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This government warehouse keeps our entire society up to standard. Part of this video was sponsored by Google Domains. Take the first step to get online with a domain name from Google Domains - go to domains.google/veritasium to get 20% off your first year. #GoogleDomains
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Thanks to Rich Press and NIST for the great visit.
Thanks to Dr. Steve Choquette, Dr. Ben Place, and Dr. Johanna Camara for teaching us about the world of Standard Reference Materials.
You can check out all the cool work going on at NIST here: www.nist.gov/
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References:
NIST (2022). Standard Reference Materials. - ve42.co/WhyStandard2022
Montgomery, R. & Bercik, I. (2022). NIST Standard Reference Materials 2022 Catalog. - ve42.co/SRMCatalog
Vincent, J. (2022). Made to measure: why we can’t stop quantifying our lives. The Guardian -
ve42.co/Vincent2022
Proffitt, A. (2022). NIST Develops Monkeypox Reference Materials, Sees Growing Role in Outbreak Response. Diagnostics World. - ve42.co/Proffitt2022
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Written by Derek Muller & Emily Zhang
Edited by Trenton Oliver
Animation by Ivy Tello & Mike Radjabov
Filmed by Derek Muller, Trenton Oliver, and Emily Zhang
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@BunnLilah Год назад

They need to get that "most average person in the country" and have them live there just to 100% the collection

@tsurutom Год назад

*freeze dried and made into a fine, light grey powder

@conk444 Год назад

Then that wouldn’t be a very average place to live, would it?

@haifaa6380 Год назад

@@conk444 ❤❤

@blackcyklops Год назад

Finally. My time has come

@kiesernation1977 Год назад

Or for court cases they’ll need a collection of “reasonable persons”

@jackharbor3347 Год назад

As a cybersecurity engineer, I cannot hype up NIST enough. They maintain this security database that contains all known software vulnerabilities in existence. Every major company, government and military is using this database to check for vulnerabilities in their infrastructure. Thank you NIST.

@abrahamsanchez7455 Год назад

That’s actually pretty scary. They have more power than than the government itself

@areascoda2912 Год назад

Come to mysore it is cybersecurity capital of india

@KCGeno Год назад

@@areascoda2912 -- I buy my bath soap from the factory in Mysore. Great stuff!

@jackstrubbe7608 Год назад

@@KCGeno I love that soap. The only thing I use along with Dr. Bronner's castile hemp soaps.

@nevermindgamer4946 Год назад

@@KCGeno Mysore sandal soaps. It's pretty popular in India too. The smells lovely

@megabigblur Год назад

As a scientist, I really appreciate this. These guys are the ubernerds working behind the scenes to make sure us ordinary nerds can have the tools to do our jobs.

@phaedrussmith1949 6 месяцев назад

So how does this relate to what you do? There's a dozen kinds of peanut butter on the shelf in Walmart, what's the point off having some standard in a government warehouse somewhere?

@Amaling 6 месяцев назад

@@phaedrussmith1949did you not watch the video? To make sure the peanut butter doesn’t fall above the known standard level of carcinogens

@phaedrussmith1949 6 месяцев назад

@@Amaling Of course I did and that's not what he said. What he said is that they get some company - probably Jiff or Skippy - to make some kind of peanut butter and then this place says "This is peanut butter" and then that's what peanut butter is. But, as I said, there are at least a dozen different kinds of peanut butter on the shelf of the market, and many of them are different than the others. So what's the standard? Not having poison in it (or, conversely and more likely, how much poison will be allowed in it)? This sounds much more like the alliance between big corporations and the government.

@Osama-Bon-Jovi-01 6 месяцев назад

@@phaedrussmith1949the reference material isn't supposed to be _the_ definitive peanut butter, it's to calibrate equipment so they can accurately measure levels of aflatoxins in their peanut butter

@phaedrussmith1949 6 месяцев назад

@@Osama-Bon-Jovi-01 So how do they know what they are calibrating against? Doesn't something have to have measured the aflatoxins first to know what the level of aflatoxins in the sample should test as? One can't calibrate equipment unless it is done against a known quantity.

@gerbipospolity6987 5 месяцев назад

Didin't stop NileRed from making his cookie lmao

@al-du6lb 5 месяцев назад

I got a couple minutes into Nile's video and then directly came back here to see if I was correct, and I was..

@jakekaufmann2937 Год назад

As someone in the analytical chemistry field, these standards are vital. It is how analytical labs are able to charge such a price for what seems to be them just analysing a sample.

@MrUssy101 Год назад

Sounds bunch of BS. Disagree This guy thinks he clever and has big brain and should eduecate us all??? He sounds so condescending!!!

@1999NOZA Год назад

@@MrUssy101 Sounds like you need to read a book. Perhaps work on your grammar too!

@Em4gdn1m Год назад

Lol that doesn't justify it's existence, only it's high cost.

@iveharzing Год назад

@@MrUssy101 What? No he doesn't sound condescending. Where did you get that from?

@thewatchfuleye8401 Год назад

I am disgusted after watching this -- The only way a place like that get funding from the governent is that its not public knowledge of their bloated out of control budget/ spending. This place needs real oversight and would probably be shut down if omre stories like this aired. Nothing in that place or in the name of science, justifies the price tag of those materials or having what I imagine is equally overpriced staffers.

@ryanqualley8143 Год назад

I love how passionate that guy is about his job. You can tell he loves so much about what he does, and he is so excited about it and it makes me really happy to see.

@nefariousyawn Год назад

I want his job so badly, but mostly because I desperately want to know what "typical diet" srm TASTES like.

@defeatSpace Год назад

@@nefariousyawn it tastes like matter

@FlyveHest Год назад

A man that truly has found his shelf, I loved his passion also, and he seemed like a great boss

@kevinlandrini6799 Год назад

it's always great to see someone enjoying what they do isn't it? it's inspiring for sure

@zer0bre Год назад

It's the salary... Not the job he's excited about.

@mikeb9314 Год назад

I’m an analytical chemist, and anyone who works in any lab or in most manufacturing operations definitely knows and appreciates the vital importance of reference standards to calibrate our instruments and ‘test our tests.’ Now NIST isn’t the only game in town that provides SRMs, but you might consider them the ‘standard of standards.’

@godlugner5327 7 месяцев назад

Fun fact: the Calories on the nutrition label is calculated by setting the food on fire! The Cal is a measure of energy released heating 1 g of water, the sample is placed in a sphere surrounded by water then ignited. The temperature difference of the surrounding water determines how much energy the food contains, as the stomach works just like a combustion engine or.... something like that

@Starpotion 7 дней назад

Yesss, we did this in 5th grade using a dehydrator and bananas 😊

@CraftyMasterman Год назад

this just might be the crappiest product ive ever seen

@superjumpbros64 Год назад

Indeed, indeed

@windowsxpmemesandstufflol Год назад

Nice

@MrUssy101 Год назад

This guy thinks he clever and has big brain and should eduecate us all??? He sounds so condescending!!!

@Speedwars Год назад

hey it’s mr red stone

@Menaceblue3 Год назад

Andy Sixx agrees

@markproulx1472 Год назад

NIST is one of, if not the, most under appreciated of all US government agencies. I was lucky to be able to tour their metrology lab in Gathersburg, MD in 2007. It was just mind blowing.

@N.Cognito Год назад

That had to be cool to see. It's mind blowing how accurately we can measure things and their work ensures we can do it accurately.

@chucktaylor6939 Год назад

I could not disagree more

@Deathranger999 Год назад

@@chucktaylor6939 Why?

@PainflyErect Год назад

Do they just let people come look? I'd enjoy seeing that place.

@marquizzo Год назад

@@Deathranger999 Don't feed the trolls. They're just looking for unearned attention by saying the opposite of what you'd expect.

@DKranze Год назад

NIST are the hero's behind the scenes. I've done work in reliability engineering. Theses people deserve all the praise

@napadave58 Месяц назад

It was a year ago, but: heroes. No apostrophe for plurals. Live and learn.

@ManaMangon 10 месяцев назад

They're on a 100% item collecting run

@Starpotion 7 дней назад

Earth completionists be like

@samiurkhan Год назад

NIST also played a pivotal role in standardizing internet communication protocols. Without them, the Internet would be a much more chaotic and much slower

@farrel_ra Год назад

Ofc the one who knows it is Indian..

@DefaultName Год назад

@@farrel_ra and why is that

@jordan9604 Год назад

Because the internet was such a chaotic place before national government overwatch?

@brentfisher902 Год назад

@@jordan9604 Give me an internet run by big government over an internet run by big media, any day.

@freshchoice5177 Год назад

@@farrel_ra dude stop being racist and dick riding me

@rcrnitto Год назад

I work for a company that produces every type of analytical measurement instrument you could ever think of. We use NIST reference materials every day to qualify our instruments. We call them SARMs though, standard analytical reference materials. We use NIST steel spheres to calibrate our density measurement machines. They produce a great product, and are vital to industries like mine. Keep up the good work guys!

@soy_red Год назад

thanks for this. explains more than I got from the vid

@sootuckchoong7077 Год назад

Millionaires and billionaires sure buy this peanut butter.

@misterasterisco5217 Год назад

I feel like the lawyers are to thank for this xD

@sam9239 Год назад

Gymbro: "Someone said SARMs"

@Darasilverdragon Год назад

Do you make flow injection analyzers? Because HACH is kinda leaving us out to dry over in the environmental chem field...

@sethwalker7386 11 месяцев назад

I work in a polymer manufacturing laboratory and I cannot stress the importance of standards enough! Such an interesting clip!

@prodlazyplug 2 месяца назад

They prolly got the best weed

@goondudefr 23 дня назад

factual

@pugsnhogz 18 дней назад

it's actually a standardized amalgamation of all known weed. in other words, it's mids

@ghakim9 18 дней назад

I'd digress and say they have the most average weed.

@dunkie5863 17 дней назад

go to canada go to any indigenous reserve store that's the best weed

@goondudefr 17 дней назад

@@dunkie5863 Michigan or Oklahoma has the best weed by far lmao, every other dispo has fuckin fire in the shelf

@fastandFourier Год назад

Handling a 50 micron spherical ruby single crystal from NIST to calibrate X-ray diffraction equipment has been one of the scariest experiences I ever had as a researcher... I had nightmares about dropping it on the floor and losing it

@falsemcnuggethope Год назад

How about accidentally breathing it in, lol

@nidhishshivashankar4885 Год назад

I don’t even get how you handle something that small, I assume you have special tools to hold it but what’s stopping you from accidentally inhaling it lol

@Ze_Moose Год назад

It's kind of like fumbling the at 1 yard line. Go Vikings! 😎

@fredwerza3478 Год назад

Umm isn't 50 microns less than the width of a human hair ?!?

@Hawk7886 Год назад

@@Ze_Moose Honestly it's not even remotely close to goofing around with a ball on a field. If you're determined to stick with the football frame of reference, it would be like shooting a football through a cannon a few miles away, detonating a flashbang grenade in your face, and then trying to find the football while in a hurricane.

@Salex684 Год назад

I'm a pharmacist and always ensured my students knew that the temperature monitoring devices (basically a thermometer) for the refrigerator/freezer that holds medications must have a certificate of calibration tracing its accuracy back to NIST, as well as ensuring they knew those devices do in fact "expire" and should be re-calibrated or, more practically, replaced. Great video to get to see the rest of NIST's world!

@bibsp3556 Год назад

Even weights need to be checked if you're working within fine enough tolerances. It gets even wierder with timing stuff, as thats influenced by the speed its moving. A clock has to be perfectly accurate in a satellite for a gps to work, but they also lose 7 millionths of a second per day or something just because its moving faster.

@charity9660 Год назад

Girl i am so glad i reread that you said PHARMACIST and THOSE students lmao i was about to say i definitely failed that class! 😂😂😂😂

@goldenhate6649 Год назад

@@bibsp3556 Its more the fact its further out of earths gravitational field than the speed. The %difference of gravity is more significant than the %difference of the speed of light. But yes, they do lose time and that causes errors in the positioning of the satellite and slowly over time will cause the satellite to give wrong coordinates to a gps if not recalibrated.

@randomname4726 Год назад

@Golden Hate Space-Time & Gravity are so mind blowing. Simulation theory is getting really interesting too.

@bibsp3556 Год назад

@@randomname4726 eh, simulation theory to me is more a philosophical question. I've not really seen anything beyond hypothesising that the planc length and speed of light might be some.sort of processor limit, but it's not convinced me really. As the guy said above correctly said though, it's more the gravity, but yeah it's fascinating. Crazy out there

@bigsky1970 Год назад

This video confirms what I've recently learned that NIST touches every aspect of our lives, from the accuracy of your metric ruler to the accuracy of the compounds that go into a jar of peanut butter. I first learned about NIST in 1977 (known back then as the National Bureau of Standards) when I was about 7 years old, and at the time, I figured all they did all day was make sure clocks ran accurate right down to the nanosecond.

@makeritualnoise Год назад

This is so interesting! I worked at an environmental testing lab and we did get standards from NIST but it was for our yearly test to maintain our certifications. Always super stressful to do those tests and hope you get the right answer because we don't have the certification he showed early on in the video. It's so neat to have a face and fuller understanding of a government body that put fear and terror in my heart lol.

@rogermouton2273 Год назад

Just makes me think that, in general, there's so many people with really deep knowledge and skills that are working away constantly to keep our world safe and operational. It's very useful to remember how we're all so dependent on people like this.

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@TimorDa Год назад

And then there are conspirancy theorists, which know basically nothing, but think they know everything, making the world much worse and chaotic place.

@HeyLeFay Год назад

@@TimorDa I see you've read the other comment threads on this video too, lol

@8pija22 Год назад

@@TimorDa Yeah, it seriously depresses me, the amount of people, especially older people who simply can’t fathom trusting others. I suppose it can be hard. Though as Roger said, it is comforting knowing that there are people who are out there who are extremely skilled, and do what they do for the common good.

@GOREDO5 Год назад

@8pija well I get most conspiracys are nuts... but you can't deny that many have become truth

@edwinglenn Год назад

I used to work as a chemist in a materials testing lab, and we used NIST metallic standards constantly. Our machine shop even machined a lot of those charpy standards for NIST!

@RevCode Год назад

I didn't quite understand the Charpy test: What use is it? Don't they just measure the force required to break that Charpy? How does that measure anything from the manufactured steel? Or is the Charpy made from the steelmill's steel?

@thugpug4392 Год назад

@@RevCode you have some made from your steel and their steel has all the information known so it lets you test your machine .

@Furiends Год назад

@@RevCode It's made from BOTH. You run the test twice as to test your own test. That's what the word calibration means.

@sapandream Год назад

@@RevCodein simple word, that Charpy sample is so homogeneous and properly made (according to ISO 148 part-1) that all the Charpy samples prepared in a lot are having almost same results. So if u test one sample and have the result, say 40 joules, and the actual value of the Charpy sample (which is known to these NIST guys, coz they tested it before) is 39 joules, then by statistical analysis it can be found out how perfect your machine is calculating the impact value. Basically comparing apple with another known apple 😂

@RevCode Год назад

@@thugpug4392 Oh I see, so they calculate the baseline from the standardized one and then know their steel's strength. If I wasn't so dumb I guess I could have guessed that by the name "reference material" alone - thank you for enlightening me, that was not my brightest moment :)

@someone_sad 7 месяцев назад

This place reminds me the "Developers Room" that's (secretly) present in most of Bethesda games. It's a room that has every material used in the game. NIST is the IRL version of this xD

@franzpattison Месяц назад

"so, what do you collect?" "everything." "..."

@waynenocton Год назад

Working in the lab of a sewage treatment plant, was interesting for a while, but then became insanely boring, but one neat thing was the fact that the more accurate our scales were, and also our ability to dispense the necessary items for testing, the smaller the test sample could be, and therefore the less of those necessary items would be used as well. Our scale was so accurate that we could weight our fingerprints. We would have elementary school kids tour the plant from time to time, and we would pick one to pickup a beaker while we turned our back, then we could correctly tell them how many fingers they used to pick it up with. We did have to instruct them to use the pads of their fingers not the tips to make it fair, but as long as they played fair, we had a 100% correct “guess”, and the kids absolutely loved it. We also typically picked a kid that was somewhat socially awkward, which made them the big shot hoping to help them socially.

@ricebeansrockroll882 Год назад

This is so cool!

@ozdoits Год назад

❤️

@lindboknifeandtool Год назад

This guy gets it ^

@Pudji.Toucan Год назад

@@lindboknifeandtool Hey, how's Brian doing now?

@lindboknifeandtool Год назад

@@Pudji.Toucan Brian’s great other than idk who that is

@goodboi6540 Год назад

I love how literal the names are. No companies no nicknames just "peanut butter", "blueberry", "meat hamogenate"

@googlelocoelgoog Год назад

There is a brand that sells named literally as the article itself. Like Water would be named "Water". I think you would like this company and its products lol. It's called No Name and is located in Canada.

@AnonNopleb Год назад

@@googlelocoelgoog So, SRMs are kind of the premium products of No Name?

@joeshmoe6566 Год назад

fucked up in the crib eating "meat hamogenate" 😩

@electrogestapo Год назад

It's like walking into a grocery store in a world that has marketing outlawed.

@darksunrise957 Год назад

@@electrogestapo I could see that as a good thing, sometimes.

@DavidBrown-de9eo Год назад

I had a good chuckle when I watched this episode. In the 90's the laboratory I worked at ordered a sample of the reference limestone from the NIST. Some where along the way the one unit turned in to many. All total there was about 1/2 a cubic metre of boxes in the middle of the lab floor. We returned most of the reference limestone. A short time later I received a phone call stating that reference limestone could not be ship because it was deemed hazardous material as it had "lime" in it.

@selfmade128 Год назад

This is so amazing. Mundane but so perplexed at the same time. Kudos to the team at NIST & to you for bringing this to light.

@estefanello Год назад

I work in an analytical lab here in Brazil and I use a lot of this peanut butter reference material as a quality control for mycotoxins, fatty acids and metal ions in food. It smells so good though! And thanks a lot for these people that work at NIST and make this reference materials. You guys rock!

@autumnalburn Год назад

Have you ever tried to taste it?

@unifiedtheoryoflife9922 Год назад

Except for the 9/11 NIST report, which made such dramatic changes to the structural properties of concrete and steel that, were they true, large swaths of the frozen north would be unable to build structures taller than 3 stories. I wonder if this is the guy that approved the expansion rates of steel and concrete under heat for the 9/11 NIST report?

@Tmktrsf Год назад

@@unifiedtheoryoflife9922 there are no high rises in the “frozen north” that you speak of that even closely reaches the height that the trade centres did lmfao

@unifiedtheoryoflife9922 Год назад

@@Tmktrsf The number is 3 floors - and the north is anything that freezes in the winter. NIST 9/11 report changed the known expansion rate of steel and concrete by so much that you could not buld a 4 story building in Chicago, because the 4th floor would need to be steel, and the steel and concrete apparantly separate under office fire heat, so imagine what 100 degrees the other direction (0F) does. It makes Chicago a one stop light town

@bobson_dugnutt Год назад

@@unifiedtheoryoflife9922 reality: a building collapses due to a +500F delta you: hOW CAn BuilDInGs EvEn WiThSTanD a -100F DeLTa TheN? Genius. Besides, contraction vs expansion are different. Materials have different strength in tension vs compression. And when looking at a structure as a whole, crushing the structure vs tearing it apart is pretty different.

@invertedflow Год назад

It's amazing how complex our world is and how we depend on systems that 99.9999% of us have no idea exist and can't possible be thankful for. Thanks for giving me this knowledge and sharing such important research with the world Derek. :)

@anntakamaki1960 Год назад

Yeah, that is pretty interesting. Even something you are an expert in is based on a totally different thing you might have not much idea about. Eg- a software developer might not have great knowledge on how computers are working behind the scenes, meanwhile a computer engineer will. These computer engineers might not fully understand how the materials they use (semiconductors) work but the material scientist will. This is just one example. Even for something less ‘hi tech’ there is so much that is done by others we don’t understand fully how they work, we just know what it does and how to use it. This is good so different people can become experts in different areas via specialisation.

@invertedflow Год назад

@@anntakamaki1960 As a software dev myself, I can relate :)

@robwoodring9437 Год назад

@@anntakamaki1960 reminds me of a stand up comedy bit about how dumb the avg person is. "We're not smart. We just use stuff made by smart people". The big punchline was "if I sent you into the woods with a hatchet and a lighter, how many years till you could send me an email?"

@laupoke Год назад

It's terryfying

@jmiller6066 Год назад

Yep - my father is a soil chemist that runs quality control programs for soil testing labs. There's way more of these labs than you think, because they're used by farmers to determine what kind of fertilizer to put on their fields (among many other things). What's fascinating is that because the QC program is so large, the excess soil is highly desirable by labs to use as reference and calibration material for equipment. And that's how he ended up selling buckets of dirt internationally.

@benjaminhendrickson5435 Год назад

When he says "I wouldn't recommend eating it" because the peanut butter may be very old, that suggests a problem. When a perishable item "goes off" that is because of a chemical reaction of some kind (possibly from oxidation, or just biological contamination). In order for that jar of peanut butter to be a standard for the calibration of equipment, shouldn't it be 1 to 1 identical to the product that you are trying to produce? If the oils in it have gone rancid due to age, then how can it be a viable benchmark?

@zach3096 Год назад

Well said

@Wicker_ 10 дней назад

I imagine the one they show off to people is just for show.

@aoconnor2933 Год назад

I was TMDE in the Marine Corps for a few years, and this was something I learned existed. National Standards and why we have them. Pretty interesting stuff; great video!!

@pravinlnrk Год назад

As someone working in the steel industry, I can vouch for the importance of the steel standard reference material.

@y_fam_goeglyd Год назад

My dad was a steelworker for about 40 years. They sent him to get qualified as a metallurgist before taking up his head foreman role. It's a fascinating subject! As a one-time geology student, I found the identification of the ores to be really interesting. Maybe his own real interest in the subject is where my son got his inbuilt fascination for chemistry (he's now a PhD medical biochemist! He's way, _way_ smarter than me lol!).

@tracyfollowell6747 Год назад

@@y_fam_goeglyd If your child is better and smarter than you you did a fantastic job!

@wernerbkerner9690 Год назад

@@tracyfollowell6747 I disagree. Raising smarter chlidren won't change a thing in the world. Raising kinder children MIGHT improve the world.

@clothes5049 Год назад

@@wernerbkerner9690 Why not both?

@mikewurlitzer5217 Год назад

Then the steel industry should fund it not the taxpayer who must fund a government which has run us $30+ Trillion in debt.

@pseudotasuki Год назад

One of my favorite things about NIST is that the roads of their main campus are aligned to be parallel with lines of latitude and longitude. It's particularly noticeable on maps, as it doesn't mesh with the surrounding roads.

@warpigs9069 Год назад

I want to work there now

@StevenSkoczen Год назад

Have any kind of citation/reference/location? A quick look on google earth didn't find anything like that. Would love to see it!

@pseudotasuki Год назад

@@StevenSkoczen Try the full name: National Institute of Standards and Technology It's located in Gaithersburg, MD.

@scottfw7169 Год назад

Looking at map and seeing NIST Sound Building, which I guess deals in standard sounds. Satellite view shows intersection of Sound Road and West Drive is torn up, so does that mean NIST offers a Standard Traffic Obstruction? Hmm, there is a NIST Child Care Center, do they have Standard Children?

@LouiseFranksArt Год назад

I wish all places were aligned like that LOL

@DSDJ1986 Год назад

the guys that work there seem genuinely happy & enthusiastic. nice to see.

@MrKoalaburger 7 месяцев назад

Well this answered a years-old question I've always had about nutrition standards. Glad I found this randomly in my feed.

@notyet3819 Год назад

I learned two things today. 1. These people's work is definitely underrated. Now I understand how some foods and products can exist for years and taste the same. Consistency is key and these people are definitely helping with that. 2. I'm never eating peanut butter anymore. 😅 Never again.

@lastyhopper2792 Год назад

would you still eat peanut though?

@voguyrus Год назад

Why aren't you eating peanut butter anymore?

@Bildad1976 Год назад

Everything you buy to eat is allowed to have a tiny, yet measurable, proportion of various disgusting contaminants such as cockroach heads (and other insect parts), rat poop, rat hairs, mold, mites... even maggots (ugh), and "other foreign matter".

@ncalisnotenough Год назад

@@voguyrus probably the calorie content

@emmacornejo6392 Год назад

Pb2!!

@84gssteve Год назад

One of those things we take for granted...... but if you stop and think about how big, wide and "standardized" the world is, it's amazing. It makes it possible to eat some manufactured food and then wait 10 years, travel to another part of the world and eat the same food and have the exact same experience. I remember a local craft brewer saying he had a lot of respect for Budweiser for making millions of gallons of beer, over the course of decades and having it always be consistent and predictable.

@9ZERO6 Год назад

I made a snarky comment about Budweiser beer to a well skilled craft brewmaster during a tour a few years ago. He immediatly informed me that Budweiser is actually a fantastically brewed beer for this exact reason. Humbling moment.

@vwr32jeep Год назад

@@9ZERO6 Budweiser is fantastically brewed piss water if anything. Utter trash. The fact that they can reproduce garbage to such an exact standard doesn’t impress me. It caters to a brand loyalty crowd and little more.

@thisrandomdude2846 Год назад

@@9ZERO6 What exactly did you say? I hope you remember :)

@RS-xq6je Год назад

I can't stand budweiser it's too weak tastes like sparkling water

@9ZERO6 Год назад

@@vwr32jeep sounds like you could use a beer man.

@jonas36699 Год назад

Another important question would is: How do they ensure the products dont degrade over time? Some contents like vitamins are really volatile. Also: Over time the composition of things like house dust etc. changes as we use different materials at home (new types of plastic, etc.)

@beardiemom Год назад

It depends on the vitamins and for most vitamins, there are more and less shelf-stable compounds, so I'd assume they use more stable compounds and likely do have expiration dates on less shelf-stable items. As for things like the house dust, those are probably dated by year, if not month and year and they likely have more than one version. Not to forget that those samples aren't being used directly to identify problem areas, but are only made to calibrate the machines that are used to analyse samples, so they don't necessarily need to contain every potential contaminate. If there are a few different plastics in the house dust calibration sample, that should give a good reference as to whether the machines are able to detect carbon-hydrogen-polymers. Even if it isn't the exact plastic that was found in the sample from NIST, all plastics are essentially made from the same materials.

@g0d5m15t4k3 Год назад

They definitely have storage directions. Like the animal and tissue samples in the liquid nitrogen. Ya can't just pop that in your fridge when you get home.

@hoyounlee9193 Год назад

I have been worried for so long about how there wasn't a real chemical definition of what the kinds of food we eat are because I didn't know NIST existed, but now I can eat in peace knowing there is a standard jar of peanut butter out there that the peanut butter I'm eating should at least have been made in reference to.

@michelleholman4287 Год назад

SURELY YOU JEST!

@hoyounlee9193 Год назад

@@michelleholman4287 Am I missing something? I am beyond confused

@zen8704 Год назад

@@hoyounlee9193 Translation: Surely you’re being sarcastic

@hoyounlee9193 Год назад

@@zen8704 got that part, but in regards to what?

@zen8704 Год назад

@@hoyounlee9193 in regards to the fact that most people wouldn’t ever genuinely worry about a standardized jar of pb?

@digitaldoc1976 Год назад

The director of NIST seems to me to be one of the most approachable and likeable civil servants of whom I've ever had any exposure. You're a cool dude, sir! Your general state of apparent happiness is enviable.

@billted3323 Год назад

He did seem too happy. Something is up with him

@CS-zb7hx Год назад

@@billted3323 Or.... or. He's a nerd who likes his job.

@billted3323 Год назад

@@CS-zb7hx Thats the vanilla theory , But something dosen't smell right

@stylo8845 Год назад

7:43

@haloslayer33 Год назад

@@stylo8845 i noticed that too

@thereisbeautyinthisworld7251 Год назад

This is really interesting. How very important this is. Just amazing. Thank you to everyone working so hard at NIST.

@Hklbrries Год назад

Fascinating! Also: I love Nerds! And the Scientist/Videographer is a hoot. Love his smile as he’s filming and asking questions.

@undergroundalienstudios56 Год назад

As someone who worked at NIST for a while doing metrology and spectroscopy, I can tell you. That place is freaking awesome. The impact it has on the world is really quite incredible.

@user-ih6we9kq2q Год назад

NDA notwithstanding

@TooRiskyHD Год назад

Not to be rude but how does collecting human turds then breaking it down to dust help the planet?

@mynt4033 Год назад

In an ideal future, they'd be shielded from budget cuts. But republicans are likely to retake and cut funding to them without any care for the appreciation of the sciences.

@tokin420nchokin Год назад

@@TooRiskyHD standards for measurements are critical. When the industrial revolution kicked off standardization became critical between industries. Gauge blocks were born as a means for checking measurements against one another quickly. I dont know if that was the first "standard" but it is necessary for there to be standards out there otherwise we would be doing a lot of guessing. That rotor you bought to replace your breaks might be too big or too small, the holes maybe got drilled incorrectly. Hope you understand the necessity for standards based on those couple examples.

@TooRiskyHD Год назад

@@tokin420nchokin yeh it makes sense to have matrix of something infact it’s smart I just never understood the poop part but you’ve went into detail about and it actually explains a lot I appreciate that thank you!

@LopsidedKitten Год назад

This man loves his job and I am so happy he's around to do it.

@-Sean_ Год назад

I'm happy that you're happy that he's happy!

@thicc_astley Год назад

happy loop 😁

@barry5 Год назад

@@-Sean_ im happy that you're happy that he's happy that he's happy!

@the__void__spaghetti__girl Год назад

if a job is fun, the worker will be happy. most jobs are not fun =/

@itumelengseeco2844 Год назад

I am from South Africa, and one of the recent articles I read pointed out that our government has defined a new standard to define a Boerewors (Famous South African 'sausage'). I could not understand why this was necessary; this video just made me realise why that is.

@axelsalive957 7 месяцев назад

I love Steve Choquette. He seems to genuinely love his job. Both how it generates a profit, but also how it benefits the world. He's also very much aware of how ridiculous the job appears at first glance. He's not defensive. He embraces the absurdity. At the end of the video, when asked how much human feces was collected to be powered and measured, he simply said, "a crap load." Good stuff.

@bartandkate5162 Год назад

There’s a great story you’re (usually) told during NIST orientation for new employees about the Great Baltimore fire of 1904. Lots of FDs from surrounding municipalities and states came to try to help, but at the time, there was no industrial standard for hoses/couplings, so it turned into quite a mess, and more injuries and damage arguably resulted. Those items are now standardized across the country. The HR folks are better storytellers, but still demonstrates the importance of the work of standardization

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад

Standards are something that you don't realize you need unless you don't have them.

@Luchoedge Год назад

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Things you can say about your work and also about your ex!

@ylstorage7085 Год назад

Then proceeds with "let's use Imperial units". Didn't you people dumped tea and fought a war to get rid of the "imperial" stuff?!

@JoseRodriguez-ey7ju Год назад

@@ylstorage7085this is the dumbest comment i've read in a while, also we use metric in the united states alongside imperial units

@jiaan100 Год назад

They should tell the story about how people quit nist and joined architects and engineers for 9/II truth because of the fake garbage they made them produce.

@elijanzen4015 Год назад

I interned at NIST in 2018 and saw the standard jar of peanut butter among lots of other things. It’s really cool to see the organization being covered here since they’re so important to so many businesses!

@KJ4EZJ Год назад

Please tell me you made a PB&J with one, lol.

@elijanzen4015 Год назад

@@KJ4EZJ Unfortunately not. Like the guy said in the video, none of the standards are for human consumption, but I was and still am very curious about how it would taste

@fredwerza3478 Год назад

Just imagine the first day on the job and some intern is cracking open a $1000 jar of peanut butter to make a PB&J sandwich 🤣

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад

@@fredwerza3478 "No, not the good peanut butter! Use the jar in the break room!"

@user-te1eh8jc1o 2 месяца назад

For several years, I worked right across the street from NIST in Gaithersburg, but I never knew that they had a warehouse in there! I certainly am aware of what they're doing in general, but was completely oblivious of this. Neat!

@devindaniels1634 7 месяцев назад

Damn, I was aware of the important work NIST does, but apparently had no idea how many standards they maintain. That's amazing.

@goddamnit Год назад

I like how human civilization eventually came up with such a system. We frequently do not realize how amazing some of these quality of life things are since we're so used to it being a background part of our everyday lives (which is good)

@1cont Год назад

I disagree. It merely complicates a system needlessly. Do you not know what is in peanut butter? Do you not know what a fish is?

@farrel_ra Год назад

@@1cont tell that when u have liver cancer since ur peanut butter producer doesn't have a good standard for how much aflatoxin they had in their mixture of peanut butter

@1cont Год назад

@@farrel_ra yeah right. The peanuts are what make your liver sick. Not the alcohol and the decades of sugary diet. You morons deserve to be sick if you think the government is keeping you healthy.

@goodiesohhi Год назад

@@1cont This is probably the dumbest and most ignorant comment I have seen in years. Did you not watch the video? 99% of the people who watch the video will realize how insanely important organizations like NIST are. You have to be the top 1% of bruh moment to not get this imo.

@1cont Год назад

@@goodiesohhi I watched the whole video. Needless complication. Just as I stated. If you are too stupid to know that grinding up peanuts makes peanut butter, then you are stupid enough to be impressed with such needless complication.

@ryebud258 Год назад

Analytical chemist here. From academic research to drug development to drug safety testing, every position I've ever worked makes heavy use of NIST standards (though usually all with their own internal acronyms). These are absolutely vital for almost any calibration or measurement which requires high degrees of certainty.

@John-ei8wq Год назад

Strangely comforting to know this exists. A big government bunker full of things that define what those things are, by a standard. Some things cannot be standardized though :(

@H8nji 11 месяцев назад

Be pretty boring if everything *could* be standardized

@ligma212 7 месяцев назад

@@H8njibut good to have standards uwu

@H8nji 7 месяцев назад

@@ligma212 Having standards =/= being standardized. We have standards for people’s behaviour but we don’t expect everyone to act the same way. Also, what’s an “uwu?” Just a shot in the dark, but is it an onomatopoeia used by terminally online degenerates who believe that everything, regardless of its nature, should be veiled under a layer of cuteness much like how Japan puts on a socially cohesive facade to masquerade its underlying social problems? Or am I being too cynical, passive-aggressive, and “it’s not that deep bro?”

@gigachin4181 6 месяцев назад

@@H8njiI have a feeling YOU spend too much time online yourself, over analyzing a damn emoji and all mate.

@H8nji 6 месяцев назад

@@gigachin4181 Nah but it's cringe as hell when people use animal noises in discussions that don't revolve around furry role-play sex.

@micahsean8664 11 месяцев назад

I've never come across something more mundane and more fascinating than this video.

@dma736 Год назад

Thank you for highlighting the important work the team at NIST performs. A fine example of functional government and a team dedicated to their work.

@adamscrivener9574 Год назад

This system ends up making everything they control more expensive for the consumer, and gives the consumer less choice. Among many other glaring issues. We can have transparency and certificates etc without total government control. Functional force is still force.

@dma736 Год назад

@@adamscrivener9574 I think you may be confusing the NIST with a regulatory body. NIST is a science laboratory setup by Congress to bring US standards up to world standard at the time. Trusted standards allow for improved safety, quality, and a plethora of other things. How the standards are to be applied and who enforces them is another ball of wax.

@MC-yt1uv Год назад

@@adamscrivener9574 I don't think you understand what NIST is. Without them, businesses would have to spend more money when trying to calibrate their equipment. Also, just from a broader perspective outside of what NIST does, regulation is necessary. We tried giving businesses free rein during the early 20th century and a bunch of kids lost arms in factory equipment. Businesses have no concern other than money they will hurt or exploit people for profit if left to their own devices.

@CRneu Год назад

@@adamscrivener9574 You clearly fall into the weird "GOVERNMENT BAD, NO EXCEPTIONS" camp. Free market capitalism is a race to the bottom. Capitalism needs standards and regulation. These standards save a ton of money and save a lot of lives. I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that it makes things more expensive or gives less choice. That makes zero sense. Even with regulations and standards, companies are constantly caught cutting corners which often times result in a loss of life. NIST is a service that is invaluable to the global economy.

@fredwerza3478 Год назад

@@adamscrivener9574 it's amazing how much propaganda and disinformation that Trumpers like you are spreading

@geese5170 Год назад

Met a guy on a game I was playing the other day who was an airbag engineer. One of the most down to earth people I’ve ever had the joy of interacting with, although our interaction was brief. It’s always the most important things you forget has to be thought of, designed, created, tested, redesigned again and again until it was just okay enough.

@samthunders3611 Год назад

OK enough.. Sounds great

@LabGecko Год назад

@@samthunders3611 For scientists perfect does not exist. That's what standards are for - _"Does this system or object meet the standards to do the job?"_ Stuff like NIST is why you can buy a bag of concrete, follow the directions, and actually get the same results as the factory did. Or brownie mix, or any number of most of the things we buy today.

@samthunders3611 Год назад

@@LabGecko I'm a chef bakerbwho was also involved with the manufacturing industry There's nothing you can tell me And you dint want to hear a quarter of the things I know It's all bussness no matter what's being sold

@flexinclouds Год назад

Hopefully he works for "Takata".. so they dont have to keep recalling, already recalled & "fixed" airbags. Like the one in my Subaru WRX

@kennedynjuguna Год назад

Thank you for this. I literally had no idea about NIST and the awesome stuff they are doing

@soupysoup931 11 месяцев назад

NIST is what most people don't know about, but who keep our daily lives and basics in touch and up to date, God bless them!

@OfficiallySnek Год назад

As someone who poops, I can vouch for the importance of a standard poop sample

@brianarbenz1329 Год назад

I poop too! We're part of the brotherhood.

@nobrien22 Год назад

Here here. I also poop, and have many times contributed my part to the great, strained effort to achieve new levels of poop standardization.

@anmolagrawal5358 Год назад

Woah, such coincidences, I happen to poop as well!

@hi-mj5oi Год назад

@@anmolagrawal5358 bro everyone does

@hi-mj5oi Год назад

@@nobrien22 dude everyone poops

@rocketscienceinstituteinc8993 Год назад

Thank you for showing science in action with exceptional production values, superior dialogues, excellent editing, and great videography. You've created and produced one of the world's best introductions to the essentials of science, engineering, and technology. Well-written, well-produced: 5-star one and all, so far. Thank you! PS: is there a National Bureau of Standards offical "crap-load" measurement, as described? Is that a unit of domestic waste volume or mass? Perhaps it's related to the classic "RCH" measurement of sub-millimeter distances by rocket technicans (RCH = Red C_ _ t Hair, a unit of measurement)

@Tigray_Hagerey Год назад

How you described these amazing people just shows you are a great person

@thecrone7964 Год назад

I am not a science nerd or in any profession that depends on this kind of information and I was fascinated and amazed by this information. Thanks for making this available to your average little old lady. We are never too old to learn.

@randomname4726 Год назад

I love your name! Lol

@karadan100 Год назад

Yeah me too. My mind was blown. Really well put together video too. Veritasium is great.

@madhououinkyoma 6 месяцев назад

I wonder if they have an average old lady sample

@thecrone7964 6 месяцев назад

@@madhououinkyoma - well if they do not - as it happens - I have made arrangements to donate my entire body to science when I die - so - they can have their bit for the good of the world - if it is needed. I do hope they do not come to think of it - because that would mean there is a human component to any number of products - like hot dogs.

@aaronversiontwo4995 Год назад

There are also groups trying NOT to standardize things. The most troubling being the vitamin industry. Vitamins in the USA and Canada have no standards so vitamins can have whatever in them. Some even don't contain the vitamin on the label at all. It just goes to show why standards are important.

@bleeka325 Год назад

They need to be regulated before they can be standardized

@HappyDragneels_page Год назад

thats ridiculously insane lmao, how on earth doesnt this fall under some other legislation? false advertising etc

@systrex Год назад

"Suppliments"

@bleeka325 Год назад

@@HappyDragneels_page it’s not false advertising when the company indicates that the claims have not been evaluated by the FDA

@happyfase Год назад

Vitamins can't be standardised because vitamins aren't vitamins.

@enzovulkoor 10 месяцев назад

So when Nile did his pure cookie video... he bit into a cookie made of extremely old ingredients.... welp at least he didnt swallow.

@leosoberon3216 7 месяцев назад

I remember taking a field trip to NIST and hitting up Dogfish Head brewery. Amazing place

@jamescerven4400 Год назад

I love how that guy has a whole list of jokes he's hoping he gets to tell at any given moment 😂

@pearlwhite7157 Год назад

😄😄😄

@financialdecimation Год назад

a list of standard jokes for the standard items

@laughingbeast4481 Год назад

@@financialdecimation So he can accuratelly measure response. This is also where they order canned laughter from. Only thanks to them they can add just the right dose on laugh track or be certain they read test audiences' reaction accurately. (Test audiences of course consist of standard moviegoers. Those are stored frozen coz being exposed to outside influences they change their taste incredibly quickly.)

@trentp151 Год назад

When government wastes trillions of dollars every year, it MUST be made into a joke, so that people don't cry.

@jamescerven4400 Год назад

@@trentp151 nist is useful, but I agree government has lots of waste lol

@memory-card Год назад

As someone who basically did the same thing for several years, just across the pond (Germany), I'm so glad this important field of research finally get some coverage. The federal institution I used to work for provides the reference alloys for Euro coins, alcohol in water (calibrate breathalyzer's), also a lot of food and environmental samples with toxins or heavy metals and much more. I worked in the food team and alongside homogenization, stability is one of the major concerns. Grinding it into a nice powder is great for homogenization, but simultaneously creates so much surface area for chemical reactions. And even though they are not used as a food, you don't wanna an Oil to become rancid and so on. So many products are stored in a freezer, but what to do if e.g. the cold chain is broken during transport? The devil is in the detail^^ And that's even before you come to the most difficult question: How to make sure NIST and all the other CRM providers are able to measure correctly themselves? :D

@AxMi-24 Год назад

That's where intercomparisons come into play. Also a reason why it's important that every reference is implemented by several national labs. When you are alone with a reference (as is the case with some of what PTB is doing) it's very difficult to be confident that you have not messed something up ;)

@stefankuttenreich8668 Год назад

how is this institution called in germany?

@AxMi-24 Год назад

@@stefankuttenreich8668 PTB, Short for Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

@jordan9604 Год назад

These are some of the problems that we in the bio fisheries face. You have to take into account the influx and outflow of water and what that water holds. We take our shipping containers almost too seriously. Wipe out all life inside the bag, measure what the water does to the bag and vice versa. Then place the fish into the bag, measure and record. For everything, and I mean like a full 2 days worth of testing for a single fish. Meanwhile that 1 single fish has required about 150 hours of work just to maintain a stable environment. Then when you ask for $3500 for a fish that someone could throw a net out in the river and catch thousands in an hour... Cheezus.. Some people just don't care to realize the effort that was put forth and call just to complain about the price for a perfect lab fish. They don't want one, just call to criticize us for the price of a river minnow. They want a dozen for $10. Sorry, we are not that kind of business.

@TheRealStructurer Год назад

Thanks, answered my question if there are other countries doing the same 👍🏻

@GetMoGaming Год назад

I often wondered how they calibrate stuff and assumed they must have a standard reference system. Yet another curiosity resolved by Derek! Thanks dude!

@g0d5m15t4k3 Год назад

You've heard of standard weights and measurements? NIST took that idea and just *ran* with it.

@BrandBurgund Год назад

When I see this much dedication, it just proves that we humans can put the right kind of efforts into protecting our planet

@EvilTim1911 Год назад

I love how in the shot at 7:30 you can see a reflection of Derek being pushed in an office chair in the shiny shelves, a great improvised dolly.

@NiksCro96 Год назад

Veritasium a day keeps ignorance away. Thanks for making amazing stuff for so long now.

@Bonu5epic Год назад

- 🤓

@nezukochan471 Год назад

@@Bonu5epic -🤓

@MrUssy101 Год назад

Disagree This guy thinks he clever and has big brain and should eduecate us all??? He sounds so condescending!!!

@bbbaoyiii8653 Год назад

yesss!!!

@Samuel-7418 Год назад

@@nezukochan471 - 🤓🤓

@thedoctorbowtie 7 месяцев назад

This is pretty neat, working for a company who does the same thing for blood analyzers its cool knowing that theres a standardized government org doin the same thing for everything

@karenlynne6200 Год назад

This is the weirdest but totally makes sense thing I've learned YTD. Thank you!

@melvinmartins5658 Год назад

As a NIST Guest Researcher, it is so cool to see you visit our institution that too few know about!

@theabuzerbharuchi Год назад

U r doing a great job. Dont ever feel worthless that many people dont know about these things . Becoz of people like u , our society is functioning well.

@JoesWebPresence Год назад

@@theabuzerbharuchi . . . except when it comes to steel framed building collapse

@billmullins6833 Год назад

Great work, Derek, as always. True story: Back in the early 70s I worked in a radio maintenance shop at McConnell AFB, Ks and some of the radios we maintained were in the HF band (3 - 30 MHz). The NIST runs a radio station call sign WWV which operates on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, and 20 MHz and continuously broadcasts the current time. We used to tune the radios to WWV to confirm that they were tuning properly. We also would set our watches to WWV so we always had very accurate time on our watches. One evening the wife and I were in a mall window shopping (as a junior enlisted we didn't have the money to actually BUY anything) when some guy asked me for the time. I told him the time to the second. He said "That isn't right!" To which I replied, "Yes it is. I set my watch by WWV just this morning." "What's WWV?", he asked. " It's the national time standard. You know? The same folks who establish the standards for everything in the U.S." I told him. He then asked, "What makes THAT right?" Honestly, I didn't have a comeback. How would you answer someone who questions the National Institute of Standards and Technology? (I'm really hoping you answer my question. I was at a loss.)

@keithklassen5320 Год назад

Lol. Nothing, in a sense. It's just a reliable institution that everyone can go to to help them synchronize their devices that need to be synchronized. You could make your own competing timekeeping service, but good luck making it as reliable, so nobody would bother with it if they really *needed* it.

@shinyshinyyshinyyy2197 Год назад

It’s funny, because there really isn’t anything that makes it right. It’s like how the standard weight of a gram is just a little hunk of metal in a lab and everyone agrees “yeah that’s a gram” because who else is defining a gram? Or how most world currencies only have value due to the people agreeing that they do. It’s a little arbitrary, but it negates arbitration. Which is weird lmao

@billkurek5576 Год назад

Thus,the phrase “does anybody really know what time it is. Does anybody really care ?”

@Furiends Год назад

In some cases a standard is just an authority meaning we simply have to agree to not disagree. But in fact most standards have agreeable metrics. Ones that would cost more to derive in our own sample than it would to buy a NIST sample and test that. These standards also should be designed so they give you some useful information. Note how NIST only makes these samples at the request of companies.

@herculesrockefeller8969 Год назад

A little Googling would have revealed that NIST uses THE time standard, a Cesium Atomic clock.

@DOC_951 8 месяцев назад

As soon as he said at 3:20 that a sample of something is used to set the standard, I immediately understood. This is amazing, and I can’t believe I never heard of NIST until now, even as a doctor. Very interesting and educational topic!

@victoriadavislg 15 дней назад

I took a few classes in college where we used mass spectrometry to determine the amount of caffeine in various coffees

@dane1382 Год назад

This entire concept is amazing. Rather than speculating about the invisible laws of the universe or what lies far away in space, being able to understand the things we interact with on a day-to-day basis seems strangely way cooler to me.

@KalebPeters99 Год назад

Yeah, it brings all the science right back to every day reality. Such an awesome window into our world

@rubiks6 Год назад

So much more meaningful to human existence than measuring galaxies billions of lightyears away.

@rubiks6 Год назад

@Nad Senoj - The things NIST is doing are quite obviously beneficial to humanity. I'm going to need some real convincing why looking at barely discernable images of galaxies 13 billion lightyears away really helps mankind. The things NIST is doing are important and helpful right here and right now.

@0777coco Год назад

i wouldn't agree that it sounds way cooler lol, but it's a field of research i didn't expect to be so interesting for sure

@Crazytesseract Год назад

"What's is the ultimate origin of everything that exists?" Is this not a question worth pondering on?

@Syntania Год назад

I'm a medical lab tech, and I find NIST to be fascinating. We use standards (we call it QC) to make sure that our analyzers and methods are working properly and giving accurate results so that you get the care you need next time you're in a hospital. Our stuff's not cheap either.

@thedoctorbowtie 7 месяцев назад

Im a tech in a lab who makes QC materials for hematology chemistry and bodyfluid analyzers! Wonder if you use any of the controls we make!

@PartyhatRS 7 месяцев назад

Can you sell me some "analytical" flurazepam or midazolam Lol

@thegreenone1291 7 месяцев назад

i love how excited the man is explaining all of it. he seems very interested in what he does.

@oscarzolcinski6905 Год назад

I'm curious how many people work there. You'd think it would require a whole range of experts from different fields to standardize such a variety of materials. Perhaps it's not as difficult as it seems in many cases but I bet they have different people for things like industrial materials and microbiology for example. Fascinating

@futrfromundertherock4917 Год назад

Amazing. Standards of units and measure protocols turned into to an interesting video. I really hope you get your own syndicated TV series.

@Metanis Год назад

A legitimate government function. It's wonderful to see how serious they take their role. And a great story too!

@fredricksfishkeeping3007 Год назад

NIST is probably the coolest agency people don’t know about. Not only do they do this, but they have hardcore experimental physicists building the most accurate atomic clocks in the world to standardize timekeeping.

@lysanderhoppe765 Год назад

These products seem to be in high demand. Why would you need the government for this?

@miguelangelmartinezcasado8935 Год назад

@@lysanderhoppe765 you want 1 standard. Not 2, not 3 not 5. Just one where everyone has the same error margins so there's no confusion. And if it were a company, then they would increase the price. And a lot of products would cost more because of that bloated price in calibration. So... Why would you want a company? Without competition companies aren't better than goverment

@reeman2.0 Год назад

"legitimate" they're selling your poo.

@JonMartinYXD Год назад

@@miguelangelmartinezcasado8935 Exactly. Why don't we have colour fax machines? Well, we do, except every manufacturer made their own "standard" for it and insisted that anyone else who wanted to use the same "standard", pay for it. So Acme colour fax machines can only send colour faxes to other Acme colour fax machines. Compare this to Wi-Fi, based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards: one standard that any company can develop a product to use and know that it will be able to interoperate with billions of other devices out there. Having one free to use standard lowers the cost of entry into a market, enabling competition and innovation.

@nixtunes1 Год назад

I work in a geochemical analysis lab, and standards really are a critical part of our work, letting us find, diagnose and correct any errors and deviations and confirm when data is on point. Thanks, NIST, for your tireless diligent work!

@elliottthompson5455 Год назад

@@PersonalStash420 just because someone may be paid to do a job doesn’t mean you can’t be appreciative and thankful of their work.

@fourdoorsmorehoes Год назад

@@PersonalStash420 Soldiers, doctors, and firemen are also paid for their work.

@tmo2798 Год назад

@@PersonalStash420 "Fighting for a country" is silly. It's also impossible. it's a super silly idea to oversimplify a violent scheme.

@geddon436 Год назад

@@PersonalStash420 Why do you believe fireman and cops get paid enough?

@alicenoele9530 11 месяцев назад

Awesome video! The domestic sludge reminded me of when my Environmental Science class went on a field trip to a waste treatment facility. It was actually really interesting and my anosmia came in handy too lol!

@paulwhitehouse3690 Год назад

How amazingly intriguing! Living in the 3rd world it is some comfort to know that "the bar is being identified and set"somewhere on the planet. Paul, Johannesburg

@elss6950 Год назад

I’ve worked at NIST and many other research labs ( university, industry, etc). Scientists at NIST are the most meticulous by far.

@slothymango 10 месяцев назад

Interesting

@Spartan2155 7 месяцев назад

Have you seen the arguments that A&E911 has made against NIST and there statements about building 7? In my opinion NIST and our government still have alot of explaining to do about the demolition of the three towers that day. Your statement about scientists being most meticulous made me comment.. If you didn't catch it I think nist is dogwash

@AmhedMissaelVargasVelazquez 6 месяцев назад

How do people at NIST account for things that change their composition with the time? e.g. metals that rust by oxidation or wine/cheeses that "ages"?

@jessehackett7886 5 месяцев назад

I’m a chemist in a consumer goods testing lab, how in the world do you get that job? It’s so fascinating to me

@rallymaniac92 3 месяца назад

Even as an analytical chemist, where being meticulous about everything is essential to everything I do at work, I could never match the level of NIST scientists. The methods they use are absolutely top notch and I'm grateful for their work. I don't believe my lab buys NIST standards as we're not in the US, but I rely the NIST mass spectral libraries every single day.

@cascastenmiller9152 Год назад

A friend of mine once said: “Better than perfect is standardised”. This video shows that that’s true. Great video! Keep up the good work :)

@teslacoil5378 Год назад

@gridsleep Standards are perfect because they are standard (thus why SRMs are used as references to determine product integrity), and they are standard because we have deemed them to be adequate enough for a certain product. They are a PERFECT template to ensure the quality of a certain product. So I say that perfection is quite definable.

@shoam2103 Год назад

I remember that quote from a technology connections video!

@craigmays3098 Год назад

Z89om

@m.i.andersen8167 Год назад

Yes. Standards are great. Let's have a lot more of them! 😊

@m.i.andersen8167 Год назад

@@teslacoil5378 Absolutely right! And one can say that standard dust collected in an American standard city is only standard in the US. Global dust must be collected globally, but that probably wouldn't make much sense, except for aliens collecting dust to make "standard inhabited planet dust"

@b.calvinsaul1909 Год назад

I've seen you using the molecular modeling objects, but could not figure out what they were called or where to find them. Snatoms! And you invented them! So cool...

@tessiepinkman Год назад

This is one of my favourite videos of yours, ever! Soooo interesting, and I learned things I never thought about that now gives me immense satisfaction just knowing. Thank you, Derek & the wonderful people at NIST!

@powderedwater67 Год назад

This video explained how so many things work. People would say they found trace amounts of a certain chemical in a city's water supply, and you'd think "How?" well this is very enlightening. Also always wondered how in shows like CSI they could tell if a bullet was fired from a specific firearm. This is what i subscribed for.

@codybarrett462 Год назад

Nah, you’re just stupid dude. A majority of people know that already….

@HeyLeFay Год назад

Also, in relation to your specific example about the water supply, a lot of places periodically take samples of their water and store it for later for purposes like that!

@grahamwebb5953 Год назад

Imagine how much of a breakthrough it would be if this facility was discovered in the future where they may not know about us much

@SVanHutten Год назад

Superb video!! And that´s just the tip of the iceberg regarding reference materials manufacturing.

@SamBrickell Год назад

*"a standard jar of peanut butter"* sounds like something the 'Millionaire Who Lost Everything But Is Slowly Learning To Appreciate The Simple Things In Life' character in a movie would try to buy the first time they go grocery shopping by themselves.

@noahbohl2127 Год назад

I’m in my undergrad, and I worked on a project that was examining mercury deposition. One of the things that was done for the project was measuring certain samples we collected for mercury. Reference standards were used for that, we used soil standards. It was very interesting to learn about how important these standards are.

@HeyLeFay Год назад

I like how the comment section is comprised of: 1. Fellow chemists, scientists, nerds, and industry professionals talking about how much they respect the amount of effort that goes into the NIST. 2. Laypersons who just think the video is cool. 3. Conspiracy theorists that think this is a sign of the end times(?) or "big government bad". 4. Just 3 again, but even more incoherent. Edit: 5. Praising soap from some random place in India??? Edit 2: 6. ???? 9/11 ???????

@mikaelagardner3509 16 дней назад

This was genuinely so interesting. I didn't know this was a thing! I love how passionate that guy was about his work but how do people even know they want to do this kind of thing as a career?

@tamaramendelson1634 12 дней назад

I assume they just know that they like science, so they study chemistry in college and then grad school, and along the way as they get more into the different rabbitholes of chemistry they start to learn about this type of thing existing

@ahetzel9054 Год назад

I was so confused at first but it makes total sense. Reminds me of that video you made on that perfect spherical ball that's our reference standard for weight. I calibrate lasers at my job and we have to check customers laser trackers against our reference tracker and if the results are outside of 0.0003mm we have to re-tune them. It's pretty neat. (Edit: I had originally said 0.00003 microns but it's .0003mm or .3 microns)

@caiocc12 Год назад

0.00003 microns would be 30 picometers (0.03 nanometers). That's less than an atom. Are you working on LISA?

@ahetzel9054 Год назад

@@caiocc12 I think I added an extra zero lol. But there are different specs for different companies & trackers since everyone uses the trackers differently so some allow for larger margins of error. It's pretty neat but honestly I'm not quite that knowledgeable yet, only been here 4 months and I'm just an art school drop out who got lucky(my brother works here as an engineer tech)

@longnamedude3947 Год назад

@@ahetzel9054 Stick at that job and you will go places, such opportunities are incredibly rare and I will admit that I am a little jealous of what you get to do as a job, but, I am equally glad that you are doing a job that you seem to genuinely enjoy doing which is always a positive. Work hard and you'll be set for life.

@pyropulseIXXI Год назад

That ball is not used as a reference. They don't use artifacts to define weight, and that ball was a candidate for defining the kilogram, but they went with a procedural definition using a watt balance and defining physical constants

@ahetzel9054 Год назад

@@pyropulseIXXI I think that went over my head lol. I thought that ball was the standard for 1 kilogram but it wasn't based on it's weight and instead the amount of atoms or molecules that it was made of? Or something like that? That video was a while ago so I don't entirely remember

@lefthandpathmedia5958 Год назад

I've been following your channel for like 10 years and this right here is a holy grail video. I have had this EXACT question (the one this video answers) in my mind probably since the age of 5. My fascination with Nutrition Facts on boxes has been life-long and I have always wondered _how_ they get that data, and _how_ they _prove that it is exactly accurate to what I am eating_ . And now this video shows me that it's because of a thing called an *SRM* or, *Standard Reference Material* ! Genius.

@paulsimons769 Год назад

Because this information didn't exist prior to the making of this video; during that period since you were 5, you could have at anytime. Looked it up yourself

@raisschultz420 Год назад

@@paulsimons769 most dumbasses these days need to be told exactly how to think and what to think about and what to do when they want to do something. common sense and independence no longer exist

@spimbles 7 месяцев назад

5 year old me instantly connected those dots and knew in a child-ized way that the scientists just knew best because they did their homework. none of this information is surprising in any way shape or form