Thallium Mercury Fusible Alloy

I mix together two elements to create a metallic liquid that remains so through a low temperature.
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[@eddievanhorn5497]

The blade came from your extremely sensitive balance from your video on light being able to push things harder when it reflects.

[@theCodyReeder]

Bonus Points!!!

[@jacksonpercy8044]

Could you post a link to the video? I don't know what to search to find it myself.

[@Beano0123]

It's called 'Does light push?'

[@StratocastRS]

but how many does he get?

[@WarblesOnALot]

+Cody'sLab G'day, As I suspected, "it comes from out of a Stanley Knife..." is not sufficient information ; and "it featured in an earlier Video..", while a good guess, is not specific enough... Ah, I managed to capture a Walla-Battle on Vieo last week, as the two biggest local male Swamp Wallabies decided which one is the Alpha Male ; the fight started in my Clearing, so for the first 3-minute "Round" I was only from 25 to 15 metres from the action, and 50-75 m during Round-2 (which lasted another 4 minuets...). Afterwards, separately, both the "Gladiators" have showed up at my Hut to let me put bread & biscuits into their mouth, and it turns out that they're both essentially unharmed (!) ; though any one of the kicks they were exchanging would kill any human silly enough as to try to fight a Swamp Wallaby. To see it, either backtrack me to my Videos scroll, or title-search YT for, "Duelling Swamp Wallabies...; Marsupial Mixed Martial Arts !" It's not a thing many people are permitted to see up close - but I've lived here for 27 years and the local Wildlife knows me to be harmless, because their mothers introduced them to me when they were Joeys in the Pouch (!). Anyway, it's unusual enough that I thought you might want to check it out... Have a good one, ;-p Ciao !

[@jdm2514]

'Professionals': "We have 14 medical personnel, and the local Fire Department here with us for this test..." Cody: "Pretty sure I have all sources of ignition extinguished..."

[@garethdean6382]

Professionals: Copper can be toxic, so wash your hands well after this experiment. Cody: Thallium is toxic, and its salts are tasteless and odorless. Oh and there's some mercury too, but it's not toxic... in this form.

[@Kineth1]

Here's a first for this video that I haven't noticed before, Cody is actually wearing chemical protective gloves. Guess this stuff really is dangerous.

[@piotrdz4565]

You know shit's real when Cody is protecting himself :P

[@jerrymcfletcher3672]

you ok man?

[@jdm2514]

Peter S Calm down there, Cowboy.

[@Thayleon]

"Propane is still very cold, and very flammable" "I've removed all sources of ignition.... probably" That's a he'll of a probably

[@jangisgand6140]

Next up on gardening with Cody: How to grow mercury trees

[@MegaCyklops]

he could actually plant something(tm) that accumulates heavy metals and extract them from the biomass :)

[@rb1471]

Goodwine I guess you've never tasted the syrup from a mercury tree..

[@ZioStalin]

..inside a mine.

[@thesentientneuron6550]

There is some truth to this as plants growing in areas with a relatively higher concentration of gold nearby show traces of gold in them. This means that if he grew his plants near soil which is over mercury ore, the plant might absorb some of it and then he could extract it just for fun. Just sayin'

[@ZioStalin]

Some plant species are especially good at this. They're called accumulators. There's also excluders. Google these keywords together with "plants" and "heavy metals" if you wanna dig deeper ;)

[@dakel20]

Well! That's just terrifying and awesome and I love it. Not enough uses for Thallium.

[@DiodeGoneWild]

This is probably what's inside my vintage thermometer that goes down to -50°C

[@lajoswinkler]

If it has silvery liquid, yes. If there's something red or blue, then it's most likely toluene and some color.

[@diypumpchanneljedovcela4069]

danyk!

[@DiodeGoneWild]

I occasionally watch him :)

[@technophant]

No, I doubt it. That’s a normal low point I think. We had a remote thermometer through the wall unit that was red liquid and went to -50. Coldest day we had was -40 which was brutal.

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

It feels like its been ages since we had a metal video like this.

[@bigchooch4434]

x9x9x9x9x9 You've already won Peter and William's affection what more could you want

[@Mostlyharmless1985]

Cody is wearing gloves. RUN FOR THE HILLS!

[@ppsarrakis]

ye i got worried too!.

[@plazmatter]

Mostlyharmless1985 well thallium can kill by SKIN contact so...

[@CrazyNerdInventor]

@Anonymous Anonymous dimethyl mercry can go through gloves, but metallic mercury can't.

[@walterbunn280]

it's a testament to the toxicity of thallium.

[@NoNameAtAll2]

"Thallium, whose salts are tasteless" Is that personal experience, Cody?

[@Hexalyse]

Cody, you can buy an old soviet SBT-11A Geiger-Muller tube for around 30$ on eBay and replace the tube you have in your GMC-320+ geiger counter with it (it works at the same voltage). Thus, you can detect low energy Beta and Alpha particles too :) I have the same geiger counter. I did the modification : it works very well ! I litterally get ten times the counts from some samples (because they emit mainly alpha/low beta) than with the stock tube. Some other samples have a much lower difference, depending on the radiation type. And it's pretty easy to go from one tube to the other, depending on the needs.

[@stamasd8500]

Even better if you use a SBT-10A which is about 10x more sensitive than the SBT-11A (because it's a LOT bigger) or a SI-8B which is also bigger. The SBT-10A needs a 30Mohm resistor on each of the 10 anodes to work correctly, and the SI-8B needs a 20Mohm resistor on the anode, but other than that they are pretty much drop-in replacements. My GM counters modded with these tubes go absolutely nuts near a thorium mantle.

[@Hexalyse]

stamasd yeah I hesitated with the SI-8B. Don't remember what drove my choice. Maybe the price, sbt-10a is more expensive IIRC. And less "popular".

[@stamasd8500]

Mr Nobody not that much more expensive. I got mine for $40 including shipping. Same for the SI8b. But I agree the SBT11a is better for making a small portable but sensitive counter (because it's smaller) - good for hunting radioactive stuff at thrift stores and whatnot.

[@nefariumxxx]

We are geiger geeks. but yes... even the SBM20 is a better tube than the stock Chinese glass walled M4011 which comes with those. Glass blocks too much low energy beta. I cringed a little at the first burst of smoke which came off that lantern mantle.

[@stamasd8500]

Geiger geeks, yeah... With the Si-8B I get about 8000cpm from a thorium mantle with the aluminum cover on, and over 27000cpm with it off (alphas galore). And even though it's a huge 3-inch pancake detector, it's my favorite even to carry around - still small enough to be reasonably portable. About 1 pound including Arduino, LCD and batteries.

[@brianartillery]

Nice one! I'm looking forward to the Thorium extraction video. 😊👍

[@erdem--]

Thorium? I am so excited. Cody you are amazing. Now how can i sleep while Cody and Thorium in my mind.

[@hoggif]

That was interesting. I was supprised to notice I've never seen solid mercury (even on a video) before. Thallium made it a lot more interesting though. Looking forward to the cesium alloy!

[@paulameloot9380]

I don't know much about chemistery, but would it be possible to make a YT play button out of Cobalt and Dysprosium alloy (CoDy) ? I think that it would be a cool project...

[@joshuasevilla6265]

Of course Cody has something that is tasteless, odorless, and INCREDIBLY TOXIC

[@MagnusDangerMagnus]

Cool! I'm so happy you put the propane into vacuum! This is amazing.

[@matthewdockter2424]

Chemistry has returned! Great! (And in the spring I'll be saying "Gardening has returned! Great!") Just keep the Random Acts of Codydon coming!

[@homescholed]

Literally too excited to see these th videos coming. Love the metallurgy. Keep up the great work

[@RyeOnHam]

Can you make Solid Propane?

[@theCodyReeder]

well yes but I think Grant beat me to it.

[@HellaBeans]

yep

[@treavormiller9552]

Cody'sLab it doesn't matter it would still be cool

[@jerzyhoyt3952]

I agree that it would be an awesome video.

[@Yay-tr2qw]

RyeOnHam hey! what happened to your channel??

[@rleeAZ]

Was always fascinated as a kid when seeing the incandescence of a coleman mantle... looking forward to that one.

[@archibaldthearcher]

+Cody'sLab Have you been thinking about trying to grow monocrystalline silicon? Basic mechanisms seem to be simple, you got already quite some knowledge and practical experience in chemistry and metallurgy so you should be able to do it and I'm pretty sure you would be the first one to do it on youtube (or for the fact in any reasonable searchable part of internet), I would be really interested in watching that and I believe so would others, also I'm pretty sure that could lead to new cool experiments with semiconductors

[@MarkBrowning]

I've toured a site in Oak Ridge where they make pure monocrystalline Germanium for gamma ray spectrometers (HPGe). They had an induction heating ring sweep back and forth over the mostly pure billet to selectively melt a small band at a time, dragging impurities out to the ends. Took them days or weeks for a single billet, but they had 4 or 5 going at once. Crazy!

[@MarkBrowning]

Just looked it up: the technique is called Zone Melting or Zone Refining.

[@TOMNTOM11]

I don't know why but every video he does is interesting to see. That's why Cody'sLab is the most awesome channel on KZbin!

[@betabenja]

pretty sure I've got all the sources of ignition extinguished - Cody is so going to kill himself.

[@chrimony]

Surprised he was wearing gloves in this vid.

[@SeanBZA]

Thalluim, named after Greek Thallos, green shoot, from the colour it gives in a flame. Metal oxides of it are toxic, so the gloves are really a first safety line and handling carefully is the other. Used to be a common rat killer, but so many died from it as poison, either accidental or otherwise, that it has been banned for a long time now.

[@liamohara1198]

Cody I just love your videos. They have taught me so much about geology and chemistry! Thanks for the brain cells!

[@DoRC]

Man I'd be a little nervous pumping propane through a standard vacuum pump.

[@williamforbes6919]

Do R/C! To be honest, I'm surprised he lived long enough to upload this video with that much propane boiling off inside his house.

[@SeanBZA]

Putting it through the vacuum pump is fine, provided the exhaust port is plumbed outside the house to far away, so there is no ignition source like the power switch of the pump near the gas, plus put a flame arrestor ( packed pipe segment with a lot of brass wool to prevent flash back), along with doing it in a outdoor location with no power switches or other electric equipment to provide a spark source. Provided you keep below the LEL of gas it will not explode, though you might have some flames at any leak if there is an ignition event, so keep a working fire extinguisher handy. Propane and butane is not hydrogen, the explosive levels are not as broad as 5% to 95% like hydrogen has.

[@24680kong]

According to wikipedia, propane has a flamability limit from 2.1-10.1% air by volume. So as long as the gas in the pump is >10.1% propane it shouldn't sustain a flame (although I would be worried about air leaking in and causing localized spaces of higher percentage air since it is a vacuum pump). Wouldn't be allowed in a university lab, but probably won't kill you.

[@AKAtheA]

Propane is a hydrocarbon just like for example hexane, it will dilute/thin the oil in the pump, so unless replaced often - not such a good idea, as the thinner oil will a) not seal as well b) offgas a lot more under vacuum c) fail to lubricate the pump properly, causing excessive wear

[@billydagenham]

you wouldn't believe what I get away with in my lab lol

[@xccxvindaloo]

Cool vid I thought Cody, really looking forward to seeing your experiment with the mantle. Childhood memory for me as when I used to go on holiday camping ⛺️,dad would always let me help him set up the lamp using them. And I was amazed how bright that it got, knowing how delicate they got after use. Would always wonder why they didn't just burn up and disappear. 👍👍

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

radioactive smoke: don't breathe this.

[@christopherleubner6633]

yup was used in deep freeze thermometers. Also makes an extremely bright green light when put in a quartz arc tube and ionized.

[@DeDraconis]

Waiting for Hank Hill's comments on this video.

[@sethapex9670]

Thalium cuprate, doped with murcury, is actually a high temperature superconductor. It functions at temperatures as high as 130K

[@kllai0914]

Something radioactive, that's great!!! You know, just miss that radiation. It's getting cold, we do need some radiation to stay warm, shhhh

[@Athenas_Realm_System]

Gary LAI sure you're not confusing the metaloid thallium with thorium?

[@Athenas_Realm_System]

Gary LAI never mind I didn't realise thorium would be at the end of vid

[@surajlal]

lol everything is radioactive

[@Athenas_Realm_System]

☭_DRINK_CCCP_420_☭ Well according to every periodic table I've owned has put it in the metaloid catagory.

[@Athenas_Realm_System]

suraj lal except iron (maybe if protons don't decay) all heavier elements will decay given enough time, and lighter elements will fuse through quantum tunneling. If protons do decay well everything is radioactive.

[@StackCanary]

Ok, I can't resist any longer. I obviously need a computer-controlled temperature/pressure chamber to experiment with material phase changes. Thanks for the continued inspiration, the maker in me loves it!

[@ahblooloo8639]

Hey Cody, can you check if uranium crowbar will sink in mercury?

[@jskratnyarlathotep8411]

make the memes come true! \0/

[@galliumgames3962]

Иван Иванов it would. The thought of uranium dissolving into Mercury makes me shutter though.

[@yaksher]

It will. Uranium has a density of 19, mercury is 11 or 13, don't remember.

[@karjalanpoika8453]

Иван Иванов ivan ivanov

[@sharkaboi]

yaksher 13.6

[@dangerdave616]

I love it when you go full scientist mode Cody.

[@dgmetaxa]

Ha ha, that's cool... literally. Oh Cody.

[@anatoleh1]

Cody I dare you to make some flying object using vacuum chambers to exploit buoyancy in the Earth's atmosphere.

[@20ola02]

Are you making a nuclear reactor next?

[@ShamblerDK]

I love that intro. Please never change it.

[@larfanformersalat0220]

When cody wears gloves you know shit s going on

[@dgdynasty2149]

You're one smart dude Cody, thanks for the great videos. very entertaining

[@BobbyDukeArts]

Dadgummit Cody, I missed you ❤ Also, it looked to me that the pure mercury has a higher surface tension then the alloy.

[@-zeno]

Bobby Duke Arts You should probably sub to his backup channel, “Codyslab backup”

[@Jamesvandaele]

ZenoZX I thought it was called codysblab

[@louistournas120]

It is due to the oxide: Tl2O3 forms quickly and sticks to the glass and the alloy sticks to the Tl2O3. If done properly, under very pure argon, the Tl-Hg alloy would beed up just like mercury.

[@gardenlifelove9815]

ive seen you do the most awesome experiments and explosions Cody, rock on man. also i hope your bees and graden did well this year. im getting two nucs in 2018.

[@gregg4]

Here's an idea: can Cody make water ice sublimate? Sublimation means to go straight from a solid state to a gas state. We are used to see dry ice sublimate. Making water ice sublimate would require very low pressure. I have never seen it done on youtube.

[@lajoswinkler]

It already does and it does not require low pressure. That's why ice is gone even if it never melts. All solids sublimate near their melting points. Solid water de facto stops sublimating below -80 °C I think. Clean your freezer and put a single cube of ice inside. Set the thermostat so that temperature is -5 °C. After few days, you'll see it's smaller.

[@gregg4]

I do not understand that. If you look at a phase diagram for water, it goes from solid to liquid to gas at one atmosphere. It only goes straight from solid to gas at 0.006 atmospheres or lower. If water does sublimate all the time than it's probably very little and not really perceptible. I was talking about making water ice sublimate the way dry ice does.

[@JoshuaRando]

Go to your freezer and look at the very bottom of the ice tray you will see that the ice cubes are significantly smaller.

[@brocktechnology]

I recommend Nilered's video "the iodine myth" for thorough discussion of the confusion surrounding the subject of sublimation.

[@StabbyJoe135]

He already has videos in which things sublimate

[@johncosgrove4896]

Been checking all week to see if you had uploaded, great video. Looking forward to the next one

[@ebooog69]

Hey Cody, I️ know you know what you’re doing, but please be safe and take the extra precautions like doing these flammable gas experiments outside. You never know how the wiring in houses are...

[@johnladuke6475]

Periodic Table Of Videos: This compound contains thallium, so YOU MUST NOT TOUCH IT OR YOU WILL DIE Cody'sLab: Thallium is super deadly but it's cool, I've got mercury so it's not lonely.

[@Sparrow420]

Liquid propane molotov, it must be done! if you won't I will.

[@SarahIsWeird]

Tomorrow's news: Mental guy blows himself up while trying to make a liquid propane molotov. Thank god he did.

[@LunaticCharade]

Cody could probably pull it off safely, pretty sure everyone else would blow up

[@steavf9455]

Happy to see that you're back, Cody. Keep the videos coming!

[@TheNocturnalAlchemist]

Feel like I just left chemistry class after watching this video

[@guy3nder529]

The Nocturnal Alchemist what's wrong?

[@TOMNTOM11]

The Nocturnal Alchemist You are everywhere!

[@shazamshazamski4490]

Soooooo looking forward to the Thorium video. TIG rods were another source I have been contemplating.

[@BryanEshbaugh]

Cody. . Can I send you a proper utility knife? I will even get you new blades.

[@hunszaszist]

"Haha, that's cool. Literally." Liked.

[@cameronsmith9903]

Cody, record yourself screaming on a phone and play it on a loop in a vacuum chamber to prove no one can hear you scream in space!

[@ScriptGuider]

Lol. You might still be able to hear it slightly though, from vibrations coming through whatever the phone is resting on.

[@physics3632]

im scared of thorium thulium and thallium cody:today we are working with thallium

[@Graciashauf]

Cody check out bionerd on here. She has a lot of videos on radiation. Really interesting

[@IRisingFuryI]

Cody, you should invert the calibration chart. Currently you have resistance as a function of temperature. If you invert it to temperature, as a function of resistance, you'll be able to put in your resistance reading and just get the temperature out of it. Also, if you can, repeat the experiment and put a timer next to the voltmeter. I'd like to see resistance as a function of time as the whole thing warms up. It should go up over time, but I'm hoping there'll be a slight pause or decrease for a while, as the metal melts and absorbs latent heat. That'll also help you determine the melting temperature better, assuming the latent heat is large enough to show a decrease.

[@treavormiller9552]

I know it would be expensive and dangerous but have you ever thought about trying to turn mercury into gold? It would be some of the best clickbait ever!

[@C2H5OHist]

Heard he's currently mining a circular shaft for a particle accelerator in his mine. When that's done we should see gold.

[@treavormiller9552]

AlfonsoB I hope so

[@CascadePSA]

AlfonsoB lol

[@mekan0001]

AfonsoB Best comment of the day so far!

[@pietrotettamanti7239]

Matthew Grimsley aaah, jokes... beautiful things that not everyone can understand

[@Wackis87]

Finally something new Cody! You cant keep us waiting this long! :D

[@parkerandersen4460]

As soon as you said tasteless odorless and incredibly toxic I thought princes bride

[@densealloy]

Parker Andersen Locaine powder !

[@Yummypikletits]

Thats sick! A way to make a thermometer work in those tempd this means you can possibly get a temp of things in space

[@dizzious]

How many gas lantern mantles would one need to compress into a block & surround by TECs to create an RTG? Do they even emit the correct type of radiation / would they get warm if you got enough of them together? I tried to do the math on this once and I came up with something like a few cubic feet of compressed mantles to generate one watt. I'm not sure if I did the math right though, or if it's even possible.

[@theCodyReeder]

1 watt per few cubic feet sounds about right, thorium isn't all that radioactive.

[@lajoswinkler]

Naturally occuring thorium has such a long halflife that its heat production is meaningful only in enormous piles such as the Earth's core (it's not pure thorium, of course!). Even if you had a sphere of elementary thorium 1 m wide, chances are you couldn't measure the temperature increase unless you had a really sensitive probe and you surrounded the sphere with asbestos and waited for days. Radioisotopes useable for RTG units have very short halflifes (decades or less). Natural thorium (mostly Th-232) is a primordial element with a halflife of more than 14 billion years.

[@dizzious]

I guess it's confirmed then, my dreams of making an RTG from parts I can buy at Wal-Mart are shattered forever :'c

[@VipersHeart]

thanks again cody for being the mercury channel

[@stevenjohn7770]

Are you going to make Plutonium with the extractet Thorium and some Americium?

[@Shanask487]

You are our treasure. Please do not take the risk of blowing yourself up.

[@RuknerC]

Is that blade which you use to measure how hard light is pushing?

[@Spineraker4]

Cody really loves his alkali metals. lol I really wish we could see Francium experiments to complete the group show off by this point :(.

[@Krawacik3d]

How does mercury taste?

[@theCodyReeder]

a bit like mineral oil

[@fattard2213]

Cody'sLab how would you know it would it taste like. Isn't it poisonous

[@MrFreakHeavy]

Next time tell us how sweet Lead is compared to D2O. I kid, but seriously, I wouldn't be surprised he has actually tasted Mercury. Heck, he drank Cyanide -- just a bit, though, but still!

[@munjee2]

krawacik3 I've had it in my mouth once tasted kinda like oil not sure if that's standard or if it was of my hands

[@jacoballen2664]

wither king In it's pure form Mercury is relatively not toxic and safe enough to drink because your digestive system isn't very good at absorbing pure metals. But when it reacts with something else it can be absorbed and then causes problems.

[@CountryFriedChocobo]

Recently came across your channel and have been watching everything. I really loved the episode with you creating the pee dye and also Prussian Blue. It would be pretty neat to see how other paint pigments are formed with like Cadmium, Titanium, and so forth. Keep up the good work!

[@Tuxfanturnip]

Can you make a similar alloy with gallium that will be liquid at room temperature?

[@jakeroosenbloom]

Tuxfanturnip 😘

[@Tuxfanturnip]

😘😘😘

[@PotatoesAssistant]

Tuxfanturnip 😘😘😘😘

[@Tuxfanturnip]

😘

[@hey7328]

you can with indium and gallium

[@NZHorizones]

Looking very forward to what's coming soon !

[@AndrewsalTk]

Yay!

[@Yay-tr2qw]

S4Sx4NDY here I am !

[@justincosio7]

Man your videos are awesome! Been here since 100k subs. Keep up the good work!

[@christopyper1287]

Cody can you show us how to make more explosives? Maybe trinitrotoluene (TNT)

[@inksashawn]

Watch list ✅

[@keithjurena9319]

TNT synthesis won't land you in prison. It is a safer high explosive than nitroglycerin since it isn't shock sensitive. Much harder to do the third nitro substitution on the benzene ring of toluene. Or phenol (picric acid).

[@-danR]

I researched the fine print on explosives-manufacture some months ago. It is far stricter than people realize, and isn't restricted to proscribing distribution; and the meaning of 'manufacture' is really loose. In theory you cannot even make black-powder without a license.

[@Cd5ssmffan]

what about astrolite

[@TomKappeln]

@Weedus : Actually you can buy Hexamine here in Germany in PLAYSTORES ! I have good 10Kilos of pure Hexamine from "Esbit" over here ... :-) Some lame H2O2 (12%) and a little C6H8O7 and ..... RUN ! HMTD ...

[@alexmorrison9863]

That thorium experiment is going to be pretty interesting!!

[@janakiramr7631]

So basically I just spent 11 minutes watching some shiny water freeze

[@t-.-t.]

Herobrine677 Ive the same reaction to all of his videos. I dont know whats happening but I just watch. Im too dumb

[@dustinm2717]

well thats one way to put it lol

[@garethdean6382]

Very, very poisonous shiny water.

[@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676]

Can't wait for the upcoming videos!

[@gogo311]

Cody wearing gloves. OMG

[@rocketstarproductionsinc.4903]

And when Cody is wearing gloves, things get serious.

[@jimbo111589]

It's really blowing my mind that adding a metal that's solid at room temperature somehow LOWERS the freezing point of a metal.

[@PaftDunk]

Is it possible to make a salt out of this alloy?

[@theCodyReeder]

well yes it would be a mix of mercury and thallium salts...

[@eddievanhorn5497]

Pat Y Why? Im kinda scared of you now.

[@christiaanwesterveld1758]

Pat Y because its super poisinous.?

[@lajoswinkler]

This being an alloy does not change how mercury and thallium chemically react. It's not a new chemical entity, it's a mixture. If you dissolved it in nitric acid, you'd get a mixture of mercury(II) and thallium(III) ions. Upon evaporation, you'd probably get a slush of their nitrates. However, I'm pretty sure it's possible to make a double salt of thallium and mercury, but that's another story.

[@garethdean6382]

What's fun is that mixed salts do exist, such as mercury-thallium sulfate. The proportions aren't those of the alloy of course, but still...

[@danemanton86]

my god... just watching that exposed thallium being cut and slivers coming off openly, and with a razor blade one handed! The tiniest of slip ups to break your skin, or a tiny shard or sliver of that thallium being so close to flung off and lost is just mindblowingly reckless....the amount of danger here to anyone who knows thallium, is just insane lol

[@matthewbatchelor3547]

Cody can you do something involving gallium? - I recently brought 50g of the stuff and I’d like to see what I can do with it apart from melt it

[@swabianscience]

You could make some really brittle aluminum/aluminium or alloy it with tin and indium

[@MarcoTedaldi]

Matthew Batchelor i think Cody did some gallium stuff. For example he made a mirror...

[@nathandean1687]

just do a search here for gallium.

[@zanpekosak2383]

You can make salts or tilt switches. Otherwise nothing too significant...

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

it'd be cool to see if one could use it as lubricant for machines or engines, provided none of the components are made of aluminium, unless you want to destroy the thing... that would be fun though.

[@householdchemist]

Cody, I love your videos, keep the hard work up!

[@TheRealVandpistolen]

Cody do you have any explaination on the "explosions" heard all over the world recently?

[@AaronKJames]

Context?

[@t-.-t.]

Huh?

[@mephistosprincipium]

conspiracy theories imo

[@canaan5337]

Deadpool Michael Bay

[@derpypedro9589]

It was just one big explosion, the ice walls at the edge of the earth just made it echo. Your welcome

[@eddievanhorn5497]

Yay a new wonderful codyslab video!

[@RealJichealMackson]

I really like the sound quality!

[@Henchman1977]

"This isn't easy to cut" Cody said, using a rusty Stanley Knife blade that only moments before had been used to pry open a paint can.

[@scottfirman]

Isnt this that illegal channel that got blocked because of the iffy practices going on? Abusing the minds of bugs,no larger than those that monitor You-Tube for inappropriate material. Glad you made it back on. I have always enjoyed your experiments,bugs and all. Keep up the great work!

[@prestonrutherford3997]

New to the channel! I've probably watched 10 videos now; this is awesome.

[@hello_world777]

Hi Cody, here is a suggestion for you. Measure the speed of sound in liquid mercury, frozen mercury, hot iron and solid iron. I am not sure how to best do this, but I am sure you can come up with something? The theory is pretty straightforward, but in practice it is difficult.

[@sethstegmuller6433]

Its crazy I've bin subed since 20,000 the channel grew so fast

[@videolabguy]

The best sample in my collection is a 35mm camera thorium doped glass lens from the 70s. Very crackly.

[@havemannmachineco9652]

The blade is from your "does light push" video!

[@shanebywater6628]

The razor blade came from Cody’s emotion collection

[@GRBtutorials]

I know it’s an old video, but you can do linear regression in Excel: just right click on one of the points and “Add a best-fit line”.

[@PerksPrisoner]

Today on Cody's Lab we will show our concern about liquid metallic materials breaking their glass tubes and later we will tap them together while below the freezing point of Mercury directly above Liquid Propane. Ha ha Cody you make me clinch sometimes. XD

[@blackbirdpie217]

I know what Cody wants for Christmas, a proper utility knife and a set of blades to go with it.

[@imhigh0013]

Idea for a cody series; mineral content in common items. ie aluminium cans may have diffenent alloy in lid as to body; plus what else is involved. Or whats alloyed to make most 'silverware' or pans. Along with minerals, possible repurpose uses of said items.

[@DragonElf66]

Another liquid mix with an astonishing melting point is the DMSO-water system. DMSO melts at +19 °C, the 50% mixture melts below -80 °C

[@grey1wa]

Dang it Cody! Ya Teased the next Video. Can't wait to see that one as I never realized that Lantern mantles contained thorium

[@CarterColeisInfamous]

i like how you use propane as a coolant