Periodic Videos

    Season 2019 2019

    • 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z on YouTube
    • 7m
    • 1h 31m (13 episodes)
    • United States
    • Documentary
    Your ultimate channel for all things chemistry. A video about each element on the periodic table. And we upload new videos every week about science news, interesting molecules and other stuff from the world of chemistry.

    13 episodes

    Season Premiere

    2019x01 Milking the Thorium Cow - Periodic Table of Videos

    • 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z7m

    How to produce Actinium from a "cow" of Thorium... Filmed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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    More on Actinium: https://youtu.be/rKm0ShaJNFM

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory (nuclear science): https://www.ornl.gov/science-area/nuclear-sciences

    With thanks to Rose Boll and everyone else at Oak Ridge.

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    Periodic Videos films are by video journalist Brady Haran: http://www.bradyharan.com/
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    2019x02 We Love The Periodic Table

    • 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z7m

    Video shown by The Professor during his presentation at launch UNESCO's International Year of the Periodic Table.
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    See our videos about all the elements: http://bit.ly/118elements

    IYPT: https://www.iypt2019.org

    With additional thanks to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna.

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    Music in this video by Alan Stewart

    We're in Paris and then Moscow for the launch of the International Year of the Periodic Table.
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    More on UNESCO's The International Year of the Periodic Table: https://www.iypt2019.org

    Thank you to the British Embassy in Moscow for its assistance.

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    2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

    2019x04 Diamonds Uncut

    2019x04 Diamonds Uncut

    • 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z7m

    The Professor looks at uncut diamonds of all shapes and sizes. Part 2: Polishing a Pink Mega Diamond - https://youtu.be/YMyPo-MEvMA
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    Filmed at Alrosa's sorting facility in Moscow.
    Our thanks also to the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.

    Part 2: Polishing a Pink Mega Diamond - https://youtu.be/YMyPo-MEvMA

    See our gold bullion vault video: https://youtu.be/CTtf5s2HFkA

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    We look at how diamonds are cut and polished - following on from our previous video about uncut diamonds - https://youtu.be/EmXe5EDQvsg
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    Filmed at Alrosa's cutting and polishing facility in Moscow.
    Our thanks also to the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.

    See our gold bullion vault video: https://youtu.be/CTtf5s2HFkA

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    With thanks to the Garfield Weston Foundation.

    Periodic Videos films are by video journalist Brady Haran: http://www.bradyharan.com/
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    Plutonium, Uranium, Holmium, Neptunium, Curium and many more.
    We're at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee. More links and info in full description ↓↓↓

    ORNL: https://www.ornl.gov

    Our thanks to Rose Boll and the team.

    Our videos on all 118 elements: http://bit.ly/118elements

    Our previous video from Oak Ridge (the Thorium Cow): https://youtu.be/DmczVhGq8cU

    Our Dubna visit: http://bit.ly/Russia_Trip

    This video features isotopes of Plutonium, Uranium, Neptunium, Americium, Protactinium, Actinium, Technetium, Berkelium, Holmium, Californium, Curium and Polonium.

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    Periodic Videos films are by video journalist Brady Haran: http://www.bradyharan.com/
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    2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

    2019x07 Exploding Wires

    2019x07 Exploding Wires

    • 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z7m

    Putting electrical current through wires made from different metals.
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    Featuring Senior Technician Neil Barnes and Professor Martyn Poliakoff

    A video on every element: http://bit.ly/118elements

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    Some papers on exploding wires...
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5249160
    https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.3051737

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    Our guest was Peter Wothers from the University of Cambridge: https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/pdw12

    Discussing the likes of Dmitri Mendeleev, William Odling, Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois, John Newlands, Julius Lothar Meyer, and Gustavus Hinrichs.

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    A Very Early Periodic Table: https://youtu.be/FfC4OGbbHLc

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    2019x09 Inside a Nuclear Reactor

    • 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z7m

    We're at the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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    Thanks to everyone at HFIR at Oak Ridge - https://neutrons.ornl.gov/hfir

    More from our trip to Oak Ridge: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9eEsN9D48menZTG9yJWrsp3OPOXmj6m_

    Real Plutonium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UNPdNtOoE

    Nuclear Lab in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrIzWWmlboE

    Correction: Engine experiment mentioned at the very end was actually performed at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source.

    Thanks to AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com

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    2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

    2019x10 Amazing Molybdenum

    2019x10 Amazing Molybdenum

    • 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z7m

    Previous wire video: https://youtu.be/kexteGM2V2s
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    Featuring Neil Barnes and Martyn Polikaoff. Film by Brady Haran.

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    Also thanks to the University of Nottingham Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre.

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    The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded for work on Lithium Ion Batteries by Akira Yoshino, M. Stanley Whittingham, and John B. Goodenough.
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    Lithium Video: https://youtu.be/LfS10ArXTBA
    Lithium in 7Up: https://youtu.be/ofNN1b7xzFw

    This video features Darren Walsh, Martyn Poliakoff and Neil Barnes.

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    This video also by James Hennessy.

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    2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

    2019x12 How to make Plutonium

    2019x12 How to make Plutonium

    • 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z7m

    Exploring how Plutonium-238 is produced.
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    This was recorded behind the scenes at Oak Ridge National Laboratory - https://www.ornl.gov

    Our thanks to everyone there, especially Bob Wham.

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    More Plutonium videos you might like...
    How Plutonium got us to Pluto: https://youtu.be/498pOIm8Qbc
    Real Plutonium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UNPdNtOoE

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    The X-10 at Oak Ridge was the first continuously-running nuclear reactor. It paved the way to larger-scale Plutonium production....
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    More Plutonium videos you might like...
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    Real Plutonium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UNPdNtOoE

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