That lithium is starving for some glass

@LacedWithOreos

10 ай бұрын

It eats glass

@snocoldman

10 ай бұрын

Same.

@yanggang4352

10 ай бұрын

It's starving to give away that 2s electron 😂

@lapiswolf2780

10 ай бұрын

Bröther, I crave glåßs.

@user-kb7rt4rn5k

10 ай бұрын

😂so is the dude who made the video 😅 Lmfao

The spiral effect from the fumes looks so sick.

@DaniDit

10 ай бұрын

That’s the exact reason I watched it 9 times… 🤔 maybe less maybe more but truly was explicitly sick.

@Larry_The_Clam

10 ай бұрын

That is exactly what I was thinking

@chir0pter

10 ай бұрын

I didn't even register that but now that you mention it it is pretty mesmerizing

@Bassotronics

10 ай бұрын

Mini hurricane 🌀

@Mattle_lutra

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely mesmerizing 🤤

"Reacts with the glass" is a very rare phrase

@stevekineguy

8 ай бұрын

underrated observation

@icycrusader1947

7 ай бұрын

A phrase that is honestly terrifying.

@robbieaulia6462

7 ай бұрын

IT'S SUPPOSE TO PROTECT US FROM CHEMICALS, WE'RE DOOMED.

@HiddenOcelot

7 ай бұрын

there are a few acids that react with glass too, like Fluoroantimonic acid.

@b43xoit

7 ай бұрын

Hydrogen fluoride will etch glass.

Noted, I will be sure to keep my glass far away from my supplies of lithium

@aprilvereen3169

10 ай бұрын

Ha lol😊

@Cristian_D63

3 ай бұрын

That's why lithium is stored in oil

@nonosetradome

2 ай бұрын

​@Cristian_D63 too keep glass from getting in it?

"So it fails eventually" *smash smash *

@thekeyboardwarrior1018

10 ай бұрын

he ain't payin no child support 🔥 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@sroy7982

10 ай бұрын

Isn't silicon a mettalliod, should've made it harder I think

@Memories_broken_

10 ай бұрын

​@@sroy7982It is yes, but that's not a property of metalloids..? Might want to back up that info..

@Kwauhn.

10 ай бұрын

​@@sroy7982Yeah, harder and more brittle.

@Erhannis

10 ай бұрын

*smash smash* was exactly the sound effect I used, too

A chemical eating through glass feels like a laboratory fourth wall break.

@willythemailboy2

10 ай бұрын

Hydrofluoric acid will eat through glass at room temperature in just a minute or two.

@AndrewDeLong

10 ай бұрын

​@@willythemailboy2 Fluoroantimonic acid laughs at your "minute or two" timeframe.

@craigpater6278

10 ай бұрын

​@@AndrewDeLongI think that it's worth pointing out that fluoroantimonic acid actually contains hydrofluoric acid, although hydrofluoric acid is very corrosive and extremely toxic it's considered a weak acid because the bond between hydrogen and fluorine is very strong so HF doesn't dissociate much in water and dissociating completely is what makes an acid a strong acid. However, a mixture of equal amounts of hydrofluoric acid and antimony pentafluoride forms fluoroantimonic acid, which is the strongest super acid known to humans

@zackzittel7683

10 ай бұрын

Hot phosphoric acid can.

@jimtaylor294

10 ай бұрын

Laughs in Molten Lava 😂 (because liquified rock yo)

Correction: the reaction with glass (or any oxide) doesn't form lithium dioxide LiO2, it forms lithium oxide, Li2O.

@justinwatson1510

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@invinciblegod

2 ай бұрын

Why isn't it called dilithium oxide?

@andrewmiller6820

2 ай бұрын

It’s ionic, not covalent. You don’t need to say dilithium because that’s what you’d expect from an ion with oxygen

@TheGuyCalledX

2 ай бұрын

​@@invinciblegodthat wouldn't be wrong, just not the convention

@markh.876

2 ай бұрын

@@invinciblegod Different oxidation states only need a suffix in front of "oxide" to convey without ambiguity - monoxide, dioxide, sesquioxide, etc.

your shorts are a large part of what keeps me from abandoning youtube shorts :) keep up the great work, my guy!

That smoke spiraling from the second reaction was stunning. Just beautiful.

@keltic74

10 ай бұрын

Came to say the same thing absolutely beautiful.

@CatsBtrippin

10 ай бұрын

I have the same affect but it’s white 😂

@clark987878

10 ай бұрын

I was truly astounded

@irondirigible4216

10 ай бұрын

Its so perfect it looks fake

@omkartikekar6016

10 ай бұрын

It looks like black hole 😅

The convection effect up the test tube is super neat.

@Tiziano182

10 ай бұрын

forget that!!.. did you see that cool spirally thingy??

@tHebUm18

10 ай бұрын

@@Tiziano182 Yeah, that's from the convection effect my man--convection is the turbulence in the air currents around strong differences in temperature/pressure as it tries to equalize and what leads to the spiral effect as the (I believe) molten lithium is solidifying around the air currents in/out of the test tube!

@japsharansingh1424

10 ай бұрын

​@@Tiziano182that is what he said 😂

@SirPano85

10 ай бұрын

​@@Tiziano182 No one of the commenters here is getting your joke as I see... I'm glad to be the first! 😎

@OfficalCliff

8 ай бұрын

​@@Tiziano182that's convection haha

Dude you've made me the family favorite with these experiments! they love these little experiments man! they've all gotten into science honestly its kinda cool

@thomasmclean9406

8 ай бұрын

That's so lovely to hear!

@sanjeen2503

5 ай бұрын

nothing beats kids being interested in what you're teaching

@19adhyayandas77

5 ай бұрын

Bro knows how to rizz kids.

@JohnDoe-eo1op

4 ай бұрын

@@19adhyayandas77 tf?..

I love how his commentary always comes across as if hes seeing whatever hes filming for the very first time when in fact hes often teaching fundamentals or basics from high school. It really shows that long lasting awe that comes with being passionate about learning and in kind teaching

Lithium wants a piece of that sweet glass

@KatraMoo

10 ай бұрын

Yeah that glass bottom is nice, firm, round and plump! Well until Lithium destroyed that glAss.

@1indapink3indastink

10 ай бұрын

​@@KatraMooglass glass glass.....make that mf'er hammertime!

@retaliationgaming8693

5 ай бұрын

Mmmm my sweet tempered glass 😂

@TheLakabanzaichrg

2 ай бұрын

Call me lithium because i'm about to smash that glass

My favorite part of this is that it produces pure silicon and you can see that in the end result as the sort of shiny irridencent layer on the inside of the glass. This is a diet thermite reaction, its a pure metal reacting with an oxide to produce a pure element and the complementary oxide. In this case, the lithium is pulling the oxygen atoms off the silicon dioxide to produce lithium oxide and elemental silicon.

@mamupelu565

10 ай бұрын

I think its the easiest way to "make" pure Si at home.

@1indapink3indastink

10 ай бұрын

Thanks Jakob, what other oxides will lithium react with? For example, rust?

@Jakob165

10 ай бұрын

@@1indapink3indastink a thermite type reaction (single displacement oxidation-reduction) will happen with any pure metal with a higher electronegativity (affinity for electrons) than the metal in the oxide. There's a whole mess of thermite reactions, but theyre more effective the greater the difference in electronegativity between the oxide's metal and the pure metal. That is to say, lithium is particularly well suited for thermite type reactions because it's *very* reactive, so yes it would work with rust. However, lithium can only donate a single electron, so lithium oxide takes two lithiums for one oxygen atom. Since rust is 2 irons and 3 oxygens, it would take a very large amount of lithium to maintain, and very finely divided. Alkali metals have a tendency to spontaneously react with air to form their own oxide, it's better to use a more stable but still fairly reactive metal like aluminum, since you can powderize it without worrying about it all going inert before you ignite the thermite mix, and it takes much less aluminum to maintain, molecule for molecule.

@spraynprey1044

10 ай бұрын

it`s DIoxide though

@Jakob165

10 ай бұрын

@@spraynprey1044 technically it's just lithium oxide, you don't add the number specifiers to proper metal oxides, silicon is a transition metal so it's kind of in that weird in-between spot. If you were to use them though it would be di-lithium oxide, since it takes two lithiums to react with one oxygen.

“See how the glass fails eventually?” *smashes glass*

Thieves scrambling to acquire the metal.

Teenagers burning gasoline in their garage be like

@user-vs8yj8oy2v

3 ай бұрын

Aaaahhggg my legs!damn my button up swishy pants melted into my shins!true story lol

Yo the spiral flames deserve their own video, what the heck was going on there?

@Ithirahad

8 ай бұрын

Heavy smoke getting stuck in a convection cell, I guess. Usually hot smoke would get carried away by warm air rising, but here it just cools down in the tube and slumps back towards the burning Li goo, where it heats back up and floats away again repeating the cycle.

Mf really said "lithium dioxide"

@calebwashburn38

10 ай бұрын

I was looking for this comment 😂

@dj6P5U

10 ай бұрын

Alkali metal

@kevinireland8020

9 ай бұрын

He either flunked chemistry or never took it in the first place.

@calebwashburn38

9 ай бұрын

@@kevinireland8020 the bar to become a ✌️ science ✌️ KZreadr is incredibly low these days

@joshuasamuel2122

9 ай бұрын

​@@calebwashburn38 He has a degree in chemical engineering I'm pretty sure. I've heard people say he has a PhD

Lithium feels like quite kid of the class.

0:48 every chemist after hearing lithium dioxide - i feel sudden disturbance in the field.

@kg4boj

10 ай бұрын

Are you really sure you've lost an electron?

@alpinion323

10 ай бұрын

​@@kg4bojyes. I'm positive.

@MssIAMNOBODYSPECIAL

10 ай бұрын

Same same. My chemistry teacher brain wanted to grab a red pen

@kevinireland8020

9 ай бұрын

Yep, color me triggered.

@samuelverne892

8 ай бұрын

I came to the comments to find this one. Additionally assuming the more common charge of oxide ions (-2), lithium couldn't theoretically form a dioxide due to it having only 2 electrons.

that little vortex it made was so cute 🥰

Lithium : " *Our oxygen* "

That is one of the coolest reactions Ive heard of, the level of intensity that lithium has to have to seperate such a stable molecule is wild

Homie casually creating Interstellar Blackholes in a beaker

@KatraMoo

10 ай бұрын

Warp Core Breach is imminent!

@hdj808

7 ай бұрын

test tube, not a beaker.

@LatinKingsLS

5 ай бұрын

What i was thinking :D

I had a small piece (milligrams) of lithium catch fire in a pyrex flask when quenching a reaction years ago, and it melted right through the bottom of the flask.

@Resetium

3 ай бұрын

oof having pyrex fail really sucks

Bro created his own lava

"An act of true -love- lithium will thaw a frozen heart"

@kevinireland8020

9 ай бұрын

More like turn it into soap.

That's some interstellar shit in that last clip .

The swirl the air makes pulling out of the tube is super interesting i would love to here what you have to say on that

Li: **having been off the glass for a month** I can't go on like this anymore, I NEED SOME GLASSSS!!

Lithium is terrifying.

Woah!!🤩 that’s really interesting! The way it reacts is also really captivating for some reason👁️

@mafinalmessagechangedaworl7131

10 ай бұрын

Reminds me of our universe

@athenathewiseowl247

10 ай бұрын

💀

Lithium is also weird because it'll choose to react with nitrogen instead of oxygen in air to form lithium nitride (which is also the only stable alkali nitride)

@mykeprior3436

9 ай бұрын

but why? I mean, sure some Nitrogen would react but oxygen is plentiful and surely more reactive. Id only expect this behaviour under N2 completely.

@Ithirahad

8 ай бұрын

@@mykeprior3436 Lithium isn't exactly sentient; it doesn't "choose" oxygen over nitrogen just because there's some oxygen around. It's just more likely to react when encountering oxygen, but it's bumping into so much nitrogen that sometimes they'll end up sticking together first.

I am more fascinated by the mini back draft it is beautiful.

Looked like Chernobyl in a test tube😂

Do this in a vacuum chamber

@malotoceno23

10 ай бұрын

Yes

This should be " your future telsa"

That spiral was nuts

Beautiful smoke flow in the last clip!

The spiral formation looks like outer space

Bro the plasma looks heavenly 👼😇☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️🧌

This guy has the greatest voice I’ve ever heard. He should be on the radio. I would listen to him speak all day long.

That spiral was legit

THAT SMOKE SPIRAL IS KOOL

it's all fun and games until a chemist says "uh oh"

The second part looks like every black hole picture I’ve seen in science books with it eating a star

That fire smoke swirl was awesome!

"Uh Oh" -Famous last words

the beat just goes with the lithium

Lithium doesnt stop reacting. "Ok now the lithium is forming a small star, let me get back to you guys"!

Lithium: Nom nom nom ☺️🍽️🪟

The thumbnail on this looks like a sunset by a cliff

The spiraling fumes look like a little galaxy.

I am so mesmerized by that smoke vortex in the second half of the short

Lithium to Glass: _your __-soul-__ [Oxygen] is mine._

Pretty darn awesome. The fire swirl at the end was really freakin cool

the 2nd one kinda looked like a golden teacher 😂 IYKYK

"I'm gonna get a torch and heat it..." you know something good is coming 😂

Even the gas followed the fibonacci sequence lol

That second batch is legitimately one of the most beautiful looking reactions. Look at the smoke vortex in the middle!

That spiral effect looked like space!

When ActionLab says “uh oh,” it’s trouble. He’s done so much more dangerous stuff than this and with nothing but a smile on his face

His “hu hu uh oh woah Hu Hu” is so ominous but wholesome at the same time for some reason.

Bro that lithium flame got the perfect golden spin

“It fails eventually” *smacks it against a solid surface* “see?” 😂

Spontaneous combustion.

I felt in danger watching this

It went "Critical"

The circulation from the smoke looks amazing

The spiral looks like it's a new galaxy.

This is the first time I've heard of something interactive with glass

"MY BLOOD HE PUNCHED OUT ALL MY BLOOD!" - Scout

This guy is so good at making it sound like he has no idea what is going to happen. "Uh oh..." Like he didn't know it was going to start melting rhe glass, lol 😂😂😂

That little spiral looks like a black hole devouring a star

The glass likes it and it’s not gonna crack

The thumbnail looked like a bar of metal that was red hot

That swirl flame is so cool

Wizards be really melting glass with lithium out here.

That convection current at the end was beautiful

That swirl was worth a whole video.

I love this guy and his passion for science. You got me nerding out with every video. I actually did a college assignment on one of your videos

Shanks : Ben Bring me Lithium... 🦃 💀

“Uht ohh “ “hee hee hee” Continues to heat lithium. Lithium starts consuming glass like we eat ice cream.

For a second I thought this was a crack smoking tutorial 😂

Bro created a sunset in a test tube

That swirl was awesome 👌

The spiral made it look like a black hole absorbing a nearby star

Funnily enough, this is one of the main reasons glass spontaneously breaking is scary in movies

The Action Lab is tamed Vsauce

The sound it made was terrifying

The employed friends on a Saturday morning:

"never try to melt it in glass, or else this really cool thing will happen, but you definitely don't want to do it" 😂

The lithium is actually re-woah-acting

“Father, feed me more glass!”

@skycat777u.k5

10 ай бұрын

Haha!😸 I love your pfp kitty cat😊

“Hey a crackpipe!” *chokes*

"So it fails eventually" then he smashes it on a brick lmao

Holding my phone away from my face incase it bursts 😆

"uh-oh" - every great scientists last words

Something reacting with glass? That’s a new one