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All about Mercury, the Liquid Metal | Element Series

NileRed
2017 ж. 22 Там.
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In this video, I'll be talking about the very interesting element Mercury. I try to cover as much as I can, including its properties, its history and interesting reactions.
Let me know what other element you would like to see. Keep in mind that this takes a lot of work though, and that not all elements will be possible (due to rarity and/or danger).
Let me know if I forgot anything in the description. I probably left out links or something.
Video Sources:
• Freezing Mercury (Periodic Videos): • Pouring Mercury into L...
• Hand in mercury (Cody's Lab): • Bare Hand vs Liquid Me...
• Mercury Distillation: • Distilling Mercury Metal
• Mercury Vapor (Periodic Videos): • Looking at Mercury Vap...
• Mercury Switches: • Mercury Tilt Switch an...
• Mercury Conductivity Test: • Video
• Mercury Nitrate: • Making Mercury Thiocya...
• Pharaoh's Serpent (original): • The Pharaoh's Serpent ...
• Pharaoh's Serpent 4K: • Making the Pharaoh's S...
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  • NileRed: touches mercury Science teachers: You know the rules, its time to die

    @deocactuss27@deocactuss273 жыл бұрын

    • DeoCactuss27 say goodbye

      @minilamma4879@minilamma48793 жыл бұрын

    • 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

      @user-iq2ng3qc7x@user-iq2ng3qc7x3 жыл бұрын

    • @Boi Exist lol same

      @thineevee7345@thineevee73453 жыл бұрын

    • *SAY GOODBYE🔫*

      @jimtsap04@jimtsap043 жыл бұрын

    • You know the rules, say goodbye

      @adi_g@adi_g3 жыл бұрын

  • All my science teachers: mercury is toxic never touch it NileRed: hehe touchy touchy

    @amy-leigh4962@amy-leigh49623 жыл бұрын

    • Lol ikr

      @fennecflew@fennecflew3 жыл бұрын

    • @@fennecflew ik its a joke but there are different types of mercury.

      @nwfyandex@nwfyandex3 жыл бұрын

    • Our physics teacher put hand in a large bath of mercury and so did her students. It was however back in times where common sense still had some say over paranoid chemophobia that rules today.

      @LiborTinka@LiborTinka3 жыл бұрын

    • We were never even allowed to have it in our lab 😂😂 I guess there was too many asshole trouble makers for that

      @amy-leigh4962@amy-leigh49623 жыл бұрын

    • Nile: hold my beer

      @micah_wong@micah_wong3 жыл бұрын

  • 2:11 I have an old landline phone that has a mercury switch as a mute function. If the handset is placed horizontally, like on a table, it mutes the microphone. When held on the ear, it is unmuted. Cool to see here how it actually works (together with a lot of other interesting info about mercury of course)👍🏻

    @Penzuh@Penzuh Жыл бұрын

    • That’s brilliant.

      @Gr13fKvlt@Gr13fKvlt3 ай бұрын

  • I'm allergic to mercury, can't even touch it without getting really really sick. This allergy is so rare and weird to find out that when I told my science teacher back in high school he didn't believe me and mocked me saying "Everyone is "allergic" to poison". I found this allergy when a thermometer broke on my leg and I touched a drop of mercury smaller than a drop of water, I don't want to imagine how sick I would get by putting a finger like in the video.

    @amadeoperezgrille2214@amadeoperezgrille2214 Жыл бұрын

    • bro that teacher though but that's cool. of all the metals you could be allergic to, it's mercury

      @hanbigim@hanbigim Жыл бұрын

    • @@hanbigim cool but also a blessing that they're not allergic to any of the common metals in everyday life.

      @sirfyodor@sirfyodor Жыл бұрын

    • @@sirfyodor imagine you were allergic to prolonged contact with stainless steel which i find like everywhere

      @hanbigim@hanbigim Жыл бұрын

    • As someone with a lot of allergies I'm always interested in hearing about allergies that I don't have, wasn't aware it was possible to be allergic to Mercury! Would you be willing to mention how bad your reaction was?

      @Wizzkidwas@Wizzkidwas Жыл бұрын

    • try not to leave offspring

      @user-iw1qn3mt7e@user-iw1qn3mt7e Жыл бұрын

  • Gold: I am a Precious solid metal, I can make you rich Gold + 1 proton : I am liquid and I can poison you

    @vladimirlegrand2917@vladimirlegrand29175 жыл бұрын

    • Man arent chemicals weird

      @lolxd4871@lolxd48714 жыл бұрын

    • @@lolxd4871 kinda

      @sugarwater8254@sugarwater82544 жыл бұрын

    • @Berry Squadin lol nice

      @sugarwater8254@sugarwater82544 жыл бұрын

    • @@sciousane8872 yes 100%

      @sugarwater8254@sugarwater82544 жыл бұрын

    • Gold + 2 protons: I am now solid again, but 'I'll still poison you.

      @zgcolorforce214@zgcolorforce2144 жыл бұрын

  • "I'm very careful when I use it" _shakes container violently_

    @bobschnitzenheimer9192@bobschnitzenheimer91923 жыл бұрын

    • Came to post this, good work.

      @frstnme316@frstnme3163 жыл бұрын

    • timestamp?

      @errorfox6871@errorfox68713 жыл бұрын

    • @@errorfox6871 7:47

      @franciscajardimcorreia6968@franciscajardimcorreia69683 жыл бұрын

    • @@franciscajardimcorreia6968 thxx

      @errorfox6871@errorfox68713 жыл бұрын

    • LOL

      @animegod9221@animegod92213 жыл бұрын

  • They are also used in super-high-current electrical switches (usually in marine applications) that controls hundreds of amps of current because the ability for mercury to "heal" contact spots.

    @xavierjiang7112@xavierjiang7112 Жыл бұрын

  • Thanks for the informative video. Mercury-filled gauges are an essential tool for maintenance of multi-carburetor engines. (read: most motorcycles before EFI.) And it’s getting harder to get mercury refills for them because everyone is so freaked out about how dangerous it is.

    @JohnSmith-kg3im@JohnSmith-kg3im Жыл бұрын

  • yo my teacher played this on a lesson so well done you've earned science teacher approval

    @nick_gold2327@nick_gold23273 жыл бұрын

    • Niceeee pog

      @rosynguyen9075@rosynguyen90752 жыл бұрын

    • What a lazy teacher.

      @nasknifeboi@nasknifeboi2 жыл бұрын

    • @@nasknifeboi she's actually quite nice

      @nick_gold2327@nick_gold23272 жыл бұрын

    • @@nick_gold2327 Niiiiice

      @ktrsh@ktrsh2 жыл бұрын

    • @@nick_gold2327 lucky

      @theguywhoasked6104@theguywhoasked61042 жыл бұрын

  • *Another fact about mercury is that it can sing very well*

    @LunaI00v0@LunaI00v05 жыл бұрын

    • Good one 😂

      @orangutato@orangutato5 жыл бұрын

    • I was waiting for this joke😂

      @melaniepellens1152@melaniepellens11525 жыл бұрын

    • I forgot where this is referencing from but I still got it

      @corndogconnoisseur@corndogconnoisseur5 жыл бұрын

    • @@corndogconnoisseur It's referenced for Freddie Mercury

      @orangutato@orangutato5 жыл бұрын

    • I thought it referred to Mariah Carey (kinda sounds like Mercury when pronounced fastly)

      @ariffaizad695@ariffaizad6955 жыл бұрын

  • Hi Nigel, I know it's already been done (notably by periodic videos), I'd like to see you gradually traverse though the ENTIRE periodic table of elements. (Your video 'style' is somewhat different to that of Martin / Brady et al so it's worth having you do the whole lot)

    @trevorvanbremen4718@trevorvanbremen4718 Жыл бұрын

  • Excellent video, excellent ! It was very educational Bill Nye the Science Guy can not put a candle flame to you. Kudos to you dude! This is coming to you from Mobile Alabama the Gulf of Mexico the deepest of the South. Thank you, they should put your videos in science classes in, grammar schools and jr. colleges and so on. You have a way of making a person want to watch, listen and learn. I love science. Your video was Made Simple and easy-to-understand it helps to have someone who can get something across that is so hard but made simple enough that the Layman can understand. Thank you dude 😊

    @shelleyhicks2099@shelleyhicks20992 жыл бұрын

  • "it can be turned into Mercury by roasting it" me: you look like a weak metal

    @anwoo8825@anwoo88254 жыл бұрын

    • I lol'd

      @justalittleblackraincloud@justalittleblackraincloud4 жыл бұрын

    • me: You're a trash food supplement but I'm still gonna shit you out with my excess cereal.

      @dddmemaybe@dddmemaybe4 жыл бұрын

    • @@dddmemaybe whoo it's getting hot in here

      @blankface.34@blankface.344 жыл бұрын

    • Vermillion: How dare you? I’m going to kill you Vermillion: Splits into Mercury

      @gabrielgan369@gabrielgan3694 жыл бұрын

    • R o a s t e d

      @nodnarbthegreatest@nodnarbthegreatest4 жыл бұрын

  • Me: thats toxic Brain: how does it feel in our mouth

    @nickpurnell2769@nickpurnell27693 жыл бұрын

    • He said the mercury is inside sea fish. So you know how it taste. The bigger (predator) like shark have much mercury than small fish like salmon

      @sakurarope6049@sakurarope60493 жыл бұрын

    • @@sakurarope6049 I'm talking about taste I'm wondering what that cup of liquid mercury would feel like moving around my mouth

      @nickpurnell2769@nickpurnell27693 жыл бұрын

    • @@nickpurnell2769 you can find out you know. Shame about the poisoning part.

      @namedrop721@namedrop7213 жыл бұрын

    • I tried it Now I'm flying around

      @matezwizard9764@matezwizard97643 жыл бұрын

    • @@matezwizard9764 was.....was it worth it

      @nickpurnell2769@nickpurnell27693 жыл бұрын

  • Hey thank’s for telling necessary information’s about this I hope you make more!

    @genericbreeze5637@genericbreeze56372 жыл бұрын

  • I had no idea how interesting mercury could be. 😃 That reaction on aluminium and gold is amazing.

    @keiyangoshin3650@keiyangoshin36502 жыл бұрын

  • NileRed: woah, look at all these cool aluminium oxide fibres Everyone else on the plane:

    @Silvera-Avian@Silvera-Avian3 жыл бұрын

    • 0-0

      @thepoptartgamingguys2768@thepoptartgamingguys27682 жыл бұрын

    • 👁👄👁

      @UwU........@UwU........2 жыл бұрын

    • NONONONONONO THAT'S BAD

      @davidpichardo6240@davidpichardo62402 жыл бұрын

    • Guess I'll die

      @baige76@baige762 жыл бұрын

    • Oh my meme

      @Bramon83@Bramon832 жыл бұрын

  • "In terms of toxicity, Mercury Metal is not that dangerous" School teachers: "You would be more likely to survive the Chernobyl blast than survive mercury touchy"

    @CaptainCoolzCT-@CaptainCoolzCT-3 жыл бұрын

    • Well billions of people survived Chernoby compared to how many died, sure a lot of the people that survived were no where near the reactor, most even lived outside Ukraine but they were alive before Chernobyl and still alive after.

      @devilmaycry1980@devilmaycry19803 жыл бұрын

    • @@devilmaycry1980 lmao billions?

      @DIO-lq1bv@DIO-lq1bv3 жыл бұрын

    • @@devilmaycry1980 lol someone doesnt know their numbers rofl xD

      @zadiczane7618@zadiczane76183 жыл бұрын

    • @@DIO-lq1bv and Zane, whoosh. the joke was that the whole population of earth survived Chernobyl which is numbered in the billions. They were alive before the event and they were alive after so "survived".

      @devilmaycry1980@devilmaycry19803 жыл бұрын

    • Mohamed Ashraf I mean maybe a little context would of been nice

      @jasonchen9982@jasonchen99823 жыл бұрын

  • Ty so much for all this information. Now I know more about mercury so when I come across it I know everything about it. Have a great day.😀

    @NarutoUzumaki-wq3xs@NarutoUzumaki-wq3xs2 жыл бұрын

  • Wow. Great video. Everything I've always wanted to know about Mercury without taking a science course. Thanks!

    @SBY77.@SBY77.Ай бұрын

  • Him: **dips fingers in Mercury** Me: *wait, that's illegal*

    @ExtremeAwesome81010@ExtremeAwesome810103 жыл бұрын

    • *Then Dips whole hand in Mercury*

      @ahamedmaluk1493@ahamedmaluk14933 жыл бұрын

    • It would go up his........ That turned dirty quickly

      @akidoomar@akidoomar3 жыл бұрын

    • Correction; Teacher: *Wait, that’s illegal.*

      @cheef9504@cheef95043 жыл бұрын

    • Some kid is probably going to see this and think "what are they talking about" Come to think of it .......why would a kid come here?

      @akidoomar@akidoomar3 жыл бұрын

    • Do you watch sssniperwolf?

      @adrijachai7591@adrijachai75913 жыл бұрын

  • I was dead when he said "For some reason if you decided to swallow it" in a completely flat voice.

    @binayadharmapala8744@binayadharmapala87443 жыл бұрын

    • The first Chinese emperor would shallow Mercury believing it will make him immortal

      @burnsbooks69@burnsbooks692 жыл бұрын

    • And in the end the emperor died due to mercury i think

      @Iamyourgrandpa.@Iamyourgrandpa.2 жыл бұрын

    • The true end, emperor became immortal in history.

      @justanormalguy1921@justanormalguy19212 жыл бұрын

    • @@burnsbooks69 what happened next?

      @sisyphus-the-big-guy979@sisyphus-the-big-guy9792 жыл бұрын

    • @@sisyphus-the-big-guy979 transfer student shows up with even bigger bonkhonagahoogs. humongous hungolomghononoloughongous

      @gault6546@gault65462 жыл бұрын

  • Who would have thought that mercury looks so amazing! And how it interacts with aluminum and mercury thiocyanate can be viewed endlessly. A very relaxing sight. It's a pity teacher didn't show me this in chemistry lessons.

    @cinemartin3530@cinemartin35302 жыл бұрын

  • Thanks for helping me make mercury, I got cinabbar and called it stupid and ugly and got the metal. Keep up with the amazing content!

    @xcoolchoixandanjgaming1076@xcoolchoixandanjgaming1076 Жыл бұрын

  • 7:08 "Generally less scary" I'm starting to doubt if anything can be scarier than that image

    @annette_lu@annette_lu4 жыл бұрын

    • HEHE

      @ajme_@ajme_4 жыл бұрын

    • Cursed image

      @Litovskyy@Litovskyy4 жыл бұрын

    • It would scary if those funny teeths are taken off....

      @minecraftworld5684@minecraftworld56844 жыл бұрын

    • @Merlin thnx for the info...

      @minecraftworld5684@minecraftworld56844 жыл бұрын

    • @@minecraftworld5684 the worlds oldest shark has no teeth. That's what you get though when you're over 400 years old.

      @nunpho@nunpho4 жыл бұрын

  • 07:42 "I'm very careful when I use it" *shakes the shit out of it*

    @consmos@consmos5 жыл бұрын

    • Shaking it's not going to do anything. That's not the danger here.

      @brianbethea3069@brianbethea30695 жыл бұрын

    • @@brianbethea3069 I'm aware. I thought the context and timing was entertaining

      @consmos@consmos5 жыл бұрын

    • Puts finger in it

      @LLLadySSS@LLLadySSS5 жыл бұрын

    • Eeew that 0 before 7. Ughhh i am feeling horrible.

      @ShadowLobster@ShadowLobster5 жыл бұрын

    • He wasn't wearing glerves

      @SangheiliSpecOp@SangheiliSpecOp5 жыл бұрын

  • Was really interesting. Second video fo yours that I've watched. it would be nice to see some quiz questions to see if I've learned anything from this video

    @DervishV2Nihil@DervishV2Nihil2 жыл бұрын

  • Informative!! Thanks for making these videos.

    @SaunaShruti@SaunaShruti10 ай бұрын

  • "I'm very careful with it" *Aggressively Shakes bottle*

    @thtuwrawld_nE@thtuwrawld_nE3 жыл бұрын

    • Tf is ur nickname

      @asalt1872@asalt18722 жыл бұрын

    • @@asalt1872 lol

      @thtuwrawld_nE@thtuwrawld_nE2 жыл бұрын

    • copied comment

      @TripType72_YT@TripType72_YT2 жыл бұрын

    • @@TripType72_YT its original, any others are coincidental

      @thtuwrawld_nE@thtuwrawld_nE2 жыл бұрын

    • @@asalt1872 Translator for dummies: 1 th0t u w3r3 a w1ld_0n3 aka "I thought you were a wild one"

      @wdjh3434@wdjh34342 жыл бұрын

  • When I was a child, I was told that mercury would eat the flesh off my hand if I ever touched it. So seeing this hand and finger plunging at 36 years of age has blown my mind.

    @andrewc.2952@andrewc.29522 жыл бұрын

    • We were told that one can poop out their own intestines if mercury gets into the body.

      @lota13@lota132 жыл бұрын

    • That's good, they tried to keep you safe and away from it. Imagine if you were a kid who tended to have cuts in your hands, like me, and got curious when a thermometer broke and the mercury spilled

      @vdd1001@vdd10012 жыл бұрын

    • @@vdd1001 you know, you would still probably have been fine. mercury metal is mostly harmless when it comes to short exposures like that, you should really research it, its cool stuff. on the other hand, these people lied to us with the intent to deceive us, I don't know about you, but I definitely don't appreciate that. (regardless of safety, lies are still lies) mercury absorbs super slowly through skin, its not very dangerous to touch, even with a cut on your hand, its only like 5% faster compared to undamaged skin. your "danger scenario" isn't all that dangerous. and the actual problem here is not the mercury, its the storing of it in a fragile container. broken glass is also sharp, why not mention that? in fact... that could even be the _cause_ for the cuts on your hand xD

      @Metal_Master_YT@Metal_Master_YT2 жыл бұрын

    • @@Metal_Master_YT bruh chill out. Like the video says, it likes to stick around and is dangerous to have in your body, our parents didn't want us to touch it just in case. You're talking about it as if it were a good substance

      @vdd1001@vdd10012 жыл бұрын

    • @@vdd1001 dude, you literally said it was good for our parents to lie to us? and no, I'm not talking about mercury as if it were *good,* I'm actually just treating it like something neutral, because the vast majority of the time, *that's exactly what it is.* again, plz research this, mercury is a fairly _inert_ metal, people have exaggerated the danger for attention.

      @Metal_Master_YT@Metal_Master_YT2 жыл бұрын

  • If only my science teacher could be this interesting

    2 жыл бұрын

  • Really informative video with a lot of details. I am interested because I see people using it (on videos) when refining gold from ore. And I heard about that woman who died. Your video explained the differences quite well. I still have no plans to touch or use or get near the stuff voluntarily.

    @michiganprospectors@michiganprospectors Жыл бұрын

  • I know that mercury sticks to itself but i bet it wants to break free

    @benrey5144@benrey51445 жыл бұрын

    • No because its underpressure

      @dead2675@dead26755 жыл бұрын

    • Nice 1

      @tuuvet@tuuvet5 жыл бұрын

    • Eight Trailer r/whooosh

      @deckyg1816@deckyg18165 жыл бұрын

    • Decky G r/whoosh

      @kittyNya38@kittyNya385 жыл бұрын

    • D-man747 r/doublewhammy

      @deckyg1816@deckyg18165 жыл бұрын

  • Imagine renaming something as epic as "Hydrargyrum" to just "Mercury"

    @josephikrakowskiwithflextape@josephikrakowskiwithflextape3 жыл бұрын

    • We still call it hydrargyrum (υδράργυρος) in Greece

      @costis1979@costis19793 жыл бұрын

    • In Dutch it's called 'kwik'

      @DaveBits@DaveBits3 жыл бұрын

    • In Korean, the word is 수은, which is literally water+silver

      @inlegend2129@inlegend21293 жыл бұрын

    • InLegend 212 Ayyyy Korean Squad!

      @coralbytes@coralbytes3 жыл бұрын

    • Tbh its not that hard to pronounce and memorize

      @rome.u@rome.u3 жыл бұрын

  • “It’s elemental symbol is HG, because it’s based off its older and much harder to pronounce name” The pause after this made me think he wasn’t gonna tell us the old name.

    @calthepal312@calthepal3122 жыл бұрын

    • It's old name is Hydrargyrum, and yes it's a nightmare to even pronounce

      @Electroblade360@Electroblade36015 күн бұрын

  • Bro your videos are cool and really help me learn my chemistry, for example, I thought mercury couldn't be so dangerous but now that I watched this video I get it

    @user-hj8ud1cv6n@user-hj8ud1cv6n Жыл бұрын

  • my teacher: so, don't touch mercury because it's dangerous others: *puts their hands on a glass of mercury*

    @Kai-gk8qy@Kai-gk8qy4 жыл бұрын

    • It should be backbenchers than others😂😂😂

      @Diffping@Diffping4 жыл бұрын

    • Billie Eyelash beach When I was in high school, we could put our hand in a cup of mercury and roll around some drops in our hands. Only years later, I learned it was toxic.

      @drn6741@drn67414 жыл бұрын

    • There's a certain mercury that can be handled

      @aresRebellion@aresRebellion4 жыл бұрын

    • @@aresRebellion yeah there's a mercury substitute that is used for teaching etc

      @nunpho@nunpho4 жыл бұрын

    • they probably used gallium or something

      @doggyspeak@doggyspeak4 жыл бұрын

  • If my chemistry lessons looked this interesting...I would... ...nah, I would have still failed the exams. Never mind.

    @SuperWowstyle@SuperWowstyle3 жыл бұрын

    • Well we might have still failed it but at least with less snoring in class tho

      @chottabeamm@chottabeamm3 жыл бұрын

    • 🤣🤣🤣

      @sukhdev9411@sukhdev94113 жыл бұрын

    • I really like your honesty

      @rising0675@rising06753 жыл бұрын

    • I probably still fail the exams but atleast I'll attend at every lesson

      @hansdayo@hansdayo3 жыл бұрын

    • But I wouldn't

      @nutsbeta1325@nutsbeta13253 жыл бұрын

  • Very interesting. If you could tell in more detail about the reactions in which mercury compounds can serve as catalysts, it would be especially good

    @user-je3fx6li3w@user-je3fx6li3w9 ай бұрын

  • There’s nothing like a good shot of mercury in the morning 😀I love this stuff.

    @mondoseguendo6113@mondoseguendo6113 Жыл бұрын

  • Boiling mercury? You sir are a brave fella

    @Offroadcircus@Offroadcircus5 жыл бұрын

    • in his own home… oh boi what I wonder what could go wrong… ecks dhe

      @kristofszilvasi9021@kristofszilvasi90215 жыл бұрын

    • swoooooooooosh

      @PogMcDog@PogMcDog5 жыл бұрын

    • sicc boi

      @seamuspink9098@seamuspink90985 жыл бұрын

    • inside a house well pretty dangerous but boiling mercury is a common to take out the impurity

      @wangruochuan@wangruochuan5 жыл бұрын

    • You should check out Codyslab lol the guy lives on mercury

      @brunofurtado8382@brunofurtado83825 жыл бұрын

  • Nile red: so anyways I made a small atomic bomb and it’s pretty dangerous. I sleep with it at night.

    @nathanwalker7975@nathanwalker79753 жыл бұрын

    • Lmao totally he actually played with radiation before sooooo...

      @deadboy783@deadboy7833 жыл бұрын

    • @@deadboy783 explains the 7 fingers then

      @_Highxway@_Highxway3 жыл бұрын

    • @@deadboy783 you play with radiation every day and just don't know it.

      @Sugarsail1@Sugarsail13 жыл бұрын

    • @@deadboy783 so do you. You are right at this moment as you read this..

      @ModernGentleman@ModernGentleman3 жыл бұрын

    • Bro its 3 in the morning and this made my day

      @acethecat3466@acethecat34663 жыл бұрын

  • One of the best videos I have ever seen, as a chemical engineer

    @shanon1217@shanon12172 жыл бұрын

  • amazng video. You always do quality stuff.

    @shaalis@shaalis2 жыл бұрын

  • This really says something, I thought I didn’t like chemistry and didn’t enjoy the class. Now I’m sitting here willing to binge these videos.

    @abdu8359@abdu83593 жыл бұрын

    • Yup. If you don't like chemistry, it was just poorly taught to you.

      @theregalproletariat@theregalproletariat2 жыл бұрын

    • Haha I almost failed Chem my teacher passed me if I wouldn't take the class again. I hated it so much. Now I'm watching all this stuff going wait a minute it wasn't nearly this cool or useful back then. That was 14 years ago

      @nathantoews152@nathantoews1522 жыл бұрын

    • well you don't need to memorize any formulae to watch these videos

      @dububro@dububro2 жыл бұрын

    • What schools should do, and never did (at least when I was in them), is every year poll the students about what topics they were interested in, what ones they weren't, why, and how fun the classes were. (among other things for older students) Teachers can make or break your future, literally. They deserve respect and a well paying salary for what they have to do every day.. but they also deserve scrutiny about their capability and performance too. For me, school was the absolute worst part of my life, and my career choice is something that wasn't touched by schooling at all.

      @AceStrife@AceStrife2 жыл бұрын

    • These videos are essentially fun information and trivia. They're not giving you anything and then making you apply the information, or figure out formulas, or asking you to (basically) work. They're great to supplement what you learn in a classroom, but do you really learn anything functional from this?

      @KingRidley@KingRidley2 жыл бұрын

  • *Why are you lying, Mercury is the closest planet to sun in Solar System*

    @DerpyNub@DerpyNub3 жыл бұрын

    • There's a reason why the folks keep you locked in the basement. (yer noodles have stuck to the pan, the meds don't work and they can't afford to have you institutionalized) 🤪 just kid'n.

      @Thwarptide@Thwarptide3 жыл бұрын

    • ha ha XD

      @battleblox9334@battleblox93343 жыл бұрын

    • @@Thwarptide *laughs in satire*

      @humongousppenergy6693@humongousppenergy66933 жыл бұрын

    • *_laughter_*

      @thischannelwillbedeletedve460@thischannelwillbedeletedve4603 жыл бұрын

    • lol xD

      @battleblox9334@battleblox93343 жыл бұрын

  • Old video I know but wonderful, thanks. I'm 72 and when I was a kid, we had plastic maze toys that had a blob of mercury in them that you tilted the toy to get it from one end/start to the other. LOTS of fun. Of course, eventually we broke one, not sure if intentionally or not, and then played with the mercury on something flat (no idea what, perhaps plastic?). Also, my dad had a small bottle (very small, maybe 4 ounces?) of mercury. NO idea why he had it and never thought to ask how/why he got it. I think I actually took it when they moved out of the house so it's somewhere in my garage... :)

    @richardwernst@richardwernst11 ай бұрын

  • Awesome video . Thanks for the educational video . 🙏🙏🙏 . I think a video about plutonium would be awesome.

    @88arakvita@88arakvita Жыл бұрын

  • I was recently watching Queen music videos and thats What yt reccomended me...

    @oscarman8070@oscarman80703 жыл бұрын

    • I mean Freddy Mercury haha

      @mic-shellcrackson3800@mic-shellcrackson38003 жыл бұрын

    • queen is a science

      @essenceisaway3633@essenceisaway36333 жыл бұрын

    • @@essenceisaway3633 yep, music is science

      @tsquitz@tsquitz3 жыл бұрын

    • 69 likes nice

      @levetatorgaming@levetatorgaming3 жыл бұрын

    • 🤣🤣🤣

      @adnanhimaloy3665@adnanhimaloy36653 жыл бұрын

  • I’m REALLY surprised you didn’t mention how hatters used mercury to stiffen and shine hats and the ensuing mental issues caused by a constant intake of mercury gas caused many to go mad, and thus “mad hatters” were common during this time, and the phrase “mad as a hatter” was born, and the Alice in Wonderland character was based on such a concept of a “mad” or insane hatter. This is from the 18th to 20th century btw,

    @Nightmare-pj4fg@Nightmare-pj4fg2 жыл бұрын

    • Omg! So interesting 😁 would love to know more historical trivia like this

      @wge621@wge6212 жыл бұрын

    • Thank you for the clarification on this. I’ve been confused when folks I’ve known used that term without context.

      @MightyFineMan@MightyFineMan2 жыл бұрын

    • PROVE it! Take a POOP in front of us!

      @larryhoover2541@larryhoover25412 жыл бұрын

    • @@larryhoover2541 AND IT TURN IT INTO WINE

      @fuffboi7570@fuffboi75702 жыл бұрын

    • @@fuffboi7570 AND THEN MAKE IT DISAPPEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      @anawkwardsweetpotato4728@anawkwardsweetpotato47282 жыл бұрын

  • I love the idea of an element series

    @cameronlamont3405@cameronlamont34052 жыл бұрын

  • I've seen videos of electricity added to mercury and it flows clockwise or counterclockwise (depending on pos or neg direction.) (The Tinfoil hat part) Supposedly mercury electrified is part of mechanical workings that makes "flying saucers" fly

    @bobdobbs3848@bobdobbs3848 Жыл бұрын

    • rotating metal without friction and then include a magnetic field and bingo away you go.

      @vanon3293@vanon3293 Жыл бұрын

    • I'm guessing that putting the mercury in a vacuum and the magnetic fields of the electrical charges is what pulls energy from Zero Point energy. That is then stored in capacitors on anti gravity vehicles.

      @victorwitness7414@victorwitness7414 Жыл бұрын

  • "Here's some mercuric chloride that I made, which is quite toxic. I'm very careful when I use it." *shakes the bottle vigorously*

    @Adequacy@Adequacy6 жыл бұрын

    • knowledge

      @d_i_a_v_l_o3827@d_i_a_v_l_o38276 жыл бұрын

    • Adequacy seems lyk you broke a lot of thermometers nd got a lot of mercury

      @sarabjeetsodhi3283@sarabjeetsodhi32836 жыл бұрын

    • sarabjeet Sodhi English?

      @americancheese9103@americancheese91036 жыл бұрын

    • it was sealed, lol

      @MrGP-us4oz@MrGP-us4oz6 жыл бұрын

    • *Explodes*

      @edumw4163@edumw41636 жыл бұрын

  • Teachers: don’t touch the Mercury it will kill you. Me who is drinking the funny silver milk: don’t worry I won’t

    @8bitbystander586@8bitbystander5863 жыл бұрын

    • How am I even supposed to touch another planet

      @That_Guy_Ty@That_Guy_Ty3 жыл бұрын

    • ...

      @ITZ.URGIRLNIMA@ITZ.URGIRLNIMA3 жыл бұрын

    • @@ITZ.URGIRLNIMA what's with the dots ma'am

      @bonnie5079@bonnie50793 жыл бұрын

    • @@bonnie5079 it is my reaction.

      @ITZ.URGIRLNIMA@ITZ.URGIRLNIMA3 жыл бұрын

    • @@That_Guy_Ty you fucking idiot you watched a video all about a metal, not a fucking planet

      @bencenagy5459@bencenagy54593 жыл бұрын

  • Thanks! Used this as a reference for my homework.

    @caljam2476@caljam24762 жыл бұрын

  • Fun fact: My chemistry teacher actually had a bottle of mercury! Apparently back in the day there was some kind of accident or controversy or something with mercury, and some of the teachers (including her) took some of it. They kept it very secret, otherwise the school would automatically take it away. My class actually got to hold the bottle. It was so mesmerizing.

    @kieravermeal9127@kieravermeal91273 жыл бұрын

    • The school wouldn't care, all of the chemistry teachers at my school had some, and most had gallium too.

      @oddsbodskins6322@oddsbodskins63223 жыл бұрын

    • I am a caterpillar

      @crimpy972@crimpy9723 жыл бұрын

    • Damm u have cool teachers I have lame ones

      @theneighbourhoodqueer4423@theneighbourhoodqueer44233 жыл бұрын

    • Cool

      @thineevee7345@thineevee73453 жыл бұрын

    • Fun fact: my chemistry teacher did not do this

      @aishwaryar1290@aishwaryar12903 жыл бұрын

  • Mercury is the reason the saying "mad as a hatter" exists. Hatters historically treated leather with mercury to give it the soft quality required to sew into hats. Hence, they regularly breathed in mercury vapors, which in turn caused permanent nervous damage.

    @virgo113@virgo1135 жыл бұрын

    • The man who wrote Alice In Wonderland and so on lived only 15 miles from me (but a hundred and fity years before me)

      @georgealderson4424@georgealderson44245 жыл бұрын

    • Then given the rate at which the sun orbits the galactic center, he actually lived about a trillion kilometers away from you...

      @tetsujin_144@tetsujin_1445 жыл бұрын

    • @@tetsujin_144 I'm sorry but I do not understand what you mean.

      @georgealderson4424@georgealderson44245 жыл бұрын

    • @@georgealderson4424 basically 150 years ago the Earth was a trillion Kms from where it is now lol

      @felixgonzalez9776@felixgonzalez97765 жыл бұрын

    • Alex lol

      @michaew9093@michaew90935 жыл бұрын

  • Thank you forever for your expertise

    @terribryan5457@terribryan5457 Жыл бұрын

  • I’m so thankful I don’t live next to you.

    @Ryanhelpmeunderstand@Ryanhelpmeunderstand5 жыл бұрын

    • How do yo know? 👀

      @Lethal.G37@Lethal.G375 жыл бұрын

    • plottwit: he does

      @MrZer000@MrZer0005 жыл бұрын

    • MrZer000 you forgot the s

      @glitzyx4x852@glitzyx4x8525 жыл бұрын

    • He lives in Montréal

      @elizabetharden5406@elizabetharden54065 жыл бұрын

    • @Tricky Niky leave him alone dude

      @sagnu745@sagnu7455 жыл бұрын

  • As a chemist, I developed an irrational fear of mercury. When this guy touched it withouth any protection, my heart missed a beat

    @Pidgey95@Pidgey955 жыл бұрын

    • its not irrational fear: getting that shit on your skin can kill you maybe fingertips are different from e.g. wrists

      @melaniatrump2166@melaniatrump21665 жыл бұрын

    • @@melaniatrump2166 No it's that mercury isn't absorbed. through the skin. Nile literally said in the video that potentially you could swallow it and you would shit out every last microgram of it. Potentially.

      @pietrotettamanti7239@pietrotettamanti72395 жыл бұрын

    • Melania Trump you’re wrong, the danger is only organic mercury, not elemental

      @aced_1606@aced_16065 жыл бұрын

    • @@aced_1606 you mean metallic

      @bogdanmeoff2399@bogdanmeoff23995 жыл бұрын

    • Bogdanmeoff no, elemental mercury

      @tuckersmith7991@tuckersmith79915 жыл бұрын

  • I would like see videos on how to attract/pull the atmospheric static electricity from the air. Also investigate electromagnets and mercury. Also investigate magnetic fields and mercury.

    @Tucker3014@Tucker3014 Жыл бұрын

  • Thanks a lot! This is highly interesting

    @marcob4630@marcob4630 Жыл бұрын

  • Gallium: *"I used to rule the world..."*

    @Lianmin27@Lianmin273 жыл бұрын

    • “Seas would rise when I gave the word” or for those, “chunks would load when I gave the word”

      @oswqld@oswqld3 жыл бұрын

    • That song brings back amazing and horrible memories about Minecraft.

      @cgv9234@cgv92343 жыл бұрын

    • Seas would rise when i gave the word...

      @murkd3414@murkd34143 жыл бұрын

    • Well, davehax played with gallium. So not completely remove from the throne. Just moved to second in command.

      @miguelbaltazar7606@miguelbaltazar76063 жыл бұрын

    • Haahahahaahahahaa chunks would load!

      @miguelbaltazar7606@miguelbaltazar76063 жыл бұрын

  • My brain: that's toxic Also my brain: °~☆ I wanna play with the pretty shiny liquid silver ☆~°

    @nikkilengyel@nikkilengyel3 жыл бұрын

    • Try gallium then it's pretty cheap

      @daidus4689@daidus46893 жыл бұрын

    • @@daidus4689 it’s not cheap

      @chunyingzhang6252@chunyingzhang62522 жыл бұрын

    • @@chunyingzhang6252 it's 2€ for 5 gram that's cheap as hell

      @daidus4689@daidus46892 жыл бұрын

    • @@chunyingzhang6252 lol what? Its dirt cheap.

      @zeddie4153@zeddie41532 жыл бұрын

    • @Krazy Kommando It could easily be dealt with by coating the the aluminium with another metal

      @daidus4689@daidus46892 жыл бұрын

  • Fascinating! I'm learning about the uses of yyttrium in the making of alloys and strengthening or softening metals and how it relates to the human body and the fluorite that contains it. They say the body doesn't have a use for yyttrium but it does fight cancer, and thinking of the alchemy, what might we learn from studying it's effect on mercury, lead, sulphur and ether connected? Food for thought.

    @stevenkembro5891@stevenkembro58912 жыл бұрын

  • mercury is so precious, definitely one of my favourites🤩

    @LordBrainz@LordBrainz Жыл бұрын

  • Him: You have to roast the powder to make the liquid mercury Me: *starts to scream insults at the powder*

    @M1A0U.@M1A0U.3 жыл бұрын

    • Some people never get it.

      @Harlem55@Harlem553 жыл бұрын

    • UR SO SMALL THAT ATOMS WOULDNT BE ABLE TO TOUCH U

      @joj3403@joj34033 жыл бұрын

    • I thought this was a reference to Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs: kzhead.info/sun/hLaqiKarnqCPoqM/bejne.html

      @timothyjholloway@timothyjholloway3 жыл бұрын

    • Yes, that's what you're supposed to do

      @thineevee7345@thineevee73453 жыл бұрын

    • @@thineevee7345 yea

      @JaliceTheShort@JaliceTheShort3 жыл бұрын

  • Him: the way to change the red powder into mercury is by roasting it. Me: STUPID LOOKING TOMATO-

    @marshallcotting1176@marshallcotting11765 жыл бұрын

    • O:

      @c4rt00nk1d@c4rt00nk1d4 жыл бұрын

    • Woow just offended a tomato man >:V

      @Le_xy@Le_xy4 жыл бұрын

  • Thanks for this I already knew all of this but it's still cool

    @2005powerranger@2005powerranger Жыл бұрын

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR VIDEO, REALY INTERESTING

    @franciscoguizardane9552@franciscoguizardane9552 Жыл бұрын

  • “If you decide to swallow it your stomach acid can react and make something dangerous” well damn there goes my weekend plans.

    @jjlomanning6045@jjlomanning60453 жыл бұрын

    • Bro! You alive?

      @bonleofen@bonleofen3 жыл бұрын

    • @@bonleofen he's not

      @InvalidUser_@InvalidUser_3 жыл бұрын

    • Are you still alive

      @thineevee7345@thineevee73453 жыл бұрын

    • Bro are you still alive BRO?! BRO ARE YOU STILL ALIVE

      @moonlightnymph7975@moonlightnymph79753 жыл бұрын

    • Stfu now

      @ceff01@ceff013 жыл бұрын

  • ‘Both the mercuries can be brought back to metal, this is usually done by roasting it.’ Mercury, you’re named after a planet because you aren’t original enough to be given an original name. *instant liquid*

    @magmadude_@magmadude_6 жыл бұрын

    • 0oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh

      @deepeshmeena3117@deepeshmeena31175 жыл бұрын

    • Actually both Mercury the planet and Mercury the liquid metal are named after Mercury the god therefore Mercury (the liquid metal) is somewhat godlike. *instant solid*

      @cooleslaw@cooleslaw5 жыл бұрын

    • Dental filings? I thought they stopped using mercury in tooth filliings.

      @solstice1977@solstice19775 жыл бұрын

    • They did stop using them in fillings and Mercury is liquid metal imaginge what would happen to your brain if you digest it

      @JitSlayer@JitSlayer5 жыл бұрын

    • Magmadude999 that’s what I thought!

      @applepen7727@applepen77275 жыл бұрын

  • Very interesting and thorough video

    @da4711@da4711 Жыл бұрын

  • Fascinating, thank you

    @gaylecheung3087@gaylecheung30872 жыл бұрын

  • Teachers: "Mercury is very toxic." NileRed: "I'm about to end all you teachers' career!" Mercury: "I'm about to end this man's life!"

    @khaiphamba5991@khaiphamba59913 жыл бұрын

    • 😒

      @sindu6715@sindu67153 жыл бұрын

    • bleh

      @ashleysabharwal6662@ashleysabharwal66622 жыл бұрын

  • My grandma: *Careful dont break the Thermometer!* Me as soon as she leaves:

    @carlogaytan7010@carlogaytan70103 жыл бұрын

    • @@atomicnumber8051 relax

      @humanperson9480@humanperson94803 жыл бұрын

    • @@atomicnumber8051 chillax bro

      @AM-uo1iq@AM-uo1iq3 жыл бұрын

    • @@atomicnumber8051 chill

      @m0rk898@m0rk8983 жыл бұрын

    • Guys I'm pretty sure that the person named mercury is joking, as they are literally called mercury

      @diamondthing2858@diamondthing28583 жыл бұрын

    • @@atomicnumber8051

      @aori583@aori5833 жыл бұрын

  • Also mercury tilt switches were also used in early tilt/motion controllers in the 1970s/1980s! :)

    @Techno-Universal@Techno-Universal Жыл бұрын

  • Nile I love all your science videos. Please do eliment metal ti titanium. I find it to be the most fascinating metal on earth

    @davidpack4158@davidpack41587 ай бұрын

  • 7:44 Nile: "I'm very careful when I use it" Also Nile: *SHAKES BOTTLE VIGOROUSLY*

    @joj3403@joj34033 жыл бұрын

    • Came to the comments to find this one.

      @PaulJuliusAnderson@PaulJuliusAnderson3 жыл бұрын

    • I got a kfc ad when I clicked the timestamp lmao

      @xAntisune@xAntisune3 жыл бұрын

    • When did Nile say he was very careful wiht the bottle?

      @lordbanetheplayer8844@lordbanetheplayer88443 жыл бұрын

    • and he is not wearing any gloves while doing it lmao

      @humancat1844@humancat18443 жыл бұрын

    • dopplers effect :- kzhead.info/sun/obmCpairjZewoIU/bejne.html

      @megagaming8337@megagaming83372 жыл бұрын

  • I think its important to add that Karen Wetterhahn didn't die immediately from the mercury exposure, which in itself happened within seconds. She had the accident in August 1996 and only died in June 1997. First Symptoms of her Mercury poisoning became apparent in January 1997. Reports say the mercury concentration in her blood was more than 80 times the toxic dosage. This was from 1-2 drops of Dimethylmercury that she accidentally spilled from a pipette on her latex gloves and it only hit her ~5 months after it had happened. Scary stuff.

    @hydrohomie254@hydrohomie2542 жыл бұрын

    • It's in our flu shots as a preservative.

      @d.h.dd.h.d.5230@d.h.dd.h.d.5230 Жыл бұрын

    • @@d.h.dd.h.d.5230 dimethylmercury isn’t, thimerosal is. no real evidence of thinerosal having same affects.

      @lauren880@lauren880 Жыл бұрын

    • Sad thing is that she even had the proper savety gear for handling it but obv they didnt know enough abt it back then

      @Moritz___@Moritz___ Жыл бұрын

    • @@Moritz___ yeah at the time latex gloves were part of the proper safety gear. Sadly unbeknownst to them back then dimethylmercury permeates through those. After this accident the requirements for handling dimethylmercury were overhauled.

      @hydrohomie254@hydrohomie254 Жыл бұрын

    • @@d.h.dd.h.d.5230 maybe in the 1840’s

      @Woopor@Woopor Жыл бұрын

  • Very interesting videos indeed if you are interested in amazing science, like most of us are. Awesome video on Mercury.

    @Omeniferous@Omeniferous Жыл бұрын

  • Nice video, thanks for sharing 👍

    @pauleherrera@pauleherrera Жыл бұрын

  • You know, the first Chinese emperor was obsessed with immortality and to prolong his life he used to ingest mercury sulfide which caused his death at the age of 39... (insert “How ironically” meme here) Edit: Qin Shi Huang, who died aged 49 in 210 BC, was the first emperor to unite the warring states of China into a single nation (Credit: Wikipedia) he died at the age of 49 not 39 sorry.

    @stefanohua1346@stefanohua13463 жыл бұрын

    • no, mercurally, not iron(ically). I'll see myself out.

      @eline8087@eline80873 жыл бұрын

    • Eline JESUS

      @stefanohua1346@stefanohua13463 жыл бұрын

    • @@stefanohua1346 sorry XD

      @eline8087@eline80873 жыл бұрын

    • No I don’t want to go back to humanity’s class

      @scythe123_@scythe123_3 жыл бұрын

    • @@scythe123_ xD

      @syedaanisha7128@syedaanisha71283 жыл бұрын

  • The other thing that's neat about Mercury is that when you touch it, it feels "wet". But because it's self-attracting, none of it stays on your skin, so your skin stays "dry". It's a very unique sensation.

    @jamesmccullough9999@jamesmccullough99995 жыл бұрын

    • MERCURY IS METALLIC SLIME

      @seignee@seignee5 жыл бұрын

    • When you touch it it feels wet let that sink in

      @Prismate@Prismate5 жыл бұрын

    • I masturbate with mercury.

      @BradyIsAfagInHeat@BradyIsAfagInHeat5 жыл бұрын

    • Yeah, Jim Hutton makes him wet, too

      @nathaniel7432@nathaniel74325 жыл бұрын

    • Fun fact: in the past rich people used to fill swimming pools with mercury just because of that feeling of "wet" and obviously, they eventually died lmao

      @yasyasmin654@yasyasmin6544 жыл бұрын

  • I'd like to see more videos about mercury. You should explore the magnetohydrodynamic properties of mercury.

    @greenthumz1@greenthumz1 Жыл бұрын

    • indeed

      @vanon3293@vanon3293 Жыл бұрын

  • Thanks for your information 🙏🙏🙏

    @andinetgetahun6206@andinetgetahun6206 Жыл бұрын

  • I first saw it was 12 minutes and thought "oh what the hell could he go on about for that long" Turns out it was very informative and a great video! Well done!

    @bogan420@bogan4206 жыл бұрын

    • Thanks for sticking around for the whole thing!

      @NileRed@NileRed6 жыл бұрын

    • I thought, "Man, I know all about mercury." .......I didn't know shit.

      @psygn0sis@psygn0sis6 жыл бұрын

    • NileRed 2:54 so i can use a spice roast to turn cinnabar to mercury. NICE

      @connor4317@connor43176 жыл бұрын

    • thank you for making a vidio about my elenent

      @hgmercury7279@hgmercury72796 жыл бұрын

    • ashley maddison same

      @MK-ex4pb@MK-ex4pb6 жыл бұрын

  • How the hell did someone melt a planet?

    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67@ihavetowait90daystochangem675 жыл бұрын

    • I don't know, but we'll get the bastard who done it!

      @titan1853@titan18535 жыл бұрын

    • must be one of those giant fuckin lasers nasa has.

      @envycollar@envycollar5 жыл бұрын

    • Even the sun can't melt mercury!

      @redsusoverparadise2700@redsusoverparadise27005 жыл бұрын

    • You just gotta ask nicely, smh.

      @eggroll3055@eggroll30555 жыл бұрын

    • Leaving a comment here to roast the guy who gets whooshed

      @imhereforthememes500@imhereforthememes5005 жыл бұрын

  • All the elements! Pls. We got time to wait.

    @insultchannel5971@insultchannel5971 Жыл бұрын

  • đón chờ những ca khúc tiếp theo của Phúc, càng nghe càng thích giọng ca của Phúc ❤️

    @cassandragrandon6662@cassandragrandon66622 жыл бұрын

  • 7:46 Him:" I Am very careful when i use it..." Him: Shakes bottle extremely...

    @tehcheese7485@tehcheese74853 жыл бұрын

    • I searched for this specific comment, thank you

      @raragrace5040@raragrace50403 жыл бұрын

    • In his defence it’s not like it’s gonna get out sooooo ya and I know I am commenting on a comment that was made two months ago

      @name3313@name33133 жыл бұрын

  • I once tried to roast HgS, but instead of turning to Mercury metal, it just started crying.

    @someaccount3438@someaccount34385 жыл бұрын

    • Ahhahaahahha

      @ravenmaster1077@ravenmaster10775 жыл бұрын

    • The tears are liquid, I think u did it

      @CricketTheHivewing@CricketTheHivewing5 жыл бұрын

  • Yes you finally mentioned dimethylemercury

    @Fluffypotatoes4@Fluffypotatoes4 Жыл бұрын

  • Related to mercury - would be interesting to learn more about mercurochrome which I heard about from a much older gentleman who said when he was young it was used on cuts and abrasions as an antiseptic. I believe he said it was pink or left a pink color on the skin.

    @thevillageinn@thevillageinn2 жыл бұрын

    • Red, dark red, used a lot in hospitals because you could clearly see where you put it (to prevent wound infections)

      @GoelWCS@GoelWCS Жыл бұрын

  • So the previous name meant liquid silver. Pretty accurate as far as appearence goes i guess. Those greek & latin names always make sense.

    @r91976@r919766 жыл бұрын

    • r91976 technically it'd be literally translated to "silver water"

      @techno_tuna@techno_tuna6 жыл бұрын

    • And let's not forget the old English name, quicksilver.

      @garethdean6382@garethdean63826 жыл бұрын

    • r91976 In our language if you translate directly it means live silver!

      @zanpekosak2383@zanpekosak23836 жыл бұрын

    • The German name for it is Quecksilber. "Queck" being an old Germanic word for "alive/fast" hence the English name.

      @Felixkeeg@Felixkeeg6 жыл бұрын

    • Mercury's Chinese name "水银" also directly translates to "liquid silver". I guess ancient people name things just by the appearance of it, then people learn about science to correct the names so they make sense scientifically.

      @passer2by@passer2by5 жыл бұрын

  • It’d be really cool if you went through all the elements in the periodic table and talk about them all on this much detail. Different compounds, uses, etc.

    @anonymousartist2176@anonymousartist21762 жыл бұрын

    • There is a channel just like what you've described.

      @greatmeatball2978@greatmeatball29782 жыл бұрын

    • @@greatmeatball2978 Do tell.

      @lavenderlilacs@lavenderlilacs2 жыл бұрын

    • "Periodic Videos"

      @greatmeatball2978@greatmeatball29782 жыл бұрын

  • continue i love your videos 🤩

    @enjoylife311@enjoylife311 Жыл бұрын

  • Thanks 4 the info!!

    @katrinadotta7628@katrinadotta762811 ай бұрын

  • The floating coin is mind blowing. Imagine if you lived on a world with mercury oceans, and how that would affect ship design

    @michaeledmunds7266@michaeledmunds72662 жыл бұрын

    • everything is a ship

      @egg4444@egg44442 жыл бұрын

    • Imagine naval warfare in a mercury ocean.

      @pagodebregaeforro2803@pagodebregaeforro28032 жыл бұрын

    • Probably there wouldn't be life in that planet lol. You could think about more salt in the water. Salt could make water much more dense and not hamper the biosfere of a planet, and ships would be much larger and heavier.

      @thechadtc7421@thechadtc74212 жыл бұрын

    • Ship design would be ... like ... flat. Damn any old thing floats.

      @tsm688@tsm6882 жыл бұрын

    • GUYS, imagine if air was clorine gas, and how that would effect planes. Like wtf are yall saying? lmao, countless catastrophic events would take place, everyone and everything dies. And boats dont exist anymore.

      @kendallpriest269@kendallpriest2692 жыл бұрын

  • The Di Methyl Mercury story is one of the most heart wrenching stories ever. The way it slowly destroyed her life was so sad

    @bonsai5753@bonsai57533 жыл бұрын

    • The channel Chubbyemu did a good video that explains the processes doctors were using to try and figure out what was wrong with her before they learned that she had a few drops of it fall on her hand

      @Ryyi23@Ryyi232 жыл бұрын

    • @@Ryyi23 The second I hear the woman's name I was like KW is a ___ year old woman, presenting to the emergency room _____ 🤣 i watch too much chubbyemu i do feel bad for her though, the story is sad

      @SEA-hp6zo@SEA-hp6zo2 жыл бұрын

    • @@Ryyi23 That was my first ever chubbyemu vid. Still mortifies me

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