Gallium is critically important now for solid-state lasers and LEDs that are all around us. There are other interesting things about it too, like how it aggressively dissolves aluminum, so much so that you have to ground ship gallium because it's not allowed on airplanes. We need another Gallium video...
Interesting. If you wanted to make an anti tank or anti aircraft weapon, could you spray them with a liquid compound of gallium and mercury? I am seriously asking.
+Noel Goetowski The words of Dr. Martin Poliakoff echo in your head "Gallium I realize now, is named after france, it was discovered by a frenchman..."
I love how Neil is just standing there during the beating heart demonstration like, "Yeah, I've seen this a million times, just get on with it!" It is indeed quite a cool thing to witness. I remember in chemistry class doing a similar thing with mercury and nitric acid, though I know that's a bit less user friendly, heh. As always I love these videos!!
This is the best chemistry video ever from you professor and your colleages. I live in a poor country India and i wish to come and study chemistry at your university and learn for you and one day make new compounds that benifit man kind. please keep posting videos. I would also suggest you post some extra videos excluding elements for example a video on Sulphuric acid and some of the experiments with it. so that i can deepen my knowledge of chemistry. Thanks Brady. For making such a cool site.
Great video -- keep it up! According to Emsley's "Nature's Building Blocks", the discoverer of gallium also named it that because his name was "Le Coq", which means "the rooster" in French, and "Gallus" means "rooster" in Latin (and the Gallic Rooster is/was a longstanding symbol of France). So he kinda snuck his name into the periodic table, that clever bastard!
How do you get the adding and removal of sulfate to "take turns" in that beating heart-experiment? Do you have to add acid and chromate manually to make the gallium lump "beat" and relax? In the video, it looks as if the lump does it all on it's own...
Isn't it a bit ironic? I love the irony in this video! From a stance of "eh, a boring metal" to "holy hell, I''m the first person to discover a new bond!" (Two different people, but at the same campus and helping the same production crue!) I absolutely love it! See, now if you can go back and revise all those "boring" elements, you'll make something new :p.
@natemcgraw the redness is dependent on temperature, not on melting point. Steel will glow red hot at around 900°C and so will any metal if it's still solid or liquid at that temperature. Gallium melts at around 30°C so even though it's liquid it's not red hot.
does the point at which metals become red hot (glowing red from heat) stay the same for all metals? the reason i ask is that some metals will become red hot without melting and the gallium turned liquid in his hand and stayed silver.
@bluedeoxys Gallium is found in trace amounts in the ores of aluminium and zink (bauxite and sphalerite respectively) and so it comes as a by-product from producing these metals. It's more common in bauxite than sphalerite.
@juanster555 From the top of my head: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sodium, magnesium, sulfur, chlorine, calcium, iron and cobalt are most definitely in bread, but you could probably find traces of about as many more elements!
Hmmm... As far as I know, such periodic reactions can't happen forever, since at one point, all the Energy (where ever it exactly sits in this experiment) will be used up. Since there is (has to be) at the very least friction, these changes can't go with perfect efficiency. How long does it take for this system to stabilize again and what do you have when it's reached that point?
Yep. NurdRage also does this experiment as well, check out his video if you're interested. He is another chemist who also does a very good job in his videos, with thorough explanations.
extremely awesome, best video yet by far....... can you guys do some more alkali metal-water explosions? or was it the alkaline-earth metals in water that did the explosions?
Gallium and Indium alloy is fun to make. It’s a eutectic alloy, which means the alloy has a lower melting point than the constituent metals. You don’t have to heat the gallium and indium at all. You just push two solid chunks together and they turn to liquid where they touch!
Besides the obvious reason (because we can), what purpose does making the Uranium/Gallium compound have? Was this a matter of "what can I get to bond with gallium?" or a matter of "A gallium/uranium bond would make a useful compound for x purpose, let's see if we can make it."?
Galinstan, a eutectic alloy of gallium, indium and tin, is used as a substitute for mercury in fever thermometers, an application patented by Geratherm AG. The only problem is that gallium very readily wets glass, so the inside of the glass has to be coated with an extremely thin coating of gallium.
2:01 "gallium forms an amalgam with all sorts of other materials." the term 'amalgam' is reserved for alloys of mercury. The word 'alloy' would be correct.
1:16 Gallium is an interesting element that leads to Half metallicity when doped in the conducting Chromium phosphide ; behaving as a Semiconductor in one spin channel, and a conductor in other spin channel. Though only by theoretical approach the results were obtained, experimental approach is yet to be taken...
I too am constantly checking on my subscriptions to se if an update has been published. You really inspire me to do some sort of science at University in the future (im 15 nearly 16)
Gallium is considered to be relatively non toxic. It is often compared with mercury which is highly toxic because both are liquid metals at or near room temperature. But I personally think one should exercise caution when handling or working with gallium. It mimics the characteristics of iron and has been shown to interfere with the formation of bone cells. In my opinion it would be wise to not assume that all of the potential health hazards of gallium are known at the present time.
It's the same guy people! The first part of the video shows him fucking around with gallium. "Oh yeah look at me. I'm melting toxic substances on my skin." "Ooooh look, Acid!" And the "other guy" shows what happened to him afterwards. Don't mess with Gallium
I studies Optics at Uni, Gallium is super important for Optoelectronics. GaP, GaAs based solar cells are several times more efficient than solar cells (though a lot more expensive). Similarly it is used for optical detectors etc
@Kriticsify Was lower than that of Caesium (pronounced See-zee-um). It says so in the subtitles if you turn it on. But the professor would actually have lost the bet according to Wikipedia! Gallium melts at 29 degrees Celsius and Caesium at 28 degrees. And they couldn't test it in practice: Caesium forms Hydrogen gas in contact with any water, and the heat from the reaction ignites the Hydrogen. If he tried to melt Caesium in his hand (which is naturally moist) he'd get quite the burn!
Oooh, so it's not poisonous like mercury but it melts in almost as low temperatures? Sounds cool! I wonder if I could buy a sample... I have this fascination for liquid metals...
@DarksporkLeader a better question would be, how efficient would it be with power output, verses power input. but since its such a new discovery... we won't know if its practical for a long time
I remember a lookalike experiment with mercury in stead of gallium. But you had to touch the mercury drop with an iron needle in order to make it beat. But when it started beating the frequency was a lot higher.
@outrageousxolii I am not a chemist, but I think of it this way. The surface tension breaks down so the Gallium relaxes (just like putting washing up liquid into a bowl of oily water, the oils disperse). Next the chemical reaction causes the surface tension to increase again so the Gallium draws itself in (just as if the washing up liquid could be removed from the oily water, the oils would come back together again). If the right amount of dichromate s added, the reaction will repeat itself.
I bought mine from eBay. There are special websites online which supply them, but I think you can get the most for your money from ebay. I think it was about $60 for about 20 grams, though I forget.
Not to take away from the importance of the accomplishment ... 06:42 "It is a real thrill when you are the first person to make a compound that does not exist out in the galaxy and space, it has never existed on our planet before but now we have made it for the first time." How does he know it does not exist out in the galaxy and space? Why stop short of saying it does not exist anywhere in the universe before now? Or even that it has never existed on our Earth before? I could understand a claim that it's the first time it's KNOWN to exist, or the first documented case of its existence...
The chances it exists anywhere else are minute. For one, that bond between U and Ga wouldn’t exist outside of an N2 or Ar atmosphere, precluding its existence on earth. In space or another planet the chance that Ga and U both exist in the same place at the same time, plus the existence of the organic ligand use to stabilise the molecule would be highly unlikely. And lastly, the conditions for which this bond can be formed, probably with strong reactants, would not likely happen in the universe as these strong reactants would not last
Congratualtion on the new compound. If I remember rightly, didn't Polly Arnold and Jason Love discover a novel uranium bond at Nottingham, just before moving to the University of Edinburgh? The chemistry of uranium is very exciting - I hope this new discovery gives chemical insights which shed light on the cleaning up of nuclear waste, an important part of building a post-oil economy.
In which Journal are you guys going to publish (if you haven't already) this new Ga-U compound? I'm in a totally different field of chemistry but now you tickled my curiosity :)
It looks to have been written up as "σ and π Donation in an Unsupported Uranium-Gallium Bond" in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, January 2009. I can't access it so tell us if it's as interesting as you'd hoped!
@@jakeosullivan9053 while the contaminant may not be copper, i definitely think this anomaly can be explained by a contamination in your copper or acid. also, if you didnt use distilled water to dilute the acid, and you live in a hard water area, its possible the other things in the water have messed with your reaction
I'm considering performing this reaction (beating heart) at school, and I was wondering if it's possible to get the gallium back out of the reaction. If so, how? If someone could answer, that would be great!
Most metals transmit electricity well. Yet gallium does this only partly. Teamed up with metals such as arsenic, it's great for the semiconductors that all electronics rely on. If you've got a phone with an LED screen, or Blu-ray disc, for instance, you've got gallium! Doctors like it, too. There's a special version, or isotope of the gallium atom called gallium-67. This is a little radioactive, giving off rays. When injected into the body, it homes in on cancers. The tell-tale rays show cancer and are picked up by a scanner. This is called a gallium scan.
Very nice video. I'm always waiting for you guys to release a new update. :-) Cool experiment. Awesome that you guys discovered a new compound, you've got to be really proud :D For this/next uear we have to do a project in school, and i chose a subject related to chemistry, yay! xD
Would a gallium filled balloon flatten out if dropped like the mercury balloon I saw? Could you use a funnel to fill the balloon with gallium as you can with mercury?
When diluting acids or bases you should always add the material with less volume to the material with the larger volume to reduce splashing and absorb exothermic energy.
Gallium is critically important now for solid-state lasers and LEDs that are all around us. There are other interesting things about it too, like how it aggressively dissolves aluminum, so much so that you have to ground ship gallium because it's not allowed on airplanes. We need another Gallium video...
mercury also does this
Apparently gallium is able to corrupt the great majority of metals (the only exceptions I know of are tantalum and tungsten).
Interesting.
If you wanted to make an anti tank or anti aircraft weapon, could you spray them with a liquid compound of gallium and mercury?
I am seriously asking.
4:27 In Loving Memory of Dr. Martin Poliakoff (apparently)
+Noel Goetowski HAHAHAA I thought the same thing. "In the arms of an angel" started playing in my head.
+Noel Goetowski The words of Dr. Martin Poliakoff echo in your head "Gallium I realize now, is named after france, it was discovered by a frenchman..."
Shrug *sigh* As they always have...
@@colinroberson9373 LOLOLOL!!! That kind of made my sides hurt!
Watching this after 2 years !!
Time flies so so fast !
I love how Neil is just standing there during the beating heart demonstration like, "Yeah, I've seen this a million times, just get on with it!" It is indeed quite a cool thing to witness. I remember in chemistry class doing a similar thing with mercury and nitric acid, though I know that's a bit less user friendly, heh. As always I love these videos!!
@punishedexistence "Less user-friendly" is a great way of putting that.
"When the Gallium is naked it makes everything wet"...
sexy chemistry
+Ben Hicks for shame sirrah!
+Ben Hicks o_o what?!
Also, "...squirt up on our faces."
Adriyaman Banerjee really 😒
So the defining proof that a substance is a 'metal' is to 'bang' it on a hotplate ?!
Adam Carter vs it being silver colored wax I'm guessing
@@steelwarrior105 what
So after all these videos I’ve watched can I claim a few credit hours in chemistry from the university of Nottingham?
3:47
"Wow, did you see that?"
"I did... what happened?"
I have never seen Gallium as a solid. In where I live, it is always a liquid.
put the gallium in a fridge
I'm from Texas nothing is solid
Know what you mean, keep my samples in the freezer... Here, the roads can change state between solid and liquid depending on the weather conditions.
Haha! Is your skin solid or liquid?
@@nicholaslee7476 you guys are known for your runny shits, indeed.
gallium nitride is used as a filament is some LED's
gallium's my favorate element and i have a sample to mess around with
terminate my fav element is tin course you can melt it, I also have a sample
Yeh tins fun to mess around with if you take the procortions, have you ever casted anything with tin?
This is the best chemistry video ever from you professor and your colleages. I live in a poor country India and i wish to come and study chemistry at your university and learn for you and one day make new compounds that benifit man kind. please keep posting videos. I would also suggest you post some extra videos excluding elements for example a video on Sulphuric acid and some of the experiments with it. so that i can deepen my knowledge of chemistry. Thanks Brady. For making such a cool site.
I love this old bloke he is amazing
I can't stop watching these videos. Thanks guys (and girl in one video.) If it were up to me, I'd give you all 13-metal medals.
Great video -- keep it up!
According to Emsley's "Nature's Building Blocks", the discoverer of gallium also named it that because his name was "Le Coq", which means "the rooster" in French, and "Gallus" means "rooster" in Latin (and the Gallic Rooster is/was a longstanding symbol of France). So he kinda snuck his name into the periodic table, that clever bastard!
Congratulations to Dr. Steve Little on making the compound having the Ga-Ur bond. How cool!
How do you get the adding and removal of sulfate to "take turns" in that beating heart-experiment? Do you have to add acid and chromate manually to make the gallium lump "beat" and relax? In the video, it looks as if the lump does it all on it's own...
3:28 Quick personal reference note.
20 - 68. 30 - 86
40 - 104. 50 - 122
60 - 140
Its 405060 degrees? DAMN HIS HANDS MUST BE HOT.
Galium melts at approximately 30 degrees centigrade or about 86 degrees plebeian.
I'm guessing from the use of the word plebeian that you're British, which means your lack of understand of sarcasm worries me even more.
30 degrees ignorant and 86 degrees Fahrenheit?
No. 86 degrees plebeian. Didn't you hear the other man?
natural carr
>tfw to intelligent
Isn't it a bit ironic? I love the irony in this video! From a stance of "eh, a boring metal" to "holy hell, I''m the first person to discover a new bond!" (Two different people, but at the same campus and helping the same production crue!) I absolutely love it!
See, now if you can go back and revise all those "boring" elements, you'll make something new :p.
@natemcgraw the redness is dependent on temperature, not on melting point. Steel will glow red hot at around 900°C and so will any metal if it's still solid or liquid at that temperature. Gallium melts at around 30°C so even though it's liquid it's not red hot.
Glad you shared....
Excellent dramatic zoom work around 0:46
does the point at which metals become red hot (glowing red from heat) stay the same for all metals? the reason i ask is that some metals will become red hot without melting and the gallium turned liquid in his hand and stayed silver.
Pun 31
There must be a lot of people who don't have the gall(ium) to say they don't like this element. That's fine by me.
EnderStar501 I Ce what you did there
That pun was Ag-ion-izing
That's so normie of you
You can see Neil, in the background, on stand-by, should the professor arrive to ‘persuade him to do something’ 🤓🤣
scientists, they have the best hair
is there a similarity between the sulfuric acid-gallium reaction and the "iodine clock"-reaction? because they both seem to have oscillating kinetics
congrats on the Uranium Gallium compound. And awesome experiment.
Iam from Bharat(India) Sir you are very nice and kind
Nice work taking Chemistry to the masses.
@bluedeoxys Gallium is found in trace amounts in the ores of aluminium and zink (bauxite and sphalerite respectively) and so it comes as a by-product from producing these metals. It's more common in bauxite than sphalerite.
@juanster555 From the top of my head: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sodium, magnesium, sulfur, chlorine, calcium, iron and cobalt are most definitely in bread, but you could probably find traces of about as many more elements!
Hmmm...
As far as I know, such periodic reactions can't happen forever, since at one point, all the Energy (where ever it exactly sits in this experiment) will be used up. Since there is (has to be) at the very least friction, these changes can't go with perfect efficiency.
How long does it take for this system to stabilize again and what do you have when it's reached that point?
1:35 the company is named GaliumSource
Yep. NurdRage also does this experiment as well, check out his video if you're interested. He is another chemist who also does a very good job in his videos, with thorough explanations.
Uri Geller's spoon trick used gallium spoons
4:29 you should do this video effect on more experiments, it's better than cutting away to a different shot completely
Congratulations on your new compound.
extremely awesome, best video yet by far....... can you guys do some more alkali metal-water explosions? or was it the alkaline-earth metals in water that did the explosions?
Gallium and Indium alloy is fun to make. It’s a eutectic alloy, which means the alloy has a lower melting point than the constituent metals. You don’t have to heat the gallium and indium at all. You just push two solid chunks together and they turn to liquid where they touch!
Mercury
Gallium
Americium
Lithium
Gallium is used to stabilize the delta(if I remember correctly) allotrope of plutonium if no one has mentioned this yet.
nice video, you guys sure make chemistry interesting
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Chediak-Higashi disease (CHD), 270
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Besides the obvious reason (because we can), what purpose does making the Uranium/Gallium compound have?
Was this a matter of "what can I get to bond with gallium?" or a matter of "A gallium/uranium bond would make a useful compound for x purpose, let's see if we can make it."?
Galinstan, a eutectic alloy of gallium, indium and tin, is used as a substitute for mercury in fever thermometers, an application patented by Geratherm AG. The only problem is that gallium very readily wets glass, so the inside of the glass has to be coated with an extremely thin coating of gallium.
2:01 "gallium forms an amalgam with all sorts of other materials."
the term 'amalgam' is reserved for alloys of mercury.
The word 'alloy' would be correct.
Is the beating sound genuine? Is it really that loud or is it just added to the video?
Trajan Augustus no it’s not
very very nice video, I hope that they find that island of stability in the higher order elements soon, that will be a real excitement!
1:16 Gallium is an interesting element that leads to Half metallicity when doped in the conducting Chromium phosphide ; behaving as a Semiconductor in one spin channel, and a conductor in other spin channel. Though only by theoretical approach the results were obtained, experimental approach is yet to be taken...
I too am constantly checking on my subscriptions to se if an update has been published.
You really inspire me to do some sort of science at University in the future (im 15 nearly 16)
Did you study science in the end?
Gallium is considered to be relatively non toxic. It is often compared with mercury which is highly toxic because both are liquid metals at or near room temperature. But I personally think one should exercise caution when handling or working with gallium. It mimics the characteristics of iron and has been shown to interfere with the formation of bone cells. In my opinion it would be wise to not assume that all of the potential health hazards of gallium are known at the present time.
i have a quest: when the "gallium heart" beats where does the energy of the motion comes from and where does it go then?
Did you add sound effects to the experiment, or is that thumping noise really being produced?
@outrageousxolii There's still Sulphuric Acid reacting with it after it flattens, so more sulphate's formed adn makes it tense up again.
It's the same guy people! The first part of the video shows him fucking around with gallium.
"Oh yeah look at me. I'm melting toxic substances on my skin."
"Ooooh look, Acid!"
And the "other guy" shows what happened to him afterwards. Don't mess with Gallium
Has the uranium-gallium compound found any commercial use? Also - great beating gallium heart.
God i love every single one of these videos... and nottinghamscience too
I studies Optics at Uni, Gallium is super important for Optoelectronics. GaP, GaAs based solar cells are several times more efficient than solar cells (though a lot more expensive). Similarly it is used for optical detectors etc
@Kriticsify Was lower than that of Caesium (pronounced See-zee-um). It says so in the subtitles if you turn it on.
But the professor would actually have lost the bet according to Wikipedia! Gallium melts at 29 degrees Celsius and Caesium at 28 degrees. And they couldn't test it in practice: Caesium forms Hydrogen gas in contact with any water, and the heat from the reaction ignites the Hydrogen. If he tried to melt Caesium in his hand (which is naturally moist) he'd get quite the burn!
Oooh, so it's not poisonous like mercury but it melts in almost as low temperatures? Sounds cool! I wonder if I could buy a sample... I have this fascination for liquid metals...
@DarksporkLeader a better question would be, how efficient would it be with power output, verses power input. but since its such a new discovery... we won't know if its practical for a long time
I remember a lookalike experiment with mercury in stead of gallium. But you had to touch the mercury drop with an iron needle in order to make it beat. But when it started beating the frequency was a lot higher.
is the sound in the video actually the sound produced by the change in surface tension, or is that added in?
Why I like all these videos? Lol. The problem I cannot find a person to enjoy talking about them ...love chemistry
Then studie it you Idiot
@outrageousxolii I am not a chemist, but I think of it this way. The surface tension breaks down so the Gallium relaxes (just like putting washing up liquid into a bowl of oily water, the oils disperse). Next the chemical reaction causes the surface tension to increase again so the Gallium draws itself in (just as if the washing up liquid could be removed from the oily water, the oils would come back together again). If the right amount of dichromate s added, the reaction will repeat itself.
wow, that really cooooool. and congrets on the new compound. do you no some of it's properties?
Was the beating noise added during the experiment?
If your heartbeat is like that, you might wanna see a cardiologist. :-)
I bought mine from eBay. There are special websites online which supply them, but I think you can get the most for your money from ebay. I think it was about $60 for about 20 grams, though I forget.
Could you use Potassium Permanganate instead of Dichromate as an oxidant?
Not to take away from the importance of the accomplishment ...
06:42 "It is a real thrill when you are the first person to make a compound that does not exist out in the galaxy and space, it has never existed on our planet before but now we have made it for the first time."
How does he know it does not exist out in the galaxy and space? Why stop short of saying it does not exist anywhere in the universe before now?
Or even that it has never existed on our Earth before?
I could understand a claim that it's the first time it's KNOWN to exist, or the first documented case of its existence...
The chances it exists anywhere else are minute. For one, that bond between U and Ga wouldn’t exist outside of an N2 or Ar atmosphere, precluding its existence on earth. In space or another planet the chance that Ga and U both exist in the same place at the same time, plus the existence of the organic ligand use to stabilise the molecule would be highly unlikely. And lastly, the conditions for which this bond can be formed, probably with strong reactants, would not likely happen in the universe as these strong reactants would not last
is the sound just part of the fx? and where can i buy gallium in bulk?
i wish i would have kept up with my studies and maybe on day i could have combined a new substance like the guy at the end of the video
@1jake312 I've seen something on that too, they warm the little bit that connects the cup part of the spoon to the handle then shake the spoon a lot.
31 Gallium Ga 🔴
Can the volume of the beating be heard at this volume or did the audio have to be edited for the video?
GaN is an optically clear semiconductor that is immensely important in LED production for home lighting. HUGE application.
Congratualtion on the new compound. If I remember rightly, didn't Polly Arnold and Jason Love discover a novel uranium bond at Nottingham, just before moving to the University of Edinburgh? The chemistry of uranium is very exciting - I hope this new discovery gives chemical insights which shed light on the cleaning up of nuclear waste, an important part of building a post-oil economy.
In which Journal are you guys going to publish (if you haven't already) this new Ga-U compound? I'm in a totally different field of chemistry but now you tickled my curiosity :)
It looks to have been written up as "σ and π Donation in an Unsupported Uranium-Gallium Bond" in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, January 2009. I can't access it so tell us if it's as interesting as you'd hoped!
When I'm flat, I'll occasionally wet the surface too.
I have a question- I have done this reaction several times now, and today the solution slowly turned blue. Can anyone explain this to me?
maybe some copper in the gallium?
@@jakeosullivan9053 while the contaminant may not be copper, i definitely think this anomaly can be explained by a contamination in your copper or acid. also, if you didnt use distilled water to dilute the acid, and you live in a hard water area, its possible the other things in the water have messed with your reaction
@DIRECTHALO666 Woods metal is an alloy, or a "mix", of some other elemental metals -- go look it up on Wikipedia to get the juicy details...
So which came first? The new bond and now you need to find a use for it? Or, was there a need and you found a new bond to meet that need?
Have they tried to decompose aluminum with gallium when you take scratch of the oxide layer of aluminum to let the gallium infiltrate the aluminum
it doesn't make that sound does it?
I'm considering performing this reaction (beating heart) at school, and I was wondering if it's possible to get the gallium back out of the reaction. If so, how? If someone could answer, that would be great!
Did you ever get an answer or perform the experiment?
does it make that noise, or is that added?
Most metals transmit electricity well. Yet gallium does this only partly. Teamed up with metals such as arsenic, it's great for the semiconductors that all electronics rely on. If you've got a phone with an LED screen, or Blu-ray disc, for instance, you've got gallium! Doctors like it, too. There's a special version, or isotope of the gallium atom called gallium-67. This is a little radioactive, giving off rays. When injected into the body, it homes in on cancers. The tell-tale rays show cancer and are picked up by a scanner. This is called a gallium scan.
Which dichromate are they using?
@chankyplazma The blue laser that makes BluRay reader are made of gallium nitrade! :)
But how does all of this combine with the Flux capacitor?
Very nice video. I'm always waiting for you guys to release a new update. :-)
Cool experiment. Awesome that you guys discovered a new compound, you've got to be really proud :D
For this/next uear we have to do a project in school, and i chose a subject related to chemistry, yay! xD
How did your project go?
Would a gallium filled balloon flatten out if dropped like the mercury balloon I saw? Could you use a funnel to fill the balloon with gallium as you can with mercury?
Run man!....can't you see that Slugworth is there to take all your candy sciences from you!
So, do you guys have an idea of what your new compound might be good for yet?
so is gallium also woods metal? or is it different?
I don't get if the sound has been added or comes from the experiment...
If you put a bead of gallium on top of an aluminium pop can, it will turn its structure of the ca into tissue paper. Please explain.
When diluting acids or bases you should always add the material with less volume to the material with the larger volume to reduce splashing and absorb exothermic energy.
Another great video, especially with the 'breaking news' on the new compound.