Mercury was also used as a syphilis treatment during the Victorian era, in addition to treating the felt used for making hats. That's where the phrase "mad as a hatter" comes from.
Pierre and Marie Curie discovered not only Polonium but Radium (#88) which was also Radioactive, Pierre ended up dying in a Charriot accident and Marie died many MANY years later to Bone Marrow
I like to phrase it as: The difference between a drug and a poison is the dose. Several drugs have a lower lethal dose than effective dose, I.e. digoxin. The idea is that if you take it when you're having a heart attack (if dr thinks it is appropriate in ur case) it might help you live, but without it you'll die anyway, so why not give it a whirl?
Francium is very hard to be studied as it had one of the shorted half lives of 22 and a half minutes. Despite its fame it is less reactive than Caesium, though largely overlooked due to its radioactivity.
Without going into a detailed lengthy explanation you are mistaken francium is more reactive than ceasium, not less reactive. In order from least reactive to most reactive alkali Metal it's lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, ceasium and francium. Each time you move down the alkali metals column on the periodic table one position the reactivity increases. And it's not just me saying that, it's a well documented and confirmed scientific fact.
I went to school in Mexico, the chemistry teacher had mercury on his lab. He took it out and put it on his hand and all the students passed around. We did a few experiments without using gloves. A year later moved to the US and on my chemistry lab class they also had mercury, teacher said it was very dangerous, it make me laugh that in one country we used to play with it and on another we were not allowed to even see it.
When my mom was in school in the US during the 1960's and '70's her chemistry teacher had liquid mercury in his lab in the classroom. During her lunch break, she and her best friend used to go to that classroom and play with the mercury. They did this every day until the mercury dissolved part of her best friend's gold ring. After that incident, they both decided that playing with liquid mercury wasn't such a good idea. I'm not sure when the US pulled mercury from chemistry classrooms, but I'm glad they did. I always thought this story was fascinating.
You could have also mentioned some dangerous isotopes of usually harmless elements such as Cobalt-60, Strontium-90, Iodine-132, Sodium-24, Iridium-192, Phosphorus-32, Iodine-123, and Iodine-131.
honestly, if the periodic table was named the periodic table of horrible ways to die, I would've been more interested in learning about the elements than before when I was in school 😂
" Mad as a hatter. " For those who don't know the saying doesn't originate from Alice in Wonderland. Back in the day hatters used mercury on the regular while doing their trade, and we all know by now what mercury does the human brain. Hence the term mad as a hatter.
At 0:40 Polonium was discovered by Polish scientist Marie Curie-Sklodowska, not "Marie Curie". After marriage he kept her Polish last name hyphenated and named the element after Poland specifically bc her Polish heritage was important to her. Please use her real name, Marie Sklodowska, or at least Marie Curie-Sklodowska and stop cutting out the Polish last name
it wouldnt be useful for a nuclear bomb as francium has a low half life meaning most of it would decay before detonation+in a nuclear reaction you generally want heavier elements with higher half-lives, such as pu-239
I’d throw in Flourine as an honorable mention. It’s next to impossible to store and even harder to isolate from other elements. There’s a reason why the scientists involved in its discovery that died for their work came to be called the Flourine Martyrs.
Fun fact: Arsenic was also used in Paris green (emerald green) pigment! The pigment was very dangerous and killed many people who wore cloth with the pigment or people who had it as their wall papers in their houses!
A 70kg male has roughly 7 * 10^27 atoms. I assume you're 10^27 atoms big (ie: puny). It would take over 10^25 years to get to that number of atoms... soo... you're kinda older than the age of the universe... unless you're christian. Then you're a LOT older than 10,000 years... :P
In 1987 here in Brazil an abandoned x ray machine was sold as scrap metal, people disassembled the machine and saw one glowing blue dust and thought that was pretty, many people from a family shared that dust, but them they started to feel sick, one woman went to a hospital ask what was that dust, was cesium 137. Many people from died because this accident and still the worst radioactive accident in Brazil, just because the last element on this video I remembered that story.
Mercury was dumped by a factory years and years ago into my local river, which is a Chesapeake Bay watershed and now we can’t eat the fish we catch from the river. It’s catch and release only unless you want health issues.
"Francium: Unstable reaction when it gets in contact of water" Absolutely, but It's perfectly stable if you put it in contact with wine. 9:10 even critically irradiated this scientist seems still happy to have seen subcritical plutonium glowing. 10:16 Should make a Mane 6 based on these elements of Harmony.
School systems: “No wearing hoodies!” Also the school system: *Gives kids deadly mercury with only glass separating the deadly chemical and their skin.*
You never mentioned the halogens. Chlorine, for example, can be pretty deadly. Then there is fluorine, which is probably one of the most reactive elements on the periodic table.
I think that aquifer thing happened to my town, not sure if it was arsenic though, but we couldn’t use any of the water from the taps for anything so we had to use jugs to do anything, I think it lasted like nearly a month, then on we haven’t used tap or really anything other then washing dishes.
I love the video but i was kind of waiting for Thallium to be mentioned, as it is a tasteless and horribly effective poison (especially its salts), that is also very hard to detect.
Just a point of information, Cesium is more reactive than Francium contrary to popular belief because even though Cesium is above Francium, the weight of one Francium atom is far greater than Cesium meaning it is hard to remove the electron on the outermost shell compared to Cesium.
0:06 - Is it only me or does it bother anyone else that the year the car was invented (1908) is more to the right on the time-line than the Computer (1936) and Television (1926) ?
Mom: COME HOME NOW Side effects may result in slaps, the BELT and on the lightest note a lecture. In high doses this may result in injuries for a long time. Now this is the deadliest of all.
What's the deadliest element that starts with the first letter of your name?
Hamburger idk
Tc
arsenic
trump
television
The most dangerous element the element of surprise nobody expects it
I didnt expect this comment
jh lol
It surprised you huh
Hello
Noice
you’ve done it
Most deadly element on earth:
15MissedCallsFromMom-ium
Legend says you die instantly
Legends say you will respawn
Simon Repolt afraid of getting grounded little man?
@@RatChad only after 3 days
Lol
WHO TURNED OFF RESPAWN?! OH SHI-
*tries to cheat death*
*ends up dying way earlier than expected*
Big Brain Time
final destination
task failed successfully
Voldemort....
fission mailed
Mercury was also used as a syphilis treatment during the Victorian era, in addition to treating the felt used for making hats. That's where the phrase "mad as a hatter" comes from.
They also used Arsenic to treat syphilis.
@@kentondickerson And to make two types of green dye. They were used in everything from clothing and toys to wallpaper and cake decorations.
The first guy that discovered these must have been like:
😐 😶 💀
🤨😑💀
he turned into cute little skull :)
The history of science trying to isolate fluoride is basically a long list of scientists that died in horrible lab accidents.
Pierre and Marie Curie discovered not only Polonium but Radium (#88) which was also Radioactive, Pierre ended up dying in a Charriot accident and Marie died many MANY years later to Bone Marrow
@@snakesandsalem5754
wasn't Pierre murdered
I hate to break it to everyone, All Elements Are Deadly. It just depends on on how much or littel.
Interesting
True
He is spittin straight facts
I like to phrase it as: The difference between a drug and a poison is the dose. Several drugs have a lower lethal dose than effective dose, I.e. digoxin. The idea is that if you take it when you're having a heart attack (if dr thinks it is appropriate in ur case) it might help you live, but without it you'll die anyway, so why not give it a whirl?
That's not being omitted in this video, he's looking at how dangerous native elements can be
Infographics: Mercury poisoning
Cody's lab: Hold my water *proceeds to gargle with liquid mercury
And flush his toilet with it..
Lawrence Zach and Cody?
RandoMango Cody and zack?
Can someone leave a link to that video?
@@dannydaw59 Just look it up. Channel is Codys Lab. video is called something like "Flushing a toilet with mercury"
Im trying to stay off youtube and you dare post this video
I’m trying to drink these
@@idkshtt same doe
You have issues
Dread dead hahahahahahahahaah that’s exactly what I thought
O K A Y
Francium is very hard to be studied as it had one of the shorted half lives of 22 and a half minutes. Despite its fame it is less reactive than Caesium, though largely overlooked due to its radioactivity.
Without going into a detailed lengthy explanation you are mistaken francium is more reactive than ceasium, not less reactive. In order from least reactive to most reactive alkali Metal it's lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, ceasium and francium. Each time you move down the alkali metals column on the periodic table one position the reactivity increases. And it's not just me saying that, it's a well documented and confirmed scientific fact.
Mercury was used in hat making, from which we get ''mad as a hatter''.
it's "Mad hatter"
Y’all taught me more than** school ever did
I can tell by your grammar lol😂
@@nuuttikallioniemi4307 I think he meant history & science wise, not grammatically, but that doesn't mean school is a bad source of education
Well yes but school did teach you how to understand and comprehend this material
@@DestructionVicey agreed bro
@@beastlye212 yeah that is true
Literally fall asleep to videos from this channel every night. Dont ever stop or slowdown uploading and mess up my sleep ruitine.
Absolutely! 😉
Fun fact: Napoleon died from Arsenic. The walls in his house on his private island where made out of it.
You mean the molecule called Paris green
who cares.. cry then
@@vincrobinso2331 shut up man
@@vincrobinso2331 what's your problem
we appreciate people giving fun facts that are interesting, your just being mean for no reason
Depressing
Scientists:"how can we use these elements to help and cure people"
Infographics:"let's see which one kills you better"
I went to school in Mexico, the chemistry teacher had mercury on his lab. He took it out and put it on his hand and all the students passed around. We did a few experiments without using gloves. A year later moved to the US and on my chemistry lab class they also had mercury, teacher said it was very dangerous, it make me laugh that in one country we used to play with it and on another we were not allowed to even see it.
In the future I will make a mercury ball with gloves and nuke mask!
When my mom was in school in the US during the 1960's and '70's her chemistry teacher had liquid mercury in his lab in the classroom. During her lunch break, she and her best friend used to go to that classroom and play with the mercury. They did this every day until the mercury dissolved part of her best friend's gold ring. After that incident, they both decided that playing with liquid mercury wasn't such a good idea. I'm not sure when the US pulled mercury from chemistry classrooms, but I'm glad they did. I always thought this story was fascinating.
No one:
Infographics: *Marie Curry*
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This made my day.
Marie Cutie's constant exposure to radiation caused her to die of aplastic anemia.
Ight, who turned Marie into curry?
You could have also mentioned some dangerous isotopes of usually harmless elements such as Cobalt-60, Strontium-90, Iodine-132, Sodium-24, Iridium-192, Phosphorus-32, Iodine-123, and Iodine-131.
honestly, if the periodic table was named the periodic table of horrible ways to die, I would've been more interested in learning about the elements than before when I was in school 😂
I'm surprised you didn't include Cadmium on this list. It's affects on the body are absolutely terrifying.
" Mad as a hatter. "
For those who don't know the saying doesn't originate from Alice in Wonderland. Back in the day hatters used mercury on the regular while doing their trade, and we all know by now what mercury does the human brain. Hence the term mad as a hatter.
Thanks Simon...
“Potassium is extremely reactive with water”
Wait so what happens if i dip a banana in water
Its GG Gamer: Try drinking sprite after eating a banana. Trust me, it’s science
It has to be in element form not compound
Science Cat its called a joke
@@user-rx7sq8fd1p Let him be, he is the Cat of sciencing afterall
At 0:40 Polonium was discovered by Polish scientist Marie Curie-Sklodowska, not "Marie Curie". After marriage he kept her Polish last name hyphenated and named the element after Poland specifically bc her Polish heritage was important to her. Please use her real name, Marie Sklodowska, or at least Marie Curie-Sklodowska and stop cutting out the Polish last name
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So if scientists were able to find a way to artificially mass produce Francium, could it be used to make the... F Bomb?
Even if they did it would be the Fr bomb. Fluorine is F and Francium is Fr.
A flourine bomb would be unpredictable. Since flourine is a halogen, and all halogens are super reactive, that would be a horrible bomb to detonate.
it wouldnt be useful for a nuclear bomb as francium has a low half life meaning most of it would decay before detonation+in a nuclear reaction you generally want heavier elements with higher half-lives, such as pu-239
Video: Mercury is in seafood
Me: *spits shrimp that I was eating*
Tilapia is the worst.
They should have said all alkaline metals are reactive with water and cesium is much more reactive than potassium
SD Films thanks captain obvious
Thanks captain obvious
Thanks Captain Obvious
Thanks Captain obvious
it s a fact that potassium releases more energy than cesium
“Seafood is polluted by our industries”
“CHINAAAA!”
I’d throw in Flourine as an honorable mention. It’s next to impossible to store and even harder to isolate from other elements. There’s a reason why the scientists involved in its discovery that died for their work came to be called the Flourine Martyrs.
Where is thallium? It is the most toxic non radioactive element out there. It can also be absorbed through the skin.
And Beryllium, too.
yeah I also said that :/
And fluorine as well
And cadmium
Fun fact: Arsenic was also used in Paris green (emerald green) pigment! The pigment was very dangerous and killed many people who wore cloth with the pigment or people who had it as their wall papers in their houses!
First video on channel: Why do we cry?
Most recent video: moST DeAdLy EleMeNTs on EArTh
*my ex-girlfriend is the most deadly element known to man*
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@@emeraldspelledwrong1376 hello there :)
@@SatyaRanjanSingh LOL :D
Oof
I thought the thumb nail was a skeleton with bad breath.
Same
Big sad
Lol
Radioactive bad breath
Wait, hold up, it is not a skeleton with bad breath?
6:15 when the imposter is sus
Moisture: *exists*
Caesium: aaaaaaaaa
Francium: AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
If I had an Atom for how many day's I never leave my bedroom I could clone myself.
A 70kg male has roughly 7 * 10^27 atoms. I assume you're 10^27 atoms big (ie: puny). It would take over 10^25 years to get to that number of atoms... soo... you're kinda older than the age of the universe... unless you're christian. Then you're a LOT older than 10,000 years... :P
@@hirkketan7775 Hey, I think something passed by your head! Was it a bird or something?
Woooosh
In 1987 here in Brazil an abandoned x ray machine was sold as scrap metal, people disassembled the machine and saw one glowing blue dust and thought that was pretty, many people from a family shared that dust, but them they started to feel sick, one woman went to a hospital ask what was that dust, was cesium 137. Many people from died because this accident and still the worst radioactive accident in Brazil, just because the last element on this video I remembered that story.
Hmm strange, we don't have many deadly elements out here in the woods
👋 big foot
Say hi to my homie Tyrone who ran away and never came back to look for you!
Except for the cabin
Like 69
Snakium 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍 is deadly
Mercury was dumped by a factory years and years ago into my local river, which is a Chesapeake Bay watershed and now we can’t eat the fish we catch from the river. It’s catch and release only unless you want health issues.
Correction. Lead is no longer used in construction in any way whatsoever. That stopped back in the 80's.
*Fun fact:* Lead is still used in aviation fuel due to its cheapness. The aviation industry successfully argued to keep using it.
Im just waiting for the "element of suprise" joke
WHERE IS IT
I’ve done it
Yes!!
You never know when it will come
-4 Subscribers with a hammer addiction YEAH
Above you lol
Pierre died from getting ran over by a wagon.
"Francium: Unstable reaction when it gets in contact of water"
Absolutely, but It's perfectly stable if you put it in contact with wine.
9:10 even critically irradiated this scientist seems still happy to have seen subcritical plutonium glowing.
10:16 Should make a Mane 6 based on these elements of Harmony.
Body: Needs potassium
Caesium: I'm about to end this mans whole career
Thanks for telling me this, now I don't have to deal with my annoying little brother. He needs to wait till lunch time
Cons piracies cursedcomments
The most deadly element on earth is Manchurian Gold
School systems: “No wearing hoodies!”
Also the school system: *Gives kids deadly mercury with only glass separating the deadly chemical and their skin.*
In our school... hoodies, jacket, coats and any similar clothes can be used over the school uniform.
Mercury is very poorly absorbed through skin
I'm surprised you didn't include fluorine on this list. That reacts violently with virtually everything.
You left out Radium. Remember the RADIUM GIRLS.
Isn’t oxygen the rarest?
I’ve never seen it in my whole lifetime.
You also can't see many more xs
lol
It is blue in it's liquid form
the video: the imposter metal
my brain: there is 1 imposter among the elements
So like, I know that the atomic name for lead is pb based on its Latin name, but man 😂 everytime i see it, i think, "gotta go eat my peanut butter" 😂
Love these videos
I need one of those for re- re uhhh research reasons 🙂
Heck yea I love the infographics
Thanks! ♥️
Lead: *Goes into body
Body Minerals: THERE IS ONE IMPOSTOR AMONG US
The best element is Tiesto's Elements of Life 😛
Tsk tsk optimist
That fact about lead and crime is absolutely mind blowing
Great vids every time
I already know this one.
It's Kryptonite.
Only one man had survive all this deadly elements it was..
CJ,with HESOYAM
and BAGUVIX
What’s your best element dad joke?
"Francium" sounds like a heavy metal band. 😅🤘🥁☄
username1nmillion it kinda does XD
Let's not start the potassium jokes.
K?
Do I _want_ to hear any sodium jokes?
Na.
1:41
Judge: let’s give a death sentence
Also judge: wait I’m in the uk 🥱😤😒
Fantastic!!
I wonder what other widespread materials we will later find out have huge impacts in human behavior like what happened with led...
You never mentioned the halogens. Chlorine, for example, can be pretty deadly. Then there is fluorine, which is probably one of the most reactive elements on the periodic table.
Also Astatine! It's insanely radioactive and is the rarest element ever.
Because most of them are trace el ements.
@@tylersauro9891 but at least it’s not that recognisable that much as polonium…
Mercury in the 19th century: i am the cure to constipation
Pepto bismol: im about to end this man's whole career
Your videos are so convincing yet there so inticlimactic
I think that aquifer thing happened to my town, not sure if it was arsenic though, but we couldn’t use any of the water from the taps for anything so we had to use jugs to do anything, I think it lasted like nearly a month, then on we haven’t used tap or really anything other then washing dishes.
Well, I know a element that gives people heart attacks in occasions.
The element of surprise!!
You deserve a like
I swear this channel is gonna make me scared of everything
게임 전사 same but im addicted to watching them
I love the video but i was kind of waiting for Thallium to be mentioned, as it is a tasteless and horribly effective poison (especially its salts), that is also very hard to detect.
Just a point of information, Cesium is more reactive than Francium contrary to popular belief because even though Cesium is above Francium, the weight of one Francium atom is far greater than Cesium meaning it is hard to remove the electron on the outermost shell compared to Cesium.
Noted. Will look into it.
i guess the most poisonous gas is from our butts specially after a heavy meal ,
@Vasilis Chimonas right hehe
How old are you
Methane is toxic in some quantities
This gas is a heavy mealtel
Oh yeah
I’m learning about elements this week
Congrats.
nobody asked, but thank you for sharing.
pixelz11 thx
0:06 - Is it only me or does it bother anyone else that the year the car was invented (1908) is more to the right on the time-line than the Computer (1936) and Television (1926) ?
Assassins watching this: write that down, write that down!
Thanks for the video, wasn't aware of these elements and their effects.
5:57 Me sat painting and watching this: 😳
The most deadly thing is no sleep
Yeah, remember what happen to the russian sleep experiment
AzzalFox woosh
@@cinnamonaxis6256 nah they were just giving facts.
@@SamLeroSberg you mean using nuclear
You forgot thallium.
Yes keep uploading
Cells:What are your intentions??
Lead:Im Calcium.
Cells:Go on
Lead: *messing up stuff intensifies*
Cells: *wait thats illegal-*
Congrats you exposed these elements to add in a cake.
you should have mentioned the Caesium-137 incident in Brazil
And in Chernobyl.
Hey the infographics show can you please make video about juul and smoking
The human body when lead enters: There is 1 Impostor among us
Potassium and water is no good, huh no wonder ppl felt sick with banana sprite
The most deadly element known to man is
*KAREN*
Karenism
Karenium
0:05 uuuum your timeline seems kinda off with the car
How?
He’s right d*mb*ss (joke, you are probably a smart human being.)
Please don’t take wrong way.
nahh its on 1908 its correct
@@playergameplayfan6154 they should've put it after the plane
Karma is the most dangerous element
Mom: COME HOME NOW
Side effects may result in slaps, the BELT and on the lightest note a lecture. In high doses this may result in injuries for a long time. Now this is the deadliest of all.
The deadliest poison:
*the infographics show*
that wasnt very cash money of you
How about Element 115
Aliens 👽
jab 1435 fetch me their souls!
😂
Origins
Yeah without it you couldn’t make those wonder weapons
According to me most dangerous thing is Da OiL
“Lead is known as n impostor metal”
There is one imposter among us
I can't believe thallium wasn't on this list.
I hope after Earth is long gone, the aliens find remains of our civilization they run across this channel.