Gallium would be even better if it wasn't so messy.

@femmywemmy

4 жыл бұрын

I would hope that mercury isn't toxic

You should try the singing crystal experiment, make some gallium crystals then out them in how water and you will here screeching as the Crystal structure breaks down.

@Anti-proton

6 жыл бұрын

Might try!

Awesome video!

Waiting for the day you collaborate with Cody's Lab and I die a little inside from excitement.

It would be really cool to see you do a video on neutron activation of gallium.

Thanks Tom, interesting stuff.

I love gallium and gallium based alloys!

great video. 👍👍👍🌟🌟🌟

I almost got frightened that there will be no radiation in this video... But then..... :D

* Great video ! This awesome my friend ! You’ve made my day ! Thank for sharing .

Nobody seems to be mentioning another liquid metal which is an alloy of two reactive alkali metals called NaK (sodium-potassium) which is highly reactive towards water!

I drank a glass this today Im alive

Tom! How/what do you store your mildly radioactive stuff in? I'm asking because I'd like to get into collecting radioactive stuff but I'm having troubles finding proper shielding for stuff like tritium and orange Fiestaware.

TERMINATER AHHHHHH XD gallium is gonna become smart and hunt us

You'd make a GR3AT professor

I bought this same tube of gallium and mine recently hardened and won't melt again

Can you make a Crystal Radio from this Gallium Metal ? tjl

@Anti-proton

6 жыл бұрын

Unsure. I made crystal radios long ago, but I can't recall

Cool

I love gallium except for the fact that it oxidizes very quickly to this really ugly gray and black crust.

@HeisenbergADHDScienceAndMore

6 жыл бұрын

Did you try adding a little bit of dilute sulfuric acid? The sulfuric acid will make the gallium bead up. Also, you can add a small amount of aluminum foil and then add water. Then the aluminum gets amalgamated by the gallium and reacts with water to get aluminum hydroxide and hydrogen. The cleaner gallium falls on the bottom.

@HeisenbergADHDScienceAndMore

6 жыл бұрын

I alloyed gallium and indium to make a liquid alloy with a melting point of 15 degrees Celsius(59 degrees Fahrenheit). I can't unalloy it. I might get more gallium in the future. I wish I could get a whole laboratory.

Me 10 years in the future: 6 kg of galinstan and 10 kg of gallium. An entire laboratory. other person: It's so heavy. Metal so hheavvvy.. Me: Do you even lift?! XD hahahaha! It's funny. It's funny because it's heavy even though it's a tiny volume of metal(barely a few liters).

I think it's more like "Laycoke day Bwahbowdrawn"

@Hexalyse

6 жыл бұрын

Nope, actually he got the "Lecoq" right, pronounciation wise. But "de" is pronounced more like "duh" than "day", the french "e" is usually pronounced like the u in butter, but with the lips more closed (not sure I'm being clear) [except when it's at the end of a word, where it's "silent"]. The last part of his name would be "Bwahbowdran" with the final "an" pronounced like in the word anger. Source : I'm French.

@spacecowboy2k

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the French Lesson! :)

@Anti-proton

6 жыл бұрын

I'll stick with my recreated early Neolithic language (I had to create a few for a book)

@spacecowboy2k

6 жыл бұрын

Explain this. Interesting!

why don't you do neutrons

@Anti-proton

6 жыл бұрын

I did :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/dGt13KaDZ8S0mc4.html

I’d like to see a give away

Is Gallium a mineral?

@Anti-proton

6 жыл бұрын

Nope, it's metal. It is always found (naturally) in minerals, however. It is created as a byproduct of mining other things.

hey tom thats weird metal i know that demon core were nade with plutonium galium alloy i wonder how scientists come with this ideia of mixing galium with plutonium

@Anti-proton

6 жыл бұрын

Not sure why, but it worked =/

@sacriptex5870

6 жыл бұрын

maybe trying to reduce plutonium hardness and make a machinable alloy to use on a lathe to produce warheads...

@Anti-proton

6 жыл бұрын

I'll ask someone I know, who might know.

@Anti-proton

6 жыл бұрын

Apparently, Pu is thermodynamically unstable and gallium created this stability. \o/

@michaelmcintosh5818

6 жыл бұрын

antiprotons your videos are great. You'd make a great teacher.

galium has something with france because galium means rooster

Lecoq?

@edidageile8753

6 жыл бұрын

roger Therik its spelled Lecock

To answer your question: Wood's metal is an alloy comprised of: bismuth, lead, tin, and cadmium Field's metal is an alloy comprised of: bismuth, indium, and tin Wood's metal is definitely the one to avoid, as it has both lead and cadmium. Field's metal is much safer as bismuth, indium, and tin are all pretty nontoxic. Galinstan is another good one, made of gallium, indium, and tin. It is both safe to play with, and is liquid at room temperature.

@Anti-proton

6 жыл бұрын

Cadmium is the worst! I'll stick with Gallium lol

@HeisenbergADHDScienceAndMore

6 жыл бұрын

I wonder if field's metal can alloy with gallium. It would make galinstan + bismuth. Galinstanbiz(gallium indium tin bismuth alloy, GaInSnBi).