I showed my science class some of your videos and my teacher just loves your channel so much because if it. Keep up the good work Jeff.

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Cool! thanks!!

lol just so you know. here in cali at my old high school, my science teacher showed us a few of you're videos and told us to look you up. that's why I watch you to this day.

@taofledermaus

7 жыл бұрын

Wow! That' cool!

@Nomidfarms

7 жыл бұрын

I graduated a year or two ago now. he probably still is showing you're videos

@lindroe4446

7 жыл бұрын

Jesse Devore your*

@lindroe4446

7 жыл бұрын

Jesse Devore grammar*, and I'm just trying to help.

@Nomidfarms

7 жыл бұрын

lol that was the point. *face palm*

Awesome vid as always! Informative! Liked! :)

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

thanks Jesse and Mike!

Thank you bro. i have seen all your Mercury vids. it ws awesome. gna tweet it all to my followers now and show them the awesomeness of mercury, thanx for doing the experiments so that we dont have to. Peace.

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Eben Bosman Thanks for the nice words!

wrong aproach... dishwasher lowers the surface tension of water because it interacts with the H-H bonds... if you want to lower the surface tension of mercury you´d need something it can combine with. i mean like one can combine some metals in a furnance you need to add something that dissolves in mercury. i guess (i realy don´t know which) some metals with low melting points might me able to do the trick

@athanoslee

8 жыл бұрын

+Johnny Mellon Precisely. Watching him pouring soap water literally made me laugh, same with the nitric acid.

@johnnymellon7414

8 жыл бұрын

***** that would rais it´s tension into oblivion... i´d suggest playing some barry white to make it relax. that will make even a stone cold b**** like mercury ease into mixing with ... whatever

@zekayman

8 жыл бұрын

+Johnny Mellon He probably knows that...that point was to show that it would have no effect.

@johnnymellon7414

8 жыл бұрын

Kevin Jacobson maybe he does... we will never know :D

@jeffreyblack666

8 жыл бұрын

+Kevin Jacobson I disagree. It seemed more like he was trying to show off and act like mercury is so awesome that even when you put in things which should lower surface tension, heavy things can still float on it.

I'm a science teacher. I definitely plan to show your videos to students in the future. :)

@taofledermaus

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for teaching Juanita!!

I was asked by my high school science teacher if he could play one of my time lapse videos in class. I took it as an honor and of course I agreed. Good feeling!

@taofledermaus

7 жыл бұрын

nice!!

@theresaquinn8525

7 жыл бұрын

I'm curious I watched a lot of your mercury vids and i was wondering if you ever got a blood test to see how mutch mercury you might have accumulated also it would be awesome if you got a camera filter to see the mercury vapor I've seen some filters used to show mercury vapour coming off of mercury amalgam for dental fillings it looked pretty neat

@planescaped

5 жыл бұрын

Theresa Quinn I doubt Jeff would actually answer this even if it were true. Just like I bet they omit the worst footage when they're shooting a weird slug and shrapnel comes back and hits them. They know people will give them endless amounts of crap for it. XD

Great video.

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Hmm. Of course soap will do nothing, it's made to interact with water.

@gitgudnub443

7 жыл бұрын

Interact?

@gitgudnub443

7 жыл бұрын

not... react?

@lmackintosh

7 жыл бұрын

Electrostatic attraction by polarity is not really what keeps Hg atoms together. They are actually interacting via metallic bonds, so you would need to add something that interrupts metallic bonding. Soaps or any other type of amphipathic molecules are not strong enough to do that.

@quietackshon

7 жыл бұрын

Predated is this an opinion or a fact. If it is a fact I'd like to see/read that.

@Ewumm

4 жыл бұрын

...interact?

Try adding something that will amalgamate with mercury. Maybe zinc? Or gallium? Aluminum?

@zaphraud

7 жыл бұрын

paradithiobenzene...

@zaphraud

7 жыл бұрын

paradithiobenzene maybe

@zaphraud

7 жыл бұрын

para-dithiobenzene maybe

@zaphraud

7 жыл бұрын

para-dithiobenzene maybe

@PianoMastR64

7 жыл бұрын

para-diethylbenzene maybe

I was just thinking last night you know who I haven seen a video from in a while then I get up today and guess who posted...glad your back cool vid

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

ryants100 Work and bad weather has been the reason. We planned to film last weekend but it was raining the whole time. But we need the rain more than we need my videos. lol

I'm using some of your videos as my chapter introductions for my COVID online general chemistry course! Thanks for having these! Greg in CA

but will it react with chewing tobacco spit?

@robertpajtler1992

9 жыл бұрын

U re like Quicksilver MattV2099: Guns & Food​

@robertpajtler1992

9 жыл бұрын

;-)

@mattv2099

9 жыл бұрын

Robert Pajtler lol

@TheRealFlenuan

9 жыл бұрын

***** Yes… good work, detective.

@mattv2099

8 жыл бұрын

Arne N- I feels ya.

I will try my hardest to get one of your videos played in my science class

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Do they ever show any YT videos in class?

@TheMetalButcher

9 жыл бұрын

***** Yes, actually.

@bmxscape

9 жыл бұрын

***** yeah my teacher used to show youtube videos all the time

@ROCKNROLLFOREVER737

9 жыл бұрын

***** oh yeah all the time

@SONOFAZOMBIE2025

9 жыл бұрын

***** that is 95% of the curriculum today.

The paper clips floating on water form a small convex lens and magnify the bottom a bit. Look at the pattern on the bottom of the tray through the paper clips verses next to them.

That was a pretty cool reaction with the acid, and still yet it had enough tension to hold up the rod. Wow! Great video, thanks

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

ScubaOz Thanks!!

Tung stein

@MarkRose1337

8 жыл бұрын

+Henrik Wigum Also heavy stone in Swedish: tung sten.

@SmokeyBBQx

8 жыл бұрын

also in denmark

@SmokeyBBQx

8 жыл бұрын

+Crazynez !!! at us it's tung sten

@SomeoneCommenting

8 жыл бұрын

+Crazynez !!! Well, considering that all of you have the same Nordic origins.... geez.... xP

@MarkRose1337

8 жыл бұрын

SomeoneCommenting I am Canadian. Anyone can learn a language. Swedish is easy for English speakers.

You would need something that would be soluble ( or how ever you say it , I'm trying to say that it would mix with it ) and would break surface tension like the soap and water combining , its mostly that act that breaks it and not the chemical(s) reaction itself like with the acid

@MDK-fo7jw

9 жыл бұрын

^ What this guy said.

@102819921

9 жыл бұрын

a Surfactant is the word youre looking for. And i agree, i dont think the acid acts as a surfactant, though i dont have experience in metal soluble surfactants to know what would work here...

@gumby2ms

9 жыл бұрын

hexane?

@102819921

9 жыл бұрын

gumby2ms no, hexane is an organic solvent of all nonmetals. You'd need something that can dissolve in mercury (fast enough for the video) and then the resulting solution be a lower melting temp than ambient. It would have to be an organomatalic compound so that its a solution (or dissolved in) first, so it then readily mixes with mercury and still is a low mp than ambient. Personally I don't know any compounds capable of this, but I'm not a physical chemist...

@gumby2ms

9 жыл бұрын

really? mercury is close to metalloid, not close enough to dissolve it?

hey taflo, lETTING YOU KNOW I been out of high school for over 5 yrs now but I still talk with my teachers well the ones I liked. And some of them do play your videos I link and text them During the day. Along with various other youtube channels. Love your shows and how much you do with your channel. Please keep up your awesome GOOD WORK!!!!!!!!

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Red Theman Thanks for letting me know! That's really cool to hear!

VERY interesting. Thank you and, please, carry on.

I used the mercury boiling video for a project in science class because I chose mercury as an element for my report in class....... A+😊

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

TheMajesticBanana very cool!!

Anyone else, find the reaction at 2:30 oddly beautiful?

@Ewumm

4 жыл бұрын

spicy glitter water

Awesome! Thanks again for another great video :)

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Dragontail1992 thank you!

In science class we were showed this video I found it so fascinating I came home and searched your channel I'm now hooked

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Liam Thomas They showed this one? That's cool!

I told my teacher to put ur vids on in class

@taofledermaus

8 жыл бұрын

+Antonio Grancich Sweet!

@antoniog7186

8 жыл бұрын

+TAOFLEDERMAUS wow u replied ur the first big KZread to reply to one of my comments 😃

@antoniog7186

8 жыл бұрын

+TAOFLEDERMAUS and love the vids keep it up

I don't have a teacher to show me this stuff, so, um, I only just liked it... Sorry.

Nice video as always. :)

That is quite a beautiful reaction you got going there.

Ahhhhh yes, but what does rabbit poop do in mercury?

@dragonbutt

9 жыл бұрын

Perhaps it tastes better?

@brysonshires9573

9 жыл бұрын

Rabbit dies :"(

@cortster12

9 жыл бұрын

Bryson Shires How would Rabbit poop being in the mercury kill the Rabbit?

@brysonshires9573

9 жыл бұрын

cortster12 I suppose the rabbit would walk in the mercury to poo on it?

@Bardo_16

9 жыл бұрын

Lol I learned the paper clip surface tension thing last semester

My scince teacher showed us that video

@taofledermaus

8 жыл бұрын

+Landon Tamplin That's cool! Thanks for letting me know

I've liked, subscribed, and I plan on telling my college chemistry professors next semester about your videos. The experiments you perform with Mercury are insanely cool. Come for the unusual bullet tests, stay for the Mercury experiments. ^_^

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Necromancer999 Thank you ! I don't post Hg video very often because I don't like being exposed to it that much. (I hate the stuff if you really want to know!) It's just a lot of work to clean up afterwards and wearing a respirator and gloves gets uncomfortable.

I really like your videos and just experiment videos in general. Maybe one day you could do an ingredients video where we can see what specifically causes the reactions we see in a lot of your videos (like coke reacting to lead, etc etc).

Is it just me, or was there no shotgun in this video?

@threeomgthree

7 жыл бұрын

Confusion.

@FrostMonolith

7 жыл бұрын

It's either shotgun or mercury.

@Not_a_Necron

7 жыл бұрын

Either way, its science.

What? Soap has no effect on mercury? Who would have guessed? It's a mystery.

@dragonbutt

9 жыл бұрын

Clearly Mercury is not swayed by the evils of soap.

@opmdevil

9 жыл бұрын

KingsnakeSince1986 But children would easily sway mercury by drinking it...

Awsome video as usual

I wish KZread was around when I was in highschool. Your video are way better than any I had at school. Although my chemistry teacher did like to light stuff on fire and in A&P I dissected a cat.

But common core does not allow such empirical evidence in the classroom :)

@hognosemyan

9 жыл бұрын

ArtisanTony Oh boy I sure love politics Also because Mercury is fucking toxic

@hognosemyan

9 жыл бұрын

***** DASS RACAST AIM TELLIN MAI TUMBLR FRENDS ON U >:CCCCC

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Nothing a little #netneutering can't fix, huh Tony?

@iamcrimsonspecter2

9 жыл бұрын

Commen Core is going to make the spelling at the beginning of this sentence common.

@ThePharphis

9 жыл бұрын

oh no, it's partisan tony

soooo, 1 liter of mercury weighs about 13.5 kg ?

@taofledermaus

8 жыл бұрын

+CWplayer yes, roughly

very useful, thanks;)

Hey there! I was just wondering if you've ever seen or heard of mercury being microwaved? I'm curious if it reacts like other metals. Thanks in advance for and knowledge.

By jove, when you added nitric acid to the mercury, that must have literally smells like death!

@Outland9000

7 жыл бұрын

Why do I get the feeling that's a step in making a volatile compound?

If you had enough Mercury, would it theoretically be possible for a person to float on it?

@taofledermaus

8 жыл бұрын

+Artemio Sandoval Yes, you could float on it like a cork.

@DonCorleon31

8 жыл бұрын

+TAOFLEDERMAUS Yes but you can't stand on it right?

@amethystvids5362

8 жыл бұрын

+Ivo de Vos Why would you want to, it's toxic! xD But standing on it would be hard unless you're really good at balancing.

@htf5555

8 жыл бұрын

But you would be dead

@DonCorleon31

8 жыл бұрын

+htf5555 I mean it would be physically impossible, you would stand in the puddle to your knees with Mercury. you can't stand on it.

Awsome videos ! keep up the good work !

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Andre Carvalho thanks Andre!

Love the videos as always. I always tell people that catch me watching them that it's different, mercury intrigues me and I want to thank you for doing the hard work with this metal. I know a friend of mine has started using these videos in his science class.

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Shawn Riordan thanks Shawn!

Could a person walk on the surface of a pool of mercury? Sorry if that is a stupid question; I've been up for 32 hours :-/

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

I have a video about that. Because most of your mass is in your torso, and your feet and legs don't have a lot of mass, you'd sink down, oh to your knees or thighs until you reached equilibrium.

@caracaes

9 жыл бұрын

***** You should try putting your wedding ring in the mercury. I heard it makes it shine beautifully /s

@laharl2k

9 жыл бұрын

you would "sink", and I say "sink" because by the numbers i can imagine it would be imposible to swim downward in mercury, it would just push you upwards, so be happy it would be practically imposible to drown in mercury. i'm sure it would feel like being in a water bed.

@SONOFAZOMBIE2025

9 жыл бұрын

***** would strapping some weightlifters weights to your feet help you float?

@maginciajazmine9644

9 жыл бұрын

Son of a Zombie You would still float regardless of the weights. Put an empty cup in some water and the cup will float but will be almost on its side. Something like that would happen to a human in mercury.

Not exactly great science here. Soap breaks the surface tension of water because it creates a 1 phase solution, a homogenous mixture of soap in water, that changes the interfacial effects of the solution. Soap does not mix with mercury. Nitric acid reacts with mercury, but it does not create a single phase solution. You need a chemically unreacting solute that mercury would dissolve. Mercury isn't really a good solvent, and Amalgum, solid at room temperature, is the only common mercury rich metal. Maybe you can mix it with liquid cadmium or solder or something, but then temperature effects would change the interfacial energy. Long story short, your drawing comparisons between very different chemical systems.

@cameronmcallister7606

7 жыл бұрын

He knows this, but most people do not, that's why he showed it...

Yo, I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your shotgun and mercury videos. A LOT.

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

***** thank you!!

your videos are awesome

Came here just to hear an english-speaker say the swedish word "tungsten". Weird shit I tell ya.

@hugodirkschneider998

8 жыл бұрын

How would you pronounce it?

@fyzzlefry

8 жыл бұрын

More like "tungsten"

@munherpes

8 жыл бұрын

More or less the same. The "weird shit" is seing a swedish word in the english dictionary, like smörgåsbord or ombudsman.

@Gynra

7 жыл бұрын

We (English speakers) stole words from all over the world! :)

@chrisbartha2002

7 жыл бұрын

Brian Davies that's not how it works, our language is based off of Latin and I think Greek (don't quote me on that), and so are many other languages, like how English and Spanish are really similar, it comes from Latin

I don't know why but 2:21 makes me uncomfortable watching

@KatherineClairmont

9 жыл бұрын

Bionic Potato does this make you uncomfortable too? s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/8f/5e/55/8f5e55fde7db05f9ad98a724fd369e05.jpg

@LaserPigeon

9 жыл бұрын

Katherine Clairmont I consider myself somewhat trypophobic.

@KatherineClairmont

9 жыл бұрын

lotus seeds

@chris7103ful

3 жыл бұрын

facts

The boiling reaction of the nitric acid on the surface of the mercury looks kinda like the surface of a star. Way awesome! It would be kinda cook to see a bright light reflected on to a dark background just to see what patterns the reflection created...

Please do something with strong magnets demonstrating eddy currents in mercury. I'm curious if the opposing magnetic field induced in mercury would slow the motion of the magnet or stir the mercury around.

jesus was probably walking on coloured mercury #atheistlife2k16 #makeUKgreatagain #davidcameron2016 #thankyou

@anarx8691

8 жыл бұрын

stop

@lieutenantdan8541

8 жыл бұрын

and he had a secret twin that showed up after he died. #atheistreasoning

@waterbender6288

8 жыл бұрын

PREACH #atheistlife2k16

@renai8028

7 жыл бұрын

#brexit #davidwtf #whatthehellguys #ithoughtwewerefriends

@reubin13c

7 жыл бұрын

Jesus walked on the dead sea probably.

could you do a test similar to the one we do in elementary where you put drops of water on the surface of a coin, but using mercury instead?

How do you get the acid/soak out of the murcury? Do you scoop it off because it doesn't mix? But even that would include sucking up a tiny bit of the murcury..

Have you tried using gallium or indium/gallium eutectic instead of a soap solution to break the surface tension?

Pardon me for asking, but where do you get a hold of mercury in the quantity that you do? I've spent all day binge-watching your sience videos (love them by the way) and you seem to have quite alot of it.

That is awesome that you videos are used to teach students.

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

FuYing Bro Yeah, I've gotten comments from both teachers and students before. I was surprised to learn that. lol

What an amazing reaction with the acid that could be my screen saver so cool

That was really cool :D

So, I noticed that the paper clips float on water and they accelerate and come together. At edges of the paper, the water looks bent down or pushed down.

Anyone else notice the vortex ring forming where he put the soap in at 0:38? You can see the vortex stretch from the top left to the right and down slightly.

TAOFLDERMUS,I told my family about you and your crazy mercury experiments, and they said you weren't all that smart due to you playing and doing experiments with the deadly element mercury. But, I don't care what they say. You are one of the only people I know who has the bravery and courage to have anything to do with mercury. Which is why, today, Mr.TAOFLDERMUS, you have earned your self a subscriber. CLICK!

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

the pokeman I work with hazardous materials for a living and I use every precaution possible.

@TheFloatingSheep

8 жыл бұрын

+the pokeman so you watched his videos, shown them to your family, had a discussion on it, and you subscribed just now... ehm... ok?

@Sillyspiral

8 жыл бұрын

+the pokeman He's taking as many risks with his hobbies as he does with his job. :P A Professional free-faller once said something similar to "I take the same amount of risk falling from the sky as you do every day when you get into your car. The only difference is I'm aware of it the whole time." Danger is relative, and I'm sure taking relatively small risks for the sake of others' education isn't a crime against anyone.

@r100curtaincall

8 жыл бұрын

Lots of people use mercury every day. Lol it's used a lot. It is just a hassle to clean up and dangerous so people just seek other methods a lot of the time.

I was wondering if you could make a video on how to clean up a mercury spill and the safety precautions you take

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

EpicDragon7 There are some good videos all ready out there that show all the step. I always thought MOST people would just find that part boring and monotonous and stop watching the video at that point.

my teacher hasn't shown us your videos but it sure would be awesome

I'm a Chem teacher and I showed your video. Thanks!

@taofledermaus

8 жыл бұрын

+Adam Edwards Right on Adam! Keep up the good fight!

@taofledermaus

8 жыл бұрын

Oh cool! That was on some show on the Science Channel too.

If you fill the bucket with the soap solution, will the paperclip float on the surface and if so, can you break the surface tension with mercury?

At 1:57,what do you want us to watch.The tungsten rod not going down or the changing colors of the mercury?

If you were to melt, with a mirror, a few tones of mercury in outer space so it formed a ball, could you then blow it up into a huge sphere before it solidified so one could have a large vessel to start making living quarters in?

Another interesting demonstration would be comparing a sphere of material with the same amount of the same material worked into a much higher surface area.

These experiments are fantastic. Well done!

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

KatieexoxoBeautylvr thank you!

The surface tension will even keep a quarter pressed to the bottom because it can't get beneath the quarter to float it. It end up all on top of the quarter pressing it down. I think you also get a partial vacuum at the meniscus. Pretty cool!

I wonder if temperature of either of these ingredients would affect the surface tension? Please

How did were the paper clips holding together when they were pn the water was that also the surface tension

My new favorite channel! Thank you! Hey what would happen if you added a different acid like Hydrochloric Acid to Hg? Same effect or no?

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Tanner Coatsworth I'm not sure, I haven't tried it.

Pls respond, why does the tungsten act like it is magnetic and sticks to the side, and why do the paper clips act the same with each other (they are attracted to each other like magnets are)

This is why I believe that the salt did not float up in your earlier experiment. I think the surface tension held the mercury together and did not allow the salt to flow up through it.

what would happen if you drop mercury drops from a height on glass plate? will you try?

that was a surprisingly beautiful reaction

can u test the surface tension of a strangelet next? thanks

I first saw one of your videos in one ofmy fire science classes.we were discussing surface tension.

@taofledermaus

8 жыл бұрын

Very cool! Thanks for letting me know!

what is produced when the acid reacts with mercury?

I dont have science class and i find this things interesting so that why im subscribed (and because you explain it pretty good in my opinion) this was also A nice video! -MisterMcold

So does Cornflower + Mercury function like normal (but heavier) ooblek? Or some sort of alternative that has the same effect.

Very cool! How do you dispose of the nitrates of mercury you get after doing this? Or do you have a way of decomposing it to recover the elemental mercury?

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

elektro3000 Using a weak (10%) solution of nitric acid is a way to clean up the Hg. Here's an article that is both interesting and scary. "Fun with Quicksilver!" blog.modernmechanix.com/fun-with-quicksilver/1/#mmGal

If i ever do a report that has something to do with mercury or something related to your videos ill bring a projector to the classroom with my laptop to show your video!

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

BlackOtaku22 That would be cool!

try a small bit of aluminium dust sprinkled ontop, or in a light oil solution?

I hope more science classes show your videos about the liquid metal Mercurie, Many could learn from it! :D

Wow, you can get lost staring at that mercury and nitric acid reaction.

Well that's absolutely fascinating.

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

JWC thanks!

what if you used sulphiric acid in combination, instead of a surfactant (which will clearly never have an effect on anything other than hydroxyl groups... And perhaps in a vacuum. just a thought..I have no idea what will happen

mercury store: what? you need more? what do you do with all this? you: play with it

So, is there any solution strong enough to break Hg's surface tension? Maybe a stronger acid solution?

Hey, I'm a welder and there is tungsten that has diffrent elements in it for diffrent weld effectiveness, is it possible it you could compare, let's say 2% lanthanated, 2% thoriated, and pure tungsten, also try diffrent diameters of the tungsten rods of each kind to see if it has any impacts of the results of the tungsten floating or breaking the surface tension?

one thing ive always wondered, what do you do with the mercury and items that have been in touch with mercury

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Seth Bailey I have to clean them using a Hg clean-up powder. The clean up is the labor-intensive part.

Wow that had a bad ass reaction. Would like to see that in super slow motion.

I have a question,if you have some mercury and younpour something on it,like the soap you poured on it how do you clean it? Or do you buy more.Sorry for my ignorance im only 9

Hey Jeff! I just watched your entire mercury hg experiment playlist and had a question/suggestion for a future experiment you could do with mercury! I would love to learn if it is possible for frozen mercury to float on normal room temperature mercury. I've been watching your content for a while now and have always watched your latest mercury tests! I look forward to the possibility of you testing this one out! Cheers!

@taofledermaus

9 жыл бұрын

Rubyredblossom Hg contracts quite a bit when it freezes, so it become denser. So it wouldn't float on liquid Hg.

How did were the paper clips holding together was that also the surface tension

That HNO3+Hg reaction was really interesting, just for the movement of the particles on top. Any chance we could get a brief video of a high speed camera pointed at that reaction in a wide basin, just so we can watch the particles and see what they're doing? It looked like the impurities were rising up from the bottom, but that doesn't really make sense, because if I'm not mistaken, the impurities on the top are HgO, and if the impurities are coming up from the bottom, that implies that there's some source of oxygen under the mercury.