Just How Small & Empty is an Atom? Bicycle Tour from Nucleus to Electron Cloud

Let's scale up the nucleus of a carbon atom to the size of a baseball and go on a bike ride looking for electrons! Discover the incredible density of the nucleus and explore the vast electron cloud surrounding it. 🚲🔬
Time Stamps:
0:00 Emptiness of an Atom
0:20 Scaling Up an Atom of Carbon-12
0:43 Insane Density of the Nucleus
1:06 Finding the 1st 2 Electrons (1s2 Electrons)
2:57 At Node btw 1s2 & 2s2 Orbitals
3:38 How Will We Know We’ve Found Electrons?
4:52 Valence Shell
5:51 Same Atom Over Famous Landmarks
6:24 Atoms Are Tiny / Objects Scaled Up by the Same Amount
Citations:
This video is based on information found in chapter 6 of OpenStax Chemistry 2e. OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, free online textbooks. Seriously:
Flowers, P., Theopold, K., Langley, R., & Robinson, W.R. (2019, Feb 14). Chemistry 2e. OpenStax. openstax.org/details/books/ch...
pg 308, Figure 6.21 Shapes of s, p, d, and f orbitals.
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This should have a billion views! Brilliant content.

[@ChemistryinaNutshell]

😁Thank you!

[@HimanshuSharma-ir3is]

Oh! This is just elegantly beautiful. As a cycling enthusiast, the cycling shots were enticing but what stood out for me was your ability to stay on track, putting near calculated values while scaling up and still keeping it crisp. Thank you. ❤️

[@ChemistryinaNutshell]

Thank you! This video was fun to make, too.

[@RvVx7]

There is no empty space, they're connected by something we don't know.

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Omg found your channel through reddit and I loooove your content! I love the way you explain it all, so interesting!

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Col. Tanks cool work

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How does epoxy react with grignard?

[@ChemistryinaNutshell]

Hello! Within the epoxide ring, one of the C-O bonds will break. The C and O need to form one new bond each: The O will have an H added, making it an OH group. The C will have the R group from the Grignard reagent added. You do have 2 C-O bonds to choose from in the original epoxide ring. The less substituted C is that one that will react. It follows an SN2 mechanism.