HOURGLASS Filled with MERCURY - What HAPPENS?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- What happens when you replace the sand in an hourglass with the liquid metal, mercury? You can see that fluids do not work very well in hourglasses because it doesn't "breathe" properly. Despite being almost 14 times denser than water, it still behaves like a liquid, bubbling and dribbling along.
Frequently asked questions:
-------How long did it take for the mercury to fall through the hourglass?---------
A: It took about 10 minutes. However, the mercury would start and stop and a few times it stopped for a minute or so and required me to nudge it to get it going again.
How did you seal up the hole?
A: I just used an epoxy putty.
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Now try to put the sands in a thermometer..
faggio60 Epic pwnage here, my friend. Friggin' epic.
Ultimist
+No Label Old thermometers were usually filled with mercury
faggio60 hahahahahahahhaa
faggio60 lol you made my day
congratulations! you made a very deadly hour glass :D now all you have to do is next time someone breaks into your house, throw that mercury hour glass at him
+556FATHOMS you could actually go to jail for that in US lmao how twisted our laws are... The criminal could sue you for somthing malicious as that, look it up
+C3PO's Bottom Bit :| what the fuck? Self defense is against the law?
556FATHOMS cruel and unusual punishment, look up the case of the criminal who broke into someones home and got caught in a booby trap, criminal sued and won lol
C3PO's Bottom Bit dude, that is soooo fucking stupid!
556FATHOMS I dont make the laws, I just follow them lmao
To be honest, watching the mercury drip at times and sometimes flow unevenly is kind of dissatisfying as compared to the sand which flows down at a constant rate.
it's a liquid,, needs to be vented
It flows like urine in a man with prostate problems.
Aftab A maybe magnets or else a bit of a spin would be what you are looking for
Aftab A w
Everything is dangerous and restricted in the UK... Nanny state.
I can remember playing with mercury in science class, pushing it around with our fingers. And now it's extremely hazardous.
Yeah, they figured out if you have ANY little cuts and it can penetrate your skin - you will get cancer...so yeah, can be dangerous. For the most part, ur correct...but again if it gets past your skin...you b in trouble. When you played with it, they didn't know any better. That is all. With how litigious (thank the lawyers for once again taking away our fun as they always do) the states have become there is no one in their right mind that would take that risk anymore. That is all.
I remember doing that also.
It's only dangerous if you're stupid and you try to drink it, you pour it in any Orphus of your body or you have cuts. But other than that, it's not bad.
It deserves respect & a little common sense. If you're wearing a pair of latex gloves, you have nothing to worry about!
Its not a big deal.
Yeah my friends freaked out when I told them about the mercury switch in the thermostat at my old apt.
it really wasn't beautiful at all, and as cool as mercury is this probably wasnt the most beautiful thing you could have done with it
+Matt Canovas Have you seen a MORE beautiful one?
yes ive seen one that dosent look like a leaky mercury faucet I know you worked hard and you were conducting an experiment but it dosent look beautiful
***** i saw a video where is was tested if a cannonball could float in mercury was beautiful
I've floated large ball bearing before. I don't have a cannon ball.
+Matt Canovas just because you think you have seen a "more beautiful one" does not make this one "not beautiful at all". beauty is an opinion. the person who made this says that it is beautiful, and i second that. the many opinions opposite to yours, cancel your judgment out completely.
It's having a mercurygasm, lol.
Kragatar A merc-squirt
+Kragatar Is this just fantasy ?
+MrGrumf No, escape from reality ;-) or perhaps I should have acknowledged Kragatar's comment and said "easy come, easy go"?
Oh God no
+Aliyah Eng Are you objecting, or explaining the main difference between a mercurygasm and a normal one? ;-)
I wish you had an elapse time running to see how long it was since it was an hourglass afterall
That’s what i thought they were going to do
Exactly. How close will the time be each flip. Seconds? Minutes?
That was my thoughts 2
read the description
there must be a pretty substantial vacuum forming in the top as the mercury level drops for it to suck air from the bottom so well, it would be really cool to have a small pressure gauge at one end to watch the needle bounce back and fourth.
This was like watching grass grow.
+erniebane69 Glad you enjoyed it!
I also enjoy snakebites and random bouts of gonorrhea.
Right on! We all need a hobby.
I also collect used tampons and postage stamps that have been licked by tuberculosis patients. We should hang out!
+erniebane69 Now you are just getting ridiculous. lol
Pretty slow for quick silver.
That's a joke...
Haha good one
Lol
***** Oh the *irony* of it all!!!
I'm These puns Are GOLD!
Question for you, what is the average time for the drip? Also try timing it at high and low temperatures for comparison.
If there was a vacuum in the hour glass it would work perfectly....
Except within Earth's relitvly high atmosphere pressure making it implode
I was coming to make that suggestion.
@@daylenhigman8680 not necessarily. A well built glass could handle the inward pressure. Most likely not this one though.
What if you had a vacuum pulled on the hour glass while in a negative gravity situation, would the mercury flow in the opposite direction?
You wouldn't be able to pull a good vacuum because the mercury would vaporize creating a small amount of mercury gas which would interfere with a smooth flow.
Question, why don't you use galium? I think it is not really toxic to touch, and it could totally work during summer, and inside a heated house.
+Dany N B Gallium's properties, density, melting point, viscosity, etc are very different from mercury's.
Yes, as far as I know Gallium's meting point is around 29°C, and it's density is kind of a half of mercury's. But I still sould like to know if gallium could work, say, in a place in which the usual temperatur is above 29°C. Thanks!
Gallium is pretty dirty, it would stick to the glass and it would just be a big mess more than anything. Also, I don't have very much gallium, just a couple grams of it at this time.
Okay. Thank you very much!!!
+Dany N B
I think Galinstan could be viable. It's an alloy of Gallium, Lithium and tin which is used in modern "mercury" style thermometers. It's not particularly toxic (drinking not recommended), and it's liquid at room temperature.
If you removed the air would that help with the flow problems?
Nick Hare that is a great question! i wonder that now too. i might just have to make this and see.
Nick Hare actually others have tried that b4fore youtube was around. imagine 10 gallons of quick silver in a an hr glass set-up. it failed when they put a vacuum to it.
***** That would create a vacuum and you'd need a much much sturdier hourglass.
Nick Hare a better way is to make it a 1-way hourglass. Add an air valve which would naturally transfer the air from the top of the bottom part of the hourglass into the top of the top side. the air valve or the mercury valve would determine the speed of the flow of mercury and then all you'd need to make the hourglass last an hour is add enough mercury... but then there's an issue because since Mercury is so dense and we know that different parts of the planet has different levels of gravity then it would not be as easy to make it as reliable as sand... but still at least it would be functional and shiny/pretty at the same time!
it could be done but there be whole lotta math an such involved.
And then you drop it and everybody dies , awesome vid tough .
So... what would they die from and how many would die? Give me your medical opinion, as invalid as it may be.
Valueless Dollar If you did a little research you would know that mercury fumes or contact with the skin are extremely dangerous. Do your research before you throw shit at other people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning
Mr.Plow The point is... that everybody would not die... just him.
Valueless Dollar If he would be the only person in the room when he would drop it then everybody would die because he is everybody in the room so stop trying to split the hair and just admit that you were wrong.
Mr.Plow Why, would he have an irresistible urge to drink it just because he dropped it? It's mercury, not sarin.
It's all fun and games, until you accidentally smash it on the floor..
Hey bro what's in your profile pic??
#justcuriousity
Looks like GrumpyTommy the Tank Ogre...
Or smash it with its own weight. I bet turning it over too quickly could break it.
Mercury "water clocks" were the most accurate timers available until clockwork became widely available. Most people didn't need to be that accurate, but they were somewhat common among doctors (for taking a patient's pulse).
i wonder how long it took the mercury compared to sand
That is a good question
rome cottrell From the video description:
"--------How long did it take for the mercury to fall through the hourglass?----------
A: It took about 10 minutes. However, the mercury would start and stop and a few times it stopped for a minute or so and required me to nudge it to get it going again."
He said it took around ten minutes.
rome cottrell the sand let's the air trhough much easier. Not really comparable
+Postermaestro true
After reading through the comments, one question becomes clear...
How do so many people know what it looks like when an old man takes a pee?
Ultimist, more than 10% of people worldwide are old
Arturo Torres Sánchez More than 10% of people worldwide know an old person!
Ultimist Remind me - what age does old start??
Ultimist and why would they ADMIT they know what it looks like?!!
"A man's only as old as the woman he feels."
Groucho Marx
Like Mercury through an hour glass, these are the days of our lives.
I guess you could call this.. a dethklok -OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHH
that joke was cancer
Cadetri Gaming Yeah, it's pretty tragic, it's been in remission for the past 2 months though.
+Cadetri Gaming lool😂 laughed so bad
Dethklok ftw.
that was the stupidest joke ever....just saying
Cool concept, too bad the end product looks like an old man peeing
lmao
fk funny
i thought it would have a sleek silver continuous thread, but yeah, more like an old dude with fucked up prostate.
+disgruntled pedant Hmmm. I guess that means I need to go to the doctor.
+R Zee i think if he used a vacuum to suck out the air, it would make it run better :)
My god, he's figured out a way to trap the T-1000!!!!
Are you Sarah Conner?
Don't trust Matt, he's a Terminator
Shhh.
shhh we arent suppose to talk about that
LOL! Awesome!
soooo, basically nothing happens
Canchola 33 yea, I wasted 5.22 minutes of my day expecting something more to HAPPEN the way the title made it sound. Say the hour glass shattered due to weight or pressure or something.
TOTALLY NOT WORTH IT: A DROP OF MERCURY CAN KILL!
@@doctormanganate5814 aye
How can this be beautiful? It's the same as putting water in there....
David Prifti shiny
pendalink Best answer 2012
+WorkmanMM the reply was 2 days ago.....
Andrew DHT Yep! Best answer of 2012!
+WorkmanMM ikr gives this man a Cookie
well? How long did it take for all the mercury to fall into the lower glass?
+TonyTube407 --------How long did it take for the mercury to fall through the hourglass?----------
A: It took about 10 minutes. However, the mercury would start and stop and a few times it stopped for a minute or so and required me to nudge it to get it going again.
+Den Hayes I was going to that same question and if the time was repeatable.
But all that is out the window if you have to give a tap to start it when it hangs up.
How about showing us one that will remain constant like a water clock made from Hg
or would it?
+Sean Not-telling The problem with it is that hourglass was designed for sand and not Mercury ,so waist is too small to work with Mercury.
Someone could redesign the size of the waist.
Or Maybe you could just mount the hourglass At like a 45 degree angle like when you're pouring Pepsi out of a bottle. That should solve the problem.
+Den Hayes
Nice job, but since the bubbling up of air is not consistent, the time for the mercury to flow down would be inconsistent...
With sand there is no trouble like this, since the air can travel up in between the sand crystals.
Nice build, but useless for practical purposes...
+Zoltán Fülöp well that answered my question, thank you
They hour glass seems to work exactly as my grandfather pisses. :P
Rundvelt Your grandfather told me it disturbs him that you know that.
***** My brain tells me to type something when I see anything funny.
LOL!
***** If you ever get enough funding and want to try this one again, make an hourglass that has a vacuum inside. Then, I bet the mercury would be a steady drip instead of a trickle. It would be an interesting experiment.
Beat me to it! He might have prostate cancer, just a heads up.
How long does it take exactly for the mercury to pass ? What is the original time , and how does it differ? Also does the time it takes for the mercury to pass change depending on temp ? Would it change day to day ? Does dross still form even in that glass and does it effect the time of diffusion ?
Michael Trudell
10 mins.
30 mins.
Of course it changes due to the change of viscosity. Therefore less viscosity, more flow.
Didn't get the last two.
A result is not predicable. Mercury is a liquid, and the transfer of mercury from the upper to the lower part needs a transfer of air from the lower to the upper part. You can do the same experiment using water or any other liquid stuff. A deviation from exact vertical position of the hour glass will allow more or less air to go to the upper glass. If the hour glass is in a very exact vertical position, none of the liquid material will pass down.
It is different if you have sand inside: Between the sand grains there is enough space to let the air pass to the upper glass. This allows the sand to follow the gravitation.
If it has a tube in the middle extending from above the mercury to the lower globe held firm in the middle the rate would be more constant since the air would not periodically interrupt the flow. Can't say how accurate it would actually be though.
Eh no. Mercury is pretty reliable even in temperature differences. Hence why thermometers were filled with mercury. Regardless of ambience, they were reliable
thats exactly what i was asking myself
It is a beautiful alternative to sand or water, but I feel like starting with an hourglass that was designed for liquid might have resulted in a better flow in the end product (maybe) - with the narrow gauge of the neck, the mercury seems to be fighting with air transfer to flow. Also, I'm curious what the time-measure of the finished product was?
Hourglass! You are charged with 31 oz. of mercury. How do you plead?
wow, really, that was corny
Drake Kennedy Objection! his comment had nothing to do with corn!
Giggedy!!
I can't make up my mind whether this is awesome or stupid.
+Cryogenian Why can't it be both?
I vote awesome
+Cryogenian Stupid, really stupid
+Cryogenian So-so
stupid. toxic heavy metal in a delicate container inside your house... nuff said.
its like an old man trying to pee(:
Maybe he's into that kinda stuff?
Don't judge him.
piss in my mouth grandpa
From 16th century until early 20th century doctors would use mercury to try and treat all kind of VD in men by putting a syringe up the urethra of the penis and injecting a load of mercury so that men would pee out the infection. It never cured VD but it did lead to all sorts of problems from a very heavy bladder for a while to poisoning.
Yeah i was about to comment its like an old man trying to pee, The end result of this build is not good but that's not the point, Well done for making about $5,000 of ad revenue from this one video. 1,000 Views equals approximately $1.
+Survival + Stuff really? that's loads. I heard that a view is about 0.07 cents, so 1000 would be a total of 7 cents
its like my grandpa trying to pee...
you're right!
So nobody made this before... That's probably because mercury is a metal and temperatures affect too much its volume/density... This makes the glasshour useless because it will have no precission at all. Nice job genious xD
S0lidF0x Anyone else find great irony that he misspelled "genius"?
Heheh, +S0lidF0x, I like these videos, but it is too bad that their poster is sometimes rude to his viewers, huh?
Oh, but your sarcastic "genious" ("genius") comment was a bit rude too....
I'm never rude to friendly viewers, and I am capable of replying to trolls without sinking to their level. Rude? I don't think so.
***** its easy when your answer is pointless xD
*****, I've seen you respond to trolls at their level several times. And I understand the temptation to be equally rude to someone who has been rude to you, in defense, just like I do when I'm not the video's poster. But I would think that as the video's poster, rather than just a layperson like one of us other commenters, you might want to try to be *less* rude than someone has been to you (such as not being as rude to this guy just for the bit of rudeness he gave to you -- you know, not playing the eye-for-an-eye game like us general commenters might, the same as I would try on my own videos), because perhaps trying to equal them will give people a generally bad impression of your channel, and some might try making you more rude comments just for that reason alone. It's my understanding that the video's poster would play on a higher level than just general commenters. Just an idea there.
Awesome! And honestly it doesn't have to be consistent since a) it's basically art and b) who measures times with hourglasses anymore. Great project, loved it.
+ThaSoulz thank you!
+TAOFLEDERMAUS I was thinking that you could make an hourglass with some way to allow airflow out to remove pressure from the lower chamber, allowing for a consistent stream downwards.
I guess the only concerning detail would be particles of mercury being airborne.
THANK YOU Sooo Much for this video. I thoroughly enjoyed it! I LOVE LOVE LOVE Metals and they way they interact in different ways. The end was the best, as it slowly filled up and became a chrome sphere :)
Video is great. A big thumbs up. But it would have been better if you told us the time it took when upper half was fully emptied...
+Mehool Patel Every time I ran it, I got different times. I think I mentioned it in the description.
Alright
I don't understand what is the point of this videos but I love them...
Riccardo Bardzki haha
Riccardo Bardzki this videos. dont you mean the video.
"these" videos. I meant all the the mercury ones... sorry for the grammar "dont"
cuase he can. long as he does it in a safe manner.
wow incredible. how much patience you've spent to make this houglass!
lol
Chipsy 1 hour.
+Chipsy And then it sucked.
That’s so cool!!!! Mercury is awesome!
That wasn't all that beautiful, in fact it was pretty boring...
It would be interesting to see what would happen if you pulled a vacuum before sealing. There would be no bubbles of air to move from the bottom to the top. I'm sure it would be a lot quicker, but how fast? Curious.
+Ken Jones Would it be quicker? Although it sputters, it rebounds with a stream of it. I would think without the bubbles you would just get dripping, making it slower. I would be very curious to find out what actually would happen.
+Stephen Juliano vacuum would pull it down faster than with air, it'd go so fast, it wouldn't drip, cause there would be no need for air to go up
I think the hourglass would implode.
Round shapes are very strong. See for reference: Vacuum tube, egg, arch, most equipment related to deep sea diving.
+Emin Kiwi That may be true, only once, if the vacuum could been introduced only in the bottom chamber while the mercury is held (I don't know how.) in the top. Once pressure equilibrium is established between the two chambers, the lack of air would offer no resistance, probably resulting in a steady stream, (depending on the size of the hole versus mercury's surface tension) but the vacuum itself would not be pulling on the mercury in any direction.
For the especially nerdy: Technically a vacuum does not pull; rather gasses/fluids at higher relative pressure (be it by density or molecular excitement, via heat) push against the outside of a low pressure space. A vacuum cleaner works because the outside air pushes towards the low pressure inside the machine and takes debris along for the ride.
so how long did it actually take to complete?
If the entire bottom of that hourglass was filled it would've looked like a Metal Slime from the Dragon Quest series.
And by itself, puddled, it looks like a mettable from dragon warrior monsters!
It appears you need a tube from the top bubble to the bottom to equalize the pressure as so the mercury does not need to stop, bubble and then drop more into the bottom
***** vacuum?
I thought of this as well, it would need to be like a tea cup handle that goes above the rim, two glass tubes placed symetrically on both sides to allow air from the bottom to go to the top, without allowing the Mercury to backflow or get trapped in a pocket. Hence that teacup with a handle that goes above the rim type design. It would look pretty complicated so it's hard to explain. Just remember you only want to let Mercury flow through the center opening and you will get the gist of the reason behind it.
That was really cool. If you pulled a vacuum in there would it flow better?
This was dope....I'm sure Magneto would love 1 of those
now you got me thinking about going and building myself a mercury fountain...
Mix it with Uranium, lesss gooo
How did you seal the glass??
Armando Mota epoxy
That's it? I thought you needed something hardcore because of the mercury
I just needed something the contain it while I filmed it because I needed to drain it right afterwards.
Oohhh I thought you were leaving it in the hour glass, thanks for a cool vid my friend
***** I emptied it once I was done filming it.
I would never expect for someone to own a diamond file... Really cool video though!
You can buy diamond files in most hardware or hobby shops. They'e not uncommon or expensive.
That really surprises me. A diamond file could be a non-expensive tool, but a useless just-for-looks diamond costs hundreds of dollars.
Kenkojuko MC Industrial made diamonds often lack the shine of normal diamonds, with that being said the amount of "diamond" in that file is still VERY little.
I'm pretty sure you're really trying to tell me I waste way to much time watching videos......
This looks like when a girl tries to pee standing
You've seen a girl trying to pee standing before? Kinda gross but okay .-.
Great idea, an Hg hg!
Not practical but certainly decorative.
Allan Richardson
Hahaha, nice! I wish I had thought of that term first! :-)
3:30
looks like a elderly terminator with an enlarged prostate.
Reminds me of an old man trying to pee.
Dan Sanger Definitely time to book a prostate appointment with ol' magic finger
How long did it take the mercury to make a transition from top to bottom?
Good question.
It's in the video description
So its a roughly 10 minute hour glass?
You should draw a vacuum, then the drops would have fallen one by one. So the air disturbs tremendously.
+kalyptus666 Vacuum would probably make the glass implode and break. Plexiglass could still be an option, I think.
OK thanks
Using an othe liquid would make it flow nicer instead of air imo
Like corn syrup maybe
+kalyptus666 I think the way the mercury struggles as it tries to descend the hourglass is mesmerizing....
3:39 Can see your reflection, smoking is bad D:!!
Probably a dumb question but is there such thing as a mercury lava lamp? If not, is it something possible to create? I've seen you do some bizarre things with mercury so thought you might be the best person to ask.
Two problems: 1) you would need a transparent liquid medium with a density similar to mercury, 2) I don't think mercury expands and contracts enough with temperature to make a good lava lamp.
+hobbified Ahh, makes sense. Thanks for answering my question.
I'm sure there must be something you could add something to the wax to make it shimmery silver.
theres no dumb questions, but it would take a clear liquid dencer than mercury so it would float. unlike wax and water. ::)
Might be creepy to use mercury as the base with a kind of wax inside? would be opaque most of the time cept when ti hit the edges, then be like some alien?
Think the reason it start and stop so many time is that the mercury would from a prefect seal (unlike the sand) so air would need to move to the top to equalize pressure.
Coolest thing I ever seen
Valeria Ruiz thanks!
''We don´t want to you do this at home, but we are going to say all the steps what you can follow''
i love you an your videos anyway :*
+wilker rada no one ever "reads more".
:P
+TAOFLEDERMAUS
Those of us who can tolerate more than 30 words at a time do.
Doesn't look that awesome to be honest, maybe because it looks like piss... :-(
Paul Komarnicki It's most awesomest mercury-filled hourglass on the internet!
***** still useless since mercury can freeze and has different density for different temperatures 😀 literally useless for measuring time
Paul Komarnicki yes it is.
***** whatever, I really don't have time to educate random folks from the Internet 😀
Educating, dissing, what's the difference.
got 27 pounds of it. started collecting back in the 80's when it was still listed as a precious metal. that looks like a neat idea to use it
so how long did it take until the mercury emptied into the other chamber? :p
I wondered the same thing. About 10 minutes. Check the description. ;)
So, did you read the description just below the video?
+Greg Conquest
Me? Yeah, I did, hence me telling him the answer and where it could be found.
+David S. James I clicked Reply to Raykin. I'm not sure if the reply ended up being to you or if you just got a notification. I didn't even see your reply there. TH-cam's discussion system still leaves a lot to be desired.
Oh, okay. I got a notification; that's normal for anybody in a thread whether they were directly tagged or not.
Sometimes people reply to someone without tagging them, so I wasn't sure.
I've also had times where I couldn't see other's replies to a comment. TH-cam comment system is definitely lacking.
So how many minutes does it time?
***** my sentence makes sense, unlike your humour
+CobaltiumToast Time can be used as a verb,idiot
+kapil busawah So how many minutes dose it take*?
+kapil busawah ebic roastz dude
+lizard genral *does*
When I was a teen i had a blob of mercury that I kept in a small jar, and occasionally played with it. I had no idea that it was dangerous to touch. Is it really? I am 76 now and have never shown any ill effects from playing with mercury.
California developed that warning so...... take it for what it’s worth.
I'm not an expert, but I think that straight metal mercury is relatively safe because the human body can't absorb it in that form (still wouldn't wash my hands with it, though). It's when the mercury forms compounds, specifically organic kinds (I believe the really nasty one is called ethyl mercury) that the mercury atoms can get into the blood and nervous system and screw everything up.
Again, I'm not a doctor or a chemist and I couldn't cite my sources for this even if I wanted to, so please don't make important decisions based on this information if you can help it.
I love the little tornado @ the top of the restriction on the hour glass. I played with mercury in my bare hands for hours & now I'm surviving brain cancer , LOL ! ! !
Life is a bit hilarious @ times . . .
Great oh by the way as teens back in the 60'S and 70's we played with that shit in our hands all the time! I'm 67 and in perfect health!
Dave Hibbs When I was a kid ( 60’s and 70’s) we used to break open thermometers to get the mercury to play with too. I am still living .
I had a mouthful of mercury fillings all my life till in my fifties and suffered mental problems as a result.
@@Linda-vx4fn lol
I loved playing with liquid Mercury as a kid and now I'm dead.
My grandfather had a fair amount.not sure why he had it.but we'd play with it too.
I'm glad that I'm not alone, this thing is a bad idea! not only is it an inconsistent timer, but is a very dangerous inconsistent timer! and I don't agree that it's beautiful, it's a stupid thing to have around the house!
+snaprollinpitts We never would have known unless we tried it.
+TAOFLEDERMAUS I think the smartest thing to do would be to put that Mercury back in the bottle it came in, and sell it!!! either way I hope it doesn't come back to bite you.
+snaprollinpitts Wow... its not radioactive. A bit of mindfulness when handling is all that's required. So many folks seem to fear chemicals. Even radio-active ones can be safely used/stored with a little care.
If you don't want it in your house that's your prerogative.
+snaprollinpitts Yes, I removed the Hg from the fragile hourglass right after filming it.
smart man!!!
Like Mercury though the hourglass,
So are days of our lives
Loved playing with mercury. I always had a little plastic box with some in. People go daft when I tell them, but no harm was done. We used to get it from thermometers or the school Lab and roll it around on a tray. Happy Days - and I’m still alive!
I had a Mercury Sable and it too was pretty slow.
Did it unevenly dribble off to one side?
This is TH-cam comments gold!
I guess technically its a half-hourglass..... *ba-dum-tsss*
UNICORN BLOOD!
Pure a wizard Harry! And you're a hairy wizard....
DRINK IIIIT
Steve L sure that information wasn’t confidential
*Voldemort wants to know your location
Lackluster.....but still was intriguing and quite beautiful.
And i thought breaking a mercury thermometer was scary ;)
Kids in Africa could have eaten that sand. How wasteful.
I know I’m 7 years too late but is it still 30 minutes
Files used as prybars? Reminds me of the shop I work at! 😂 Where I work everything is a hammer, unless it's a screwdriver...then it's a chisel!😂😂😂
if u make the hour glass a vacuum u can allow for better flow and no bobbles
+Stewart walker Yep that is exactly what I was thinking.
The air in the hour glass is making the drips inconsistent.
But I like bobbles.
I don't understand all the people saying this is dumb and dangerous...
Prolonged exposure. Like, constant skin contact over along period of time. god damn lol.
1. its in a glass.
2. if it breaks, don't clean it up with bare hands.
how is it extremely dangerous. Driving a car daily is infinitely more dangerous then an aesthetic object with a harmful substance inside. What about cleaners, chemicals, thermometers, all these other objects with harmful contents are acceptable but this isnt?
what's wrong with you guys.
DAMN SHE GOT THAT HOURGLASS FIGURE
it's not an hour it's 30 minutes
If you're willing to update or post an add on to this video... You can make it work without the pauses caused by the air bubbles at the neck by looking for an hour glass that has the most sand for the least amount of time.
I did the same thing back in the late 90's but I used an 18 inch hour glass that bottomed out in 10 ten minutes. The amount of sand was greater but to make it bottom out faster it's made with a bigger bottleneck.
The big bottleneck keeps it going because there is more area for the mercury to air exchange.
Another thing I did that helped me with the amount of mercury was that I used a rubber toothpick (glued to the end of a thin stick because the neck was too deep). You may have already guessed... This is used to stop the flow when it got to ten minutes.
I started the timer and started filling the hour glass at the same time and when the timer went off I plugged up the neck with the toothpick as a rubber stopper and removed the extra mercury from the top half without having to worry about making a mess or settling for anything less than exact measurements. I wanted to make it perfect so I closed up the glass with a hot glue gun the first two times because I wanted to double and triple check the timing.
Another way to do it that I think only an experienced glass blower can do for you is to make an hour glass with funneling straw on either end so the air goes up through one while the mercury goes down the other. but like I said it WILL take an experienced glass blower, Picture a ying-yang sign with the points going inside the round ends as funnels (one up and one down)
I would think that the hour glass wouldn't be consistent since temperature affects the molecular structure of Hg.
That;s me when I'm peeing
Lol
What you too ? Dam !
That's nice
How the hell did I end up here...
That's how they used to make vacuum pumps back during the enlightenment. I saw Cody from Cody'sLab do it once.
Great idea. Thanks for sharing.
jesus the song in the background is horrible
amen
***** i still iked the video, but idk why, this song gives me a headache :c
what?
lel same xdxd
But the main question is if you know what the song is called.
Why does this have so many dislikes?! The fuck. Dumb fucking beauty gurus who make childish videos get praised but this gets a ton of dislikes
+Lasanja it says "pro tip: disliking the video helps boost it more than not rating at all"
Phandom
+Lasanja because he put "thanks for not dislikeing" ... humans you tell them not to push a button and you can assume that it will be pushed
+Peythe It's self-contradictory. In one place he says thumbs down helps more than not voting at all, but in another place he asks for people to not give him a thumbs down, which implies thumbs down is worse than not voting.
+Lasanja because it did not prove anything except that one realizes that sand grains allow air to go up past the neck. He could have connected the bulbs by a capillary etc but that would be beyond his rudimentary skills.
its not beautifull at all
I'm shocked
+Ocrome i hate you 3
+Ocrome don't lie, you love me, you can never take that back, the best you can hope for is to delete your comment.
Meh, like to see you do something better with your time other then make dumb comments on awesome concepts posted on a youtube channels. Stay awesome TAOFLEDERMAUS
What would be beautiful to you? A big black sack over your wife?
Neat idea for an experiment, but only for the short term.
1. Considering the density of the mercury, that glass is likely to break, even under a small tumble
2. If that amount of mercury spills, you're looking at a professional cleanup
3. The flow of mercury wasn't consistent, suspect it flowed faster at beginning. Also you could see it chugging when the
air pressure was equalising
And then you accidentally break and now you have tiny pebbles of mercury all over your living room
John Doe An idiot called Jamie Turner threw a small bottle of mercury in science class. It broke. Mr King was not a happy bunny. Breathing mercury vapour every day he worked. Sandhurst School a long time ago.....
I bet he was hopping mad.
Shivas Thong He didn't show it. Left the school a year or too later. It's one of the schools Greg Davies taught at. He didn't teach me cos I'm older than him.
There are enough stupid people, who would play with mercury until they die.
A DROP OF MERCURY CAN KILL!
i dont think that it s a good idea..what if it will fall down on the floor ?
alexit7 He said he took it apart and got the mercury out of the fragile vessel and into a safer container after the video was complete.
Yes, that hourglass is not something you want to keep mercury in for long term storage.
That was never an hour glass. It was a Ha' Hour Glass.
I love that under the video you can buy Murcury hour glasses. "To my knowledge no one has made one before".
I somehow feel a tad dumber for having watched this !
Try approaching things with a scientific perspective, for me I thought up different way to allow it to breathe with glass tubing without creating a new flow of Mercury to disrupt the time keeping. Symetrically placed curved glass tubes shaped to prevent flow of Mercury when the opposite side is flipped, but allow air to travel up when the Mercury is going down to breathe. Something like a teacup handle that goes higher than the rim if that helps you picture the design. I feel this approach is a much healthier way to engage with videos like this one.
How long did it take for all of the mercury to transfer??
Leleanna Christine About 10 minutes.
MrSuvvri
Thank you!
am I really this bored
I'd love for this experiment to be revisited and see if it works the same or different with an hour glass that was designed to be used with water or water/oil.