Many years ago (1981), I was winter camping in the Welsh mountains. I'd brought along some Kendal Mint Cake. This is mostly sugar. I thought I was hallucinating when I saw light each time I broke a piece off. The air temperature was around -5 c. This video explains what I was seeing. Thank you.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention sugar crystals. I remember as a soldier getting sugar in plastic single serve bags for tea or coffee. If you rub the bag between thumb and forefinger in the dark, you can see the same phenomenon.
That sounds much better and cheaper then buying expensive magic healing cristals from amazon. I remember as a kid i grew sugger crystals with my parents so if this works more people coud try this at home.
This is awesome, I was shown this light source some years ago by a rock collector who just sawed a round quartz rock in half on a wet saw. Rubbing the edge against the flat semi polished surface creates light. I've shown my wife and kids but I'm the only one that's still amazed by this....I like to geek out on stuff like this
This video is awesome but crushing a natural gem is undoubtedly misfortune. Lot's of people do it but they don't know what they r doing, he seems to be a knowledgeable person that such acts are not expected. Natural takes thousands years to develop these crystals a person crushed them in seconds
@@TamarVijay Yeah I don't think it's really worth doing. But there are alot of things like that. Humans for example. It took 14 billion years for the universe to create humans. And now people won't have children because they don't like it. What? Come on lol
I like it how the subtitles call it "tribal luminescence" when you are talking about buffalo skin rattles, but quickly changes to proper triboluminescence after you are done with the rattles :)
Man I love this channel and all the experiments you do. I am in my 30s and I am still soaking up all the information I can learn. I have a love for aviation, cars, the universe, and cool science like this
Someday: "Hey everyone, today I'm going to be opening an inter-dimensional rift into a parallel alien world. That's right, I'm going to see if I can actually trigger an invasion of multidimensional monsters into our reality. First we'll need to synthesize element 115 using this particle accelerator I bought on ebay. Next I'll be using this homemade time-sword to slice through the seams of reality."
Piezoelectricity is produced when some crystalline structures / materials are put under stress when bending or twisting pressure is applied. Piezoelectric effects are commonly used in vibration pickup sensors and strain gauges which are calibrated by design to translate the level of output voltage (and the frequency of that voltage) into a value that can be interpreted into a fairly accurate display output. The luminescent effects of stressing crystalline molecular / compounds / materials are related to piezoelectricity in that "electrical discharge" takes place that can amount to a pretty high voltage spark-gap-jump. Pushing the red spark button on your gas grill sends that piezoelectric discharge up a well-insulated wire and out to a ceramically encased "spark plug" that is a few millimeters away from the gas discharge ports on the burner unit. Crunching on wintergreen mints in a dark room, while watching yourself in a mirror, with your mouth open, demonstrates this form of energy discharge as well. The novelty of the mint cake posting prior to this post shows that becoming "crystallized - frozen" at -5°C is a great example of how the characteristics of a compound can be affected in order to release energy based changes like temperature.
When I was a kid, my father use to live out in the country not far from a large river. The flood plain for this river was large and there were areas infilled between the more resistant rocks and hills that contained ancient gravel layers that were deposited from where the river use to flow freely. I guess erosion and tectonic action over the course of many millions of years changed the landscape. His yard was red/tan clay with lots of rounded quartz pieces but only a 1/2 mile up the road there were prominent hills with fresh vein quartz, slate and other rock types associated with this areas geological formations. On really dark nights we would go out in the driveway area which was really just a large barren patch of ground between the road and his house and pick up a piece of quartz and throw it at the ground. When the quartz struck other pieces of quartz it would often give off this same "flash" of light which lasted for only seconds. We didn't understand the science behind it at the time just thought it was cool.
I introduced myself to this as of a few hours ago and tried it personally. It was like messing with matches in the dark. It was a big deal. Voila!!! There it sparked.
I discovered this years ago after I was told Australian Aboriginal shamans used clear quartz as a torch - I couldn't figure how this would work. When I rubbed two together I found the sparks were more internal in the crystal - however my crystals were smaller in diameter than those you have used. I wondered if a machine rubbed two together at a constant rate that perhaps they would "turn on" - light up like a bulb and stay alight?
Intersting. what tribe of australian aboriginals used this quartz torches? and yes, with the right shaking, and the right size of quartz with the correct size and ruffness, you can make them light up like the sun : )
i imagine people going to the gravel bars of creeks and finding smoothed quartz stones of just the right size when, at night, they can test a handful. perhaps just 3-5 about the size of those steel balls that spark when struck together...
there's a phenomenon called "earthquake light" that happened when large chunk of quartz (im talking about 10m+/30ft+ chunk) rubbing each other because an earthquake and causing this phenomenon
!!OMG!! THANK YOU! For finally answering a question I've had for years. Breathe Right Nasal Strips are sealed like bandaids and glow *bright* with tribal luminescence when you open them at night. It is unbelievably satisfying to have a random curiosity you only think about on the edge of sleep answered.
I used to work at a shop that made quartz rings that would act as fill material in a critical step when making semiconductors. They were around 12" in diameter and could cost as much as 5000 a part. They were also super hard, but brittle, and were this special quartz alloy of sorts. Machining them with diamond tooling was hard to do correctly. Whenever we'd scrap one we'd have to break it by throwing it into a bin. It was cool seeing them spark when they broke.
I live in the region where The Ute used to live and there are some areas with large amounts of perfectly sized quartz easily accessible on or near the surface so I definitly could understand them making stuff with them.
Don’t you wish your science lessons at school were like this? Pure exciting demonstrations instead of writing on a blackboard to copy and try to understand. He teaches all the fun stuff and gets you interested. 99% of jobs you’ll never use 99% of what you learned at school. I’ve never had to calculate the length of the side of a triangle or dissect and identify the parts of a pigs eyeball.
In high school I found a large piece of clear acrylic, about the size of a brick. In a dark room, I could smash a sugar cube and get it fairly bright flash from it. It worked great.
That actually made me sad to see the crystal get crushed. 😢 I love crystals. They are so special to so many people including myself. I have a nice collection that continues to grow and they are like family to me. This was super cool to see and I loved seeing the lights emitted from the friction.
You know that old fashioned watches used quartz for time keeping? And if you're using a Smartphone, more precious stones than quartz are used to make them! From a fellow crystal collector.
When I was 8 years old , one day an aunt stopped by with a box of crystals. The crystals were of all different colors ,shapes and sizes. She told my brothers and me that each of us could pick out a crystal and keep it. I picked a purple one and immediately upon picking it up IT BEGAN TO GLOW ! THEN A PURPLE SPHERE OF LIGHT APPEARED FLOATING IN THE AIR ABOVE THE CRYSTAL ! when my aunt saw this she grabbed back all the crystals and left. Despite having left with the purple crystal the purple sphere of light remained floating in the air for quite a while before disappearing. When I was teenager I asked my mom what she(aunt) did with them. She said that she gave them to a monastery. In December of 2019 a guy I worked with told me that he went to a monastery for a Christmas service. He told that there were crystals on a wall inside the monastery. He also told me that there was statue of Jesus holding a purple crystal at his heart ❤.
Very interesting! I've always thought of triboluminescence to occur only with exotic chemicals (the channel Nurdrage has made a few videos regarding this) or very dimly with the tape. But now that I know you can just get quite intense triboluminescence with simple quartz, I might just pop over to Arkensas to get some 😁
@@ignomoly quartz is one of the most abundant minerals on the planet. Nobody’s hoarding all the good quartz, there's too much of it for that to be _possible_
Yeah, my husband heard me doing this a couple years ago in my dark bathroom and wondered what in the hell i was doing in there!🤣 I love experimenting with my crystals. Agate does it too, and chalcedony!
Maybe they make it in such a way that the skin pulls in on two big pieces, so when they are being shaken, the rocks actually rub against each other emitting more light
Why not try a door bell buzzer that has a striker hitting the bell at 60 times/second? You could epoxy one good sized crystal to the striker and replace the bell with another large crystal and...plug it in. Might be interesting to see how much light, if any, is emitted. Keep up the great work that you do.
You don't need to break them. They make light and elecitricty without them breaking, that's how piezoelectric ignitors (in cigarette lighters, bbq pit starters, etc) ignitors work, it hits them with a spring loaded hammer, but not hard enough to shatter them. There is a metal foil attached top and bottom, going to wires, where you want the electricity to go. They can make tens of thousands of volts! Edit: The BBQ ignitors are real useful tools! On old style christmas lights (pre-led), zap the prongs, and it makes them work again! Christmas lights have a little fuse at the bottom, to bypass a burned out bulb, but sometimes there isn't enough voltage to cause the breakdown. Zapping a few times with a piezo ignitor, with thousands of volts, is enough to blow holes through the material, so when you plug it back into mains, it can then work properly! A few other uses too!
@@freexky Sure. IF YOU can. See, you need to take apart one of those bbq or lighter ignitors. The crystal is polished into a little disk shape. Smooth, even angles, no sharp corners what so ever. Then a soft (brass) spring loaded hammer. Any sharp corner, of any rock or crystal, is where it breaks. They are stress concentrators. That's why it being perfectly smooth is important. BTW, this is the exact same tech used in everything with a digital clock. A tiny little disk of this same crystal, held on tiny springs, vibrating. This is the basis of all digital clocks. The actual crystal may be different, but everything else is the same, just opposite. Piezos are optimized for the most movement for the least amount of voltage, and for a piezo ignitor the most voltage for the least amount of shock. This is the same exact tech as piezo buzzers use. Which are also microphones. Because it goes both ways. Always
Hi, great video again ! Perhaps you could glue a big piece of quartz in the bottom of the bottle (+ several free medium-size pieces) ? It seems to me that when you shake the bottle, bits of quartz move "together or as a group" with a rather weak relative speed.
You know every so often you run across something new that you’ve never seen in your entire life. Other than Flint I have never seen this done this is amazing. What a great video man!
I have mentioned about doing this creates light as I have rubbed my crystals together in the past to do this. Also a brighter light can be made if the crystal are cut smooth and polished on there rub together sides.😇
I paused this video right away, just go try it. I have quartz crystals, I tried rubbing them together, it didn't work. But when I hit them together it worked really well
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Glass tubes evacuated and refilled with neon or argon gas at a rarefied level, and a decent slug of mercury, will flash at you when shaken. Triboelectric effect as the mercury adheres and detaches from the glass surface will ionize the gas in the tube. A fused quartz tube works even better. Thanks for the video.
Thank you I was wondering who was going to comment on this. He said they sell them as a scam because he doesn’t know that quartz is actually a energy crystal he thinks people are selling it as a fake energy crystal
Fr, our bodies are flowing with energy and have multiple different crystalline structures. Crystals have been found to to be living as well as intelligent. When we hold crystals their magnetic field interacts and changes with ours. I wouldn’t cross a crystal, they could get revenge hahaha
I was camping on a mountain called cadair Idris that was an old volcano and someone told me on the way up not to mind the lights. I got up in the night and the entire valley was lighting up like that. It looked like lightening but was silent and moved randomly. I thought it might be triboluminescense
What would happen if you attach a powerful piezoelectric transducer, like from an ultrasonic cleaner, directly to one of the large crystals? Enough power to light it up?
Actually he’s wrong, crystals are healing tools that have their own electro magnetic field. They are living, intelligent and can grow. Check your facts before you speak, it will make you sound intelligent!
@@justtime6736 Incorrect, but I can see why you would have to say that I’m afraid of something that doesn’t exist because I don’t agree with it, it’s all flerfs can do, it’s part of their ignorant narrative.
@The Action Lab Did you know that if you take a quartz/roshelle salt/piezo crystal speaker and put it very close to another crystal the ultrasound frequency of the "song" or sound you are playing will play on the secondary crystal? you can use an oscilloscope to test this. This is also handy because if it acts as a transformer, it will induce/conduct the voltage AND the frequency without stepping down and can be wired in parallel/added current/voltage to generate electricity with no magnetic reversals and influence slowing down the frequency.
I seen this on Steve Mould. I had forgot about it &... I had water bottles in the freezer. I went into my kitchen without turning on the light & grabbed one of my frozen waters. I wanted to check how frozen it was so I squeezed it. It had about a half inch of ice around the outside & the inside was still liquid. When I squeezed it it would flash blue. My mind was blown lol. I kept squeezing it until all the ice was broken up & mixed with the water.
You get a strong "electricity smell" when rubbing quartz together, presumably from electrons being stripped from O2 atoms causing them to clump into O3.
Majoring in mechanical engineering, I studied tribology. My non-engineering friends back then asked me which tribes. After many years, I see them all again in the comments, asking pretty much the same question about triboluminescence.
I know but I know everyone else has said this. But I would like to see one of those crystals with the press, in a dark room and see if the crystal lights up as it’s being crushed. But I’m sure you’ve already had that suggestion so mine is probably mute. AnyWho….. Great videos. Wonderful content. 👍🏻
Many years ago (1981), I was winter camping in the Welsh mountains. I'd brought along some Kendal Mint Cake. This is mostly sugar. I thought I was hallucinating when I saw light each time I broke a piece off. The air temperature was around -5 c. This video explains what I was seeing. Thank you.
Oh wow I had no idea Kendal mint cake did this, I'm definitely going to try it now!
nope, u hallicuneitang bruh! Get help before its too late
Cool story bro
that is not MANY YEARS ago than ancient times 🦕🦖🦕🦖
U old.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention sugar crystals. I remember as a soldier getting sugar in plastic single serve bags for tea or coffee. If you rub the bag between thumb and forefinger in the dark, you can see the same phenomenon.
You Mean Sugar Cube???
That sounds much better and cheaper then buying expensive magic healing cristals from amazon. I remember as a kid i grew sugger crystals with my parents so if this works more people coud try this at home.
You should have had the lights off when you crushed the quartz in the hydraulic press. That would have been so cool!
Great video as always :D
I was thinking that
You beat me, but then I thought spinning, or rubbing two crystals together, like on a lathe, or with a drill.
This is what I scrolled down to say too.
That’s what I was thinking too.
Great minds think alike!
This is awesome, I was shown this light source some years ago by a rock collector who just sawed a round quartz rock in half on a wet saw. Rubbing the edge against the flat semi polished surface creates light. I've shown my wife and kids but I'm the only one that's still amazed by this....I like to geek out on stuff like this
Your wife and kids sound boring :( sorry bro
This video is awesome but crushing a natural gem is undoubtedly misfortune. Lot's of people do it but they don't know what they r doing, he seems to be a knowledgeable person that such acts are not expected. Natural takes thousands years to develop these crystals a person crushed them in seconds
@@TamarVijay Yeah I don't think it's really worth doing. But there are alot of things like that. Humans for example. It took 14 billion years for the universe to create humans. And now people won't have children because they don't like it.
What? Come on lol
do the press in the dark !
As a rockhound, I appreciate this knowledge. I knew quartz was piezoelectric, but didn't know a great way to exemplify it.
Had the same thought. Would this experiment be any better if the bottle was filled with a noble gas, like neon (or argon etc?)
He's a great teacher!
put it in resin make orgonite check out Etsy
You should have turned the lights off when you crushed it. Missed opportunity!
Love the video, but it’s a crime against science that you didn’t film the crushing of the crystal in a dark room.
It crime to operate hydraulic machine in dark
@@arjunravi1641it wouldn't be dark
@@pearlstar159 how
bc of the light@@arjunravi1641
Haha
Thanks!
i remember doing this when i was a kid, grabbed 2 small rocks and did this and it was so cool. Glad to know what it was now.
Its called ✨The Spark✨
I like it how the subtitles call it "tribal luminescence" when you are talking about buffalo skin rattles, but quickly changes to proper triboluminescence after you are done with the rattles :)
Would have been cool to use the hydraulic press in the dark. Imagine that it would be quite a light show.
Exactly what i thought
EXACTLY what I was thinking!
I know, right?!
Won't happen
Isn't the light from friction (rubbing against each other)? Simply pressing it doesn't cause friction.
Man I love this channel and all the experiments you do. I am in my 30s and I am still soaking up all the information I can learn. I have a love for aviation, cars, the universe, and cool science like this
Someday: "Hey everyone, today I'm going to be opening an inter-dimensional rift into a parallel alien world. That's right, I'm going to see if I can actually trigger an invasion of multidimensional monsters into our reality. First we'll need to synthesize element 115 using this particle accelerator I bought on ebay. Next I'll be using this homemade time-sword to slice through the seams of reality."
Lol
Dr. Freeman...
I for one, think that would make the world better, in a way.
This might be the best idea ive heard of in a long time
Don't you dare lol
Piezoelectricity is produced when some crystalline structures / materials are put under stress when bending or twisting pressure is applied. Piezoelectric effects are commonly used in vibration pickup sensors and strain gauges which are calibrated by design to translate the level of output voltage (and the frequency of that voltage) into a value that can be interpreted into a fairly accurate display output.
The luminescent effects of stressing crystalline molecular / compounds / materials are related to piezoelectricity in that "electrical discharge" takes place that can amount to a pretty high voltage spark-gap-jump.
Pushing the red spark button on your gas grill sends that piezoelectric discharge up a well-insulated wire and out to a ceramically encased "spark plug" that is a few millimeters away from the gas discharge ports on the burner unit.
Crunching on wintergreen mints in a dark room, while watching yourself in a mirror, with your mouth open, demonstrates this form of energy discharge as well.
The novelty of the mint cake posting prior to this post shows that becoming "crystallized - frozen" at -5°C is a great example of how the characteristics of a compound can be affected in order to release energy based changes like temperature.
When I was a kid, my father use to live out in the country not far from a large river. The flood plain for this river was large and there were areas infilled between the more resistant rocks and hills that contained ancient gravel layers that were deposited from where the river use to flow freely. I guess erosion and tectonic action over the course of many millions of years changed the landscape. His yard was red/tan clay with lots of rounded quartz pieces but only a 1/2 mile up the road there were prominent hills with fresh vein quartz, slate and other rock types associated with this areas geological formations. On really dark nights we would go out in the driveway area which was really just a large barren patch of ground between the road and his house and pick up a piece of quartz and throw it at the ground. When the quartz struck other pieces of quartz it would often give off this same "flash" of light which lasted for only seconds. We didn't understand the science behind it at the time just thought it was cool.
I just ran outside to grab two pieces of rose quartz from a bag full I had outside. Woohoo! It worked! Wow!
I introduced myself to this as of a few hours ago and tried it personally. It was like messing with matches in the dark. It was a big deal. Voila!!! There it sparked.
Bruh your ability to find unheard of but stunning to see bits of science is crazy. Thank you for this - long time viewer, but had to chime in.
I discovered this years ago after I was told Australian Aboriginal shamans used clear quartz as a torch - I couldn't figure how this would work. When I rubbed two together I found the sparks were more internal in the crystal - however my crystals were smaller in diameter than those you have used. I wondered if a machine rubbed two together at a constant rate that perhaps they would "turn on" - light up like a bulb and stay alight?
Intersting. what tribe of australian aboriginals used this quartz torches?
and yes, with the right shaking, and the right size of quartz with the correct size and ruffness, you can make them light up like the sun : )
When I was a kid in the 60s we would get sparks like this with pieces of granite. Worked great.
@The Action Lab, you should do one about sonoluminescence, the phenomenon where bubbles popping somehow make a flash of light.
i imagine people going to the gravel bars of creeks and finding smoothed quartz stones of just the right size when, at night, they can test a handful. perhaps just 3-5 about the size of those steel balls that spark when struck together...
there's a phenomenon called "earthquake light" that happened when large chunk of quartz (im talking about 10m+/30ft+ chunk) rubbing each other because an earthquake and causing this phenomenon
!!OMG!! THANK YOU! For finally answering a question I've had for years. Breathe Right Nasal Strips are sealed like bandaids and glow *bright* with tribal luminescence when you open them at night. It is unbelievably satisfying to have a random curiosity you only think about on the edge of sleep answered.
Nah, Tribal Luminescence is only when it's in the rattle... otherwise it's just triboluminescence.
This phenomenon actually a news to me. I'm curious now to test it myself. Thank you
I used to work at a shop that made quartz rings that would act as fill material in a critical step when making semiconductors. They were around 12" in diameter and could cost as much as 5000 a part. They were also super hard, but brittle, and were this special quartz alloy of sorts. Machining them with diamond tooling was hard to do correctly. Whenever we'd scrap one we'd have to break it by throwing it into a bin. It was cool seeing them spark when they broke.
Why would you "have to"?
I live in the region where The Ute used to live and there are some areas with large amounts of perfectly sized quartz easily accessible on or near the surface so I definitly could understand them making stuff with them.
Don’t you wish your science lessons at school were like this? Pure exciting demonstrations instead of writing on a blackboard to copy and try to understand. He teaches all the fun stuff and gets you interested. 99% of jobs you’ll never use 99% of what you learned at school. I’ve never had to calculate the length of the side of a triangle or dissect and identify the parts of a pigs eyeball.
2:20 should of recorded that in the dark 😂
Thanks for the demystified view on crystals.
In high school I found a large piece of clear acrylic, about the size of a brick. In a dark room, I could smash a sugar cube and get it fairly bright flash from it. It worked great.
Would the whole acrylic plate light up or just the place where the cube hit?
That actually made me sad to see the crystal get crushed. 😢 I love crystals. They are so special to so many people including myself. I have a nice collection that continues to grow and they are like family to me. This was super cool to see and I loved seeing the lights emitted from the friction.
You know that old fashioned watches used quartz for time keeping?
And if you're using a Smartphone, more precious stones than quartz are used to make them!
From a fellow crystal collector.
Lol sad over a rock getting crushed?? lol what world do you live in?!
I finally found out why envelopes emit blue glow when I open the sticky part. Thanks for this!
what..?
for real?
@@judasthepious1499 for real what? Is it common knowledge?
My arse emits the aurora borealis southern lights when I open my sticky cheeks.
@@ooltimu I legitimately never noticed that
Porcelain, when broken and you rub shards together, the inner porous parts, will emit light from sparks.
I'm very sad that you had the light on during the hydraulic press part 😅 like that probably looked really cool in the dark
When I was 8 years old , one day an aunt stopped by with a box of crystals.
The crystals were of all different colors ,shapes and sizes.
She told my brothers and me that each of us could pick out a crystal and keep it.
I picked a purple one and immediately upon picking it up IT BEGAN TO GLOW !
THEN A PURPLE SPHERE OF LIGHT APPEARED FLOATING IN THE AIR ABOVE THE CRYSTAL !
when my aunt saw this she grabbed back all the crystals and left.
Despite having left with the purple crystal the purple sphere of light remained floating in the air for quite a while before disappearing.
When I was teenager I asked my mom what she(aunt) did with them.
She said that she gave them to a monastery.
In December of 2019 a guy I worked with told me that he went to a monastery for a Christmas service.
He told that there were crystals on a wall inside the monastery.
He also told me that there was statue of Jesus holding a purple crystal at his heart ❤.
Very interesting! I've always thought of triboluminescence to occur only with exotic chemicals (the channel Nurdrage has made a few videos regarding this) or very dimly with the tape. But now that I know you can just get quite intense triboluminescence with simple quartz, I might just pop over to Arkensas to get some 😁
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@Don't Read My Profile Photo Clever way to try to get me to click on your channel. It's not gonna work though
@@vibaj16 I don't disagree.
@@ignomoly quartz is one of the most abundant minerals on the planet. Nobody’s hoarding all the good quartz, there's too much of it for that to be _possible_
Yeah, my husband heard me doing this a couple years ago in my dark bathroom and wondered what in the hell i was doing in there!🤣 I love experimenting with my crystals. Agate does it too, and chalcedony!
Maybe they make it in such a way that the skin pulls in on two big pieces, so when they are being shaken, the rocks actually rub against each other emitting more light
he did not try medium sized pieces either
I was looking for a comment like this
0:53 As a small child, I did this with the quartz I found in the clay.
I used a dremel tool and quartz grinding tip on a big chunk of quartz you can see the arc flying around inside the rock!
Try using a spinning stick rattle. There might be more sliding motion vs random shaking motion.
Action Lab never fails to impress us.
As a geology enthusiast I want to die after watching that video
they failed with this video. science hats to investigate anything that contradicts thier pre-conceived notions.
That is because you are dumb. Don't get me wrong, I am impressed when he is right. But he is not right about this video.
What a fascinating video. I never knew this about triboluminesence of big quartz crystals. Very Cool!
Why not try a door bell buzzer that has a striker hitting the bell at 60 times/second? You could epoxy one good sized crystal to the striker and replace the bell with another large crystal and...plug it in. Might be interesting to see how much light, if any, is emitted. Keep up the great work that you do.
You don't need to break them. They make light and elecitricty without them breaking, that's how piezoelectric ignitors (in cigarette lighters, bbq pit starters, etc) ignitors work, it hits them with a spring loaded hammer, but not hard enough to shatter them. There is a metal foil attached top and bottom, going to wires, where you want the electricity to go. They can make tens of thousands of volts!
Edit: The BBQ ignitors are real useful tools! On old style christmas lights (pre-led), zap the prongs, and it makes them work again! Christmas lights have a little fuse at the bottom, to bypass a burned out bulb, but sometimes there isn't enough voltage to cause the breakdown. Zapping a few times with a piezo ignitor, with thousands of volts, is enough to blow holes through the material, so when you plug it back into mains, it can then work properly! A few other uses too!
how could i make a big spark, like the lighter have but bigger, with a quartz crystal like this?
@@freexky Sure. IF YOU can. See, you need to take apart one of those bbq or lighter ignitors. The crystal is polished into a little disk shape. Smooth, even angles, no sharp corners what so ever. Then a soft (brass) spring loaded hammer.
Any sharp corner, of any rock or crystal, is where it breaks. They are stress concentrators. That's why it being perfectly smooth is important. BTW, this is the exact same tech used in everything with a digital clock. A tiny little disk of this same crystal, held on tiny springs, vibrating. This is the basis of all digital clocks. The actual crystal may be different, but everything else is the same, just opposite. Piezos are optimized for the most movement for the least amount of voltage, and for a piezo ignitor the most voltage for the least amount of shock.
This is the same exact tech as piezo buzzers use. Which are also microphones. Because it goes both ways. Always
Hi, great video again ! Perhaps you could glue a big piece of quartz in the bottom of the bottle (+ several free medium-size pieces) ? It seems to me that when you shake the bottle, bits of quartz move "together or as a group" with a rather weak relative speed.
Yeah it seems like the quartz wasn't colliding enough in the video
I was curious about the quartz fracturing in the press in the dark. 😊
You know every so often you run across something new that you’ve never seen in your entire life. Other than Flint I have never seen this done this is amazing. What a great video man!
I had some of these as a kid 25 years ago but never knew what they were called but did know they lit up just never knew why soo thank you.
Just did this with a couple from my collection for my boy and his buddy that is spending the night. We loved it! Thanks!
Happy 4 million subs my guy :)
I have mentioned about doing this creates light as I have rubbed my crystals together in the past to do this. Also a brighter light can be made if the crystal are cut smooth and polished on there rub together sides.😇
Very interesting. Reminds of childhood experiences. We have a lot of it here in India (some specific pockets)
I paused this video right away, just go try it.
I have quartz crystals, I tried rubbing them together, it didn't work. But when I hit them together it worked really well
Imagine if everyone was as excited as you are about science? This world would be an awesome place 🙂
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I DESPISE ISFP and 'ESFP' personality types! They are just as evil as narcissits! They are narcissit-friendly and have little control over their pointless mind - especially at the worst possible time! ESFP tend to be unapologetically stubborn-anything to avoid getting "upset" despite ALWAYS being 'emotionally-disturbed' (secretly; malicious-emotions is hidden just beneath the surface). They both unconsciously believe that other people exist to serve and be consumed by them-like a drug. All to balance the unstable chemicals in their brain responsible for emotions.
The [ISFP] 'secrecy'/suspicious, introverted behaviour makes them try to remain convert - this manifests as a hidden [unintelligent] threat for other people later on (as when spotted and contacted by a narcissit, they will quickly comply as they have little emotional-resiliency and humanity).
ISFP/ESFP embody what it means to be 'diabolically-unintelligent'! "Better you than me". A typical closet belief of the former. Worsened by ESFJ psychological-rape.
Sad fact, Judas-Iscariot was definitely one of them (ISFP). His little humanity and small intelligence, resulted in the diabolical imbecile intentionally 'throwing Jesus under the bus' in a "moment of emotional vulnerability" (typical, whiney ISFP excuse) - only to end up regretting what he's done by the time he comes back to what little sanity he initially had. When I psychoanalyse this overgrown-fetus, I realize that he had a covert, malicious-jealousy complex, and was secretly emotionally-disturbed, and highly prone to 'oblivious-codependency' (look it up, that is classic ISFP psychology, which explains how r-tarded they really are. Education only helps them hide how intellectually-immature they really are).
If your life was in danger, the more dire the situation is, you'd be better off making sure that the nearby ISFP/ESFP in the group is dead! This will maximize the likelihood of the group success/escape, as the ISFP cannot be trusted! They will likely do something r-tarded at the worst possible moment-getting themselves and everyone else killed (or the ISFP might panic and push a teammate under the bus as the ISFP feared getting sacrificed first- inexcusable, particularly since they ARE the threat, them and other narcissits (ESFJ/ESTJ are synonymous with cluster-b). These r-tards actually empower narcissits, especially during elections and for typically r-tarded reasons/motives).
Anyway, ISFP/ESFP have little to no humanity, and they are delusional and have difficulty understanding themselves (which says a lot about their intelligence), i.e. they have difficulty even recognizing their own emotions! Plus they often suppress it (too narcissitic to bother processing it). They really are walking, overgrown-fetuses- failed human beings! I bet Adam and especially Eve in the Bible were ISFP!
They also typically have difficulty recognising evil and are often in relationships with narcissits! And then the ISFP will breed more victims into the toxic, tortuous relationship!
Glass tubes evacuated and refilled with neon or argon gas at a rarefied level, and a decent slug of mercury, will flash at you when shaken. Triboelectric effect as the mercury adheres and detaches from the glass surface will ionize the gas in the tube. A fused quartz tube works even better. Thanks for the video.
I like how you upload so regularly
Dude thank you for this video is so amazing!
Crystals as tools for healing and growth are not a scam. Surprised by your close-mindedness in this regard. Spoken like a true scientist!
Thank you I was wondering who was going to comment on this. He said they sell them as a scam because he doesn’t know that quartz is actually a energy crystal he thinks people are selling it as a fake energy crystal
Fr, our bodies are flowing with energy and have multiple different crystalline structures. Crystals have been found to to be living as well as intelligent. When we hold crystals their magnetic field interacts and changes with ours. I wouldn’t cross a crystal, they could get revenge hahaha
Have you read all science books in order to create this chanel of physics? Impressive dude.
Thank you once again for another great video. I Really appreciate you for what you do👍
You could have turned the lights off while crushing the big piece under the press. I'm sure that also gave some light.
I was camping on a mountain called cadair Idris that was an old volcano and someone told me on the way up not to mind the lights.
I got up in the night and the entire valley was lighting up like that.
It looked like lightening but was silent and moved randomly.
I thought it might be triboluminescense
That's in Wales?
@@Eyes0penNoFear yep
Look up the "brown mountain lights", much more similar phenomenon.
The quartz in the hydraulic press really do be makin popcorn tho.
What would happen if you attach a powerful piezoelectric transducer, like from an ultrasonic cleaner, directly to one of the large crystals? Enough power to light it up?
Wot
Damn, you just destroyed all of “witchtok” in the first 20 seconds of your video. I love it
Actually he’s wrong, crystals are healing tools that have their own electro magnetic field. They are living, intelligent and can grow. Check your facts before you speak, it will make you sound intelligent!
One of the things I love collecting crystals of many kinds and especially quartz because of that lighting effect! c:
Petroleum quartz is uv reactive
Remember too, a "rattle" employs leverage, increasing the motive force of the crystal chunks, whereas merely shaking does not.
I found this channel way back when you did your first hydraulic press video. I'd love to see the series come back.
You can also see triboluminescence light by chewing on Wintergreen Lifesaver mints while looking at a mirror in a dark room!😊
@@jimdavis3957 then you'd like my channel
Should have crush the Quartz in the dark to see if any lights would have been produced from it.
Oh, should have done the press breaking in the dark!
Amazing how quartz crystals are used in everyday technology and how they hold frequencies and create light, truly an amazing planet.
The hydraulic press in the dark would have been interesting to see
Ppl like this can turn fantasy into reality.. great minds have no Limits
I got worried this was a flat earther trying to prove cold moon light... Then I saw the channel name and was relieved! Great video!
Lol your irrational fear of flat Earth is telling.
@@justtime6736 Incorrect, but I can see why you would have to say that I’m afraid of something that doesn’t exist because I don’t agree with it, it’s all flerfs can do, it’s part of their ignorant narrative.
@@justtime6736 you gotta remove the Pepe pfp it’s a give away
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Did you know that if you take a quartz/roshelle salt/piezo crystal speaker and put it very close to another crystal the ultrasound frequency of the "song" or sound you are playing will play on the secondary crystal? you can use an oscilloscope to test this.
This is also handy because if it acts as a transformer, it will induce/conduct the voltage AND the frequency without stepping down and can be wired in parallel/added current/voltage to generate electricity with no magnetic reversals and influence slowing down the frequency.
Congratulations for 4 Million subscribers and also Thanks for reminding those hydraulic press days
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I seen this on Steve Mould. I had forgot about it &... I had water bottles in the freezer. I went into my kitchen without turning on the light & grabbed one of my frozen waters. I wanted to check how frozen it was so I squeezed it. It had about a half inch of ice around the outside & the inside was still liquid. When I squeezed it it would flash blue. My mind was blown lol. I kept squeezing it until all the ice was broken up & mixed with the water.
The ice might have been just a quarter inch thick & not a half in.
0:51, interesting
I wish you could’ve crushed the quartz in the dark, that would’ve been so cool to see the whole thing light up and spark as pieces get ejected out
Why for the love of science didn't you crush it in the dark??? The light show would have been amazing!
I've opened bandaids in the dark and saw that glow! I thought it was so cool!
You get a strong "electricity smell" when rubbing quartz together, presumably from electrons being stripped from O2 atoms causing them to clump into O3.
I believe the term "electricity smell" is defined as the smell of ozone.
@@My_friend_is_ReaReaOnPaws If you start smelling ozone you should probably stop
This actually confirms a hypothesis. The polarity is something I never considered but makes perfect sense if you factor in resonance frequencies.
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Majoring in mechanical engineering, I studied tribology. My non-engineering friends back then asked me which tribes. After many years, I see them all again in the comments, asking pretty much the same question about triboluminescence.
You should have done the press in the dark!
I would think if you had a smaller container it would light up better! Definitely something I wanna try after watching!!
This channel is highly underrated
you can also use a firestone to make 'fire' :') when I was twelve I did it once
Super! Thank you very much!
my heart broke into pieces when you crushed that quartz piece 😂💔
Man man man the way you destruct that crystal… just wreckless..
I know but I know everyone else has said this. But I would like to see one of those crystals with the press, in a dark room and see if the crystal lights up as it’s being crushed. But I’m sure you’ve already had that suggestion so mine is probably mute. AnyWho….. Great videos. Wonderful content. 👍🏻
fascinating. Thank you for this. I'm a nerd for minerals. Much luv.
I just saw this and went and got 2 of my crystals and it worked. It was a cool science experiment for my kids as well, since I homeschool. Thanks!
We call it "Sang-i Chakmak" or Chakmak stone in Persian. Great video that remembers sweet childhood experiments! :-))
The bigger the crystal formation the bigger the glow. Earthquake in Turkey lit up night sky as subduction of tectonic plates occurred.
I am very interested for this episode.
Request more episode about quartz crystal. Thanks.