Can We Chop The World’s Strongest Cube In Half?

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  • @b.coates
    @b.coates10 ай бұрын

    You should sell the broken shards of obsidian.

  • @howridiculous

    @howridiculous

    10 ай бұрын

    We collected everything so we definitely could. Anyone else interested in purchasing (prices set by Herron) fragments of the various materials we chopped? Let us know and we can put them on the store :)

  • @curtisw2439

    @curtisw2439

    10 ай бұрын

    @@howridiculousthat would be awesome

  • @Mr.Brothybear

    @Mr.Brothybear

    10 ай бұрын

    You could Use the shards to create an Obsidian Knife just in case you ever wanna kill a Geologist

  • @yahirsuxs611

    @yahirsuxs611

    10 ай бұрын

    @@howridiculous I would for sure but it

  • @CarelessPing

    @CarelessPing

    10 ай бұрын

    @@howridiculous id buy one

  • @ottovonbearsmark8876
    @ottovonbearsmark887610 ай бұрын

    Love how fast the periodic table concept was introduced and then immediately went out the window lol

  • @ThomasSawyers

    @ThomasSawyers

    10 ай бұрын

    Did you watch the entire video in four minutes? 🤣

  • @Volt64bolt

    @Volt64bolt

    10 ай бұрын

    They also got a lot of things wrong lol but they aren’t a science channel so who cares

  • @kylemcw8301

    @kylemcw8301

    10 ай бұрын

    Obsidian:…. Required for Nether Portal! 😂

  • @ottovonbearsmark8876

    @ottovonbearsmark8876

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ThomasSawyers no, but the periodic table idea went away within four minutes lol

  • @Wtfplsstfu

    @Wtfplsstfu

    10 ай бұрын

    At plastic i was like...🙄😑

  • @Fernybeme
    @Fernybeme10 ай бұрын

    0:55 Silicone is made of silicon, what you have is silicone. Silicon is a hard and brittle shiny rocklike material. Also heavily used to make just about every electronic device out there.

  • @MacksCurley

    @MacksCurley

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes, silicone sealer is very different to the element Silicon.

  • @dianacourt377

    @dianacourt377

    Ай бұрын

    Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story😂

  • @Mikeyman6488
    @Mikeyman648810 ай бұрын

    People have already said this, and they may have explained it too, but the piezoelectric "spark" phenomenon with quartz comes from the "piezo" part which means "squeez" or "pressure". Since your pressure point with the axe on a sphere was so small, there was very little if any spark action. If you had a cube and used a hammer, that would be a more ideal setup for sparky action. Additionally, you could potentially set up a high speed, high resolution voltmeter between a conductive platform the cube sat on and the hammer surface and see if you could measure a created voltage caused by the instantaneous squeezing on the quartz cube. Might be a fun video.

  • @marxer007
    @marxer00710 ай бұрын

    The "science" graphics in this episode are great. Whoever wrote that copy earned my thumbs up for this video.

  • @micahdeck9553

    @micahdeck9553

    10 ай бұрын

    Pure Aluminum plates are what is commonly used on Space craft to prevent overheating. 50 BMG rounds won’t go through solid Aluminum. Amazing idea though.

  • @DUKE_of_RAMBLE

    @DUKE_of_RAMBLE

    5 ай бұрын

    Obsidian getting... _- Required for Nether Portal_ ... was perfect! lol 😘👌

  • @OurAwesomeUniverse
    @OurAwesomeUniverse10 ай бұрын

    I think that was silicone. I've never seen white silicon metal that deforms like rubber.

  • @dannykyle7950

    @dannykyle7950

    10 ай бұрын

    I was about to say the same thing myself.

  • @DonaldR

    @DonaldR

    10 ай бұрын

    It for sure was - 'raw' silicon is typically a crystal... Ironically obsidian, glass and quartz are mostly silicon, so they did end up chopping silicon. :D

  • @guidokorber2866

    @guidokorber2866

    10 ай бұрын

    Right, silicon is a silvery metal and it would have turned into splinters as it is rather brittle.

  • @DqwertyC

    @DqwertyC

    10 ай бұрын

    The comment about "it knows what it is and knows what it isn't" was especially funny, because silicon sometimes acts as a conductor and sometimes acts as an insulator. It's like the least decisive metal out there XD

  • @richbarrows3922

    @richbarrows3922

    10 ай бұрын

    Definitely was Silicone (sila - cone) a rubbery plastic material. Look how it compresses about 50% in the slowing before breaks in half like a bouncy ball. Pure Silicon (sila - cun) is silver gray and breaks like obsidian. It is a semiconductor, the base material for computer chips. Semi-insulator.

  • @ranndomundead9112
    @ranndomundead911210 ай бұрын

    having shards of obsidian floating around in this field seems like a nightmare

  • @The_Keeper

    @The_Keeper

    10 ай бұрын

    Yup. Imagine walking barefoot in that field... O_o

  • @elisha1984

    @elisha1984

    10 ай бұрын

    There’s no getting all that out either. Shards everywhere.

  • @Doctor_Zucchini

    @Doctor_Zucchini

    10 ай бұрын

    I’ve always wondered that about all the obsidian cube videos on KZread. Some people have cheese graters for fields

  • @Kualinar

    @Kualinar

    10 ай бұрын

    Glass shards are about as bad. There are also glass shards in that field.

  • @bhseigel

    @bhseigel

    10 ай бұрын

    its not real obsidian. Obsidian is opaque, thats some sort of synthetic glass

  • @fionadakitsuneko
    @fionadakitsuneko6 ай бұрын

    8:42 no wonder firemen carry axes, they use them to put out fires!

  • @robijakus6860
    @robijakus686010 ай бұрын

    0:24 cuz as we all know plastic is definitely on the periodic table

  • @peterbear4413
    @peterbear441310 ай бұрын

    Two things that would improve the quartz bit: First, do it at night, you'll actually be able to see the effect properly. Second, use a cube or something with a flat surface, and impact it with another flat surface (such as your hammer), for the greatest surface area contact. How Good to see you boys back again though, always a blast!

  • @user-lk2bl7ph3b

    @user-lk2bl7ph3b

    10 ай бұрын

    Led me to think

  • @jurn-christianhocke2227

    @jurn-christianhocke2227

    10 ай бұрын

    But also - you can see some tiny tiny sparks in the footage - just not as massive as expected

  • @BollWeevil

    @BollWeevil

    10 ай бұрын

    Yep, mechanical pressure. As is in the "candle lighter" for spark. The hammer on the quartz! Please

  • @phantomwraith1984

    @phantomwraith1984

    10 ай бұрын

    And also use clear quartz

  • @KingOfRedPlays

    @KingOfRedPlays

    10 ай бұрын

    Ah, good... I was looking to see someone get this right so I wouldn't have to explain it myself, because I would have made that concise little beauty an absolute novel. A thumbs up to you.

  • @vancer.8886
    @vancer.888610 ай бұрын

    Scott, you forgot one important fact about cast iron. It has a tendency to fall from great heights.

  • @PlanetSidewinder

    @PlanetSidewinder

    10 ай бұрын

    And it breaks pretty quick when you enchant tools and armor or decide you want to name your pet llama 🦙

  • @ericarsenault9891

    @ericarsenault9891

    10 ай бұрын

    Just like Russians from a window.

  • @MyRegardsToTheDodo

    @MyRegardsToTheDodo

    10 ай бұрын

    ... and whenever a coyote uses it to stop a roadrunner, it normally hits the coyote instead.

  • @Handles_AreStupid
    @Handles_AreStupid9 ай бұрын

    I don't know if they will ever see this, but the reason why the copper did so well is because they have previously compressed the material. When you strike copper, you cause localised dislocations to the region, which creates stress within the material. This stress actually makes it stronger and more resistant to bending and compressing, but it makes the material more brittle. The previous hammer hits would have "work hardened" the copper, which would have given it a competitive edge that standard, annealed copper wouldn't have had. Next time you use copper, heat it with a blowtorch and dump it in water to "quench" it. In some metals (especially steel), quenching makes it harder, but with copper and brass, it makes the material MUCH softer. You should compare normal copper, work hardened copper and quenched copper to see the difference. My bet would be that the quenched copper would nearly cut clean in two...

  • @seekerofthemutablebalance5228

    @seekerofthemutablebalance5228

    Ай бұрын

    I was shocked that the copper survived

  • @Handles_AreStupid

    @Handles_AreStupid

    Ай бұрын

    @@seekerofthemutablebalance5228 Work hardening is a really powerful technique. Basically doubles the materials hardness at the expense of making it more brittle.

  • @electricminecrafter
    @electricminecrafter10 ай бұрын

    2:00 most people think silicon is green but motherboards are dyed green, I don't know why. pure undyed silicon can range from slightly blue to white to slightly grey

  • @jubuttib

    @jubuttib

    3 ай бұрын

    Also motherboards are made out of fiberglass usually, you'd need to find a chip to see some silicon. =) Which is also clearly not what the video showed, since silicon is really hard and brittle, not rubbery like what the video showed.

  • @sashacohen3911
    @sashacohen391110 ай бұрын

    So that looks a lot more like "silicone" than the actual element silicon (Si), which is a dark, reflective, and brittle material. Silicone is rubber-like (as evidenced by the glorious chop) and made of complex polymer molecules. Unfortunately, silicone is not an element of the period table.

  • @DonaldR

    @DonaldR

    10 ай бұрын

    That obsidian ball was mostly silicon though, so... they were just off by one hit :)

  • @scottydu81

    @scottydu81

    10 ай бұрын

    Your mom is an element on the periodic table

  • @dfgaJK

    @dfgaJK

    10 ай бұрын

    A bot a stolen all your up votes.

  • @vitocortison

    @vitocortison

    7 ай бұрын

    Yes this is clearly not a silicon sphere but a silicone one. DonaldR the obsidian sphere looks like obsidian to me, not like silicon. Obsidian is basically just dark glass, so mostly silicon dioxide, so the main components here are oxygen and silicon.

  • @RedBeardReaper
    @RedBeardReaper10 ай бұрын

    There are many types of quartz, AKA borosilicate. You went with a muddy blue quartz, to view piezoelectric properties. It's best to go with pure clear quartz Also that was a ball of silicone- that was not silicon in its base form

  • @roblittle7428

    @roblittle7428

    10 ай бұрын

    Borosilicate is glass not quartz. I made Borosilicate glass in a glass founder here in pa called jeannette specialty glass till it closed in 2019

  • @PsylomeAlpha

    @PsylomeAlpha

    10 ай бұрын

    @@roblittle7428 yeah, quartz is silicon and oxygen, not silicon and boron (as the name borosilicate implies)

  • @tobiwonkanogy2975

    @tobiwonkanogy2975

    10 ай бұрын

    when the silicon was struck it did revert to dull silver in color . perhaps we were seeing an oxidized ball.

  • @statementleaver8095

    @statementleaver8095

    10 ай бұрын

    F knows I'm from the UK and have only ever seen *White Quartz* = Train track chippings

  • @Mr_Bondi

    @Mr_Bondi

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@tobiwonkanogy2975​​​No, unfortunately. See, silicon is not floppy and rubbery. Look up silicon, you'll see it's a hard, brittle, metalloid, which is also a semiconductor. Edit note* silicone rubber does contain silicon, but in it's dioxide form, aka silica.

  • @logansarver6767
    @logansarver676710 ай бұрын

    I love how they included info from each material, however pykrete warships (carriers in particular I believe) were considered as WW2 steel replacements as America was running low on steel, one of the reasons it wasn’t used was because it required more steel to make the freezer then it would take to make a warship.

  • @electricminecrafter
    @electricminecrafter10 ай бұрын

    9:28 maybe the quartz was a sphere and not a cube so no flat surface and the titanium was

  • @kimbleryan7150

    @kimbleryan7150

    10 ай бұрын

    And a copping thing not a smashing

  • @fey9al
    @fey9al10 ай бұрын

    Scott delivered an all time great with that quartz talk

  • @MyRegardsToTheDodo

    @MyRegardsToTheDodo

    10 ай бұрын

    He was actually right that the ancient Egypts used it for jewelry.

  • @boooksareamazing

    @boooksareamazing

    10 ай бұрын

    Science with Gaunson, ladies and gentlemen.

  • @robijakus6860
    @robijakus686010 ай бұрын

    10:23 this slowy was probably even better than the last one with the thungstan

  • @VHS_Serenity

    @VHS_Serenity

    8 ай бұрын

    "tungstan" lmao

  • @charlcoetzee93
    @charlcoetzee9310 ай бұрын

    The description of silicon was almost entirely opposite of it's actual characteristics 😂

  • @peterosmanski7466
    @peterosmanski746610 ай бұрын

    Jack's snarky comments on the fact sheet were hilarious. Loved Gaunson's explanation of how the Egyptians widened the Nile with quartz (not courts) shovels discovered by Horace Benutus.

  • @anonst

    @anonst

    5 ай бұрын

    So non members can reply to members comments ?

  • @masterwelch9720
    @masterwelch972010 ай бұрын

    Hear me out here guys build a ramp at the bottom of the dam and drop bowling balls from the top the furthest wins??

  • @NycNinja1
    @NycNinja110 ай бұрын

    Silicon Sphere - 1:50 Obsidian Sphere - 3:10 Pykrete Block - 3:45 Glass Sphere 5:05 Quartz Sphere - 7:08 Aluminium Cube - 8:00 Fire - 8:45 Titanium Cube 9:50 Anvil - 11:20 Copper Sphere - 12:00 Tungsten Cube - 13:30

  • @Destros2ndone

    @Destros2ndone

    10 ай бұрын

    thanks for that

  • @jaymac7203

    @jaymac7203

    10 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Their shouting was driving me insane.

  • @minilost9981

    @minilost9981

    8 ай бұрын

    You forgot burger

  • @NycNinja1

    @NycNinja1

    8 ай бұрын

    @@minilost9981 ??

  • @eric1138

    @eric1138

    7 ай бұрын

    So they did silicon four times.

  • @C.j-Upside3
    @C.j-Upside310 ай бұрын

    Brett at 8:07 "Aluminum is strong" But it sounds like he said Our Aluminum Is Strong, with his accent lol To my southern American ear it really sounded like "Our Aluminum"

  • @VHS_Serenity

    @VHS_Serenity

    8 ай бұрын

    he said aluminium

  • @C.j-Upside3

    @C.j-Upside3

    8 ай бұрын

    @@VHS_Serenity I know but with his accent to my American ear it sounded like that's what he said.

  • @VHS_Serenity

    @VHS_Serenity

    8 ай бұрын

    @cjthurston5053 that's fine :D

  • @BrianProfitt
    @BrianProfitt10 ай бұрын

    "Example Text" at 8:35 caught me so off guard I spit my coffee out 😅

  • @jopo7996
    @jopo799610 ай бұрын

    This was better than I thought. I figured the periodic table was out of your element.

  • @dannop2562

    @dannop2562

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah, I assumed that geology would be out of the fellas’ element…

  • @DJBEAST821
    @DJBEAST82110 ай бұрын

    Love the tidbit about the Nether portal, great little wink there. Also great timing how he said "we smashed a cube of it" and right on cube is when the bullet point popped up lol

  • @JohnBainbridge0
    @JohnBainbridge010 ай бұрын

    10:47 Cast Iron does not contain "Truck Loads of Carbon." Cast Iron is between 95% to 98% Iron. The other percents are Carbon and/or Silicon. That's at most 4%ish Carbon. That's not what I'd call "Truck Loads." Truck Loads of Iron? Yes. Truck Loads of Carbon? Yeah, nah.

  • @420trippyhippie
    @420trippyhippie10 ай бұрын

    You guys should do a night video in this format and then smash through the quartz for sparkage. In fact, a night video where you smash/chop various sparky materials actually sounds awesome!

  • @nickmcginley4570

    @nickmcginley4570

    10 ай бұрын

    Chop some flint! Whoever guesses the worst about what happens, has to speak, for the rest of the video, in a "flinty" voice!

  • @2011Scarecrow

    @2011Scarecrow

    10 ай бұрын

    The downside to this idea is that the slowies will be harder to get because the high-speed cameras need a lot of light to get a quality picture

  • @420trippyhippie

    @420trippyhippie

    10 ай бұрын

    @@2011Scarecrow very good point

  • @imeleventeen
    @imeleventeen10 ай бұрын

    Please, do a series shooting cannonballs at things.

  • @ManadaCan
    @ManadaCan10 ай бұрын

    That last shot is arguably the best slowie you’ve ever had, boys. Great shots throughout. 🤘🏻

  • @metamorphicorder

    @metamorphicorder

    10 ай бұрын

    Choco eggs are the best, fight me.

  • @Warrobotgod69
    @Warrobotgod69Ай бұрын

    14:03 tungsten cube is unfazed yet again! Indestructible

  • @FuzzyCollieDoggo
    @FuzzyCollieDoggo10 ай бұрын

    Jack is one of the best editor's ever! I fell over for the burger bit! 8:40

  • @sacah2

    @sacah2

    10 ай бұрын

    Had to rewind and pause, wasn't sure I'd seen something flash up.

  • @crewrangergaming9582

    @crewrangergaming9582

    10 ай бұрын

    timestamp or didnt happen

  • @keithwoods266
    @keithwoods26610 ай бұрын

    I love how safety went out the window in this one😂😂😂 9:43

  • @Im_Aeros
    @Im_Aeros10 ай бұрын

    You guys should make a Swedish torch (large log you drill two holes into and burn the log from the inside out) to smash. It would send embers shooting everywhere and probably flames and smoke as well if its burning enough. Would just have to do it somewhere without risk of brush fire or wet the nearby area before hand.

  • @danzilthard.7248
    @danzilthard.724826 күн бұрын

    9:13 "Gotta be lookin' always. On the ground" -Gaunson July 6th, 2023

  • @jameszd4470
    @jameszd447010 ай бұрын

    I suspect the sparks were actually the metals knocking off tiny bits of the steel blade which oxidize super quickly creating heat (like how you light a fire with flint and steel). Super cool slowy!

  • @minkuspower
    @minkuspower10 ай бұрын

    as an American who has beef with the EU/AUS pronunciation of aluminum, i respect you for spelling it the way you pronounce it 7:33

  • @StoneTitan
    @StoneTitan9 ай бұрын

    Hmm no expert but given the color of the sparks at 9:53 isn't that from the Axe rather than the Titanium? as far as I recall hearing Titanium should burn bright not sure if that's bright enough

  • @sydneymattingly2773
    @sydneymattingly277310 ай бұрын

    8:30 smokey the bear has a stroke.

  • @PrinceofWalesisland
    @PrinceofWalesisland10 ай бұрын

    Aluminum can oxidize, they use aluminum oxide as an abrasive. All bare aluminum you see has a thin oxide layer on it

  • @richbarrows3922

    @richbarrows3922

    10 ай бұрын

    Aluminum oxidizes or rusts almost instantly.

  • @RyanW1019

    @RyanW1019

    10 ай бұрын

    There are a couple things they could mean when they say it “doesn’t rust”: 1. It doesn’t turn red/orange when it oxidizes. The oxide is still silvery. 2. It doesn’t disintegrate to nothing as it oxidizes. With iron, the oxide is less dense than the original metal, so when it forms it expands and flakes off, revealing new metal to oxidize until the whole thing is gone. With aluminum, the oxide forms a thin surface layer that protects the inside from oxidizing.

  • @XtreeM_FaiL

    @XtreeM_FaiL

    10 ай бұрын

    Rust is iron oxide, so if it ain't Fe it can't rust.

  • @PrinceofWalesisland

    @PrinceofWalesisland

    10 ай бұрын

    @@XtreeM_FaiL So whats the point of saying it doesn't rust? I'm sure they meant oxidize considering they were talking about aluminum...

  • @XtreeM_FaiL

    @XtreeM_FaiL

    10 ай бұрын

    @@PrinceofWalesisland The point probably is that aluminium oxide create protective layer. When iron rust, it will rust untill there are no free iron left.

  • @mattp422
    @mattp42210 ай бұрын

    I guess in Australia, elemental silicon is white (?) and is not brittle. And the Aussie Periodic Table apparently contains plastic, glass, obsidian (which I guess is also glass, kind of) and Pykrete? They’re just not the same as the rest of us.

  • @twistdtomato6231
    @twistdtomato623110 ай бұрын

    Gaunson looking extra happy on this one 😮😂

  • @allibayne

    @allibayne

    10 ай бұрын

    Yup! Hahaha

  • @sm1dg392
    @sm1dg3929 ай бұрын

    12:38 wouldn't that just be netherite then?

  • @VHS_Serenity

    @VHS_Serenity

    8 ай бұрын

    you can't go to hell to mine the scraps for it

  • @P4tyY
    @P4tyY10 ай бұрын

    8:51 now that’s sick 😂

  • @Michael-bs5pz
    @Michael-bs5pz10 ай бұрын

    The last tungsten at the end it wasn't sparks it was molten steel separating from the axe which I find very cool because alot of heat and energy must have been generated for that steel to melt like that ... brilliant video

  • @HunterTag
    @HunterTag9 ай бұрын

    love how straight to the point you guys are. Straight into the video!

  • @HeisenbergFam
    @HeisenbergFam10 ай бұрын

    6:05 "we found it as jewelry in ancient Egypt" kudos to the boys for inventing time machine & going to ancient Egypt

  • @csbrown9322
    @csbrown932210 ай бұрын

    I'm glad that I live in a time when building a 7 story tall axe in order to chop a campfire in half is normal and right

  • @justing5228
    @justing522810 ай бұрын

    My summary of how ridiculous (watching since 2015): Gaunson: Hilarious, could do stand up if he learned how to improvise 😅 Stanford: Hair gets longer every video Herron: Loves a good pair of jocks, what about greeney Editor Jack: Chill dude Such an underrated channel, seeing an upload from them just makes my day better immediately

  • @drewnorth3816
    @drewnorth3816Ай бұрын

    I'm glad you gave a shout out to Horus Benutus, well-deserved recognition for his quartz discovery.

  • @lesliemoiseauthor
    @lesliemoiseauthor10 ай бұрын

    To get quartz to spark you have to strike two pieces of quartz together. Also: quartz is clear. There are other types of rock that can be blue and are related to quartz, but that was not quartz.

  • @lifewithben5472

    @lifewithben5472

    10 ай бұрын

    They should drop some quartz onto quartz then

  • @lesliemoiseauthor

    @lesliemoiseauthor

    10 ай бұрын

    @@lifewithben5472 YES

  • @sundryhoards8390

    @sundryhoards8390

    10 ай бұрын

    That quartz sphere looks like slag glass.

  • @jacobpigott7653
    @jacobpigott765310 ай бұрын

    Huge props to the editor. They did a fantastic job. Very funny!

  • @Scratchisthebestsitethat-zf6vk

    @Scratchisthebestsitethat-zf6vk

    9 ай бұрын

    Editor? For the stuff?

  • @tomholroyd7519
    @tomholroyd751910 ай бұрын

    I love the detailed sciencey descriptions of the things you destroy

  • @LiamBushrod
    @LiamBushrod10 ай бұрын

    Gaunson's quartz lesson was one of the finest science with gaunson episodes yet 🤣

  • @markiangooley
    @markiangooley10 ай бұрын

    I’m told that Australians are the world experts in making spheres of very precise sizes. There was an attempt to use an Australian sphere of silicon-28 to define the kilogram, I believe, as a fairly exact number of atoms (I suspect that I’m slightly wrong and will get a correction here).

  • @AlexLR

    @AlexLR

    10 ай бұрын

    We just told you that to keep you busy and off the streets

  • @cillianwilliamson16

    @cillianwilliamson16

    10 ай бұрын

    Veritasium has a video. The roundest object on earth.

  • @grandadmiralthrawn92

    @grandadmiralthrawn92

    10 ай бұрын

    Huh, is that because of certain manufacturing techniques that exist only in Australia?

  • @Generic_661

    @Generic_661

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@grandadmiralthrawn92 it's just because they're a convict colony, so they've got time to spare

  • @MyRegardsToTheDodo

    @MyRegardsToTheDodo

    10 ай бұрын

    @@grandadmiralthrawn92 It's because you can only make a perfect sphere when you're upside down. That's why the Aussies are so good at it. Whenever they come to Europe they totally lose that ability.

  • @billb.5183
    @billb.518310 ай бұрын

    It's always fun to hear them say "al-you-minium". 😀

  • @tristansheehan1453

    @tristansheehan1453

    10 ай бұрын

    You mean like how its supposed to be pronounced ;)

  • @heathergarnham9555

    @heathergarnham9555

    10 ай бұрын

    As opposed to the incorrect way of pronouncing it?

  • @billb.5183

    @billb.5183

    10 ай бұрын

    I never said they were wrong. I just think it sounds great. 😀

  • @Funnystuff-qm1cc
    @Funnystuff-qm1cc9 ай бұрын

    12:04 funni noise!

  • @ThePineapSkis
    @ThePineapSkis8 ай бұрын

    That plastic cube slowing was so satisfying 😊

  • @LilithLonelyHeart
    @LilithLonelyHeart10 ай бұрын

    on no sparks from quartz, I think the axe just pushed the quartz away from the blade too fast to generate enough friction to cause sparks, in flint and steel you need to drag the steel along the flint quite a bit to make sparks P.S. Here are fun facts for the copper section they forgot about 1: it's 2nd most conductive metal after silver, the reason why it's the most common material for wires in electronics 2: when mixed with tin into alloy we get bronze, a metal that was so popular in use we had entire age named after it

  • @glennbigelow8386

    @glennbigelow8386

    10 ай бұрын

    It's because that wasn't quartz

  • @yurypierre-louis7482
    @yurypierre-louis748210 ай бұрын

    Congratulations on 18 million subscribers. This is an incredible achievement and I can’t wait to see you at 20 million

  • @user-xf1ij5wg3f
    @user-xf1ij5wg3f10 ай бұрын

    Always great content fellas. Never seen tungsten splinter like that.. Our boy Jack continues to out do himself :’).

  • @johnmanzo1147

    @johnmanzo1147

    10 ай бұрын

    I am pretty sure that was a piece of the hammer that splintered off

  • @borey123xx9

    @borey123xx9

    10 ай бұрын

    Thats was a piece of the axe. Tungsten cube is ductile and caved in slightly

  • @bacongrz
    @bacongrz10 ай бұрын

    This axe could make a good living punishing nonces. I reckon a wild boar feed pile would make some great content too 😂

  • @bomafett
    @bomafett10 ай бұрын

    The sparks are most likely coming from the steel ax, not the metal being struck. The harder metals are scraping some of the steel off of the blade. Those small bits of steel are very hot from the force of the blow, which causes them to oxidize very quickly (basically, they are rusting instantaneously), emitting light and heat - aka sparks.

  • @GodBidoof

    @GodBidoof

    9 ай бұрын

    No, titanium is flammable.

  • @mackebest1995

    @mackebest1995

    9 ай бұрын

    @@GodBidoof yes titanium is making the sparks a big reason anything made out of titanium is expensive is that it is very hard and expensive to make or work on because when it is heated up it reacts with the oxygen in the air this is basic knowledge for anyone in a job involving welding or any form of metal working even if its not the material you work with you where more than likely told about it in education

  • @GodBidoof

    @GodBidoof

    8 ай бұрын

    ⁠​⁠​⁠@@mackebest1995the forces applied by the axe probably just sent tiny flakes of incredibly hot titanium metal flying, which then caught fire.

  • @White000Crow

    @White000Crow

    5 ай бұрын

    @@GodBidoof couldn’t it be the steel sparking for the same reason? Titanium should have a white spark.

  • @ssu7653
    @ssu765310 ай бұрын

    7:40 to be fair the only thing that CAN rust is iron, rust is litterally iron oxidation...

  • @RaidLoalMulticraft_YT

    @RaidLoalMulticraft_YT

    4 ай бұрын

    Copper: am I a joke to you Statue of Liberty: 🗽 is not green right

  • @theaberrantdon
    @theaberrantdon10 ай бұрын

    7:07 looks pretty shovel like to me.

  • @tomhossain2099
    @tomhossain20995 ай бұрын

    So, that question “what about when you heat it up” is actually an excellent question from a material science point of view.

  • @BunnyKins1970
    @BunnyKins197010 ай бұрын

    Chaps, if you want to see quartz sparking, you need to use the hammer on it. At night. It creates an electic flash - you can try it with 2 bits of quartz by being in a dark room and hitting them together. 💚🐇🐴💚

  • @actuallyrichie
    @actuallyrichie10 ай бұрын

    Another excellent video. I'd love to see a tour of the warehouse where all of these big props are kept after you use them.

  • @Stoneyboy28
    @Stoneyboy2810 ай бұрын

    i haven't watched yall in a year and seeing rexy again put a smile on my face, good to know yall still got him around:)

  • @LegozPlayer
    @LegozPlayer11 күн бұрын

    5:33 Toot Toot 🤣🤣🤣

  • @hannahr5997
    @hannahr599710 ай бұрын

    What a wonderful way to cook while watching you guys and enjoying the fun! Thanks for making my kitchen a fun place :)

  • @leighhargreaves4104
    @leighhargreaves410410 ай бұрын

    I'd speculate that the plastic cube (~1 g/cm^3) was HDPE plastic. High Density Polyethylene. The density of about right, and that's a very common plastic to get a hold of (it's typically used for cutting boards).

  • @bobibiboo

    @bobibiboo

    10 ай бұрын

    It could totally be HDPE, but it is more likely UHMW. UHMW is often sold in big white cubes like this for machining.

  • @leighhargreaves4104

    @leighhargreaves4104

    10 ай бұрын

    @@bobibiboo Dammit, that was totally gonna be my second guess! You're right though. UHMW is easier to buy in that sort of quantity, so it's probably more likely.

  • @HotCheese816
    @HotCheese81610 ай бұрын

    I love listening to Aussies and Brits say Aluminum…makes me chuckle😂

  • @dan-dv2tn

    @dan-dv2tn

    8 ай бұрын

    Ahh the Brits, speaking their language as it was meant to be. I like it too.

  • @getwreckedboi1222
    @getwreckedboi12229 ай бұрын

    I think soon you should do Spike “Geronimo” Tyson vs Hulks fist, it would be really cool to see who wins.

  • @CG-ee5jd
    @CG-ee5jd10 ай бұрын

    “Not to be confused with the food court” Absolutely killed me 😂😂

  • @TheTyler714
    @TheTyler71410 ай бұрын

    I'm impressed with the camera's shock absorbance or luck stricken ability to stand back up during the Quartz smash lol that thing gets air and settles right back down!

  • @MattH-wg7ou
    @MattH-wg7ou9 ай бұрын

    That Obsidian sphere was beautiful. Also the glass. And the quarts. Actually almost all of them were quite pretty.

  • @IMPULSIVE636
    @IMPULSIVE63610 ай бұрын

    It will never get old hearing brits and aussies say "Aluminum" 🤣

  • @TheRealPurpleHand
    @TheRealPurpleHand10 ай бұрын

    Was highly impressed with Al hitting so far above it's weight class. Thought Cu would have dented a lot more than it did, so very surprised. W was exactly as expected, though that spark halo was really wild!

  • @TheRealMikeHood
    @TheRealMikeHood10 ай бұрын

    In frames ( 9:28 - 9:29 ) you can see a couple of sparks from the left side of the axe blade on the quartz. Very few compared to the titanium but it did produce a few!

  • @BubbyGamingOfficial
    @BubbyGamingOfficial9 ай бұрын

    Obsidian "Required for nether portal" made me laugh

  • @josiahgosyne6495
    @josiahgosyne649510 ай бұрын

    Our boy Jack continues to out do himself :’)

  • @SaulTink
    @SaulTink10 ай бұрын

    Surprised Gaunson didn't mention that Quartz is used in clocks and watches to keep the timing of the hands!

  • @patrickkrehemker1757
    @patrickkrehemker175710 ай бұрын

    The best phrase to describe gaunson's winging it with the quartz explanation is simply "How Ridiculous"

  • @zebraneighbor6383
    @zebraneighbor638310 ай бұрын

    I love that this video has a legitimately educational installment of Science with Guanson lol

  • @jdj90
    @jdj9010 ай бұрын

    Imagine dropping a twenty foot long, 10 inch thick, tungsten rod from orbit.

  • @bomafett

    @bomafett

    10 ай бұрын

    The US military attempted to develop a weapons system based on this principle. Veritasium did a video about it.

  • @PureVikingPowers

    @PureVikingPowers

    9 ай бұрын

    I could stop it with my abs

  • @jdj90

    @jdj90

    9 ай бұрын

    @@bomafett Yup, Project Thor, orbital kinetic bombardment. It would be the most powerful non-nuclear weapon. The 11-ton rods would be able to penetrate and destroy even the most deep hardened bunkers, falling at a projected velocity of about Mach 10.

  • @jonathankreamer
    @jonathankreamer10 ай бұрын

    I'm 99.999% certain that was silicone, not silicon. Silicon forms brittle crystals that don't show massive elastic deformation before being sliced in half....

  • @beerzerker8359
    @beerzerker835910 ай бұрын

    Fun fact, tungsten is one of the primary metals used in the manufacturing of steel cutting tools.

  • @UniverseUA

    @UniverseUA

    10 ай бұрын

    Tungsten carbide

  • @EndergeistYT
    @EndergeistYT4 күн бұрын

    I'm not gonna lie, these challenges look HELLA fun!

  • @mythicalswiggy7408
    @mythicalswiggy740810 ай бұрын

    Bro got his degree from the back of a Walmart 💀

  • @dannop2562

    @dannop2562

    10 ай бұрын

    I think they’ve got K-Marts down under… But yeah, it was probably a Blue-Light special.

  • @preferablynopepper9530
    @preferablynopepper953010 ай бұрын

    New idea: drop two giant axes on each other and see which one wins

  • @CanadianBakin42O

    @CanadianBakin42O

    10 ай бұрын

    No

  • @suryanshdasguru3919
    @suryanshdasguru39198 ай бұрын

    i love how they speak and behave .....their accent is the best lol

  • @ZeroSleap
    @ZeroSleap10 ай бұрын

    4:40 Actually, the fracturing is called conchoidal,and it's not only amorphous but what you described mistakenly is its isotropic properties.

  • @soranuareane
    @soranuareane10 ай бұрын

    The sparks at the end are most certainly molten steel from the axe blade. Rather than compress the steel, I think a large fraction of it blew off in those molten chunks.

  • @Pieces93

    @Pieces93

    10 ай бұрын

    Na not molten steel, the sparks generated as the atoms in the steel and tungsten were gifted extra electrons through the kinetic force of the impact, the sparks are the extra electrons being discharged. Much like when you put a fork in a microwave, the fork is receiving energy and picks up extra electrons, the sparking is the repayment of said electrons…

  • @Pieces93

    @Pieces93

    10 ай бұрын

    Saying this, if you could impact something fast enough with enough energy you could melt things, problem is that usually results in nuclear fusion, much like when a large asteroid hits the earth, it generates enough energy to melt things but then fuses the atoms of said material.

  • @meeftastic
    @meeftastic9 ай бұрын

    2:53 - "Well that's not in one piece anymore"

  • @mrbengerman8681
    @mrbengerman868110 ай бұрын

    i need the history lessons every episode now lmfao those were great

  • @LoveHandle4890
    @LoveHandle489010 ай бұрын

    Still an easier challenge than solving a Rubik’s Cube.

  • @thekitkatshuffler

    @thekitkatshuffler

    10 ай бұрын

    Which is almost as difficult as solving a Rubik's Cube.

  • @Liamguy999

    @Liamguy999

    10 ай бұрын

    @@thekitkatshufflerwhich is almost as difficult as folding laundry blindfolded

  • @ATSaale

    @ATSaale

    10 ай бұрын

    I'm confident you could learn to solve one in less than a day, it's not all that difficult to learn a simple beginner's method.

  • @andramarquardt

    @andramarquardt

    10 ай бұрын

    No.

  • @cmorgan501
    @cmorgan50110 ай бұрын

    10:03 I know your curious

  • @notrushe

    @notrushe

    10 ай бұрын

    I know you are thinking what I am thinking

  • @kirbypro8112
    @kirbypro81127 ай бұрын

    Cast iron, fire, burgers, glass, plastic, quartz, and obsidian aren't elements, but this is still a very enjoyable video.

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