Chromium - Periodic Table of Videos

New video on the element Chromium.
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I'd love to do things this awesome at that age.

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Is he 70 now?

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Back in 60's when I was a kid (around 10 years old), my friends and I would ride our bikes to the drug store and buy bottles of ammonium dichromate. Big bottles of the stuff. After a few purchases, the pharmacist finally asked, “what in the world are you kids doing with all this ammonium dichromate anyway?” Oh, we're just making ammonium dichromate volcanos in our back yard. The pharmacist shrugged his shoulders, looked at us directly and warned us to be careful. We were careful and no one got hurt. And that how things went back the day for kids from Lake Wobegon.

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Yea, The pharmacist that owned the pharmacy I did my residency at talked about all the cool things you used to be able to do. Mostly explosives. Until they cracked a window with their black powder, and his mum put a stop to it. We used to do random chemistry 'recipes' from the 18th century 'useful household things' ranging from fireworks to glue to pesticides.

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back before socialists made everything illegal

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College and University teachers really care about what they teach and genuinely enjoy it. Other teachers could probably care less

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​@@LunaTheStarsthat is a very general statement and definitely not the case everywhere

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The simplest answer to why they are arranged in such a way is the valence shells of the elements. The s-block (groups I and II) have s-orbitals as their valence (outermost) shells, the p-block (main group) elements have p-orbitals as their valence shell, and transition metals have d-orbitals as their valence shells. The number of electrons that can go into the d-orbitals and their various energy levels are what cause them to have unique reactivity.

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The reaction at 6:30 forms a violet peroxo complex of chromium, thought to be [CrO(O2)2(OH)]- if I recall correctly, not two different compounds as stated. This then decomposes to oxygen gas and is reduced to green Cr(III). The peroxo complexes of chromium are awesome and you should make a video dedicated to them in the future!

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Chromium, aka chrome, is still used for some corrosion protection/looks on the outsides of brass valves, where stainless cannot be used because of chemical reaction. It is also used for industrial applications where wear resistance and very tight tolerances are needed. The chrome plating can be applied in very precise thicknesses, increased flatness of a surface and improved surface finish. For this use, it is not polished to the high luster you’d expect from chrome, so a part may chromed and you wouldn’t ever know. With more precise alloys and machining methods, these uses are also going the way of the horse...

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