the past I used to rely on TV for informative content just like this one. But nowaday programmes like this one are so rare I decided not to own a TV. Thank you for this marvellous piece. I hope I manage to make an English lesson based on this very material. I hope my students are going to love it as much as I did.
Been watching you for years! Thanks for the education and entertainment. This is my favorite video btw!
Thank you Derek. As a chemist, I sort of knew about these things theoretically but you made it so real. That potassium explosion was wild. I've seen sodium hit water before but nothing like that. I once had to solve a mystery when sticks of white phosphorus (stored under water) were confused with sticks of sodium (stored under oil) and there were sudden delayed explosions as water penetrated under the oil. I heard that the DuPont Chemical company got its start during the Revolutionary war by skimming potash off of crystals from drying urine soaked soil to make gunpowder. I thought you were going there with your patent. And KCl as a fertilizer will carry along the chlorine which is a no-no on fields so how is it modified before application? Copper mines in Arizona also have beautiful blue pools of copper sulfate. Thanks for explaining the confusion in terminology between different meanings of potash. How about soda ash? I thought it's always sodium carbonate. Wonderful video!
Standard industrial process is to react KCl with NaNO3 for KNO3 and NaCl. Sodium nitrate is also mineable (chilean potash) as a naturally occurring mineral. There are some other modern routes, but this was before the Haber-Bosch process so it precludes readily available ammonia.
I wonder how they get the copper sulfate out of it once they add it in. Copper does kill algae, in fact it kills everything alive and never decompose (copper would be copper forever), so it is not something you want to spread into the environment if not necessary.
This is kind of ridiculous. Everything is over the top. Just let Derreck do his usual thing. It works. Why did UA-cam have to change everything about the style just to release it as an original?
money
It’s awful. Too much nonsense and not enough information.
@Adrian M No, this was actually really good. Just because money and big companies are involved shouldn't change your opinion. This is Veritasium, just with better animation, better shots, better music, better quality. Do you really want to go back to old shitty youtube style videos, with garbage sound and 480p quality ?
The only reason you are hating on this is because the youtube logo is on it.
I'm also wondering if part of the budget didn't come from mining companies.
He explains how water is used to mine the potash safely, but no mention on how much water is used, how it impacts other uses of the river, etc. I've seen enough complains about the use of water in mining to suspect there's something left out here.
And before someone jumps at me: no, I'm no concluding anything. I'm suspecting important information is left out, and without it it's impossible to form a complete picture.
@@frechjo I mean yes it does use water but who is to say it’s fresh water? And even if it does use a lot of water this process seems to be the safest and least impactful. And I still believe the environmental impact is outweighed by the food and other stuff it provides.
What a great resource for scientifically minded individuals. I love science that has a story. It relieves one of the task of memorization. The story is so fascinating, that the facts remain in the mind. Thank you for a well done resource. I am truly engrossed by your presentations.
Nice homage to the Connections format 👏. My favorite classic science + history show.
"I'm surrounded by rocks, and landforms, and... this scrub." [looks at my reflection]
"I don't want no scrub, a scrub is a guy that can get no love from me..."
*closes helmet* KEEP FIRING, SCRUBS!
@@Nemozoli no pigeon either
This is like an over-the-top parody of Tom Scott.
He even talked about "Amazing Places"
and over-the-budget too!
Tom Scott seems like a cheap version of Vsauce
@@aiden3229 wrong
so an american version of tom scott
I'm glad the level of content is getting better
Thank you a lot for making us smarter
This is the kind of stuff I want to study in school, only if they present it like Veritasium it would appeal to many students, this guy makes learning a fun process!
“mining is one of the most dangerous professions”
yeah no crap. one creeper decides to blow up behind one of the miners and the whole thing lights on fire
M i n i n g A w a y
Minecraft Reference.
I D o n t K n o w W h a t To M i n e
B u t I l l M i n e I t A n y w a y
M i n e d i a m o n d s
I wish the editing of these videos was less sensational. It's becoming discovery channel.
so what does it mean to be discovery-channel-esque? i haven't watched it in cable for years, and i don't remember anything shown in dc that has this video's editing style.
Why? It's really good
@@tsaqifammarsakti7825 because it looks stupid and cringy
I can barely get through the video. It's like watching reality TV. Also, first sound in the entire video is BWAAAAAAAAA
yeah, it got a bit platitudinous, especially at the end when he gets the social history wrong but Sounds Very Authoritative About It
Please, Derek, don’t turn into NDT
Some years ago I was exploring on Google Earth in Street View and going through the Valley of the Gods, East of Cedar Mesa and North of Mexican Hat and all of this not too far from Monument Valley. I followed the road for a long time and came across these pools and was amazed to the colors. Yeah, I was right next to the fences you see in this video with the ponds in the background. And of course there no signs saying what this was and now I know! Thank you so much for what you do and for this solved mystery that I had.
I did some work at the Potash Mine in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Pretty neat to know a little history behind it.
I’ll never understand why youtube thinks people want generic network tv style shows from their favourite creators. This video was interesting, but the editing was annoying af with all the awful tropes of a discovery channel type show.
My thoughts exactly!
I've thought this for ages. I honestly don't know how it isn't a bigger discussion and I really really hope someone with an audience talks about it
That low "brrrrrrrrr" base and music were really annoying. The information presented deserves better soundtrack or none at all
100% agree. It felt like a cheap rip-off from Derek's much better thought out work
i liked it
I'm extremely happy YT has finally recognized a creator and educator dedicated and able as Veritasium, but their approach is still off IMHO.
I remember the Vsauce series and to me that was far worse, but the overproduction with constantly different music, sound effects, low quality animations strip the clean and curated look of high quality UA-cam and instead feels like ripping off the Discovery Channel. We're getting better but i still feel like this isn't what it's needed. You don'0t have to dress up science and mesmerize us with distracting explosions sound effects, the content is already interesting, let it shine in itself!
you
@@mooneymakes359 wat
i mean
i don’t mind the high quality
i don’t think it is taking away from the content
THIS IS AN OPINION
@@AverageJoe610 for me “dumbing down” here is more noticeable than quality :|
Seems I’m getting old))
I agree. Veritasium on his own is great. This seemed very clickbaity, forced and unnatural. Maybe YTO had some guidance on what kind of content guaranteed retention in young audiences?
ive never been so hooked or so interested in something i never thought i would ever care about . god bless youtube man
What an awesome video which brings back fun and exciting memories of our science teacher performing that potassium in water experiment. I am now living in Morocco, in Safi and Morocco is the biggest producer of Phosphates and we have large factories in Safi. Phosphurus is very important for the production of fertilizer too. The colours of those pools are just so pretty and it also reminds me of my visit to the Dead sea in Palestine.
4:15 - What amazes me is that the bucket jumped so high, and survived that explosion!
And landed upright
If you played Minecraft you would know, that an explosion in water (either by potassium or creepers or others) does'nt destroy anything!
Please educate yourself!
“Explosions in water don’t damage anything”
Submarines:🙄
@@angeloc1340 lmao
@@angeloc1340 r/woooosh
I hope this video is just part of a new series to attract more casual viewers and not the only direction Veritasium is going to take from now on. As a physicist, I really enjoy in-depth videos about complex concepts like relativity. These were to be the signature of Veritasium and made the channel complementary to channels like Smarter Every Day.
Kévin Cognée I too like to learn and dislike infotainment thats watered down to the lowest common denominator.
I want to know if there was any external funding for this glorification of a severely devastating mining practice which is destroying a lot of southern america with the US strong-arming major salt processing over there
yea i hate this shitty editing. it's like watching an american tv show.
Keep it difficult, please. Old UK duffer here, with you from the start :)
I've seen these ponds from the air me and knew they were evaporation ponds but didn't know what they were extracting. Nice to know. Another one of life's little mysteries solved.
Excellent presentation of the information. Thanks so much!
Don’t get all “corporate” on us. We love this channel just the way it was/is! 👍
He'd be sponsored if he was. He is just stating an undeniable truth.
he doesnt even make money on this
He's just trying to improve his production quality. I think it feels a bit jarring because we aren't used to this level of production on UA-cam videos, but it's not necessarily a bad thing.
Love this. Fascinating content.
Editing was a bit over-the-top though. Much prefer the typical "tell it like it is" style.
Nicely said.
The dolphin training facility!! 🤣🤣
That’s what I’ve always heard these called. We see them while skydiving and BASE jumping around Moab. So glad you explained this.
😂😂😂 Yes!
They are beautiful in contrast to the red rock all around. Just need some majestic dolphins hopping from pool to pool.
I watched every single minute of this video and that's hard for me to do. Very entertaining!