This is actually to prevent them from hitting eachother. Some guys actually have disorders where they will become the same level, and hit eachother. Yeah... it sucks.
I laughed out loud reading the notification haha, good video too Would love to see you try new things with bigger balls perhaps, i remember seeing a video of a red hot canonball for example, cool content. Have a nice one :)
@@jasonk795 I'm sad for you, if you think growing up is abandoning all fun, and that sarcasm is "an ugly character trait", your life seems dull. But whatever, I did not come here to argue with some dude that is probably on the other side of the globe, farewell, dull stranger.
One of your best videos yet. Loved seeing the different behaviors of metals under extreme heat and the thermal conductivity when placed on the ice. Fun an interesting stuff!
seems volume has the most importance for ability to melt ice and boil water. Though tungsten can hit the most extreme heats, so maybe WHTB might be a thing.
This is a great demonstration of the thermal chemistry surrounding the q=mcdeltaT equation showing how objects with different masses and specific heats absorb (and consequently release) varying amounts of heat energy
Tungsten ( 3:06 ) is like that alcoholic workmate we all knew who worked *_really_* hard but just ended up just going yellow and dying. The ball at 1:23 looks like another ex-workmate of mine after he'd contracted ebola.
I understand why nickel is the go to ball now, I thought tungsten would have done better but i also wasnt expecting it to oxidize so rapidly when heated. I also didnt know nickel was so dense.
LOL. When you blobbed the copper I was just waiting for the aluminium ball. I would have put money on you doing just what you did. I remember being an apprentice and trying to anneal aluminium washers after being used to annealing copper washers. There's quite a difference. Aluminium doesn't even seem to glow in a well lit environment. It just all of a sudden loses all structure and collapses. I liked the tungsten ball. Ya wouldn't need many of those in a sock would ya.
Thanks! I've wanted this sort of video for a long time! I see a 2" nickel ball in your future. Yeah, I got a 2" tungsten ball and didn't expect the thermal conductivity to be high compared to nickel or steel. Also that the specific heat is unfortunately low. Really cool seeing the balls change size with temperature and funny how fast the copper dumped its energy.
This was a really cool video idea also I want to see that ice block more often that was really neat and an awesome ideal to use for comparing. I wonder how a titanium ball would do. Also it would be cool is you could get Sreetips to send over a silver or gold ball.
Iron has a slightly higher specific heat capacity than nickel. And iron has a melting point of 1538 °C compared to nickel's 1455 °C. In theory iron could be better for this but reactivity becomes important at high temperatures (as seen with all the black crap coming off the steel one). Tungsten has a higher melting point but it doesn't matter since these videos don't require anything higher than the 1455°C that nickel can take. And tungsten has less specific heat capacity so it would carry less energy, even if it was the same mass, at the same temperature. I had a feeling Carsandwater had done their research and picked the best metal for the job, but now I understand why.
Wow, I am genuinely surprised by how poorly the tungsten ball performed. Not at all surprised by copper & aluminum melting though, lol. Maybe try to get your hands on a titanium ball, and/or cobalt, and make another comparison video?
Well, that explains why this channel primarily features Red Hot Balls of Nickel; it has a very high melting point and retains it's heat for longer than other metals
I definitely thought the tungsten ball would take the longest to heat up as well as sink the furthest, being that it's so dense. Very interesting video.
If he was capable of bringing them just below melting point the tungsten would have made it further espetially at equal dimensions because its melting point is so much higher than that of any of these other metals. Despight having a low heat capacity.
