I've worked in Ravenswood aluminum plant several times, I been foreman on the rebuild of 6million psi hydraulic plate stretcher,they brought 2 of them here from Germany after WW2.Each end of the stretcher weights are 600 tons,we use a 200 ton overhead bridge crane to tear it down and put new cylinders and jaws that clamps each end of the plate to be stretched elongating the aluminum molecules making it stronger.We use a 600 ton hydraulic jack to change the wheels that each end runs on railroad tracks
I was a mechanic over in Iraq. I also did allot of recovery missions. The glass on the trucks and the BUSK kits for the Bradley's was really good at protecting us. I owe my life to the glass as it stopped a piece of Bradley track from going through my skull during a recovery mission. I had asked the welder to weld angle iron to the front of my M88 drivers and riggers hatches in front of the hatches. I then mounted 3 pains of the BUSK kits glass there. A week later I was on a recovery mission to go get a broke down Bradley when my Bradley escort hit a anti tank mine. It blew the track off the Bradley and because of the heat of the moment I never notice the chunk of track stuck in the glass till about 15 minutes of me driving back that I kinda just snapped out of focusing on the mission and noticed a chunk the size of my fist stuck in the glass infront of me. I think night driving was part of the reason I didn't process it sooner. I am here today because of that glass. And I know many other veterans are as well. It's one hell of a material. But RPG 7's eat it and armor for lunch sadly.
I spent twenty years working at ALCOA’s Vernon Works one of the smallest plants they had. We were instrumental in shipping product to the aerospace industry in Southern California. That was where I received my mechanical apprenticeship. We worked on many research and development projects from a special furnace designed to recover 100% of fine aluminum chips from the production of tool and jig plate. I always thought it was a shame they sold that plant in the mid 90’s.
I worked in the metals industry for almost 40 years. I have worked with aluminum from forging, heat treatment and machining. Don't take almost anything in this video seriously. Maybe not that extreme, but there sure are a lot of mistakes and omissions. There are dozens of aluminum alloys, each with different properties for different uses. Bauxite is found in Arkansas. Davy worked with aluminum salts, attempting to make the metal, but the first metallic aluminum was made by Oersted, a German chemist. By about 1854 a Frenchman named Deville produced aluminum commercially. Davy named the metal "aluminum", which some people didn't like, so arguments ensued in Europe about what to name the metal. So the English changed the name to "aluminium". Which proves that people will argue about anything.
Up until the 70s most canned pop and beer came in solid steel cans. The cans were heavy as hell, had a big seam down the side, and there was no pre-made opening to drink from. You had to punch drinking holes into the top of the can with a can opener. Most guys carried a can opener around on their keyring for this reason. Then the can manufacturers came out with a pull tab you could pull off the can to make a hole, but idiots would put the pull tab inside the can after they opened it, forget about it, and swallow it, so they came up with the push/pull tab that's used today.
Probably the best video I've ever seen. Thank you for this education process. I won't ever pass another aluminum can up for recycling and I'll share it with anyone that will listen.
Really neat how the camera frames sync up with the plane's flapping wings, and we can almost see the wings actually flapping. We just get a little taste during landings.
I recycle the metals for cash and the renewal of resources . Being paid for scrap metals intices people to recycle for sure witch is a good thing. I know the 2 major draw backs of aluminum is abrasion & wear resistance ,and heat resistance . I used tools with aluminum handles witch wears off on your hand as black substance. Plus aluminum wound motors and transformers fail more often than copper wound units ,But the cost savings in aluminum over copper is very great especially in large machines.
Is there such thing as an aluminum & copper alloy that would save the cost of pure copper vs aluminum-wound units when it comes to machine wear and tear?
it all started with a simple question how does aluminum work and now I watch this entire video and know more than I did 40 minutes ago The Internet Is Awesome
Another reason it's a precious metal, so to speak: it takes only 5% of the energy to recycle a certain quantity of aluminum as it does to smelt and manufacture the same quantity from Bauxite.
What they are keeping secret here is the fact that most aluminum aircraft skins are not the same alloy through the thickness but are bonded layers of alloys. They call it clad material. They should be explaining this here also.
and as a matter of fact, the 787 is not made of any kind of aluminum alloy, it's made from composite material... which i believe it the "metal" of the future...
Last couple times I worked there they saying that they could buy the ingots cheaper than making them in casting.They were always screwing the unions around there,United Steelworkers mean business,the governor would try and intervene in their strikes,we were union Millwrights out of Parkersburg.We have the best apprentice school in the world.We got a 50 megawatt turbine steam electric generator to train on,a machine shop,every kind of welding you can think of,they offered me to take over the training program when I was retiring, Ravenswood tried to hire me on the spot for the plant couple times, I couldn't give my retirement for theirs. I had several friends that works for the plant, lots of Meigs county.
The 5000 series and 7000 series of aluminum has 1% titanium making it much stiffer and when welding it may leave a crack if the welder isn't careful. For any tig welders out there you use 5053 or similar rod to weld 7075.
@@davidbrigden4194 it’s pronounced correctly here. Davy made it commercially and named it aluminum. Some Brit whiners got ahold of it and changed the name without permission of the German company to first smelt it or the man who discovered it. Thief’s.
@@chloehennessey6813 Brit whiners? You are correct, it was renamed to end with 'ium' in line with the spelling of all other elements and compounds, such as sodium, potassium, barium, etc. Metals, of which aluminium is one, invariably end with 'ium, examples in addition to those above are cadmium, lithium, thallium, radium. This is also why helium has the suffix. From the OED's entry on -ium: The Latin names of metals were in -um, e.g. aurum, argentum, ferrum; the names of sodium, potassium, and magnesium, derived from soda, potassa or potash, and magnesia, were given by Davy in 1807, with the derivative form -ium; and although some of the later metals have received names in -um, the general form is in -ium, as in cadmium, iridium, lithium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, titanium, uranium; in conformity with which aluminum has been altered to aluminium. Brit whiners indeed! More a case of Yanks not living in the real world.
Silicon, Copper, Magnesium, Manganese, Zinc, Titanium, Chromium, Zirconium, and many others are used in Aluminum Alloys. I work at a Aluminum Re-Melting plant and we cast mostly custom Alloys, but also standard Alloys like 6061 & 6063.
@Kenneth Boyer That would depend on several factors: the calibre of the rounds, the distance they were fired from, the placement of the rounds, etc. Since it could withstand at least one .50 cal rifle round from near point-blank range, I'm sure it would be able to hold up against several smaller calibre, lower velocity rounds.
I noticed that they didn’t show the aluminum blocks have to have steel sleeves, remember the disastrous Chevy Vega - no sleeves and the walls of the cylinder got eaten up by shifting oil rings and I don’t mean sometimes, I mean every time, new they were great, a few miles and disaster ensues
Great video. As someone fascinated by metallurgy, I thought it was a great watch. If I can make one suggestion: You refer to a machine as a CNC when it isn't The machine is operated via CNC, but the machine itself looks like an incredibly high tech milling machine. CNC can be applied to a milling machine, lathe, plasma cutter, water jet, router, laser, 3D printer, etc.
It does exist as the native metal but it is extremely rare and is found only in volcanic muds but the quantities are too small to be of use commercially and they do oxidise quickly, but the nuggets do exist.
While this video is poorly presented and contains have very many bad points, I feel that overall it is very good. I could pick on many issues but, on the whole, I would leave it be except for two points. 1/ While it describes aluminiums affinity for oxygen it doesn't properly follow this through. What we are used to seeing as aluminium is actually its oxide, the surface of aluminium corrodes within seconds of being exposed to air. As the crew of HMS Sheffield found during the Falklands War it can be made to burn quite readily. This property also makes aluminium a fuel used in rocket propulsion. 2/ It highlights, but fails, on the very common confusion between cost, value & price. They ARE NOT THE SAME. 2a) It is certainly costly. It costs more to produce than gold or silver, but far less than many other metals i.e. plutonium. 2b) It is certainly one of the most valuable metals, perhaps only second behind iron. Without these two we could not hope to maintain life as we know it, or even any sort of civilisation. 2c) It's price is way less than that of gold or silver (see 'cost' above) while it is harder to extract and it is of far greater 'value' to us being able to replace both gold & silver in almost all of their useful applications as well as many more.
Here I thought aluminum was only in beverage cans. The bulletproof clear aluminum was awesome and also the aluminum/titanium mixture of pure sapphire crystal for lasers. Another term for aluminum is " Congealed Lightening".
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The Ravenswood aluminum plant makes 180 different alloys and the ingots are huge, they roll them back and forth smashing it like play doh until they get the desired thickness.They have several antique rolling Mills, tempering ovens and quenched.Everything in there is covered with cooling fluid buildup and hydraulic fluid, welding in there's can be quite dangerous,it doesn't take long to get a mill on fire,if you're in the basement area when the cardox system goes off your dead,it sucks all the oxygen out of the air, you have down there to get to some of lift cylinders at the end of the mill.Very dangerous job at a fast pace,if you're foreman you're getting at least 14 hrs /day,they used to shutdown and rebuild for 2 weeks at Thanksgiving.We got most of the work on the hotline and cold roll.
"2/3 of the aluminum that's ever been made is still in existence" Ok and so how did the other 1/3 become non-existent? Is there some phenomenon or process that destroys it whereby it is no longer existing now?
@@irevan27 lol bet you're right and I've always wondered are we the only ones with aluminum, and so hey why won't those aliens just get the five finger discount on it somewhere else
Those bulletproof window panels must be pretty damn pricy for all of the processing they require. I'd put a panel of regular bulletproof glass in front of them to save them for only the big rounds. They oopsed on the description of lasers at 39:30 . White light is made of many wavelengths of light that is not coherent. Lasers are a single (usually), specific wavelength that is coherent. You can have multimode lasers. The waves reinforce each other by being in phase instead of being random. Lasers are not defined by their wavelength however, they could, in theory, be any wavelength. Masers are microwave lasers which is a longer wavelength than red light. The Ti-Sapphire crystal doesn't generate the power in the Ti-Sapphire laser, that would violate conservation of energy. The energy still comes from the "pumping" into the laser cavity, the sapphire just allows for extremely short bursts. So instead of a low power burst with a long duration you have a high power burst but with a very short duration.
Every time I use the term megawatts I wonder if it's proper, I've worked on many steam turbines that generate electricity and the windmills put out 3-5 megawatts, hydro electric usually 25-50 megawatts,coal fired from 50-1300 megawatts and a Nuke in New Jersey and I can't remember how many megawatts it put out but the 2 coal fired I worked on the most were German Allis-Chalmers at Willow island and they were originally 650 megawatts and we stepped them up another 50 to 700megawatts, they were 2 most vibration turbines that tore there self up so much that they were looking for sabotaging,we welding fittings in the turbine oil lines so they could check for contamination, that's where the cooling tower collapsed because they pouring concrete too fast and killed 51 workers, think that was in 1978, I remember working there on the 11 the memorial service,over 30 years there was around 80 people killed in that plant,it was always a good job for me there.Wasn't much in the plant that I never worked on, I knew it like the back of my hand.
Amazing. Metal from dirt. How much we evolve. Those trucks and structures are the same material made from it. Using it's own stuff to make more of it stuffs. Dang.
17:32 "aluminium is electricity in solid form" um what? no it isn't.... 20:50 "oxygen holds airplanes together" No, no it doesn't. 25:54 "That's as much force as a Space Shuttle's engine on take off" proceeds to show something that's not a space shuttle Jeez i trust this show so little xD
21:05 They are wrong about steel airplanes. Check back to WW II. You'll find an airplane called a Budd " Conestoga ". It was made of stainless steel by the same company that made stainless steel railroad cars. And invented shot welding. An incomplete aircraft sits in the Pima County Air Museum.
And there's also the Mig-25. Aluminium can't take the heat generated by Mach 3 flight. The USA used titanium to build the SR-71, but this metal is not thermally stable enough to allow the aircraft to be held on ready standby, it had to be fuelled immediately before launch. Useless for an interceptor, which is an aircraft which requires immediate launch & high speed. So when the USSR designed the Mig-25 they used steel and, as it was already being powered by ridiculously powerful engines anyway, the extra weight could be managed.
The Point Henry smelter shut down shortly after this was made in 2014. The special deal they had for super cheap electricity expired and killed the economics, because electricity is such a large component of the cost of the product. Most aluminium smelters now rely on cheap hydro electricity in places like Canada, Norway and Russia. I hope that lady got a new job.
Hee hee, you have a point there! This reminds me of the old Monty Python joke: "Frankly, we think you're American beer is like making love in a canoe." "It's fucking close to water."
Actually they do make steel planes, although not many. The MiG 25, for example, and the XB-70 used a lot of stainless in its construction as well IIRC.
Wouldn't "enough explosives to demolish a 10 story building" also be enough to destroy a 100 story building. Just take out the bottom 10 and I'm petty sure the upper 90 are gonna go as well.
there isnt one example where they took out the 10 bottom floors to get the upper 90 to go as well. There is an example of how roughly 10 floors took out 90 floors in the mostly undamaged lower structure. There is an example of how roughly 8 floors, perhaps 10, took out the 37 to 40 floors above. But, according to socalled Scientists this happened due to fire. They say. BUT!!!! More importantly: In the video they speak of how to use enough explosives to demolish a 10 story building in the context of using actual explosives to blow up a huge part of the mountain. They aint speaking of how Aluminium is used AS an explosive or such. anyways, it is funny indeed to have noticed how the Media would also try to hide the fact that you can indeed use thermite to cut and melt steel. And thermite is basically a shitload of aluminium and a bit of rust. But, they aint talking about any of such in the video above. So the 9 thumbs up were as stupid as i was (eventhough i had seen the video, just didnt notice the part in which they spoke about the enough explosives to demolish bit.......................Now i have, i wont be fooled again. Goodday sir. PS: And for your information: Somebody claimed thermite was used in the event you speak of. The Media tried to debunk it with 2 documentaries at least, in which they try to show how thermite cant do shit. They go as far as to introduce a guy of roughly 20 years of age as an Expert. But ok, they show us that thermite cant do shit. A NOVICE shows us on youtube that he CAN melt and cut steel. This SHOULD indeed raise questions. And indeed, mr or mrs pgcmoore: That is not funny. Especially considering the FACT that other programs, like the Mythbusters or Brainiac, have shown us what thermite can do. IT Is indeed not funny to see how the media can be used to distort the truth.
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He is saying Alumina which is the form that it’s in. It is later refined to aluminum. I just learned that from this video lol. Stick around and learn something.
Thank you for spelling it correctly even if the voice over can't. =) ( Which makes me wonder if they (colonists) have Radum, Uranum, Ytterbum, Hydrogenum, Californum, Calcum.... etc. ;)
You Brits couldn't make up your minds over how you wanted to spell it. It was Aluminium in 1808 then the guy who named it changed it to Aluminum in 1812. Then editors changed it again to Aluminium in order to stick to the -ium naming convention. According to IUPAC, both spellings are acceptable.
Yes. This is an action movie, isn't it?! From what I understood, Aluminium is the hero. He has superpowers, and according to the plot, without it, human beings would all be doomed. In the end, Aluminium saved everyone... I think.
...why? There's no benefit to that, and would introduce literal tons of equipment per ship, reducing the payload.... and making maintenance and operations much more painful
This should be titled 'Aluminum for dummies" because it did not go into depth about the most important details of the various processes involved in the formation of aluminum. When adding the death metal music soundtrack, it is nearly unbearable to watch. (Edited for spelling errors)
Working with aluminum is highly dangerous and may also cause a host of health problems because aluminum binds to the allosteric site of enzymes rendering them inactive.
It's just an aluminum compound, not actual aluminum. Containing some X isn't the same as being X. Like, you wouldn't call milk "liquid calcium", now would you? So, no, no transparent aluminum. ... ... Actually, it's all magic, anyway.
Jay Bee en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_control CNC is not a machine itself. It’s a way of controlling many types of machines. If you had spent even 30 seconds on google you’d have known that.
What about boats? Some have aluminium hulls and some have fiberglass hulls, but what about a boat with an alon hull? 27:37 Alon (aluminium oxynitride) = stronger than bullet-proof glass and can be moulded into any shape but has to be polished to make it transparent. Imagine a boat with a bullet-proof see-through hull...
The 4XXX group is alloyed with silicon for ease of casting.Silicon is good in metallic alloys used for casting. This is because it increases the fluidity of the melt, reduces the melting temperature, decreases the contraction associated with solidification and is very cheap as a raw material.
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One of the Best informative video I have ever seen in the world .... thanks.
You should see Modern Marvels show about corn, and nuts, and wheat. I never knew. Awesome education.
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he didn‘t explain shit about aluminium.
Well it explained how Aluminium fights against terrorism... :/
@@flxstbner This!
This world will not operate as it is now without Aluminium. Very informative video indeed.
I've worked in Ravenswood aluminum plant several times, I been foreman on the rebuild of 6million psi hydraulic plate stretcher,they brought 2 of them here from Germany after WW2.Each end of the stretcher weights are 600 tons,we use a 200 ton overhead bridge crane to tear it down and put new cylinders and jaws that clamps each end of the plate to be stretched elongating the aluminum molecules making it stronger.We use a 600 ton hydraulic jack to change the wheels that each end runs on railroad tracks
You don't speak English do you.
I was a mechanic over in Iraq. I also did allot of recovery missions. The glass on the trucks and the BUSK kits for the Bradley's was really good at protecting us. I owe my life to the glass as it stopped a piece of Bradley track from going through my skull during a recovery mission. I had asked the welder to weld angle iron to the front of my M88 drivers and riggers hatches in front of the hatches. I then mounted 3 pains of the BUSK kits glass there. A week later I was on a recovery mission to go get a broke down Bradley when my Bradley escort hit a anti tank mine. It blew the track off the Bradley and because of the heat of the moment I never notice the chunk of track stuck in the glass till about 15 minutes of me driving back that I kinda just snapped out of focusing on the mission and noticed a chunk the size of my fist stuck in the glass infront of me. I think night driving was part of the reason I didn't process it sooner. I am here today because of that glass. And I know many other veterans are as well. It's one hell of a material. But RPG 7's eat it and armor for lunch sadly.
don't go there
that's safer way of life
I spent twenty years working at ALCOA’s Vernon Works one of the smallest plants they had. We were instrumental in shipping product to the aerospace industry in Southern California. That was where I received my mechanical apprenticeship. We worked on many research and development projects from a special furnace designed to recover 100% of fine aluminum chips from the production of tool and jig plate. I always thought it was a shame they sold that plant in the mid 90’s.
I worked in the metals industry for almost 40 years. I have worked with aluminum from forging, heat treatment and machining.
Don't take almost anything in this video seriously. Maybe not that extreme, but there sure are a lot of mistakes and omissions.
There are dozens of aluminum alloys, each with different properties for different uses.
Bauxite is found in Arkansas.
Davy worked with aluminum salts, attempting to make the metal, but the first metallic aluminum was made by Oersted, a German chemist.
By about 1854 a Frenchman named Deville produced aluminum commercially.
Davy named the metal "aluminum", which some people didn't like, so arguments ensued in Europe about what to name the metal. So the English changed the name to "aluminium". Which proves that people will argue about anything.
Aluminium*
God damn brits.
No Americans changed alluminium to aluminum. 😂😂😂
Up until the 70s most canned pop and beer came in solid steel cans. The cans were heavy as hell, had a big seam down the side, and there was no pre-made opening to drink from. You had to punch drinking holes into the top of the can with a can opener. Most guys carried a can opener around on their keyring for this reason. Then the can manufacturers came out with a pull tab you could pull off the can to make a hole, but idiots would put the pull tab inside the can after they opened it, forget about it, and swallow it, so they came up with the push/pull tab that's used today.
the amount of work put into this whole video.......many many thankyous
despite of so many movies on the Internet...
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Yes transparent aluminum but not what I was hoping for, entertaining yes it kept me glued to my seat. Thank You Loader.
That goddam loud pounding background music throughout the entire documentary.
I couldn't bear to watch the program because of the music and the fast camera slides.
It was the short snippet editing that made me leave. Annoying, dizzying to watch.Unwatchable..
Probably the best video I've ever seen. Thank you for this education process. I won't ever pass another aluminum can up for recycling and I'll share it with anyone that will listen.
#bumfights
Really neat how the camera frames sync up with the plane's flapping wings, and we can almost see the wings actually flapping. We just get a little taste during landings.
That older guy is JACKED. Lugging those engine blocks around will keep you big for life!
I went to technical college and studied metallurgy and this has taught me a great deal more.
I recycle the metals for cash and the renewal of resources . Being paid for scrap metals intices
people to recycle for sure witch is a good thing. I know the 2 major draw backs of aluminum
is abrasion & wear resistance ,and heat resistance . I used tools with aluminum handles witch wears off on your hand as black substance. Plus aluminum wound motors and transformers fail more often than copper wound units ,But the cost savings in aluminum over copper is very great especially in large machines.
Is there such thing as an aluminum & copper alloy that would save the cost of pure copper vs aluminum-wound units when it comes to machine wear and tear?
At age 18, in 1968, I invented the flip-top beer & soda can, both types, the pull ring & the present type used today!
Are you uber wealthy
Ermal Fraze invented this in 1962 or 63, so you're full of it.
it all started with a simple question how does aluminum work and now I watch this entire video and know more than I did 40 minutes ago
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I share your sentiments exactly!
Another reason it's a precious metal, so to speak: it takes only 5% of the energy to recycle a certain quantity of aluminum as it does to smelt and manufacture the same quantity from Bauxite.
See thru aluminum reminded me of that Star Trek movie :D
Aluminium*
Interesting note: I believe ruby and etc are simply aluminum oxides, so you can smelt gems into aluminum metal with the right mix of fluxes and etc.
What they are keeping secret here is the fact that most aluminum aircraft skins are not the same alloy through the thickness but are bonded layers of alloys. They call it clad material. They should be explaining this here also.
and as a matter of fact, the 787 is not made of any kind of aluminum alloy, it's made from composite material... which i believe it the "metal" of the future...
I seen airplane wings in their machine shop,they were probably 6inches thick.They said that they use it for tank armor also, fascinating.
Last couple times I worked there they saying that they could buy the ingots cheaper than making them in casting.They were always screwing the unions around there,United Steelworkers mean business,the governor would try and intervene in their strikes,we were union Millwrights out of Parkersburg.We have the best apprentice school in the world.We got a 50 megawatt turbine steam electric generator to train on,a machine shop,every kind of welding you can think of,they offered me to take over the training program when I was retiring, Ravenswood tried to hire me on the spot for the plant couple times, I couldn't give my retirement for theirs. I had several friends that works for the plant, lots of Meigs county.
LOVE Aluminum Segment - most common metal in the world but never found pure, just in clay.
The 5000 series and 7000 series of aluminum has 1% titanium making it much stiffer and when welding it may leave a crack if the welder isn't careful. For any tig welders out there you use 5053 or similar rod to weld 7075.
Well done and educational. I learned a lot and I work with aluminum a lot. Thank you.
Learned everything except how to pronounce it correctly!
@@davidbrigden4194 it’s pronounced correctly here. Davy made it commercially and named it aluminum. Some Brit whiners got ahold of it and changed the name without permission of the German company to first smelt it or the man who discovered it.
Thief’s.
@@chloehennessey6813 Brit whiners? You are correct, it was renamed to end with 'ium' in line with the spelling of all other elements and compounds, such as sodium, potassium, barium, etc. Metals, of which aluminium is one, invariably end with 'ium, examples in addition to those above are cadmium, lithium, thallium, radium. This is also why helium has the suffix.
From the OED's entry on -ium:
The Latin names of metals were in -um, e.g. aurum, argentum, ferrum; the names of sodium, potassium, and magnesium, derived from soda, potassa or potash, and magnesia, were given by Davy in 1807, with the derivative form -ium; and although some of the later metals have received names in -um, the general form is in -ium, as in cadmium, iridium, lithium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, titanium, uranium; in conformity with which aluminum has been altered to aluminium.
Brit whiners indeed! More a case of Yanks not living in the real world.
Silicon, Copper, Magnesium, Manganese, Zinc, Titanium, Chromium, Zirconium, and many others are used in Aluminum Alloys.
I work at a Aluminum Re-Melting plant and we cast mostly custom Alloys, but also standard Alloys like 6061 & 6063.
Transparent aluminum. Star Trek predicts another one.
@Kenneth Boyer That would depend on several factors: the calibre of the rounds, the distance they were fired from, the placement of the rounds, etc. Since it could withstand at least one .50 cal rifle round from near point-blank range, I'm sure it would be able to hold up against several smaller calibre, lower velocity rounds.
I noticed that they didn’t show the aluminum blocks have to have steel sleeves, remember the disastrous Chevy Vega - no sleeves and the walls of the cylinder got eaten up by shifting oil rings and I don’t mean sometimes, I mean every time, new they were great, a few miles and disaster ensues
*I love how you will use some of your old projects with the ones you're currently restoring. Well done*
Great video. As someone fascinated by metallurgy, I thought it was a great watch. If I can make one suggestion: You refer to a machine as a CNC when it isn't The machine is operated via CNC, but the machine itself looks like an incredibly high tech milling machine. CNC can be applied to a milling machine, lathe, plasma cutter, water jet, router, laser, 3D printer, etc.
thanks, professor very useless information indeed
Napoleon: sees people eating with gold spoons!! Smells like broke in here! Pulls out aluminum spoon
Smells like fresh broke in here
It does exist as the native metal but it is extremely rare and is found only in volcanic muds but the quantities are too small to be of use commercially and they do oxidise quickly, but the nuggets do exist.
Fantastic job presenting the amazing qualities of Aluminum or Aluminium for the Britt's sake.
7:52 halo reach menu theme, unexpected but well accepted
i love the science in alloy, beautiful material to work with, we've come along way since aviation
I love this narrator. Great info and history too
I love aluminum---love propellers and tanks of aluminum---thanks for your info.
While this video is poorly presented and contains have very many bad points, I feel that overall it is very good. I could pick on many issues but, on the whole, I would leave it be except for two points.
1/ While it describes aluminiums affinity for oxygen it doesn't properly follow this through. What we are used to seeing as aluminium is actually its oxide, the surface of aluminium corrodes within seconds of being exposed to air. As the crew of HMS Sheffield found during the Falklands War it can be made to burn quite readily. This property also makes aluminium a fuel used in rocket propulsion.
2/ It highlights, but fails, on the very common confusion between cost, value & price. They ARE NOT THE SAME.
2a) It is certainly costly. It costs more to produce than gold or silver, but far less than many other metals i.e. plutonium.
2b) It is certainly one of the most valuable metals, perhaps only second behind iron. Without these two we could not hope to maintain life as we know it, or even any sort of civilisation.
2c) It's price is way less than that of gold or silver (see 'cost' above) while it is harder to extract and it is of far greater 'value' to us being able to replace both gold & silver in almost all of their useful applications as well as many more.
Wow, I had no idea aluminum was so versatile!
Here I thought aluminum was only in beverage cans. The bulletproof clear aluminum was awesome and also the aluminum/titanium mixture of pure sapphire crystal for lasers. Another term for aluminum is " Congealed Lightening".
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I am working at a company that product different kinds of spercification heat resistance fiber .like kevlar and pbo rollers pads and felt cover of nomex ....lookingforward your cooperation
The Ravenswood aluminum plant makes 180 different alloys and the ingots are huge, they roll them back and forth smashing it like play doh until they get the desired thickness.They have several antique rolling Mills, tempering ovens and quenched.Everything in there is covered with cooling fluid buildup and hydraulic fluid, welding in there's can be quite dangerous,it doesn't take long to get a mill on fire,if you're in the basement area when the cardox system goes off your dead,it sucks all the oxygen out of the air, you have down there to get to some of lift cylinders at the end of the mill.Very dangerous job at a fast pace,if you're foreman you're getting at least 14 hrs /day,they used to shutdown and rebuild for 2 weeks at Thanksgiving.We got most of the work on the hotline and cold roll.
That must be one strong dude to lift 140 pounds.
When you work in a machine shop, you don't need a gym membership.
"2/3 of the aluminum that's ever been made is still in existence"
Ok and so how did the other 1/3 become non-existent?
Is there some phenomenon or process that destroys it whereby it is no longer existing now?
They should have said 2/3 is still in use
shits floating out in the ocean sadly or just doesnt get recycled.
half-life?
It was the damn space aliens that took it.
@@irevan27
lol bet you're right and I've always wondered are we the only ones with aluminum, and so hey why won't those aliens just get the five finger discount on it somewhere else
Those bulletproof window panels must be pretty damn pricy for all of the processing they require. I'd put a panel of regular bulletproof glass in front of them to save them for only the big rounds.
They oopsed on the description of lasers at 39:30 . White light is made of many wavelengths of light that is not coherent. Lasers are a single (usually), specific wavelength that is coherent. You can have multimode lasers. The waves reinforce each other by being in phase instead of being random. Lasers are not defined by their wavelength however, they could, in theory, be any wavelength. Masers are microwave lasers which is a longer wavelength than red light.
The Ti-Sapphire crystal doesn't generate the power in the Ti-Sapphire laser, that would violate conservation of energy. The energy still comes from the "pumping" into the laser cavity, the sapphire just allows for extremely short bursts. So instead of a low power burst with a long duration you have a high power burst but with a very short duration.
*This is absolutely amazing! Great job*
@ 18:32 "... we use over 340 megawatts of electricity a year."
MW is not a unit of energy (MWh is).
Every time I use the term megawatts I wonder if it's proper, I've worked on many steam turbines that generate electricity and the windmills put out 3-5 megawatts, hydro electric usually 25-50 megawatts,coal fired from 50-1300 megawatts and a Nuke in New Jersey and I can't remember how many megawatts it put out but the 2 coal fired I worked on the most were German Allis-Chalmers at Willow island and they were originally 650 megawatts and we stepped them up another 50 to 700megawatts, they were 2 most vibration turbines that tore there self up so much that they were looking for sabotaging,we welding fittings in the turbine oil lines so they could check for contamination, that's where the cooling tower collapsed because they pouring concrete too fast and killed 51 workers, think that was in 1978, I remember working there on the 11 the memorial service,over 30 years there was around 80 people killed in that plant,it was always a good job for me there.Wasn't much in the plant that I never worked on, I knew it like the back of my hand.
Amazing. Metal from dirt. How much we evolve. Those trucks and structures are the same material made from it. Using it's own stuff to make more of it stuffs. Dang.
The machines we made use us to make more machines.. 😐😑😐
Everything comes from the dirt, genius. How do you think mines work?
i loved this series / show. used to have great stuff on it.
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The Eros statue (1893.) in London's Piccadilly was a very early use of the metal
17:32 "aluminium is electricity in solid form" um what? no it isn't....
20:50 "oxygen holds airplanes together" No, no it doesn't.
25:54 "That's as much force as a Space Shuttle's engine on take off" proceeds to show something that's not a space shuttle
Jeez i trust this show so little xD
A rocket is not that far off ... :P ... And the other 2 is actually true in a way.
21:05 They are wrong about steel airplanes. Check back to WW II. You'll find an airplane called a Budd " Conestoga ". It was made of stainless steel by the same company that made stainless steel railroad cars. And invented shot welding. An incomplete aircraft sits in the Pima County Air Museum.
And there's also the Mig-25. Aluminium can't take the heat generated by Mach 3 flight. The USA used titanium to build the SR-71, but this metal is not thermally stable enough to allow the aircraft to be held on ready standby, it had to be fuelled immediately before launch. Useless for an interceptor, which is an aircraft which requires immediate launch & high speed. So when the USSR designed the Mig-25 they used steel and, as it was already being powered by ridiculously powerful engines anyway, the extra weight could be managed.
Recycling doesn't just save energy but it saves resources :)
We now have Transparent Aluminum: Star Trek called it again.
I was thinking the same thing. We did it! We did it! Thank you Star Trek!
"Aluminum is the most common metal in the world"
Hold my iron and nickel
Ass clo fr g
Aluminum makes up 8.3% of the crust, iron only 5.6%, nickel less than 1%.
Turns out aluminum is the most abundant metal on Earth not iron or nickel.
Turn on English Captions then play 32:32 you won’t be disappointed. Hehe
Thank you. Haha.
hahahahahahahahaa
good one , i like 22:41 , it watches asians with kosher eyes
The Point Henry smelter shut down shortly after this was made in 2014. The special deal they had for super cheap electricity expired and killed the economics, because electricity is such a large component of the cost of the product. Most aluminium smelters now rely on cheap hydro electricity in places like Canada, Norway and Russia. I hope that lady got a new job.
We call the large blocks, "sows". The small 4'x 4' ones are the ingots. I used to haul them from Alcoa in Rockdale, Texas.
Interesting but what has Bud Light got to do with beer?
Hee hee, you have a point there!
This reminds me of the old Monty Python joke:
"Frankly, we think you're American beer is like making love in a canoe."
"It's fucking close to water."
Some of us don’t want thick dark beer.
I don’t want to walk around with extra pounds on my body.
Wow "how fancy stuff work" in 144p and 240p resolutions...
Actually they do make steel planes, although not many. The MiG 25, for example, and the XB-70 used a lot of stainless in its construction as well IIRC.
the beeeeeyurh caaaan... the narrator, sounds like he's trying to make everything sound really cool
Wouldn't "enough explosives to demolish a 10 story building" also be enough to destroy a 100 story building. Just take out the bottom 10 and I'm petty sure the upper 90 are gonna go as well.
Ahhh... We found one of the people who blew up WTC 1, 2 and 7!
:D
not funny
it is good
there isnt one example where they took out the 10 bottom floors to get the upper 90 to go as well.
There is an example of how roughly 10 floors took out 90 floors in the mostly undamaged lower structure.
There is an example of how roughly 8 floors, perhaps 10, took out the 37 to 40 floors above. But, according to socalled Scientists this happened due to fire. They say.
BUT!!!!
More importantly: In the video they speak of how to use enough explosives to demolish a 10 story building in the context of using actual explosives to blow up a huge part of the mountain.
They aint speaking of how Aluminium is used AS an explosive or such.
anyways, it is funny indeed to have noticed how the Media would also try to hide the fact that you can indeed use thermite to cut and melt steel. And thermite is basically a shitload of aluminium and a bit of rust.
But, they aint talking about any of such in the video above.
So the 9 thumbs up were as stupid as i was (eventhough i had seen the video, just didnt notice the part in which they spoke about the enough explosives to demolish bit.......................Now i have, i wont be fooled again.
Goodday sir.
PS: And for your information: Somebody claimed thermite was used in the event you speak of. The Media tried to debunk it with 2 documentaries at least, in which they try to show how thermite cant do shit.
They go as far as to introduce a guy of roughly 20 years of age as an Expert.
But ok, they show us that thermite cant do shit.
A NOVICE shows us on youtube that he CAN melt and cut steel.
This SHOULD indeed raise questions. And indeed, mr or mrs pgcmoore: That is not funny.
Especially considering the FACT that other programs, like the Mythbusters or Brainiac, have shown us what thermite can do.
IT Is indeed not funny to see how the media can be used to distort the truth.
@@bertjesklotepino "aluminium and a bit of iron rust" this alone made me imidiatley just ignore everything else you had to say
At least you managed to spell it right, even if the "documentary" can't
It's also correctly spelled in Swedish. ;)
Have a great 2020 mate!
He's pronouncing it correctly, unfortunately misspelled in the title.
💚💚💚💚 bookmark/notes 02:00 - 03:00 mud pie ( aluminum crust 8% earths crust ) aluminum your basically looking mud not nuggets because loves oxygen
07:25 enough weight on ship to put to muddy bottoms if loaded wrong
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An excellent Video & thanks for sharing 👍
Feels like 1/2 documentary and 1/2 commercial.
Narrator = Zapp Brannigan. "Aluminum-eh. One of the most versatile materials on the planet-eh". Sensual-eh
he's probably Canadain-eh
Yeah, between the music and him, I couldn't watch.
Aluminum-eh, Im 90% Aluminum-eh!
He is saying Alumina which is the form that it’s in. It is later refined to aluminum. I just learned that from this video lol. Stick around and learn something.
in broadcasting we call it puking
Odd that they don't mention Charles Martin Hall who was the college student who figured out how to mass produce aluminum. He founded Alcoa.
Thank you for spelling it correctly even if the voice over can't. =) ( Which makes me wonder if they (colonists) have Radum, Uranum, Ytterbum, Hydrogenum, Californum, Calcum.... etc. ;)
You Brits couldn't make up your minds over how you wanted to spell it. It was Aluminium in 1808 then the guy who named it changed it to Aluminum in 1812. Then editors changed it again to Aluminium in order to stick to the -ium naming convention. According to IUPAC, both spellings are acceptable.
Do we really need the dramatic music throughout the entire video?
Fuck I didn't even realize it till now @16:00 in, thanks 😂
Yes.
This is an action movie, isn't it?! From what I understood, Aluminium is the hero. He has superpowers, and according to the plot, without it, human beings would all be doomed. In the end, Aluminium saved everyone... I think.
That's the best thing about these dated documentaries.
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That dude handles that 140 lb engine block like a bawss 12:54
17:44 he grabbed the engine block like a beast
😂 I love the narrator! They sound like the narrator from JoJo’s
Bizarre Adventure. So intense and theatrical lol!
They should build a ship that processes it while crossing the ocean.
...why? There's no benefit to that, and would introduce literal tons of equipment per ship, reducing the payload.... and making maintenance and operations much more painful
I luv aluminum.
I always thought aluminum was amazing an versatile stuff, but now.
Its phenomenal".
Space age material, for the modern world!
These videos should be shown in schools
Why did they call the machine "a CNC"? Yeah it stands for Computer Numeric Control, but you're missing "Mill" at the end. It's a CNC Mill.
This should be titled 'Aluminum for dummies" because it did not go into depth about the most important details of the various processes involved in the formation of aluminum. When adding the death metal music soundtrack, it is nearly unbearable to watch. (Edited for spelling errors)
i wonderd why i still dont have a clue of the process lol
(Edited for spelling errors) 🤣🤣
Working with aluminum is highly dangerous and may also cause a host of health problems because aluminum binds to the allosteric site of enzymes rendering them inactive.
Where can I find more information on this?
3:54 thhe irony in that is now aluminum cutlery is considered just 1 step above disposable plastic and well below stainless steel lol
Can I please have the scraps.
The narrator said "copper and SILICONE" Aluminum is not alloyed with plastic. He should've said SILICON. They are two very different things.
It is Aluminium and not Aluminum as you guys call it.
Actually, it's both, according to IUPAC.
@j mcmann It's not about pronunciation. They are two completely different materials.
Thanks for your time!
8th grade: fuck dude do we seriously have to watch a documentary on aluminum.
29 years old: FUCK YEAH ALUMINUM!!!!!
i live in bunbury i see it everyday...
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29:22 Scotty was right! Transparent aluminum exists ;)
Yup :)
No, it’s a ceramic containing aluminum, oxygen and nitrogen. It’s nothing like the metal. Transparent aluminum doesn’t exist.
Transparent aluminum we truly are in Star Trek times
It's just an aluminum compound, not actual aluminum. Containing some X isn't the same as being X. Like, you wouldn't call milk "liquid calcium", now would you?
So, no, no transparent aluminum.
...
... Actually, it's all magic, anyway.
The Brits say "Aluminum" funny.
We have no need of phonetics to speak our own language!
No! We say Aluminium.
who the hell writes these? silicone? carbide steel? "machine called a cnc"? honestly.
Bubbles
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Jay Bee en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_control CNC is not a machine itself. It’s a way of controlling many types of machines. If you had spent even 30 seconds on google you’d have known that.
What about boats?
Some have aluminium hulls and some have fiberglass hulls, but what about a boat with an alon hull?
27:37 Alon (aluminium oxynitride) = stronger than bullet-proof glass and can be moulded into any shape but has to be polished to make it transparent.
Imagine a boat with a bullet-proof see-through hull...
Cool really good production cheers
Eh eh eh did anybody notice that’s how this guy talks when he end the word eh eh
Yes, I did, and it bugged me enough to stop watching the vid half way.
@The Earth Is Not Flat the earth is a little bit flat!!
Everyeh fuckingeh wordeh!
it is the way people, from Canada speak...eh....
@@philipbuckley759 the canadian alphabet...a eh, b eh, c eh. ( told to me by a canadian)
Silicon, not silicone. I’ll eat my hat if you’re telling me they alloy rubber with aluminum in engine blocks.
Thank you. I was going to comment on this but I knew that if I caught it then someone else did too.
The 4XXX group is alloyed with silicon for ease of casting.Silicon is good in metallic alloys used for casting. This is because it increases the fluidity of the melt, reduces the melting temperature, decreases the contraction associated with solidification and is very cheap as a raw material.
Aluminium!
I see a lot of comments missing the importance of Aluminum. I believe the days we live in today may some day be called the aluminum age.
Excellent documentary !!
3 minutes of how aluminum is refined and ‘how it works’. 40 minutes of cars, planes, and guns. I guess we know their target market demographic.
and they overlooked one of the most interesting applications, Microchips
holy shit is that transparent aluminum?
Aluminum can be made to be transparent by a certain process of cooling aluminum to glass. It is often used in telephone screen.
No.
Alumina. Not aluminum.
Its aluminum and oxygen.
FennecTECH speak to the computer using the mouse, "oh computer "
Isn't that Indium?
we all know scotty gave the secret away to transport whales threw time
aluminum makes alot of lawyers happy!
"most gear heads are just wrench jockys" *drag racer talks in metallurgy*
Both my legs are made of alumunium .
leighmossien2009 nice, don't ever sell it lol
+leighmossien2009 Why on earth would you even mention that here?
+Peter Clarke May be he is glad that such a light weight but strong metal exists?
+Bandit King
im a SHE ...not HE !
leighmossien2009 sorry! Didn't know that.