Yttrium - Periodic Table of Videos

Here is a new and improved video about Yttrium.
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Ytterby road trip videos: • Sweden Roadtrip - Peri...
Featuring Sir Martyn Polikaoff and Neil Barnes. Including superconductors and YInMn Blue.
Thanks to The Royal Society of Chemistry for supporting this episode: www.rsc.org
Special thanks to:
Anthony Lipmann for donating the Yttrium metal,
Mas Subramanian for donating the YInMn Blue
And Merck at Sigma Aldrich for donating the Yttrium Chloride.
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“Neil and Brady got real excited”, meanwhile the professor is all like “ah yes, superconducting magnets, how quaint“.

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Regarding Prussian Blue (mentioned by the Professor at 10:20) it has mechanical properties as a consistant ultra fine granule. It's used for marking up and fitting of highly precise mechanical assemblies to within tollerances of 0.001mm or less. Very usefull pigment.

[@mellertid]

Oh, right, like when precision scraping steel surfaces.

[@nicholas209]

There's also talk of using it as a cathode in Sodium-ion batteries, which could be a much less resource intensive alternative to Lithium-Ion batteries.

[@adediver]

Is this what is called engineers blue I remember using as an apprentice?

[@miguelangelsimonfernandez5498]

It is because it is colloidal in nature in the preparation used in "engineers blue" and provides sub-micron pigment layer.

[@samuelwarshaw9480]

Prussian Blue is also medically used to treat radioactive cesium and thallium poisoning, as well as non-radioactive thallium poisoning.

[@Ninth_Penumbra]

Fascinating. As a painter, I'll be looking out for that intriguing new pigment: *YlnMn Blue.* You could do an entire episode on all the *_Toxic_* substances that have been put into paints over the years. Some remarkably poisonous - even lethal - *Elements* & *Compounds* have been used to make *_Paint Pigments._* With *_Radioactive Elements_* like: • *Radium* _(Luminescent Blue)_ & • *Uranium* _(Bright Yellows & Oranges),_ as well as nastily *_Toxic_* ones like: • *Lead* _(Greys & Whites)_ & • *Cadmium* _(Bright Yellows & Oranges)_ each being very popular in their time - at least, until how very dangerous to human life they were. Among the common - yet toxic - paint compounds, is one that I'd very much like you to discuss as chemists: *Phthalates.* • What is a *Phthalate?* • What are their negative health consequences? • Why are they still so ubiquitous, when then they can cause such nasty health effects?

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This be a great video for them to make.

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There were also a lot of arsenic-based paints in the 19th century, as I recall. (Scheele's green -- I just watched the arsenic video.)

[@jmowreader9555]

@@beeble2003 Another popular arsenic-based pigment was Paris green. A lot of it was sold as insecticide - and it did very well in that application.

[@xyzct]

Cadmium-based pigments are used in tattoo "inks" -- which aren't really inks. Countless people are injecting industrial-grade pigments into their largest organ. (But they only eat "organic.")

[@renerpho]

The pigment was sold for a while by an Australian complany as "Oregon Blue YInMn", at the bargain price of $180 per 40ml. Unfortunately, it has been unavailable for the past couple of years. With some luck, there will be a new supplier soon. The price is unlikely to be lower. But from what I've heard, the pigment has some very nice properties.

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"I found yttrium interesting..." is a great way to say "That stuff is levitating!" I have to agree though, yttrium is even more fascinating than I expected.

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I've got a practical this afternoon where we are making the Y-123 superconductor, what a great insight into the history and other application of this element. Thank you for this excellent video!

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Nine, 9, elements have their discoveries tracing back to Ytterby: Erbium, Terbium, Yttrium, Ytterbium, Scandium, Holmium, Thulium, Gadolinium and Tantalum. (at least according to my old high-school chemistry-books, Swedish...)

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The statement should probably have been that four elements are named after Ytterby (the first four from your list). (The next three also have geographic etymologies referring indirectly to their source at Ytterby).

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If you enjoy that, you should try "Tale of the Seven Elements" a book on the least-known elements which is fascinating. The audiobook is also available, and quite relaxing as well.

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[@Richardincancale]

I use Prussian Blue all the time as I make art using the Cyanotype process - very simple to use, but would love to see a chemical explanation by the Prof of the precise effect of UV light on the reactants.

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Fe(III) is reduced by citrate in the presence of UV light to Fe(II). Oxalate and tartrate are also capable of reducing Fe(III). With oxalate reaction proceed as follows: Action of UV light on oxalate produce electrons and radicals: (C2O4)2- + hν → (C2O4∙)- + e- (C2O4∙)- → CO2 + (CO2∙)- These electrons and radicals than reduce Fe(III) to Fe(II): Fe3+ + e- → Fe2+ Fe3+ + (CO2∙)- → Fe2+ + CO2 Fe(II) which is formed in this reaction than react with ferrocyanide to produce prussian blue.

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NileRed made a really great video about that.

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There is a Nile Red video from a while ago where he made his own blueprints and goes into the chemistry behind it.

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@@martinmckee5333 I think Technology Connections channel did something about this process awhile back as well.

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I went to an art exhibition once where an artist was displaying sculptures and paintings using YInMin blue and it's just so beautiful

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I wrote a report in 3rd grade about Yttrium, back in 1986. I've been obsessed with it since. Thank you for finally giving it proper coverage, 10 year me is rejoicing inside. :)

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Oh! A LEGO Sir Martyn! Wow, that is a beautiful blue!

[@edoardobracciotti9594]

I'm working winth yttrium for my thesis work at the university! I found the video really interesting!! Thank you a lot Prof. Poliakoff!

[@jamescollier3]

YBaCuO?

[@edoardobracciotti9594]

@@jamescollier3 No, mostly metallorganic compounds even if we did some research about purely inorganic solid-state materials

[@Incommensurate]

Also used in growing crystals, I had to repair a solid state NdYag laser at one of my old jobs. And i used to work for a company that made artificial diamonds for industrial purposes and know it was one of the ingredients. I just worked on keeping the induction furnaces running, so i wasn't privy to what went into the mix

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Yttrium Aluminium garnet is a common synthetic crystal used as a gemstone

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This was a really cool video - I've seen videos of yttrium superconductors before, but I never knew of YInMn Blue before. That's such an interesting composition to make a pigment!

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If I am nor mistaken Yttrium is also used in the production of certain glass fibres for laser applications. Makes the total internal reflection guaranteed. Because any leaking of the beam is bad when one works with continuous kilowatt lasers.

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Yttrium is an element I've never heard about 20 years ago, but now it's showing up all the time when you're looking into new materials being developed for all kinds of uses.

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And the video didn't even touch on applications like YIG oscillators and YAG lasers

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[@CKOD]

Yttrium also gets used in Yttrium-Iron-Garnet filters, where a small pellet of it is held in a magnetic field with RF transmission lines adjacent to it, and it can make a filter with an extremely wide tuning range, by adjusting the strength of the magnetic field to change where it is tuned. This gets used with an oscillator circuit and made its way into a lot of RF test equipment as YIG oscillators, where you may need an oscillator that can sweep across many GHz. Not common to everyone, but everyday use for a lot of people developing the stuff that is commonly used by everyone.

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As an eletrical engineer, I'd love to hear the professor talk about YBCO.

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Thank you so much!!! I will appreciate Yttrium more as well Martin!

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[@sebaufiend]

Didn't really know much about yttrium until now. Neat stuff. Only experience I had with yttrium was a sr-90 source we had in a lab in grad school. You see, sr-90 decays into y-90, and since the half life of y-90 is considerably shorter than sr-90 the isotopes are in secular equilibrium. It was those y-90 betas you had to be extra careful about. Sr-90 betas have a max energy about 540 Kev, but those y-90 betas have a whopping max energy of 2.2 MeV!

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Love the faces when playing with the superconductor wagon LOL

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There's a train demonstration similar to the one you saw at the MAGLEV station museum in Yamanashi. It was really neat to see in person.

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Fascinating stuff! Now the name Yttrium makes a lot more sense. And what a fun levitating train!

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Thanks for the update!

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That YInMn blue is astonishing!

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That really is a brilliant blue color.

[@Jonathan-uw8dy]

Yttrium is also used as a phosphor in those old style filament-like white LED lights. The LED sends out high energy blue light, and the yellowish yttrium cake absorbs and releases it in multiple energy stages. That's why those lights keep on glowing for a fraction of a second after turning the light off.

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[@hardwareful]

I recently learned about thermal barrier coatings made of Yttria-stabilized ZrO2. Would be interesting to learn a bit more about these materials, too! It's not rocket science :) OK maybe it is.

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It is not rocket science but it is jet engine science, they are used as tbc coating on turbine blades to prevent them from melting.

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@@demoaccount2392 The Raptor 2 engine has some thermal barrier coating inside, too. Unfortunately we don't know the exact type and composition, but I'm amazed by the extreme amount of bright light coming out of those engines when they're running. It has to be related to that coating, or even perhaps owed to rare earth constituents of it, much like a Nernst lamp. Seems like a topic worth another video on rare earth oxides altogether.

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I love how, other channels would have been Super Excited about YInMn Blue, or even the super conductive magnetism; but Periodic Videos gives us low-key, matter of fact narration. A smile, but low-key.

[@peelingwithstephen]

8:16 It is absolutely amazing to see the levitating effect this compound has due to it being a superconductor under the specific properties. Imagine that this was the future for flying vehicles haha.

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I've seen superconductor maglev videos many times, but unless there's a practical application for this that would make it everyday reality, it will probably never cease to amaze me. The best bit about this is, when you take a suspended object and position it somewhere else in the magnetic field and it just stays there instead.

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Yah, for lots of applications, the benefits from using a superconductor are offset by having to keep it cold enough to superconduct. But who knows, higher temperature superconductors keep getting discovered. Even some room-temperature superconductors have been discovered, though as yet they're all compounds that can only exist under millions of atmospheres of pressure.

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Nice video! I live in Stockholm and I've visited the mine. Brought a couple of sample home with me. :)

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That super conductor effect is probably the most magical feeling thing I have seen no matter how many times I see it or how much it is explained to me.

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[@kevina.4036]

Another useful application of Yittrium is crystalline Yittrium Iron Garnet (YIG), which is polished into tiny spheres (usually around 1um) for use as microwave oscillators. The YIG sphere in the presence of a magnetic field will actually oscillate. YIG oscillators have very desirable microwave properties (excellent RF spectral purity), and are used in high end RF test equipment and fundamental oscillators for all sorts of signal sources, filters, mixers, etc.

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Neil loves fireworks? Well, I am watching this on my break from preparing fireworks for a theme park in Anaheim.