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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video, I'll be talking about the very interesting element Mercury. I try to cover as much as I can, including its properties, its history and interesting reactions.
Let me know what other element you would like to see. Keep in mind that this takes a lot of work though, and that not all elements will be possible (due to rarity and/or danger).
Let me know if I forgot anything in the description. I probably left out links or something.
Video Sources:
• Freezing Mercury (Periodic Videos): • Pouring Mercury into L...
• Hand in mercury (Cody's Lab): • Bare Hand vs Liquid Me...
• Mercury Distillation: • Distilling Mercury Metal
• Mercury Vapor (Periodic Videos): • Looking at Mercury Vap...
• Mercury Switches: • Mercury Tilt Switch an...
• Mercury Conductivity Test: • Video
• Mercury Nitrate: • Making Mercury Thiocya...
• Pharaoh's Serpent (original): • The Pharaoh's Serpent ...
• Pharaoh's Serpent 4K: • Making the Pharaoh's S...
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Nile talks about lab safety: • Chemistry is dangerous.
Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES): / walker
Gold: I am a Precious solid metal, I can make you rich
Gold + 1 proton : I am liquid and I can poison you
Man arent chemicals weird
@@lolxd4871 kinda
@Berry Squadin lol nice
@@sciousane8872 yes 100%
Gold + 2 protons: I am now solid again, but 'I'll still poison you.
NileRed: touches mercury
Science teachers: You know the rules, its time to die
DeoCactuss27 say goodbye
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Boi Exist lol same
*SAY GOODBYE🔫*
You know the rules, say goodbye
"it can be turned into Mercury by roasting it"
me: you look like a weak metal
I lol'd
me: You're a trash food supplement but I'm still gonna shit you out with my excess cereal.
@@dddmemaybe whoo it's getting hot in here
Vermillion: How dare you? I’m going to kill you
Vermillion: Splits into Mercury
R o a s t e d
2:11 I have an old landline phone that has a mercury switch as a mute function. If the handset is placed horizontally, like on a table, it mutes the microphone. When held on the ear, it is unmuted. Cool to see here how it actually works (together with a lot of other interesting info about mercury of course)👍🏻
That’s brilliant.
All my science teachers: mercury is toxic never touch it
NileRed: hehe touchy touchy
Lol ikr
@@fennecflew ik its a joke but there are different types of mercury.
Our physics teacher put hand in a large bath of mercury and so did her students.
It was however back in times where common sense still had some say over paranoid chemophobia that rules today.
We were never even allowed to have it in our lab 😂😂 I guess there was too many asshole trouble makers for that
Nile: hold my beer
"I'm very careful when I use it"
_shakes container violently_
Came to post this, good work.
timestamp?
@@errorfox6871 7:47
@@franciscajardimcorreia6968 thxx
LOL
*Another fact about mercury is that it can sing very well*
Good one 😂
I was waiting for this joke😂
I forgot where this is referencing from but I still got it
@@corndogconnoisseur It's referenced for Freddie Mercury
I thought it referred to Mariah Carey (kinda sounds like Mercury when pronounced fastly)
I'm allergic to mercury, can't even touch it without getting really really sick. This allergy is so rare and weird to find out that when I told my science teacher back in high school he didn't believe me and mocked me saying "Everyone is "allergic" to poison". I found this allergy when a thermometer broke on my leg and I touched a drop of mercury smaller than a drop of water, I don't want to imagine how sick I would get by putting a finger like in the video.
bro that teacher though
but that's cool. of all the metals you could be allergic to, it's mercury
@@sirfyodor imagine you were allergic to prolonged contact with stainless steel which i find like everywhere
As someone with a lot of allergies I'm always interested in hearing about allergies that I don't have, wasn't aware it was possible to be allergic to Mercury!
Would you be willing to mention how bad your reaction was?
try not to leave offspring
@@ИмяФамилия-е7р6и Grammar?
yo my teacher played this on a lesson so well done you've earned science teacher approval
Niceeee pog
What a lazy teacher.
@@nasknifeboi she's actually quite nice
@@nick_gold2327 Niiiiice
@@nick_gold2327 lucky
Me: thats toxic
Brain: how does it feel in our mouth
He said the mercury is inside sea fish. So you know how it taste. The bigger (predator) like shark have much mercury than small fish like salmon
@@sakurarope6049 I'm talking about taste I'm wondering what that cup of liquid mercury would feel like moving around my mouth
@@nickpurnell2769 you can find out you know. Shame about the poisoning part.
I tried it
Now I'm flying around
@@matezwizard9764 was.....was it worth it
7:08 "Generally less scary"
I'm starting to doubt if anything can be scarier than that image
HEHE
Cursed image
It would scary if those funny teeths are taken off....
@Merlin thnx for the info...
@@minecraftworld5684 the worlds oldest shark has no teeth. That's what you get though when you're over 400 years old.
They are also used in super-high-current electrical switches (usually in marine applications) that controls hundreds of amps of current because the ability for mercury to "heal" contact spots.
"In terms of toxicity, Mercury Metal is not that dangerous"
School teachers: "You would be more likely to survive the Chernobyl blast than survive mercury touchy"
Well billions of people survived Chernoby compared to how many died, sure a lot of the people that survived were no where near the reactor, most even lived outside Ukraine but they were alive before Chernobyl and still alive after.
@@devilmaycry1980 lmao billions?
@@devilmaycry1980 lol someone doesnt know their numbers rofl xD
@@DIO-lq1bv and Zane, whoosh. the joke was that the whole population of earth survived Chernobyl which is numbered in the billions. They were alive before the event and they were alive after so "survived".
Mohamed Ashraf I mean maybe a little context would of been nice
I was dead when he said "For some reason if you decided to swallow it" in a completely flat voice.
The first Chinese emperor would shallow Mercury believing it will make him immortal
And in the end the emperor died due to mercury i think
The true end, emperor became immortal in history.
@@burnsbooks69 what happened next?
@@sisyphus-the-big-guy979 transfer student shows up with even bigger bonkhonagahoogs. humongous hungolomghononoloughongous
If my chemistry lessons looked this interesting...I would...
...nah, I would have still failed the exams.
Never mind.
Well we might have still failed it but at least with less snoring in class tho
🤣🤣🤣
I really like your honesty
I probably still fail the exams but atleast I'll attend at every lesson
But I wouldn't
If only my science teacher could be this interesting
Him: **dips fingers in Mercury**
Me: *wait, that's illegal*
*Then Dips whole hand in Mercury*
It would go up his........
That turned dirty quickly
Correction; Teacher: *Wait, that’s illegal.*
Some kid is probably going to see this and think "what are they talking about"
Come to think of it
.......why would a kid come here?
Do you watch sssniperwolf?
NileRed: woah, look at all these cool aluminium oxide fibres
Everyone else on the plane:
0-0
👁👄👁
NONONONONONO THAT'S BAD
Guess I'll die
Oh my meme
When I was a child, I was told that mercury would eat the flesh off my hand if I ever touched it. So seeing this hand and finger plunging at 36 years of age has blown my mind.
We were told that one can poop out their own intestines if mercury gets into the body.
That's good, they tried to keep you safe and away from it. Imagine if you were a kid who tended to have cuts in your hands, like me, and got curious when a thermometer broke and the mercury spilled
@@vdd1001 you know, you would still probably have been fine. mercury metal is mostly harmless when it comes to short exposures like that, you should really research it, its cool stuff.
on the other hand, these people lied to us with the intent to deceive us, I don't know about you, but I definitely don't appreciate that. (regardless of safety, lies are still lies)
mercury absorbs super slowly through skin, its not very dangerous to touch, even with a cut on your hand, its only like 5% faster compared to undamaged skin. your "danger scenario" isn't all that dangerous. and the actual problem here is not the mercury, its the storing of it in a fragile container. broken glass is also sharp, why not mention that? in fact... that could even be the _cause_ for the cuts on your hand xD
@@Metal_Master_YT bruh chill out. Like the video says, it likes to stick around and is dangerous to have in your body, our parents didn't want us to touch it just in case. You're talking about it as if it were a good substance
@@vdd1001 dude, you literally said it was good for our parents to lie to us? and no, I'm not talking about mercury as if it were *good,* I'm actually just treating it like something neutral, because the vast majority of the time, *that's exactly what it is.* again, plz research this, mercury is a fairly _inert_ metal, people have exaggerated the danger for attention.
Thanks for the informative video. Mercury-filled gauges are an essential tool for maintenance of multi-carburetor engines. (read: most motorcycles before EFI.) And it’s getting harder to get mercury refills for them because everyone is so freaked out about how dangerous it is.
07:42 "I'm very careful when I use it"
*shakes the shit out of it*
Shaking it's not going to do anything. That's not the danger here.
@@brianbethea3069 I'm aware. I thought the context and timing was entertaining
Puts finger in it
Eeew that 0 before 7.
Ughhh i am feeling horrible.
He wasn't wearing glerves
This really says something, I thought I didn’t like chemistry and didn’t enjoy the class.
Now I’m sitting here willing to binge these videos.
Yup.
If you don't like chemistry, it was just poorly taught to you.
Haha I almost failed Chem my teacher passed me if I wouldn't take the class again. I hated it so much. Now I'm watching all this stuff going wait a minute it wasn't nearly this cool or useful back then. That was 14 years ago
well you don't need to memorize any formulae to watch these videos
What schools should do, and never did (at least when I was in them), is every year poll the students about what topics they were interested in, what ones they weren't, why, and how fun the classes were. (among other things for older students)
Teachers can make or break your future, literally. They deserve respect and a well paying salary for what they have to do every day.. but they also deserve scrutiny about their capability and performance too.
For me, school was the absolute worst part of my life, and my career choice is something that wasn't touched by schooling at all.
These videos are essentially fun information and trivia. They're not giving you anything and then making you apply the information, or figure out formulas, or asking you to (basically) work. They're great to supplement what you learn in a classroom, but do you really learn anything functional from this?
Imagine renaming something as epic as "Hydrargyrum" to just "Mercury"
We still call it hydrargyrum (υδράργυρος) in Greece
In Dutch it's called 'kwik'
In Korean, the word is 수은, which is literally water+silver
InLegend 212 Ayyyy Korean Squad!
Tbh its not that hard to pronounce and memorize
Here is a more detailed explanation, from what I understand, since "6s valance, electons don't tend to bond" isn't a very satisfying answer by itself (please note that I am not a chemist, so correct me if i'm wrong).
Mercury has all of its electron subshells fully fulled (1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p, 3d, 4s, 4p, 4d, 4f, 5s, 5p, 5d, and 6s), sort of resembling a noble gas, which reduces the strengths of intermolecular bonds since full orbitals are most stable.
Furthermore, the 4f (lanthanide) orbital is comparatively ineffective at electron shielding, which is when inner electron orbitals shield the outer electrons from the positive charge of the nucleus. In this case, the valance 6s shell is poorly sheilded, resulting in a stronger bond between the valance electrons and nucleus, further weakening intermolecular bonds since the 6s electrons are less likely to contribute to the sea of electrons in metallic bonding.
This 4f shell is what sets mercury apart from zinc and cadmium, which have full subshells and low melting points, but not as low as mercury's. The 4f shell's shielding does not counteract the effects of the greater total atomic charges to the same degree for the 6s electrons, compared to, say, the 4d electrons shielding the 5s valance in cadmium.
This is also why mercury atoms are abnormally small; less electron shielding results in the orbitals being pulled in more, also relating to its high density.
Do note that copernicium, due to the comparitively even weaker shielding of the 5f shell, may have an even lower melting point than mercury, though it is extremely unstable.
There are also relativistic quantem effects involved, as the kinetic energy of inner electons increase in large atoms. However, the actual mechanics of how this affects things is beyond my understanding.
Boiling mercury? You sir are a brave fella
in his own home… oh boi what I wonder what could go wrong… ecks dhe
swoooooooooosh
sicc boi
inside a house well pretty dangerous but boiling mercury is a common to take out the impurity
You should check out Codyslab lol the guy lives on mercury
my teacher: so, don't touch mercury because it's dangerous
others: *puts their hands on a glass of mercury*
It should be backbenchers than others😂😂😂
Billie Eyelash beach When I was in high school, we could put our hand in a cup of mercury and roll around some drops in our hands. Only years later, I learned it was toxic.
There's a certain mercury that can be handled
@@aresRebellion yeah there's a mercury substitute that is used for teaching etc
they probably used gallium or something
I’m REALLY surprised you didn’t mention how hatters used mercury to stiffen and shine hats and the ensuing mental issues caused by a constant intake of mercury gas caused many to go mad, and thus “mad hatters” were common during this time, and the phrase “mad as a hatter” was born, and the Alice in Wonderland character was based on such a concept of a “mad” or insane hatter. This is from the 18th to 20th century btw,
Omg! So interesting 😁 would love to know more historical trivia like this
Thank you for the clarification on this. I’ve been confused when folks I’ve known used that term without context.
PROVE it! Take a POOP in front of us!
@@larryhoover2541 AND IT TURN IT INTO WINE
@@fuffboi7570 AND THEN MAKE IT DISAPPEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Nigel, I know it's already been done (notably by periodic videos), I'd like to see you gradually traverse though the ENTIRE periodic table of elements.
(Your video 'style' is somewhat different to that of Martin / Brady et al so it's worth having you do the whole lot)
Nile red: so anyways I made a small atomic bomb and it’s pretty dangerous. I sleep with it at night.
Lmao totally he actually played with radiation before sooooo...
@@deadboy783 explains the 7 fingers then
@@deadboy783 you play with radiation every day and just don't know it.
@@deadboy783 so do you. You are right at this moment as you read this..
Bro its 3 in the morning and this made my day
"I'm very careful with it"
*Aggressively Shakes bottle*
Tf is ur nickname
@@asalt1872 lol
copied comment
@@RaceRageYT its original, any others are coincidental
@@asalt1872 Translator for dummies: 1 th0t u w3r3 a w1ld_0n3 aka "I thought you were a wild one"
*Why are you lying, Mercury is the closest planet to sun in Solar System*
There's a reason why the folks keep you locked in the basement. (yer noodles have stuck to the pan, the meds don't work and they can't afford to have you institutionalized) 🤪 just kid'n.
ha ha XD
@@Thwarptide *laughs in satire*
*_laughter_*
lol xD
I had no idea how interesting mercury could be. 😃 That reaction on aluminium and gold is amazing.
I know that mercury sticks to itself but i bet it wants to break free
No because its underpressure
Nice 1
Eight Trailer r/whooosh
Decky G r/whoosh
D-man747 r/doublewhammy
How the hell did someone melt a planet?
I don't know, but we'll get the bastard who done it!
must be one of those giant fuckin lasers nasa has.
Even the sun can't melt mercury!
You just gotta ask nicely, smh.
Leaving a comment here to roast the guy who gets whooshed
Mercury is the reason the saying "mad as a hatter" exists.
Hatters historically treated leather with mercury to give it the soft quality required to sew into hats.
Hence, they regularly breathed in mercury vapors, which in turn caused permanent nervous damage.
The man who wrote Alice In Wonderland and so on lived only 15 miles from me (but a hundred and fity years before me)
Then given the rate at which the sun orbits the galactic center, he actually lived about a trillion kilometers away from you...
@@tetsujin_144 I'm sorry but I do not understand what you mean.
@@georgealderson4424 basically 150 years ago the Earth was a trillion Kms from where it is now lol
Alex lol
Thanks for helping me make mercury, I got cinabbar and called it stupid and ugly and got the metal. Keep up with the amazing content!
I was recently watching Queen music videos and thats What yt reccomended me...
I mean Freddy Mercury haha
queen is a science
@@essenceisaway3633 yep, music is science
69 likes nice
🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact: My chemistry teacher actually had a bottle of mercury! Apparently back in the day there was some kind of accident or controversy or something with mercury, and some of the teachers (including her) took some of it. They kept it very secret, otherwise the school would automatically take it away. My class actually got to hold the bottle. It was so mesmerizing.
The school wouldn't care, all of the chemistry teachers at my school had some, and most had gallium too.
I am a caterpillar
Damm u have cool teachers I have lame ones
Cool
Fun fact: my chemistry teacher did not do this
I think its important to add that Karen Wetterhahn didn't die immediately from the mercury exposure, which in itself happened within seconds. She had the accident in August 1996 and only died in June 1997. First Symptoms of her Mercury poisoning became apparent in January 1997. Reports say the mercury concentration in her blood was more than 80 times the toxic dosage. This was from 1-2 drops of Dimethylmercury that she accidentally spilled from a pipette on her latex gloves and it only hit her ~5 months after it had happened. Scary stuff.
It's in our flu shots as a preservative.
@@d.h.dd.h.d.5230 dimethylmercury isn’t, thimerosal is. no real evidence of thinerosal having same affects.
Sad thing is that she even had the proper savety gear for handling it but obv they didnt know enough abt it back then
@@Moritz___ yeah at the time latex gloves were part of the proper safety gear. Sadly unbeknownst to them back then dimethylmercury permeates through those. After this accident the requirements for handling dimethylmercury were overhauled.
@@d.h.dd.h.d.5230 maybe in the 1840’s
I've seen videos of electricity added to mercury and it flows clockwise or counterclockwise (depending on pos or neg direction.)
(The Tinfoil hat part) Supposedly mercury electrified is part of mechanical workings that makes "flying saucers" fly
rotating metal without friction and then include a magnetic field and bingo away you go.
I'm guessing that putting the mercury in a vacuum and the magnetic fields of the electrical charges is what pulls energy from Zero Point energy. That is then stored in capacitors on anti gravity vehicles.
You know, the first Chinese emperor was obsessed with immortality and to prolong his life he used to ingest mercury sulfide which caused his death at the age of 39...
(insert “How ironically” meme here)
Edit: Qin Shi Huang, who died aged 49 in 210 BC, was the first emperor to unite the warring states of China into a single nation (Credit: Wikipedia) he died at the age of 49 not 39 sorry.
no, mercurally, not iron(ically).
I'll see myself out.
Eline JESUS
@@stefanohua1346 sorry XD
No I don’t want to go back to humanity’s class
@@scythe123_ xD
"Here's some mercuric chloride that I made, which is quite toxic. I'm very careful when I use it."
*shakes the bottle vigorously*
knowledge
Adequacy seems lyk you broke a lot of thermometers nd got a lot of mercury
sarabjeet Sodhi
English?
it was sealed, lol
*Explodes*
Teachers: don’t touch the Mercury it will kill you.
Me who is drinking the funny silver milk: don’t worry I won’t
How am I even supposed to touch another planet
...
@@ITZ.URGIRLNIMA what's with the dots ma'am
@@bonnie5079 it is my reaction.
@@That_Guy_Ty you fucking idiot you watched a video all about a metal, not a fucking planet
“It’s elemental symbol is HG, because it’s based off its older and much harder to pronounce name”
The pause after this made me think he wasn’t gonna tell us the old name.
It's old name is Hydrargyrum, and yes it's a nightmare to even pronounce
“If you decide to swallow it your stomach acid can react and make something dangerous” well damn there goes my weekend plans.
Bro! You alive?
@@bonleofen he's not
Are you still alive
Bro are you still alive
BRO?! BRO ARE YOU STILL ALIVE
Stfu now
I’m so thankful I don’t live next to you.
How do yo know? 👀
plottwit: he does
MrZer000 you forgot the s
He lives in Montréal
@Tricky Niky leave him alone dude
As a chemist, I developed an irrational fear of mercury. When this guy touched it withouth any protection, my heart missed a beat
its not irrational fear: getting that shit on your skin can kill you
maybe fingertips are different from e.g. wrists
@@melaniatrump2166
No it's that mercury isn't absorbed. through the skin. Nile literally said in the video that potentially you could swallow it and you would shit out every last microgram of it. Potentially.
Melania Trump you’re wrong, the danger is only organic mercury, not elemental
@@aced_1606 you mean metallic
Bogdanmeoff no, elemental mercury
Nigel really stacked all 100 alchemy character points
Him: You have to roast the powder to make the liquid mercury
Me: *starts to scream insults at the powder*
Some people never get it.
UR SO SMALL THAT ATOMS WOULDNT BE ABLE TO TOUCH U
I thought this was a reference to Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs: th-cam.com/video/QRqXBsgnYok/w-d-xo.html
Yes, that's what you're supposed to do
@@thineevee7345 yea
My brain: that's toxic
Also my brain: °~☆ I wanna play with the pretty shiny liquid silver ☆~°
Try gallium then it's pretty cheap
@@daidus4689 it’s not cheap
@@chunyingzhang6252 it's 2€ for 5 gram that's cheap as hell
@@chunyingzhang6252 lol what? Its dirt cheap.
@Krazy Kommando It could easily be dealt with by coating the the aluminium with another metal
Him: the way to change the red powder into mercury is by roasting it.
Me: STUPID LOOKING TOMATO-
O:
Woow just offended a tomato man
>:V
"I'm very careful when I use it"
*shakes the bottle nonstop*.
Gallium: *"I used to rule the world..."*
“Seas would rise when I gave the word” or for those, “chunks would load when I gave the word”
That song brings back amazing and horrible memories about Minecraft.
Seas would rise when i gave the word...
Well, davehax played with gallium. So not completely remove from the throne. Just moved to second in command.
Haahahahaahahahaa chunks would load!
‘Both the mercuries can be brought back to metal, this is usually done by roasting it.’
Mercury, you’re named after a planet because you aren’t original enough to be given an original name.
*instant liquid*
0oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh
Actually both Mercury the planet and Mercury the liquid metal are named after Mercury the god therefore Mercury (the liquid metal) is somewhat godlike.
*instant solid*
Dental filings? I thought they stopped using mercury in tooth filliings.
They did stop using them in fillings and Mercury is liquid metal imaginge what would happen to your brain if you digest it
Magmadude999 that’s what I thought!
The other thing that's neat about Mercury is that when you touch it, it feels "wet". But because it's self-attracting, none of it stays on your skin, so your skin stays "dry". It's a very unique sensation.
MERCURY IS METALLIC SLIME
When you touch it it feels wet
let that sink in
I masturbate with mercury.
Yeah, Jim Hutton makes him wet, too
Fun fact: in the past rich people used to fill swimming pools with mercury just because of that feeling of "wet" and obviously, they eventually died lmao
I think it’s important to mention that the amount of thimerosal in vaccines is so extremely low and the main metabolite: monomethyl mercury doesn’t bioaccumulate very much compared to dimethyl mercury.
My grandma: *Careful dont break the Thermometer!*
Me as soon as she leaves:
@@atomicnumber8051 relax
@@atomicnumber8051 chillax bro
@@atomicnumber8051 chill
Guys I'm pretty sure that the person named mercury is joking, as they are literally called mercury
@@atomicnumber8051
7:44
Nile: "I'm very careful when I use it"
Also Nile: *SHAKES BOTTLE VIGOROUSLY*
Came to the comments to find this one.
I got a kfc ad when I clicked the timestamp lmao
When did Nile say he was very careful wiht the bottle?
and he is not wearing any gloves while doing it lmao
dopplers effect :- th-cam.com/video/nUIuDsVezmM/w-d-xo.html
Teachers: "Mercury is very toxic."
NileRed: "I'm about to end all you teachers' career!"
Mercury: "I'm about to end this man's life!"
😒
bleh
The pharaoh serpent, is that what's used in those snake things that you can get around the 4th of July ?
Not today. Here's the "Sugar Snake" info from Wikipedia: Solid fuel is used in this experiment. The solid fuel can be sand that is sufficiently covered in ethanol or hexamethylenetetramine. A white mixture of sucrose and sodium bicarbonate will eventually turn black and the snake will grow about 15-50 centimetres (5.9-19.7 in) long after it is lit.[4] (I remember the black snake fireworks..they were pretty cool!)
I once tried to roast HgS, but instead of turning to Mercury metal, it just started crying.
Ahhahaahahha
The tears are liquid, I think u did it
So the previous name meant liquid silver. Pretty accurate as far as appearence goes i guess. Those greek & latin names always make sense.
r91976 technically it'd be literally translated to "silver water"
And let's not forget the old English name, quicksilver.
r91976 In our language if you translate directly it means live silver!
The German name for it is Quecksilber. "Queck" being an old Germanic word for "alive/fast" hence the English name.
Mercury's Chinese name "水银" also directly translates to "liquid silver". I guess ancient people name things just by the appearance of it, then people learn about science to correct the names so they make sense scientifically.
7:50 I am very carefull whilr using it: *Shakes it around like a toy*
Zyfo found your comment at the bottom
Here have a like
Lol
So true
it's dangerous if it is dissolved
I came here to comment this Loll , also he wasn't wearing any gloves! If there was any residue on the outside of the bottle, or the cap fucked up while he was shaking it Like a toy, that could have gone bad quick.
Who would have thought that mercury looks so amazing! And how it interacts with aluminum and mercury thiocyanate can be viewed endlessly. A very relaxing sight. It's a pity teacher didn't show me this in chemistry lessons.
I first saw it was 12 minutes and thought "oh what the hell could he go on about for that long"
Turns out it was very informative and a great video! Well done!
Thanks for sticking around for the whole thing!
I thought, "Man, I know all about mercury."
.......I didn't know shit.
NileRed 2:54 so i can use a spice roast to turn cinnabar to mercury. NICE
thank you for making a vidio about my elenent
ashley maddison same
6:20 this is where “mad hatters” come from Mercury was used in hat making process so they were exposed to small amounts throughout their life.
🙄 what
Quick Silver ok zoomer
Quick Silver It had phased out already but yea. They used to make hats with mercury back then
@@nomblob5592 thanks for the information bruh, just trying to know, but some asshole messed up above..
Nevermind, do you have any paper about it.. about mercury hats!?
True
It’d be really cool if you went through all the elements in the periodic table and talk about them all on this much detail. Different compounds, uses, etc.
There is a channel just like what you've described.
@@greatmeatball2978 Do tell.
"Periodic Videos"
Thank you for making this and your other videos, love hearing you explain everything 😀😀😀
7:46 Him:" I Am very careful when i use it..."
Him: Shakes bottle extremely...
I searched for this specific comment, thank you
In his defence it’s not like it’s gonna get out sooooo ya and I know I am commenting on a comment that was made two months ago
The Di Methyl Mercury story is one of the most heart wrenching stories ever. The way it slowly destroyed her life was so sad
The channel Chubbyemu did a good video that explains the processes doctors were using to try and figure out what was wrong with her before they learned that she had a few drops of it fall on her hand
@@Ryyi23 The second I hear the woman's name I was like
KW is a ___ year old woman, presenting to the emergency room _____
🤣 i watch too much chubbyemu
i do feel bad for her though, the story is sad
@@Ryyi23 That was my first ever chubbyemu vid. Still mortifies me
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The floating coin is mind blowing. Imagine if you lived on a world with mercury oceans, and how that would affect ship design
everything is a ship
Imagine naval warfare in a mercury ocean.
Probably there wouldn't be life in that planet lol.
You could think about more salt in the water. Salt could make water much more dense and not hamper the biosfere of a planet, and ships would be much larger and heavier.
Ship design would be ... like ... flat. Damn any old thing floats.
GUYS, imagine if air was clorine gas, and how that would effect planes. Like wtf are yall saying? lmao, countless catastrophic events would take place, everyone and everything dies. And boats dont exist anymore.
“I’m very careful when I use it” he says as he shakes the bottle violently
When i was a kid like 7 or 8. I didnt know what mercury was.. i accidentally broke a thermometer and saw "metal water" as i called it. I kinda placed em on my hands and rolled them around. Since it was so amusing. I broke 2. Played with em. I was wondering why they started disappearing. I left them for some time and when i came back, they were gone.
And now that i am fully aware of what mercury actually is. Its good that im still alive. HAHA.
J Lois :o
you sir must have superpowers
Fake
Unless you ingest it it's not any real danger from such a small amount. And even if you ingested some of it's not going to kill you... just damage your brain a bit.
@@jlois2205 he doesnt haz face tho....
"All about mercury, the liquid metal" Tbh it's more rock, but here's a fact you forgot: he had a lot of cats, and he is a very good singer.
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Just a random person lmao xenjsxjcejxejed
"I was afraid of getting a channel strike."
Knowlege is dangerous.
No, the suppression of knowledge is dangerous. Communism is dangerous.
Well that's where the Famous Quote get from "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" ~ Nelson Mandela
I'm pretty sure that knowledge itself isn't dangerous, what's dangerous is that it was knowledge of how to make a fucking bomb.
@@ModernGentleman ??????? you do realize that youtube is like this for the sole reason of making money and being marketable, right? right??
@@saouerThere's nothing wrong with that and is not in any way related to what i said.
I used to play with mercury every once in a while when some kid would bring it to school. I shined dimes. When I got tired of it I would take it outside and hit it with a hammer. It almost vaporizes it.
Me: touches a tiny bit of mercury
Teachers: “hm, I see you wanna die”
"I mean, don't you?"
life is not an option
@@4mb3rj43 Exactly. Choosing to die is, in a way, the ultimate expression of free will~
Watch this for more interesting and exciting facts
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I like all the references that NileRed and Cody'sLab make to each other's channels. I think it would be really cool if they made a collab video.
THIS COMMENT NEEDS MORE UPVOTES!
Notice how you never see them together though... suspicious.
Yeah, they should kiss. (l said this out loud after l read your comment just now and l made myself laugh so much that l'm writing it here for everyone to either laugh or scratch their heads in confusion) XD
Cody's lab is a douche tho.
The internet stole my soul but it gave me Overwatch How?
Me: * watching mercury from a bottle being poured in a beaker like it's some sort of beverage *
*why must something so deadly look so appealing*
Excellent video, excellent ! It was very educational Bill Nye the Science Guy can not put a candle flame to you. Kudos to you dude! This is coming to you from Mobile Alabama the Gulf of Mexico the deepest of the South. Thank you, they should put your videos in science classes in, grammar schools and jr. colleges and so on. You have a way of making a person want to watch, listen and learn. I love science. Your video was Made Simple and easy-to-understand it helps to have someone who can get something across that is so hard but made simple enough that the Layman can understand. Thank you dude 😊
NileRed: I don’t recommend trying this at home.
Also NileRed: Here’s some footage of me trying this from home!
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man's built diff for science
It’s educational and entertainment purposes only😂
"Which is typically roasted"
My dumb brain: *imagines scientist yelling*: Hey Mercury! You're a NERD!
@@SamS.7598 The human brain is evolving.... just backwards
@@SamS.7598 ooga booga we caveman again oog oog
@@worstusernameintheworld9871 I can’t stop this feeling deep inside of me, girl u just don’t realize what u do to me 🎶
Sorry it reminded me of the song
Teach us how to make MDMA
😂🤣
to use or sell?
Yes plz!!
Dude With a Face facts
@@FlikkieFloekieFlakkie both
When I was a child in the 1950's, I remember a little boy on our school bus who had some mercury in a bottle. He was sharing it by pouring a drop about the size of a peanut in the hands of other children. We rolled it around in our palms and were amazed by it. I don't remember what happened next. Probably we gave it back to the little boy who had the bottle for it. But none of us had any toxic reaction whatsoever. Vaguely I think we may have taken it home to show our sisters and brothers. Not sure about this. Also, my dental fillings were also made from some mercury compound. I have lived a long life and I still have some of those fillings. How dangerous is mercury? However dangerous it is, it is not as dangerous as we are being led to believe.
My hungry ass thought 0:30 was an oreo
Mercury and pennies is the equivalent to milk and oreos if you eat metal.
ShadiComplains I can imagine you at the keyboard for hours thinking about a good insult...and that’s not even a good one
@@urmomgay445 its
A joke...
Its not an insult lmao
Mine too
I laughed way too hard at this
Before I watch this, my initial reaction to this thumbnail is "dear gods, please, let that be gallium"
Hopefully you're better informed now.
brzinger6 mercury by itself is toxic but not as toxic as you might think
Right? What a dumb ass!
@@rudyantolich1423 lmao get off this channel and go watch...Logan Paul or some shit you dumbass
@@tastypencil Bruh the guy's just joking
Your demonstration of amalgamation with gold reminded me of a historical use for mercury I learned about when I visited Sovereign Hill at Ballarat in Victoria: Gold mining, or rather, processing the ore that was dug up. Crush the ore into powder and pass it over a bed of mercury using water. The mercury amalgamates with the gold, leaving the quartz powder to come out the other side. The mercury/gold amalgam is then heated to distil off the mercury for reuse and the gold gets melted down and cast into bars.
I believe villagers still do it in Peru, add river dirt to barrels with mercury, then they get dumped in the river. Some of the mercury escapes...
It's also the reason that a lot of historical gold mining regions have problems with soil contamination: not everyone who processed ore that way was careful about capturing the mercury vapour.
@@westcoaststacker569 If I remember correctly, the technique was developed by the Inka and only introduced to Europe after the Spanish saw how much more efficient it was compared to any European metallurgical technology.
@@magister343 Thank you, I know in California there are areas with a lot of cinnabar, must be in South America also. Seems relatively simple to distil mercury and the amalgamation.
I love the idea of an element series
“I’m always careful around Mercury”
Touches the mercury many time
2:52
Me: You're just a toxic Gallium
Mercury: **melts in sadness**
@@cyberialyr4 r/woooosh
@@xzboo801 lmao
@Hеnriqᜳue
Haha funni redditor link
to entendendo carambolinhas nenhuma
acabei de pensar q qnd alguém traduz "carambolinhas" o tradutor fica muito confuso, então vcs n entenderam nem 50%
7:49 "Im very careful working with it"
*Shakes the bottle like a mad man*
i dont even know why i’m watching this but it’s interesting well done 🤔
Women: i wonder why we have a longer life span
Men: touches Mercury
Dowhat Iwant Men who get married statistically live longer than men who don’t. Perhaps they do it out of spite tho I suppose.
Is that what your using to kill them all?
@@cranscape 90% of married peeps get divorced
@@at-cj2iy that's definitely not true
@@pgre its 40%, still pretty high
they should make a Mercury-based Pokemon that is able to turn Solid, Liquid and Gaseous.
and make it Steel/Poison type.
ya'll over here hopin for steel/poison when we need that normal/ghost
Meltan looks like mercury
a normal everyday Spider did... you not play pokemon x/y? chesnaut is a fighting-grass
grass-fighting*
a normal everyday Spider and also that type combo is absolute trash, 4x weak to flying!
4:13
"This is the reason why you're completely banned from taking any amount of mercury onto an airplane"
Dammit! Just gonna have to mail my suitcases of mercury, and I guess just wait for them?
I guess so
NileRed: touches mercury with bare hands
Also NileRed: uses gloves to crush strawberries
“Now let’s find out what happens when I drink it
Probably gonna die!!!!!!!!!😂🤣
bad ending
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Supposedly, it is the world's greatest laxative.
Rest in peace
"It forms weird tentacle things" *JAPAN WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*
sister of anime lmao
This got a genuine laugh out of me 👍
WWEEEEEBBBBBSSS RISE UP
Hehe
Too soon
This guy touches mercury: "AH, A NORMAL DAY INDEED"
teacher: laser eyes " *NANI?!* "
Hi. I would like to watch a similar video about sodium (Na). It is an interesting metal. Thanks!
hello! while nile doesn't post a video on sodium, check out periodic videos if you haven't yet, they have a video on every element and it's really cool :)