Seeing Electrons with the Naked Eye!

[@Master_Therion]

When you put sodium potassium alloy in liquid H2O it blew up. When you put sodium potassium alloy in liquid NH3 it blue up. Video time at 10:10

[@vampyricon7026]

Hey, fancy seeing you here!

[@Master_Therion]

Hello my friend ^_^ I'm surprised you (or anyone) found my comment, I posted it so late.

[@vampyricon7026]

Master Therion I simply scrolled down XD

[@oonmm]

See you in class tomorrow!

[@deplorableamerican9451]

Master Therion 😜🤪

[@id104335409]

I have been looking at electrons and protons with a naked eye all my life.

[@florianellerbrock8922]

Yes everyone do it

[@yahyagannour8486]

yeah they're definitely there but hiding with john cena

[@Meme.hustler]

@@yahyagannour8486 you must be a turk

[@yahyagannour8486]

@@Meme.hustler did u just assume my country?

[@SJ-hw7bx]

You perv......lol j/k

[@brianbrewster6532]

So you know, my little 4-year daughter watched this scientific experiement and kept commenting, "That's so cute".

[@JayV27]

That's so cute

[@alienfrm]

That's so cute

[@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269]

That's so cute

[@radioactive.redwood]

That’s so cute

[@dinosaurdrew7431]

You guys are so cute

[@Judicial78]

I realized half way through the transformative piece that my mouth was agape in awe. I was then filled with both grief and satisfaction, knowing that in the very short time I will exist in this universe I will only get to experience a mere fraction of it. Thanks Phil, for letting me experience just one extra amazing moment I would not have otherwise.

[@rikter22]

Well said.

[@vampyricon7026]

+

[@AdonanS]

I was say how cool this all was, then was stunned into silence (my mouth was also agape) when that part started.

[@AdonanS]

Judicial78 I'm stricken more with grief because I desperately want to know and see everything the universe has to offer, but know that won't ever happen. I realized this when I was a kid so I've suffered from mild depression and a lack of motivation for a few years now.

[@staracer9414]

You clearly need to stargaze more. I’m ready to die :)

[@wikusvandemerwe2762]

It would be interesting to see how that cloud of electrons reacts to a magnetic field.

[@threeMetreJim]

I'd like to see it exposed to a rapidly alternating magnetic field. Would you produce any kind of em radiation from those moving electrons?

[@dvl973]

yeah wouldn't this basically be a superconductor then

[@josephcannon3938]

@@threeMetreJim would have to be like 10^15 Hz fast for that.

[@HappyFlapps]

@DV, PhD What's a book?

[@HappyFlapps]

@Paul Pham What's a algegra?

[@fairysox221]

13:01 That's Amazing, The exact same thing happened when I accidentally Microwaved Cheese Nachos for 3 hours instead of 3 minutes...

[@jeanbabtisteclamence3018]

The world needs more Thunderf00t! I love his way of teaching! Of all the scientists and intellectuals that I love I’d really like to meet Thunderf00t the most. @Thunderf00t have you ever thought about doing a fan meet up?

[@dimitar4y]

90% of the fans that would arrive would be the cancerous retards that either want to embarass, or assault thunderf00t. Turns out intellect is still a "vice" rather than a virtue, and it's hated by the ignorant masses. Remember witch hunts? Yeah.

[@jeanbabtisteclamence3018]

Alucard Pawpad Perhaps, I think you may be over estimating how many people hate him and would take their day off to drive or fly to meet him just to spew hate, however he could email and invite all supporters or something.

[@dimitar4y]

Luke S, idiots fear what they don't understand; and there's billions of them. The chances of him getting problematic, if not dangerous fans, is relatively high. High enough to offset any benefit from meeting his fans in person. He meets them on some occasions, and he meets them in his video :). The email and supporters thing has less risk, but he could have a "supporter" that's playing double agent. Crazy people are crazy enough for the craziest of stunts. I'm not saying there's professional government-hired assassins after thunderf00t's arse, but I am saying it's a 1 in a 1000 accident waiting to happen, especially since the loudmouths on the internet are usually the ones shooting up schools.

[@jeanbabtisteclamence3018]

Alucard Pawpad Well that being said I’ve meet Richard Dawkins and nothing happened haha, and there are crazy people after him too.

[@jeanbabtisteclamence3018]

Alucard Pawpad Jesus christ man calm down there mate, you’ve got some issues.

[@eliliha]

I'm astounded at the beauty of this. This video should be shown in class rooms because this was more interesting than anything I ever did in chemistry class. Amazing job!

[@mayankbhaisora2699]

10:10 The cutest explosion i have ever heard... Baby explosion 😍

[@JohnDoe-nq4du]

You said you were pouring ethanol onto the dry ice, but that jar's labeled acetone. Have you been carelessly putting chemicals into mislabeled containers? That's a good way to end up blowing up your lab.

[@chang.stanley]

I think that was just for temporary transferring

[@ricardogallegos3044]

@@chang.stanley isn't that how mistakes are made ?

[@chang.stanley]

No. Ain't no one gonna label a bottle just to unlabel it 1 min later after they done using it..

[@89Lostrequiem]

I noticed that too. What would acetone have done if there actually had been acetone in there?

[@fss1704]

+Jackie Fox acetone gets lower, so it would be better to use acetone but ethanol is damn cheaper for no notable reason

[@QuantumOverlord]

One thing I still remember from the chem labs was accidently getting a whiff of concentrated ammonia. Its indescribably disgusting.

[@redmohawkguy1]

Ha! Yeah. I was in a chem lab where we used ammonia once. We had a few five-ish gallon jugs of ammonium hydroxide (ammonia dissolved in water), and I could smell it simply by being in the same room.

[@rwclardy12]

Last time I remember that smell was being fairly concussed from playing (american) football. Hard to describe how it brought me back to a functioning player almost instantly, but now all I want to do is jack someone and put them in an fMRI and hit them with an ammonia smell stick to see what happens to the brain. But I don't think the review board will let that experiment happen. Oh well.

[@NeuronalAxon]

Ammonia can be a bit of a shocker especially if you're not expecting it, but it's positively _mild_ compared to things like certain mercaptan compounds etc.

[@QuantumOverlord]

Indeed. But of all the non sulphur containing compounds Ammonia has to be pretty close to the top.

[@anishsarkar120]

we once had ammonia leaking from plant nearby , the smell was unbearable

[@phatkaveh60]

any biosafety officer would have a stroke after watching this

[@lgefoxy1415]

I know bro, the way he basically just stuck amonia up his nose.. I hear my 10th grade chemistry teacher from here “WAFT!!! WAFT IT DAMN YOU!!”

[@klyons217]

I knew a science teacher who lost his sense of smell because he accidentally sniffed a vial of pure ammonia gas!

[@roylarsen7417]

@@klyons217 no you do not .

[@wilfdarr]

@@klyons217 not from sniffing it: the pain would have been excruciating long before it did that kind of damage. If there was some sort of unintentional exposure where he couldn't get out of it, perhaps, but it would have been traumatic to say the least.

[@mullahviking]

Damn you Mr. Alchemist you said you where going to create gold.

[@indiomoustafa2047]

He created a turd. A fun to watch turd.

[@theondono]

That video was pure gold

[@ninjalokust]

Something people were told would be gold was actually a turd, and Thunderfoot is responsible? I thought we were talking about science dammit not Sargon.

[@neo06m2003]

He created god!

[@ninjalokust]

God is dead! All Hail Trump.

[@BIOHAZARD209able]

The song at 14 mins is called Wishing Well DJ Nobody. Seen a lot of people asking with no answers lol.

[@bhatfirdous1081]

Omg.... Thank you so much Thank you Thank you Thank you 😘😘

[@fukpoeslaw3613]

But what's the music at 16:00?

[@aberroa1955]

Yeah... I've see such science videos pretty much every day. But not every day I find new good sound. This soundtrack is awesome, so really thank you. Sadly, it's really short.

[@PineValleyDigital]

Thank You Very Much!

[@yocracra2775]

Thx

[@BackYardScience2000]

By far, one of the best and most hypnotic chemistry videos I have ever seen. Thank you so much for posting this.

[@retronimo]

You look like a hippie science teacher from the 60's... ...and i respect that

[@tomdavidson6390]

Love watching solvated electrons at work. I was a graduate student under Joe Lagowski in the early 1980's and tried to spectroscopically characterize the 1.5 micron band as it changed with concentration. My only critique of this video is that you spoke of using ethanol for your dry ice bath, while pouring from a container clearly labelled for acetone. While both will work equally well to liquefy NH3 in a dry ice bath, I can only cringe at the idea that either (1) a key component was misidentified or (2) a laboratory container was mislabeled.

[@nice-boat]

pretty irresponsible indeed

[@kairiismylive]

Looking at this guy, he sure does smoke a lot of gas.

[@FaridShahidinejad]

He looks like he smells like ammonia

[@Envinite]

Dude looks like he use Peltier cloud chamber for a bong

[@twizz420]

@Al Morrison You clearly have no medical expertise.

[@JeffMcDuffie72MeridianGate]

Girls who smoke weed are future pill and crack heads.

[@wizard7314]

@@JeffMcDuffie72MeridianGate lol I see you bought into the whole war on drugs thing. I suggest you do some research on these matters if you don't want to sound like a fool.

[@Foreststrike]

So basically fractal equations in the making.

[@Foreststrike]

Any time the atoms expand outwards.

[@erictaylor5462]

2:20 Well, yea. The effects of breathing ammonia are short lived because the one breathing ammonia is short lived. Ammonia won't effect you much when you are dead.

[@JayV27]

Can't argue with that

[@zylnexxd842]

Haha

[@davidarundel6187]

It was used, early last century & in Victorian times, to revive Fainters, quickly.

[@erictaylor5462]

@@davidarundel6187 I know this.

[@davidarundel6187]

@@erictaylor5462 thats nice to know, though why leave it off the list of uses, for ammonia ?

[@enterchannelname1378]

Beautiful and interesting. I wonder how this cloud of solvent electrons would react to an external magnetic field.

[@MaxTheDragon]

This is why I firmly believe chemistry is the origin of life. Simple ingredients produce amazingly intricate results. If you deny that, you're simply not grasping its complexity.

[@Mega_Mikey]

It was a bit breathtaking seeing those fractals and how at times it legitimately looked like foliage sprouting on a very very tiny planet, and at other times looked like intricate jewelry.

[@Luminarada80]

Chemistry IS life. Life is just an incredibly complex array of chemical reactions occurring. So because life is just chemistry, I agree that chemistry is the origin of life

[@MaxTheDragon]

+Luminarada80 Agreed.

[@robs9574]

Yes but who was the chemist? These ingredients didn't just choose to Be.

[@TheOneAndOnlySame]

Yes they are. I suspect you're going to engage into some logical fallacy come back... don't tho, you'll end up looking dumb.

[@CoolHardLogic]

That part from 13:15 looks a bit like the reaction between Mercury and Aluminium, though it sees to create branching structures.

[@AdrianTechWizard]

CoolHardLogic what are you doing watching non-crazy science! Get back to debunking magic woo woo beans!

[@pillbox1240]

CoolHardLogic Shut up 🤐

[@fabianfeilcke7220]

It looks like metal-"ice". Does the Ammonia reaction introduce heat to the point where it melts? Or does it change the melting point?

[@philipjohansson3949]

Hey, look who's alive! I'm waiting impatiently for whatever you might make next!

[@ablebaker8664]

CoolHardLogic Wait... who decided what direction it should branch? [ducking]

[@valiantwarrior4517]

Pretty cool. I wish I understood the chemistry as well as you so I could better appreciate what is actually happening. But regardless, it’s amazing how spectacular the effects can be when combining elements.

[@Mdsde]

Metal bleeds bronze. Ever since Periodic Videos did this experiment it's been probably my favourite experiment in terms of the visual beauty of it, absolutely blew my mind that you could see the actual colour of electrons. The deep black-blue from what I assume is most of the spectrum being absorbed transitioning to that lovely reflective bronze is incredibly pretty. Thanks for making this video, the best visual experiment.

[@Mdsde]

The 'colour' of EVERYTHING is light interacting with it you fucking moron. No shit.

[@staracer9414]

Electrons don’t have color and can’t exist in any one given position for you to even be able to see them... go back to school. Quantum mechanics.

[@r1w3d]

This was impressive :) as always I throughly enjoy all content on this channel 👌

[@BADALICE]

I enjoy these kind of videos. I can watch these all day. Thanks for sharing your brains.

[@darklordzagato]

Everything is chemistry, everything is physics, everything is mathematical, and you have to figure it all out. ;)

[@mongo6043]

nice word porn anita!!!!

[@johnladuke6475]

Hey, I'm not a number, man! *hits bong*

[@smartiejl]

I see what you did there...

[@dan300878]

nice

[@savage1267]

darklordzagato 👍 fk ya!

[@markchip1]

Quite simply... WOWWWW!!!

[@bartsomerson2099]

6:32 just casually handling potassium with his bare fingers haha!

[@JoeySchmidt74]

I think he'll be K

[@Beos_Valrah]

K

[@min_nad]

@@JoeySchmidt74 HAHSHSH

[@jryde421]

Anxiety

[@LostMeatnight]

,

[@henryjiang9664]

See Electrons with the naked eye? Naniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

[@kapanjieck5903]

That Japanese thou

[@dragon3010lol]

Henry Jiang omea wa mo shindeineru

[@sarahszabo4323]

Damn, someone beat me to it.

[@der4815162342]

> head explodes

[@anishsarkar120]

damn i thought this is what a japanese would say

[@rosestar7835]

720p doesn't do this enough justice, those reactions near the end of the video would be amazing in 4k

[@dantea7475]

Rose Star gota fund that patrion for those Red 8k 50,000 dollar cameras

[@rosestar7835]

I'd love for him to have a camera like that for stuff like this.

[@ChallengeTheNarrative]

Lol that's a lotta bandwidth

[@colonelgraff9198]

1:42 “The internal heat of Uranus is lower than astronomers would expect.”

[@manjusingh9118]

h

[@amishpandey6703]

@@anonymous-sm6sh we need his location as soon as possible otherwise he will give another 4th law of Newton

[@amishpandey6703]

@@anonymous-sm6sh srsly!!!

[@DerangedScout]

Quite the positive video ya got here, aye.

[@LateNightHacks]

yeah, all the negativity was dissolved in solution :D

[@footsmashingwierdo]

You should get a polarization filter for cameras. It will remove any reflection/glare from the glass lab equipment and liquids, and make it much easier to observe what's being demonstrated. Their usually fairly cheap, too.

[@gabor6259]

*They're

[@firecloud77]

That's awesome. What is far more awesome is the creative genius of the Intelligent Beings who designed and built the human body.

[@watcher7180]

this is by far one of your best videos, good work! I wonder if it would economically feasible to make and get rich off of gold this way.

[@petersmythe6484]

Unless I am missing something, that was not gold though. Just gold colour and probably not even "gold properties" (well not the most important and unique ones anyway).

[@erectiondisection8105]

He didn't actually make gold. You cant create an element with a chemical reaction.

[@epevtolser]

Thank you for letting me witness the beauty.

[@benjones1717]

Hearing that screeching and squeaking makes me shiver for some reason.

[@EliosMoonElios]

Light a match, fire is full of electrons.

[@AstralApple]

Straight up.

[@Phytologics]

not really, fire is a plasma. Plasma is the 4th state of matter so solid, liquid, gas, plasma. It's when all the atoms are so energetic that their electrons are free from the atoms. When they drop down energy levels they emit light, a specific wavelength for each jump for each type of atom.

[@FleetwayDude]

@@Phytologics actually fire is not a plasma. It is a mixture of different things that make it fire. Theres the heat, the light, the smell, and the sound. Really, its just a superheated reaction of whatever is burning.

[@theencore398]

@@Phytologics fire is not plasma, fluorescent lights are tho.

[@dattebayo81]

@@Phytologics don't live with false information rather live with no information

[@Phytologics]

Wow, that's about the coolest thing I've seen in ages, even though I'm a bit late to the party.

[@paulmichaelson7203]

Metallic fractalisation! Beautiful.

[@ChaosRaych]

My son & I thoroughly enjoyed watching your video before school this morning! Thanks for posting & helping me feed his (& my) scientific curiosity!! 💡👩‍🔬

[@johnm.v709]

Smallest Particle kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJ_Op6J_fd-nhtk

[@justNaka]

Oh, here a have some potassium, one of the most reactive metals on earth, let me just grab it with bare hand :D :D :D

[@ninjalokust]

That is how science is done, you take whatever risk is necessary to look bad ass in KZbin videos for 20 dollars.

[@hyksos74]

He discusses that in one of his earlier videos. IIRC it's safer because it's much easier to tell if your gloveless hand is dry than the outside of a glove that you might be wearing - and if the glove is wet, you've got a problem when you touch the metal, including the glove possibly catching fire.

[@justNaka]

David Daivdson, this is the most irresponsible reasoning for handling potassium that I've ever seen, and I come from a country where lab safety standarts are virtually nonexistent....

[@chillcatking9866]

It's not reactive to contact

[@Cray2TheZ]

Absolutely beautiful! Thank you, Thunderf00t!

[@Tomyb15]

Wow, this is so eye-catching. How do solvated electrons react to magnetic fields?

[@minerscale]

This. I don't know? That sounds like a thing they would react to a lot. However I think that the ammonia may cause it to be balanced and have no net magnetivity. I don't know, something to test though!

[@AssistantLeaflet]

well think about the electrostatic potential of the ammonia. The reason why the electrons get solvated in the first place is because ammonia NH3 has free unpaied electrons causing dipole repulsion. This essentially keeps the electrons in the solution. Ammonia can also bond to one more hydrogen making it into ammonium (NH4) but since this is caused by other molecule's positive electrostatic potentials the electrons would not do anything with NH3 and be repulsed by It's negative charge dipole essentially causing it to just stay in solution. Because of these compounding forces I believe it would have a low attraction to a magnet. I do not know though; this is speculation and I might be wrong about some things.

[@TheWaterH3rO]

That depends on the magnetic ordering of the solvent. You have polar, non polar, bipolar, protic, aprotic, solvents just to name a few classifications. Technically, liquid metal could be a solvent. Mercury for instance would behave like that. Water responds to static fields mainly. Magnetic fields not so much.

[@ArcturanMegadonkey]

WHERE'S THE GOLD? you said you were going to make gold!!!

[@barrykent9877]

I thought "we were going to make God"?

[@taiwoolaleye6333]

What saw was much better than gold

[@TheRimmot]

Silver Scythe and the sun is doing what?

[@ninjalokust]

You would need to recreate a super nova to make gold, or at the least be able to mimic the precise conditions of a super nova (heat+pressure etc) to make more from basic atomic parts.

[@nohbudinose]

Recent observation seems to suggest that merging neutron stars may be a key producer of gold.

[@jaimedpcaus1]

SIMPLY MAGNIFICENT! Can't wait to see your other videos. I'm just sad I saw it 3 years later, 2021.

[@carolcossa6244]

This is like watching the formation of a nebula in space.

[@gregorysagegreene]

Intrigues me this guy handles metals and molecules in their dangerous states with his ... fingers.

[@Ezrik2006]

I am so happy that 1.2 Million people have watched this. Hope in humanity restored.

[@IanHawshire]

This was amazing! But where's the *gold* boi?

[@michaelb52t.20]

Ian Hawshire He was talking about the color, he’s not gonna do nuclear fusion in his backyard lol

[@Bezzdor]

why, all the cool kids are doing it www.theonion.com/report-finds-troubling-rise-in-teen-uranium-enrichment-1819594983

[@Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek]

MichaelBlazer52 Cool awwww

[@Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek]

Bezzdor the onion is a joke news website

[@andrewpliakis]

I think(hope) that he's aware.

[@Amadrath]

Only one question: Why was the bottle with Ethanol labeled "Acetone"? Wonder what the safety inspector would say about this. :-p

[@tinaspringer651]

Safety smafety. Sometimes you gotta live dangerously. Lol

[@greyld1353]

DUNNO

[@eancarris3850]

Safety Inspector: "This is no good. I've got to write you up on that." Thunderf00t : "No worries, mate; it's my mistake. Would you like a bottle of "water"?" Nobody (besides Thunderf00t) knows what was in that bottle marked "water", but the safety inspector has done his final inspection. R.I.P. Safety inspector No write-up for Thunderf00t

[@minleyfox5231]

Ean Carris you are so funný ... not

[@dannydetonator]

@@eancarris3850 That's what inspectors should get. Nobody comes in my home lab!

[@earag31415]

Not what I expected to see. Yet surpassed my expectations by a lot. Very enjoyable video.

[@imerence6290]

The comment section is a whole bunch of r/imverysmart people cuz wE cAn'T sEe ElCtRoNs.

[@barrybretz6073]

Only the effects

[@comicsansgreenkirby]

Imerence True, but we can see the photon patterns of visualization of electrons.

[@Proxyxd1]

We can't see a single electron with the bare eye but we can see billions of them close together

[@joeomundson]

It seems like a lot of people aren't aware that we only see photons, so repeating it is necessary...?

[@Hackanhacker]

@@joeomundson lolexactly

[@warrenmasters3036]

Thank you, Dr. Mason!!

[@Smallathe]

Definitely a thumbs up. Another cool thing is the Nanosight - showing Brownian motion in your bare eyes. I have been using it for the past year and have some wonderful videos of exosomes moving via Brownian motion. The nano/microscopic world is amazing... :)

[@key7817]

An SWJ Skeptic channel will try to debunk this. But they will notice that there is no safe space in Science.

[@damonjackson5857]

Ben Zenering bill nye is an sjw shill

[@damonjackson5857]

Ben Zenering bill nye is a shill because back in the 90s he used to educate kids about actual facts and not that bullshit about gender being on a spectrum.

[@Blox117]

+Ben Zenering oh no, a butthurt sjw troll

[@damonjackson5857]

Ben Zenering chromosomes ---> body parts ---> hormones You don't change the chromosomes or the body parts But if there is a wrong amount of some essential hormones it still doesn't make it a non binary gender

[@fischX]

Ben Zenering i

[@LarpingGecko3851]

Love you man, but the sound of Styrofoam squeaking at 2:50 ... My teeth still hurt by the end of the video.

[@jackmack1061]

It makes me leap at the space bar when I see Phil is handling dry ice. End of viewing experience. No matter what the content.

[@KnightMirkoYo]

It's just a prank, bruh!

[@yayayayya4731]

Lol....happened to me too

[@Synky]

For real this is painful

[@kakarikiIck]

I love finding episodes from your channel that I haven’t seen yet. I love Science and learning something new. Thank You for making these videos.

[@illiablood3453]

*the most common molecule in the universe is H2* While reading from a table that says *Milky Way Galaxy*

[@blackhole28]

Lwiay

[@yocracra2775]

Yocracra

[@EnzymeGuy]

I'm just going to get some ethanol... Pours from a bottle labelled 'acetone'

[@matheuspinheiro4796]

@@blackhole28 leave your entry in the subreddit Bros and I will watch submissions in the next episode of lwiay

[@CJ-zc1qd]

I mean even if he shows a table of milky way H2 is still the most common molecule of the universe

[@Gunny1971]

Liked and subscribed.. Entertaining, and yet I learned something.. Science as it should be. Thank you.

[@-noul-]

I could watch these all day

[@sysghost]

"... minus plenty"

[@homer46303]

I wasn't sure if I had actually heard that and just assumed he said twenty even though the thermometer said -39 C.

[@Greg042869]

And that's how they make Windex blue. Wow, thanks foot.

[@DANGJOS]

Wow absolutely incredible!! Can't believe I'm just now seeing this video

[@246-trinitromethylbenzene8]

Water is not the Hydride of Oxygen,its the Oxide of Hydrogen!!!

[@JacketCK]

Im getting way to smart but i wish they teach this stuff in high school and not limited to 8th grade Edit: Im a 10th grader btw

[@Theboss24611]

It would be better if you spelled oxygen correctly.

[@googleeatsdicks]

Water is the covalent hydride of oxygen. It is also the oxide of hydrogen. Water is also an ampholyte. This is like arguing if a zebra is black with white stripes or white with black stripes.

[@246-trinitromethylbenzene8]

Anticonny Yes,but speak in conventional Chemistry its an oxide

[@ninjalokust]

I already said somewhere else but you are all wrong, I am an actual alchemist and what you really need is coalescent nickelodeon nitrate mixed with eye of newt. That's how you give some syphilis anyway, whats the question?

[@joshuanorman2]

I predicted that you would start the video with "okay"

[@TheAknativeboy]

Boshua Borman okay

[@TheBatub]

Okay

[@mgabrielle2343]

this is by far the best demonstration how our universe got created , not only that we can see how it is forming tentacle galaxies and expanding , all that boring mathematical equations, here is a practical example, started off with a drop of sodium alloy hitting the water! wow the big bang ! seeing it right in front of your eyes and you can see the electrons. Now I can believe the universe was created by a drop of sodium in the ocean!

[@NecroAsphyxia]

You physically cannot see a single electron... it would violate the Heizenburg Uncertainty Principle of QFT.

[@Dowlphin]

Yeah, I didn't go through the whole vid, but the title is obviously bullshit. (If anything can make you see electrons, it's psychedelics, haha. But even then we could argue whether it constitutes "seeing with the naked eye".) P.S.: Did you mean Heisenberg?

[@Katatawnic]

I haven't watched yet. The title alone irritated me, so I clicked to read comments. I thought these were supposed to be science videos, but to say that we can see electrons is quite the opposite of scientific. How about explaining that electrons cannot be seen, but we can see their effects, just like a black hole? That would be scientifically accurate, not this.

[@frankbank8720]

Princess Pea in the video the electrons were no longer attracted to the sodium potassium alloy so while we can’t see individual electrons we could see massive amounts of them when they weren’t attracted to the alloy. I think....

[@javierpowell4705]

Dᴏᴡʟᴘʜᴡɪɴ in the video its concentrated Electrons

[@TheWaterH3rO]

That’s funny. Anyone told you you are wrong yet? It’s been done... y a French physicist. Yup. He did it for six fricken months on a yacht. 😝

[@michaelbuckers]

Remember to keep your digital electronics upright, or all of the electrons are gonna fall out!

[@VestigialHead]

+ Mi 28 Yep do not let the blue smoke escape of your electronics are kaput.

[@SearchfortheMeaning]

Remarkable truths are as simple as anything else. I have to imagine that the most guarded secrets are the simplest truths yet still most coveted. Simply astonishing video thank you good sir.

[@crazy8sdrums]

I saw the title of this video and, at first, thought it clickbait....because our retinas are not able to respond to electrons, so one really cannot 'see' electrons. We can only 'see' photons, which electrons are not...(unless you want to delve into more exotic and less-accepted cosmologies) Having watched all of the video, I have to say thank you for sharing it and that I have found it intriguing and it has given me something to think about....like those exotic and less-accepted cosmologies.

[@staracer9414]

Crazy 8s Drums wow this is the first person to have actually said something intelligent that I can respect. Thank you for understanding how electrons work all these people really need to go back to school

[@TheShortugal]

can you even tie your own fucking shoelaces in the morning? or can you not see them? Jesus H. Christ, youtube's comment section is a bunkhole for the spectacularly stupid, why nitpick the semantics of the tittle? aren't there more important things to discuss, you ape.

[@johnm.v709]

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[@johnm.v709]

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[@aniketh8]

2:00 I can totally get that expression I am a chemist and man I know how bad the smell of ammonia is

[@dr2b29]

Me toooooo me tooooo... Never thought that punchent smell is this intense

[@andypampreen8906]

You have shared an absolute treasure that existence has to offer. Thank you.

[@Assault_corgi]

You said you would make gold from the most common materials in the universe i saw no such thing

[@scottt3269]

If he could've actually made gold, then I would have blue myself

[@xyz5735]

The snake just said that for effect. Look at the views!

[@footsmashingwierdo]

I believe what he was referring to was the bronzing effect on the alloy when it became saturated with electrons. Not chemically gold, but visually similar.

[@Tembel_Kopek]

A bit offtopic but it is possible to make gold in a nuclear reactor. It's terribly inefficient though.

[@williamking8684]

@@Tembel_Kopek you dont say! only a few billion years for a gram

[@pcat1000]

loved the beautiful transformations. curious how or why you poured ethanol from a beaker labeled ''acetone'' ? I have worked in shops and witnessed disasters as a result of mislabeled containers.

[@carboncrowns32]

Those reactions at 13:10 would make some of the coolest looking jewelry.

[@makor2817]

"The internal heat of Uranus is lower than astronomers would expect" 01:44

[@thelovertunisia]

On Saturn's moon Titan, things like these must be happening all the time.

[@DANGJOS]

Why??

[@thelovertunisia]

@@DANGJOS Because Titan is cryogenic and liquid hydrocarbons like Methane and organics like Ammonia are much more complex than liquid water here on earth and so exotic chemical reactions surely happen a lot.

[@JamesLimmer]

Around the 14 minute mark... incredible! Such beauty from a lab-controlled experiment. One on my new favourite science videos. 🧡

[@Psi34ax]

Sometimes i wish you'd have a separate channel just for your science videos. The comments below are a mess of people from your sjw videos with very few actually appreciating the actual content of this video.

[@zapp1984]

Please... This!

[@adfaklsdjf]

What on earth are you talking about?

[@caodesignworks2407]

Nah, I think he's talking about how ThunderFoot has a habit of going on all kinds of anti SJW rants and those videos tend to taint the comments section of his science videos. His smugness in those videos really does taint everything else.

[@seanwarren9357]

Irving Ceron you miss the point, the point is that some are not here for the science.

[@GraveUypo]

yes, i just posted the same thing before i saw your post. i'd subscribe to that. but as long as youtube drama is involved, i'd rather not.

[@nunnyahbixniz6709]

SO, what you are saying is that you are a gold wizard...? Ok, Got it. Wizard powers.

[@chillcatking9866]

Nunn Yah'Bixniz science knows no bounds pleb!

[@nunnyahbixniz6709]

peer deep into my magic murder bag

[@asmallguy6124]

it's like a whole another world also with seasons-like occurence! awesome vid broo

[@williamwright4586]

I am also a PhD chemist, and know my way around a lab. Come on, a bit of basic safety. No need to cut up Sodium without gloves on. I admit, you make science a lot more interesting than I can. But set a better example.

[@brertt8350]

bdbdbd same thing will happen to you if you stop trying to target ppl online behind a screen

[@esosa7725]

bdbdbd Wtf is wrong with you?

[@IsaacClodfelter]

You don't have to be a PhD to know your way around a lab enough not to touch sodium and potassium like that. Kids would have been kicked out of my ap chem class for not taking proper safety precautions.

[@SuperPickle15]

Isaac Clodfelter safety is over rated.

[@DerekMoore82]

William Wright I'm an uneducated person, can you explain in layman's terms why it's unsafe?

[@facepalmjesus1608]

this was very sentimental in a weird way!

[@moistmike4150]

This vid would feel at home in a 1960's go-go bar.

[@dyamineu5246]

So that's how Hp printer ink is made.

[@linagee]

How are plumbuses made?

[@joonaknuutinen5540]

do you ave any other use for 14mm wrench than torturing dry ice? i cant think of any..

[@Keex11]

So many nuts and bolts on vacuum apparatures...

[@raymondthebrotherofperryma1403]

Joona Knuutinen As an oversized half inch wrench?

[@stopfidgetting]

Changing the water pressure on the toilet?

[@kochrobin]

Most nuts and bolts on my bike(s) are 14mm. 14/12 is my most used wrench.

[@kewakl8891]

At least he answered the BRAND-NAME question. Watchgonna DoWiDat?

[@arrekesu6384]

Thats way to beautiful you can even see that the electrons travel in a fractal manner

[@Max-pb8vf]

super cooled room temperature semiconductor.

[@GaMePursuiter100]

Max depends on the material as i think that as the temperature decreases for a semi-conductor material the resistance increases. Do you mean a superconductor?

[@ndi4926]

super cooled and at room temperature?

[@petterihaverinen4210]

Wow this is awesome! But what happens to the nucleus of the sodium and potassium atoms? Does it just sit in the solution?

[@redmohawkguy1]

It would be a solution of Na+, K+, and e-, just as salt in water is a solution of Na+ and Cl-.

[@petterihaverinen4210]

O now i see. Should have been a bit self explanatory now that I think of it :D Thank you for your answer!

[@snowdaysrule]

petteri haverinen Good question! Check out the Wikipedia article on electrides for some info. Really crazy stuff happening here

[@petterihaverinen4210]

@snowdaysrule2 I checked that out. Thanks for the comment! So am I understanding this right: Na reacts with the ammonia and creates a positive ion and free electrons as showed in the formula Na + 6 NH3 → [Na(NH3)6]+,e−. Then the free electrons start orbiting those positive ions as Thunderf00t showed in the video?

[@zack_120]

Great experiments showing how the pure elements react together.

[@aYettista]

Touching alkali metals with bare hands, seriously?!

[@apokatastasian2831]

the rex at least he was wearing a condom

[@Maddiedoggie]

Well he put his phone into a nuclear reactor.

[@PutraMaqbulIhsanBasyar]

Ask Marie Curie why She touch radioactive metal

[@adityarajasekar1020]

Apokatastasian ! Oh God..

[@ΣτέργιοςΚατσογιάννης]

Pussies... you only grab alkali metals with your bare hands If you are a real man !

[@spitfirefrench]

This is the kind of video I'm subbed for :) Not the ego-trip episodes.

[@G_Robb]

I think this is my favorite video of yours! Thanks for sharing!

[@stonent]

Ethanol poured from an Acetone container?

[@StrazdasLT]

For the task at hand both would have performed the same and acetone is actually even better in low temperatures, but ethanol is a good idea because a) its cheaper and b) its less toxic. For all we know he may have been pouring acetone and telling us its ethanol so we wouldnt "try it at home" with the toxic one.

[@Gantics-Antics]

I disagree. An acetone bath would have frozen the ammonia gas, which would have given different (potentially more interesting) results when the alloy drop was added.

[@judobongobuck]

Sounds like he may have worked at GE. lol Naw, but they do mislabel a lot.

[@NathanaelNewton]

For some reason this video is actually really hard to find if you're looking for it.. Luckily it was just the suggested to watch it again!

[@No-uc6fg]

Google and youtube (to a lesser degree) seem to hate thunderfoot.

[@NathanaelNewton]

@@No-uc6fg yeah that is true

[@songersoft]

Holy cow. We've got to try squishing all the different materials together!

[@muugiis305]

So anyone from 2020 being recommended this?

[@jackrogers8178]

Yes