Iridium and Osmium Discovery - Periodic Table of Videos
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Smithson Tennant's discovery of Osmium and Iridium is beautifully documented in the Royal Society archives.
Professor Martyn Poliakoff explains.
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I love that Wikipedia has already been updated (with sources cited) to reflect this information. Thanks for paying it forward, whoever you are!
I like how the Professor just talking about a manuscript can be both informative and entertaining. A sign of a great educator :)
Great video!! and here is another interesting FACT:
Osmiridium a natural alloy of Os-Ir was very popular in the early 1930's because it was used mainly as the tip of the fountain pen nibs due to the incredible strength and density of the alloy. The tip was just at the end of the nib which was usually made of gold.
True fact: he used copy & paste because his first suggestions for the two elements were "Smithson-Womanizerium" and "Tennantum-Longdongium".
Great videos by the way.
Iridium and Osmium are my favourite metal elements!
I hope someday I would be able to buy a relative good amount of them!
Nice video Brady, this one I loved it!
Should those archives be handled with gloved hands in order to prevent body oils from eventually ruining the papers? Great vid.
I love the way the Prof. was telling to us how it's exciting. It makes us excited too!
Osmium (heaviest metal) -> Os -> Osbourne -> Ozzy Osbourne (godfather of heavy metal). I know it's not related, but I always liked this.
Awesome!!! I might get the chance to work with a graduate of Nottingham this upcoming summer! Cheers from Saint Louis!
Please do not take offense to this comment, but I think I may have caught the Professor making a little mistake, or he may know something I don't, which is quite possible. Anyway, to the point, in this video Professor Poliakoff states that osmium has the highest melting point of any metal. And as far as I know this title belongs to tungsten, Please correct me if I'm wrong.
That's a real shame at the end there. But I imagine it's incredibly common. I find it interesting to think about if someone later made the same or similar discovery. The latest video from RCSuperPowers ("J-20: Why?") actually has some interesting dialog on that.
What I really like about profesor Poliakoff is his boyish fascination with things most people would think are ridiculous. Sadly, even most professors.
I think his students are lucky to have a chance to be able to listen to his lectures.
This video is great, it sorts of gives goosebumps. It's a true homage to a scientist.
Tennant, named iridium after Iris (Ιρις), the Greek winged goddess of the rainbow
Wow! This was fascinating! It is amazing how much information sits in archives like this. I bet something like 0.01% of it gets read on a yearly basis.
I hope Google digitizes archives like this!
if i may... this video is yet one of the best form Periodic Table of Videos,
Please, next time youre in a historic archive, do massive interviews about it! Chemistry is fun, but history is always in a league of its own.
@teavea10 most likely, it could also be the cream pressure required to make it, also it coils be a slight modification to heat and atom bonds that causes them to be close.
@deadlock361 gold and mercury are heavier if that is what you mean, but density is based on the molecule more than the atom. (even titanium is heavier, its the molecule that makes it light).
osmatic
Having or characterized by a well-developed sense of smell; a keen sense of smell.
..the Greek word 'osme' meaning 'smell'.
A nice & interesting piece of History.
Osmium (from Greek osme (ὀσμή) meaning "smell") was discovered in 1803 by Smithson Tennant and William Hyde Wollaston in London
Walter Russell was a brilliant scientiest too who predicted plutonium, deuterium, and tritium based upon his view of the elements as condensed light acting according to the law of octaves.
a lovely piece of history.... Thanks Prof...
@itedin
In this case, the element would be ozoum or ozeium (from the verb ozo /όζω. ozei means "IT smells terrible"). Since it is oSMium, it comes from osmee /οσμή (the word from 'smell'). The route of the two words is the same, but not the meaning. It would be more precisely descriptive if it was named ozeium.
@hoboX10 I think Osmium is the most dense element. He probably got confused.
The intelligent section of UA-cam cometh. Great video guys!
@Kyle11493 I'm aware of that, but it seems to always be used in small amounts, while I know it is very abundant.
More recently I have discovered that nickel can harden steel, but I don't think it does as well as titanium, palladium, scandium, or vanadium.
So basically it just seems to be a metal with no major purpose to offset its high supply.
Brilliant vid! Best of UA-cam!
That sounds like a possible name for element 119, since heavy elements with odd atomic numbers apparently tend to be less stable than those with even atomic numbers (elements 114 and 116 have been named, 113 and 115 haven't), and also because it would be beneath what may well be the least stable naturally occurring element in the periodic table.
Another great video!
@TheReaverOfDarkness actually nickel is a very useful catalyst and is essential to many organic reactions.
This is one of your best videos!
There's an error at 4:20. Osmium does not have the highest melting point of any metal, Tungsten is.
@hla27b Microsoft Access (an option for MS Office) is largely based on the principals used in index cards; Cross referencing different data in varied combination, unique Key identifiers, restricted data field input.
One could say index cards are the grand daddy of today's inline data bases.
Very interesting video, thanks.
Is there a reason why iridium and osmium occur together in nature with platinum? Is it related to their being the three densest elements?
and my favorite unobtainium
Are there Guided-Tours at the Royal Academy of Sciences in London ?
@blenderpanzi Or if sticking to the same series it's what you get if you mix John Smith and David Tennant.
Brilliant, thanks - gave me goose bumps!
very interesting video !
@Franchifis
Osmium tetroxide, even in small amounts, can cause blindness.
I find the last part of this video fascinating. It will be impossible to know whether we have ever discovered what he discovered just before his death...
Very cool video. Thank you
What a great channel. I'm loving it.
What a great video!
i would of loved to be a scientific researcher in those ages. everything was so exciting!
The first time I see an index card in use...amazing
I don't remember where I heard or read it, but is it true that all the Iridium deposits on earth are from impacts and that it doesn't occur naturally on earth?
Based on the 11x element naming scheme, I think 119 would be Ununovium and 120 would be Unvigintium.
OMG. Final unpublished discovery! Makes me wonder what is it...
Very nice.
@HazMatLabz well how can anyone assert that a substance even HAS a smell if they would die before they can smell it. how curious.
@hoboX10 he said "very high melting point" and "9th highest" i think.
Gives new meaning to publish or perish.
Do they have digital backups of these manuscripts? I would love to read them.
I love these videos!
I just really like this guy
@GamersBar noapplicationium sounds like nickel, at least if you don't count combining it into compounds.
I wonder what Mr. Tennant''s last discovery was?
this was a great video, thank you for making it = )
ουσία in Greek means essence which is a synonym for smell. It's pronounced /oozia/, ooze-e-ah. The -mium is chemical element naming tradition which is a Latin thing concerned with the definite article of a word. Mystery solved -- somebody alert the professor.
arn't they supposed to be the most dense of all the natural elements?
osmium comes from the greek word οσμή (pronounced ozmie) which means smell... its not really a commonly used word tho
1805 science journals confirm it's Muriatic acid which was used.
The Annual Review and History of Literature - Volume 3 - Page 878
Arthur Aikin - 1805
viewable on Google books.
Thanks for the informative video. My last name is Osman, Osmium!!
I'm a big fan of names that make sense
osme (gr.) = odor/smell
Because OsO4 is volatile and smells intensive
i thought tungsten had the highest melting point? but osmium was the most dense??
Those were the days when one could discover an element with tangible properties. What name can be given to a modern element of which a half-dozen atoms, created artifically, last for a fraction of a second inside an accelerator? No wonder they have to name them after famous scientists.
I believe osmium's greek root is the same as that of ozone. not 100% though...
that is said in the video....
3:00
"...the english word Iridescent".
That's also Greek actually. Comes from the Greek goddess Iris, after whom iridium was named.
how do we know he did the cut and paste could have been anyone in fact that could have been done with anything in history
Umm the greek word pf smell is "Mirodia" or "osmi" it has twp names.That is why the element got its name!In greece we name that element Osmio!
Well here is another example of why we need a time machine.
Loved it :)
Any ideas of whats under the pasted bits of paper? Would it be worth finding out?
The Prof is great :-)
Osmium. It's the densest element on the periodic table.
iridium and osmium are the densest elements in the world
120 has already been named using those numerical names. "Unbinilium." Ubn
The professor must be one of the few people who have actually smelld OsO4 since now everybody knows how dangerous it is so everybody is carefull not to do it
0 views? that cant be right!
"he's made a mistake here, he's written a twice"
haste to publish before the french i see...
Yeah, really enjoyed this one :)
@sirkowski Obviously not.
4:20 Osmium isn't the element with the highest melting point; that's Tungsten.
Most toxic compounds don't kill immediately.
Οσμη (Ozmi) means smell in greek
Wish the Professor would say at least once "Good news everyone!!"
Greek for smell is osmo- something.
Did you make a mistake? You said Osmium has the highest melting point of any metal, but Tungsten has a higher melting point.
@GamersBar Hardly. No one in their right mind would use English, but Latin.
@dljones33 Yes!
I honestly cringe when he touches them at all. They're probably not frail yet because they don't get touched very much.
lol if they continued using this naming scheme I can guess where the names would be by now. dissapearium, hardtofindium, noaplicationium
people use to have such good handwriting back then.
You know you're a nerd when you recognize the door to the archives of the Royal Society...
Whoa it's like a story book, a man discovers something great and dies with his secret, WE MUST GO ON A CRUSADE!