Always nice to see our professor doing well. I say 'our' professor even though I have never been Uni of Nottingham student, but for all of us around the world he has been also our professor through all these years.

@user-zq9xh4rc3c

2 жыл бұрын

if they need an explanation as to why he IS our professor, well then, he ISNT their professor lol. cheers.

@jeevahacoelho6556

2 жыл бұрын

*soviet anthem plays in the background

@PlzReturnYourShoppingCart

2 жыл бұрын

I really like seeing that he is doing well too

@InvisibleJiuJitsu

2 жыл бұрын

he taught me when I was at Notts uni :)

@Bassotronics

2 жыл бұрын

He is awesome.

Accidentally discovering a new element in 1800: "Huh not sure what is this but neat." Accidentally discovering a new element in 2020: "Guess I will have cancer then."

@moosemaimer

2 жыл бұрын

"We haven't entirely nailed down what element it is yet, but I'll tell you this: it's a lively one, and it does NOT like the human skeleton."

@oldcowbb

2 жыл бұрын

i don't think you can accidentally discovers a new element in 2020

@gubgubgub

2 жыл бұрын

@@moosemaimer control group isn't going to like that

@gubgubgub

2 жыл бұрын

or is it beam counters? i can't remember it

@bgezal

2 жыл бұрын

@@moosemaimer Moon dust is a helluva drug.

This is similar to the story of the discovery of Vanadium. A Spanish-Mexican scientist discovered the element in Mexico and sent it to Europe for analysis, where they (incorrectly) told him it was just chromium. About 30 years later a Swedish scientist rediscovered it and named it Vanadium. The original proposed name would have been “erythronium” which os pretty cool

@kanishkmukherjee5661

2 жыл бұрын

Chemistry students are diabolically thankful of this elements non-existence(erythronium)

@Freshbott2

2 жыл бұрын

@@kanishkmukherjee5661 why?

@amiralibazdar3206

2 жыл бұрын

@@Freshbott2 Vanadium is just much much easier to remember

@ThePppp89

2 жыл бұрын

Unrelated to the story, but wouldn't a Spanish-Mexican just be... Mexican?

@user-su4dd9kp7l

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePppp89 I’d say Spanish-Mexican is fine if he moved to Mexico after being born in Spain. Not really sure what it means

If Nipponium had prevailed, 113 Nh would probably have been named for the prefecture, city, university or person discovering it. Similar things happened with other groups discovering multiple elements, such as the Bohr dynasty from Copenhagen/Hafnia.

@AaronOfMpls

2 жыл бұрын

Or all the rare earths named after Ytterby, Sweden, where their ores were first discovered: Yttrium, Ytterbium, Erbium, Terbium ... and then Holmium (after Stockholm, closest city to Ytterby) and Scandium (after Scandinavia in general) because they ran out of ways to get an element name out of Ytterby itself.

@Anonymous-df8it

2 жыл бұрын

@@AaronOfMpls What about Ytbium, could they have called Scandium that?

@mushyomens6885

2 жыл бұрын

@@AaronOfMpls damn didn't know about that, thanks!

@dominiccasts

2 жыл бұрын

That or something like Yamatonium, if we were still going with names for Japan.

@RedHairdo

2 жыл бұрын

All elements are named the same way: Moronium.

Mendelev never stopped amazing me: back when the sub-atomic particles were poorly understood, his way of thinking was as revolutionary as Einstein's theories. It is worth a video of its own talking about his researches.

I love little tidbits of trivia like this. It really helps bring a humanising character to what is essentially a property sorted database (the periodic table) and helps tell a story of chemistry.

I would love a video about the island of stability. A deep(ish) dive in what it is and especially any recent progress towards finding/creating and elements that may constitute that island. Thanks!

@bretscofield

2 жыл бұрын

would be interesting, yes.

I love the manga tear that he's shedding in the drawing.

5:24 This hits me in my field, as well. It's amazing that our forebears were able to accomplish so much with so little.

@samitabbakh8409

2 жыл бұрын

I think this applies to all fields. I'm an electronics engineer, and I can't even imagine how people used to do electronics designs back in the old days.

@johndododoe1411

2 жыл бұрын

@@samitabbakh8409 Well, first they looked in the data book for a nice integrated tube. If not listed or too expensive, fall back to basic pentodes, then simplify to triodes or diodes.

This Professor always brings a smile to my face

I'm sure I subbed to you when you were 10k views. Amazing to see now what has happened. Wish you well Periodic Videos man.

Thank you for the image at 2:56 !! It helped bring to light the chem techniques used to find and isolate new elements. Intriguing af

So happy to see the Professor back in his university studio, it makes the video much more scientific

Thank you Professor Poliakoff for keeping doing these amazing videos! I had the pleasure to meet the Professor at the UoN before covid and he is truly friendly and funny as we can see in the videos! All the best

I feel like Ogawa deserves to have an element specifically named after him, given that he didn't get this credit during his lifetime. Hopefully his name is put on one of the ones found in the future.

@WhyDoThat

2 жыл бұрын

It isn't just about finding something in science but properly identifying and understanding it.

@astphaire

2 жыл бұрын

nah

@natalieisagirlnow

2 жыл бұрын

the chart is full, what can they find?

@slendeaway7730

2 жыл бұрын

@@natalieisagirlnow It's not 'full', the row has just been completed. We can keep synthesizing atoms with higher and higher numbers of protons in them, but at this point they're so unstable and have such short half-lives that it's highly difficult to even detect them. The periodic table makes predictions, so we could hypothetically theorize an infinite amount of atoms and their properties.

@Abigail-hu5wf

2 жыл бұрын

@@WhyDoThat But, as pointed out, the second discoverers of rhenium ALSO believed they had identified technetium. Both were wrong in the same way. So this can't be the only part of the story. I would be a little wary that perhaps an element of racism played a part, honestly - it's not impossible.

I missed you professor! Hope you have a lovely 2022 🥰

Wonderful story and history. It is amazing to understand the difficult and complicated chemistry used to discover these elements! Thank you.

Ogawa had a great mustache, thank you for the lesson Professor!

I love your chemistry history videos. Thanks for what you do!

Fun fact: element 100, fermium, is the last element that can possibly be made in macroscopic quantities. However, the heaviest element to be seen in macroscopic quantities was the one before fermium, element 99, einsteinium.

@MGSncB

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it theorized that there might be an island of stability somewhere?

@michaelbloom5342

2 жыл бұрын

@@MGSncB Yes. But we aren't anywhere close to it yet.

Thank you Professor for another enlightening and witty video. Happy Holidays

I think the professor may have achieved new peak hair. Soon he will be indistinguishable from a giant dandelion. I am in awe.

An excellent book on this and many other cases of "almost-discovered" elements, as well as discovery claims that were later disproved, is The Lost Elements by Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna.

Please do more videos about elements that might have been or that never were. It fascinates me that so many were named and published about, but we're never actually discovered and disproved when the real discoverer published about them. Like Veritasium. The name of that KZread channel is the name of an element that never really existed. It was named, used in tables and everything. But then it was proven that specific discoverer didn't really discover it. So then the element was, I guess dismounted (?) From the periodic table and a new name was given to the true discoverers element and now the old name is used as a KZread channel name. I'd love to hear more stories like this about elements that were named, but weren't actually discovered or people were mistaken on what they've actually found. Some very interesting stories are there to be told and shared with the world. I'd love to see and hear the professor talk about them. 🙂

@mushyomens6885

2 жыл бұрын

owo i always thought veritasium(name of channel) was just a made-up name from the Latin word veritas (truth) and not that there was some history behind it

@gcewing

2 жыл бұрын

Do you have a reference for this? Everything Google is finding for me says it's just something that Derek made up.

@BackYardScience2000

2 жыл бұрын

@@gcewing after researching, you're right. I did find where "Veritas" had been considered for an element name at one point, but was ultimately rejected due to it not coming from the original discoverer. That's what I was thinking of, where he talked about that. Thank you for pointing that out and for being on the ball with the research.

I saw this video and that outfit and got really excited that there's literally a channel designed to nerding out about the periodic table's history. At the demonstration on the shirt sleeve I instantly subscribed.

I seldomly click on a video as fast as I do when I see this man. Thanks for these. Bloody perfect. A bloody perfect thing.

I think the Professor's hair has reached its most extreme extent ever

@Yora21

2 жыл бұрын

It has reached maximum entropy.

@polbecca

2 жыл бұрын

They say the Professor actually invented being a scientist.

Wow, so good to see you again professor! The algorithm brought me to you

Great content. Thank you sir!

That is awesome! Thank you for the lesson

Interesting sidebar to the history of the table! Thanks. 😃

actually one video about how in the olden days people could discover new elements would be great, i cant wrap my head around how they could do so not knowing some stuff

Okawa should be recognised for his contribution. Interesting video professor.

That was fun. Thanks again, Professor.

Just yesterday I was listening to the Hello Internet episode where Brady and Grey were talking about naming the newest elements. Such a terrific coincidental timing of this video for me.

Thank the Universe and all it's elements this timeline still has an awesome professor going strong! Thanks for the video

I would love to hear the prof. explain the complete history of Phlogiston. Love stories of scientific advancement

@highpath4776

2 жыл бұрын

One was done (by another channel?) when speaking of Hydrogen - actually that might be a BBC Radio expisode (search the sounds website)

What a great teacher Professor is he inspire me to fall back in love with Science and art!

Hi, Professor. *Happy* *Holidays*

The part of lost skills makes me cry. No one knows how things are connected anymoer. Thx for knowledge and history :)

Today is his birthday, 16th December! Happy birthday Sir Martin Poliakoff! Best wishes!!

I literally moved to Japan a few weeks ago, this is a great gift, thank you Periodic Videos :D

@Moses_VII

2 жыл бұрын

Pray that they will be kind to you. I heard that they are unfriendly to foreigners, and that most foreigners leave. Please prepare so it doesn't end badly for you.

Hi guys, I've always wanted to know how older chemists worked out what elements were contained in samples and the chemical compositions of organic molecules without the use of modern spectroscopy. In this video, you mentioned that some chemists made salts with known elements and unknown ones to work the left over molar mass (which would indicate what the weight of the unknown element). Would you do a video on all this?

Nice video clip, keep it up, thank you for sharing :)

Thanks for the information 🙏🏻🙏🏻

That was a fascinating story.

Fun coincidence relating to the happi coat: in finnish, happi means oxygen, and it is pronounced the same way as the coat, はっぴ

You, sir, are a treasure.

I'm curious, if the way to determine the element present in the salts involved calculating its atomic mass, how could Re be confused with Tc, given the huge difference in atomic mass between them (186 vs 99 (roughly))?

@Anonymous-df8it

2 жыл бұрын

Can't let this comment get buried!

@Owlrrex

2 жыл бұрын

It was mentioned that there was a mistake in the formula of the salt. Given the weights are almost exactly a factor of two apart, having twice as many atoms per molecule in the wrong formula would give you half the expected atomic mass, no?

@weckar

2 жыл бұрын

@@Owlrrex Let's also not forget there's a second part no every salt. So he thought he had 2Np-X, while he actually just had Np-X. It is also possible he misidentified X.

@LucarioBoricua

2 жыл бұрын

That's close-ish to a 2 to 1 ratio, which is really difficult to measure with the techniques that were likely available at the very start of the 20th century.

When Sir Ramsey discovered a noble gas, he realized that all good names were gone.

Professor, you were there during the Manhattan Project, can you recall those times when suddenly so many new elements popped up out of nowhere?

I don't know how it has taken me such a long time to get this, BUT HIS HAIR IS AMAZING!

So much of science and technology is best recorded not in textbooks, but in the histories of the people involved and their times, along with how the field as a whole evolved, backed up with how philosophy itself was influenced.

What a lovely, and thoughtful gift :-)

5:29 agree with Professor, and not only chemists but its true for every profession, modern techniques and especially specialised equipments have made things easier compared to old generation.

I'm an EE and looking back at the history of my field a lot of it was accidental discoveries of properties, then genius mathematical characterization of those properties by other people. Like Gauss or Maxwell. But all the basic experimentation was easy enough. Chemistry tho? Every single step seems to have taken painstaking efforts AND tremendous analysis.

I love these stories about the periodic table

I'm really hoping the next element discovered would be something like jacquenium (Jq) such that all letters are used in the periodic tables..

@zucc4764

2 жыл бұрын

That would be truly groundbreaking, as it would unlock a heavier level of elements. It would have its own row in the table

@jpdemer5

2 жыл бұрын

Mendeleev actually did use "J" for iodine (iodine is "Jod" in German.) For some reason, the English name and initial become the standard.

Great video again.

Well done sir.

so delightful

Much as i would love to see him get his due credit for the discovery i bet chemists are happy they don't have to distinguish between "Nipponium" and "Nihonium". That could get confusing.

@phileo_ss

2 жыл бұрын

And it would probably be most confusing to us Japanese people!

Very cool story. Would love a deeper dive on the history of the periodic table

@abrahamlincoln9758

2 жыл бұрын

I think he's done some. There's like a million years worth of videos on this channell lol

I am so happy just to see your face, smiling and healthy. You are among my favorite humans :)

we all love you professor who can say that as well

Every time I watch a nilered video, within about a day a get a recommendation over here

It's the same story with controlled fission. First made by Fermi and his team in Rome, who never realized they'd done it. They were looking for Neptunium and Plutonium, which they called Ausonio and Esperio, and never realized that bombarding Uranium with neutrons had split the nucleus.

Rhenium (Latin: Rhenus meaning: "Rhine") was the last-discovered of the elements that have a stable isotope (other new elements discovered in nature since then, such as francium, are radioactive). The existence of a yet-undiscovered element at this position in the periodic table had been first predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev. Other calculated information was obtained by Henry Moseley in 1914. In 1908, Japanese chemist Masataka Ogawa announced that he had discovered the 43rd element and named it nipponium (Np) after Japan (Nippon in Japanese). However, recent analysis indicated the presence of rhenium (element 75), not element 43, although this reinterpretation has been questioned by Eric Scerri. The symbol Np was later used for the element neptunium, and the name "nihonium", also named after Japan, along with symbol Nh, was later used for element 113. Element 113 was also discovered by a team of Japanese scientists and was named in respectful homage to Ogawa's work. Rhenium is generally considered to have been discovered by Walter Noddack, Ida Noddack, and Otto Berg in Germany. In 1925 they reported that they had detected the element in platinum ore and in the mineral columbite. They also found rhenium in gadolinite and molybdenite. In 1928 they were able to extract 1 g of the element by processing 660 kg of molybdenite. It was estimated in 1968 that 75% of the rhenium metal in the United States was used for research and the development of refractory metal alloys. It took several years from that point before the superalloys became widely used.

Me, reading the title: "huh, did scientists jump the gun on element 113?"

Thank you!

@5:30 This sounds like a challenge for @NileRed

woo-hoo the professor! love this guy

If it wasn’t for the professor’s hair I don’t think I would believe anything he talked about lol jk love watching thank you all for everything you do

@adamdaichendt3838

2 жыл бұрын

Id call it the frazzled dazzle.😆Not in a rude way by any means of course.👍

I never went to college, but if I did, Poliakoff would be my #1 pick for professor.

damn the ol buddy still kickin

I happen to know that 'Nippon' and 'Nihon' are both correct ways to write 日本 in english characters, so both element names are essentially the same

@Moses_VII

2 жыл бұрын

Hey guys, isn't strange that Nihonium is not ニホンイウム but ニホニウム? Doesn't make sense, since Nihon is Japanese for Japan, and it is ニホン, because the n and i are part of two separate things, Nihon and ium.

Poor Professors right eye is clouding over with cataracts. 😕. We love you!

Elementary my dear Doctor...... In Junior H.S.

Nipponium, Germanium and Italyum. 3 elements that combined, create some explosive results.

@douglasstrother6584

2 жыл бұрын

... especially when combined with Americium!

@ALSPEHEIR

2 жыл бұрын

@@douglasstrother6584 Actually Americium is pretty much inert all the time. It only reacts with _Peer-Harborium_ .

@douglasstrother6584

2 жыл бұрын

@@ALSPEHEIR XD

marvelous trivia

KZread didn't notify me about this video on my subscriber page.

t's interesting that the element shows the scientist with a tear in his eye. Very symbolic of what happened.

I don't think we would have both Nippoinum and Nihonium in periodic table, in japanese Nihon and Nippon are two alternative readings of the same word 日本 meaning Japan. Having one already in the periodic table, the newer element would certainly get a different name.

@photonicpizza1466

2 жыл бұрын

We have terbium, ytterbium and erbium, all named after the village Ytterby in Sweden, so I wouldn't rule it out.

@kasuha

2 жыл бұрын

@@photonicpizza1466 Yes, but we don't have Ytterbium, Ytterbium and Ytterbium. There's a difference.

@MGSncB

2 жыл бұрын

Just being curious - is there a reason behind the difference? Regional accents, or maybe a quirk of the language?

@Moses_VII

2 жыл бұрын

@@kasuha Nihonium isn't written with kanji. In fact, it doesn't make sense in Japanese; ニホニウム instead of ニホンイウム

Some scientific experiments need a _lot_ of helium. Well, even some party planning projects need a lot. But if you're a scientist who needs only a small amount, then I guess having another element that slowly releases alpha particles is pretty handy, because you don't even need a gas cylinder to contain the resulting helium. I'd like to think that if "Nipponium" had caught on, then "Nihonium" would have had a different name. To people in Japan, "Nihon" and "Nippon" are essentially synonymous. Their differences, as I understand it, are essentially contextual. It would be like having "Americium*", which there is, and also having "Unitedstatesium". But like, imagine that their pronunciation is also a little bit similar. *In this example I pretend that "America" exclusively refers to the United States. Again, the hypothetical construct is based largely on context.

@jeffreyblack666

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, some might think it is a bit ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as "hypothetically" naming 4 elements yttrium, terbium, erbium and ytterbium after some hypothetical town called Ytterby.

Could you make a video about the element that was theorized by Feynman to be the last element that could be created in this universe? (element 137).

@Anonymous-df8it

2 жыл бұрын

He did: kzread.info/dash/bejne/loWrltlyh8q-k7Q.html

Wow super frigging cool!

Hi I have a photo what I took of a cloud and it looks exactly like the professor with the hair and everything how can I post it to you so you can see it thanks phil

really interesting

1908 the same year a Japanese biochemist invented MSG

@gormanls

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, the King of Flavor!

And now we've come full circle, with Nihonium first being discovered by JINR-LLNL but credit going to Riken.

Since elements already use Np and the Japanese word for Japan, chemists should recognize element 75 as Ogawanum or Og for short.

That little sample of thorium, where can I get that?

"Sir William encouraged him to name it Nipponium with the symbol Np." Gigachad.

Nice video Professor

You should try extracting elements from ore!

I own the book physically shown in 1:12 how delightful

The chemist cries a single tear 😢

Im Sri Lankan and it's first time I'm hearing about Thorianite.. wow

Now thats a cool lacture

I thought there was a typo with the O in Ogawa, but turns out that's the correct pronunciation, not as Ko or Ō.