I love this video still 4 years later because its nightmare fuel for the PC enthusiasts who tried using the fancy liquid metal thermal compound with an aluminium CPU cooler.
Typical high end cooler is nickel plated Copper. It's nickel plated to prevent Copper oxidation which would turn the Copper from cute color into green color. Funnily after 10+ years of using MB with naked Copper, it stayed fine. However when I washed carpet, clear plastic isolated wires between my speakers and amplifier were on partially dry carpet, and somehow the water got trough the plastic. The main problem of gallium thermal liquids is they are HIGHLY conductive, and they can get at contacts they shouldn't. And even if they don't, there is actually degradation of gallium pastes in about 2-4 years of use, and it's quite dangerous to replace gallium paste. And gallium falling into PCI-E slot is just NASTY.
Imagine calling a locksmith cause you locked yourself out of your house, he pulls out his phone, and you hear "this is the lock picking lawyer" quietly over your shoulder
Fun fact: this also happens with mercury and aluminum to a bit higher of a degree. Its way more detrimental for aluminum and mercury to touch so thats why mercury, even a tiny drop sealed in like 5 containers, is completely banned from going on planes.
I suspect asking "Should I put my mercury thermometer in cabin or checked luggage?" is an extremely quick way of _very_ firmly being denied boarding ;-)
The only problem is how much energy it will take to reclaim that aluminum; it’s already a very energy-intensive process to process aluminum ores like bauxite into pure aluminum metal
@@Xadov Bauxite refining end product IS aluminum oxide (process removes impurities and turns several Al-based minerals into a single form), so it's a moot comparison. Otherwise, Al2O3 can be effectively leached via NaOH (not sure about specifics, I believe it has temp requirement of 150ish C). But it has many important uses on its own, regardless, so that may not be necessary. I am more concerned about safety hazard of a hydrogen-based engine. I mean, it burns well, and sometimes a little too well. These things already exist and aren't widely used for a reason.
This reminds me of a similar effect seen with antique ammunition. In the early days of metallic cartridges, the primers (the part that ignites when hit by the firing pin) were made of mercury fulminate. After firing, the inside of the brass case would be left coated with mercury, which absorbed into the brass, just as the gallium is doing here. The case was severely weakened, and reusing it could result in the firearm exploding.
This is the lock picking lawyer and today we are going to see how secure how my neighbor's door lock is. ACHOO! And we've got it open. Now I will leave a note to tell my neighbor to replace this lock and that is all I have for you today.
Same thing with mercury. There's a reaction between mercury and aluminum that is similar to this in terms of damaging the aluminums structural integrity. There's a nilered video about it if you want to watch it
This form of contamination is a HUGE danger as explained during RAF aircraft engineering training. Thank you for another interesting adventure through the destruction of the padlock security world.
I was hypnotized ... couldn't get my eyes off this process but mostly wanted to see what would happen in the end. Thanks for doing this and for sharing the results.
@@geraldbal7945 I think this is more akin to giving someone a flesh eating disease that slowly and painfully eats away at their skin from the inside-out.
It was already discussed in original Arsène Lupin stories since Gallium was discovered by a French (Gallium Gallia Gaul) I think it's a very old method to destroy padlocks.
Gallium also expands as it freezes like water, so if you dont want to wait hours for it to infuse into the steucture, you may think about injecting it into seams to fill internal voids, then see if the pressure is enough to destroy the lock.
Lock manufacturers: This lock is the most secure lock you’ll ever have! Completely unpickable! LockPickingLawyer: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.
"Of course this is not a practical way of opening a lock. Clearly anything that requires 5 or 6 hours..." Me after trying for 47 hours to pick a lock: Uh, ok. I guess I'll just give up then.
It could be used practically to do a break in. You know someone is away for the week/weekend, you put some gallium on their backdoor the first day. Come back the second day to a real brittle lock
@@ramonrommers5387 Exactly, since no one can "see" it while it is working - just "drop off a parcel" and quickly apply it during broad daylight then come back later.
I zoomed in 300 Percent on my 9-foot-wide-screen in 1080p. Well, he has dark hair, I think, and he didn't shave, I believe... so that makes him look like a bike thief? But I#m sure, that's only a false gate and he was wearing a mask :D:D:D
I'm starting to think that this guy has something personal against padlocks. All I know it's that I'm glad I'm not a padlock around this dude. Did a gang of padlocks run over his dog or something?
The LPL wouldn‘t even have needed that gallium to crush that lock with his bare hands, he only used it so we mere mortals could comprehend his immense strength
This is the one that started it all for me. As far as watching this excellent channel. I was looking up Gallium on metal issues. Not to mention an interest in lock picking since Fallout 4 came out. 😀
With how it reacts in water, I wonder what an attack like this would do in a rainy/wet environment (would the lock literally destroy itself if you put it in a bucket?)
@@icoopify Anodising is just a electrochemically formed layer of aluminium oxide that may be thicker than an air formed layer. It may, but does not have to have, pigment sealed into the pores that develop when it is formed. Magical process and even a thin air formed layer will protect aluminium but it can be scratched much easier than this lock which would have been anodised to give it protection from environmental hazards.
This is cool to see the power of gallium, but it’s also a great testament to how tough Abus locks are. Parts were crumbling off and it still held on for dear life,
yeah, right - thieves will bother with 7+ hr gallium disintegration instead of using angle grinders, crowbars, entering by the window etc... the F are you talking about?
@@ssnerd583 Sandpaper would make a larger contact surface (it can bend around the round parts) + it's easier to carry around (advice not for illegal purposes).
Did not expect to learn some chemistry on this channel but here we are. I like the idea of suropticiously "infecting" a lock only to return and smash it open hours later
Gallium won't destroy your computer if you use it correctly, as in the contact between your cpu/gpu and heatsink must be made of copper and the layer applied is very thin. Works wonders, every 'liquid metal' thermal paste out there uses gallium.
@@Dystopikachu IF the cooler is made of copper, well a lot of aftermarket cooler are made of copper but stock or atleast that looks like stock coolers are made of aluminium. Also even if it is copper, some people has experience that the copper is eaten a little bit on the surface, and yeah sometimes they can drop out of their place which "destroys" the computer.
Just discovered your channel and I want to thank you for: 1. Interesting content 2. No annoying intro 3. Not screaming in my face for the entire video. This is the only video of yours I've seen so far, and I'm already subbed due to the above list.
I forgot I watched this years ago, but when I started watching it again I suddenly remembered how it worked. But it was fun watching it all over again!
Gallium, being a low melting point metal, when applied to a solid (at room temperature) metal such as Aluminium, forms an alloy with it via thermal diffusion into the solid material. Once an alloy is formed, you can take a look at the binary diagram of Ga-Al and see that at roughly 20% concentration you reach a point at which the solubility of gallium in aluminium is at its' maximum, and beyond that you then have aluminium-rich alloy and gallium-rich alloy. Now, because presence of gallium drops the melting point down to room temperature, this means that the alloy of aluminium and gallium is going to have lower melting point than pure aluminium. Moreover, due to inhomogeneous structural phase, those "gallium-rich" areas will likely become a liquid far before aluminium does the same, causing "flaking" of aluminium as seen on this video. Gallium permeated solid aluminium via atomic diffusion and alloying. If two metals are soluble, that basically means they can intermix and form new electronic states which exist at a lower energy than if they were "on their own", thus promoting the alloying (not true for every combination of materials). If the concentration goes above the critical points you will simply have separate gallium-rich and aluminium rich areas. All of this interplay between overall much weaker structure of Ga-Al alloy, as well as pockets of molten Ga-rich alloy within greater Al-rich lattice provides the spectacular destruction :)
I used to work in a chocolate factory, and this reminds me of the texture of poorly tempered chocolate - breaking apart easily into crumbly chunks, rather than clean shards. Metals and chocolates: surprisingly crystalline structures!
Has eye dropper of gallium Drops 2 drops on your padlock before gym after a long work out, return to the padlock and break the lock with hand Impress everyone with your absolute terror of strength + Science XD
Modern medical thermometers use galistan, it is alloy of gallium, indium and tin and it is liquid in room temperature (melting point -19 degrees Celsius). However as it has half the density of mercury, it is hard to get down by shaking.
The Gallium travelling under the surface of the lock reminds me somewhat of how rust spreads under car paint. It probably just doesn't react with the oxide layer on the surface, leaving it alone to sort of ride the gallium-aluminum wave
the gallium could probably be applied in a way that was hard to notice, and then after the structure was compromised the criminal could just come back from his lunch break and give it a few good whacks with a ball peen.
@@SavageGreywolf Yeah that's what I was thinking, just stick a decent size drop on a piece of tape that blends in with the lock on the back, then come back in 12 hours and pick apart the lock. It would draw a lot less attention than bringing bolt cutters or bending down on your knees with a lock pick set. Yet another reason not to buy an aluminum lock, and to spring for steel.
FBI OPEN U- "Hold up John. Didn't you get the memo? We can't use the battering ram anymore." Right. So how do we get in? "I dunno. The door's made of aluminum so we can't kick it in." *Guys, I know what to do.*
@Alex carpenter Gallium is real heavy and extremely thick at working temperature, so you'd need a pretty specialized nozzle and forty or fifty psi of air driving it, no squirt bottle.
LPL: "Today we're going to be looking at the ABUS 90/50" Me: "Oh cool, I have a few of these. They feel pretty sturdy, wonder what he's going to say" LPL: "Today I'm going to attempt to crush this padlock with my bare hands" Me: "Oh...I see"
"Today we're going to crush this lock barehanded" When LPL has fun, locks shiver in terror. "I just want the see this lock get destroyed" The scariest LPL has ever sounded
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This is absolutely the first time I've seen someone managing to poison a fricking lock.
Poisoning. I like it.
Underrated joke. I laughed really hard
The adventure zone petal to the metal
Lol
I can't upvote this enough
"Honey, what happened to our garage lock?"
LPL: "Gone, reduced to atoms."
You WHAT you Fool!
@Bendolin So Jack Black was wrong!
To shreds you say? Very well.
@Bendolin Metal tried to destroy the metal, but the metal was too strong.
@Bendolin Thanos would approve!
I love this video still 4 years later because its nightmare fuel for the PC enthusiasts who tried using the fancy liquid metal thermal compound with an aluminium CPU cooler.
I only just realized a dodged a bullet, thank god I bought a nickel cooler by complete accident.
Typical high end cooler is nickel plated Copper. It's nickel plated to prevent Copper oxidation which would turn the Copper from cute color into green color. Funnily after 10+ years of using MB with naked Copper, it stayed fine. However when I washed carpet, clear plastic isolated wires between my speakers and amplifier were on partially dry carpet, and somehow the water got trough the plastic.
The main problem of gallium thermal liquids is they are HIGHLY conductive, and they can get at contacts they shouldn't. And even if they don't, there is actually degradation of gallium pastes in about 2-4 years of use, and it's quite dangerous to replace gallium paste.
And gallium falling into PCI-E slot is just NASTY.
@@raghardeishi972 The green verdigris of copper oxidizing is kind of fetching in a way, though I suspect it's not too useful for electronics.
Imagine calling a locksmith cause you locked yourself out of your house, he pulls out his phone, and you hear "this is the lock picking lawyer" quietly over your shoulder
Imagine coming back to your storage unit just to find that you’ve been galliumed
Not again
Tag your friends to totally gallium them
gallium moment
happens every day
Hate when that happens!
"Drip on three, melting on four, total disintegration of five"
And we got it open
"Ok heading to the right to see the result"
No that was a false set.
Drip on three, melting on four, friendly burglar at your door }-))
Chemical bonding on 2
"Just to do it again to see it was not a fluke.... oh... well..."
Fun fact: this also happens with mercury and aluminum to a bit higher of a degree. Its way more detrimental for aluminum and mercury to touch so thats why mercury, even a tiny drop sealed in like 5 containers, is completely banned from going on planes.
I suspect asking "Should I put my mercury thermometer in cabin or checked luggage?" is an extremely quick way of _very_ firmly being denied boarding ;-)
Unfortunately a ton of older house's have mercury in their temp control boxes on the wall .very accessible for anyone to misshandle😮
And now we're all on the watchlist.
Maybe one can make explosives too from mercury, aside the poisoning..
It should be illegal in banks too, cause gallium will literally eat gold like its sucking down a chicken nuggie lol😮
are we not gonna talk about how this is about as close to a face reveal as we can get haha? his face in the gallium reflection😂
when you dont have a rogue in your party, but the alchemist has your back
@Mizore Shirayuki don't forget the claric
As a paladin I say NO YOU JUST SLAP THE LOCK TILL IT BREAKS
@@kyledawson7175 but that's loud and sometimes you need a stealth mission
let's take a long rest while my reagents do the work
@SINGLETON222 That's quite rude
In monotonous voice: "Today we are going to be doing something very fun."
He is a lawyer after all
Just like Mr. Rogers. Creepy
Today I will teach you how to break into your girlfriend's house using SCIENCE
@@qwertydavid8070 can you teach me how to break into her pants?
Calmargarita WHAT IN THE FUCK IS THAT
That's impressive that the GaAl alloy can dissociate water with the only cost being Aluminum. You have to love those RedOx reactions!
The only problem is how much energy it will take to reclaim that aluminum; it’s already a very energy-intensive process to process aluminum ores like bauxite into pure aluminum metal
@@Xadov Bauxite refining end product IS aluminum oxide (process removes impurities and turns several Al-based minerals into a single form), so it's a moot comparison. Otherwise, Al2O3 can be effectively leached via NaOH (not sure about specifics, I believe it has temp requirement of 150ish C). But it has many important uses on its own, regardless, so that may not be necessary.
I am more concerned about safety hazard of a hydrogen-based engine. I mean, it burns well, and sometimes a little too well. These things already exist and aren't widely used for a reason.
Save your soda cans.
Or pop cans if you live in that part of the world.
This reminds me of a similar effect seen with antique ammunition. In the early days of metallic cartridges, the primers (the part that ignites when hit by the firing pin) were made of mercury fulminate. After firing, the inside of the brass case would be left coated with mercury, which absorbed into the brass, just as the gallium is doing here. The case was severely weakened, and reusing it could result in the firearm exploding.
Everyone gangsta till you hear “this is the lockpickinglawyer” outside your door
*winningest comment on this video*
@@MariusRiley Not really, it's just copy/pasted from every other video
Jacob Sowers i mean if youve seen this comment before it isnt really fun for us who have seen it on alot of other previous videos :/
This is the lock picking lawyer and today we are going to see how secure how my neighbor's door lock is. ACHOO! And we've got it open. Now I will leave a note to tell my neighbor to replace this lock and that is all I have for you today.
"Little click out of 3, and a click out of 4. Now we've picked our way into the sex dungeon."
Fun fact, this is why you're not allowed to take gallium on a plane
My first Thought after seeing the destroyed lock was, what would it do to a plane🙃😂
Yup, spilling just a little on a wing or structural support beam on the inside could destroy it :)
The way it travels on the metal a little drop on a spot can probably eat away a square foot of metal
Same thing with mercury. There's a reaction between mercury and aluminum that is similar to this in terms of damaging the aluminums structural integrity. There's a nilered video about it if you want to watch it
Well shit, there goes my plans lol
This form of contamination is a HUGE danger as explained during RAF aircraft engineering training. Thank you for another interesting adventure through the destruction of the padlock security world.
I was hypnotized ... couldn't get my eyes off this process but mostly wanted to see what would happen in the end.
Thanks for doing this and for sharing the results.
"you can see that this lock can be simply bypassed with a little bit of gallium and 6 hours of time, that's a pretty big design flaw"
The small amount of gallium that he used in this video was like $5 worth too which I think is funny.
Yeah if you want to break in to something that might not be yours.
ah ye bro i hate when i accidentally get gallium on my limited edition titalium lock for more time than i can physically sleep it happens so often
@@thevanillatoast amen
@@thevanillatoast Aw chucks! I forgot I put gallium and a razor in my pocket, my lock is ruined again!
"Were not using destructive methods. Instead, were compromising an entire metal and rendering it useless."
_"...gently putting the lock out of its misery"_
@@geraldbal7945 I think this is more akin to giving someone a flesh eating disease that slowly and painfully eats away at their skin from the inside-out.
It was already discussed in original Arsène Lupin stories since Gallium was discovered by a French (Gallium Gallia Gaul) I think it's a very old method to destroy padlocks.
Gallium also expands as it freezes like water, so if you dont want to wait hours for it to infuse into the steucture, you may think about injecting it into seams to fill internal voids, then see if the pressure is enough to destroy the lock.
Incredible! I've never seen anything like this before. It shows how valuable knowledge of chemistry is.
lock manufacturers when they see their product in one of this guy's titles: damn
Lock manufacturers: This lock is the most secure lock you’ll ever have! Completely unpickable!
LockPickingLawyer: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.
Manufacturers that know him: damn the video is 20 mins? Our lock must be amazing for it to take that long...
Masterlock
Because a thief is totally going to smear gallium onto a lock then wait 4 hours to chip away at the lock
The420Secrets Gallium is what he put on, aluminum is what the lock is made of.
"Of course this is not a practical way of opening a lock. Clearly anything that requires 5 or 6 hours..."
Me after trying for 47 hours to pick a lock: Uh, ok. I guess I'll just give up then.
It could be used practically to do a break in. You know someone is away for the week/weekend, you put some gallium on their backdoor the first day. Come back the second day to a real brittle lock
@@ramonrommers5387 Exactly, since no one can "see" it while it is working - just "drop off a parcel" and quickly apply it during broad daylight then come back later.
Definitely...but has its moments....abandoned bunkers buildings etc..good for urban explorers. Or if the missus looses her car keys. 🍻
I can't even explain why I'm so fascinated with these LPL videos. Yet, here I am, fascinated once again. Lol
You could barely see his face in the reflection of the gallium and the gallium’ed padlock
A little photoshop and you can clear it up.
yup!
Finally, so glad more people noticed it!
2020 now and this is still the closest we’ve gotten to a face reveal
I zoomed in 300 Percent on my 9-foot-wide-screen in 1080p.
Well, he has dark hair, I think, and he didn't shave, I believe... so that makes him look like a bike thief?
But I#m sure, that's only a false gate and he was wearing a mask :D:D:D
You can see the whole back of his head in the naughty bucket video with Bosnianbill
What time was this at plaese
@@chasebranson1044 2:20 or so, when he's placing the gallium on the lock, you can see his reflection in the bubble.
An interesting side note, but not what we are dealing with today. I just want to see this lock get destroyed
plot twist: the gallium was just fancy water and LPL ripped it apart using his strength
I like the concept of "fancy water"
"Be water my friend"
He was staring at the spot for the entire hour that he cut out - hence the damage
@@TheBastardCommie "H²Opulent"
Dang he Superman
that was awesome!! ive watched a couple of your videos but this one got me to subscribe, i hope you do more cool stuff with gallium
That was really cool and interesting to watch. Thank you for sharing this LPL!!!
Stabs self in hand with screwdriver and injects gallium/aluminium into blood.. Turns into T-1000 and can form lock picks out of fingers.
Quite fragile ones though cuz Ga-Al alloy
@@login0false "Have you seen this boy"
😂😂😂
He turns into Edward lockpicker hands
you got at least 1 sub out of this
Abus: “we have the strongest lock”
LPL: So I took my silly putty....
“So we have this bank vault here...”
LPL: “So, I took my *serious* putty...”
lol
"So this is the White House"
LPL: "so i took my *VERY SERIOUS* putty...."
@@signup4146 NSA be like: Yes its time to scan now bois XD
“So this is the nuclear launch computer that is fingerprint secured, with thousands of strands of code..”
LPL: So I gave Joe my Silly Putty…
Such an interesting and informative video. I love chemistry and enjoy your very knowledgeable and unbiased experiments.
Hardest time I have ever seen him have opening a lock, good on you Abus!
I'm starting to think that this guy has something personal against padlocks. All I know it's that I'm glad I'm not a padlock around this dude. Did a gang of padlocks run over his dog or something?
Sparky max. He does obsess a little... But his enthusiasm is contagious.
@@Mr1Schoolmaster Oh, no question! I subscribe to the channel and watch it all the time, it's friggin fascinating.
Sparky max that it is...the guy is kinda smart to boot. Smart is very cool.
Maybe he accidentally locked himself in a shed once when he was a kid with a padlock, then made them his mortal enemy ever since.
@@jgbarrymore Well he's getting midievil evening that particular score...
The LPL wouldn‘t even have needed that gallium to crush that lock with his bare hands, he only used it so we mere mortals could comprehend his immense strength
He was simply restraining himself, not revealing his true form to us mortals
Yes.
Not only would he crush it, but he'd uncrush it and then recrush it to prove that it wasn't a fluke.
How we can comprehend his strength if he weakened the lock?
@@Alen725 he just tries to make it understanable to us mortals. he is trying to hide his true powers
This is the one that started it all for me. As far as watching this excellent channel. I was looking up Gallium on metal issues. Not to mention an interest in lock picking since Fallout 4 came out. 😀
With how it reacts in water, I wonder what an attack like this would do in a rainy/wet environment (would the lock literally destroy itself if you put it in a bucket?)
Or you could multiply the effect by collecting the resulting hydrogen, mixing it with air in the right proportion, and boom
Imagine the gallium saying : A click on 3, nothing on 4...
@@BARKZIM what
@@BARKZIM What.
Sir Kibble idk i was half asleep m8
Scratches at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7.
Lol
When the gallium was flowing under the "skin" of the lock it was the oxide layer that was unable to amalgamate
It could also be a layer of clear anodizing to keep the surface finish on the lock looking good from the factory.
@@icoopify now that you mention it I'm pretty sure you're correct.
@@icoopify Anodising is just a electrochemically formed layer of aluminium oxide that may be thicker than an air formed layer. It may, but does not have to have, pigment sealed into the pores that develop when it is formed. Magical process and even a thin air formed layer will protect aluminium but it can be scratched much easier than this lock which would have been anodised to give it protection from environmental hazards.
I thought it was a electroplated or something with another metal like titanium or chromium, oxide layer could have done that tho.
sulfuric anodized, sealed with boiling water. makes for excellent abrasion resistance. (MIL-A-8625).
This is cool to see the power of gallium, but it’s also a great testament to how tough Abus locks are. Parts were crumbling off and it still held on for dear life,
This is one of the most interesting videos I’ve seen in a long time.
Love that NileRed is branching off into new subjects!
HA
EXACTLY what I was thinking 🤣
Gallium is to safe for NileRed.
Came here to say this lol
Im happy that we all watch Nile Red as well.
Wow, you turned it into a master lock.
Lmao
Bwahahaha! 🤣🤣🤣
SHOTS FIRED 😂
oof
What a cool bit of chemistry! This is super fascinating to see.
I congratulate you, they are excellent tutorials for thieves so you will make their job even easier, you are a true genius
yeah, right - thieves will bother with 7+ hr gallium disintegration instead of using angle grinders, crowbars, entering by the window etc... the F are you talking about?
Can boost that reaction starting by cleaning the oxide layer off with a drop of HCl. Much faster than scratching and more reliable amalgam formation
Just the thought of him doing the same with mercury instead of gallium
9th
@@HappyBeezerStudios gallium is easier to get and better to handle I guess
@@neol3066 safer as well most limely
@@neol3066 yeah, gallium is available in any pharmacy or computer store
Watching him scratch the lock was so frustrating. He was so insanely gentle about it.
He's the lockpickinglawyer, not bruteforcecriminal. Habits don't die easy.
Ida hit it with a file straight off the bat and added the gallium
@@ssnerd583 Sandpaper would make a larger contact surface (it can bend around the round parts) + it's easier to carry around (advice not for illegal purposes).
@@ordenmanvrn7685 ...A file is easier and faster to employ and would remove far more material far more quickly.
me, holding out the 80 grit sandpaper and waving it at the screen....
yep im still subscribed, just didnt expect to see that metal i saw in shorts in your videos, still the best explanation
My first ever lock "picking" video ive seen from you
Almost needed the Lock Picking Medic the way he was tearing into that lock with that screwdriver
Or the Hand Stitching Lawyer
Are you trying to stab your hand? Because that's how you stab your hand.
@@toddsmith8608 plpp
@@levector2445 ❤ppqqI
@@levector2445 😊❤
Damn he’s so evolved he has a screwdriver as his bare hands
ToxicSkull0 got to move on up in the world meng... like George and Whezzy .
Bare 👍
I feel being cheated. He said bare hand and used a razor knife and screw driver.
Just what I was thinking! A smaller beef would be that he's got gloves on.
Why not just use sandpaper to scratch it? Before putting rhe gallium on
Did not expect to learn some chemistry on this channel but here we are. I like the idea of suropticiously "infecting" a lock only to return and smash it open hours later
I can never really tell if you like locks or just hate them.
Great stuff man!
Scratches at a level 6, with deeper grooves at a level 7
Edit: Thanks for the likes everybody!
I see what you did there
Underated
you deserve top comment
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING
It pops out like a little Lego.
Gallium may be technically ineffective when it comes to breaking locks, but boy is it effective at destroying computers
Good at destroying engine blocks too
@@Sno6403 Nice expensive aluminium engine block you got there.. would be a shame if you ever get warmer than room temperature
Gallium won't destroy your computer if you use it correctly, as in the contact between your cpu/gpu and heatsink must be made of copper and the layer applied is very thin. Works wonders, every 'liquid metal' thermal paste out there uses gallium.
@@Dystopikachu IF the cooler is made of copper, well a lot of aftermarket cooler are made of copper but stock or atleast that looks like stock coolers are made of aluminium. Also even if it is copper, some people has experience that the copper is eaten a little bit on the surface, and yeah sometimes they can drop out of their place which "destroys" the computer.
The new ps5 uses liquid thermal paste that is largely gallium based. Those damn things stay cool pretty easy. Great design
Good god LPL, that screwdriver almost got ya a few times 😂
THIS video is one of you best, Bravo...
Just discovered your channel and I want to thank you for:
1. Interesting content
2. No annoying intro
3. Not screaming in my face for the entire video.
This is the only video of yours I've seen so far, and I'm already subbed due to the above list.
No offensively loud music....
Imagine that, people actually watching and subscribing due to this interesting content. Shocking!! :D
And no clickbaiting
I know these are like the only videos that always have me intrigued watching. There hasnt beenany lpl video I’ve gotten bored or annoyed watching!
Pretty cool huh!? Boom is number 1 priority! #crazyrussianhacker
This could definitely come in handy when dealing with a snobby neighbour. That has an aluminum block engine.
there are so many great vandalism ideas that come to mind with this :-)
Lots of Hair but No Money not so much vandalism, as it is destruction of property.
@@Zulfburht protip mercury cause even more damage to aluminium when using the same process
@@UserOfTheName except mercury is a hazardous element and probably harder to obtain.
@@n9wox Depends on the type of mercury. Some mercury is rather harmless, some is so toxic even wearing plastic gloves can kill you with a drop or two
THAT WAS AMAZING AND FUN THIS MORNING! THANKS!!
LockPickingLawyer: "I'm going to break this lock with my bare hands."
Also LockPickingLawyer: *wears gloves*
A screwdriver
visible confusion
also eat your cereal
He lied to us ...he wore gloves. LOL
Bob yes maam
Gloves on human hands. Ridiculous
you are not allowed to bring gallium in aircraft. Guess why.
why?
@@albundy7505 cuz aluminium
@@andreblum so..?
Al Bundy it can chew through the hull of the craft
@@touisbetterthanpi how?
I forgot I watched this years ago, but when I started watching it again I suddenly remembered how it worked. But it was fun watching it all over again!
Amazing demonstration!
An ad came on just as it was getting real good and my immediate thought was "how dare you lock block me"
alex mobley 😩
Lmaooooo
...chastity
Gallium, being a low melting point metal, when applied to a solid (at room temperature) metal such as Aluminium, forms an alloy with it via thermal diffusion into the solid material. Once an alloy is formed, you can take a look at the binary diagram of Ga-Al and see that at roughly 20% concentration you reach a point at which the solubility of gallium in aluminium is at its' maximum, and beyond that you then have aluminium-rich alloy and gallium-rich alloy.
Now, because presence of gallium drops the melting point down to room temperature, this means that the alloy of aluminium and gallium is going to have lower melting point than pure aluminium. Moreover, due to inhomogeneous structural phase, those "gallium-rich" areas will likely become a liquid far before aluminium does the same, causing "flaking" of aluminium as seen on this video.
Gallium permeated solid aluminium via atomic diffusion and alloying. If two metals are soluble, that basically means they can intermix and form new electronic states which exist at a lower energy than if they were "on their own", thus promoting the alloying (not true for every combination of materials). If the concentration goes above the critical points you will simply have separate gallium-rich and aluminium rich areas.
All of this interplay between overall much weaker structure of Ga-Al alloy, as well as pockets of molten Ga-rich alloy within greater Al-rich lattice provides the spectacular destruction :)
That flaking was just the aluminum-oxide layer that is not affected by the gallium.
Same
Good to see you (in the reflexion), LPL!
The gallium moves like mercury when it's melted. Thanks for sharing this fascinating experiment...
Imagine coming home and then seeing your shed pad lock disintegrated on the ground
I used to work in a chocolate factory, and this reminds me of the texture of poorly tempered chocolate - breaking apart easily into crumbly chunks, rather than clean shards. Metals and chocolates: surprisingly crystalline structures!
Essentially it does act like a de-tempering agent.
So I'm not the only one who wanted to eat the lock?
One of the best vids you've ever done
This is the longest lock picking time from LPL, but hey, he did with without any tools (except that screwdriver and the wire toward the end)
Has eye dropper of gallium
Drops 2 drops on your padlock before gym
after a long work out, return to the padlock and break the lock with hand
Impress everyone with your absolute terror of strength + Science XD
LOL. Gotta try that if gyms open back up
Make sure it's alluminum first, otherwise you just look stupid.
"Hey buddy, I think you got the wrong door. The chem lab's two floors up--"
*[CRUNCH]* "f u c k y o u"
@@Tinlion09 "Ah fuck you chemist man, maybe you and I should settle it right here"
Ool
"Bare-Hand"
You lawyers are all the same.
Bear hand
Speed Bear hand
@@charleschavez6998 bear hand
@@vashonda111 bear hand
@@randomblackhole9933 bear hand
Modern medical thermometers use galistan, it is alloy of gallium, indium and tin and it is liquid in room temperature (melting point -19 degrees Celsius). However as it has half the density of mercury, it is hard to get down by shaking.
I don't know what it is, but I keep coming back to this video!
"Hello, this is the lock-picking chemist and today we are going to completely dissolve this lock"
The Gallium travelling under the surface of the lock reminds me somewhat of how rust spreads under car paint. It probably just doesn't react with the oxide layer on the surface, leaving it alone to sort of ride the gallium-aluminum wave
Exactly. It's not traveling under the surface of the metal. It's traveling under the Oxide layer.
Very cool to watch, i never knew there was such a substance.
Well scratch buying this one. Thanks LPL👍
Enemy: Lock (Construct) - Immune to poison damage
LPL: Hold my Gallium.
Also works with mercury.
Your technique with the screwdriver is what I call the “hand opener”
man opener
I dunno how i got here, but it's fascinating. Lov it
Great cutaway shot.
2:20 - The only confirmed image we have of LPL's mysterious visage
5:10 is a little enlarged
9:16 too, if a bit wonky
You can see what he fully looks like here in episode 1311 with bosnian bill. It's called '(1311) LockPickingLawyer Raids LockLab's Naughty Bucket'
Someone's gotta pull a blade runner on this one.
@@Kito-Anime-Arena ua-cam.com/video/1jSHwaOR_eo/v-deo.html
Tip on how to be the worlds most patient criminal
the gallium could probably be applied in a way that was hard to notice, and then after the structure was compromised the criminal could just come back from his lunch break and give it a few good whacks with a ball peen.
@@SavageGreywolf Yeah that's what I was thinking, just stick a decent size drop on a piece of tape that blends in with the lock on the back, then come back in 12 hours and pick apart the lock. It would draw a lot less attention than bringing bolt cutters or bending down on your knees with a lock pick set.
Yet another reason not to buy an aluminum lock, and to spring for steel.
You could apply it at 10pm, break in around 2am, and get out all under the cover of night.
FBI OPEN U-
"Hold up John. Didn't you get the memo? We can't use the battering ram anymore."
Right. So how do we get in?
"I dunno. The door's made of aluminum so we can't kick it in."
*Guys, I know what to do.*
@Alex carpenter Gallium is real heavy and extremely thick at working temperature, so you'd need a pretty specialized nozzle and forty or fifty psi of air driving it, no squirt bottle.
😳🤯
How extremely educative, the comments, too!!!
Thanks!!!!
"I guess it just depends where in the lock we strike, that we find the weak points." Awesome quote
LPL: "Today we're going to be looking at the ABUS 90/50"
Me: "Oh cool, I have a few of these. They feel pretty sturdy, wonder what he's going to say"
LPL: "Today I'm going to attempt to crush this padlock with my bare hands"
Me: "Oh...I see"
Gallium: For when the nerds in school target the Bully’s bicycle
..or the teacher's car's tyres
@@-Jakob- Don't you mean alloy-wheels (need lots of Gallium though), as tyres are made of rubber-compounds covering steel & polymer belts!?!
@@stevie-ray2020 I was referring to aluminium rims, sorry
@@-Jakob- ice pick lol
describes breaking apart a lock as if he just finished cooking a fine dish
Your voice is so calming
"we pick locks on this channel"
*proseeds to kemist*
My chemical lockpicker
*chemist
@@dogdude9883 .
He did pick the lock.
In the same way that an ice pick or rock pick works, but it's still a pick!
Dogdude *kemist
"Today we're going to crush this lock barehanded" When LPL has fun, locks shiver in terror.
"I just want the see this lock get destroyed" The scariest LPL has ever sounded
The only thing missing was the evil cackle :-)
I'm pretty sure I'm not a lock but this scared me
Oh wow. We can see LPL's face reflected in the gallium when he drips it on the lock! First time seeing his face! :o :D!
Loved this cody'slab colab!
9:53 “wow, I can see th-“ *BANG* “...oops”
9:56
How to stab your finger with a screwdriver.
Send the remains over to Codys Lab and he can teach us how to turn it into Gold or something magical.
Or dump everything in a bucket of water, light the hydrogen, and watch it burn. 😁
LockPickingLawyer watch it burn !!!
add some liquid oxygen for extra fun
burn it down, BURN IT DOWN !!
Jort93z I like you
12:01
One of the most satisfying things I've ever seen.
verry educating! Thanks.
Meanwhile in lock tube: acid vs flesh - human meets a gruesome end