Organic mercury (Mercury that is in organic compounds) is very deadly and must be handled with gloves and masks. To put this in perspective if ate a teaspoon of the deadliest form of this organic mercury you would keel over before you’d know why. Metallic mercury is much safer. As long as it doesn’t get ingested or get into large open wounds it’s safe to handle
Technology as long as you dont have any cuts or scrapes your phone more dangerous to handle by hand. You have to actively ingest mercury for it to poison you.
@@malikshahavas2401 where does this occur? I remember hearing that xenon can react due to low ionization energies since it’s valence electrons are so far from its nucleus
Incorrect. See: Prince Rupert's Drop. Just because its own internal pressure doesn't cause rupture and shatter, doesn't mean externally added force won't upset that balance.
Kain, with a Prince Rupert drop you melt the glass and let it fall into water, which gives it a pressure difference insanely lower than the air around it. This is a tube melted and allowed to cool properly with a pressure difference insanely higher than the air around it. That in itself is a huge difference. Watch Destin shoot drops with a few guns, a bullet fragment even breaks off part of the tail and the drop is fine. Look things up before referring to them and calling people incorrect.
Heruhcane Dean a Rupert's Drop is not an air pressure difference more that the rapid cooling of the glass causes the exterior to harden while the interior stays molten, as the interior cools and hardens becoming more dense the interior pulls in on the incompressible exterior and causes an enormous increase in pressure inside of it such that it becomes extremely strong and also brittle.
Fucking grass That’s not even correct. He didn’t misuse quotation marks, he surrounded a quote with them, and italics and bold text are used to make something clear or emphasize on the internet. You’re real fun at a party.
@@zinperez2002 a meta-stable form of ice where a gas molecule is contained within its crystal structure. It behaves differently from the gas and the solid ice. It’s kinda like a solid azeotrope
So much better than most loud click-baity RU-vidrs who would start screaming, shouting then laughing like they witnessed the second coming while being tickle-tortured. I admire how Cody managed to stay calm and rational after years on RU-vid while most people get really loud.
I enjoy his genuine, nerdy enjoyment. We nerds don't express emotion often, and when we do it tends to look lack-luster to others. He reacted, basically exactly how I do when I successfully complete a nerdy task. :D Super awesome party on the inside, quiet party on the outside. lol
Porter Christenson pay off America's debt, discover a new element, and rule the world, because money is what makes the world go round, and if he exploits his "infinite amount of money", society will collapse
Fun fact: Xenon is like, the perfect anaesthetic. We'd use it all the time if it weren't so frigging expensive. Don't know why my brain decided to hold on to that fact but not my mothers birthday, but hey ho.
Huh?? For real? Why is that? And (by anesthetic) do you mean like what they could use to put somebody under for an operation!?? Could you please elaborate on that sir?
@@85moosepoop It is an anaesthetic that can be used for surgery. It's very near to an ideal anaesthetic-very less reactivity (not metabolized, doesn't affect physiological functions), doesn't really react with the anaesthetic circuit, doesn't dissolve in the blood very easily (means that the anaesthetic effect wears off very quickly), and is not an irritant to the lungs or respiratory tract. It is terribly expensive so it's not used in common practise.
This is why cable television is dying, because people like Cody are going on the internet and uploading videos with substance instead of shows with heaps of fluff that and nothing of substance.
Can we make liquid float on gas? After this commercial break Tune in next week to see the thrilling conclusion Cliff hanger, actually we will tell you next season what happens. canceled. The world may never know.
I think it's more about the convenience of being able to watch what you want when you want it. Or did yo not notice this site is ruled by daily vlogs (which are basically reality shows)?
So the giant was drinking toxically-pure Vodka, "carbonated" with Xenon gas. Judging by that, he was probably also wearing 24K gold grills, diamond rings and was eating caviar for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
If you actually had a drink that fizzed down into the bottom of the container, you would end up with a trapped bubble that would get bigger and bigger, eventually causing the drink to overflow.
Not really. If you have enough height of your container, and enough liquid to work with, the gas bubble at the bottom would reach an equilibrium position where it were compressed under the weight of the liquid. It wouldn't have enough pressure to push the liquid to overflow.
@@Superabound2 the whole thing that makes a gas a gas is that it doesn't have a constant volume. once gasses dissolved in a liquid are released from solution, they expand in volume. this is why beer and soda make lots of foam when poured. the phenomenon with the Guinness only happens in a specific shape of glass. the gas does not stay at the bottom.
or the time he threw a crucible of molten gold in a pot of water and the water instantly exploded in his face and he just goes "... that was a bit more violent then I expected."
Here's an interesting question: Since pressure increases the deeper into the ocean you are could you theoretical have an atmosphere of xenon gas under the ocean?
This wouldn't have to be theoretical, just propel a tank of xenon gas straight down until the pressure makes it burst, then see if the bubbles come back up or not.
I was shocked when he said that he has NaK. Like, seriously, both Potassium and Sodium are known to react explosively to water, and here they're alloyed with each other!
Funniest thing ever...even funnier that it worked...(not criticising Cody, but just looking at this, it's so weird) "I can't get my damn noble gasses to stop reacting...I know, I'll mix them with one of the most reactive compounds out there, that will fix it!"
We've had this for years here in Ireland, it's called a pint of Guinness :-). It contains Nitrogen instead of CO2 which gives the impression that the bubbles are flowing down the inside of the glass.
Here's a link to the Penn and Teller act. watch?v=D87DSLe4Eqw I know it can be hard on the internet to tell when people are joking but I doubt anyone seriously thinks Cody really did this upside down. +Jonathan Isobe's funny comment made me think of the Penn and Teller act. *Good job Cody! Thanks for another fun video.*
Fun thing I have a recipe book for the meals comprised in this little story. The Frobscottle is one of them, and even though the bubbles still go up, it is still pretty good
Because it is in such a tiny tube, my first thought was that it might be because of static reactions, but then i saw the bubbles that went both up and down at the same time.. Thanks for another good video. :)
RU-vid recommended this video now in Dec. 2019, and liquid floating on a gas always intrigued me ever since I read a Doc Savage novel with that premise except it happened under one of the oceans had a human civilization living there. They had a gas that was breathable but it carried no oxygen so they had a paste that had the oxygen in it and they ate the paste periodically when they were out of those areas that had some breathable air. Of course the plot was convoluted but they had to try to kill Doc and his friends but they failed of course. In nature water floats above the gas we call air but the water is sort of gaseous itself in the form of clouds.
Holy crap. Guys, Cody basically just spent $1300 on _us._ Yeah, he did it for himself too, but a good portion of the reasoning must have been for us, his viewers. I hope I'm not the only one that appreciates the significance of that.
Yes, but the entire bottle cost $1300. Just because he didn't use all of it, it doesn't mean he somehow didn't spend the money already. As such, my point still stands.
GadgetPonyGal I never said that your point doesn't stand, I just assumed you felt sorry for him because he spent all that money. just trying to ease your mind :)
What? No, I don't feel sorry. There's no reason for that. What I _do_ feel is appreciation. Cody is awesome, and the fact that he spent all that money on stuff to show is is pretty awesome too.
I would have said no because lighter molecules tend to boil at lower temps. Typically the least dense is going to be the gasseous one. I guess that would mean that there are solids floating in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
Jupiter, good idea, but near-zero heavy gasses. Jupiter is basically a failed star. Wikipedia says... "It is mostly made of molecular hydrogen and helium in roughly solar proportions; other chemical compounds are present only in small amounts and include methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and water."
@@jimbarchukwouldn't the pressure at deeper into jupiter at some point make the gas compact enough to float? I can't imagine a piece of wood thrown at jupiter would just sink straight to the middle.
What I like about Cody is that he shows us that it's possible to have more than one interest or hobby, he may not be the most knowledgeable in them, but he is passionate about it nonetheless. I like to be reminded that it's okay to work on some hydroponics one week, a vacuum chamber experiment the next, and making biomes on the third. Keep doing what you do Cody, you're truly an inspiration and by far my favourite RU-vidr.
@@Sp00kq At the time I watched, it sounded like he muttered "oh fuck" under his breath. Now that I have gone back, it seems he didn't finish saying fuck. It may be that he caught himself before saying it, or he was just groaning as he moved
I believe he uses is ethanol, which has a much lower surface tension than water, to which its not an effect. The only thing I could really think being an external factor would be the pressure from the gas repelling against the liquid.
Can you imagine what strange things could be experienced on a dense gas giant planet composed of Xenon, if such a thing were possible. Could we have rocks raining upwards into clouds of floating rock in the atmosphere.
Cody'sLab Indeed - would make for some interesting observations on a planetary climate simulator with Xenon for an atmosphere. Thank you for sharing a great experiment that challenges everyday perceptions of how materials can behave.
this deserves to be a novel. aliens have filled the earth with xenon, and suddenly "upwards" asteroids start flying out of the earth which has suddenly become metal.
Space Core Apparently Xenon has anaesthetic properties too which may serve to add to the plot. As you mentioned, under extreme pressure it turns to metal, which is described as being sky blue in colour. It's an interesting element. Novel name - The Fifty Fourth Element... hmm sounds familiar!
Very cool -- thank you for posting it! And now you have artifacts that will last forever (barring accidental breakage, of course). I'd expect that many solutes in water would interfere in clathrate formation, but that's a seat-of-the-pants impression from my long-ago physical chemistry.
Well, he was never known to be the best at workplace safety. The angle at which he held the tube made his helmet useless since the shield goes out in front and doesn't cover you from something coming from below your chin. It has to be difficult to film and do experiments alone, which is probably why this happened, on the other hand he had plenty of accidents of camera.
Gafnio you don't simply factory reset a pic, you have to reinstall the OS. Depending on the adware it could come bundled with rootkits which might not be able to be removed with an anti virus unless unless you wiped or reformatted the drive. I would still recommend an ad blocker, just whitelist RU-vid or recommend others to do so. Granted the ad revenue is probably pretty insignificant for your troubles anyhow.
He says he's looking into it. Fusion is hard, but it's not *that* hard. What scientists all around the world are scratching their head over is how to generate energy from it.
Joshua Jansen if he write a paper he won't have time for more videos, plus gens a geologist not a chemist so I'm not sure his work could be taken seriously. It's not that I believe that it would be bad, but just not appreciated at its real value.
Cody may not be a chemist but he showed on video a liquid floating on gas, as long as it can reproduced in a university lab there is no reason for Cody to not be taken seriously.
If he were to write a paper it would be one in implementation, change of density of xenon at different pressures, known; things float or sink according to their density, known. You could even say that Cody did not do his homework thoroughly since he found out about the clathrates after the fact, but that is how serendipity works. So the only thing that is maybe new is the combination of xenon and alcohol/water. No real science, just a nice demonstration with no immediate use that I can think off . What may be interesting is how water keeps the xenon from dissolving in alcohol but I bet that even that is not something really new.
I think his video is enough to show proof but yeah he should a step by step experiment so that the official observers from other universities can perform the same method.
I've only heard of Methane clathrates. My best guess was fluoride in the tap water combined to make xenon tetrafluoride but the properties were wrong. Xenon difluoride was closer but still not right and I doubted there would be enough fluorine to get that much precipitate.
he"s the type of guy that should get an Xcover phone i bash mine against a table everytime i tell someone i chose it because it"s robust, and over a hundred people later it has no signs of rough handling
@@AnarchistMetalhead I have a cheapo rubberised case. Can't tell you the abuse my phone has been through, not so much a cracked screen. Don't need to spend heaps of money, just need a good case
I've always wondered if this would be possible so it's great to see a video on it! Next is a solid piece of metal that can float on gas or a room/extreme high temperature superconductor/superfluid!
