It's not a good Idea to reupload videos because it tanks the clickthrough rate making TH-cam less likely to promote it, but I felt I could do better. I'm still not completely happy with the video but I had to draw the line somewhere.
I love your videos. Been watching them for years. I have learned so much from you. I wish you would do more Videos. I understand why you can’t as I am sure you are busy with other things in your life
Hi Cody! I hope you can make another version with _another_ 60% more explanations, and keep doing that until you have the longest video on TH-cam that covers literally all of chemistry and metallurgy.
Well in order to be relevant while increasing explanatory power it would make more sense to get into quantum physics and that whole theoretical rabbithole before branching out horizontally to other fields
Shaky camera, background noise, improvised containers, rust, out of focus without proper lighting... yes, this is the oldschool youtube-style quality content we all know and love
I thought i had seen that thumb nail then saw how long ago it was uploaded the saw the title. You sure did send me on a roller coaster of thoughts. I am excited to see the 60% more
Thanks for the reupload, it answered a lot of my questions from the first version. The demonstration with gold was especially interesting, for a noble metal, gold has a lot of unusual interactions with other elements. For example, the gold on the mineral patents/claims at my work forms exclusively with arsenic, despite being unable to react with it. It took decades of research to figure out that it was acting like a sponge and absorbing it into the structure.
Man, I love your videos! Don't care if its a re-upload or whatever! You have a great personality and your love of all things science really shines through!
Always happy to see more explanation in a CodysLab video! Just adding another comment to hopefully boost engagement and satisfy the almighty algorithm (or at least help offset any lower clickthrough rate) :)
I pointed it out in the previous video but i'll point it out here too; The vast majority of us will ever put in the time, effort or money to work with mercury safely, much less have the knowledge to create that AWESOME shot of the gold absorbing the mercury at 6:05, so thanks so much :)
Omg, thank you for providing a more detailed explanation!! Very fascinating. The demo at 6:08 is one of the coolest demonstrations I’ve EVER seen, it so clearly shows the mercury spreading throughout the gold!!
This was seriously helpful, I was kind of missing a chunk of metallurgical understanding in this specific area, and this explained the whole thing quite well, thanks. :) (I've had the intuition about how this worked, but seeing it explained really helps wrap things together)
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
I can fill in the blanks. Mercury has mystical powers. People used to do all sorts of mystical crap with it. Permafrost melt is going to release insane amounts of it into the environment and we will all be enlightened mystical beings after that. Lastly you can use it in your washing machine and it won't stain your clothing unless they are made from copper threads and you add hydrochloric acid instead of bleach. Mercury coated clothing looks sick like a mid evil style of clothing that looks like you would be protected from damage.
Oh my lord the filtration at the end. Stunningly beautiful footage. The two different energies between coherent forces and solubility is very reminiscent of solvation of salts in water, so that's neat. I'm actually quite out of touch with inorganic chemistry, this was an amazing explainer, i've not been thinking about how metals interact with each other like this!
Its very reminiscent of the older mercury videos that made me subscribe over a decade ago. Now if only the Bee series came back, it would be the perfect TH-cam nostalgia!
Sort of along the same line, could you do a video on red mercury? Pretty much every video about mercury has a comment section full of people asking about obtaining it, and its magical properties.
Cody, have you ever made Na from molten table salt via electrolysis? I've been reading about the Downs Cell, and it seems pretty neat- and doable. They add CaCl2 to the NaCl in a ratio of 3:2 to bring the melting point down from ~800oC to 580oC, and both products actually float up off the graphite electrodes into collection funnels.
10:00 Maybe this seems overly pedantic, but Gd is Gadolinium, not Gladminium(?) and Lu is Lutetium, not Lutium. Doesn't really matter much for this video, I was just a bit confused hearing those names. I'm not really a chemistry buff, just learned the element symbols/names of the periodic table years ago out of boredom and I guess a lot of it stuck.
@@ezforsaken Sure, but also that is a special case, since the name "aluminum" was one of the official suggestions when the element was named and is now handled as a regional alternative name. Iirc he even has a video on it and why he says it. This seems to be just him misremembering the names of two more obscure elements. Happens, but still wrong.
i didn't actually get around to watching the first one, so seeing a new version that implies it is better than the previous made me more intrigued. very fascinating, thanks for the great demonstrations and explanations!!
I linked the old one in the description. There's not really anything wrong with it other than people had a lot of questions that I thought I should have answered.
Man... I want to make a guilded helmet in exactly the way a medieval armorer would make it, but in order to do that I need mercury. mercury is proving to be a right pain in the arse to get ahold of. Its not illegal to own, its just really hard to get ahold of, so I see this old boy playing aroubd with the stuff like its something he can just pick up at the local poundland and im just sitting here creatively starving.
Oi, if that way is fire-gilding, I'd rather not try it. Mercury vapors are very toxic and can affect other people in your surroundings, like your neighbours, too.
He actually owns land that has a mercury mine on it. This guy has litterally gallons of the stuff. And if he is brave enough he can go down in the mine and get more. He didn't have to buy any of it. He owns it along with the land the mine is on, or at least he used to was my understanding unless he sold it for some reason. So yeah he has litterally tons of the stuff, no pun intended because mercury is so heavy!
SO Murcury act just like solder or pretty much all metals that can be melted without destroying the donor metal I assume, is donor the right word? sounds right but yeah to pull Solder off contact using that woven metal is amazing and it works so well but if you just try a paper towel you will only sad up the flux. I Love Cody's way of explaining and showing chemistry, its just so personal and easy to understand! TY for so many years of amazing content I've been watching since what 2015-2017 I think. Thank YOU!
I still think the mercury through the sintered glass is so cool. Question, did you have the vacuum pump running or was the Hg heavy enough to just fall through? And i still want to see some cool flowing mercury electro dynamics experiments or demonstrations. Thanks to the 60% more explanation im curious about what interesting things you can do with mercury... electromagnetodynamics is pretty cool, I think Tech Ingredients did a video featuring that a while back. Moar Hg pls!
Doesn't the rag not absorbing mercury also have things to do with the surface tension of mercury? If I remember correctly, mercury has high surface tension, so it would struggle to get into tiny cavities of the rag?
I saw something fuming near the mercury at about 7:45 and I was wondering if it was coming off the towel because of the HCl or maybe something steaming off camera?
It's not a good Idea to reupload videos because it tanks the clickthrough rate making TH-cam less likely to promote it, but I felt I could do better. I'm still not completely happy with the video but I had to draw the line somewhere.
I'll watch re-uploads every time Cody, I've been watching you for years now, you're so awesome and wholesome bro. We'll always support you!
Long time lurker first time poster. You rock man. Don’t worry about the algorithm. You just be awesome. The internet will follow you.
I love your videos. Been watching them for years. I have learned so much from you. I wish you would do more
Videos. I understand why you can’t as I am sure you are busy with other things in your life
All good buddy, have my 100% rewatch for the effort
We, your subscribers will always watch every single reupload still.
Hi Cody!
I hope you can make another version with _another_ 60% more explanations, and keep doing that until you have the longest video on TH-cam that covers literally all of chemistry and metallurgy.
Yes please
HAHAHHAHAAH
Well in order to be relevant while increasing explanatory power it would make more sense to get into quantum physics and that whole theoretical rabbithole before branching out horizontally to other fields
i propose the exact opposite:
make the video 60% shorter every time and make the shortest video on youtube ever.
Hooray! Now 60% more Cody!
😁
Shaky camera, background noise, improvised containers, rust, out of focus without proper lighting... yes, this is the oldschool youtube-style quality content we all know and love
This is real life chemistry.
The other dudes are into cleaning not chemistry 😂
That's called SOUL.
chemistry content thats comprehensive like this is such a valuable resource, thanks cody
I thought i had seen that thumb nail then saw how long ago it was uploaded the saw the title. You sure did send me on a roller coaster of thoughts. I am excited to see the 60% more
Thanks for the reupload, it answered a lot of my questions from the first version.
The demonstration with gold was especially interesting, for a noble metal, gold has a lot of unusual interactions with other elements. For example, the gold on the mineral patents/claims at my work forms exclusively with arsenic, despite being unable to react with it. It took decades of research to figure out that it was acting like a sponge and absorbing it into the structure.
One of the last places I expected a hololive pfp, based af
Man, I love your videos! Don't care if its a re-upload or whatever!
You have a great personality and your love of all things science really shines through!
I just got done working a night shift and still decided to stay awake to watch this.
You're not alone. I also clicked this first after getting home from work
"Alright everyone, welcome back to Cody's lab". Music to my ears. Happy New Years!
Always happy to see more explanation in a CodysLab video!
Just adding another comment to hopefully boost engagement and satisfy the almighty algorithm (or at least help offset any lower clickthrough rate) :)
I pointed it out in the previous video but i'll point it out here too;
The vast majority of us will ever put in the time, effort or money to work with mercury safely, much less have the knowledge to create that AWESOME shot of the gold absorbing the mercury at 6:05, so thanks so much :)
all the additional details were greatly appreciated. I feel like I really do have a better understanding of the concept as a whole.
I wish you were my chemistry teacher, your enthusiasm is contagious!
He'd also make a superb geology teacher.
A banger as usual, Cody! You always manage to explain things in a way that captures my curiosity like few others.
End the video at 1:55 as it's obvious that Cody has mystical powers
Your videos are among the best I’ve ever seen. You have never failed to impress this old musician.
Love the vacuum filtration at the end. Fascinating!
I’m happy for the extra explanation… wishing a happy New Years to Chicken Hole Base.
i dont understand 60% more but im loving the idea that im clever enough to. Happy NYE Cody.
I think TH-cam should recommend this video to more people :D Happy New Year Cody!
Top tier bed time content creators
Cody has forgotten more chemistry than most of us will ever know.
Omg, thank you for providing a more detailed explanation!! Very fascinating. The demo at 6:08 is one of the coolest demonstrations I’ve EVER seen, it so clearly shows the mercury spreading throughout the gold!!
I've always looked forward to your uploads and was pleasantly surprised with this new and improved re upload. Thank you!
This was seriously helpful, I was kind of missing a chunk of metallurgical understanding in this specific area, and this explained the whole thing quite well, thanks. :)
(I've had the intuition about how this worked, but seeing it explained really helps wrap things together)
It's always a good idea to watch Cody though! Twice through is twice as good!
If it is about Mercury, I'll watch both videos! Thanks Cody!
Rraaahhh I love it when Cody explains complex topics in a simple manner!
Always enjoying those vids. Take care!
Thank you for the reupload Cody. This was much more informative and nice
Thank you for the detailed explanation. Missed the first video and im happy i got the enhanced edition ❤
The first video that I could thumbs up twice 😁
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
9:43 "This is in the wrong place. Let me fix that"
Cody: ***stretches out your periodic table of elements***
I was wondering why this was appearing below my videos. I had already watched it. You made a new version I see. Time to watch again.
It was more informative. Thank you, Cody.
Your videos always make my day at least 60% better :)
More like 58% more explanation... Been swindled twice... Have a great new years!
I can fill in the blanks. Mercury has mystical powers. People used to do all sorts of mystical crap with it. Permafrost melt is going to release insane amounts of it into the environment and we will all be enlightened mystical beings after that. Lastly you can use it in your washing machine and it won't stain your clothing unless they are made from copper threads and you add hydrochloric acid instead of bleach. Mercury coated clothing looks sick like a mid evil style of clothing that looks like you would be protected from damage.
60% more explanation and a 100% reason to remember the video.
Bonus wisdom!
Thanks for the video, Sir
Love this new video that builds off of the previous, different, video!
Always love your metals videos Cody! Thanks for reuploading with more info!
Tasty mercury salts. Awesome video as always.
glad i watched the reup. thanks, cody.
Awesome video, Cody, as always! Thank you very much for these, that's what learning science should look like.
Oh my lord the filtration at the end. Stunningly beautiful footage. The two different energies between coherent forces and solubility is very reminiscent of solvation of salts in water, so that's neat. I'm actually quite out of touch with inorganic chemistry, this was an amazing explainer, i've not been thinking about how metals interact with each other like this!
Awesome! watching both regardless!
Haven't seen the initial vif, but this explanation was excellent!
First time seeing this video! re-uploads are welcome on my watch
60%?! You added 200% more explanation and with cooler demonstrations!!
Always like extra info about cool effects of elements. Dont mind rewatching the pieces i watched in the first one.
Every video of yours I watch the more I am convinced you are indeed a wizard
Who else watched it all the through and didn't just click through
Im glad I’m not the only one who watches Cody while they sleep, then I dream about Cody….
Mercury going through a filter at the end was super cool!
160% yield video
Thanks Cody, you make learning enjoyable.
Thanks for the extra information! Great video!
for the algorithm! (thanks for the extra info too! loved it)
Awesome explanation! So cool to learn about metal solubility
This was great. Thanks Cody
Its very reminiscent of the older mercury videos that made me subscribe over a decade ago. Now if only the Bee series came back, it would be the perfect TH-cam nostalgia!
Good stuff Cody. 👏
nice reupload. love it. the cat is doing great.
Another great video! Will you be making a bee update?
Sort of along the same line, could you do a video on red mercury? Pretty much every video about mercury has a comment section full of people asking about obtaining it, and its magical properties.
Its about as real as the tooth fairy.
@@theCodyReeder I know, I get so tired of the myth
@@RiehlScience Everyone knows there are only two kinds of mercury: regular mercury and Freddy Mercury. 😁
Might be confusing it with Cinnabar (mercury sulfide)
I can sell you some if you'd like
Cody, have you ever made Na from molten table salt via electrolysis? I've been reading about the Downs Cell, and it seems pretty neat- and doable. They add CaCl2 to the NaCl in a ratio of 3:2 to bring the melting point down from ~800oC to 580oC, and both products actually float up off the graphite electrodes into collection funnels.
Next CHB Update?
It cannot be absorbed with a rag: Every accidental mess I made at 3 am when a bottle of sauce falls out of the fridge.
10:00 Maybe this seems overly pedantic, but Gd is Gadolinium, not Gladminium(?) and Lu is Lutetium, not Lutium. Doesn't really matter much for this video, I was just a bit confused hearing those names. I'm not really a chemistry buff, just learned the element symbols/names of the periodic table years ago out of boredom and I guess a lot of it stuck.
i mean people from the us cant even say aluminium so what do you expect
@@ezforsaken Sure, but also that is a special case, since the name "aluminum" was one of the official suggestions when the element was named and is now handled as a regional alternative name. Iirc he even has a video on it and why he says it. This seems to be just him misremembering the names of two more obscure elements. Happens, but still wrong.
@@ezforsakenyeah because it’s aluminum, and you added extra letters to be fancy like you’re known to do.
@@lindboknifeandtool ??? wtf
Thank you so much for the information!!!
i didn't actually get around to watching the first one, so seeing a new version that implies it is better than the previous made me more intrigued. very fascinating, thanks for the great demonstrations and explanations!!
I linked the old one in the description. There's not really anything wrong with it other than people had a lot of questions that I thought I should have answered.
Whoa deja vu
Could you do a vid explaining why the periodic table is set up the way it is?
How do you clean mercury? Was that cleaning it at the end? Another great video Cody!
Yes. He is using a vacuum filter to clean it. He has also distilled it in the past.
Man... I want to make a guilded helmet in exactly the way a medieval armorer would make it, but in order to do that I need mercury. mercury is proving to be a right pain in the arse to get ahold of. Its not illegal to own, its just really hard to get ahold of, so I see this old boy playing aroubd with the stuff like its something he can just pick up at the local poundland and im just sitting here creatively starving.
Didn’t he source and refine it himself? I don’t think he bought it online or anything.
@@The_RC_Guru He did, one of his early videos. iirc it was from mine tailings or something from families mine.
Oi, if that way is fire-gilding, I'd rather not try it. Mercury vapors are very toxic and can affect other people in your surroundings, like your neighbours, too.
He actually owns land that has a mercury mine on it. This guy has litterally gallons of the stuff. And if he is brave enough he can go down in the mine and get more. He didn't have to buy any of it. He owns it along with the land the mine is on, or at least he used to was my understanding unless he sold it for some reason. So yeah he has litterally tons of the stuff, no pun intended because mercury is so heavy!
Look into “damascene” art.
You don’t need mercury its 2025!
Woild murcury mesh well with magnesium? I saw you touch all the way around it. You just never mentioned it. Great video. Cody. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the content!
Good explanation
did you do some experiments to find out soludability of metalls in Hg?
yes
@@theCodyReeder great)
I would love to see you work with extractions and ire you guys would have way to much fun
SO Murcury act just like solder or pretty much all metals that can be melted without destroying the donor metal I assume, is donor the right word? sounds right but yeah to pull Solder off contact using that woven metal is amazing and it works so well but if you just try a paper towel you will only sad up the flux. I Love Cody's way of explaining and showing chemistry, its just so personal and easy to understand! TY for so many years of amazing content I've been watching since what 2015-2017 I think. Thank YOU!
What did your cleanup procedure look like? What did you do with the contaminated cloth and copper? Do you even consider the cloth "contaminated"?
I love more explanation! 🎉
Could you please make a video about the health risks of mercury, especially by breathing in the vapors ?
Commenting for the algorithm gods, support Cody!
woah amazing video with 60% more filling in it
This is such an incredible demo! I wish it was safer, this is a great way to teach basic chemistry
Thanks, im happy you did this
Cody... could you make a video on making fiberglass resin from 2 liter pop bottles? I understand that is possible
Hi Cody
I still think the mercury through the sintered glass is so cool. Question, did you have the vacuum pump running or was the Hg heavy enough to just fall through? And i still want to see some cool flowing mercury electro dynamics experiments or demonstrations. Thanks to the 60% more explanation im curious about what interesting things you can do with mercury... electromagnetodynamics is pretty cool, I think Tech Ingredients did a video featuring that a while back. Moar Hg pls!
Awesome channel.
Doesn’t gold react with mercury to form an amalgam so wouldn’t the gold test be a different thing happening then it just absorbing
Glad to know my algorithm is similar to Cody's.
Sweet perfect timing
Doesn't the rag not absorbing mercury also have things to do with the surface tension of mercury? If I remember correctly, mercury has high surface tension, so it would struggle to get into tiny cavities of the rag?
A reupload from Cody’s lab is certainly some kind of existential warning or something. But as usual whoosh.💨
Thanks Cody
I saw something fuming near the mercury at about 7:45 and I was wondering if it was coming off the towel because of the HCl or maybe something steaming off camera?