Carbon - The STRANGEST Element on Earth!

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[@georgepettas3267]

GOOD VIDEO BUT SPEAKAGE A HEADACHE

[@dnb5661]

No.

[@orsonzedd]

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[@ElectricalExistence]

good job on calling out "'De Beers"'

[@ДилянДимитров-ю8м]

Can We know about Francium?

[@rursus8354]

"A diamond is forever" is only true at room temperature. A zircon, however, *_is_* forever.

[@DrewishAF]

Only if protons don't decay and can remain bound alone after the neutrons and electrons decay in the far future

[@terrafirma9328]

Zircon too is only forever at room temperature. It can dissappear at 3362 °F (1850 °C).

[@manofcultura]

@@terrafirma9328 Apply enough temperature and you can overcome the strong force and end up with pure quark soup.

[@matty2x]

zircon disappears in hydrofluoric acid and in aqua regia @ room temp

[@manofcultura]

@@matty2x fluorine has a fetish for oxygen

[@adhip0574]

Hey Thoisoi, Thanks for pointing out the De beers story, it is a shame that not enough people talk about it and still spend enormous amounts of money on something that shouldn't be that expensive. Glad to see chemistry taking us to places that help the world in more ways than one!

[@vladimirmihnev9702]

This is not really true any longer, newer demand from places like China is what actually makes diamonds cost what they do. De'bears no longer is in a position to dictate that. They totally did and probably have a lot to do with the demand today. But today the price is really coming from supply and demand. Well diamond products are still highly overpriced at retailers but this is something different thing!

[@vladimirmihnev9702]

The texter measures hardness and they should not be able to tell apart synthetic from natural. Diamonds are a huge rabbit hole when it comes to prising they are many many things that have impact on the price. But i agree about they been better uses for the money a diamond 💍 costs. Other stones to start with. A friend did something that I think is a good choice he commissioned a ring with some little cheap diamond on the side a big really interesting main stone. Well he still will never get even half of what he paid if he tries to sell it, but it's not really a issue. If you think about getting your money back from a ring, you don't really have a need for it

[@Devilkin]

Even worse than that, De Beers uses slave labour to mine their diamonds and contributes to human rights abuses. Mined diamonds are high unethical. Far better to get synthetic diamonds for jewellery.

[@Devilkin]

@Geo’s radio & musical stuff You're dating the wrong kinda women my dude. And synthetic diamonds are still real diamonds.

[@adhip0574]

@Geo’s radio & musical stuff This will be taken to heart sir, Thank you for this.

[@roberthines2741]

I have a chemistry degree and found this video fascinating, very nicely done sir!

[@zekayman]

If you don't mind me asking, what have your job prospects looked like? I'm currently finishing my chemistry degree but some research I've done lately has me concerned about my career.

[@roberthines2741]

@@zekayman Well, to put it in perspective, I'm an electrical engineer now. I found that you needed at least a masters degree before any place would consider you, so I switched to my second interest after my bachelors in chem was done. That was decades ago so not sure what it would be like now.

[@zekayman]

@@roberthines2741 Ah, ok. Thank you for the response!

[@sheelo65]

Kinda shows the degree was overpriced. Or the professor, overvalued..

[@revmsj]

@@zekaymanyou can cook meth🤔

[@Fnorddog777]

I was surprised that carbon having the highest melting point wasn't discussed. What an amazing element!

[@lucaslevinsky8802]

Hafnium Carbonitride*

[@StankyKong911]

@@lucaslevinsky8802 not an element but a compound, carbon has the highest melting point of any element

[@badoem5353]

@@StankyKong911 is there a structual reason for this?

[@cvp5882]

05:02 Don't believe I've ever seen a torch used to sharpen a pencil before...

[@ishanr8697]

I learnt so much from this video and will use many of the ideas for demonstrations for my students if I can! Thanks so much Thoisoi! 1. Pyrolytic Carbon: demonstrating thermal conductivity by cutting ice 2. Pyrolytic Carbon: demonstrating magnetic levitation 3. Burning a pencil but somehow the wood burns and carbon remains (I will try this with electricity, however, to demonstrate the electrical conductivity of graphite) 4. Using carbon dioxide gas from marble chips to extinguish a wood fire, and increase the rate of a magnesium fire 5. Obtaining an ampule of highly pressurised carbon dioxide to demonstrate supercritical gases and phase changes There must be others I forgot, I will rewatch this video and take notes. Thanks again!

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[@lewis7480]

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[@FattmanUK]

One of your best videos! Carbon chemistry is a huge subject but you covered a lot of it really well.

[@markey_darkey9137]

"Today happend to be a hot day" Toisoi2, November 2022 Man Climate Change realy entered the chat

[@AvyScottandFlower]

Ah, thank you for calling out the diamond scarcity hoax 👍🏻

[@FriedEgg101]

When I was 16 I stole a small ribbon of magnesium from the school chemistry lab. At home I stupidly decided to hold it over the gas burner. Nothing happened for ages, and I almost gave up. And then the whitest flame I ever saw scared the life out of me. Luckily my mum's work tops were granite, because I dropped the flaming magnesium in a panic. I have more respect for it now.

[@davecrupel2817]

Kid or no kid, that was seriously fvcking stupid. Wow.

[@tosehoed123]

Wow, how havent you self destructed yet? xD

[@jovetj]

You shoulda just dunked it in some water to put it out. 🙂

[@paulwalsh2344]

Oh Maxim your videos are always so amazingly informative and entertaining, but this one is one of your best... among so many !

[@MarekKnapek]

- Thoisoi: Teaching me everything about carbon. - Me: OK, so magnesium is so badass that it burns in CO2 atmosphere and under water. It burns no matter what, it just doesn't give a s.

[@KasunChathuranga]

In Sri Lanka in local language Sinahala, we called Organic chemistry as Carbonic chemistry.

[@shortaybrown]

Great video! Thanks for your beautiful experiments which help us understand the chemistry. Keep up the amazing work my Estonian friend !

[@tiktok.stories_]

He's from Eastern Europe, maybe he's russian but not Estonian

[@shortaybrown]

@@tiktok.stories_ - Hes Estonian. And lives in Estonia.

[@chandrajitkarmakar2333]

Ah yes, the only element on which a significant portion of Chemistry is based.

[@Alondro77]

The ability of carbon to form long stable chains, rings, and other structures is unique. Sulfur and phosphorus are the next closest, but they have distinct limits on the size of such molecules. Carbon can form chains MILLIONS of units long, and form compounds which can create polymers of such lengths as well. Including those essential for all life, such as DNA.

[@mastathrash5609]

And the only one you can grill tasty shashlik over.

[@gratefulguy4130]

@@Alondro77 that's what makes it scary that they're playing around with it so much right now. I've met some of those people. I don't want them having the power you can unlock from carbon

[@ag135i]

You mean organic chemistry

[@RJDA.Dakota]

@@Alondro77 yes. We are all part of the carbon cycle.

[@jimmurphy6095]

10:00 is when I stopped and clicked that like button. Well done! DeBeers is the very essence of the word "monopoly" .

[@TheRogueRockhound]

@10:00 Exactly! this is why rockhounding is such a fun hobby. If you learn about gems and minerals you find there are way cooler/more useful minerals out there that are easily accessible

[@xt001x]

Without Carbon, we are nothing. God bless carbon!

[@capsuleboi]

I freakin' love science! Thank you for your contributions to this wonderful endeavor!

[@speculesgorgoth4055]

Diamonds aren't rare the supply is kept down to increase the price. Also same with oil. Keeping the supply down increases the market price.

[@258Loures]

And now that we can make lab diamonds his rarity speech is unbelievable.

[@thomasneal9291]

@@258Loures only making tiny diamonds is economically feasible. making even a quarter carat gem quality diamond costs more than you would pay for a natural one. in short, you don't know what you are talking about.

[@terrafirma9328]

Every market today is artificially inflated. Artifically manipulated and artificially illusioned of true value.

[@ShlokParab]

When I was young I once kept a pencil in the centre of the gas stove and when the cas was turned on, after some time wood in the upper half of the pencil burnt out and I used the leftover graphite lead for mechanical pencil.

[@jaymanier7286]

AKA "One time I was young and almost burned the house down."

[@ShlokParab]

@@jaymanier7286 almost

[@hyacinthbucket3803]

The testing device is checking thermal conductivity, moissanite is also thermal conductive, that’s why it tests as a diamond. But diamond doesn’t not conduct electricity, moissanite does.

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What is that electric art piece you have on your wall? It's awesome!

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[@douglasboyle6544]

OK, that pyrolitic carbon stuff is something I never heard of and it completely blew my mind.

[@FirstLast-oe2jm]

So excited for another of your videos! Glad to see you're nearing 1 million subs, that's huge! Good work dude.

[@rogerc7960]

Pencils have a h1/h2/h3 number when mixed with china clay (aluminium silicate)

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You do make great videos, ,always cover the subjects completly

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We really missed your voice sir glad you uploaded a new video exciting to learn more about Chemistry although I'm not that good back in my okd days but seeing and hearing it from you feels like it's very easy , informative and very enjoyable. Keep it up always sir. With great respect all the way from the Philippines 🇵🇭😁👍👍👍

[@LuisAldamiz]

One of your most interesting videos, Tholsoi. Sometimes the most common is the most fascinating when looked at unusual angles.

[@jasonchiu272]

Silicon-based Thoisoi2: "Carbon-based lifeforms are practically impossible in our world. Maybe this could be possible on some other planet with highly strange conditions..."

[@LosRiji]

You funny alien

[@pertechnetyl]

Moissanite is not fake (but of course is not a diamond, too) as long we speak about the mineral, and not its synthetic analogue, the so-called carborundum.

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[@chanyy6838]

The thumbnail looks like a 140-year old bald man winking at you at his last breath

[@james10739]

Lets talk more about who made diamonds so expensive

[@nploda1408]

Looks like some nice weather in Estonia this time of year!

[@belkys1640]

At 20:10 it is stated that cyanobacteria started using "carbon dioxide and water as a source of energy". That is not correct. They were using other sources of energy, mostly sunlight, to convert carbon dioxide and water to complex organic compounds (such as sugars and other carbohydrates). It takes energy to react CO2 and water to form other compounds and oxygen, which can then be consumed by animals that eat the cyanobacteria or plants to produce back some of the original energy ("burned").. Bacteria/plants can also consume some of their carbon compounds to produce energy when needed. The important part is that cyanobacteria and plants capture sunlight to produce complex organic compounds from simple inorganic inputs like CO2, water, and some minerals (Mg, Na, Ca, Fe, ...) in the process storing some of the energy in chemical form.

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The disappearing diamonds was out if sight ! New Subscriber

[@--Paws--]

Make sense why fireworks burn brighter due to the magnesium sparks also reacting with the carbon from the other materials burning in the air, making bubbles or pockets of carbon dioxide in the explosion.

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"That's why I urge all my viewers not to be tricked by these monopolies" And you didn't get demonetized for that? Bravo

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I love when people post comments after 2 minutes of a 25 minute video

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thank you I loved this whole video

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[@eduardoGentile720]

It's kinda funny how he wears a cyberpunk shirt while talking about carbon

[@deyvidoliveira1243]

I love this channel! Amazing video!

[@TheKhopesh]

Normal pencil lead is only about 40% graphite. The rest is actually a ceramic. Both are mixed together in powdered form, and compressed into rods, which are then glued in a wood sheath to make a pencil.

[@rayoflight62]

Great video with your original great voice. Well done, thank you!

[@750SonyP]

This by far is one of the most interesting review on carbon!

[@AlbySilly]

13:58 He should've given more attention to the graphite block with the UV, that looks really cool as well

[@dman5909]

What the difference between carbon and my ex? She could form more than 4 bonds at the same time.

[@SUNNYSTARSCOUT365]

😂😂😂😂

[@SUNNYSTARSCOUT365]

I like Carbon because it's the element of life

[@markshort9098]

So both ears as well 🤣🤣🤣

[@Bertg1982]

Awesome video. I love the science of chemistry and learning about chemical reactions. It’s insane how one chemical can react with other chemicals. I should’ve been a scientist

[@FirstLast-oe2jm]

neat to see the copper dye used in making the pencil green at 4:50, you should talk about flame tests as it's own video, I'd love to see you cover it

[@DanielGBenesScienceShows]

Superb video packed with great information! Thank you for the gift of knowledge!

[@donlitos]

What is most strange is that no lifeform is possible without Carbon

[@andrewpetersen6116]

Chernobyl was a good example of graphite burning

[@tcf70tyrannosapiensbonsai]

Hi Thoisoi, I wanted to find out if you are speeking the English voiceover with the pleasant Russian accent on your own. And after enjoying some original episodes, I was surprised that both the Russian and the English versions sounded similar. That's a great job you do for us with every episode. Thank You!

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Outstanding video, mate. Loved the transition part. Mesmerizing, indeed.

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Thanks for your very informative video! Keep up the effort

[@corners3755]

18:43 ..... WOW! That's incredible!

[@Dr.Eximious]

10:48 Didn't expect those exotic engrams (Destiny reference)

[@alexd.3048]

I am no teacher, but I am sure a chemistry of physics teacher could use this video to show the marvel of carbon and nature to students.

[@tiktok.stories_]

I think too

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A chemistry channel PR for a video game wtf xDD

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[@kenhammscousin4716]

Pretty ballsy asking the channel to make videos a certain length because it would be convenient for you personally.

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Wow, that’s cool. I’ve always wanted a magnetic hovering object that didn’t need a power source but I didn’t know how to make one.

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What an another awesome video! Carbides need to be covered in depth.

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Agreed

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[@jethinha3994]

me: 3rd year in chemistry college also me: oh, can carbon form in simple allotropic form?

[@solvated_photon]

Carbon is a bit rough around the edges but polishes up nicely

[@drutfurgeson]

Urea is in Blue Def Fluid. It's that diesel exhaust fluid sold in America. Is approx 1/3 Urea and 2/3 water. I'm not sure if the rest of the world uses it.

[@psychogat3]

is there anything stopping graphene from bunching back together into graphite?

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The best chanel in youtube to learn chemistry.

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You always deliver top quality videos! Thank you.

[@davidboyce7556]

keep the Info coming! thanks Professor

[@thomaswateren3967]

Fantastic. You take that element for granted. But out of all chemicals and elements i own carbon has the most mesmerizing properties...

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I want to buy that floating disk cubes!

[@pamcolechadwell1302]

I have a question about growing crystals, I hope you can answer it for me. How do I grow many crystals on something attached like polymer clay or glass, using potassium and chrome alum? Thank you

[@MaxDowney]

Love the rant about De Beers. I wish more people understood this.

[@galadriel4101]

I learn so much from your videos. You're awesome.

[@Ste_Brit]

03:28 I can’t help but think of That Chapter when this music plays 😂 I doubt most of you have any idea what I’m talking about but if you know you know

[@Burnt_Gerbil]

Carbon is so strange that there is an entirely separate field of chemistry. Go figure!

[@SUNNYSTARSCOUT365]

Coal and diamond, made from the same element, two different allotropes, two different values. 😂😂😂

[@ghettogaming6546]

I’m unironicly trying to investigate how the nuclear properties of carbon may be an underlying factor for its properties in conjugation with its spherical harmonics, I’m so glad people are finally recognizing this 😊

[@heisenbergstayouttamyterri1508]

Carbon is the best because of it's numerous allotropes. Unlike many other elements its allotropes are actually engaged in different fields of science and economy. Also we could've kissed our existence goodbye if C didn't have the catenation property. Carbon is one of the best creations in this world.

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Always awesome experiments!

[@onebeingeverybody]

wonderful presentation today, thank you.

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I always enjoy and learn a lot from your videos.

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[@Heisenberg2097]

Too bad you didn't talk about the most valuable diamonds that exist on earth... the love of our mothers and the beauty of girls.

[@LiborTinka]

The "sheets" of carbon consist of only three bonds per carbon atom but we know carbon is tetravalent - where is the fourth bond?? Does it mean the atoms are charged? Or are these coupled benzene rings?

[@kyzercube]

Thoisoi2 Idk if you know about this but the YT Channel NileRed a while back vaporized a diamond, then used the carbon dioxide made from it to make carbonated/sparkling water. He dubbed it " Diamond Water ". A fantastic video! Here's the link if you want to watch it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGHap3etiNOtmdk ... and yes he drank it lol

[@Ethan_Akro]

Now let's make diamond from co² and pure carbon🍷🗿👍

[@karlslicher8520]

How to diamond coat a steel cutting edge without the steel absorbing too much carbon becoming brittle as cast iron again or losing heat treatment etc?