Many years ago (1981), I was winter camping in the Welsh mountains. I'd brought along some Kendal Mint Cake. This is mostly sugar. I thought I was hallucinating when I saw light each time I broke a piece off. The air temperature was around -5 c. This video explains what I was seeing. Thank you.

@snookerwither9955

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow I had no idea Kendal mint cake did this, I'm definitely going to try it now!

@panzerofthelake4460

Жыл бұрын

nope, u hallicuneitang bruh! Get help before its too late

@cjohnson9211

Жыл бұрын

Cool story bro

@toniok.4726

Жыл бұрын

that is not MANY YEARS ago than ancient times 🦕🦖🦕🦖

@samsonsoturian6013

Жыл бұрын

U old.

You should have had the lights off when you crushed the quartz in the hydraulic press. That would have been so cool! Great video as always :D

@danthaman6720

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking that

@ivegotheart

Жыл бұрын

You beat me, but then I thought spinning, or rubbing two crystals together, like on a lathe, or with a drill.

@ryanpenrod1859

Жыл бұрын

This is what I scrolled down to say too.

@westonding8953

Жыл бұрын

That’s what I was thinking too.

@MrElvis1971

Жыл бұрын

Great minds think alike!

I’m surprised you didn’t mention sugar crystals. I remember as a soldier getting sugar in plastic single serve bags for tea or coffee. If you rub the bag between thumb and forefinger in the dark, you can see the same phenomenon.

@userfriendly8452

9 ай бұрын

You Mean Sugar Cube???

@VR_Wizard

7 ай бұрын

That sounds much better and cheaper then buying expensive magic healing cristals from amazon. I remember as a kid i grew sugger crystals with my parents so if this works more people coud try this at home.

This is awesome, I was shown this light source some years ago by a rock collector who just sawed a round quartz rock in half on a wet saw. Rubbing the edge against the flat semi polished surface creates light. I've shown my wife and kids but I'm the only one that's still amazed by this....I like to geek out on stuff like this

@zackeryshackelford3864

27 күн бұрын

Your wife and kids sound boring :( sorry bro

As a rockhound, I appreciate this knowledge. I knew quartz was piezoelectric, but didn't know a great way to exemplify it.

@KatanaBart

Жыл бұрын

Had the same thought. Would this experiment be any better if the bottle was filled with a noble gas, like neon (or argon etc?)

@darkmadder9897

Жыл бұрын

He's a great teacher!

@ms.amazed

Жыл бұрын

put it in resin make orgonite check out Etsy

@k.l.manring2083

Жыл бұрын

I'm a rockhound too. I've learned more in this short video than I have in all my years of reading about them!

Love the video, but it’s a crime against science that you didn’t film the crushing of the crystal in a dark room.

@arjunravi1641

6 ай бұрын

It crime to operate hydraulic machine in dark

@pearlstar159

8 күн бұрын

​@@arjunravi1641it wouldn't be dark

@arjunravi1641

8 күн бұрын

@@pearlstar159 how

@AntonioTFernandez

2 күн бұрын

bc of the light​@@arjunravi1641

I like it how the subtitles call it "tribal luminescence" when you are talking about buffalo skin rattles, but quickly changes to proper triboluminescence after you are done with the rattles :)

I discovered this years ago after I was told Australian Aboriginal shamans used clear quartz as a torch - I couldn't figure how this would work. When I rubbed two together I found the sparks were more internal in the crystal - however my crystals were smaller in diameter than those you have used. I wondered if a machine rubbed two together at a constant rate that perhaps they would "turn on" - light up like a bulb and stay alight?

@originsdecoded3508

11 ай бұрын

Intersting. what tribe of australian aboriginals used this quartz torches? and yes, with the right shaking, and the right size of quartz with the correct size and ruffness, you can make them light up like the sun : )

Would have been cool to use the hydraulic press in the dark. Imagine that it would be quite a light show.

@oomersheriff2998

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what i thought

@GarysBBQSupplies

Жыл бұрын

EXACTLY what I was thinking!

@darkmadder9897

Жыл бұрын

I know, right?!

@robinxpressions

Жыл бұрын

Won't happen

@10RexTheWolf01

Жыл бұрын

Isn't the light from friction (rubbing against each other)? Simply pressing it doesn't cause friction.

i remember doing this when i was a kid, grabbed 2 small rocks and did this and it was so cool. Glad to know what it was now.

@MichiiYiaAiUni

Жыл бұрын

Its called ✨The Spark✨

When I was a kid, my father use to live out in the country not far from a large river. The flood plain for this river was large and there were areas infilled between the more resistant rocks and hills that contained ancient gravel layers that were deposited from where the river use to flow freely. I guess erosion and tectonic action over the course of many millions of years changed the landscape. His yard was red/tan clay with lots of rounded quartz pieces but only a 1/2 mile up the road there were prominent hills with fresh vein quartz, slate and other rock types associated with this areas geological formations. On really dark nights we would go out in the driveway area which was really just a large barren patch of ground between the road and his house and pick up a piece of quartz and throw it at the ground. When the quartz struck other pieces of quartz it would often give off this same "flash" of light which lasted for only seconds. We didn't understand the science behind it at the time just thought it was cool.

You don't need to break them. They make light and elecitricty without them breaking, that's how piezoelectric ignitors (in cigarette lighters, bbq pit starters, etc) ignitors work, it hits them with a spring loaded hammer, but not hard enough to shatter them. There is a metal foil attached top and bottom, going to wires, where you want the electricity to go. They can make tens of thousands of volts! Edit: The BBQ ignitors are real useful tools! On old style christmas lights (pre-led), zap the prongs, and it makes them work again! Christmas lights have a little fuse at the bottom, to bypass a burned out bulb, but sometimes there isn't enough voltage to cause the breakdown. Zapping a few times with a piezo ignitor, with thousands of volts, is enough to blow holes through the material, so when you plug it back into mains, it can then work properly! A few other uses too!

I just ran outside to grab two pieces of rose quartz from a bag full I had outside. Woohoo! It worked! Wow!

I'm very sad that you had the light on during the hydraulic press part 😅 like that probably looked really cool in the dark

@The Action Lab, you should do one about sonoluminescence, the phenomenon where bubbles popping somehow make a flash of light.

You know every so often you run across something new that you’ve never seen in your entire life. Other than Flint I have never seen this done this is amazing. What a great video man!

I finally found out why envelopes emit blue glow when I open the sticky part. Thanks for this!

@judasthepious1499

Жыл бұрын

what..? for real?

@ooltimu

Жыл бұрын

@@judasthepious1499 for real what? Is it common knowledge?

@mikewhocheeseharry5292

Жыл бұрын

My arse emits the aurora borealis southern lights when I open my sticky cheeks.

I was working years ago digging lakes and ponds for a new golf course in North Carolina and I dug *tons* of quartz crystals. Some of them were up to three feet in diameter. I wish I would have saved them but I didn't think they were worth anything, and it would have just been too much of a hassle as I was on an excavator and was too busy as well. I knew about their properties and uses but didn't know how I'd get them home too. Man that would have awesome to have a bunch though, especially the big ones. I wonder how much they sell for.

@kevinroberts781

Жыл бұрын

North Carolina is loaded with quartz crystals and plan old quartz. Indians in the foothill made arrow heads out of mostly quartz

@ck63962

Жыл бұрын

Ay I live in NC 😎

@sonariantutorials2438

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure some, large quartz sells for upwards of a few thousand dollars

@kentneumann5209

Жыл бұрын

A piece of smokey quartz about 3 feet tall by a foot in diameter sold for $20,000 on that old travel channel show where they follow crystal miners as they dig them out of the rocky mountains.

Man I love this channel and all the experiments you do. I am in my 30s and I am still soaking up all the information I can learn. I have a love for aviation, cars, the universe, and cool science like this

When I was a kid in the 60s we would get sparks like this with pieces of granite. Worked great.

I live in the region where The Ute used to live and there are some areas with large amounts of perfectly sized quartz easily accessible on or near the surface so I definitly could understand them making stuff with them.

there's a phenomenon called "earthquake light" that happened when large chunk of quartz (im talking about 10m+/30ft+ chunk) rubbing each other because an earthquake and causing this phenomenon

I used to work at a shop that made quartz rings that would act as fill material in a critical step when making semiconductors. They were around 12" in diameter and could cost as much as 5000 a part. They were also super hard, but brittle, and were this special quartz alloy of sorts. Machining them with diamond tooling was hard to do correctly. Whenever we'd scrap one we'd have to break it by throwing it into a bin. It was cool seeing them spark when they broke.

@ahnkai4898

Жыл бұрын

Why would you "have to"?

That actually made me sad to see the crystal get crushed. 😢 I love crystals. They are so special to so many people including myself. I have a nice collection that continues to grow and they are like family to me. This was super cool to see and I loved seeing the lights emitted from the friction.

@CS-zb3ff

8 ай бұрын

You know that old fashioned watches used quartz for time keeping? And if you're using a Smartphone, more precious stones than quartz are used to make them! From a fellow crystal collector.

@tgfover9000

3 ай бұрын

Lol sad over a rock getting crushed?? lol what world do you live in?!

This phenomenon actually a news to me. I'm curious now to test it myself. Thank you

Maybe they make it in such a way that the skin pulls in on two big pieces, so when they are being shaken, the rocks actually rub against each other emitting more light

@dominus6695

Жыл бұрын

he did not try medium sized pieces either

@julius-sumner-miller

Жыл бұрын

I was looking for a comment like this

Piezoelectricity is produced when some crystalline structures / materials are put under stress when bending or twisting pressure is applied. Piezoelectric effects are commonly used in vibration pickup sensors and strain gauges which are calibrated by design to translate the level of output voltage (and the frequency of that voltage) into a value that can be interpreted into a fairly accurate display output. The luminescent effects of stressing crystalline molecular / compounds / materials are related to piezoelectricity in that "electrical discharge" takes place that can amount to a pretty high voltage spark-gap-jump. Pushing the red spark button on your gas grill sends that piezoelectric discharge up a well-insulated wire and out to a ceramically encased "spark plug" that is a few millimeters away from the gas discharge ports on the burner unit. Crunching on wintergreen mints in a dark room, while watching yourself in a mirror, with your mouth open, demonstrates this form of energy discharge as well. The novelty of the mint cake posting prior to this post shows that becoming "crystallized - frozen" at -5°C is a great example of how the characteristics of a compound can be affected in order to release energy based changes like temperature.

Thanks for the demystified view on crystals.

I used a dremel tool and quartz grinding tip on a big chunk of quartz you can see the arc flying around inside the rock!

In high school I found a large piece of clear acrylic, about the size of a brick. In a dark room, I could smash a sugar cube and get it fairly bright flash from it. It worked great.

@RustyShakleford1

3 ай бұрын

Would the whole acrylic plate light up or just the place where the cube hit?

Why not try a door bell buzzer that has a striker hitting the bell at 60 times/second? You could epoxy one good sized crystal to the striker and replace the bell with another large crystal and...plug it in. Might be interesting to see how much light, if any, is emitted. Keep up the great work that you do.

Try using a spinning stick rattle. There might be more sliding motion vs random shaking motion.

Imagine if everyone was as excited as you are about science? This world would be an awesome place 🙂

@Human_01

Жыл бұрын

*COMPLICIT TO EVIL; HIGHLY CORRUPTIBLE PERSONALITY TYPES* I DESPISE ISFP and 'ESFP' personality types! They are just as evil as narcissits! They are narcissit-friendly and have little control over their pointless mind - especially at the worst possible time! ESFP tend to be unapologetically stubborn-anything to avoid getting "upset" despite ALWAYS being 'emotionally-disturbed' (secretly; malicious-emotions is hidden just beneath the surface). They both unconsciously believe that other people exist to serve and be consumed by them-like a drug. All to balance the unstable chemicals in their brain responsible for emotions. The [ISFP] 'secrecy'/suspicious, introverted behaviour makes them try to remain convert - this manifests as a hidden [unintelligent] threat for other people later on (as when spotted and contacted by a narcissit, they will quickly comply as they have little emotional-resiliency and humanity). ISFP/ESFP embody what it means to be 'diabolically-unintelligent'! "Better you than me". A typical closet belief of the former. Worsened by ESFJ psychological-rape. Sad fact, Judas-Iscariot was definitely one of them (ISFP). His little humanity and small intelligence, resulted in the diabolical imbecile intentionally 'throwing Jesus under the bus' in a "moment of emotional vulnerability" (typical, whiney ISFP excuse) - only to end up regretting what he's done by the time he comes back to what little sanity he initially had. When I psychoanalyse this overgrown-fetus, I realize that he had a covert, malicious-jealousy complex, and was secretly emotionally-disturbed, and highly prone to 'oblivious-codependency' (look it up, that is classic ISFP psychology, which explains how r-tarded they really are. Education only helps them hide how intellectually-immature they really are). If your life was in danger, the more dire the situation is, you'd be better off making sure that the nearby ISFP/ESFP in the group is dead! This will maximize the likelihood of the group success/escape, as the ISFP cannot be trusted! They will likely do something r-tarded at the worst possible moment-getting themselves and everyone else killed (or the ISFP might panic and push a teammate under the bus as the ISFP feared getting sacrificed first- inexcusable, particularly since they ARE the threat, them and other narcissits (ESFJ/ESTJ are synonymous with cluster-b). These r-tards actually empower narcissits, especially during elections and for typically r-tarded reasons/motives). Anyway, ISFP/ESFP have little to no humanity, and they are delusional and have difficulty understanding themselves (which says a lot about their intelligence), i.e. they have difficulty even recognizing their own emotions! Plus they often suppress it (too narcissitic to bother processing it). They really are walking, overgrown-fetuses- failed human beings! I bet Adam and especially Eve in the Bible were ISFP! They also typically have difficulty recognising evil and are often in relationships with narcissits! And then the ISFP will breed more victims into the toxic, tortuous relationship!

Someday: "Hey everyone, today I'm going to be opening an inter-dimensional rift into a parallel alien world. That's right, I'm going to see if I can actually trigger an invasion of multidimensional monsters into our reality. First we'll need to synthesize element 115 using this particle accelerator I bought on ebay. Next I'll be using this homemade time-sword to slice through the seams of reality."

@devarshnayyar3910

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@georgegrennan6328

Жыл бұрын

Dr. Freeman...

@liamkelly3333

Жыл бұрын

I for one, think that would make the world better, in a way.

@CroTonic

Жыл бұрын

This might be the best idea ive heard of in a long time

@jaronbrooks5246

Жыл бұрын

Don't you dare lol

I introduced myself to this as of a few hours ago and tried it personally. It was like messing with matches in the dark. It was a big deal. Voila!!! There it sparked.

This actually confirms a hypothesis. The polarity is something I never considered but makes perfect sense if you factor in resonance frequencies.

Action Lab never fails to impress us.

@alexanderzangal4125

Жыл бұрын

As a geology enthusiast I want to die after watching that video

@gothboschincarnate3931

Жыл бұрын

they failed with this video. science hats to investigate anything that contradicts thier pre-conceived notions.

@wesbaumguardner8829

Жыл бұрын

That is because you are dumb. Don't get me wrong, I am impressed when he is right. But he is not right about this video.

Very interesting! I've always thought of triboluminescence to occur only with exotic chemicals (the channel Nurdrage has made a few videos regarding this) or very dimly with the tape. But now that I know you can just get quite intense triboluminescence with simple quartz, I might just pop over to Arkensas to get some 😁

@safe899

Жыл бұрын

@Don't Read My Profile Photo 😎

@Chr725

Жыл бұрын

@Don't Read My Profile Photo 🤡

@DANGJOS

Жыл бұрын

@Don't Read My Profile Photo Clever way to try to get me to click on your channel. It's not gonna work though

@vibaj16

Жыл бұрын

@@DANGJOS "clever" it's overdone

@DANGJOS

Жыл бұрын

@@vibaj16 I don't disagree.

Amazing how quartz crystals are used in everyday technology and how they hold frequencies and create light, truly an amazing planet.

Thank you once again for another great video. I Really appreciate you for what you do👍

I had some of these as a kid 25 years ago but never knew what they were called but did know they lit up just never knew why soo thank you.

Just did this with a couple from my collection for my boy and his buddy that is spending the night. We loved it! Thanks!

!!OMG!! THANK YOU! For finally answering a question I've had for years. Breathe Right Nasal Strips are sealed like bandaids and glow *bright* with tribal luminescence when you open them at night. It is unbelievably satisfying to have a random curiosity you only think about on the edge of sleep answered.

@deprivedoftrance

Жыл бұрын

Nah, Tribal Luminescence is only when it's in the rattle... otherwise it's just triboluminescence.

One of the things I love collecting crystals of many kinds and especially quartz because of that lighting effect! c:

@infinityiznow

Жыл бұрын

Petroleum quartz is uv reactive

You can do this with any translucent river rocks.. also would have been cool to see the press in the dark

What a fascinating video. I never knew this about triboluminesence of big quartz crystals. Very Cool!

Really cool! Thank you for a very informative video.

Very interesting. Reminds of childhood experiences. We have a lot of it here in India (some specific pockets)

I like how you upload so regularly

Thank you for the video! ☺♥

Thank you. For many years I have wondered about the luminescence from tape... Now I know.

I was camping on a mountain called cadair Idris that was an old volcano and someone told me on the way up not to mind the lights. I got up in the night and the entire valley was lighting up like that. It looked like lightening but was silent and moved randomly. I thought it might be triboluminescense

@Eyes0penNoFear

Жыл бұрын

That's in Wales?

@notthemessiah9243

Жыл бұрын

@@Eyes0penNoFear yep

@isaace436

Жыл бұрын

Look up the "brown mountain lights", much more similar phenomenon.

Hi, great video again ! Perhaps you could glue a big piece of quartz in the bottom of the bottle (+ several free medium-size pieces) ? It seems to me that when you shake the bottle, bits of quartz move "together or as a group" with a rather weak relative speed.

@PhoebeTheFairy56

6 ай бұрын

Yeah it seems like the quartz wasn't colliding enough in the video

Also would love to see a follow up on this about why packing tap releases x-rays.

Dude thank you for this video is so amazing!

Happy 4 million subs my guy :)

Oh, should have done the press breaking in the dark!

Epic, glad to see your uploading more often.

I had those types of crystals as a kid. So fascinating

I found this channel way back when you did your first hydraulic press video. I'd love to see the series come back.

@jimdavis3957

Жыл бұрын

You can also see triboluminescence light by chewing on Wintergreen Lifesaver mints while looking at a mirror in a dark room!😊

@thetrippingdeity

Жыл бұрын

@@jimdavis3957 then you'd like my channel

The hydraulic press in the dark would have been interesting to see

Man man man the way you destruct that crystal… just wreckless..

This was the coolest and my mind is so blown! I cant wait to try this!

What would happen if you attach a powerful piezoelectric transducer, like from an ultrasonic cleaner, directly to one of the large crystals? Enough power to light it up?

@donkekung4150

Жыл бұрын

Wot

You should have turned the lights off when you crushed it. Missed opportunity!

fascinating. Thank you for this. I'm a nerd for minerals. Much luv.

I would think if you had a smaller container it would light up better! Definitely something I wanna try after watching!!

Wow Indians must been very smart to use hydraulic press to break quartz.

@nHans

Жыл бұрын

We still are.

I got worried this was a flat earther trying to prove cold moon light... Then I saw the channel name and was relieved! Great video!

@justtime6736

Жыл бұрын

Lol your irrational fear of flat Earth is telling.

@oblatespheroid6346

Жыл бұрын

@@justtime6736 Incorrect, but I can see why you would have to say that I’m afraid of something that doesn’t exist because I don’t agree with it, it’s all flerfs can do, it’s part of their ignorant narrative.

@showoofity50

Жыл бұрын

@@justtime6736 you gotta remove the Pepe pfp it’s a give away

I have mentioned about doing this creates light as I have rubbed my crystals together in the past to do this. Also a brighter light can be made if the crystal are cut smooth and polished on there rub together sides.😇

Crystals can be used to create cold light through a phenomenon called triboluminescence. When crystals are rubbed, impacted, or broken, they release a flash of light without producing heat. This is because the energy of friction, impact, or breakage triggers the separation and reunification of static electrical charges within the crystal, resulting in the emission of light.

Congratulations for 4 Million subscribers and also Thanks for reminding those hydraulic press days

@Chr725

Жыл бұрын

@Don't Read My Profile Photo 🤡🤡🤡

*Quartz Crystal* -An Ancient Artifact that prevents Action Lab from turning into Nile Red.

I've opened bandaids in the dark and saw that glow! I thought it was so cool!

I knew it, with the mints. Good stuff!

You get a strong "electricity smell" when rubbing quartz together, presumably from electrons being stripped from O2 atoms causing them to clump into O3.

@xxdanieixx2801

Жыл бұрын

I believe the term "electricity smell" is defined as the smell of ozone.

@Chr725

Жыл бұрын

@@xxdanieixx2801 If you start smelling ozone you should probably stop

Crystals as tools for healing and growth are not a scam. Surprised by your close-mindedness in this regard. Spoken like a true scientist!

@outtathawoods

9 ай бұрын

Thank you I was wondering who was going to comment on this. He said they sell them as a scam because he doesn’t know that quartz is actually a energy crystal he thinks people are selling it as a fake energy crystal

Just tried this!👌✨

I enjoyed this very much thank you.

If I was a flat earther I'd be calling it out as fake and cgi 😂🤣😂🤣 Amazing video 👍

@theundercoverguy

Жыл бұрын

xD

@ne0ns0wl46

Жыл бұрын

Not really. You would claim that the moon is made out of quartz and somehow is rubbing against itself. (There are flat earthers out there who believe the moon gives of cold light )

So the light comes from a spark jumping across the air space, would it be possible to build a crystal circuit attached to a battery that emits a constant "cold" light? If possible, it would make a good dim but very energy efficient light source.

@OnTheRiver66

Жыл бұрын

Piezoelectric gas grill and cigarette lighters do this by making a spark when a crystal is struck, but they use a ceramic that produces a higher voltage than quartz. It just sparks once with each hit.

This guy some how is simple but produces amazing videos that teaches something.

I don’t know if these the same kind of crystals I had in my memory but when I was a kid, I’d go find these crystals near a lake with a bunch of rocks. When I rub it together there’s a spark. I don’t remember ever starting a fire with them but it’s cool.

Ppl like this can turn fantasy into reality.. great minds have no Limits

I am very interested for this episode. Request more episode about quartz crystal. Thanks.

bro I watch KZread instead of tv and I've learned the coolest stuff by far, off your channel. you are indeed, da man.

I can imagine a crystal disc on a stick with a crystal ball attached by a string to the center. Twirling the stick will cause continuous friction and create some nice luminescence

Super! Thank you very much!

0:53 As a small child, I did this with the quartz I found in the clay.

This channel is highly underrated

Thanks for sharing this

Okay thats crazy. Loved watching that.

Great episode 👍🏼

I remember always being on the hunt for the whitest quartz pebbles I could see when I was a kid. That smell they emitted as they gave off that orange spark when I banged them together in the dark is ingrained in my brain haha

@Time-Trvlr

Жыл бұрын

Me too, found out later in life it is arsenic, good to remember that one.

@Time-Trvlr

Жыл бұрын

Arsenic will release a garlicky odor when struck.

@athmaid

Жыл бұрын

@@Time-Trvlr the ones I found gave off a spicy burnt smell, I would have said it's traces of sulfur. Or it could be arsenic like you said, probably depends on where you got the stones from

The shapes of the crystal are important as well

This gives me an idea for yet another hand crank lamp

Try round quartz, like after they've been in a tumbler. Or idk, whatever shape and particle size maximizes surface contact. There has to be some optimum that produces a lot of light.

I paused this video right away, just go try it. I have quartz crystals, I tried rubbing them together, it didn't work. But when I hit them together it worked really well

Thanks!

oh wow way cool, love seeing the hydraulic press again