@@dinoropen3176 silicon forms covalent bonds with oxygen in quartz by sharing electrons. One silicon atom shares electrons with two oxygen atoms, with the chemical formula SiO2. Lithium forms ionic bonds with Oxygen by donating electrons. Two lithium atoms donate one electron each to an oxygen atom to form lithium oxide, with the chemical formula Li2O One is sharing while the other one is donating and receiving. Edit: nvm I misread “with” as “as”. Just ignore me lol. To answer your question tho, lithium should have the same reaction with quartz as glass since quartz and glass have the same chemical composition but different structure, they should have the same chemical properties but different physical properties.
I wonder what the lithium glass chemical reaction equation is? "We found silicate glasses to be the least durable, followed by aluminoborate and lithium borate glasses. Calcium aluminate and phosphate glasses did not appear to be corroded by liquid lithium." ~ Sandia labs
@@dinoropen3176 ⚠️ God has said in the Quran: 🔵 { O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - ( 2:21 ) 🔴 [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him]. ( 2:22 ) 🔵 And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful. ( 2:23 ) 🔴 But if you do not - and you will never be able to - then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.( 2:24 ) 🔵 And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally. ( 2:25 ) ⚠️ Quran
I was hoping to see a cascading reaction where the lithium ate its way up the glass vial, but that was still pretty satisfying. Great video. I actually cut open a lithium AA battery, and lit the string of lithium on fire. It melted some of the concrete on my front step... lol
I expected it to dissolve the glass into goo without prior ignition (like hydrofluoric acid does). Or does lithium self-ignite by exposing to air? (Pieced lithium batteries usually do start to burn. But this is also by the flammable solvents inside and the resulting shortcircuit producing heat.)
You continually do demonstrations I’ve never seen before, you’d think watching all these science videos my whole life, I’d have seen something like this before.
Sodium can go through glass; (From a chemistry magic show that I watched in college.) - Solder wires to the terminals of a transparent light bulb. Preferably a long skinny bulb. . - Immerse half the bulb in a salt water solution - Connect the wires to a battery strong enough to light the bulb. - Allow one of the wires to touch the salt water. (This will create a high voltage across the thin glass of the bulb, between the salt solution and the hot filament inside the bulb). In a few minutes, the inside of the glass will become plated with sodium metal. The sodium in the water travels through the soda glass, the free electrons from the hot filament causes the sodium ions to convert to sodium metal. If you use potassium chloride in the water instead of sodium chloride, the glass will explode. This is because of the huge stress built up as the large potassium ion tries to substitute for the sodium ion in the glass.
It is due to electro negativity of metals as Na have 0.9 and Li has 1.0, its small difference but that is the reason that gives Li power to suck off O2 from glass due to slightly bigger core it can easily release electrons to make compounds where Li is stable.
The reason how that experiment turned out like that is because of the molecular structure. Everything reacts in different ways. I don't have all the answers, but your videos are still mind-blowing!
Well, I'm not a professional at glass making but I'm pretty sure that the glass used for making test tubes are made specifically to withstand a lot of heat, so ya don't have to worry about it exploding when being exposed to high temperatures, same with the glasses used to make pots and pans, ya know, some pots have a glass lid, which is pretty useful for seeing inside the pot with the lid being on
I am a materials engineer and we currently research on new alloys and consider some 1st and 2nd group materials. Its so hard to get a "feeling" for these elements from textbooks and tables, but this video helped a lot.
When you mentioned that Lithium eats away glass but sodium doesn’t it reminded me about hydrogen flouride and hydrogen chloride. HF is a weak acid while HCl is a strong acid. However, HF can actually eat away glass while HCl does not. Very interesting video.
It‘s interesting to see, that although lithium is the most unreactive of the alkali metals, it is the only one that reacts with Nitrogen in the air instead of oxygen.
One of the more cooler recent videos you've done! Thanks for everything you do, I always learn something new here and I'm always intrigued. This one was particularly cool! Cheers!
Thanks for the new knowledge. I guessed that it was because the oxide in the glass, but I had never thought about it. Also I was surprised that it reacted with nitrogen the way it does. Nitrogen bonds are so strong and I am very surprised by the fact that lithium can break those apart. Science is like magic, but the more you learn about it the more magical it is.
I'm so glad that we can melt all of the other alkali metals like cesium in glass ampoules without any worry of them destroying the ampoules that they're in unlike lithium!
At uni we were tasked with destroying a lump of lithium, about the size of two fists. We through it in the local stream. It was like a beautiful, red water lily running around on the surface until it violently exploded, spraying burning lithium around and setting some bridge woodwork on fire. Also created a massive white cloud, presumably a water vapour/lithium hydroxide mix, slowly drifting towards a small wood. Great memories! I can also tell you that it is enough to melt lithium in a small glass beaker on a hot plate in an Ar filled glovebox to start the reaction between Li and glass. Created a strange, lilac coloured smoke as well. And I was charged with cleaning the glovebox and regenerating the filters. Great memories!
One time I was thinking about how cellphones like to explode every now and again so I took an old cellphone battery, drilled a hole in it and it turned into a jet of hot gas. But now I am wondering why that happened if it doesn't burn spontaneously in air so I'll have to figure that out. *I'm sure it has to do with the 70ish% nitrogen in air but there must be more. Cool video.
Not exactly lithium dioxide, but lithium peroxide does exist; however, you don't get it by burning lithium (the temperature is too high), but instead by reacting lithium oxide with hydrogen peroxide and then dehydrating the product. (A long time ago, I also read you could do it by reacting a lithium solution in ammonia with oxygen, but that sounds dangerous, since at least in principle the ammonia itself could react violently with the oxygen if a hot spot develops.) Lithium peroxide is used like sodium peroxide, for scrubbing carbon dioxide out of air while releasing oxygen: 2Li[2]O[2] + 2CO[2] --> 2Li[2]CO[2] + O[2] (note that the number of molecules of oxygen you get is half the number of molecules of carbon dioxide you put in, so this isn't by itself good enough as an oxygen source).
“So light that it floats on water. You can see how light it is as it floats on oil” You should probably clarify this error that lithium is dangerously reactive with water. The first sentence of this video gives the impression that lithium “can” float on water, and if the viewer isn’t paying attention they won’t distinguish that the clear liquid in the second scene is infact oil and not water.
I did this from lithium foil from a battery, tried filling the test tube with butane and it still reacted. Put some candle wax in with it and it melted ok. Reacted rather spectacularly with molten bismeuth and antimony but would hardly mix with mercury at all 🤓
magnesium also burns in nitrogen. In fact it actually prefers nitrogen to oxygen, so unlike lithium which barely holds onto its fire in nitrogen, magnesium will still burn painfully strongly in nitrogen.
what is interesting for me is that with lithium you can reduce Na or K salts to Na or K metal, however Na and K is more reactive than lithium. I am not quite getting it but it has to do with the property called hydration energy however when you melt NaCl and put Li in there there is no water yet Li reduces Na+ to Na.
if you light the li metal on fire before adding water it blows up in even very low quantities edit:also I got a scar on my chest bc of this, as it gave me 3rd degree burns(a chunk of burning metal reacted with my skin)
Kind of explains how hobby and drone shops have burned to the ground after lithium polymer batteries ignited, I never realised how reactive the stuff is until I saw this
Could you make a video explaning what would happend if we compressed water. Would water get new form or what. As we all know water is considered incompressable but what if it were possible. Where i am headding with this is that. What if molecules were able to be conpressed closer then they actualy should be.
This is very cool, but I would seriously suggest cutting off ties with Established Titles if you can get out of the contract. And if you can't, DEFINITELY don't do more than you are already signed on to do, as they have a history of pressuring content creators to put out more and more advertising, sometimes to the detriment of getting other (less scummy) advertisers. There are quite a few other issues with them as well that can be found just looking them up on here. Edit: Good job getting it slightly more accurate than some of the other ads. The wording seems very careful. I'm assuming Established Titles' lawyers are pressuring them to be clearer to the people advertising the product.
I was going to comment how it's incredibly stupid for a science channel to be spruiking fake lordships, however you're the first TH-camr that I have come across that explained it in a factual way, saying what it is and what it isn't, so thank you very much for that. I have nothing against this sort of thing at all (especially since they plant trees), but a lot of the time this sort of thing gets completetely intentionally misrepresented. A massive thumbs up (even if it appears to be a regular size thumbs up) for doing the ethical thing and representing facts not just in your content but with your sponsorship as well! 👍
The reaction with the torch in the beaker is like hat happens putting potassium in water. I did that in science class and the chunk of K turned into a sphere with a torch-like flame on the top and rolled around on the top of the water pinging off the glass.
Can you please do a video of how a nail stocks into someone's shoe? I can't get offer how crazy it is that a nail on its side somehow ends up point side up in someone's foot. Same about a tire getting nailed.
Because the nail had an outside force interact with it before getting lodged in your tire. Most flats caused by nails are on the rear tire. This is because the front tire hit the nail causing it to bounce or stand up on its head then getting lodged between the tire and road in just the right way. When tires get stuck in your shoes they are standing on their head.
Thats so cool, Amazing really -Akin to magnesium burning in dry Ice forming pure Carbon and MgO - funny enough Magnesium burns so hot that after complete combustion with O2 & N2 also forms NH3 👌👌👌
I just got a bag of silica today. This is going to be my first experiment. I feel like I'm 10 years old! I'm 62! Next year I'll be 2,000,000,000 seconds old!!😮
Unfortunately the lithium in lithium ion batteries is in salt form and has similar reactivity to table salt. When you think about how hard can it possibly be? You realize that it would be as hard as making metallic sodium from table salt.
@@javant6993 My understanding was that Li in batteries converts between the salt form and the metal form during each charge-discharge cycle. I may be wrong as I am not a chemist.
@@runcycleskixc The ions are passing through the electrolyte, passing along electrons. So yes, single atoms are becoming metallic for a short amount of time and one of the failure modes is tendrils of metallic lithium forming. But in general, no significant amount of metallic lithium is present in the battery at any time, even ignoring the fact that there's not that much of it at all (less than 1% in weight if I remember correctly).
Just a small correction at 3:27 I said lithium dioxide, but I should have said lithium oxide which is Li2O 🤓
I assume lithium has the same reaction with quartz...?
Fun fact
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@@dinoropen3176 silicon forms covalent bonds with oxygen in quartz by sharing electrons. One silicon atom shares electrons with two oxygen atoms, with the chemical formula SiO2. Lithium forms ionic bonds with Oxygen by donating electrons. Two lithium atoms donate one electron each to an oxygen atom to form lithium oxide, with the chemical formula Li2O
One is sharing while the other one is donating and receiving.
Edit: nvm I misread “with” as “as”. Just ignore me lol.
To answer your question tho, lithium should have the same reaction with quartz as glass since quartz and glass have the same chemical composition but different structure, they should have the same chemical properties but different physical properties.
I wonder what the lithium glass chemical reaction equation is?
"We found silicate glasses to be the least durable, followed by aluminoborate and lithium borate glasses. Calcium aluminate and phosphate glasses did not appear to be corroded by liquid lithium." ~ Sandia labs
@@dinoropen3176 ⚠️ God has said in the Quran:
🔵 { O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - ( 2:21 )
🔴 [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him]. ( 2:22 )
🔵 And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful. ( 2:23 )
🔴 But if you do not - and you will never be able to - then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.( 2:24 )
🔵 And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally. ( 2:25 )
⚠️ Quran
Know others pointed it out but that spiral at 3:16 was insane
I love how he casually says “So you may be tempted to take some lithium and put it in a glass tube and heat it”.
lol
Yeah i accidentally do that sometimes
Every day 🙃
I am now.
Yeah that’s the joke…
I was hoping to see a cascading reaction where the lithium ate its way up the glass vial, but that was still pretty satisfying. Great video.
I actually cut open a lithium AA battery, and lit the string of lithium on fire. It melted some of the concrete on my front step... lol
The silicon is still there so it might form a barrier and not eat through everything.
I expected it to dissolve the glass into goo without prior ignition (like hydrofluoric acid does). Or does lithium self-ignite by exposing to air? (Pieced lithium batteries usually do start to burn. But this is also by the flammable solvents inside and the resulting shortcircuit producing heat.)
@@AerialTheShamenlithium batteries also usually contain manganese dioxide which could also be reacting with the lithium
You continually do demonstrations I’ve never seen before, you’d think watching all these science videos my whole life, I’d have seen something like this before.
It’s insane how consistent you are with your content. Keep up the great work!
Absolutely one of the best channels on TH-cam.
@@seanA416 Absolutely!!
@@absolute___zero absolute! Haha
Sodium can go through glass;
(From a chemistry magic show that I watched in college.)
- Solder wires to the terminals of a transparent light bulb. Preferably a long skinny bulb. .
- Immerse half the bulb in a salt water solution
- Connect the wires to a battery strong enough to light the bulb.
- Allow one of the wires to touch the salt water. (This will create a high voltage across the thin glass of the bulb, between the salt solution and the hot filament inside the bulb).
In a few minutes, the inside of the glass will become plated with sodium metal. The sodium in the water travels through the soda glass, the free electrons from the hot filament causes the sodium ions to convert to sodium metal.
If you use potassium chloride in the water instead of sodium chloride, the glass will explode. This is because of the huge stress built up as the large potassium ion tries to substitute for the sodium ion in the glass.
At what college
@@jesscorbin5981 California State University, Northridge.
Woooow, that vortex at 3:18 is amazing
Other metals: "Nitrogen is hard as fudge"
Lithium : "Hold my electron"
3:16 the shape it made in the glass is one of the most butifull things I've seen.
I never knew lithium had so many cool properties!
dynamite also has some cool properties if you put it into your mouth and light the fuse
Good for meth production as well 👍
@@willknight1005 wth @cursedcomments
It is due to electro negativity of metals as Na have 0.9 and Li has 1.0, its small difference but that is the reason that gives Li power to suck off O2 from glass due to slightly bigger core it can easily release electrons to make compounds where Li is stable.
The reason how that experiment turned out like that is because of the molecular structure. Everything reacts in different ways. I don't have all the answers, but your videos are still mind-blowing!
I was afraid that glass was going to randomly explode with all that heat
No. Apparently the lithium just makes it so if you smash the glass against a table, it'll break.
@@chitlitlah Lol it's like you didn't even watch the video. Clearly the table attacked first.
It’s borosilicate glass! Made to take on some serious heat!
Well, I'm not a professional at glass making but I'm pretty sure that the glass used for making test tubes are made specifically to withstand a lot of heat, so ya don't have to worry about it exploding when being exposed to high temperatures, same with the glasses used to make pots and pans, ya know, some pots have a glass lid, which is pretty useful for seeing inside the pot with the lid being on
Seems like a similar redox reaction to 'burning' thermite. The aluminum takes the oxygen from the iron oxide, releasing heat and molten pure iron.
That's actually one of the craziest, unexpected reactions, where it heats up on its own. Even on a small scale, it's pretty fascinating.
I am a materials engineer and we currently research on new alloys and consider some 1st and 2nd group materials. Its so hard to get a "feeling" for these elements from textbooks and tables, but this video helped a lot.
When you mentioned that Lithium eats away glass but sodium doesn’t it reminded me about hydrogen flouride and hydrogen chloride. HF is a weak acid while HCl is a strong acid. However, HF can actually eat away glass while HCl does not. Very interesting video.
It‘s interesting to see, that although lithium is the most unreactive of the alkali metals, it is the only one that reacts with Nitrogen in the air instead of oxygen.
3:17 Those gas loops are cool.
One of the more cooler recent videos you've done! Thanks for everything you do, I always learn something new here and I'm always intrigued. This one was particularly cool! Cheers!
With so many batteries depending on Lithium, this is a very important and timely video to see.
I love how the lithium reaction looks at 3:28! It's like a little mushroom made out of fire! Great video :D
Thanks for the new knowledge. I guessed that it was because the oxide in the glass, but I had never thought about it. Also I was surprised that it reacted with nitrogen the way it does. Nitrogen bonds are so strong and I am very surprised by the fact that lithium can break those apart.
Science is like magic, but the more you learn about it the more magical it is.
The smoke vortex at 3:15 is probably the coolest bit of the video. =]
I'm so glad that we can melt all of the other alkali metals like cesium in glass ampoules without any worry of them destroying the ampoules that they're in unlike lithium!
I like how the smoke goes in sprial shape at 3:17
At uni we were tasked with destroying a lump of lithium, about the size of two fists. We through it in the local stream. It was like a beautiful, red water lily running around on the surface until it violently exploded, spraying burning lithium around and setting some bridge woodwork on fire. Also created a massive white cloud, presumably a water vapour/lithium hydroxide mix, slowly drifting towards a small wood. Great memories!
I can also tell you that it is enough to melt lithium in a small glass beaker on a hot plate in an Ar filled glovebox to start the reaction between Li and glass. Created a strange, lilac coloured smoke as well. And I was charged with cleaning the glovebox and regenerating the filters. Great memories!
3:16 Look at that pretty (and probably lethal) smoke spiral that formed.
Looks like sunrises and solar flares in the test tube! Very cool!
One time I was thinking about how cellphones like to explode every now and again so I took an old cellphone battery, drilled a hole in it and it turned into a jet of hot gas. But now I am wondering why that happened if it doesn't burn spontaneously in air so I'll have to figure that out. *I'm sure it has to do with the 70ish% nitrogen in air but there must be more. Cool video.
Small correction: when reacting with SiO2 it forms dilithium oxide or simply called lithiumoxide but lithiumdioxide doesnt exist.
Salts don't have numeric prefixes anyway, so lithium dioxide doesn't even make sense as a name.
Not exactly lithium dioxide, but lithium peroxide does exist; however, you don't get it by burning lithium (the temperature is too high), but instead by reacting lithium oxide with hydrogen peroxide and then dehydrating the product. (A long time ago, I also read you could do it by reacting a lithium solution in ammonia with oxygen, but that sounds dangerous, since at least in principle the ammonia itself could react violently with the oxygen if a hot spot develops.) Lithium peroxide is used like sodium peroxide, for scrubbing carbon dioxide out of air while releasing oxygen: 2Li[2]O[2] + 2CO[2] --> 2Li[2]CO[2] + O[2] (note that the number of molecules of oxygen you get is half the number of molecules of carbon dioxide you put in, so this isn't by itself good enough as an oxygen source).
@@chitlitlah Manganese dioxide, Titanium dioxide...
What reaction can we expect if the glass was in dust form?
2:42 watch in 0.25x speed... That actually fires like a bullet
“So light that it floats on water. You can see how light it is as it floats on oil”
You should probably clarify this error that lithium is dangerously reactive with water. The first sentence of this video gives the impression that lithium “can” float on water, and if the viewer isn’t paying attention they won’t distinguish that the clear liquid in the second scene is infact oil and not water.
I did this from lithium foil from a battery, tried filling the test tube with butane and it still reacted. Put some candle wax in with it and it melted ok. Reacted rather spectacularly with molten bismeuth and antimony but would hardly mix with mercury at all 🤓
This video is so visually interesting with all of the demos
magnesium also burns in nitrogen. In fact it actually prefers nitrogen to oxygen, so unlike lithium which barely holds onto its fire in nitrogen, magnesium will still burn painfully strongly in nitrogen.
Nice to know that lithium is more than exploding batteries
I’ve never been disappointed with your vids thanks
The smoke movement inside the glass tube seems interesting. 3:15
Like an ammonite
what is interesting for me is that with lithium you can reduce Na or K salts to Na or K metal, however Na and K is more reactive than lithium. I am not quite getting it but it has to do with the property called hydration energy however when you melt NaCl and put Li in there there is no water yet Li reduces Na+ to Na.
We are so lucky to have an invincible cameraman to allow us to experience these dangerous chemical reactions
very interesting, never thought lithium could react with glass
if you light the li metal on fire before adding water it blows up in even very low quantities
edit:also I got a scar on my chest bc of this, as it gave me 3rd degree burns(a chunk of burning metal reacted with my skin)
badass
Can you show this reaction under a polariscope to show the stress change in the glass?!?!?!
The Action Lab: "Don't put Lithium in Glass"
Me: "Where is my test tube and my Lithium?"
Wow, loved it. Very interest ❤
Thank you for helping me overcome my temptation to put lithium into glass and heat it.
Chemistry is always cool...it warrants more attention.
3:18 that spiral is beautiful
Thanks for this video, it was so interesting! More like this please!
If it's able to draw out oxygen from glass does it form silicon metal ? Or some sort of alloy ?
Gotta love that "I went to Europe once and now I think I'm a soccer player from 2012" haircut.
Lithium eating away glass, but only when heated? Will lithium destroy glass at room temperature, ie at 35 °C?
Lithium: Reacts with nitrogen, burns in air, creates flammable hydrogen when placed in water, melts through glass.
Electric cars: Cool.
Good to know, we have several kilos of lithium laying around. You saved our lives once again! 😅
Jokes beside, always great content! 👍
Kind of explains how hobby and drone shops have burned to the ground after lithium polymer batteries ignited, I never realised how reactive the stuff is until I saw this
I wanted so much to see a closeup of those little formations at 4:22 ! :)
There were crystals growing.
3:15 - That looks like a perfect candidate for a slow-mo guys video. That would be awesome to see in an extreme close up at crazy low speeds.
Could you make a video explaning what would happend if we compressed water. Would water get new form or what. As we all know water is considered incompressable but what if it were possible. Where i am headding with this is that. What if molecules were able to be conpressed closer then they actualy should be.
Quantum mechanics has always been an exciting hobby for me! Thank you so much for your examples!
High will remember not to put any in my glass bong.
Never thought that it would be so weird to see red fire
wouldnt the glass reaction be an exotic thermite. its a more reactive element stealing electrons from a less reactive element, so id say so
Yo, but can we take a moment to talk about that vapor vortex at 3:15 though?
So did I when I was a little kid... My favorite was Christmas ornaments. Mmmm so good
Plot twist, local cops found his spoons and he's now facing charges for drug paraphernalia 😂😂
Lithium is also used in antidepressants and nuclear bombs.
Wondering how people manufacture pure lithium in the first place, that’s interesting
Wow, explaining exactly what Established Titles is _actually_ selling, rather than pretending like it’s an actual noble title.
3:14 what an "ohh!"
I love your hair style holding on to the knowledge soo smart!
This is very cool, but I would seriously suggest cutting off ties with Established Titles if you can get out of the contract. And if you can't, DEFINITELY don't do more than you are already signed on to do, as they have a history of pressuring content creators to put out more and more advertising, sometimes to the detriment of getting other (less scummy) advertisers. There are quite a few other issues with them as well that can be found just looking them up on here.
Edit: Good job getting it slightly more accurate than some of the other ads. The wording seems very careful. I'm assuming Established Titles' lawyers are pressuring them to be clearer to the people advertising the product.
i love all the amazing things i see on this channel you have a great temperament to be a teacher
Butter: I am so slippery
Lithium: pathetic
what you see is Activation Energy, it always is fun to watch it instead of reading about Activation Energy
I was going to comment how it's incredibly stupid for a science channel to be spruiking fake lordships, however you're the first TH-camr that I have come across that explained it in a factual way, saying what it is and what it isn't, so thank you very much for that. I have nothing against this sort of thing at all (especially since they plant trees), but a lot of the time this sort of thing gets completetely intentionally misrepresented. A massive thumbs up (even if it appears to be a regular size thumbs up) for doing the ethical thing and representing facts not just in your content but with your sponsorship as well!
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The reaction with the torch in the beaker is like hat happens putting potassium in water. I did that in science class and the chunk of K turned into a sphere with a torch-like flame on the top and rolled around on the top of the water pinging off the glass.
So beautiful vortex in the glass tube. Can you make a video in slow motion please 🙏
That white flame is really beautiful
Can you please do a video of how a nail stocks into someone's shoe? I can't get offer how crazy it is that a nail on its side somehow ends up point side up in someone's foot. Same about a tire getting nailed.
Because the nail had an outside force interact with it before getting lodged in your tire. Most flats caused by nails are on the rear tire. This is because the front tire hit the nail causing it to bounce or stand up on its head then getting lodged between the tire and road in just the right way. When tires get stuck in your shoes they are standing on their head.
That was very cool. Chemistry is a source of endless fascination.
0:45 every south indian mom
Love your videos. Kinda hate established titles, but great content.
Wow, interesting, James, thanks!
Very gifted in your science ❤👍🏽🙏
So if you're over to make a bunch of helium ions and have them shot at a piece of lithium would they bind to it?
Thats so cool, Amazing really -Akin to magnesium burning in dry Ice forming pure Carbon and MgO - funny enough Magnesium burns so hot that after complete combustion with O2 & N2 also forms NH3 👌👌👌
Why is the background music the one that plays in 10 minute ab home workout routine videos? After listening to it I felt like doing my ab workouts.
Does calcium also do this to glass? It could be a safer reducing agent for distilling cesium from CsCl
I know it dies react with nitrogen
What liquid metal is used for shaping the "bed" in the production of flat glass (for example for windows)? Lithium? Sodium? I don't remember. 🤔
I just got a bag of silica today. This is going to be my first experiment. I feel like I'm 10 years old! I'm 62! Next year I'll be 2,000,000,000 seconds old!!😮
The forbidden crack
So does this mean nitrogen is not a inert gas after all?
3:14 camera man spoked woah!
Oooooh this sponsor hasn't aged well
Just so you know most people call that knife a butter knife when in fact it is a dinner knife.
I could hear someone saying... "You got lithium? Let's cook!" 😅😳
Need to find a protocol to extract Li from from LiIon batteries. I wonder if the glass etching trick can be used to etch shapes in glass.
Unfortunately the lithium in lithium ion batteries is in salt form and has similar reactivity to table salt. When you think about how hard can it possibly be? You realize that it would be as hard as making metallic sodium from table salt.
@@javant6993 My understanding was that Li in batteries converts between the salt form and the metal form during each charge-discharge cycle. I may be wrong as I am not a chemist.
@@runcycleskixc The ions are passing through the electrolyte, passing along electrons. So yes, single atoms are becoming metallic for a short amount of time and one of the failure modes is tendrils of metallic lithium forming. But in general, no significant amount of metallic lithium is present in the battery at any time, even ignoring the fact that there's not that much of it at all (less than 1% in weight if I remember correctly).
@@HenryLoenwind Thank you for the explanation, makes sense!