Talk about a deep dive. These videos are the gold standard, so to speak.

@ronhipschman

6 ай бұрын

So to speak... The true "Gold standard" will post in April, followed by the "Mercury Standard" in May. Thanks for your kind words! Ron

Thanks for this one, very informative and interesting. Rhenium is one of my favorite elements. I only have a small sample now but saving for more!

Ron, you are probably the nation's expert on Keynote video presentations. Absolutely one of the coolest videos yet. Good job!

@ronhipschman

6 ай бұрын

Traneman58, More to come! Since I learned how to do transparent videos for this one, and it took me months to figure that out, I'm currently making a video on making transparent videos (I know - it's kinda meta... and I don't mean Facebook...). I feel some obligation to pass along the knowledge and not allow others to struggle with it like I did. Of course, I'm just a amateur at this. Ron

Happy 75th element of the periodic table! Thank you.

@ronhipschman

6 ай бұрын

Thank you too!

And the hits just keep on coming!

@ronhipschman

6 ай бұрын

What can I say? Another classic element (that most people don't know exists...) Hope you are doing well, Frank. Ron

You just convinced me to buy Rhenium in the future. Good marketing piece for the Rhenium industry!

@ronhipschman

6 ай бұрын

OK, let me say up front that I'm not giving ANY financial advice to ANYBODY! I've been there, investing in precious metals, and, unless you have a very strong stomach, and are willing to lose you money, I can't recommend going that route. Stick with nice "safe" stocks, bonds and mutual funds, or better yet, a nice safe interest-bearing FDIC protected bank account. I also recommend a financial advisor to help you achieve your goals. I think that's enough disclaimer! Ron

My favorite presentation yet, so many incredible facts with this element. I've read up on it a lot, and still learned quite a few new facts from this presentation!Very well done Ron, looking forward to osmium and ESPECIALLY iridium!

@ronhipschman

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Osmium and Iridium are in various stages of production... Ron

@Mace2124

6 ай бұрын

@@ronhipschman Awesome news! Thanks again Ron!

How do you only have 874 subscribers ?!!! Your videos are easily 4-5 million+ views quality

@ronhipschman

5 ай бұрын

Working on it! Please feel free to help by telling your friends (well, the geeky ones anyway - that basically describes ALL my friends...) Ron

I love how you butchered "Bremsstrahlung". xD Took me a minute to figure out. I just stumbled over this channel and binge watch the series. Great content. ❤

@ronhipschman

5 ай бұрын

Glad you are enjoying the series! I'll do my best to keep it going. While I'm not a native German speaker, I don't think I "butchered" the word "Bremsstrahlung" THAT badly! I even looked up on-line a "how do you pronounce" of it. Maybe you can do a phonetic spelling of how you think it should be pronounced for me. I just used the pronunciation I've always heard (physicist-speak). Ron

Fun fact: Rhenium-187 gives off perhaps the least energetic beta particles around the of any isotope. In fact, it would like to stay in orbit around the nucleus, but since rhenium has a lot of electrons, it has to into a high orbital which it just can't make it to. (I identify with it.) About the only way it can be created is if almost all the decay energy goes to the beta particle and virtually none to the antineutrino also produced. This is probably why it has such a long half-life. The fun fact is that if you strip some of the electrons off it's half-life gets shorter since the beta particle has more places to go. In other words, its half-life gets shorter as the atom is ionized, so it is actually affected by chemical processes. If you stripp off ALL 75 electrons, the half-life is only about 33 years!

@ronhipschman

5 ай бұрын

Syd, You are a font of knowledge! I didn't include that info because I thought it might be too obscure and difficult to explain. But, there you did it in a short paragraph! What a team! Ron

Goated Metal 🦾🦾

Sad to think that in less than a year we'll say goodbye to the stable elements for good once we get past lead (82) but also begins an exciting new chapter as we've got awesome elements such as uranium (92) which I have a one-gram sample of!

@ronhipschman

6 ай бұрын

Once we get into the actinides, I'm not sure which elements I'll cover individually, and which ones I'll group. Certainly the elements in row 7 will be grouped, but we'll need to cover (at least) Po, Rn, Ra, Th, U, Pu, Am, and maybe a couple others individually. Ron