I got the chemistry bug from reading "the discovery of the elements" when I was 14. One chapter that I loved was the heroic story of the discovery of the rare earths, including the four named after one Swedish village, Ytterby.
I don't want to hijack the thread - not an element but closely related - I'd really enjoy hearing your rendition of the history of molecular mass, Avogadro's constant and the mole etc from Dalton to Ostwald. That always fascinated me in chemistry how it was determined and what it meant for gas chemistry. The mole always seemed such an arbitrary and magical value!
Would it be fair to say that terrestrial helium is all formed from alpha particles emanating from the radioactive decay of uranium and similar elements or is there some other source of helium on earth?
Mendeleev initially thought that the Argon discovery was bogus because it seemed to violate his periodic table and attacked the discovery. As soon as the other elements were discovered it solidified the model of the periodic table and he added a new column for the noble gases
@@mr_b_hhcthat's why the process of peer review is so incredibly important. As long as we remain skeptical, together we can incrementally improve our understanding even when our human failings get in the way.
Should like to add on that Argon was not corrected to occur before Potassium (this was done by Mendeleev, who did not know of atomic numbers and so used the nucleon number/atomic mass) until Henry Moseley
It always stuns me how fast science advanced from about 1850 to 1950. In 1850, we didn’t know anything about the make up of the atom. By 1950, we had already exploded an atomic bomb. Incredible times.
@@nullifye7816we live in the information age, you can learn anything you want. Absurd amounts of data is out there, look at Internet Archive, they have tons of media and websites, you can find tons of deleted or paywalled content there
First successful demonstration of a transistor: December 23, 1947. And now look where we are. Chips with billions of transistors are commonplace and cheap.
Looking at the periodic table now it’s so easy to view it and think that’s how it’s always been, everything fits right into place, but the history behind every element is always so fascinating and the efforts it took to get there are astounding
@@Cokecanninja Wrong. Nuclei have 4 electron shells (as found in actual elements): S, P, D, F First row represents the S shell, where there are 2 * 1 electrons per shell. Second 2 rows represent the P shells, where there are 2 * (1+ 3)= 8 electrons per shell. Third 2 rows represent the D shells, where there are 2 * (1 + 3 + 5) = 18 electrons per shell. Fourth 2 rows represent the F shells, where there are 2 * (1 + 3 + 5 + 7) = 32 electrons per shell. 1, 3, 5, 7: Do you see a pattern here? First row: Hydrogen & Helium = 2*1 = 2 elements Second row: Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Neon = 2 * (1 + 3) = 8 elements etc. This image shows the ENTIRE periodic table with all four rows. Fourth row is frequently separated from the others so the table is not so long and flat, but that is mere typography. qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f3cfa160d3c3e86927529c7a19ee2d2f-pjlq
@@DavidFMayerPhD had no idea about this, when we were memorizing the periodic table in middle school we just focus on how its usually organized and how to read it(more similar to labeling a map then learning what it was and how it worked). Thank you!
Most "neon" signs DO NOT contain neon. Only the red ones that are transparent when turned off are neon. The rest are fluorescent lamps, filled with argon & mercury to make UV light, & a chalk-like phosphor coating on the inside of the tube. When those are turned off, they look chalky-white (unless the glass tubing is itself colored).
As far as I know it's not even the color of the power that makes the light turn color. I think the UV light hits the powder and is refracted into the visible light spectrum, depending on what you use you can get different refraction effects from shining UV light onto the powder
@@jllemin4 It is not refraction. (Refraction only changes the direction of light, not the wavelength.) It is fluorescence. In fluorescence, the atoms of the powder absorb light, exciting their electrons into upper atomic orbitals. When these "fall back", they release light. Since the distance they fall back to is less then the upward kick they got from the incoming light, the result is light of a longer wavelength. So UV from the mercury in the discharge excites the powder ("phosphor") & the phosphor emits light in the visible (longer wavelength then the UV light). The chemical makeup of the phosphor determines what color you get. (The color of the fluorescence is usually not the color of the powder when viewed under white light.) In real neon lamps, the light you see is directly emitted from the ionized neon. Other colors are not done this way because the efficiency of other direct visible colors from ionized gasses is poor compared with the mercury UV output to phosphor to get visible light.
If i remember correct. First color tubes (Gas-discharge lamps) use different gases to produce color. Neon is red, argon deep pink or light purple (similar color to nitrogen) , add sodium and we have yellow. Fluorescent lamps are mercury vapor lamps using phosphorus coating. Mixing different fluorescent minerals or simple pigments or even top coating create color.
I'm quite surprised, and impressed, that 19th century scientists could reliably measure a 0.5% difference in density of different gas mixtures. What method did they use?
well in science class we are told to repeat the experiments multiple times and the school equipment of nowdays are very low quality back in the day the actual scientists had super precise measuring methods which were still taught (tho our error rates are much more due to the equipment) its not a suprise he was able to measure such a diffrence especially as a chemist
As a Polish speaker, I pay my respects to you because of 8:16 (and onward). You pronounce both names VERY well, which is extremely rare for English speakers - and not because "Polish is hard". People practically always just replace all Polish letters ó, ł, ń, ą, ę, etc. with English letters that LOOK similar (o, l, n, a, e) and then just read everything in English, which makes absolutely no sense (visual similarity or even identicality of the Latin letters between languages has nothing to do with the similarity of how they sound in those languages). Often such inter-linguistic caricatures cause only laughter. Sometimes, however (e.g. in the case of names!) they cause a sense of disrespect. Thank you!
It's a sign of respect. Most English speakers do not have it. It's typical for imperialist cultures. The French and Russians do the same crap, butchering other people's names.
My spelling accuracy declined in high-school when I took Russian language with Cyrillic letters accidentally/subliminally replacing their look-a-like English language counterparts.
@@vijayvijay4123 Raman scattering involves a change in wavelength of the scattered light, whereas Rayleigh scattering does not: they are completely different physical processes.
I find it amazing that Ramsey had a role in the discovery of or identification all the noble gases except for oganesson (which may not be a gas at all). Apparently the reason radon was accepted as the name for element 86 was that radium emanation (radon) was the longest-lived isotope. Travers didn't share the Nobel prize in Chemistry with Ramsey, but nowadays he might have, though Ramsey was unquestionably the driving force. Except for argon, where he and Lord Raleigh share the honors. I still saw niton as the name for element 86 when I was a kid. By the way, Ramsey asked his son for a name for element 10, and his son suggested novum. Ramsey turned it into Greek to match argon and krypton, so neon was born.
Amazing video and superb historical research. If you think about that these scientists worked ages ago under rather simple conditions and with barely analytical instruments: That is really genius :)
In most cases they had to make their own experimental equipment. (I'm thinking of Cavendish and the equipment for his gravitational constant experiment)
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I'd like to see a sequel about the history (and associated accidents) of isolating fluorine. The most reactive element. A lot of brilliant people lost part or all of their vision, among other things, in the pursuit of isolated diatomic fluorine.
I first came across Ramsay's name when I studied at Glasgow University in Scotland - all these wonderful buildings named after their famous alumni; Lord Kelvin, Adam Smith, James Watt, John Logie Baird, Joseph Black, Colin Maclaurin, David Livingstone, Joseph Lister...a wonderful era of discovery.
Hello, being a chemist myself I can apprechiate the work you did to unfold the history of this Elements. A good tale might be the discovery and separation of the Lanthinides, done mostly by extremely careful gravimetry around the 1920 (if I remember correctly). There is probably no living chemist around, who could nowadays do gravimetry with that precision as we now rely on other modern tools. Another gravimetry problem: Proof that the Lead from the different decay-chains has different weight, also confirming the decay-chains.
Imagine discovering the air is made up of multiple gases. That would be so cool. Imagine telling your friends "yo, I think the air is a mixture of gases." "What? That's crazy"
Very impressive job of historical research, production, and editing. Work of professional quality. (I wish that videos like this had been available when I was a student.) Thank you for posting this video.
This video was spectacular in every respect. The science history was excellent but I particularly appreciate the detailed treatment of word origins and naming conventions that invites those with other backgrounds to appreciate the ideas a bit more. 😊
Large amounts of argon are used in welding in order to provide a protective atmosphere that excludes oxygen and nitrogen and prevents them from reacting from the hot and molten metal.
This is amazing. From back when an insistence that others ‘‘Trust the science’ without a corresponding paper trail would’ve seen you heckled by passers-by as you strolled the streets of Prague.
I LOVE the choice to show etymologically similar words. I find that so damn interesting. I never would have even considered that "neon" has the prefix "neo-"
Honestly, this is one of the most informative chemistry videos I have ever watched. I am so impressed with how everything was explained so clearly, while managing to keep me excited to hear more. That's not easy, bravo!
excellent vid, you got a new sub here. these guys were such pioneers, their experimental design, patience and precision without any electronic equipment was so impressive.
That story about the discovery of Helium spectral emission lines coming from the Sun is going to live rent free in my head, because I'm enjoying the play it's writing.
Imagine where the world would be without Argon, Literally almost everything today uses Argon to some extent in manufacturing, Any metal-working involving aluminum, stainless steel, or titanium requires Argon as a shielding gas. It's used to purge vapor deposition chambers for making ICs. It's used for sputtering. It really has became one of those chemicals, like petroleum products, or sulfuric acid, that's just used for everything.
I think I'm in love with this channel. It brings me huge joy to see the history of chemistry and some explanations of how things work. It's just beautiful art. My favorite chemistry channel is yours.
It is especially interesting, considering they had an observation that was consistent and repeatable and yet they didn't know how or why it worked at all. I might be skeptical but I think if a scientist nowadays would use a method to analyze their samples with a method the inner workings of which aren't described in literature, those findings would probably be dismissed.
As someone who didn't study science much in school, and has since come to really appreciate chemistry, I particularly enjoyed this. Really neat story, very well told.
Love your video. I’m a retired chemist and have always been fascinated by the multiple elements named after the small Swedish village of Ytterby. Possible video?
I dont often find new channels to like and subscribe to. Thank you for your efforts, in the days when your up in the multiple 100k subscribers, I think going through each element in a seperate video would be fascinating. A great compendium to the table.
Really enjoyed the video! I only knew a little of this previously - it was great to have the full picture and the logical path Ramsey took to isolate the new gasses. It's truly amazing to follow this line of thought - when laid down like this it's logical but for him it would have been treading on new ground, as profound as the guy who stood looking at geological folds in various rocks and first realising how deep time actually was - from the 10,000 years of history he'd been told about to realising this would take hundreds of millions of years to form.
This is an excellent video. Very well done. It always amazed me how the hell these early chemists managed to work with such tiny amounts of invisible gases without losing them in tubes and pumps. They obviously cooperated with skillful flameworkers (which were, back then, a staple of universities' laboratories) and even had such skills themselves. One thing I've never seen anywhere in literature or online, is condensed radon, liquid or solid. It's a fantastically radioactive substance and something tells me it is very well possible nobody extracted and condensed enough of it to show radioluminescence in bulk after first characterization was made. Afterall, it's a very dangerous procedure and today it would be so expensive to do, without enough cost return. :/
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Another fantastic video! I teach chemistry but with a background not strictly chemistry oriented and your videos give such a rich background and insight to the basic curriculum. So thank you! I would love to see a video on the halogens or group 1 metals at some point.
I absolutely love this channel!! This video is exactly what I’ve been hoping for! Please do a series where you cover all the elements! I heard you mention the ancients discovering elements. What are the histories of those discoveries?
Absolutely fantastic video! Very informative especially concerning the order of discovery. Also wonderful descriptions of the experimental techniques used to isolate the gases. Clearly they has some very good analytical techniques back in the day.
what a great video man! fantastically written script regarding storytelling and great on the technical and informative side, too ♥ as a huge fan of chemistry and an amateur chemist I am happy I discovered this channel
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All other channels I've seen have an @ even mine, but not yours and it looks really weird
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@@redmadness265 still a mystery to me what you're on about, mate.. I see no @ that isn't there.. 🤪
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@@redmadness265 I've finally figured out what you meant. . yeah, it's kinda odd. Can't say I remember seeing it elsewhere either.. let's have a lookaround
That was so much fun to listen to. And putting it all in one video helps connect it so nicely. I assume there are so many many details implied by a statement like carefully doing fractional distillation over 2 weeks. It must have been very exciting for them.
Since I've known the basic chemistry involved since childhood. It was good to fill in the history. The last half of the 19th century was a golden age for discovering elements. Very articulate well-presented and definitely kept my attention throughout. Thank you.
"no matter what he did, the atomspheric nitrogen remained 1/2 a percent denser than the chemical nitrogen" Lol, I like how this reads like a line from a classic fairytale. Just an exceptionally boring one to people who need drama and action to be entertained XD Great video!
What an enjoyable video! I'm shocked I hadn't chanced upon your channel previously, but I have your previous videos to catch up on, so I won't be too sad about it.
"Ramsey asked permission" is a wonderful construct, perfectly illustrating the collaborative and deferential ("gentlemanly") nature of science in some circles. How very British, an American might say. :)
My grandfathers 4 older brothers made the first X-Ray tubes in the UK and died of radiation poisoning. They were a firm of glass blowers Tony Aimer Johannesburg
This is very intriguing and interesting id love to get a video of the lore(history and random info abot it) of each element. I just think it woukd be very useful to have all info in one place :D
Best, most informative YT video I've encountered in days! Thanks for the (historic) memories. Leaves out only Oganesson, discovered only this century, by very different means, and very short-lived, radioactively. I'm guessing that, were you to cover its discovery, it would be as the culmination of a series on the synthesis of the transuranic elements? Fred
amazing video! It's crazy to me just over 100 years ago we didn't know shit about some of the elements that our modern-day society has become so accustomed to.
Thoroughly enjoyable! Crazy to think of the sheer effort that went into these discoveries. One of those efforts would have to be overcoming repeated disappointments!
It’s amazing story, so inspiring❤ Nice to see 🇵🇱 accents in this story :) Maybe you can tell a story that standing out quantum mechanics, like Schrödinger equation and so on. EDIT : I found video about this on your channel. Or if need to pick element, maybe Aluminium? I barely remember but it is quite interesting:) Maybe solid state physics/chemistry?
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This video is very well done. It should be required viewing as an introduction to chemistry and the scientific method. I am looking forward to more videos like this. May your efforts be appreciated and rewarded. Thank you.
Which elements would you like to see a video about next? 🧪
It would be really cool to see a video on the group 1 or 2 alkaline metals!
I got the chemistry bug from reading "the discovery of the elements" when I was 14. One chapter that I loved was the heroic story of the discovery of the rare earths, including the four named after one Swedish village, Ytterby.
I would love to learn more about Technetium. The lowest mass radioactive element ought to be very interesting :)
I don't want to hijack the thread - not an element but closely related - I'd really enjoy hearing your rendition of the history of molecular mass, Avogadro's constant and the mole etc from Dalton to Ostwald. That always fascinated me in chemistry how it was determined and what it meant for gas chemistry. The mole always seemed such an arbitrary and magical value!
Would it be fair to say that terrestrial helium is all formed from alpha particles emanating from the radioactive decay of uranium and similar elements or is there some other source of helium on earth?
Noble gases: they're like buses; none for all history and then four come along at once.
and on the seventh day, god added 4 buses but all at the same time
I spat out my coffee
🤣🤣😂
Mendeleev initially thought that the Argon discovery was bogus because it seemed to violate his periodic table and attacked the discovery. As soon as the other elements were discovered it solidified the model of the periodic table and he added a new column for the noble gases
Nice add-on, thanks.
@@mr_b_hhcthat's why the process of peer review is so incredibly important. As long as we remain skeptical, together we can incrementally improve our understanding even when our human failings get in the way.
Should like to add on that Argon was not corrected to occur before Potassium (this was done by Mendeleev, who did not know of atomic numbers and so used the nucleon number/atomic mass) until Henry Moseley
@@dynamicworlds1: Rarely.
@@dynamicworlds1: Rarely.
It always stuns me how fast science advanced from about 1850 to 1950. In 1850, we didn’t know anything about the make up of the atom. By 1950, we had already exploded an atomic bomb. Incredible times.
by 1950 we exploded hydrogen bomb
cool story bro. we still don't know shit. or at least it's not being shared with us.
@@nullifye7816 ?
@@nullifye7816we live in the information age, you can learn anything you want. Absurd amounts of data is out there, look at Internet Archive, they have tons of media and websites, you can find tons of deleted or paywalled content there
First successful demonstration of a transistor: December 23, 1947. And now look where we are. Chips with billions of transistors are commonplace and cheap.
I don’t think it’s because Lockyer was unaware of conventions but from an astronomer’s perspective everything beyond hydrogen is metal ;)
Nowadays, it's everything beyond hydrogen and helium, but Lockyer couldn't have known that.
it would have been more metal to name it Heliüm
I thought the same 😎
Imagine how badass the name "helion" would be though
...and the core of Jupiter is supposed to contain "metallic Hydrogen". So, erverything is metal!
Looking at the periodic table now it’s so easy to view it and think that’s how it’s always been, everything fits right into place, but the history behind every element is always so fascinating and the efforts it took to get there are astounding
It doesn't all fit lol, the lanthanides and actinides are separate and don't fit into the pattern
@@Cokecanninja
Wrong. Nuclei have 4 electron shells (as found in actual elements): S, P, D, F
First row represents the S shell, where there are 2 * 1 electrons per shell.
Second 2 rows represent the P shells, where there are 2 * (1+ 3)= 8 electrons per shell.
Third 2 rows represent the D shells, where there are 2 * (1 + 3 + 5) = 18 electrons per shell.
Fourth 2 rows represent the F shells, where there are 2 * (1 + 3 + 5 + 7) = 32 electrons per shell.
1, 3, 5, 7: Do you see a pattern here?
First row: Hydrogen & Helium = 2*1 = 2 elements
Second row: Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Neon = 2 * (1 + 3) = 8 elements
etc.
This image shows the ENTIRE periodic table with all four rows. Fourth row is frequently separated from the others so the table is not so long and flat, but that is mere typography.
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@@DavidFMayerPhD had no idea about this, when we were memorizing the periodic table in middle school we just focus on how its usually organized and how to read it(more similar to labeling a map then learning what it was and how it worked). Thank you!
These guys were also crazy creative in their experiments, and experimenting on invisible gases also calls for very unreactive nerves (pun intended)
Most "neon" signs DO NOT contain neon. Only the red ones that are transparent when turned off are neon. The rest are fluorescent lamps, filled with argon & mercury to make UV light, & a chalk-like phosphor coating on the inside of the tube. When those are turned off, they look chalky-white (unless the glass tubing is itself colored).
As far as I know it's not even the color of the power that makes the light turn color. I think the UV light hits the powder and is refracted into the visible light spectrum, depending on what you use you can get different refraction effects from shining UV light onto the powder
@@jllemin4 It is not refraction. (Refraction only changes the direction of light, not the wavelength.) It is fluorescence. In fluorescence, the atoms of the powder absorb light, exciting their electrons into upper atomic orbitals. When these "fall back", they release light. Since the distance they fall back to is less then the upward kick they got from the incoming light, the result is light of a longer wavelength. So UV from the mercury in the discharge excites the powder ("phosphor") & the phosphor emits light in the visible (longer wavelength then the UV light). The chemical makeup of the phosphor determines what color you get. (The color of the fluorescence is usually not the color of the powder when viewed under white light.)
In real neon lamps, the light you see is directly emitted from the ionized neon. Other colors are not done this way because the efficiency of other direct visible colors from ionized gasses is poor compared with the mercury UV output to phosphor to get visible light.
@@bpark10001 very cool
If i remember correct. First color tubes (Gas-discharge lamps) use different gases to produce color. Neon is red, argon deep pink or light purple (similar color to nitrogen) , add sodium and we have yellow. Fluorescent lamps are mercury vapor lamps using phosphorus coating. Mixing different fluorescent minerals or simple pigments or even top coating create color.
Exactly correct. And they look much better.
I'm quite surprised, and impressed, that 19th century scientists could reliably measure a 0.5% difference in density of different gas mixtures. What method did they use?
Witchcraft, alchemy, maybe those stones that people compete to get MAXIMUM FLATNESS.
Engineers are mad and if that dude was in Scotland...
Me too; as a student Im usually very satisfied if I am withing 5% lol
this is almost unbelievable
well in science class we are told to repeat the experiments multiple times
and the school equipment of nowdays are very low quality back in the day the actual scientists had super precise measuring methods which were still taught (tho our error rates are much more due to the equipment)
its not a suprise he was able to measure such a diffrence especially as a chemist
@@unk4617 crappy modern equipment is *sometimes* magnitudes better than fine old equipment.
As a Polish speaker, I pay my respects to you because of 8:16 (and onward). You pronounce both names VERY well, which is extremely rare for English speakers - and not because "Polish is hard". People practically always just replace all Polish letters ó, ł, ń, ą, ę, etc. with English letters that LOOK similar (o, l, n, a, e) and then just read everything in English, which makes absolutely no sense (visual similarity or even identicality of the Latin letters between languages has nothing to do with the similarity of how they sound in those languages). Often such inter-linguistic caricatures cause only laughter. Sometimes, however (e.g. in the case of names!) they cause a sense of disrespect. Thank you!
At least "Curie" is easy for us.
@@zimriel I have some bad news mate... Her full name is Maria Curie-Skłodowska :D
Grzegorz Brzczyszczykiewicz
It's a sign of respect. Most English speakers do not have it. It's typical for imperialist cultures. The French and Russians do the same crap, butchering other people's names.
My spelling accuracy declined in high-school when I took Russian language with Cyrillic letters accidentally/subliminally replacing their look-a-like English language counterparts.
Lord Rayleigh was the guy who first explained why the sky is blue.
The effect that makes the sky appear blue is called Rayleigh Scattering.
Sir C.V Raman. Raman effect
@@vijayvijay4123 he built on top of Rayleigh.
This would be similar to if I said something about Newton, and you popped off with 'Albert Einstein'
@@vijayvijay4123 Raman scattering involves a change in wavelength of the scattered light, whereas Rayleigh scattering does not: they are completely different physical processes.
Remember also his son, the Fourth Baron Rayleigh, famous for his work on the Atmospheric gases; the so-called `Airglow Rayleigh'.
He was also the guy who taught Luffy how to use haki, pretty cool dude.
I find it amazing that Ramsey had a role in the discovery of or identification all the noble gases except for oganesson (which may not be a gas at all). Apparently the reason radon was accepted as the name for element 86 was that radium emanation (radon) was the longest-lived isotope.
Travers didn't share the Nobel prize in Chemistry with Ramsey, but nowadays he might have, though Ramsey was unquestionably the driving force. Except for argon, where he and Lord Raleigh share the honors.
I still saw niton as the name for element 86 when I was a kid.
By the way, Ramsey asked his son for a name for element 10, and his son suggested novum. Ramsey turned it into Greek to match argon and krypton, so neon was born.
Amazing video and superb historical research. If you think about that these scientists worked ages ago under rather simple conditions and with barely analytical instruments: That is really genius :)
In most cases they had to make their own experimental equipment. (I'm thinking of Cavendish and the equipment for his gravitational constant experiment)
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I'd like to see a sequel about the history (and associated accidents) of isolating fluorine. The most reactive element. A lot of brilliant people lost part or all of their vision, among other things, in the pursuit of isolated diatomic fluorine.
I first came across Ramsay's name when I studied at Glasgow University in Scotland - all these wonderful buildings named after their famous alumni; Lord Kelvin, Adam Smith, James Watt, John Logie Baird, Joseph Black, Colin Maclaurin, David Livingstone, Joseph Lister...a wonderful era of discovery.
Scotland not only produced some of the best scientists, but also some of the finest engineers of the era.
Puritan reign ❤
Insanely well made video, needs way more recognition
Hello, being a chemist myself I can apprechiate the work you did to unfold the history of this Elements.
A good tale might be the discovery and separation of the Lanthinides, done mostly by extremely careful gravimetry around the 1920 (if I remember correctly). There is probably no living chemist around, who could nowadays do gravimetry with that precision as we now rely on other modern tools.
Another gravimetry problem: Proof that the Lead from the different decay-chains has different weight, also confirming the decay-chains.
Imagine discovering the air is made up of multiple gases. That would be so cool. Imagine telling your friends "yo, I think the air is a mixture of gases." "What? That's crazy"
🤯
Lol what's next, rocks falling from the sky? Giant space whales living within moons of Saturn? Get outta here
Very impressive job of historical research, production, and editing. Work of professional quality. (I wish that videos like this had been available when I was a student.) Thank you for posting this video.
This video was spectacular in every respect. The science history was excellent but I particularly appreciate the detailed treatment of word origins and naming conventions that invites those with other backgrounds to appreciate the ideas a bit more. 😊
Large amounts of argon are used in welding in order to provide a protective atmosphere that excludes oxygen and nitrogen and prevents them from reacting from the hot and molten metal.
This is amazing.
From back when an insistence that others ‘‘Trust the science’ without a corresponding paper trail would’ve seen you heckled by passers-by as you strolled the streets of Prague.
I LOVE the choice to show etymologically similar words. I find that so damn interesting. I never would have even considered that "neon" has the prefix "neo-"
Eon Neo eats a cookie😅
Honestly, this is one of the most informative chemistry videos I have ever watched.
I am so impressed with how everything was explained so clearly, while managing to keep me excited to hear more. That's not easy, bravo!
What a time to be a scientist. So much easier and straightforward to make ground breaking discovery
excellent vid, you got a new sub here. these guys were such pioneers, their experimental design, patience and precision without any electronic equipment was so impressive.
That story about the discovery of Helium spectral emission lines coming from the Sun is going to live rent free in my head, because I'm enjoying the play it's writing.
This is a really good video where the visual elements were completely appropriate to the narrative. Quite educational.
I can't believe this only has 5k views, this is excellent! Looking forward to seeing more!
Imagine where the world would be without Argon, Literally almost everything today uses Argon to some extent in manufacturing, Any metal-working involving aluminum, stainless steel, or titanium requires Argon as a shielding gas. It's used to purge vapor deposition chambers for making ICs. It's used for sputtering. It really has became one of those chemicals, like petroleum products, or sulfuric acid, that's just used for everything.
Nice overview and summation - thx. I worked for BOC for many years and still take some pride in its origins.
I think I'm in love with this channel. It brings me huge joy to see the history of chemistry and some explanations of how things work. It's just beautiful art. My favorite chemistry channel is yours.
absolutely fantastic video. spectroscopy was a real game-changer
It is especially interesting, considering they had an observation that was consistent and repeatable and yet they didn't know how or why it worked at all.
I might be skeptical but I think if a scientist nowadays would use a method to analyze their samples with a method the inner workings of which aren't described in literature, those findings would probably be dismissed.
The irony of radon _treating_ cancer...
As someone who didn't study science much in school, and has since come to really appreciate chemistry, I particularly enjoyed this. Really neat story, very well told.
Love your video. I’m a retired chemist and have always been fascinated by the multiple elements named after the small Swedish village of Ytterby. Possible video?
This was really cool to watch, and informative. Thank you!
"discovered by myself" is such a well earned flex lol, huge props
I adore hearing the journeys of discovery for massive fundamental things like this, it's wonderful to know of their methods and curiosity!
I loved the video. This period of scientific history is so fascinating.
I dont often find new channels to like and subscribe to. Thank you for your efforts, in the days when your up in the multiple 100k subscribers, I think going through each element in a seperate video would be fascinating. A great compendium to the table.
9:47 wow he came to guntur its near to my hometown, part of andhra pradesh❤❤
What an incredible accomplishment! We definitely take for granted such basic research nowadays. Thanks for your excellent presentation! Cheers!
you're so thorough wth your research - keep it up, I really enjoy your vids :)
Really enjoyed the video! I only knew a little of this previously - it was great to have the full picture and the logical path Ramsey took to isolate the new gasses. It's truly amazing to follow this line of thought - when laid down like this it's logical but for him it would have been treading on new ground, as profound as the guy who stood looking at geological folds in various rocks and first realising how deep time actually was - from the 10,000 years of history he'd been told about to realising this would take hundreds of millions of years to form.
This is an excellent video. Very well done.
It always amazed me how the hell these early chemists managed to work with such tiny amounts of invisible gases without losing them in tubes and pumps. They obviously cooperated with skillful flameworkers (which were, back then, a staple of universities' laboratories) and even had such skills themselves.
One thing I've never seen anywhere in literature or online, is condensed radon, liquid or solid. It's a fantastically radioactive substance and something tells me it is very well possible nobody extracted and condensed enough of it to show radioluminescence in bulk after first characterization was made. Afterall, it's a very dangerous procedure and today it would be so expensive to do, without enough cost return. :/
Great video. Was expecting a snoozer but was engaged the whole time
I just binged watched many of your videos. I subscribed and liked them all. I just wanted to say thank you for your time and effort. Looking forward to seeing your next video projects.
Another fantastic video! I teach chemistry but with a background not strictly chemistry oriented and your videos give such a rich background and insight to the basic curriculum. So thank you!
I would love to see a video on the halogens or group 1 metals at some point.
I absolutely love this channel!! This video is exactly what I’ve been hoping for! Please do a series where you cover all the elements! I heard you mention the ancients discovering elements. What are the histories of those discoveries?
Absolutely fantastic video! Very informative especially concerning the order of discovery. Also wonderful descriptions of the experimental techniques used to isolate the gases. Clearly they has some very good analytical techniques back in the day.
what a great video man! fantastically written script regarding storytelling and great on the technical and informative side, too ♥ as a huge fan of chemistry and an amateur chemist I am happy I discovered this channel
Very good coverage of a great subject; quite a nice survey. The entire video was well produced and had good timing, thank you.
@Chemistorian I just discovered this channel, this is the first video i've watched and I must saw it a splendid video. I see myself watching more of your content. Chemistry experiments and the history of them are both important concepts that need to be shared. Keep up the good work.
Very nicely done. May your channel grow to what it well deserves to be!
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@@redmadness265 still a mystery to me what you're on about, mate.. I see no @ that isn't there.. 🤪
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wow this is a beautifully produced video keep it up!
Thank you for a really interesting video, especially given that you show how the scientists provided evidence for their claims, so often skimmed over.
That was so much fun to listen to. And putting it all in one video helps connect it so nicely.
I assume there are so many many details implied by a statement like carefully doing fractional distillation over 2 weeks. It must have been very exciting for them.
Thank you for your effort and your time.❤
This was amazing and delightful-- Every Chem student should watch this to understand the process of discovery-
Since I've known the basic chemistry involved since childhood. It was good to fill in the history. The last half of the 19th century was a golden age for discovering elements. Very articulate well-presented and definitely kept my attention throughout. Thank you.
"no matter what he did, the atomspheric nitrogen remained 1/2 a percent denser than the chemical nitrogen"
Lol, I like how this reads like a line from a classic fairytale. Just an exceptionally boring one to people who need drama and action to be entertained XD
Great video!
That was incredibly absorbing. Thank you.
What an enjoyable video! I'm shocked I hadn't chanced upon your channel previously, but I have your previous videos to catch up on, so I won't be too sad about it.
Excellent instructional video, i learned a lot from it, and also learned about some very famous chemists. Thanks a lot.
"Ramsey asked permission" is a wonderful construct, perfectly illustrating the collaborative and deferential ("gentlemanly") nature of science in some circles. How very British, an American might say. :)
My grandfathers 4 older brothers made the first X-Ray tubes in the UK and died of radiation poisoning. They were a firm of glass blowers Tony Aimer Johannesburg
I love this video. The way they used to work things out without a computer using contraptions, math(amatic)s, pen and paper. amazes me.
Nice Piece of Work!
I love videos like this about chemistry and history, please keep making them :)
First video of yours I came across, absolutely amazing! Surely will watch many more of your vids
amazing work! I was always curious how they found inert elements experimentally i always heard about helium but this puts it all in perspective
Another high quality video!
Argon is also an important industrial gas used, among other things for welding.
what an amazing history video, thank you for making it :D
A wonderful presentation of a novel subject 😃🧪
This is very intriguing and interesting id love to get a video of the lore(history and random info abot it) of each element. I just think it woukd be very useful to have all info in one place :D
This was an awesome history lesson.
these stories leave me with sparkling good vibes. :)
Best, most informative YT video I've encountered in days! Thanks for the (historic) memories.
Leaves out only Oganesson, discovered only this century, by very different means, and very short-lived, radioactively.
I'm guessing that, were you to cover its discovery, it would be as the culmination of a series on the synthesis of the transuranic elements?
Fred
Very well told story! This is how it should be done in schools! 🙏
Just subscribed! 😎🇩🇪
amazing video! It's crazy to me just over 100 years ago we didn't know shit about some of the elements that our modern-day society has become so accustomed to.
Thanks!
Thanks for the support! 🙌
Very nice work, informative and engaging, without any hype - thanks. I like chemistry but I was a bit rubbish at it - went for physics. Subbed.
Here again you provide an ideal support for my teaching of the discovery of atoms and chemical elements. Thank !
Excellent presentation: subscribed!
So informative once again! Such great and interesting content. Please keep these videos coming!!
I love to understand how things work, but need more channels like this, about the historic development of Science research and Engineering.
This video made me cry.
Great video!
Thank you!
Thoroughly enjoyable! Crazy to think of the sheer effort that went into these discoveries. One of those efforts would have to be overcoming repeated disappointments!
It’s amazing story, so inspiring❤
Nice to see 🇵🇱 accents in this story :)
Maybe you can tell a story that standing out quantum mechanics, like Schrödinger equation and so on. EDIT : I found video about this on your channel.
Or if need to pick element, maybe Aluminium? I barely remember but it is quite interesting:)
Maybe solid state physics/chemistry?
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Great video! HIGHLY informative and very detailed.
I am teaching the history of science to middle schoolers and your channel has just become a wonderful resource, thank you for all this hard work, subscribed!
I enjoyed this video. Very interesting. Thanks.
Loved the presentation!!!
This video is very well done. It should be required viewing as an introduction to chemistry and the scientific method. I am looking forward to more videos like this. May your efforts be appreciated and rewarded. Thank you.
Great video ! Subscribed 👍🏻
One of the best videos I’ve watched. Thank you sir.
amazing, soma get chills.