Meh, it's not a metal. I suppose if you wanted to follow that logic, the most expensive metal would be the metal the marriage or engagement rings are made out of.
Antimony was mined and used by my ancestors, the Patawomeck Native Americans of Virginia as a silvery colored powdered cosmetic paint. The Englishman of Jamestown fame John Smith, visited the Patawomeck in 1608 hoping Antimony had a commercial use, but chemists of his day found it useless, and considered it a novelty.
I throughly enjoy every elemental study you do. The earliest of your videos, may I suggest, you revisit and update to your more recent style. They are with great information and re-releasing with updates can only add to your greatness.
Good jokes If earth 100% antimony earth could be most explosive place that we could never live...somehow they create fluoroantimonic acid...Well done scientists. I came here to make some joke hope you like it and also my age 14 and still high school.
Wei Zhao I found about it in a Russian researches. Try typing the formula CH2B11Cl11 and you may find it
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I know about carborane by wikipedia and looking up acids based on carbon a long time ago. This was before I knew about organic chemistry also you dont know how necessary it is to tell that kind of person that they are wrong and what they did to be wrong
Added to the plates of liquid Pb-H2SO4 batteries (1 to 4%), antimony improves their cycle life tremendously, helping the reversal of the sulfation process.
Ah, Antimony. Reminds me of the Bagual revolvers produced decades ago by a local gunsmithing company. Antimony frame and barrel, steel drum and barrel sleeve. If it didn't blow up in your hand, it surely corroded badly no matter how you stored it.
It remains to speak of the excessive use of antimony in the past for the manufacture of medicines, and that Isaac Newton used it to manufacture regulus of antimony. Also the origin of this belief in Ireneus Filalteus (George Starkey) and Robert Boyle. The deaths that it caused and as many chemists thought was the matter of the Philosopher's Stone.
Great video. Antimony is also added to lead used to cast bullets. It makes the lead harder. I belive as well that China supplies 95% of the worlds Antimony supply and currently they are not being very forthcoming with it.
Please note that antimony is used in some well known electrical tape. Antimony compounds are used in many insulations for electrical cables as a fire suppressor. And under gamma radiation it's anti-fire properties seem to improve. HOWEVER under neutron radiation some common isotopes of antimony turn radioactive very easily, thus making antimony a bad choice for cable insulation additives for nuclear reactors and high-energy particle accelerators capable of producing neutrons.
Antimony is heavily used in flame-retardant wiring. However, it should not be used in radiation areas where there is significant neutron radiation because antimony easily becomes radioactive by neutron capture. Hundreds of times more than copper. I think this might apply to proton radiation as well since energetic protons can splash neutrons out of many materials. The nucleus of an antimony atom has a special affinity for neutrons. So do boron and carbon, but after those elements capture a neutron they mostly form stable isotopes.
When I was in the 6th grade, my teacher gave me a substantial chunk (approx. 500g) of metallic antimony (it was nugget-like, as though it had once been melted down but it did not have a flat underside); although I never did find a use for it and the antimony eventually vanished (my stepmother probably binned it).
He may not have fully known about its toxicity; although I did know so I handled it quite gingerly and with my hands protected by a washrag or paper towels.
I enjoy all your videos Thoisoi, a question for a expert chemistry like you: It's possible to determine physical characteristics based on the molecular structure?, for example know what color, or magnetic level?
Antimony---> it comes from ancient greek "contrary to be alone" due to its ability to create compounds with any other elements, so it is rare to find it in its pure form
Please, good sir, include the periodic table abbreviations of the element, next to the element name in your titles of each TH-cam video. Makes it very handy this way, and easier to memorize.
Very interesting. One thing I think is so fascinating is that so many elements look alike, but are so very very different. I look forward to watching all your videos and learning more. I wish I could have appreciated The elements when I was in school. The presentation was so dry and confusing and it defied my logic of my child brain. Not till I read The Disappearing Spoon did I come to realize how exciting and marvelous an exciting the elements are. Even when I cook, I think about the elements, and the chemistry that goes into cooking.
We used to have sacks and sacks of type metal bars and also nuggets of Antimony/lead based alloy and also brick sized bullion of it too. It was left overs from when my Dad did printing of newspapers back in the 60s
Long ago small cups of Antimony were made for doctors. If win was allowed to sit overnight in such a cup, it would form Tatar emitic, potassium Antimony tartrate. This is a potent emitic and a few spoonfuls taken by mouth would induce prompt vomiting. I think it is still used in veterinary medicine.
And if you do the same reaction in the flask but replace the chlorine with fluorine, it will give antimony pentafluoride, one of the needed compounds for the strongest superacid Replacing the glass flask with a teflon one, too
Can you explain what is the difference between the explosive form and the standard form ? Is it due to a particular structure associated to a metastable state ? Can we created it form the sable form ? Thanks for your interesting work. ( By the way, all theses useless comments about accent & pronunciation could just be removed ...)
I find it quite off putting it’s ubiquitous in Aluminum used for cans. Makes the thin plastic film feel all the more appropriate. Just Mg & P for the ends of the can. Love these videos!
Cosmetics contained arsenic and other bad stuff. I am not saying that the ones in stores are harmless by any means though. Of course back in those days arsenic was used as a green pigment. Then there was lead paint. There are so many dangerous substances we come across every day and I know there are a lot I don't know about. I noticed you compared antimony to bismuth. Bismuth is also toxic in some ways but not as bad as antimony or other metals.
The most explosive element in the periodic table is ununoctium. It is so unstable it splits apart into lighter elements almost instantly releasing enormous amounts of energy.
Antimony is a component of plumbing solder which is used to join copper pipes in drinking water systems. It used to be mostly lead and tin but supposedly the lead would leach out and contaminate the water flowing through the pipes. Now we have antimony.......a poisonous substance, to replace lead.......yep, makes sense to me!! Seriously though, I may very well be showing my lack of knowledge of chemistry here........if so, please correct me.
One can make some HF-SbF6 in an u-shaped PTFE tube but be cautious as the stuff is truly vile, being 21 orders of magnitude more acidic than a stomach acid. Really not something to play with. Yet very useful in industry.
It's way too dangerous. You can hope for a channel like Periodic Videos will make one - they have a professional lab and crazy enough scientists to play with it.
@Steve Johnson That's true. Also the production of fluoroantimonic acid involves hydrofluoric acid, which is itself a hazard. I pointed out the strength because the acid eats through glass making it hard to discard and there is huge risk of burns and charring. I guess trying to dilute it with water can result in splashes. The most sensible way of experimenting with it is to just buy it and use only small amounts under a fume hood.
I just bought a bag of this stuff from china, it was fairly cheap for a purified metal but I had no idea it was toxic. Neither the ad on eBay or the packaging indicated it was toxic. Either way I'm going to be melting it and seeing what I can alloy it with.
Tell us about some Trans-uranic elements please and also tell me if Californium even exists or not. I love your content a lot and keep the good work up. LOVE FROM INDIA!!!🇮🇳
Thanks Antimony has also been used for molded statues, when mixed with pewter it it shrinks to make a very fine casting, but poisonous as is pewter due to its lead content? some medieval goblets were made of antimony?
I need to make a pewter from tin,copper & bismuth. But, how do I mix it ? copper has high melting point. Do I need to heat it to copper melting point ? or should I use copper powder ?
Sir, Its better if you speak in your language and add English captions, this may be hard but will result in less distracting accent, thanks for your helpful videos ❤
I think some preliminary help from a good volunteer Canadian English speaker might help, as a coach before uploading to TH-cam. After all, Canada has the most desired English-speaking newscasters in the world.
Antimony: "The most explosive element on earth"
Caesium: Hold my electron.
LOL
@H0M36R0WN 73RR0R157 L337 I agree
Weapons grade plutonium? Sodium?
@@Chrisbell804 Damn Plutoniom ? Caesium is the new trend.
Great 😂 😂 😂
The one of the most important use of antimony is for doping Silicon in order to make semiconductors.
Bruno Perina yess.. I learnt that recently. I love chemistry
M S that’s awesome dude! Stay curious! We never can learn enough!
Bruno Perina absolutely sire !
That's DOPE!
self healing I see what u did there.
I used this video while frantically doing a 60 point science project at 4 am thanks
May I suggest Alimony: the most EXPENSIVE metal on Earth! :D
Thats not metal my men. In the science world we call it matter.
@@haynguyen8238 r/woooooosh
Meh, it's not a metal. I suppose if you wanted to follow that logic, the most expensive metal would be the metal the marriage or engagement rings are made out of.
I thought platinum is the most expensive 😮
@@sockington1 I mean, if you're going to say that at least link me to some good content creators bro/bra 🙄
"Dangerous! do not repeat!"
*goes back 5 seconds and repeats it*
You mostly forgot to mention fluoroantimonic acid, the most acidic compound on earth (Kpa = -23), able to protonate hydrocarbons. Great video !
Waaaaaa?
Antimony was mined and used by my ancestors, the Patawomeck Native Americans of Virginia as a silvery colored powdered cosmetic paint. The Englishman of Jamestown fame John Smith, visited the Patawomeck in 1608 hoping Antimony had a commercial use, but chemists of his day found it useless, and considered it a novelty.
classic story
I throughly enjoy every elemental study you do. The earliest of your videos, may I suggest, you revisit and update to your more recent style. They are with great information and re-releasing with updates can only add to your greatness.
It has one of the coolest names
Antimony :
me :
Antimony : so you have chosen death
Good jokes
If earth 100% antimony earth could be most explosive place that we could never live...somehow they create fluoroantimonic acid...Well done scientists.
I came here to make some joke hope you like it and also my age 14 and still high school.
my school teacher anonimusly called us as a chemical elements, I was Antimony :D
That's cute.
Damn I wish my teacher did that.
My chemistry teacher in High School took one look at me and said: Barium before he decomposes.
Lol, our AP chem teacher did the same. I was Boron. Forms bonds but nobody understands any of them.
Antimony is a constituent of the world's strongest acid.(Fluoroantimonic acid)
Suganthi Baskaran I read somewhere that there is an acid, which is 1 000 000 times stronger than sulphuric acid - carboranic acid
Jakub Komorowski-Marcjan I don't talk about H2CO3 "you twat", I talk about H(CHB11Cl11) and it is spelled "carboranic"
Wei Zhao Thx man, bit there was no need. I saw his comment from the notification I received a minutes before for your comment 😀😀
Wei Zhao I found about it in a Russian researches. Try typing the formula CH2B11Cl11 and you may find it
I know about carborane by wikipedia and looking up acids based on carbon a long time ago. This was before I knew about organic chemistry
also you dont know how necessary it is to tell that kind of person that they are wrong and what they did to be wrong
Added to the plates of liquid Pb-H2SO4 batteries (1 to 4%), antimony improves their cycle life tremendously, helping the reversal of the sulfation process.
he said that in the video 4:00
I'd love to see a series on element crystaline structures. Possibly even a series on growing them
How about Fluoroantimonic Acid???
Clayton Benignus I knew I could find this comment :D
I don’t want any 😱
I’d rather not. All you can really do is like...look at it. I wouldn’t even want to be in the same building as that stuff.
th-cam.com/video/N3xyICmQHy8/w-d-xo.html
^^ nvmd, fake.
Speaking of explosive, Antimony is often added to lead to make harder bullets 😎
Along with tin!
With traces of other metals too
I use a prepared lead antimony alloy that is added to my lead scrap to increase hardness of cast bullets.
Hornady critical duty has an antimony core
@@BrianMusic12 Not an antimony core, but a high antimony lead alloy so that the bullet has "barrier blind" characteristics.
Ah, Antimony. Reminds me of the Bagual revolvers produced decades ago by a local gunsmithing company. Antimony frame and barrel, steel drum and barrel sleeve. If it didn't blow up in your hand, it surely corroded badly no matter how you stored it.
Wow
It remains to speak of the excessive use of antimony in the past for the manufacture of medicines, and that Isaac Newton used it to manufacture regulus of antimony. Also the origin of this belief in Ireneus Filalteus (George Starkey) and Robert Boyle. The deaths that it caused and as many chemists thought was the matter of the Philosopher's Stone.
I've learned more from you, than what I learned in school. Great video.
Great video. Antimony is also added to lead used to cast bullets. It makes the lead harder. I belive as well that China supplies 95% of the worlds Antimony supply and currently they are not being very forthcoming with it.
Is the antimatter version of antimony called "anti-antimony" or just "mony"?
Mony mony! I say yeah yeah yeah....
Antiantimony
I didnt realise Borat did science videos....but thanks to that I approved liked and subscribed!
Please note that antimony is used in some well known electrical tape. Antimony compounds are used in many insulations for electrical cables as a fire suppressor. And under gamma radiation it's anti-fire properties seem to improve. HOWEVER under neutron radiation some common isotopes of antimony turn radioactive very easily, thus making antimony a bad choice for cable insulation additives for nuclear reactors and high-energy particle accelerators capable of producing neutrons.
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Antimony is heavily used in flame-retardant wiring. However, it should not be used in radiation areas where there is significant neutron radiation because antimony easily becomes radioactive by neutron capture. Hundreds of times more than copper. I think this might apply to proton radiation as well since energetic protons can splash neutrons out of many materials. The nucleus of an antimony atom has a special affinity for neutrons. So do boron and carbon, but after those elements capture a neutron they mostly form stable isotopes.
When I was in the 6th grade, my teacher gave me a substantial chunk (approx. 500g) of metallic antimony (it was nugget-like, as though it had once been melted down but it did not have a flat underside); although I never did find a use for it and the antimony eventually vanished (my stepmother probably binned it).
if it is that toxic why he gave it to you?
He may not have fully known about its toxicity; although I did know so I handled it quite gingerly and with my hands protected by a washrag or paper towels.
As a leaving present my chemistry teacher gave me a book about explosives. It’s a great read.
@@WineScrounger Give us the link
Or the name of the book.
I enjoy all your videos Thoisoi, a question for a expert chemistry like you: It's possible to determine physical characteristics based on the molecular structure?, for example know what color, or magnetic level?
Do a video about magnesium
Do a video where you get magnesium metal and experiment so much with it that I now have intuitive feel of it.
Judging by the content this channel should be above 10M
Cool vid,thanks for sharing your knowledge Sir!
it is also used in making of the super acid fluoroantimonic acid
then he should make it
Antimony: I am the most expensive element there is!
Antimatter: what did you just say?
Oganesson: what did you say?
Antimony is cheap on amazon
Antimony---> it comes from ancient greek "contrary to be alone" due to its ability to create compounds with any other elements, so it is rare to find it in its pure form
Спасибо за видео!
one of the most important use of the antimony is for production of industrial lubricants(oils and greases)
Please, good sir, include the periodic table abbreviations of the element, next to the element name in your titles of each TH-cam video. Makes it very handy this way, and easier to memorize.
The best channel! Dude your vids are going to be studied at school's
Very interesting. One thing I think is so fascinating is that so many elements look alike, but are so very very different. I look forward to watching all your videos and learning more. I wish I could have appreciated The elements when I was in school. The presentation was so dry and confusing and it defied my logic of my child brain.
Not till I read The Disappearing Spoon did I come to realize how exciting and marvelous an exciting the elements are. Even when I cook, I think about the elements, and the chemistry that goes into cooking.
We used to have sacks and sacks of type metal bars and also nuggets of Antimony/lead based alloy and also brick sized bullion of it too.
It was left overs from when my Dad did printing of newspapers back in the 60s
Antimony is used as ancient religious and medicinal purposes such as eyeliners. They are believed to make our eye lashes thicker and darker.
Where did you get the explosive antimony?
Long ago small cups of Antimony were made for doctors. If win was allowed to sit overnight in such a cup, it would form Tatar emitic, potassium Antimony tartrate. This is a potent emitic and a few spoonfuls taken by mouth would induce prompt vomiting. I think it is still used in veterinary medicine.
Love ur vids I am a want to be chemist and I am learning a lot from your videos
Thank you for posting this..you answered all my questions!
Very interesting... thank you for sharing :)
Thank you very much,i have learned so much from your videos,they are fascinating
Is there any element that is completely useless? Seriously everytime I watch these videos, all the elements have some fantastic use in today's world.
Please make a video on "Thorium" and it's uses such as "Thorium Energy". I like your videos, Thanks for such a great effort.
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Also antimony is used to make the strongest acid in the world that is Fluoroantimonic acid (HSbF6)
And if you do the same reaction in the flask but replace the chlorine with fluorine, it will give antimony pentafluoride, one of the needed compounds for the strongest superacid
Replacing the glass flask with a teflon one, too
thnks for this 😊
Can you explain what is the difference between the explosive form and the standard form ?
Is it due to a particular structure associated to a metastable state ?
Can we created it form the sable form ?
Thanks for your interesting work.
( By the way, all theses useless comments about accent & pronunciation could just be removed ...)
Dont forget to inhale the fumes
The most explosive elements
5: potassium
4: antimony
3: rubidium
2: cesium
1: francium
Enjoyed and thumbs up as well
Antimoine means anti-monk in French, as it was used in "medical" preparation in the alchemy era, and indeed, it killed monks in monasteries.
Great information ...I love it thanks...
I find it quite off putting it’s ubiquitous in Aluminum used for cans. Makes the thin plastic film feel all the more appropriate. Just Mg & P for the ends of the can. Love these videos!
Keep up the awesome videos!
Antimony is also added to lead to increase the hardness for bullets.
At 1:30 the old black and white video of that steel Factory is SLOSS FURNACE in downtown Birmingham AL.
Cosmetics contained arsenic and other bad stuff. I am not saying that the ones in stores are harmless by any means though. Of course back in those days arsenic was used as a green pigment. Then there was lead paint. There are so many dangerous substances we come across every day and I know there are a lot I don't know about. I noticed you compared antimony to bismuth. Bismuth is also toxic in some ways but not as bad as antimony or other metals.
*Antimoney? Wait, it's about my wife.*
Ah, what is prettier than a blooming flower of antimony?
The most explosive element in the periodic table is ununoctium. It is so unstable it splits apart into lighter elements almost instantly releasing enormous amounts of energy.
Antimony is a component of plumbing solder which is used to join copper pipes in drinking water systems.
It used to be mostly lead and tin but supposedly the lead would leach out and contaminate the water flowing through the pipes.
Now we have antimony.......a poisonous substance, to replace lead.......yep, makes sense to me!!
Seriously though, I may very well be showing my lack of knowledge of chemistry here........if so, please correct me.
Very nice information sir thanx
Plutonium 239: hold my beer.
We used to think carbon didn't conduct electricity at all.
Under the blowtorch the biggest blob looked to pop before finishing it's oxidation.
wonderful info... 😎
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Your accent is addictive.
Please. I want to see the Floroantimonic acid. Please get some. There is no video on YT
One can make some HF-SbF6 in an u-shaped PTFE tube but be cautious as the stuff is truly vile, being 21 orders of magnitude more acidic than a stomach acid. Really not something to play with. Yet very useful in industry.
make an =upload a video plz
It's way too dangerous. You can hope for a channel like Periodic Videos will make one - they have a professional lab and crazy enough scientists to play with it.
@Steve Johnson That's true. Also the production of fluoroantimonic acid involves hydrofluoric acid, which is itself a hazard. I pointed out the strength because the acid eats through glass making it hard to discard and there is huge risk of burns and charring. I guess trying to dilute it with water can result in splashes. The most sensible way of experimenting with it is to just buy it and use only small amounts under a fume hood.
Lead antimony is used for stypeset and for making bullets as well
I just bought a bag of this stuff from china, it was fairly cheap for a purified metal but I had no idea it was toxic. Neither the ad on eBay or the packaging indicated it was toxic. Either way I'm going to be melting it and seeing what I can alloy it with.
How did it turn out and what did you do with it in the meantime?
Tell us about some Trans-uranic elements please and also tell me if Californium even exists or not. I love your content a lot and keep the good work up. LOVE FROM INDIA!!!🇮🇳
I don't think he is legally allowed to do experiments with trans-uranics. Californium definitely exists though
Dragoș Thanks bro for the info always appreciate support from all around the world.
Also used for journal bearings Babbitmetal.
Great video as always. What isn't in smart phones these days?
It's enough to make you want to invest in an Antimony Mining Operation !
Antimony oxide is used to make armored steel for tanks and battleships
The name speaks for itself
Thanks Antimony has also been used for molded statues, when mixed with pewter it it shrinks to make a very fine casting, but poisonous as is pewter due to its lead content? some medieval goblets were made of antimony?
But doesn't fluorine gas react with almost everything?
They have exceptions tho
Well it certainly conducts electricity enough to be alloyed with tin to make lead-free solder.
Dianimony triselenide is used as a photovoltaic material in the last decades.
right now a friend of mine is packaging antimony trioxide. probably move a ton of the stuff after it comes out of the furnace.
In the staircase line is it a mix of metals, gasses, and non-metals
I use antimony trisulphide to make friction primers for Civil War cannons.
Can gold be separated from antimony by acidification?
عندي سبحة الكركوشة من معدن الانتيمون شبيه بالفضة هل هو خطر او سرطان ؟
Bro forgor about francium💀
you failed to mention its usefulness in applications such as seebeck transducers due to antimony's thermoelectric properties.
Antimony is also a component for floroantimonic acid
Which elements are used for thermal sensors?
I need to make a pewter from tin,copper & bismuth. But, how do I mix it ? copper has high melting point. Do I need to heat it to copper melting point ? or should I use copper powder ?
keep it up! nice one
Occasionally ate match heads as a kid: oh guess I shouldn't have done that.
Sir, Its better if you speak in your language and add English captions, this may be hard but will result in less distracting accent, thanks for your helpful videos ❤
I think some preliminary help from a good volunteer Canadian English speaker might help, as a coach before uploading to TH-cam. After all, Canada has the most desired English-speaking newscasters in the world.
first time i have seen antimony on youtube