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 ;-)
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?
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
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.
@@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.
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
@@Upstart051 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.
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
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.
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 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 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 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.
"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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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).
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.
Most liquid metal is not gallium and that would likely be the cheapest liquid metal. Which of your water cooling and you're buying the cheapest components. What are you even doing? Just get an air cooler
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
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 :)
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?)
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.
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!
"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
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,
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
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?
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"
@@brian8507 that's only if you're twisted enough to believe that women are supposed to only fuck one man while men are supposed to fuck as many women as possible
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.
Quick tip for anyone wanting to verify if the product they bought is actually made of titanium, steel or aluminum. This requires a grinder, but a coarse sanding disc on a high rpm drill will work too if you're able to or know the angle you can get a stream of sparks to shoot. It's called the spark test. Get the grinding disc running at sufficient speed to create sparks when placed against the surface of the metal in question. You don't need to grind long, a simple touch along a non-structural edge will do. The color of the sparks will tell you what metal you're working with. Titanium: Very brilliant white sparks Most common steels: Reddish oragnish to yellow, if it's a carbon steel the color might be different. I can't remember the color for aluminum sparks because, typically, in the fabrication shop, it was easy enough to determine aluminum from the other 2 because of how malleable it is in comparison, usually, at that point, we're looking for which temper/alloy of aluminum were working with. But, really, it's irrelevant when you're simply trying verify if you have genuine titanium products or not, if it doesn't spark brilliant white, chances are the manufacturer used something other than titanium. Granted... I would prefer a good, solid steel lock any day to one made of titanium since steel is the strongest metal of the two as a good corrosion resistant steel has at least double the tensile strength of titanium. (titanium is good for when strength is needed but weight is a factor). Another issue, and why I'd prefer a milled steel lock over titanium is that, titanium tends to shatter when massive force is applied (say, a hammer and a chisel, in example), whereas with a good steel alloy, that simply doesn't occur, and, more on point, though steel CAN warp, the forces necessary to make that happen are far higher than that of titanium. Don't get me wrong, put in the correct use, titanium is amazing, but, when you have the luxury of not caring about weight (like in the case of a padlock), all around, it's a better choice to avoid titanium and stick with steel.
It may could've been splitting it as it went through, like a tree root would to dirt. My theory the outer and most 'wet' surface would peel as it would gradually get less wet and denser material.
It's actually a process called "amalgamation", where the gallium is combining with the aluminum in the titanium/aluminum alloy. It's literally dissolving it into a liquid-ish state all the way through not just on the surface, course it takes some time to fully penetrate. So does aluminum with mercury, though at a much slower rate and instead of a liquid it creates interesting looking flakes almost like an alien plant.
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. 😀
I just shared this with my Materials Science instructor. This will help future engineers understand grain boundaries and molecular bonds. Thank you so much for this.
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.
@@MaaZeus It has some similar properties, like it's metallic liquid look, and the fact that it attacks aluminum, but I'd argue other than that they're quite different. Mercury doesn't oxide in air, to my knowledge anyway, Mercury can dissolve multiple metals through "amalgamation", including gold, and sodium, and it doesn't stick to everything.
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.
I saw a craft channel put a soda can in gallium and later pulled out a plastic sack of soda. (The plastic lining of the can remained when the outside structure dissolved.)
@@skullmax3595 For anyone who might misinterpret this as serious, unless consumed in very small quantities, gallium is toxic to drink since it reacts with your stomach acids to form a rat poison. Tons of hydrogen is produced, turning parts of your body into the Hindenburg. In addition, your lungs would food with liquid, which would almost certainly kill you unless you got immediate medical attention. tldr: say bye bye to your toddler.
I care, but your own comment was kinda pointless A Man from Wexford = I couldn't think of anything interesting to say so I just thought I'd make a useless comment about someone elses comment just to try to bring someone down and make myself feel less inadequate in the process.
stop being a fucking moron with the bold text, retarded comments and emoticons. OP's comment was perfectly valid and on-topic. you're the one being demented.
Hi, my name is Ahss. Shtik Inmy Ahss. I comment aggressively in bold to let people know I have a tiny penis. Coincidentally, I also have a stick in my ass.
A Man from Wexford Have you ever had any therapy for your obvious psychopathic anger issues? I mean, you are doing your fucking nut on this guy, like he’s committed murder or something, instead of making an inoffensive comment on UA-cam.
Finally, A Video where I understand what's going on! Edit: Think of Gallium as water and other metals as particle board, that's basically what happens in the easiest terms possible. It soaks in, disrupts the normally strong structure, and it breaks apart.
The reason the gallium is traveling under the surface is because the surface is aluminum oxide, not just aluminum. That is why you have to scratch it to start the reaction, it scrapes away the aluminum oxide.
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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!
"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😮
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
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...
"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!
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
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."
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!
"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.
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
@@Upstart051 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.
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
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.
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 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.
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
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
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
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.
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…
"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. 🍻
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
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😂
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
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
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.
Incredible! I've never seen anything like this before. It shows how valuable knowledge of chemistry is.
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
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).
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 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.
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....
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
Wow, you turned it into a master lock.
Lmao
Bwahahaha! 🤣🤣🤣
SHOTS FIRED 😂
oof
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!
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.
Most liquid metal is not gallium and that would likely be the cheapest liquid metal. Which of your water cooling and you're buying the cheapest components. What are you even doing? Just get an air cooler
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 😊❤
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
LPL finally revealing his face in a drop of Gallium at 2:28
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?
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
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
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
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
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.
Why not just use sandpaper to scratch it? Before putting rhe gallium on
@@gaganrajput5836 he use the razor knife to scratch the metal not to break it
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?
Hardest time I have ever seen him have opening a lock, good on you Abus!
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
Enemy: Lock (Construct) - Immune to poison damage
LPL: Hold my Gallium.
Also works with mercury.
"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
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,
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
"Bare-Hand"
You lawyers are all the same.
Bear hand
Speed Bear hand
@@charleschavez6998 bear hand
@@vashonda111 bear hand
@@randomblackhole9933 bear hand
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.
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?
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"
Imagine coming home and then seeing your shed pad lock disintegrated on the ground
As always, huge respect to LPL for not titling this some BS like "Breaking a solid ALUMINUM lock with my BARE HANDS (NOT clickbait) [GONE SEXUAL]"
Still disappointed that he didn't break the lock with his bear hands
how do you fuck a lock
@@Bacony_Cakes With the right key. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
uWu g-galuimsan what are you doinggg
@@brian8507 that's only if you're twisted enough to believe that women are supposed to only fuck one man while men are supposed to fuck as many women as possible
thank you, this was really cool to see and actually pretty relaxing.
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.
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.
"LockPickingGunOwningChemistLawyer"
It just doesn't roll off the tongue as easily.
Also you can see his face in the Gallium at 2:25
Yeah, all those days of blurring his face (or so I heard) beaten by Mercury 2: Electric Boogaloo
Yeah I'm imagining that this guy is a lawyer by day and some kind of secret agent hitman by night with a youtube channel as a hobby
@@___meph___4547 I wonder why he doesn't show his face
@@scrappysgarage7404 Not like he needs to, so why would he?
@@scrappysgarage7404
privacy is your friend, the less strangers know about you, the better ;)
"Hello, this is the lock-picking chemist and today we are going to completely dissolve this lock"
I can't even explain why I'm so fascinated with these LPL videos. Yet, here I am, fascinated once again. Lol
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
Your technique with the screwdriver is what I call the “hand opener”
ALEXA . . . put Gallium on my shopping list
No
FBI...Put this man on your blacklist
I'd pour the gallium on the Alexa. I hate those things.
@@VeraTheTabbynx They aren't aluminium.
@@mandowarrior123 I bet there is aluminum in the circuitry.
Quick tip for anyone wanting to verify if the product they bought is actually made of titanium, steel or aluminum.
This requires a grinder, but a coarse sanding disc on a high rpm drill will work too if you're able to or know the angle you can get a stream of sparks to shoot.
It's called the spark test. Get the grinding disc running at sufficient speed to create sparks when placed against the surface of the metal in question. You don't need to grind long, a simple touch along a non-structural edge will do.
The color of the sparks will tell you what metal you're working with.
Titanium: Very brilliant white sparks
Most common steels: Reddish oragnish to yellow, if it's a carbon steel the color might be different.
I can't remember the color for aluminum sparks because, typically, in the fabrication shop, it was easy enough to determine aluminum from the other 2 because of how malleable it is in comparison, usually, at that point, we're looking for which temper/alloy of aluminum were working with. But, really, it's irrelevant when you're simply trying verify if you have genuine titanium products or not, if it doesn't spark brilliant white, chances are the manufacturer used something other than titanium. Granted... I would prefer a good, solid steel lock any day to one made of titanium since steel is the strongest metal of the two as a good corrosion resistant steel has at least double the tensile strength of titanium. (titanium is good for when strength is needed but weight is a factor).
Another issue, and why I'd prefer a milled steel lock over titanium is that, titanium tends to shatter when massive force is applied (say, a hammer and a chisel, in example), whereas with a good steel alloy, that simply doesn't occur, and, more on point, though steel CAN warp, the forces necessary to make that happen are far higher than that of titanium.
Don't get me wrong, put in the correct use, titanium is amazing, but, when you have the luxury of not caring about weight (like in the case of a padlock), all around, it's a better choice to avoid titanium and stick with steel.
I think the gallium travelling under the surface was due to the oxide layer
or may be other metal coating...
It may could've been splitting it as it went through, like a tree root would to dirt. My theory the outer and most 'wet' surface would peel as it would gradually get less wet and denser material.
It's actually a process called "amalgamation", where the gallium is combining with the aluminum in the titanium/aluminum alloy. It's literally dissolving it into a liquid-ish state all the way through not just on the surface, course it takes some time to fully penetrate. So does aluminum with mercury, though at a much slower rate and instead of a liquid it creates interesting looking flakes almost like an alien plant.
@@BillAnt My friend has some in a container the other day, had no idea about what it did to aluminum. Showed him this video :) Crazy stuff, science.
Perhaps it would work better if you pour it into where the key goes in, therefore destroying it from inside out.
Why do i watch this
I have no interests in locks or picking them im not buying a lock
It's entertaining
use a paper clip
@@SW_Sarah that's boring
but effective *ryan*
@@SW_Sarah only if you know how to do it, gallium only takes time
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
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. 😀
I like how he forgot by the end that he wanted to crush the lock with his hand and instead is just mesmerized by what the gallium did to the lock.
cringe pfp
@@BrainiumBasher9001 Not the homophobic kid obsessed with sea monkeys and super mario logan calling someone else cringe
@@BrainiumBasher9001 lesbians aren't cringe bro
@@ZarHakkar pretty sure it’s the anime hence his name lmao
@@calebking7096 and the crossed out pride flag?
I just shared this with my Materials Science instructor. This will help future engineers understand grain boundaries and molecular bonds. Thank you so much for this.
No problem!!
9:53 “wow, I can see th-“ *BANG* “...oops”
9:56
How to stab your finger with a screwdriver.
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.
Gallium is just mercury's little sibling, change my mind
Also LPL face reveal in the reflective liquid gallium confirmed?
Isn't it kinda true? Lots of same properties but helluva less toxic than Mercury.
He should wear a mask like nick shabazz.
@@MaaZeus It has some similar properties, like it's metallic liquid look, and the fact that it attacks aluminum, but I'd argue other than that they're quite different.
Mercury doesn't oxide in air, to my knowledge anyway, Mercury can dissolve multiple metals through "amalgamation", including gold, and sodium, and it doesn't stick to everything.
Yeah but it won't make you smarter like mercury
Funny if he did that and it reveals he's a t1000 terminator
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.
2:26 early face reveal leaked by gallium
Ok, great success in revealing, LPL seems to have a face. Probably man face. Oh, and even tiny details shot - his hair is black.
9:24 as well
Yea
Bruh I seen that to
Finally, SOMEONE talking about it! Have a nice day ;)
😳🤯
How extremely educative, the comments, too!!!
Thanks!!!!
Imagine hiding in a nuclear bunker during a fallout and you hear:
"This is the lockpicking lawyer"
Outside the main door.
Thank god there isn't a lock on the outside
@@deadlydam ‘now as you can see, there is this tiny crack in the door, this is a design flaw that allows me to open this door fairly easily’
Would extra hands make him better at lock picking?
Stolen joke.
That's when you hook up the jumper cables from the main generator's
240v/60Amp output terminals to the vault door.
"Has the lock been tested by the lock picking lawyer"
"No"
"Once again an inexcusable design flaw."
This has got to be one of his slowest lock picking attempts.
"Attempt"
Also i didnt know lock picking required chemistry knowledge and utter destruction or the lock.
Also i prefer C4. Faster and loocks better :>
@@mhplayer i prefer thermite, far less destructive, yet burns hotter than the sun
@@kodours1835 breaking bad 😎
Attempts are correct
@@kodours1835 I prefer supernova, it destroys the lock along with everything.
My first ever lock "picking" video ive seen from you
Gallium is such a fun metal and relatively safe, so its great to teach your kids some chemistry with.
I saw a craft channel put a soda can in gallium and later pulled out a plastic sack of soda. (The plastic lining of the can remained when the outside structure dissolved.)
Kids love the taste!
Then when they get older you bring out the super fun stuff like thermite.
Yes i always let my toddler slurp it up whenever our Gatorade stock finishes at home.
@@skullmax3595 For anyone who might misinterpret this as serious, unless consumed in very small quantities, gallium is toxic to drink since it reacts with your stomach acids to form a rat poison. Tons of hydrogen is produced, turning parts of your body into the Hindenburg. In addition, your lungs would food with liquid, which would almost certainly kill you unless you got immediate medical attention.
tldr: say bye bye to your toddler.
now you know why gallium is a no no on an airplane
I care, but your own comment was kinda pointless
A Man from Wexford = I couldn't think of anything interesting to say so I just thought I'd make a useless comment about someone elses comment just to try to bring someone down and make myself feel less inadequate in the process.
stop being a fucking moron with the bold text, retarded comments and emoticons. OP's comment was perfectly valid and on-topic. you're the one being demented.
Hi, my name is Ahss. Shtik Inmy Ahss. I comment aggressively in bold to let people know I have a tiny penis. Coincidentally, I also have a stick in my ass.
now imagine if a few drops of it happened to get in your radiator or oil pan. the amount of destrution might be interesting.
A Man from Wexford Have you ever had any therapy for your obvious psychopathic anger issues? I mean, you are doing your fucking nut on this guy, like he’s committed murder or something, instead of making an inoffensive comment on UA-cam.
Finally, A Video where I understand what's going on!
Edit: Think of Gallium as water and other metals as particle board, that's basically what happens in the easiest terms possible. It soaks in, disrupts the normally strong structure, and it breaks apart.
I don't know that I would call particle board a "strong material" but nevertheless that is a good analogy.
Ender it’s not, it just represents the strong material for the analogy so it’s easier to understand for everyday people. Lol
Can you say like the gallium is water and the metal is paper?
That's the goal for like half of analogys
The gallium moves like mercury when it's melted. Thanks for sharing this fascinating experiment...
"I dont want to contaminate my work area" metal shatter spreads shards everywhere.
well he did move it to a different location
Sloppy Lawyer! Tsk-tsk
I was a little disappointed when he didn't turn out to have bear hands :(
Yes, he has human hands
He has the right to bear arms, not bear hands.
Netsuko Bear hands would have given him the strength to break it first go however. Barely did it with a screwdriver.
Ok *bear* with me now... he's actually human! ;D
LOL and by way cool fursona
Meanwhile in lock tube: acid vs flesh - human meets a gruesome end
This is one of the most interesting videos I’ve seen in a long time.
Accidental face reveal lol.Your reflection was visible in the gallium
i actually thought for a moment his mic was someone pointing a gun at him
At what times can u see him??
@@samgillon9407 starts at 5:12
@@samgillon9407 and at 9:05 even better
Looks like a professional.
2 days later...learns all his screw drivers have dissolved.
Braamenwurst K8, screwdrivers are made of alloys too.
You mean aluminum.
Idiots tend to be quick to call everyone else idiots, says the village idiot :D
@Braamenwurst K8 Ur dumb
... and his weiner falls off...
There is aluminium in some types of deodorant, imagine it reacting with the aluminium as it enters your body.
“I can’t find the keys to me shed and I really need to mow the lawn”
TLPL “hold on bro I’ve got some Gallium”
Have you eaten crabcakes with yak butter?
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)
I miss the occasional longer format videos. We love hearing you talk, please consider doing more like this again 🙂
Me: hides in my house from a zombie apocalypse
Zombie: pulls out gallium and a screw driver
Me: oh no
You’re expecting LPL to die in an apocalypse before you? Wow you’re expectations are extremely low.
LoneWolfGamer No I’m chillin in the country side so I’m expecting to live a while
LoneWolfGamer No your*
Hamsterghini gramma nazi alert 😂
Hamsterghini wrong youre
The reason the gallium is traveling under the surface is because the surface is aluminum oxide, not just aluminum. That is why you have to scratch it to start the reaction, it scrapes away the aluminum oxide.
That was really cool and interesting to watch. Thank you for sharing this LPL!!!