Driving On Liquid Mercury?!?!?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 มิ.ย. 2018
- I put a model car on some mercury to see how it handles then discuss whether a full sized car could do it.
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I legit thought it's a real truck driving on a pond of mercury from the thumbnail 😂
me too
I said to myself, "No fucking way he actually did it, he'd need a swimming pool."
vaibhav That would mean he found a source of DAMN large masking tape...!😂
vaibhav 🍆💦💦😃
I was thinking, where the hell did he get that much Mercury?
Cody: Okay well we have some steering control
Car: *slam slam slam slam*
Reminds me of that scene from austin powers
Hence the '5 minutes later' lol
black ops every slam = rotation reset O O F
I wonder what would happen if he used a Mecanum wheel
Saw it at 499 just had to like it
Cody's Lab 2020 - "Can I really swim in mercury?"
It could be very interesting.
If it weren't for it being toxic
mieguistumas no. Actually you could but it would be more like crawling.
Absolutely you could swim....well something like swimming! I've seen pics of people in protective suits kinda walk/wading in huge cats of mercury!
Yea!
Coppa: *Are you sure about that*
Oh no... not you!
I mean he already walked on it!! Why would he wanna swim now?
These mercury video remind me of when that school closed down and a team in yellow hazmat suits fire trucks and the news showed up because they dropped one little mercury thermometer containing literally a drop of mercury.
When you have the liability of being a school that's responsible for hundreds of children with local media sure to show up, especially when science education is poor and safety procedures are barely taught leading people to think you can die from so much looking at mercury directly (sarcasm, but a lot of people think touching elemental mercury for so much as a few seconds can kill you or give you cancer or whatever), it makes some sense.
It's a waste of time and money, sure, but no school wants to be faced with a lawsuit about something stupid parents think has to do with the mercury or arguably worse clever parents who know they'll be able to make some quick cash because it's very bad PR to have something like that go to court, no matter how incorrect and frivolous it is.
2muchtextbro
It's almost as if it's a complicated situation.
My physics teacher straight up told us he used to break open those suckers and play with the mercury as a child.
Your school may have been on the right track :/
What school is that?
Saw thumbnail and title, then thought "Damn Cody is going to get in so much trouble with the government for filling up a lake with mercury!".
Werther's Original me too
I thought the same thing for a second there to.
lol yeah I thought the EPA was gonna have his guts for garters
I think you mean Count Cody
Oh, it's a CLICKBAIT, oh it's, bad, and he shouldn't... But anyway, cool video, who else is playing with mercury?
So the logical follow-up experiment would be mounting the RC car wheels and internals to your anvil, putting that in the mercury, and flushing it down a toilet
And peeing in an apple juice jug.
Benjamin Meijer best idea ever
And add metallic cesium for good measure.
Clearly
Stating the obvious, dude...
😂
Your aluminum engine block might not appreciate this.
Also hope you have steel rims
Both covered in thickkkk oxidation layers. The mercury would have to sit on them for a while. As soons as it hits the wheels it's getting flung off. Also mercury doesnt "stick" to aluminum. It beads off
It's not gallium dipshit
@@noreason2701 you should do some research
Will Evans I totally forgot about that
@@noreason2701 Mercury also forms an amalgam with Aluminum. Dipshit.
"you might not want to do this in the wind..."
If only there was some sort of floating vehicle that was designed to handle the wind... maybe even harness it... :-)
Yeah... if only
What is it im kindof stupid
Will Moran
Yeah , you are
Image you are driving and come across a lake of liquid mercury and you see orphans stranded on the other side on an island.
What a scenerio....lol.
I love this channel so much.
+Mustafa Ahmed _Imagine you are on one side of a Mercury lake, and there is a boat on your side._
_You have a bag of grain, a chicken, and a fox with you, and you can only go across the lake with one of them at a time. The chicken will eat the grain if you leave those two alone, and the fox will eat the chicken if you leave those two alone. How do you get all three, and yourself, across the lake of Mercury??_
Boom, *there's* your scenario!
Take the chicken first
Go back
Take fox
Bring chicken on the way back
Take grain
Come back
Take chicken
Just ask them to walk over it's not like they're going to drown
use an aluminum boat :3
Plot twist! All orphans are dead because of mercury poisoning due to mercury evaporation :D xD
If you do drive your truck across a lake of Mercury, be sure to lock your hubs first! You wouldn't want to have to get out and get your shoes full of Mercury, and track that on your carpet.
Yes! My comment got a ❤! Now my life is complete. Thanks, Cody's Lab.
Remember though, if you had to get out, you'd be "walking on the liquid" like Jesus!! Maybe only get a little mercury in your shoes :)
Nah, you'd fall flat on you face. I wonder if that would hurt.
Do it with 4x4 drive then if you can do it with a AWD sys. same volume of mercury minimize depth in favor of more horizontal drive area
Davinder, don't give away all my secrets man...
should have put a ring of neodynium magnets on the wheels and played around with Lenz's Law
@Keep it Dope a soft metal used in really powerful magnets.it's also a chemical element
Ok Austin Powers...
Yz250fTony I was thinking the exact same thing lol
I get it
Next time on codys lab: Can you live on mercury?
House boat on mercury
If you have a platform you can for a while but it's relfective and also toxic.
The solar radiation wouldn't be pleasant, especially with how long a day is.
Making a house out of liquid mercury
And there's virtually no atmosphere, so you'd have to bring your own.
Next video
"SWIMMING ON LIQUID MERCURY"
lol
Pand
Not really swimming if your not submerged
I am sure cody is working on a set up and adequately mercury proof suit as we speak
I was just thinking to myself if you could dive into mercury.
Cody; when you see this, you need to buy a scuba/hazman suit and fix it up to a sufficient enough degree to swin in mercury.
Tight swimsuit gloves and slip on waterproof shoes sealed onto the sleeves of your suit with silicone then duct taped carefully.
The balaclava type snorkeling mask with goggles sewn in place and sealed off with copious amounts of silicone.
Silicone along all potential points of entry for the mercury, i.e. along the zips of your suit etc.
Breathing apparatus siliconed into your mouth.
Silicone bath before hand.
Silicone everywhere.
Just become an amorphous blob and dive into that mercury.
Your reward will be millions of views.
The exhaust pipe on the Bronco would be under the mercury. I wonder if it may be enough to block it stalling the engine.
Not with a turbo but other then that i would think so but the pipe would probably have 6inches in or so
No.
That's a valid question, with water the exhaust just blows out but mercury is heavier so I'd worry about exhaust pressure
How do you filter the crap out of the mercury when you're done?
It all floats to the top and mercury doesn't wet things, so you could do a reasonable job with a piece of paper towel. From there if you have other metals dissolved in it from the dust they will oxidize and tarnish the surface, and for that I guess you need to distill it. Cody's done that so you can go see the video.
The car isn't wearing safety glasses or gloves.
Jimmy Ostler, dont worry dude, im sure it has its safety squints engaged, n if you look real close, theres a tiny safety tie there to. All the PPE. Totally invulnerable.
Sweat less bro.
No *seat belts* either!
_GASP!_
The *humanity!*
If there's a wind storm you probably don't want to do this... Or if the weather is fine, you probably don't want to do this.
Mercury Freaking Roadways
Pro reference
is this a thunderfoot reference?
Is it possible to make a mercury fountain? Or even pump that thing through a pump ?
Of course.
Cody's unhealthy addiction to mercury
If a disaster happened and all of your mercury got dumped onto the ground what would the damage control / cleanup process be? Maybe do a controlled demo of how it penetrates into soil / sand / other surfaces and how you decontaminate it / recover that dirty of mercury?
Bump, would actually love to see this. I miss the Geology videos from back in the day, and if Cody just has to make more Mercury videos, I would love for this to be one of them.
@@PromptedHawk im curious also
His area has a ton of mercury ore. Who’s going to clean that up?
Sooooo....... Did you give the toy back to the kids! I wonder if he know Mercury vaporizes even at room temperature and the whole time he is over that pool he's breathing it in! Some people are dangerously stupid!
AQUILLA REFINING he did an episode discussing evaporation rates. You should watch it.
Dude i love your vids. Makes me feel sane after all experiments you endure when i'm just after a basic homestead
Mercury is just so damn beautiful. I'm kind of hypnotised by the silver shine of it.
Mercury freaking roadways!
Arno nümuss Yes we should have solar panels parallel to the Rd pointed towards the mercury instead of the sun because the reflections are obviously more efficient, i just need a good kickstarter video to prove it
;P
Doubledunk, yeah cody will become rich ;P
Arno nümuss They even light up!
If tires work that good, imagine how much traction a boat prop would get. Definitely would be faster then on water.
Thats something I think he should test
The resistance is also more
Ruud Good point. It would be really interesting to test different types of propellers in different mediums to see how much the force output differs.
There'd be so much resistance that probably you'd twist off the prop shaft. Torque is a booger.
Experimental Fun the prop wouldn't even sinks in the mercury probably
3:30 All I could think about was Austin Powers. That went on for much longer without talking than I thought haha. Keep up the vids, Cody. We love you, bud.
I love this channel it is unlike any other channel
Rename 2nd Channel to "Evil Count Cody", thank you sir.
lol
HKM BlackSun - Evil Count Cody the Benevolent, thank you. Blasting rights and One Thousand BEEEEES for every able body man, woman, and humanoid form homonculi! Praise be Evil Lord Cody!
Cody's E Lab?
*E* for *Evil!*
_BWAHAHAHA!!!_
HKM BlackSun fits nicely with his explosive arrows and Frost gun, as tools for evil
Man it'd be awkward if that RC had aluminium rims or frame 😂😂
Ell Bennett na dude that would be AMAZING
JBpiification I'm coming orphans!!
*splash*
*car suddenly heats up giving off plumes of fog, car rises up out of lake spawning metallic tenticals. *
*kids need therapy *
Ell Bennett whouldnt matter, aluminium oxide
Gallium destroys aluminum, not mercury
That rules out the F150 i guess
Your channel is so freaking awesome
This is the most hilarious vid you've done in a while, Cody... Splitting my sides!
I was hoping for a real car in a lake of mercury.
I Wonder if he actually has enough mercury.
Probably not.
He does not have enough, _yet_ *laughs in Cody*
Yeah, 4 boxes would do. If you made them circular, only slightly bigger than the tires themselves, you could float the car on less than 10l of mercury.
Give him some time 😂
He can easily get enough lol
A front wheel drive car would actually be better in this case since you could turn the powered wheels, allowing it to turn in the mercury better than a rear wheel drive car.
I feel strange for saying front wheel drive is better than rear wheel drive.😐
Hanif Shakiba - It would make it slide sideways, more that turn. AWD/4WD would make it turn.
TheoCampbell - In theory, but the back of the vehicle wouldn't have much drag on the mercury, so it would slide, more than turn.
It's the same reason that it didn't turn very well when Cody's vehicle was RWD; the front wheels didn't have much drag/traction.
Ideally you would have a drivetrain like a Lamborghini centenario where the back wheels turn opposite to the front wheels
AJman14 with Cody’s car the front wheels basically acted like rudders on a boat, while with a front wheel drive car it would be like combining rudders with turning engines. So it would turn better as there would be more force turning the car.
"I have enough Mercury to do a test with a real tire, but I'm not going to"
-cody
I was told by someone that retired from a local factory /machine shop that built large stamping presses that they used to have a large pit that was filled with mercury as a conveyor
for transporting large castings. I wonder if anyone thought of trying to drive on it?
Austin Powers moment?
I was gonna comment that
You Beat me to it lol
totally.
LT235/75 R15
"16 inch rim"
I think it's 15 :P
Kanglar yeah, he could have done all that math without needing to actually take measurments
I think his truck weighs more than 2700 lbs
Do you think that a full size truck would be stable enough to actually keep it upright on the mercury? I would expect the centre of mass to be quite high with it only sinking in a foot or so, wouldn't a breeze just cause the truck to flip, or do you think the weight is distributed far enough for it to stay upright?
My dad was a light house keeper way back in the 50s and early 60s here in New Zealand. The whole rotating lens assembly in the lantern room floated on a big pool of Mercury. Almost frictionless.
Next video: Replacing my blood with mercury.
That thumnail and title were so fricking good like it seems little bit like it was a real car but at the same time it's like there's no way you could get that much mercury but in your head you get that feeling like it could be it but then you realise it's an rc car and you can't be mad beacus it isn't even clickbait. Nice one Cody
Ismo I left a comment "how.... the *FUCK* did you get that much mercury?!" before the video started 😂
Entropic see it works :D
Thanks Cody I have a mercury lake near my home and have always wondered this.
That's pretty amazing...to see something that shouldn't float, not only floating, but actually getting enough traction to propel itself across it... the fact that I'm also stoned to the bone from that dab I just did very much adds to the amazement...Lol! 😂😂😂
Can a drone land and take off on it though?
thehipmyster Underrated. This would be an amazing experiment.
After that: A SpaceX Falcon 9
Cody is eventually going to have a swimming pool filled with mercury
Renegade Roofing - It would be hard to drown in it, too!
There's a problem; the differential.
An open diff would possibly let one wheel spin while the other stays still. A "Lincoln Locker" diff would be perfect for this.
This video is AWESOME.
This is going too far... I love it!
I'm saying it hasn't gone far enough
Thank you for what you do cody. You have sparked my interest is science again. I have even started my own element collection because of you
MCPOONSMASHER Esquire yeah watching him has helped me to remember why I chose separate sciences in school, before the school beat the interest out of me
Nice vid Cody. Real looking thumbnail also mate :)
Great video Cody! Even the moth on my screen seemed to like it!
Well, what next? Mercury dam?
Don't give him ideas! lol
Breaking news: heavy mercury wreckes dam
Would be a lot more effective (compact) than pumped hydro. Don't give environmentalists too many ideas.
That would actually be an amazing video, if Cody could find a turbine that could handle it (small model of course) - I'd love him to help demonstrate the increased power from the denser material falling an equivalent distance to water, and where extra losses may come in!!!
Ooh, yes, this! A pelton wheel of murcury! It'd sound like a spandau on crank. Toxic electro-motive joy!
If that car only weighs 1.5 pounds, it looks like it would probably float on water with those big balloon tires. What happens when you put it on water?
it floats just a lot less so.
I called it!
This video was uploaded today
How did you comment on it FOUR DAYS AGO?!
Released not uploaded.
I see. Thank you for clearing that up!
That turning skit had me in bits, Austin powers, Cody style
Hello from sunny South Africa Love your channel, keep safe!
if you ever go to mars I can totally see you mining all the mercury and building your own lake of mercury, just because it would be darn cool to do.
SuperBrainAK I think because the vapour pressure of Hg is so high, and the atmospheric pressure of Mars is lower it'd probably evaporate even more quickly than on earth.
If you had a lake of Mercury you'd quite quickly have no lake of mercury, and a whole area contaminated with Mercury vapour.
Sounds healthy
ok ill wait to go to a planet where it is possible, colder and more gravity?
Colder and more pressure.
Jeeze guys. Leave the nerding-out to Cody ffs. Brian is just creating a hypothetical scenario that absolutely seems to jive with Cody's personality. The guy really loves his Mercury and i'm sure he'd love to have a lake of it. No matter if it were on Venus, Titan, or Earth.
If you guys could think outside of the box you could easily come up with a solution for keeping Mercury from evaporating. Say, maybe a pressurized dome for example. Then you can shove your pressure levels up your ass :)
Whatever the hypothetical case may be, i'm pretty sure the EPA would be all over him. Even on another planet. Talk about government overreach.
Two things I'd like to see: a four-wheel-drive car and a wider, shallower pool of mercury. Looks like an inch of depth should be more than enough, giving you some space to maybe actually drive around a bit.
how did u see this vid 4 days ago bruh?
When it was posted on Patreon days ago.
sometimes my grandad lets me poo in his garden
Tom Slade what the fuck?
Thanks to you, i know much more then my school teach me... 👍🙏
I gravely underestimated how delightful an RC car on mercury would be.... that high speed action was 10/10
mold a record out of gold and see if it plays that'll be a hit
It would deform pretty rapidly but would be a nice test. I could see some Steampunk Empire's upper class using them XD
There is already a record molded out of gold and it is currently on its way out of the solar system. It played just fine before it left earth...and is probably still in mint condition considering Voyager is still sending signals.
The More You Know...
Love your videos Cody. Just don't poison yourself. Your a brilliant mind and a valuable resource. Keep it up, Cheers.
ok...now for the full size test....only you Cody only you would i expect to see find a way to do this with a full size car lol. awesome video!! thank you!
Time to get a building with an indoor pool (check ads for old gyms, sports centers, etc. for sale that would have one), seal the place Hg-tight (so no Hg escapes at all; don't want any going to waste), including airlocks, everyone inside will have to wear air-supplied suits (so no one breathes Hg vapors), and experiment away!
I'll let you guess what he will name the place.
or just bring it down to -32F with an industrial freezer
This should be used in a movie on some kind of planet with lakes of mercury where they have to save a stranded spaceship
That would be pretty cool to be honest
This is really awesome. I have always kinda wondered this.
x9x9x9x9x9 how did you edit that 4 days ago
rwl 04 patreon. I like to support the people I watch frequently on patreon which has benefits of getting early access to some videos.
Amazing video Cody! I want to get a high def macro shot in slow motion of the treads lapping up traction on the mercury...
you should put a glass tub on top of the mercury. The flat surface of the glass would prevent any ripples, making a great mirror
That feeling when you see a Cody's Lab video uploaded just now when you open youtube..
Geon George And then realise its some older material. But its new to us
Melvin Jansen Doesn't matter. It's still new to me
Just don't drive an aluminum car
Or a golden car
Such a nerd.
Well worth subbing as this is just a taste of what this guy gets upto.
Complicated science to blowing things up this channel has it all.
I love how the mercury droplets thrown by the wheels sound lie glass beads or small gravel as they fly around
Can you blow airbubbles with that airduster can in mercury?
Probably, though I think it would greatly depend on how deep it was (too far down and the pressure outside the can will be greater than the pressure inside and the mercury will enter the can instead of the air escaping).
Canned "air" is usually something like propane or butane in the can.
nope it's usually refrigerant, there's no way in hell they would allow propane/butane to be used as a "air" can
EDIT: well it turns out they used to be butane/propane in the past but they stopped using it
Witgang Younotube all aerosol cand typically use propane or butane as they can be a liquid at the cans pressure. Propane is also a refrigerant, called R290, I use it a bit.
If by refrigerant you mean the massively dangerous ones that cause green houses, and previous ones that degrade the ozone layer, they do not use them, at all, to do so is a massive crime in civilised counties.
Joshua, please do some research before replying (at the very least read the introduction to the wikipedia article I linked). No, they do not use flammable propellants, and no, the fluorocarbons they use do not deplete the ozone layer. They ARE a greenhouse gas, but they are pretty insignificant compared to the carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere (they don't "cause greenhouses" though, greenhouses are glass buildings). Incidentally butane is ALSO a greenhouse gas, as are the products of its combustion.
From the article: "Ozone layer depletion: Gas dusters sold in many countries are ozone safe as they use "zero ODP" (zero ozone depletion potential) gases; tetrafluoroethane, for example, has insignificant ODP. This is a separate issue from the global warming concern."
If you drop a steel ball from a height into a deep container of mercury will it bounce up like a beach ball held under water?
Yes.
Except it wouldn’t go very deep
Hey Cody,
Greetings from a fellow Utahn! I've been seeing a lot of dyed carnations in grocery stores lately and was wondering if you think the blue dye you synthesized from woad a few years ago could turn white flowers blue. Do you think the dye would travel through the stems and dye the pedals, or would it either stop at the stem or not absorb at all? I think it would make a cool video if you could dye flowers with "flowers."
hey i just wanna say i love your videos Cody and i hope your well.
a question will a sailing boat with a led keel function in mercury? As in will it A. float to the water line and B. sail using only the wind (other tests in this vain could consist of, can the bost sail in to the wind or only with it? or can the boat sail in the mercury with the wind on its beam? est).
Oh no. Count Cody is gonna take over the world!
Wait, that's a good thing!
Go, science!!
he just want some of that fortune.
Cody can you refine lithium from sea water? that would be so cool
Bodie Hw - sodium too!
he doesnt live anywhere near the ocean lol
Have you seen a "Liquid Mirror Telescope"? They use a large dish of spinning mercury or gallium to create a parabolic mirror. Would be cool to see you create your own one.
i was going to bring up that you'd have to be careful about the aluminum parts, then right at the last moment you talked about the rims. though a lot of other parts would be aluminum like control arms and such. so that would need to be protected or replaces with steel. keep up the good work this was really interesting.
Hey Cody, you work with mercury so often. Do you ever get blood tests to check whether you are inhaling or ingesting any mercury accidentally?
Reiss Cashmore He did a while back. If I remember correctly, his levels were actually on the lower end of normal. Cody is just as safe if not more than he has ever been.
Mercury will FUK U UP Cody, b careful.
elemental mercury is fine, its dimethyl mercury you want to worry about.
Unrealistic, I would never drive over mercury to save orphans.. remake the video with a pot of gold cody!
231 inches cubed per gallon.
I'm glad I use the Metric system.
Ian glad you silly poopoo
very @@good-content
Imagine not using metric
The metric system is poopy peeper bummm bum
How many bathtubs is this?
would an rc boat be able to float normally or would it tip over? if it can float normally would the motor be strong enough to turn the propeller? maybe it would be able to go faster through the water.
Appropriate use of the spongebob meme. This video is approved !!! Also overlord Cody !!! 🤣🤣🤣👍
Love the reference to A Series of Unfortunate Events ! Count Cody! Science Rebel! Much love and Respect from Phillip and Essenam !
That's one hell of a thumbnail!!! Thought it was real. Nice job.
That part where you're trying to turn the RC car around in the tub reminds me of that scene in Austin Powers where he's doing that same shit in Dr. Evils "lay-air" Cracking me up, famalam
231 cubic inches per gallon?! Ridiculous imperial units!
*imperial march intensifies*
Because why would someone make a video which the other 95% of humanity using normal units can understand too, right? I have absolutely no idea what a gallon even is supposed to be, not even talking about the cubic potatos ...
Georg Hammerschmid 4.546 litres
** Us customary units - the US of course doesn't use the imperial units that its system was based upon, not the Si-Units :P
oh, 4 potatos? That's a lot. Got it now :-P
Cody got them girls wathin live action.
*AND THEY SAY SCIENCE DOESN'T GET YOU GALS*
Pseudo Memes Indeed my friend,black magic maybe.
I always wish I went to Uni to be a chemist, but at the same time, I'm always _more_ than satisfied with backyards experiments like ones found here
but cody, would the presure that the mercury exerts on the wheels not compress the air further thus lowering the volume of the wheels (if the wheels would survive) which would make it so that you sink in deeper, or is that not how it works?
This worked way better, than expected! :D
Would be able to steer much better id it was 4wd or front wheel drive
many youtubers rock the latest iphone 10 cody still uses an older version i respect you senpai
Cody awesome video as always! Just wanted to let you know your trucks wheels are 15s and not 16s. This is noted as the 15 in the 235/75r15 or radius 15. Also the section width is 235mm.
XKCD's What If had a segment on a boat floating on various liquids including mercury.
An aluminium boat!! :-D
I guess you mean unmixable fluids? The liquids would separate so the boat would only float on the less dense.
if this liquid would be dense enough for it to float on that is. If it's not your boat would continuously sink deeper until you get to a liquid that is dense enough.
Carsten Koch each liquid was it's own scenario. What he said is accurate
Jerry McFletcher I miss What If on xkcd.
Daniel Foster oh xkcd is a Chanel. Thaught it was just an abbreviation.
My bad!
But your centre of mass on your truck is front heavy, so it wouldn't float level.
He can just put his gold in the bed. Surely he has enough to weigh it down pretty well!
illidur LOL
Lol as soon as I seen the look on your face at the beginning I knew it was gonna be good.
well played cody, well played