Greetings from Arkansas. In addition to the aluminum industry here, Arkansas was also where the toothbrush was invented. We don't really have any documentation to prove this, but if the toothbrush was invented anywhere else they would have called it a teethbursh.
Resident Material science guy again. Lab coat and "uhm actually" at the ready. Errata at 16:50 A eutectoid reaction is a completely different thing than a eutectic reaction. The eutectic point is just that. Along with that, there is a eutectic temperature and eutectic composition. The eutectic reaction is Liquid -> Solid 1 + Solid 2 on cooling. The eutectoid reaction is Solid 1 -> Solid 2 + Solid 3 on cooling. For example, there is a eutectoid in the Fe-C system (Steel) where upon cooling the austenite, the material separates into ferrite and iron carbide. -ic = liquid to something -oid = solid to something This holds true for the other invariant reactions too: monotectic, syntectic, peritectic, peritectoid, etc.
I'm not sure of your profession, but if I had you as a college professor or highschool teacher I wouldn't be a truck driver. Brilliant, entertaining and engaging.
@@NGC1433 nothing to be honest. Just not very glamorous. I was a Citrix/VM admin 5 years ago. I grossed 210k US so far this year driving this old truck. Let's not talk about expenses though. Congrats on making the switch. 20 years in IT. I only miss my vacation time.
We just went through the industrial revolution, a geology class, and advanced chemistry. All by way of a miter saw and 22 minutes. I wonder if Uncle Bumble has trouble sleeping at night? For some reason, I feel his brain never shuts down.
I could really use some 8-hour versions of these talks to get me through the work day. Nothing like touching on everything from social anthropology to metallurgy to the industrial revolution to get through the morning grind.
Uncle Bumblefuck has gone full James Burke (the old Connectiond PBS series) on this one. And that is about the highest compliment I can give because that series was awesome.
The alumina being processed in Iceland comes (in part, at least) from Australia, of all places. Still cheaper to ship that shit halfway around the earth than to do it locally. And the three aluminum smelters consume close to 75% of all electricity generated here. Crazy world we live in.
My great grandfather worked for Reynolds Aluminum in Bauxite Arkansas when he wasn't serving in WW2. He would say it took two days to shutdown the production line and two days to get going again, so they just kept going almost year round. I believe he said they would shutdown around Christmas and resume January 1, he was high up the maintenance side and would do most of the overhauls and repairs then. Last time I was down that way the old steel skeleton of the plant was still standing, they stripped the walls and roof a long time ago.
True story, The Danish chemist who first managed to extract aluminium from ore gifted a dinner set to the Danish King, allowing the Danish King to throw the ultimate bling state dinners. Of course there weren't enough aluminium plates for every one so the less important dignitaries had to eat of gold plates.
@@TheTurinturumbar Yeah it is true, the danish king was just the first to do it. Aluminium remained a very expensive material until the modern electrical process of extracting it from aluminium sand was invented.
You've convinced me not to throw my aluminum cans in the camp fire for entertainment. Better to just throw it in the garbage. Educational and entertaining as always! Thank you.
@@0num4Confoundem? I barely knew her! Though, tulips on my stem is better than four bushes full of birds if'n ya ain't got no stones? I think Willy S. said that.
Gotta say there's something special about being able to listen to the ramblings of a well-rounded and worldy-wise worker. This was great, educational and entertaining. Cheers, AvE.
"Where was I going...?" I love it! I've been found with a dozen of the encyclopedia sections open and spread around the floor. Probably more times than I should admit if I care to further reproduce...
Oh to go back in time. Had I have had you during high school or college, I wouldn’t have chased so many squirrels when I got bored. BRILLIANT!!! I love that word “Chineseium”
The stuff used as a mordant for dying textiles is actually alum, which is aluminium potassium sulphate; and not alumina (aluminium oxide). The way the mordants work is that the metal salt dissolves in water, and then when the fibre is soaked in the solution. This allows the soluble metal ions to enter the fibres. Then it's drained, and placed in the dye bath, which contains the coloured substances. These then soak into the fibres too, but the coloured stuff reacted with the metal ions (forming what chemists call a complex), and this complex is _insoluble_. That's how they get the colour to stick, and it doesn't wash out - it actually is converted to an insoluble form inside the fibre. If the same reaction is used to make an insoluble pigment, that's known as a lake pigment. This sort of process only applies to the class of dyes called, imaginatively enough. 'mordant dyes'. Most of the important natural dyes are of this type (indigo is the blatant exception, being a vat dye). Different metals salts can be used - notably iron is said to 'sadden' colours, and tin 'brightens' them, amoung others. Tin salts were particularly important to get a good clear scarlet colour from madder root - all the armies that used 'redcoats', that was tin mordanted madder root to get that colour. Aluminium potassium sulphate is just the simplest and safest soluble aluminium salt. It can be mined directly in some places, but by the time Bayer was working on aluminium, it was made from alumina due to the scale of demand. Oddly enough, right around then saw a decline in the use of mordant dyes, as that was roughly when acid dyes started to take over the commercial market; being either cheaper or better than the mordant dye equivalents.
Thank you Uncle AvE. I appreciate your protracted comprehensive discourse on these technical subjects. I find them profoundly fascinating. Please continue to elucidate these subjects in the future!
Used to cliff jump into an old bauxite mine that had been flooded in arkansas back 25 years ago. Hadn't thought about that in a few decades. Thank you for that.
We used to have a bunch of aluminum plants here in the PNW. Tons of electricity coming from the dams on the Columbia River. Then ENRON managed to ruin it and shut them all down and they never re-opened. And then Ken Lay had the nerve to just die in prison before serving his full sentence. Makes my blood boil every time I think about it.
Thanks for the upload Uncle B. I could listen to you talk about things like this for hours. I always learn something. Now I have to clean up after my nerdgasm.👍👍
As a chemist: excellent explanation. I would just clarify that after the dissolution of bauxite they filter it to remove oxides of iron (the brown impurities seen on the photo of the rock at 3:20) and then they gently acidify the filtrate with the CO2 obtained from the Hall-Herault electrolysis process. This leads to precipitation of hydrated alumina which is then dried.
Uncle Bumblefuck! How I wish I had discovered you 45 years ago. My life would have taken a different course. Instead I had teachers who knew little and had no idea how to even get that across. Love to Chickadee
That 10 to the 6th is just around the corner. No one more deserving. If that's your kinda thing. I am going to hazard a guess and say you will ave 1MB by the time your little girl opens Santa's presents. Well done and thanks (no pun intended) a million for all the hard work, learning, new vocabulary and entertainment. Really appreciated.
You do go on a good ramble. I'd like to see more electronics vjos from you. I liked the ones you have so far, but I like how you explain things and show how they can be practically used and would like to see more. Thanks for making the stuff you make and teaching what you know.
I'll always be suprised by your ability to teach me things I already know, and have me listen like a schoolboy. You should be a trades teacher. You would inspire so many young people that being intelligent is a GOOD thing. Something we desperately need in Canaderp!
Ah yes, good old Florine, the friendliest of the elements in the 'old feller what took an unhealthy shine to your 12 year old son' way. They tried using Florine as a rocket fuel oxidizer, and they achieved some mind bogglingly good efficiency numbers with a combination of cryogenic Hydrogen, cryogenic Florine and molten Lithium, but in the end they came to the conclusion that working with a substance that would happily oxidize anything or anyone it came into contact with was probably not a good idea.
Yep. Accidentally knock over a barrel of that shit and it'll set fire to the asphalt, the gravel underneath the asphalt and five feet of dirt and rock below that.
You realize if he gave lectures and showed his face no one would watch. I think he is really sand bagging on his level of genius. Learned a metric tonne!
I don't think he's sandbagging at all, he just doesn't feel the need to intellectually masturbate - I think that's what's so captivating and relateable. The first BOLTR I ever watched it was apparent that he knew more about electronics, plastics, manufacturing, metallurgy, machining, etc. etc. than just about anyone other than an expert in those specific fields. To know all of them simultaneously is god-tier. He's like that uncle (bumblefuck) that you love that seems to know everything, but turned up to 11.
@Sheldon Robertson tell that to the rivers in north England where the chems have been found and they have shut down franking due to earth quake. The water is being cleaned currently as its considered a health hazard.
Sigh... Don't be an arrogant fool due to your blatant ignorance. Oil/NG only requires heat/pressure+HC's and is made in as little as hours to as long as forever(Kerogen) depending on conditions. ALL ROCK has HC's in it. From the hardest Granite to the softest sandstone. The deepest wells through hard rock have HC's along with water at all depths. Types of rock hold HC's better than others. Sandstone, can be poor or wonderful for holding HC's. If heated sufficiently said HC's become MOBILE and if held in place under pressure(increase heat) long enough depending on the porosity of the rock will migrate out of the rock or become fixed in place as oil/ng. Why oil/ng is found under domes of HARD rock that does not allow, well slows, the migration of the HC's through it with loads of sandstone under, or just deep enough sandstone. KEROGEN on the other hand are HC's that have been insufficiently heated/pressure and cannot migrate. There are generally two and sometimes classed as 3 different types of Kerogen... Anyways... enjoy, but don't let your arrogance make you stupid eh?
Well, it didn't. The earth is much older than that. Well, unless you believe 24hrs hours in a day in Genesis. But, that's not accurate. It's an indeterminate amount of time, kinda like an epoch. Soooo, we really don't know how long/old
@@marvintpandroid2213 Hahah I didn't take it offensively, and I'm not sick :) it's all good. Then again, it could of all happened in a much shorter span of time if we all live in a simulation
Local points!!! I live right next to the town "Bauxite" in Arkansas. I went to school in Bauxite, for a bit... I work in a plant that uses local and sourced bauxite to create proppant, a product used in fracking.
There's not that many people pumping sintered bauxite for prop. Most of the shales in North America don't have the closure pressure to really justify it on a cost basis. Instead people are running regular silica sand. Average wells out in West Texas (for example) take about 15,000,000 lbs of proppant and bauxite is about 20x more expensive than sand.
@@SexDrugsFinance very high crush strength but there are ways to get sand to act like very high crush bauxite. You can pump more sand (increased proppant loading is correlated with decreased stress loading on individual grains) or you can pump resin coated sand (it deforms instead of shattering) it's more expensive than plain sand but still far cheaper than bauxite
@@the_real_ch3 Interesting. I take it resin costed sand is has some environmental concerns? Any idea how common these methods are? I get the impression most fracking operations right now are at low pressure sites.
SexDrugsFinance West Texas commonly sees closure stresses of over 6500psi and the brown sand they are pumping has crush strengths of 6k-ish. And seems to be doing good enough. There has been work done that shows that even a crushed proppant pack still retains enough permeability to allow for the well to be productive.
I caught this as well. It's not the core, it's the crust he should have mentioned. The Earth's core is primarily iron with nickel and some other heavy metals.
Al tough i had troubles following along since English is only my fourth language, and the subject was not part of my common knowledge, i really enjoyed your class. Thank you.
It wouldn't surprise me if AvE had a doctorate, but neither would it surprise me if he didn't... a lot of these cross-disciplinary genius types can't handle the narrow focus of schooling.
WOW now that I got all ensmartened I am gonna shut down the moomshine still and start makin that luminum stuff. Hey when do I get my diploma in the mail anyhow?
Awesome talk AvE ... I sent 10-yrs with a big mob south of you getting splashed with caustic (NaOH - sodium hydroxide) designing/fixing/improving gear to turn bauxite to alumina. Great memories and great engineering.
Yay for mention near my hometown. Bauxite, AR is a small town outside Little Rock. Pretty much died when Reynolds closed operations and sold to Almatis. The mines still are used by Saint-Gobain for production of propants.
@@YodaWhat It was also strongly correlated with Alzheimers' if I'm not mistaken. Or maybe that was some weak study that got blown out of paranoiac proportions in the 90s and I'm naïvely remembering it from my teen years.
@@inthefade I would say the latter. Aluminum was suspected, but apparently no causal link was demonstrated. Also because Aluminum compounds are still widely used in foodstuffs (baking powder, "lake" type dyes, some types of pickles and some medicines), even though there are alternatives to using Aluminum compounds. Maalox antacid is named for Magnesium and Aluminum Oxides. Magnesium alone would cause diarrhea, so they added some Aluminum, which has the opposite effect. Eat too much cake made with Aluminum compounds in the baking powder and you may plug up solid.
@@YodaWhat For the sake of pedantry: the zirconium compound is aluminum as well. (Aluminum Zirconium Trichlorohydrex Gly 19% (Anhydrous)) for Old Spice. I'm sorry I offended the chemistry nerds by not adding the hydrochloric acid to my alumina.
In spanish theres "Mordiente" which is that, some chemical which helps the dye to stick to the cloth. Also "morder" (mo as in mordor and der as in derivative ) is "to bite"
I'm proud to say I recognized "eutectic" the instant you said it. I was taught by a genius when I was discussing some electronic soldering I was doing. He pointed me to eutectic alloy solder (63/37) and explained what it meant. That conversation probably took place around 1978 and it's stuck with me ever since. Also, I've never used any other solder since, either (except in plumbing).
SOOO much interesting info, was great to listen! You are one of those great guys who not only know bunch on everything but can speak about it without sounding annoying!!! I place you in the same bucket as Mythbuster, you are able to degonkify science and bring it down to earth. Salut to you! I need to tip in your patreon!
While I don't have as much knowledge as he does I keep learning. I have my own machine shop and program cnc, design and program plc's, hydraulics, pnuematics, welding, equipment repair and still learning. I bought a Haas mill like his with little past programming experience. I even have traveled may places to repair and install mining sample prep equipment, I'm a tech for Rocklabs. Keep learning and don't be afraid of something new.
Im an electrical engineer, and I never stop learning, but the sheer amount of knowledge he has is incredible, I want to have such great insight as he does, he has great knowledge of history, metallurgy, material sciences, hell if I could just get a list of books to learn about the different composite materials he knows about I would be ecstatic. Materials are fascinating to me but none of the mechanical engineers I work with know much about real production, and they just tell me "you'll have to take a whole class I can't recommend any books", which to be honest seems silly, I could recommend them an entire library of books on electrical engineering, any sub discipline they could ever want, most of them I even own!
This is where I come to learn about things that I'm likely to NEVER use, this info just sits in the back of my mind until the time comes to use it. Your plastic lessons have certainly paid off though!
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Dying to GRAB an electron.
WOOPSIEDOODLES.
@@arduinoversusevil2025 Ha ha I'm honored. I thought that was a wonderful talk.
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@@throttlebottle5906 hey what are you doing over here! Get back over to the h v a c videos. 😁
My view on catching electrons is neutral
This is like being lost in the Smithsonian. You may never get where you planned, but wow what you see along the way.
Welcome to the tubernet
Well said
It's what dropping acid and studying should have been like.
Greetings from Arkansas. In addition to the aluminum industry here, Arkansas was also where the toothbrush was invented. We don't really have any documentation to prove this, but if the toothbrush was invented anywhere else they would have called it a teethbursh.
In thar case, do you all share the same one? ;)
Ah, Arkansas - the hair, those eyes, that tooth . . .
LOL..., of course
As a native Texan transplanted to Arkansas....the arkansansians I work with hated me for a while after telling that joke.
Resident Material science guy again. Lab coat and "uhm actually" at the ready. Errata at 16:50 A eutectoid reaction is a completely different thing than a eutectic reaction. The eutectic point is just that. Along with that, there is a eutectic temperature and eutectic composition. The eutectic reaction is Liquid -> Solid 1 + Solid 2 on cooling. The eutectoid reaction is Solid 1 -> Solid 2 + Solid 3 on cooling. For example, there is a eutectoid in the Fe-C system (Steel) where upon cooling the austenite, the material separates into ferrite and iron carbide.
-ic = liquid to something
-oid = solid to something
This holds true for the other invariant reactions too: monotectic, syntectic, peritectic, peritectoid, etc.
I'm not sure of your profession, but if I had you as a college professor or highschool teacher I wouldn't be a truck driver. Brilliant, entertaining and engaging.
What's bad to be a truck driver? I am aspiring to become one, after 10+ years in IT. My C95 driving exam is scheduled for 12/04
But we need truck drivers. At least until they all go driverless.
@@NGC1433 nothing to be honest. Just not very glamorous. I was a Citrix/VM admin 5 years ago. I grossed 210k US so far this year driving this old truck. Let's not talk about expenses though. Congrats on making the switch. 20 years in IT. I only miss my vacation time.
@@NGC1433 I think they meant, he would have gotten more interested in other stuff if his teachers hadn't been boring.
Good luck @@NGC1433 !
We just went through the industrial revolution, a geology class, and advanced chemistry. All by way of a miter saw and 22 minutes. I wonder if Uncle Bumble has trouble sleeping at night? For some reason, I feel his brain never shuts down.
He probably drinks to turn his mind off.
Hey Jimmy! Shouldn't you be craning something right now lol!
@@burningdinosaurs, I'm off today. So, I'm currently editing my next video. 🙂👍
@@ToTheTopCrane Right on! Looking forward to the upcoming vidjas!
Wow, Didn't know so many of the same people watch AvE vidjas. And I thought only trolls read thru the comments on vidjas... oh... wait... Doh!
Damn that was an awesome video. Good work!
cheers man!
I could really use some 8-hour versions of these talks to get me through the work day. Nothing like touching on everything from social anthropology to metallurgy to the industrial revolution to get through the morning grind.
Uncle Bumblefuck has gone full James Burke (the old Connectiond PBS series) on this one.
And that is about the highest compliment I can give because that series was awesome.
I download the vids to my phone and listen to them though my earbuds for hours while I work in the shop.
@@karlreinke My immediate thought as well, I loved those series.
Worst part of work is that 12 hour wait to go home
The alumina being processed in Iceland comes (in part, at least) from Australia, of all places. Still cheaper to ship that shit halfway around the earth than to do it locally. And the three aluminum smelters consume close to 75% of all electricity generated here.
Crazy world we live in.
Da, cuz you got one of the nations with readily accessible thermal energy.
Sandpapering my smelly pits now. Thanks - Lumpy
My great grandfather worked for Reynolds Aluminum in Bauxite Arkansas when he wasn't serving in WW2. He would say it took two days to shutdown the production line and two days to get going again, so they just kept going almost year round. I believe he said they would shutdown around Christmas and resume January 1, he was high up the maintenance side and would do most of the overhauls and repairs then. Last time I was down that way the old steel skeleton of the plant was still standing, they stripped the walls and roof a long time ago.
This is my favorite part. Learning at the bench of my favorite Uncle Bumblefuck.
Yes, it's information hard to come by
Well I’m glad someone figured all that out so I can have cold beer in lightweight container!
word.
Priorities!
And all so I can wrap up my baked tater.
Eric, my boy, you've no idea.
True story, The Danish chemist who first managed to extract aluminium from ore gifted a dinner set to the Danish King, allowing the Danish King to throw the ultimate bling state dinners. Of course there weren't enough aluminium plates for every one so the less important dignitaries had to eat of gold plates.
Is it true? I've heard the same about Napoleon, Napoleon III and the king of Siam.
@@TheTurinturumbar Yeah it is true, the danish king was just the first to do it. Aluminium remained a very expensive material until the modern electrical process of extracting it from aluminium sand was invented.
@@MadsPrintz I should've been clearer. I know you think it's true, my question is do you have a source?
The Library of Congress in the USA has an aluminum roof because it was very precious at the time. Not the most precious, but highly neat.
Solidified electricity is an accurate description of aluminum. I knew it took a lot of energy to produce but that much per kg is awesome.
You've convinced me not to throw my aluminum cans in the camp fire for entertainment. Better to just throw it in the garbage. Educational and entertaining as always! Thank you.
While corundum is alumina, carborundum is silicon carbide. Little slip of the tongue there.
If you slip the tongue, you won’t need a corundum...
Sounds like a real conundrum
Unless they're quick on the take, this thread will confoundem.
@@0num4Confoundem? I barely knew her! Though, tulips on my stem is better than four bushes full of birds if'n ya ain't got no stones? I think Willy S. said that.
AvE dropping knowledge from 4 or 5 different disciplines like it's nothing! Videos like this are why I subscribe.
Gotta say there's something special about being able to listen to the ramblings of a well-rounded and worldy-wise worker. This was great, educational and entertaining. Cheers, AvE.
I have no idea of what you are talking about yet I can't turn off the video. Well done AvE... great presentation skills!!!
John Genovese yea unfortunately I'm in the same boat completely, but enjoyed the hell out of it for some reason.
More please!! Thanks AvE!!
"Where was I going...?" I love it! I've been found with a dozen of the encyclopedia sections open and spread around the floor. Probably more times than I should admit if I care to further reproduce...
Oh to go back in time. Had I have had you during high school or college, I wouldn’t have chased so many squirrels when I got bored. BRILLIANT!!! I love that word “Chineseium”
Dude you are one smart somebody. You have shared a ton of knowledge that has made me more proficient and productive. Keep it up and thanks.
The stuff used as a mordant for dying textiles is actually alum, which is aluminium potassium sulphate; and not alumina (aluminium oxide). The way the mordants work is that the metal salt dissolves in water, and then when the fibre is soaked in the solution. This allows the soluble metal ions to enter the fibres. Then it's drained, and placed in the dye bath, which contains the coloured substances. These then soak into the fibres too, but the coloured stuff reacted with the metal ions (forming what chemists call a complex), and this complex is _insoluble_. That's how they get the colour to stick, and it doesn't wash out - it actually is converted to an insoluble form inside the fibre. If the same reaction is used to make an insoluble pigment, that's known as a lake pigment.
This sort of process only applies to the class of dyes called, imaginatively enough. 'mordant dyes'. Most of the important natural dyes are of this type (indigo is the blatant exception, being a vat dye). Different metals salts can be used - notably iron is said to 'sadden' colours, and tin 'brightens' them, amoung others. Tin salts were particularly important to get a good clear scarlet colour from madder root - all the armies that used 'redcoats', that was tin mordanted madder root to get that colour.
Aluminium potassium sulphate is just the simplest and safest soluble aluminium salt. It can be mined directly in some places, but by the time Bayer was working on aluminium, it was made from alumina due to the scale of demand. Oddly enough, right around then saw a decline in the use of mordant dyes, as that was roughly when acid dyes started to take over the commercial market; being either cheaper or better than the mordant dye equivalents.
Let’s mine our old garbage dumps. We’ll be rich.
I have been say this for years.
Thank you Uncle AvE. I appreciate your protracted comprehensive discourse on these technical subjects. I find them profoundly fascinating. Please continue to elucidate these subjects in the future!
Used to cliff jump into an old bauxite mine that had been flooded in arkansas back 25 years ago. Hadn't thought about that in a few decades. Thank you for that.
We used to have a bunch of aluminum plants here in the PNW. Tons of electricity coming from the dams on the Columbia River. Then ENRON managed to ruin it and shut them all down and they never re-opened.
And then Ken Lay had the nerve to just die in prison before serving his full sentence. Makes my blood boil every time I think about it.
This is the best f*cking video I've ever seen.
Thanks for the upload Uncle B. I could listen to you talk about things like this for hours. I always learn something. Now I have to clean up after my nerdgasm.👍👍
Best part of my week is watching this dude nerd out.
As a chemist: excellent explanation. I would just clarify that after the dissolution of bauxite they filter it to remove oxides of iron (the brown impurities seen on the photo of the rock at 3:20) and then they gently acidify the filtrate with the CO2 obtained from the Hall-Herault electrolysis process. This leads to precipitation of hydrated alumina which is then dried.
No offense but your explanation is boring. Uncle is much more fun to listen to with the colorful language and diagrams.
Uncle Bumblefuck! How I wish I had discovered you 45 years ago. My life would have taken a different course. Instead I had teachers who knew little and had no idea how to even get that across. Love to Chickadee
Regular Car Reviews voice: B R O W N!
I found that an interesting point, can't win them all.
Aluminium is basically electricity in solid form.
I really enjoyed that. Always fun to learn a thing from a good teacher.
That 10 to the 6th is just around the corner. No one more deserving. If that's your kinda thing. I am going to hazard a guess and say you will ave 1MB by the time your little girl opens Santa's presents. Well done and thanks (no pun intended) a million for all the hard work, learning, new vocabulary and entertainment. Really appreciated.
Now THIS is hinteresting. Feck the Pixies, more meth lab lessons.
This is why I love the internet.
I just keep watching your stuff, never a dull moment.
You do go on a good ramble. I'd like to see more electronics vjos from you. I liked the ones you have so far, but I like how you explain things and show how they can be practically used and would like to see more. Thanks for making the stuff you make and teaching what you know.
Oh Jesus this is my materials science class but I can understand it. I wonder what the policy is on bumblefucks guest lecturing?
I would venture to say that it is near a complete ban on guest with the exception of good ol' dew claw (Duke law?)
I can see Uncle B. doing lectures at college; from inside a box, with just his arm protruding. Lol
You explain things just like my dad, its perfect.
I'll always be suprised by your ability to teach me things I already know, and have me listen like a schoolboy. You should be a trades teacher. You would inspire so many young people that being intelligent is a GOOD thing. Something we desperately need in Canaderp!
I'm learning more from this video than in all my years of schooling. Thank you!
Ah yes, good old Florine, the friendliest of the elements in the 'old feller what took an unhealthy shine to your 12 year old son' way. They tried using Florine as a rocket fuel oxidizer, and they achieved some mind bogglingly good efficiency numbers with a combination of cryogenic Hydrogen, cryogenic Florine and molten Lithium, but in the end they came to the conclusion that working with a substance that would happily oxidize anything or anyone it came into contact with was probably not a good idea.
Yep. Accidentally knock over a barrel of that shit and it'll set fire to the asphalt, the gravel underneath the asphalt and five feet of dirt and rock below that.
Ignition! - John D Clark... The chemistry is a bit thick but the fun stories of things going BOOM is worth it.
You realize if he gave lectures and showed his face no one would watch. I think he is really sand bagging on his level of genius. Learned a metric tonne!
I don't think he's sandbagging at all, he just doesn't feel the need to intellectually masturbate - I think that's what's so captivating and relateable. The first BOLTR I ever watched it was apparent that he knew more about electronics, plastics, manufacturing, metallurgy, machining, etc. etc. than just about anyone other than an expert in those specific fields. To know all of them simultaneously is god-tier. He's like that uncle (bumblefuck) that you love that seems to know everything, but turned up to 11.
I learned more from this video than from about 4 different classes in high school. Well Done AvE!
Love this, extremely interesting. Another 2 to 3 hours of this would be appreciated
As fascinating as the engineering of fracking is, I sure do miss drinking water
The gas will get sour if it is contaminated with bacteria, so they add some chemistry to keep the wells disinfected.
Sheldon Robertson, corporations lie as much as the media exaggerates. In all of the stories there is some truth.
@Sheldon Robertson tell that to the rivers in north England where the chems have been found and they have shut down franking due to earth quake. The water is being cleaned currently as its considered a health hazard.
But, but, how can all that happen in 6,000 years
Because God. D'uh.
Sigh... Don't be an arrogant fool due to your blatant ignorance. Oil/NG only requires heat/pressure+HC's and is made in as little as hours to as long as forever(Kerogen) depending on conditions. ALL ROCK has HC's in it. From the hardest Granite to the softest sandstone. The deepest wells through hard rock have HC's along with water at all depths. Types of rock hold HC's better than others. Sandstone, can be poor or wonderful for holding HC's. If heated sufficiently said HC's become MOBILE and if held in place under pressure(increase heat) long enough depending on the porosity of the rock will migrate out of the rock or become fixed in place as oil/ng. Why oil/ng is found under domes of HARD rock that does not allow, well slows, the migration of the HC's through it with loads of sandstone under, or just deep enough sandstone. KEROGEN on the other hand are HC's that have been insufficiently heated/pressure and cannot migrate. There are generally two and sometimes classed as 3 different types of Kerogen... Anyways... enjoy, but don't let your arrogance make you stupid eh?
Well, it didn't. The earth is much older than that. Well, unless you believe 24hrs hours in a day in Genesis. But, that's not accurate. It's an indeterminate amount of time, kinda like an epoch.
Soooo, we really don't know how long/old
@@korishan Sorry dude, that was meant to be a joke... get well soon
@@marvintpandroid2213 Hahah I didn't take it offensively, and I'm not sick :) it's all good.
Then again, it could of all happened in a much shorter span of time if we all live in a simulation
The most educational 22 minutes of my life! Awesome!
I really enjoy these kind of videos. Please make more of these kind of videos if you have the time.
Local points!!! I live right next to the town "Bauxite" in Arkansas. I went to school in Bauxite, for a bit... I work in a plant that uses local and sourced bauxite to create proppant, a product used in fracking.
Thank you for uploading these scraps from the cutting room floor!
Really well done. Graphical support documents and all. Well done uncle B.
The most educational conversation I've had today; thank you!
I absorbe every word you say. Too much wisdom and knowledge.
There's not that many people pumping sintered bauxite for prop. Most of the shales in North America don't have the closure pressure to really justify it on a cost basis. Instead people are running regular silica sand. Average wells out in West Texas (for example) take about 15,000,000 lbs of proppant and bauxite is about 20x more expensive than sand.
Yeah this is the first I've heard of using bauxite for prop. What advantages does bauxite have over silica?
@@SexDrugsFinance it can handle higher closure pressures.
@@SexDrugsFinance very high crush strength but there are ways to get sand to act like very high crush bauxite. You can pump more sand (increased proppant loading is correlated with decreased stress loading on individual grains) or you can pump resin coated sand (it deforms instead of shattering) it's more expensive than plain sand but still far cheaper than bauxite
@@the_real_ch3 Interesting. I take it resin costed sand is has some environmental concerns? Any idea how common these methods are? I get the impression most fracking operations right now are at low pressure sites.
SexDrugsFinance West Texas commonly sees closure stresses of over 6500psi and the brown sand they are pumping has crush strengths of 6k-ish. And seems to be doing good enough. There has been work done that shows that even a crushed proppant pack still retains enough permeability to allow for the well to be productive.
Just what Nerds need, more gasms
I was disappointed you skipped over this in the last vid. Glad you went back and showed this!
I love these technical breakdowns! I would definitely be interested in more videos like this over other common elements, if you would indulge us!
1:46 second most abundant metal in the earth's crust (O>Si>Al)
I caught this as well. It's not the core, it's the crust he should have mentioned.
The Earth's core is primarily iron with nickel and some other heavy metals.
As a Masshole, I approve.
"But they are locked in there, if they weren't locked in there, they wouldn't be there" love this channel
Al tough i had troubles following along since English is only my fourth language, and the subject was not part of my common knowledge, i really enjoyed your class. Thank you.
I dig these info nerdgasisms.
Lac de Boxite à Arvida Saguenay Qc, les lignes d'Hydro qui y vont sont étonnant! Sa fond de l'aluminium a longueure de journée! Rio Tinto Alcan!
I had a materials exam today where we had to figure eutectic points and microstructures today. you explained this better than my professor
Love watching your vids, I learn so much, thanks Ave.
I suspect that AvE actually has a PhD and only pretends to be a barbarian.
As a Barbarian myself that's a compliment.
Pretty sure he does - he mentions it in one of the oldest vids.
It wouldn't surprise me if AvE had a doctorate, but neither would it surprise me if he didn't... a lot of these cross-disciplinary genius types can't handle the narrow focus of schooling.
WOW now that I got all ensmartened I am gonna shut down the moomshine still and start makin that luminum stuff. Hey when do I get my diploma in the mail anyhow?
@@ChrisGilliamOffGrid thanks and welcome to the channel.
This is one of the very best videos I've ever seen on TH-cam.
Awesome talk AvE ... I sent 10-yrs with a big mob south of you getting splashed with caustic (NaOH - sodium hydroxide) designing/fixing/improving gear to turn bauxite to alumina. Great memories and great engineering.
What is this you’re writing on!? dead tree carcass! Sick.
I'm thinkin use that chopsaw to cut the sleeves off that jizzstained shop coat and put on a gun show instead. #aveneedsanewshopcoat.
I bet that coat could tell some stories in of itself!
Yay for mention near my hometown. Bauxite, AR is a small town outside Little Rock. Pretty much died when Reynolds closed operations and sold to Almatis. The mines still are used by Saint-Gobain for production of propants.
Amazing chemistry 🧪 loved it
Alumina in anti-perspirant, not necessarily deodorant. Shit makes me break out.
me, too. The best stuff I have found is Dry Idea 72 hour unscented formula. Extremely good stuff.
Not alumina. That stuff is Aluminum Chlorhydrate, and it has mostly been replaced with a Zirconium compound.
@@YodaWhat It was also strongly correlated with Alzheimers' if I'm not mistaken. Or maybe that was some weak study that got blown out of paranoiac proportions in the 90s and I'm naïvely remembering it from my teen years.
@@inthefade I would say the latter. Aluminum was suspected, but apparently no causal link was demonstrated. Also because Aluminum compounds are still widely used in foodstuffs (baking powder, "lake" type dyes, some types of pickles and some medicines), even though there are alternatives to using Aluminum compounds. Maalox antacid is named for Magnesium and Aluminum Oxides. Magnesium alone would cause diarrhea, so they added some Aluminum, which has the opposite effect. Eat too much cake made with Aluminum compounds in the baking powder and you may plug up solid.
@@YodaWhat For the sake of pedantry: the zirconium compound is aluminum as well. (Aluminum Zirconium Trichlorohydrex Gly 19% (Anhydrous)) for Old Spice.
I'm sorry I offended the chemistry nerds by not adding the hydrochloric acid to my alumina.
Used to live in Weipa, Australia near the largest bauxite mine in the world. That red shit gets EVERYWHERE.
RobWVideo yeh nth QLD
Thanks Uncle B, best (and only) chemistry/physics lesson I ever enjoyed ; )
As a geologist by edumacation I'm a big fan of these rock talks. Keep it up.
Mordant means bite? Makes sense, I sure love to bite on some zesty mordant Doritos.
In spanish theres "Mordiente" which is that, some chemical which helps the dye to stick to the cloth. Also "morder" (mo as in mordor and der as in derivative ) is "to bite"
I'm more of a dressed all over guy
@@the_real_ch3 I like to mix them together, get two birds stoned at once.
I thought I was the only one who got the reference. thankfully not!@@DaveDablave
SCIENCE!
Thoroughly enjoyed the history/chemistry lesson.
I'm proud to say I recognized "eutectic" the instant you said it. I was taught by a genius when I was discussing some electronic soldering I was doing. He pointed me to eutectic alloy solder (63/37) and explained what it meant. That conversation probably took place around 1978 and it's stuck with me ever since. Also, I've never used any other solder since, either (except in plumbing).
found a beautiful poem on a job site years ago. Here i sit in a bright blue pooper, i just gave birth to a Ledcor super. still makes me chuckle. :P
ppl who write words of wit on shithouse walls
roll their shit into little balls
and ppl who read those words of wit
eat those little balls of shit...
Dressed All Over and Zesty Mordant, please.
aha! I knew this comment had to be somewhere
I need a bag of chicken chips. If they don’t have chicken... I want dill pickle. And I want a chocolate milk.
Man I have learned so many things from you and your videos. Thank you bud.
SOOO much interesting info, was great to listen!
You are one of those great guys who not only know bunch on everything but can speak about it without sounding annoying!!!
I place you in the same bucket as Mythbuster, you are able to degonkify science and bring it down to earth.
Salut to you! I need to tip in your patreon!
Aaaaaand I came.
He started so well with aluminium.... 😢
WOW...my brain hurts..amazing amount of knowledge coming out of that shop and its inhabitants!
Thank you for demonstrating the functional mind I always wished I could have! And sharing lots of knowledge, 'cause I can't go back to college.
Just what in the hell did you do to acquire all this knowledge about such a broad range of topics?
Always being curious and not taking "I dont know" as an answer.
While I don't have as much knowledge as he does I keep learning. I have my own machine shop and program cnc, design and program plc's, hydraulics, pnuematics, welding, equipment repair and still learning. I bought a Haas mill like his with little past programming experience. I even have traveled may places to repair and install mining sample prep equipment, I'm a tech for Rocklabs. Keep learning and don't be afraid of something new.
Im an electrical engineer, and I never stop learning, but the sheer amount of knowledge he has is incredible, I want to have such great insight as he does, he has great knowledge of history, metallurgy, material sciences, hell if I could just get a list of books to learn about the different composite materials he knows about I would be ecstatic. Materials are fascinating to me but none of the mechanical engineers I work with know much about real production, and they just tell me "you'll have to take a whole class I can't recommend any books", which to be honest seems silly, I could recommend them an entire library of books on electrical engineering, any sub discipline they could ever want, most of them I even own!
Experience!
I'm guessing AvE doesn't drink American tap water.
Well he isn't talking about lead :(
You mean Bud Light?
What do you think is in that Dasani bottle on the right?
Well he don't live in America so...
chickenlips what’s wrong with American tap water?
I'm glad you followed through on the Aluminum info dump from the BOLTR. I don't come here for the quick, just the dirty.
Thank you! Finally an episode in the good old format! I like your big CNC machine, but please never stop talking about stuff like this!
Different spelling, same pronunciation, same root word; mordent, n. musical turn
Electrowinning has always been my favourite refining process.
Excellent information from uncle B
This is where I come to learn about things that I'm likely to NEVER use, this info just sits in the back of my mind until the time comes to use it. Your plastic lessons have certainly paid off though!