Two corrections: Empedocles was the first to propose that matter is divided into fire, air, water, and earth (1:09). Also, "phosphorous" originally comes from the Greek word for light-bearing, not Latin (2:18). Thanks to everyone who pointed that out!
You forgot the goth element that was banned by the priests with torture death For even talking about the goth element Either since you don’t mention it I think that there suppression of it still holds true
I thought that there main or pretend task Was to make gold from lead I understand that the philosophy stone Was actually mono atomic gold But there secret art is hidden history
I wonder what happened to Alchemists in Europe when their laboratories were financed by European Kings. Interesting to see how involved they got into mining and banking. Interesting to research what happened to alchemists when glass manufacturing was automated. Don't follow false prophets.
No joke, "Oil of Vitriol" is actually where the word "vitriolic" takes its etymological roots from, rather than the other way around! "Vitriol" derives from the latin "Vitrum", meaning glass; being originally derived from sulphates is the link between acid and glass. Sulphates have a kind of shiny, glass-like appearance, and so copper sulphate is also known as blue vitriol, zinc sulphate as white vitriol, iron sulphate is green vitriol and cobalt sulphate is red vitriol. Thus, the corrosive substance derived from these vitriols was known as "oil of vitriol". From there, the word "vitriolic" meaning hostile, caustic, biting, very severe etc. (all pretty apt descriptions of even a dilute solution of sulphuric acid!) eventually made its way into modern English TMYK!
I love how humanity, for a long time, was like that kid who wanted to make "potions" by mixing random amounts of random liquids and solids to see what they'd get
lmao, I remember doing this in primary school. I would sharpen lead pencils to get graphite (thinking it was lead at the time), as well as the wood shavings, and mix it with dirt, water, leaves, sticks, basically anything I could get my hands on, and try to create anything I could. I also used a rubber (eraser as other people call it), and got the rubber pieces to collect to also mix in other things. I even tried to crush pencil shavings (both graphite and wood), as small as possible to allow them to mix easier, etc. I had a lot of fun doing it. Probably the reason i love chemistry now
Science was pretty much "throwing stuff on a wall and check what stick it". The understanding of the world and the tools they had was pretty limited so that was the best they could do. But even now, sometime, some stuff still get find by random try or just luck.
@@bobbobber4810 , An important step in science is getting others to throw your stuff against the wall to verify what sticks. I have always marveled that our greatest scientific question is still 'what happens if I hit two of them together?'
Was like a kid? We still are like kids really. This is only the age of verification. Where our technology and societal acceptance of many of these sciences are now being proven or disproven in various ways. There's still many crazy theories about our galaxy, and universe being made today. Which will only be proven in 100-200 years as the same thing happens around those theories.
@@Camerz i mean i was that kid too. And now actually studying chem wanting to be a product developer. I also found a lot of fun when a project of mine got me to "choose plant to get as much out of" and that research was even fun. And coming up with own protocol.
@cak01vej It was meant to be more of a tongue in cheek statement to be honest! As Ireland and Scotland have a friendly rivalry as to the origin of the whiskies that we know today!
You can actually turn lead into gold. All you need is a particle accelerator, enormous amounts of energy and extremely low expectations of how much gold you'll get. Like several radioactive isotopes worth of gold.
you can also make a nuclear reactor and bombard lead with radioactive decay, at just the right distance it'll turn into gold and basically just sit there long enough to see it's changed and get it out of there, don't worry it only sets off most geiger counters
One interesting thing about sulfuric acid is that when it’s highly concentrated, it actually looks like an oil, so the name “oil of vitriol” isn’t so strange.
I once once got a drop of the stuff on my shirt and boy,it will eat right through clothing. Thankfully my shirt neutralized the acid before it got to my skin.
Lexy Starwatcher, I hate getting battery acid on clothes. You think you’re okay, and then you wash them, and they’re full of holes! A girl in my organic chemistry class accidentally set her elbow in a drop of it the concentrated stuff. It didn’t get far before she felt it and washed it off, and the lab instructor neutralized the residue, but it did give her a noticeable burn.
Carbon monoxide is just one of the things Brand was lucky not to have been killed by... white phosphorus itself (which is the type of phosphorus you get through this process) is pyrophoric, burning very hot in contact with air (reason why it emits light, and why it’s now a banned weapon) and very toxic, breathing in its vapors could cause a condition known as “phossy jaw” and if bad enough, death.
My guess is that "Lucifer" was connected with the Devil so the scientific community decided to adopt the Greek name! By the way, the Greek name for the character of Lucifer is Εωσφόρος the dawn bringer!
Most of what we know here in the west is about middle-east and europe - would love to see topics like alchemy/chemistry, physics, mathematics of east(ish) asia, what we know about how they fared in the meantime.
Good luck with that. I'd like to see a novel involving alchemy that doesn't just have the Philosopher's Stone for once. The science alchemy eventually evolved into us fascinating, and even if you're going the magical angle, the Philosopher's Stone was a fusion of two previous concepts, the Prima Materia and the Universal Panacea.
Originally, the concept of turning "base metals" into "gold" was a metaphor for purifying the mind and spirit through the practice of philosophy. People in the middle ages read ancient works about it and accidentally took it literally.
A delayed "Happy New Year" for you Hank. Thanks for all your beautiful work in 2020 and, in advance, for all the work you'll do in 2021. The world is a better place thanks to SciShow, CrashCourse and everything else. Cheers o/
@@ABlueOrb I have a skull with alchemical symbols all over it in my dashboard. Some people think I’m a Devil worshipper and some ask about it, I’m just gonna go with devil worshiper in the future it’s a lot less effort.😈
As a curious child in chemistry I believe I was and still am an alchemist at heart. Just mix together all the stuff and hope you don’t die. Everything from synthesizing plastic in organic chemistry to low key making something that is maybe a bit explosive or maybe some jet fuel is just fun.
I think most early alchemists were afraid of other alchemists seeing their notes because that would leave them subject to .... (I’m so sorry for this punch line....) subject to ... pee review. Look, I said I was sorry, ok? WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?? 😂😂😂
The irony indeed. Probably for about 50 years it would still hold value but not long after that. We'd nowadays be talking about gold in the same vain as we do about people trading seashells or rice as currency.
@@zuttoaragi8349 Aluminum is a perfect example of this, before we figured out how to synthesize it, it used to be extremely expensive, but now you can pick a roll of it for like $2 at your local grocery store
@@theangelbelow88 I always love shocking people by telling them aluminium used to be hella expensive. Most of them never believe me (the desired response) so I just prove it to them.
Wouldn't have mattered to the guy to actually discover it though. They would have made themselves(or whomever they served) rich before the bubble burst.
I discovered the secret of alchemy years ago. Step 1: Get a bunch of Blue Butterfly Wing, Chaurus Hunter Antennae, Hagraven Claw and Snowberries. Step 2: Craft Fortify Alchemy potions. Step 3: Drink potion. Step 4: Repeat steps 2 and 3. Step 5: ???? Step 6: Profit.
I could talk hours on the mythology of ES alchemy, my love of chemistry bleeds into game, short bit: the sun and stars bathe Nirn with magical energy which plants and animals absorb. When you mix them with solvents you release that energy. The best bit is that any one can do it. You just need teeth and saliva.
finally video about alchemy. most underrated field in history its usually made it seems unrealistic and magical and usually focused in the negative side but thats is far from the truth Alchemy made importants contributions to chemistry.for example Alchemists made gunpowder, ceramics, glass, ceramics, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, extracts, liquors .and Alchemists were the first to conceptualized chemical elements into the first rudimentary periodic tables also they were the first people to make drugs and there are many many things they contribute and its has been famous knowns in many civilization (greeks.persians.Chinese.indian.arabs)
As a person of science I've done research on the Philosophers Stone. I came to the conclusion it might not be a material, but a philosophical idea or concept; Some kind of core belief.
Depends on which alchemist you ask. Most will probably deny any relation with alchemy whatsoever but among those who do answer there will be variegated opinions.
Considering alchemicy eventually led to nuclear chemistry, I'd say we found the lead to gold part of the philosphers stone (not the immortality, enlightenment, or metaphor parts). We just also found out it isn't cost effective
plor twist: alchemy didn't fade away, but alchemists became more secretive about their work and discoveries... they don't use that much urine anymore too
@Black_Rhino 241 Also Knight of the Zodiac-Saint Seiya fans. The Aries Gold Saints are Mu Alchemists since they’re are known and feared to create Elixir and transmute Lead into Gold at ease. Their biggest technique is transmuting starlight into orichalcum, god-tiered metal.
I have a creeping feeling that Alchemists knew how improbable it was for them to create a philosophers stone, but they knew what people in power wanted: Gold & Eternal life, so as long as they claimed to be searching for something that could grant exactly that, people in power let them stick around, maybe even funded some of them, because IF they ever WOULD discover the secret of turning lead into gold or eternal life, all the better! So that way, Alchemists were allowed to be, exploring whatever project they desired to experiment with, like boiling huge amounts of human piss...
Sulfuric acid to unclog the drain? We use sodium hydroxide, because it dissolves hair and fat very well and doesn't react with metals. It also works great to get rid of coffee and tea stains
"For it is the [task] of natural science not simply to accept what we are told but to inquire into the causes of natural things." St. Albert the Great, pray for us.
needing that much urine wasn't as weird as you think, it was long used for industries even in the very ancient world, Rome used urine to bleach cloth and in other parts of the dying industry, so its potential chemical uses were long known
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Great segment. I hope you also cover Issac Newton's alchemy work and how the concept of repulsion and attraction in alchemy influenced his concept of gravity.
Yes. Fully 2/3rds of Newton's writings are fairly whackdoodle alchemy -- not rigorous investigation like his optics or physics or calculus -- and end-of-days religious mysticism. We ignore that part of his output, but he was deeply invested in it.
Two corrections: Empedocles was the first to propose that matter is divided into fire, air, water, and earth (1:09). Also, "phosphorous" originally comes from the Greek word for light-bearing, not Latin (2:18). Thanks to everyone who pointed that out!
Thank you for going back and correcting it. Glade to see you taking misinformation seriously.
You forgot the goth element that was banned by the priests with torture death
For even talking about the goth element
Either since you don’t mention it I think that there suppression of it still holds true
I thought that there main or pretend task
Was to make gold from lead
I understand that the philosophy stone
Was actually mono atomic gold
But there secret art is hidden history
modern medicine SUCKS
I wonder what happened to Alchemists in Europe when their laboratories were financed by European Kings. Interesting to see how involved they got into mining and banking.
Interesting to research what happened to alchemists when glass manufacturing was automated.
Don't follow false prophets.
The real Philosopher's Stone is the chemicals we found along the way.
Gunpowder notably.
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This deserves more likes
I like this comment a lot
Was about to comment that aswell XD
I love how they never actually made the philosopher's stone, but they knew it was gonna be red and sticky, dammit!
Well duh, that's just common sense. Of course if a magic material could turn lead into gold, it'd be red and sticky.
The philosopher stone is a metaphor for trancendance
Thankyou carmine
Metatron's cube
like a period :)
No joke, "Oil of Vitriol" is actually where the word "vitriolic" takes its etymological roots from, rather than the other way around! "Vitriol" derives from the latin "Vitrum", meaning glass; being originally derived from sulphates is the link between acid and glass. Sulphates have a kind of shiny, glass-like appearance, and so copper sulphate is also known as blue vitriol, zinc sulphate as white vitriol, iron sulphate is green vitriol and cobalt sulphate is red vitriol. Thus, the corrosive substance derived from these vitriols was known as "oil of vitriol".
From there, the word "vitriolic" meaning hostile, caustic, biting, very severe etc. (all pretty apt descriptions of even a dilute solution of sulphuric acid!) eventually made its way into modern English
TMYK!
Beautiful! All the things I love. Metallurgy, chemistry of colours, evolution of words, sulfuric acid..
dude that's awesome, thank you!
Never knew twitter threads had that much chemistry in it...
Thank you for this knowledge.
¡NO WAY¡!!!!!!!!
I love how humanity, for a long time, was like that kid who wanted to make "potions" by mixing random amounts of random liquids and solids to see what they'd get
lmao, I remember doing this in primary school. I would sharpen lead pencils to get graphite (thinking it was lead at the time), as well as the wood shavings, and mix it with dirt, water, leaves, sticks, basically anything I could get my hands on, and try to create anything I could. I also used a rubber (eraser as other people call it), and got the rubber pieces to collect to also mix in other things. I even tried to crush pencil shavings (both graphite and wood), as small as possible to allow them to mix easier, etc. I had a lot of fun doing it.
Probably the reason i love chemistry now
Science was pretty much "throwing stuff on a wall and check what stick it".
The understanding of the world and the tools they had was pretty limited so that
was the best they could do. But even now, sometime, some stuff still get find by
random try or just luck.
@@bobbobber4810 ,
An important step in science is getting others to throw your stuff against the wall to verify what sticks.
I have always marveled that our greatest scientific question is still 'what happens if I hit two of them together?'
Was like a kid? We still are like kids really. This is only the age of verification. Where our technology and societal acceptance of many of these sciences are now being proven or disproven in various ways. There's still many crazy theories about our galaxy, and universe being made today. Which will only be proven in 100-200 years as the same thing happens around those theories.
@@Camerz i mean i was that kid too. And now actually studying chem wanting to be a product developer.
I also found a lot of fun when a project of mine got me to "choose plant to get as much out of" and that research was even fun. And coming up with own protocol.
Next time I'm enjoying a glass of whisky and someone asks me what I'm drinking, I'll say "strong water."
Aqua Fortis
Or in irish its origin! Its called uisce beatha literal translation water of life
Not being much of a drinker, I think I’d have to go with “fire water”.
I hear if you pour out a glass of whiskey and leave it unattended, Sir Sic may suddenly appear to drink it.
@cak01vej It was meant to be more of a tongue in cheek statement to be honest! As Ireland and Scotland have a friendly rivalry as to the origin of the whiskies that we know today!
You can actually turn lead into gold. All you need is a particle accelerator, enormous amounts of energy and extremely low expectations of how much gold you'll get. Like several radioactive isotopes worth of gold.
Throw it into a star and wait for a supernova to happen. Then collect gold along with a bunch of other rare elements.
$$$Profit$$$
So the philosopher's stone was just knowledge all along
@@ZetaFuzzMachine Or maybe the philosophers stone was the friends they made along the way.
@@Eon_621 pretty much the plot of FMA
you can also make a nuclear reactor and bombard lead with radioactive decay, at just the right distance it'll turn into gold and basically just sit there long enough to see it's changed and get it out of there, don't worry it only sets off most geiger counters
Props to the absolute unit who decided to drink Nitric Acid and thought "Oof, that's some strong water."
One interesting thing about sulfuric acid is that when it’s highly concentrated, it actually looks like an oil, so the name “oil of vitriol” isn’t so strange.
I once once got a drop of the stuff on my shirt and boy,it will eat right through clothing. Thankfully my shirt neutralized the acid before it got to my skin.
Lexy Starwatcher, I hate getting battery acid on clothes. You think you’re okay, and then you wash them, and they’re full of holes!
A girl in my organic chemistry class accidentally set her elbow in a drop of it the concentrated stuff. It didn’t get far before she felt it and washed it off, and the lab instructor neutralized the residue, but it did give her a noticeable burn.
"OIL OF VITRIOOOOOOL!" Thank you, Hank! I needed that so much. 😂
Next time a flight attendant asks me if I'd like something to drink, I'm using this. 😎
7:16 for VITRIOOOL
I like to think that the "philosopher's stone" was mostly just a marketing buzzword that proto-scientists used to secure funding
That only works until the King gets frustrated from lack of results and makes a philosopher's stone out of the alchemist's head.
@@benr.4238 tell them you found it and just give them mercury or gallium or something.
@@XxfishpastexX Chinese alchemist: nervously sweating
They need to secure that research grant!!!
Yeah, now they call it "quantum computing".
Ok but you forgot to mention the contribution of the Elric brothers and equivalent exchange
How many scientists were confronted with the door and had part of their bodies taken away?
@@LuinTathren all of them. What part you may say? Social eptitude.
Carbon monoxide is just one of the things Brand was lucky not to have been killed by... white phosphorus itself (which is the type of phosphorus you get through this process) is pyrophoric, burning very hot in contact with air (reason why it emits light, and why it’s now a banned weapon) and very toxic, breathing in its vapors could cause a condition known as “phossy jaw” and if bad enough, death.
I assume it does something to the jaw?
@@mpzakhaevski8988 short version, death and breakdown of the jawbone. You don't want to look up pictures, btw.
@@dynamicworlds1 I see.
he probably wasn't in danger of CO poisoning, he was heating it up so when it escaped it would've been burned by the oxygen in the air.
The fact that alchemy Lead to chemistry is just Gold.
😂😂😂
Phosphorus is a Greek and not a Latin word! It derives from the word "Φως"(phos)=light and "φορέας"(phoreas)=bringer!
I thought that seemed odd, considering I knew at least one way of saying light bringer in Latin was Lucifer.
Lucifer
And lucifer was a common name for phosphorus matches in the early 19th century.
owo
My guess is that "Lucifer" was connected with the Devil so the scientific community decided to adopt the Greek name! By the way, the Greek name for the character of Lucifer is Εωσφόρος the dawn bringer!
Somehow this is the break my brain needed today
There are many awesome channels. Veritasium, physics girl, nile red. Check them out. ☺️
@@agschwend I know! I know some of them IRL (I'm also an educational channel)
@@TravisGilbert ah whaaat? I instantly subscribed. I am sorry for not having recognized you. Will definitely look into your channel. Thanks 😎
Zactly what i was thinking when i clicked thru. PEACE
@@agschwend its okay! Im not famous yet haha
Then everything changed when the Phosphorus attacked
Nice avatar reference
@@lilquincy6292 whoever wrote this episode put the elements in the avatar cycle order (whether coincidence or on purpose, I love it 😂)
#stevenschoolalchemy
I love alchemy. Its like being a kid and mixing different stuff together to see what happens.
I did this too much as a kid. I got my hands on the cleaning stuff and a plumber had to be called 😂
I imagine it's just one of those things all children do when they're young.
@@normalpeopleboreme did he use
OIL OF VITRIOL!!!!!!!!
After the day I’ve had watching my civilization collapse... I appreciate this. Thanks SciShow
You're telling me...
LOL
No wonder my doctors' handwriting is so illegible.....they are all secret alchemists! 🤣🤣🤣
Or liars
I have a doubt, did doctors wrote answer sheets in that final exam and still pass
↗⏩♈♎♒
That could be a maybe great maybe terrible book.
@@chinnidiwakar I mean if their teachers are doctors, then it makes sense. It's lik they have an innate language of their own
"Ask and ask, learn and learn. Do not be ashamed."
- Paracelsus
You can always tell when the video is coming to an end by the tone of his voice
"they wrote in codes"
FMA fans "you dont say"
@Ellobats how many damn names has this man got?! Also nice, Hohenheim
It LEAD to some huge discoveries, you say? 😂🤣😂
This joke rocks!
Careful with that, or urine for some big trouble.
@@zuttoaragi8349 I’d sell my sulpher a good chemistry joke.
Yuhgeeee
@@ElfHostage Sadly all the good ones argon.
Most of what we know here in the west is about middle-east and europe - would love to see topics like alchemy/chemistry, physics, mathematics of east(ish) asia, what we know about how they fared in the meantime.
Agreed-the story of numerics is fascinating and started in India..
Perfectly timed video, I was just researching this topic for my novel
Good luck with that. I'd like to see a novel involving alchemy that doesn't just have the Philosopher's Stone for once. The science alchemy eventually evolved into us fascinating, and even if you're going the magical angle, the Philosopher's Stone was a fusion of two previous concepts, the Prima Materia and the Universal Panacea.
Nice Pikachu pic lol
I'm mildly disappointed he didn't make any FMA jokes or references. But that's probably just my inner weeb talking.
Lol you just missed them.
Ed...ward...
@@dirtymike69420 pretty sure there wasnt any
It is a disappointwoment to some I guess
@@YouMockMe Awomen to that.
Originally, the concept of turning "base metals" into "gold" was a metaphor for purifying the mind and spirit through the practice of philosophy.
People in the middle ages read ancient works about it and accidentally took it literally.
6:05 Just how much did Hank practice those names to be as fluid as he is? Gotta appreciate details like that.
Once you say enough names or words from a certain language or dialect, pronouncing others from those same languages is quite easy.
Probably not that much actually.
Remember, he's got a degree in biochemistry. Plenty of practice with long words that can twist your tongue right up.
He’s fluid but the proper pronunciation is not there. I appreciate this though bc they’re Arab nice so it’s pretty hard!
Wait a second, so you're telling me that I can't bring my mom back to life? I can't get my arm back? My brother is stuck as a suit of armor?
A delayed "Happy New Year" for you Hank. Thanks for all your beautiful work in 2020 and, in advance, for all the work you'll do in 2021.
The world is a better place thanks to SciShow, CrashCourse and everything else.
Cheers o/
"water earth fire and air" I see that avatar order reference. BD
I’ve been trying to explain this to people for years, and they look at me like I believe in magic. 😕
Same.
Why though
@@arnold1112 Yeah also people stop listening pretty quickly.
@@ABlueOrb I have a skull with alchemical symbols all over it in my dashboard. Some people think I’m a Devil worshipper and some ask about it, I’m just gonna go with devil worshiper in the future it’s a lot less effort.😈
The ingredient to making a philosopher stone are human lives
Work Cite: Full metal alchemist
oh yay hank's back
As a curious child in chemistry I believe I was and still am an alchemist at heart. Just mix together all the stuff and hope you don’t die. Everything from synthesizing plastic in organic chemistry to low key making something that is maybe a bit explosive or maybe some jet fuel is just fun.
I think most early alchemists were afraid of other alchemists seeing their notes because that would leave them subject to ....
(I’m so sorry for this punch line....)
subject to
...
pee review.
Look, I said I was sorry, ok? WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?? 😂😂😂
Funny how if alchemist actually figured out how to create gold back then, than it's value would plumit 😅
The irony indeed. Probably for about 50 years it would still hold value but not long after that. We'd nowadays be talking about gold in the same vain as we do about people trading seashells or rice as currency.
@@zuttoaragi8349 Aluminum is a perfect example of this, before we figured out how to synthesize it, it used to be extremely expensive, but now you can pick a roll of it for like $2 at your local grocery store
@@theangelbelow88 I always love shocking people by telling them aluminium used to be hella expensive. Most of them never believe me (the desired response) so I just prove it to them.
Wouldn't have mattered to the guy to actually discover it though. They would have made themselves(or whomever they served) rich before the bubble burst.
economics is a topic for another channel or maybe they manage to pull off something similar to what the diamond industry has done
I discovered the secret of alchemy years ago.
Step 1: Get a bunch of Blue Butterfly Wing, Chaurus Hunter Antennae, Hagraven Claw and Snowberries.
Step 2: Craft Fortify Alchemy potions.
Step 3: Drink potion.
Step 4: Repeat steps 2 and 3.
Step 5: ????
Step 6: Profit.
*laughs in 546656498 damage fork*
I could talk hours on the mythology of ES alchemy, my love of chemistry bleeds into game, short bit: the sun and stars bathe Nirn with magical energy which plants and animals absorb. When you mix them with solvents you release that energy. The best bit is that any one can do it. You just need teeth and saliva.
Toxicology: a study about comment sections
finally video about alchemy. most underrated field in history its usually made it seems unrealistic and magical and usually focused in the negative side but thats is far from the truth Alchemy made importants contributions to chemistry.for example Alchemists made gunpowder, ceramics, glass, ceramics, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, extracts, liquors .and Alchemists were the first to conceptualized chemical elements into the first rudimentary periodic tables also they were the first people to make drugs and there are many many things they contribute and its has been famous knowns in many civilization (greeks.persians.Chinese.indian.arabs)
As a person of science I've done research on the Philosophers Stone. I came to the conclusion it might not be a material, but a philosophical idea or concept; Some kind of core belief.
Originally, that's what it meant. Then medieval peoples accidentally took it literally.
This is especially fascinating. I would love to see other videos in this theme - perhaps one on how traditional medicine has informed modern medicine.
It’s a metaphor for the purification of the soul not actually turning one metal into another
It varied on a case-by-case basis, however the evidence says that many alchemists didn’t believe that.
Depends on which alchemist you ask. Most will probably deny any relation with alchemy whatsoever but among those who do answer there will be variegated opinions.
The stone wasn't found because Hohenheim keeps hiding
Didn't he say that Hohenheim (aka Paracelsus) was looking for other things besides the stone? He made medicinal preparations called arophs.
@@pierreabbat6157 i think they were referencing full metal alchemist
@@pierreabbat6157 #stevenschoolalchemy
i think it was found
"Remember kids the difference between science and messing around is writing stuff down"
-Adam Savage
Internal alchemy also colloquially means “turning a man of lead to a man of gold”
9:44 adds a whole new meaning to pee(r) review.
Nothing against the other hosts, but I just enjoy watching Hank so much.
Hank is very funny
After I got my BS in chemistry I got the alchemist symbol for mercury (or quick silver) tattooed on my wrist. ;P
I thought this title said "how to learn Alchemy" and I was VERY interested
I'd watch Crash Course Alchemy
10:10
Or out to get their brother's soul back into his original body.
hehe!!!
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Considering alchemicy eventually led to nuclear chemistry, I'd say we found the lead to gold part of the philosphers stone (not the immortality, enlightenment, or metaphor parts). We just also found out it isn't cost effective
These are my favorite kinds of episodes
plor twist: alchemy didn't fade away, but alchemists became more secretive about their work and discoveries... they don't use that much urine anymore too
Welp after all that has happened with the election today, I really needed this XD
Same
I just know the FMA fandom is going to rush into here
@Black_Rhino 241
Also Knight of the Zodiac-Saint Seiya fans. The Aries Gold Saints are Mu Alchemists since they’re are known and feared to create Elixir and transmute Lead into Gold at ease. Their biggest technique is transmuting starlight into orichalcum, god-tiered metal.
Also Fate/Stay Night fans. The Ezinbern family are Alchemists and greatly skilled at creating homunculi.
You cannot have a video on alchemy without giving up the comment space to FMA fans. This is the law of equivalent exchange
@@mal9369
Unless it’s the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure fans. They disregard the Law Of Equivalent Exchange.
I'm already here
I have a creeping feeling that Alchemists knew how improbable it was for them to create a philosophers stone, but they knew what people in power wanted: Gold & Eternal life, so as long as they claimed to be searching for something that could grant exactly that, people in power let them stick around, maybe even funded some of them, because IF they ever WOULD discover the secret of turning lead into gold or eternal life, all the better! So that way, Alchemists were allowed to be, exploring whatever project they desired to experiment with, like boiling huge amounts of human piss...
I don’t know what’s different but Hank’s presentation was SO GOOD in this episode. Awesome info, script, and energy❤️❤️
Thanks for the content and subtitles.
Imagine if someone travelled in to the past and was like "mix this with that, then maybe u can get gold... huehuehue"
"something cannot be created from nothing, and so in order to obtain something, something else of equal value must be lost."-FMA
Some classic alchemy for the viewers, nice
Sulfuric acid to unclog the drain? We use sodium hydroxide, because it dissolves hair and fat very well and doesn't react with metals.
It also works great to get rid of coffee and tea stains
Yes, the dose is the crucial thing that makes something toxic or not. Take vitamins. Yes, they can be deadly when overdosed.
Thank you patreons.
Finally giving alchemy the recognition it deserves. Most people mock alchemy as useless.
To be fair, it’s pretty much useless today
It paved the way to science, it was the foundation for it
@@issacovid1270 and? That doesn’t mean it has practical uses left today, at this point it’s pretty much on par with magic
@@fossforever512 I never said it did , did i???
Science has many sections/fields , Science has multiple spectrums
This might be my favorite episode of SciShow
Really like this channel and what you guys do. Thanks for making great science content.
Fullmetal Alchemist was right. Alchemists are just badass chemists. ;D
What if, based on the Law of Equivalent Exchange, humanity gave up alchemy and turned in their Gate of Truth?
you know youre going to learn something when your teacher assigns a hank green video🤟😌
It is Always fun to learn something new from Hank! Thank you Sir!
I always wondered this!! Make more alchemy videos!!
Prof Jim Al Khalili did a 3 part documentary on Chemistry for the BBC. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in the history of Chemistry.
So now, instead of struggling to explain all this to people, I'll just refer them to this vid. Thank you!
I was quite amused when you mentioned Paracelsus, because it sounds like peristalsis! I thought "Well, he's moving s**t along..."
Hank: There's no such thing as The Philosopher's Stone.
Harry Potter: Is my origin story a joke to you?
Hohenheim: is my existence a joke to you?
Paracelsus: "Nobody calls Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Honeheim a theif!"
Some person in Switzerland: "No one has the time."
Hmm... I thought I just need to draw circle and clap my hands.
Same
This was very well written.
No other science channel are as deep and as comprehensive as SciShow.
Great video! Thanks as always!
The "don't worry about it" was really funny.
Could you consider a fusion chamber as the Philosophers stone
The Philosopher's Stone did more than just transmute base metals into gold.
Full Metal Alchemist
"For it is the [task] of natural science not simply to accept what we are told but to inquire into the causes of natural things."
St. Albert the Great, pray for us.
There's a awesome documentary about Isaac Newton and his Alchemy work I recommend
1:03 how in the hell did they figure out the atomic mass of those atoms in 1869?
I think it was based on Avogadro's concept of a specific constant number of molecules in a volume, and then calibrated relative to hydrogen.
needing that much urine wasn't as weird as you think, it was long used for industries even in the very ancient world, Rome used urine to bleach cloth and in other parts of the dying industry, so its potential chemical uses were long known
I believe you meant "dyeing"-one of only a few words where dropping the "E" before adding "I-N-G" changes the verb stem.
Really great episode y'all!
Great work! I love you for it. Thank you.
Fantastic video. Thank you!
Reminds me of the Full Metal Alchemist scene with the people in the lab and the two big alchemy circles creating a philosopher's stone.
Good stuff. Never really was into history but this was pretty interesting
Awesome work
SciShow -> I just want you guys to know, I have a very short "heroes list," around 10 people are on it. You guys make my list. I love what you do, and provide for free for people to watch, and present knowledge in such a manor that it can be entertaining to watch. Thank you and keep doing what you do!
"Ancient alchemy its truly fascinating..." - Timaeus
Great segment. I hope you also cover Issac Newton's alchemy work and how the concept of repulsion and attraction in alchemy influenced his concept of gravity.
Yes. Fully 2/3rds of Newton's writings are fairly whackdoodle alchemy -- not rigorous investigation like his optics or physics or calculus -- and end-of-days religious mysticism. We ignore that part of his output, but he was deeply invested in it.