The LPL wouldn‘t even have needed that gallium to crush that lock with his bare hands, he only used it so we mere mortals could comprehend his immense strength
I love this video still 4 years later because its nightmare fuel for the PC enthusiasts who tried using the fancy liquid metal thermal compound with an aluminium CPU cooler.
Typical high end cooler is nickel plated Copper. It's nickel plated to prevent Copper oxidation which would turn the Copper from cute color into green color. Funnily after 10+ years of using MB with naked Copper, it stayed fine. However when I washed carpet, clear plastic isolated wires between my speakers and amplifier were on partially dry carpet, and somehow the water got trough the plastic. The main problem of gallium thermal liquids is they are HIGHLY conductive, and they can get at contacts they shouldn't. And even if they don't, there is actually degradation of gallium pastes in about 2-4 years of use, and it's quite dangerous to replace gallium paste. And gallium falling into PCI-E slot is just NASTY.
Fun fact: this also happens with mercury and aluminum to a bit higher of a degree. Its way more detrimental for aluminum and mercury to touch so thats why mercury, even a tiny drop sealed in like 5 containers, is completely banned from going on planes.
I suspect asking "Should I put my mercury thermometer in cabin or checked luggage?" is an extremely quick way of _very_ firmly being denied boarding ;-)
Imagine calling a locksmith cause you locked yourself out of your house, he pulls out his phone, and you hear "this is the lock picking lawyer" quietly over your shoulder
The only problem is how much energy it will take to reclaim that aluminum; it’s already a very energy-intensive process to process aluminum ores like bauxite into pure aluminum metal
@@Xadov Bauxite refining end product IS aluminum oxide (process removes impurities and turns several Al-based minerals into a single form), so it's a moot comparison. Otherwise, Al2O3 can be effectively leached via NaOH (not sure about specifics, I believe it has temp requirement of 150ish C). But it has many important uses on its own, regardless, so that may not be necessary. I am more concerned about safety hazard of a hydrogen-based engine. I mean, it burns well, and sometimes a little too well. These things already exist and aren't widely used for a reason.
This reminds me of a similar effect seen with antique ammunition. In the early days of metallic cartridges, the primers (the part that ignites when hit by the firing pin) were made of mercury fulminate. After firing, the inside of the brass case would be left coated with mercury, which absorbed into the brass, just as the gallium is doing here. The case was severely weakened, and reusing it could result in the firearm exploding.
Same thing with mercury. There's a reaction between mercury and aluminum that is similar to this in terms of damaging the aluminums structural integrity. There's a nilered video about it if you want to watch it
This form of contamination is a HUGE danger as explained during RAF aircraft engineering training. Thank you for another interesting adventure through the destruction of the padlock security world.
This is the lock picking lawyer and today we are going to see how secure how my neighbor's door lock is. ACHOO! And we've got it open. Now I will leave a note to tell my neighbor to replace this lock and that is all I have for you today.
I was hypnotized ... couldn't get my eyes off this process but mostly wanted to see what would happen in the end. Thanks for doing this and for sharing the results.
With how it reacts in water, I wonder what an attack like this would do in a rainy/wet environment (would the lock literally destroy itself if you put it in a bucket?)
@@geraldbal7945 I think this is more akin to giving someone a flesh eating disease that slowly and painfully eats away at their skin from the inside-out.
It was already discussed in original Arsène Lupin stories since Gallium was discovered by a French (Gallium Gallia Gaul) I think it's a very old method to destroy padlocks.
Gallium also expands as it freezes like water, so if you dont want to wait hours for it to infuse into the steucture, you may think about injecting it into seams to fill internal voids, then see if the pressure is enough to destroy the lock.
Lock manufacturers: This lock is the most secure lock you’ll ever have! Completely unpickable! LockPickingLawyer: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.
I zoomed in 300 Percent on my 9-foot-wide-screen in 1080p. Well, he has dark hair, I think, and he didn't shave, I believe... so that makes him look like a bike thief? But I#m sure, that's only a false gate and he was wearing a mask :D:D:D
"Of course this is not a practical way of opening a lock. Clearly anything that requires 5 or 6 hours..." Me after trying for 47 hours to pick a lock: Uh, ok. I guess I'll just give up then.
It could be used practically to do a break in. You know someone is away for the week/weekend, you put some gallium on their backdoor the first day. Come back the second day to a real brittle lock
@@ramonrommers5387 Exactly, since no one can "see" it while it is working - just "drop off a parcel" and quickly apply it during broad daylight then come back later.
@@icoopify Anodising is just a electrochemically formed layer of aluminium oxide that may be thicker than an air formed layer. It may, but does not have to have, pigment sealed into the pores that develop when it is formed. Magical process and even a thin air formed layer will protect aluminium but it can be scratched much easier than this lock which would have been anodised to give it protection from environmental hazards.
I'm starting to think that this guy has something personal against padlocks. All I know it's that I'm glad I'm not a padlock around this dude. Did a gang of padlocks run over his dog or something?
This is the one that started it all for me. As far as watching this excellent channel. I was looking up Gallium on metal issues. Not to mention an interest in lock picking since Fallout 4 came out. 😀
@@ssnerd583 Sandpaper would make a larger contact surface (it can bend around the round parts) + it's easier to carry around (advice not for illegal purposes).
Gallium won't destroy your computer if you use it correctly, as in the contact between your cpu/gpu and heatsink must be made of copper and the layer applied is very thin. Works wonders, every 'liquid metal' thermal paste out there uses gallium.
@@Dystopikachu IF the cooler is made of copper, well a lot of aftermarket cooler are made of copper but stock or atleast that looks like stock coolers are made of aluminium. Also even if it is copper, some people has experience that the copper is eaten a little bit on the surface, and yeah sometimes they can drop out of their place which "destroys" the computer.
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yeah, right - thieves will bother with 7+ hr gallium disintegration instead of using angle grinders, crowbars, entering by the window etc... the F are you talking about?
Gallium, being a low melting point metal, when applied to a solid (at room temperature) metal such as Aluminium, forms an alloy with it via thermal diffusion into the solid material. Once an alloy is formed, you can take a look at the binary diagram of Ga-Al and see that at roughly 20% concentration you reach a point at which the solubility of gallium in aluminium is at its' maximum, and beyond that you then have aluminium-rich alloy and gallium-rich alloy. Now, because presence of gallium drops the melting point down to room temperature, this means that the alloy of aluminium and gallium is going to have lower melting point than pure aluminium. Moreover, due to inhomogeneous structural phase, those "gallium-rich" areas will likely become a liquid far before aluminium does the same, causing "flaking" of aluminium as seen on this video. Gallium permeated solid aluminium via atomic diffusion and alloying. If two metals are soluble, that basically means they can intermix and form new electronic states which exist at a lower energy than if they were "on their own", thus promoting the alloying (not true for every combination of materials). If the concentration goes above the critical points you will simply have separate gallium-rich and aluminium rich areas. All of this interplay between overall much weaker structure of Ga-Al alloy, as well as pockets of molten Ga-rich alloy within greater Al-rich lattice provides the spectacular destruction :)
This is cool to see the power of gallium, but it’s also a great testament to how tough Abus locks are. Parts were crumbling off and it still held on for dear life,
Has eye dropper of gallium Drops 2 drops on your padlock before gym after a long work out, return to the padlock and break the lock with hand Impress everyone with your absolute terror of strength + Science XD
I forgot I watched this years ago, but when I started watching it again I suddenly remembered how it worked. But it was fun watching it all over again!
I used to work in a chocolate factory, and this reminds me of the texture of poorly tempered chocolate - breaking apart easily into crumbly chunks, rather than clean shards. Metals and chocolates: surprisingly crystalline structures!
Did not expect to learn some chemistry on this channel but here we are. I like the idea of suropticiously "infecting" a lock only to return and smash it open hours later
"Today we're going to crush this lock barehanded" When LPL has fun, locks shiver in terror. "I just want the see this lock get destroyed" The scariest LPL has ever sounded
Modern medical thermometers use galistan, it is alloy of gallium, indium and tin and it is liquid in room temperature (melting point -19 degrees Celsius). However as it has half the density of mercury, it is hard to get down by shaking.
Aluminum readily reacts with air to create a protective layer of aluminum oxide. Scraping kind of exposes fresh aluminum, but a dollop of acid to eat away that layer would produce a much larger surface area for the gallium to interact with.
The Gallium travelling under the surface of the lock reminds me somewhat of how rust spreads under car paint. It probably just doesn't react with the oxide layer on the surface, leaving it alone to sort of ride the gallium-aluminum wave
the gallium could probably be applied in a way that was hard to notice, and then after the structure was compromised the criminal could just come back from his lunch break and give it a few good whacks with a ball peen.
@@SavageGreywolf Yeah that's what I was thinking, just stick a decent size drop on a piece of tape that blends in with the lock on the back, then come back in 12 hours and pick apart the lock. It would draw a lot less attention than bringing bolt cutters or bending down on your knees with a lock pick set. Yet another reason not to buy an aluminum lock, and to spring for steel.
FBI OPEN U- "Hold up John. Didn't you get the memo? We can't use the battering ram anymore." Right. So how do we get in? "I dunno. The door's made of aluminum so we can't kick it in." *Guys, I know what to do.*
@Alex carpenter Gallium is real heavy and extremely thick at working temperature, so you'd need a pretty specialized nozzle and forty or fifty psi of air driving it, no squirt bottle.
@@brian8507 that's only if you're twisted enough to believe that women are supposed to only fuck one man while men are supposed to fuck as many women as possible