Hydrogen - Periodic Table of Videos 

These videos are made by Brady Haran - check out his "Unmade Podcast" here: bit.ly/UnmadePlaylist

Is anybody else on a periodic table marathon?

For those playing along at home for these 118 videos, your repeating cast of characters is: Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff (mad, famous chemist - Oxford accent), Professor Pete License (chemist - Welsh accent), Associate Professor Deb Kays (junior chemist - cute accent), and... Neil (whose position and accent I am unable to identify, though via his age and experience he appears to be the Chief Lab Assistant or some such, though this may be a running joke). As of 2019 all three profs still work at Nottingham. There's also another younger male Professor with short hair who appears in these videos frequently, but I am unable to identify: he's got his own office so he's clearly a prof.

The guy is the most stereotypical mad scientist I've ever seen

LOL when he detonated it, someone was walking by behind the treeline, and they stopped and looked around

The very first thing said at the beginning of the 118-long All The Elements playlist is... "We're braving the elements..."

These videos are TREASURE! I had always found chemistry boring and my brain just automatically shut down when I saw lots of chemical formulas. So I was searching for chem videos that can help me get asleep. Then I found these videos. Now an hour has passed and I am still awake enjoying these magic-like chemical reactions and knowledge. Thank you so much broadening my understanding of the world and leading me into the wonderful chemistry world!

Did i just hear Neil talk?!

I'm so glad I found these videos! It's been more than 10 years! I'm so glad there's more amazing videos!

Love the ACME sticker on the detonator!

3:10 you scared that poor dude

SO THAT'S WHAT NEIL SOUNDS LIKE!

I think I probably would have done better in school if I could have gone home and watch youtube videos.

excellent to finally hear Neil speak ...would love to see more of him in the videos.

Awesome science ;-) I wish my Chemistry teachers were more like you guys!

From today, I'm starting to watch one video every day from this series. 118 days for 118 elements. Let's go!

anyone in 2024?

I'd love to have seen the reaction of the person walking in the background as they exploded the balloon!

A very concentrated mixture of hydrogen and oxygen may react (or detonate) with almost no color whatsoever (UV radiations are emitted). However, in the case of low pressure hydrogen burned in air, the reddish/pink color is normal due to the Balmer series emission lines of hydrogen atoms (temperature and therefore energy dependent).

I wonder how would The Prof look with his hair tied back.

Does anyone know a book that has information on all physical and chemical etc. properties of all elements on the periodic table?

People starting the playlist in 2019, check in here

Neil speaks.

I used to suck at chemistry and physics back in school. Now because of my career I am really into it. I wish I had paid more attention all those years ago, chemistry and physics are awesome. Biology is awesome too but i don't really care about it so much :p

2:24 Just Love the ACME Detonator.... Baby..

3:09 guy in the background thought he got shot

Haha, ACME on the detonator. Nice touch!

An ultra rare audio clip featuring Neil's voice.

Neil is my spirit animal.

About the balloon burning, you can see the balloon parts move out of the way before it burns. Yes, hidrogen does give off a temperature regulated color from faint red to a bright yellow (see shuttle engines). Great stuff, thanks!!!

This is what they should teach in the schools, and not all the useless stuff they currently teach. That goes for the whole series, not just for this particular video.

I love the Acme detonation switch box. Reminds me of the roadrunner cartoons! Great video!

Excellent video! Combine much of what I learned in College Chemistry into a single experiment!

The info about fusion reactions is a little bit off: 1) Simple proton-proton fusion is possible, releases energy, and is necessary for stars to work. It is just much more difficult because it requires one of the protons to randomly turn into a neutron while the protons are extremely close to each other (and also because the electric repulsion between the two nuclei is larger compared to their masses). 2) When two deuterium nuclei fuse, the normal result is not Helium 4, but rather either "Tritium", AKA Hydrogen 3 (one proton and two neutrons), or Helium 3 (two protons and one neutron). In the former case, one of the two protons is emitted (a normal hydrogen nucleus); in the latter case, a neutron is emitted. (This neutron will either fuse with another atomic nucleus or, if it continues to fly away for a few minutes, will eventually decay into a proton and an electron.) 3) Hydrogen bombs usually use deuterium-tritium fusion, not deuterium-deuterium fusion, although that does technically also happen when they explode, as does tritium-tritium fusion, and, to a much lesser extent other types of fusion. There are also thermonuclear bombs that use lithium isotopes.

Ignite a balloon filled with hydrogen and you get a nice WOOMPH! Fill the balloon with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen and you get a deafening BANG! I saw a demonstration of this once. The prof used soap bubbles instead of balloons. He also popped a piece of dry ice into his mouth to see if it tasted sour, as you would expect. Quoth he, "Never do that, by the way." Strange fellow...

best thing to binge watch on weekend instead of netflix!

I would love to see a video about metallic hydrogen.

Some say the balloons are still up there.

Im on my way to gather more general knowledge and seeing the full periodic table on this channel is just awesome, thanks

That is one of the interesting RU-vid channel, I found.

2:23 Acme brand detonator. Wile E. Coyote would be proud.

I can't belive it's been 10 years already.

I'm doing a work piece on hydrogen for school now, this helped me to some things to look up about hydrogen and it's isotopes. Thanks!

just subscribed and im excited to watch the rest of the Chemical Elements playlist

2:20 please tell me someone else saw that the detonator box was built by none other than "ACME" corp.. LOL im not expecting this to go well>...where the coyote when you need him? LOLOLOL

it's amazing how I've lived for 19 years and only started to learn chemistry. all those years i have failed to notice the most beautiful field of knowledge.

Thank you so much for making these videos!

Thank you for all of your periodic videos, they help me a lot :) Thanks for the effort, i freaking love'em :3.

I remember filling a small balloon when I was 15. I did it downstairs. I lit it and the explosion was really loud. I felt the shock wave going through my body. Various objects were vibrating for 10 sec after it explosion.

ACME detonator HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

Thanks for the video, it’s informative and fun to watch!

Great job you did with that series of videos. thanks

lol person in the background.

3:05 That bloke pissed himself

These videos have spectacular production quality for their age!

This is probably one of my fave videos cause of fun factor of the the balloon experiments, and also Neil speaks!

NEIL SPEAKS!!!

What I wonder is; That both Hydrogen and Oxygen, when isolated, are fuel sources for fire - so how is it that when combined to make H2O (water) they are able to extinguish a flame ?

i have the same mug as him every time i have a cup of tea i try and recite the periodic table!

I learn so much from every one of your videos. I wish you were my teacher in school :)

you guys should work together with The SloMoGuys. the footage of u guys collaboration must be amazing!

Watching this in 2024 seems amazing 😂

I literally just found this, so awesome!

I applaud you for being able to answer his question seriously.

Did ssomeone saw the person in the background when the balloon explode, just walking and suddently stop when it explode? :D

@3:09 You can see the guy in the background walking stop when the balloon pops.

Most Awesome Playlist Idea. Im Saving It. Brilliant. i guess Other Streams Would Learn From This Playlist; Biology, ParticlePhysics etc channels. Thanks

The "Acme" detonator box... X-D I love you guys!

Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc. Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc.

And lol. "ACME detonator"?

I like the guy walking in the background at about 3:05. He pauses for a second after the explosion and then keeps on walking.

Stop the repeats you guys. I love this channel

One down 117 to go

who's watching in 2017?

Neil's voice is awesome!

My only singular complaint about these absolutely sensational videos is that they are not numbered.

he said "more denser" ....smh

One of the best chemistry videos on youtube! -Suriyaa Kudo

You guys should invest in a super high frames per second camera when you film your experiemnts!! Thank you so much for all of your videos!!

That's amazing, I didn't know that's how a hydrogen bomb worked. I wonder if this process could work with other elements? In any case, another very interesting video.

I cannot believe it's been fourteen years already! Wow!

Chornobyl was not a hydrogen-and-oxygen explosion, it was a steam-explosion, like when an over-pressurized water-heater explodes. Challenger wasn't a hydrogen-and-oxygen explosion until AFTER the initial explosion, which was a failure of the solid-rocket-booster seal. The last major example of a hydrogen+oxygen explosion was during Fukushima Daiichi. Before then, the most recent example of a hydrogen+oxygen explosion that I can think of would be the Hindenberg.

0:49 neils voice wow.

Thank you for the video!

Very nice. Subscribed!

We finally hear Niel speak!

I've seen it. It's intense. And you're exactly right - it's a sharp "bang" rather than a "boom".

I love this experiment!

Watching this as a learning tool for upcoming Chemistry Olympiad I know nothing about chemistry and I want to study physics, but my teacher said “You’re going to the regional round.” There is supposed to be a in-lesson experiment, so I hope I don’t blow myself up. Anyways, nice videos!

@Nevir The mug is at the front of the desk and the ball is set toward the back. He drinks from that cup in one of the alcohol related episodes, and it's your average size coffee mug.

Love his mug!

now that is a scientist!! great vid

I just got blindsided Pete's joke about the Welsh at 6:11.

Dmitry Ivanovich built a table according to atomic weight, and he was right, because. atomic weight characterized the element completely, so to speak. This characteristic implicitly included both the periodicity and the charge of the nucleus. But someone collected the lanthanides after him in one line and placed them below the table. And Mendeleev had cerium after lanthanum. Now after lanthanum there is hafnium, and this is a gross mistake because, according to the atomic weight, it, hafnium, should be located on the line below. Elements 72-75 and 108-111 are omitted, starting with hafnium, the charges of the nuclei have changed. After Mendeleev, the era of quantum mechanics began and its periodicity fit beautifully for many elements. Then it turned out that the main feature of the element is the charge of the nucleus. Before you is a table built according to the charges of the nuclei of atoms.

My favorite demo from high school physics was when the teacher put a coffee-can full of hydrogen at the back of the classroom, with a pinhole in the top and a larger hole at the bottom. He lit the hydrogen coming out the top, and it simply burned like a candle. He then started the lecture for the day. About 5 minutes later, there was a tremendous BANG! from behind us. When the air coming in at the bottom increased the oxygen/hydrogen ratio in the can to 1:2, the reaction sped up a bit.

Excellent video, thank you. Bill

Nice Professor!

I love how its an acme detonator like they are gonna use this balloon to catch the road runner or something.

Don't you just love Brady's channels?

ACME Detonator! XD You can't be serious! Great vid as always!