Copper Mercury Amalgam Experiments

I explore some potential uses of this material.
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[@theCodyReeder]

I'ma try something! if I loved your comment it means I have read/seen it!

[@orangebrandon5260]

I you have seen mine pls maybe make a vid of it it would be nice to see all of you substances and do you know how a radio receiver (the wire) can read radio waves

[@shrekfanboy1734]

So thats why you liked mine

[@SDesigns2023]

Hey is that a IRFP4232? Cool vid Cody!!!

[@Silverfurry89]

I think it would be awesome to test the thermal conductivity.

[@vivimannequin]

Could you try a mercury Bismuth amalgam?

[@EvanBoyar]

Metal Oxide Femiconductor Sield Effect Transistor

[@theCodyReeder]

Metal Oxide Sield Femiconductor Effect Transistor

[@io504]

Metal Oxide Semiconducting Flame Emitting Transistor

[@pr0xZen]

Magic Pixie Flame Dispersing Effect Transistor

[@TheVirginMeri]

mosfet

[@PeregrineBF]

Grand Moff-Set Tarkin?

[@christopyper1287]

Cody’s top 5 priorities: 1. Science first 2. Gloves must be worn when doing math 3. Sleeping is for noobs 4. Safety 5. Poisons are neutral in the body

[@AxxLAfriku]

I will now count to 3 and then I am still the unprettiest KZbinr of all time. 1...2...3. Btw I have two girlfriends. Thank you for your attention, dear deadly donut 17

[@HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS]

6. Lead is safe

[@kevinalexander7710]

I think you forgot the words “Total disregard for” on number 4.

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

But don't let him get anywhere near butter. It'll be the end of him for sure.

[@pppoopoo69]

I think you forgot Nuclear Reactor

[@ElectroBOOM]

Some people call me Medhi an I don't bother, but you disrespected a holy component here Cody! TRIGGERED...

[@tafsirnahian669]

Hey! ElectroBOOMs comment without any reply! This is my property now! By the way give me the mittttar

[@geniusdude8975]

Hello

[@geniusdude8975]

I am ur biggest fan

[@ebrocoliphoto]

that copper is worth a lot

[@mf12811]

MOFSET

[@ganeshm8787]

Cody is a type of guy who sees a skeleton and tells that he would extract calcium from it ....lol

[@theCodyReeder]

Oh yeah I still need to do that!

[@theterribleanimator1793]

what about that phosphor?

[@dELTA13579111315]

@@theCodyReeder how difficult would it be to separate the magnesium from chloroplasts or mitochondria?

[@muerte7945]

Dankest memz

[@battlesheep2552]

Thank mr skeltal for doots and calcium

[@icychill105]

to prove the sealing power of flex mercury i sawed this boat in half!

[@ScarletFlames1]

**accidentally spilled into a connector port** That's alotta damidge!

[@cowbones6864]

"I made a light switch!" --- Cody 2018

[@piranha031091]

Imagine hooking it up to a lightbulb instead of a motor : "To turn on the light, you have to turn on the light."

[@dethadder0]

hmmm.........After its on, would it ever shut off?

[@piranha031091]

Of course, you just have to turn off the light, and it will turn off!

[@tryAGAIN87]

Ahahahaha. I just got to that part and laughed so hard ahahahahahaha

[@finkelmana]

"heat sink compound" You didnt check its thermal conductivity... at this point its just glue.

[@theCodyReeder]

Good point... it is a metal though.

[@geurgeury]

But it is porous, which would reduce its thermal conductivity

[@kylebooth2528]

I agree. It would be interesting to test it on a cpu. It already has a temperature sensor and can be used as a constant and repeatable load. I doubt this would do any better than the typical liquid metal thermal pastes, but it would be interesting to see how good it is.

[@The_Paya]

Stick it to the hot side of a peltier cell?

[@nanaki-seto]

Don't think it would be as thin as it is. it is acting like a metallic super glue dang near gluing copper to copper

[@bgray1009]

lol @ MOFSET, its a MOSFET

[@cpt_nordbart]

Grand Moff Set vs Mos Fett

[@krzysztofsoja5301]

I think MOFSET is an AvE's influence on Cody 😉

[@williamneubecker]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who took note of that mistake lol.

[@-danR]

Also, 11:40 This _is_ Cody'sLab. Did he mean Cody'sBlab? Or, as the meme goes, "that's the joke." ?

[@notavailable8130]

ya after the 3rd or 4th time of Mofset i started twinging and those things don't usually bug me, i think it is because i believe in Cody's superiority to us other humans..

[@throttleandclutch253]

Love this been watching since I was 9 now I'm 14 years old he has taught me so much I love you Cody

[@xmadrugadaxeternax]

You should bletch the moff-set switch before attaching it to its luminum heatsink.

[@keesdekarper]

mosfet :P

[@CIubFoot]

@@keesdekarper r/woosh

[@ergohack]

Do you think it might help if he platted it with neodiddlyum first?

[@raykent3211]

@@ergohack plaited, as in braids, but Brady does à différent channel. Of course a mofset may be a magnetic offset transducer, something like a solid state compass.

[@TheMinegamer83]

@Let the James Begin "Bames Nond's having a stronk, call a Bondulance"

[@jerry3790]

That small solar panel packed a surprising punch.

[@theCodyReeder]

lol

[@chrisd7091]

Had me going for a bit as well, till it realized its just turning it on and off not actually powering it

[@wi_zeus6798]

The solar panel is connected to the gate of the MOSFET and doesn't power the motor.

[@jerry3790]

Manuauto I’m sorry, it was a joke.

[@crackedemerald4930]

r/Woosh

[@whatevernamegoeshere3644]

Oh my god I just figured it out. Mofset was the same stunt as bletch. Now people comment more and push it further in the youtube algorithm lol

[@theCodyReeder]

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[@dimitar4y]

I KNOW IT'S INTENTIONAL BUT IT STILL BUGS BUNNIES ME

[@lelouchvibritannia1788]

What is bletch?

[@bigchooch4434]

@@lelouchvibritannia1788 saturated sodium hypochlorate

[@peregrine1970]

Mmm.... Mercury bubble stone... now you can farm Tuna just like wild. /s

[@theCodyReeder]

oh goodness!

[@JoshC03]

Due to density differences

[@theseus4737]

Please dont tell me that /s means sarcasm. Please

[@tryAGAIN87]

@@theseus4737 No, of course it doesn't! /s

[@electronicsNmore]

Now you know why a dentist must undercut tooth structure to have a mercury amalgam stay firmly in place. It won't stick to your teeth either. Great video!

[@electronicsNmore]

@matt xoxo Clearly something you know nothing about. LOL

[@herpsenderpsen]

Do dentists still use mercury amalgam?

[@electronicsNmore]

@@herpsenderpsen Some, but most now use UV cure composite materials.

[@Chuckiele]

Dental amalgam is actually quite nice. Its easy to squeze into holes and it gets hard and strong after curing. Toxicity isnt that big of a concern as its rarely coming into contact with compounds that can dissolve it while being in your mouth. However it seems to be reacting with gold fillings in other teeth, so you shouldnt have those two types combined.

[@shana_dmr]

​@@Chuckiele It actually creattes a little battery in your mouth combined with gold fillings;) To be honest I'll gladly use amalgam on teeth not visible from outside, because it's not disposable after 5-10 years like composite materials, but it's getting harder to find a dentist that do these.

[@luisjosemorales980]

If you send Cody back 3000 years, he will give technology to our ancestors. And make 2018 feel like 200018

[@theCodyReeder]

I wonder what the Egyptians could have done with concrete and steel.

[@Sqtgdog]

I feel like concrete would have been right up their alley, but steel maybe too hard to produce in quantity given the natural resources available to them. Who knows, maybe they would have created some unique papyrus/concrete fiber bricks and built structures that would survive the Eons.

[@sebastianramadan8393]

> I wonder what the Egyptians could have done with concrete and steel. Am I correct in interpreting a hint of sarcasm? I mean... haha... I don't know, build pyramids with the concrete and statues of dancing cats with the steel? Modern day Cody, in the B.C.E. would have been mocked and probably executed by the religious nuts, just like Socrates and Galileo were for suggesting that the Earth isn't flat... I mean, you can see Cody siding with them on that issue, right? We all would... right? OTOH, go back thousands of years and the norms change; what the majority of people encounter commonly and consider acceptable (that includes you, if you're a part of the majority) changes, so for example Cody from the B.C.E., being a common man, might have never been educated quite as well as contemporary Cody and may have just been a blacksmith or a miner... or a farmer.

[@egon1693]

Do you want to make humans extinct

[@LostDeadSoul]

You say wet sand. Can you make the amalgam act like cornstarch by adjusting the content of mercury?

[@theCodyReeder]

That is so going on the project list!

[@MikeeVee]

That should make for an interesting video.

[@primalbeer]

Hey cody! Apparently silver mercury amalgam has a higher compressive strength and a higher hardness than brass. Only the tensile strength is miserable so if you could come up with a design to put on your brass which doesn't induce any tensile forces in the material you could perhaps make the stamp work.

[@coder0xff]

Mix in nanotubes.

[@jamesburleson1916]

I think you'd need to put it in a kind of cup so that all the forces are compressive on the amalgam and all the tensile forces are on the metal cup.

[@MobiusHorizons]

Hey Cody, love the content. One small correction, the transistor is said MOS-FET for Metal Oxide Semiconductor - Field Effect Transistor.

[@justahilltopguy5418]

Another great video Cody! Thank you for sharing your time and talents.

[@apburner1]

Everywhere Cody goes becomes a Superfund site.

[@doubledarefan]

If Cody is on any watchlist, it would be EPA's, not DHS, CIA, TSA, NSA, etc.

[@MatthewSlaymaker]

Seriously though, this man is an environmentalist's nightmare.

[@nedwardow_1179]

wouldn't the mercury evaporate if it was on a radiator.

[@theCodyReeder]

The mercury chemically bonds to the copper. this forms a new substance with its own melting and decomposition temperatures which are much higher than mercury and lower than copper normally has.

[@jormam69]

yeah but you don't really need to boil it in order to get dangerous levels of vapor

[@blubb7711]

Fun story my Prof: A student of him messurated the mercury content of peoples breath und found out that when they were eating hot stuff, the mercury content rised bei 1000x than normal. Thats why mercury fillaments in teeths are now banned.

[@slikrx]

I make dental restoratives for a living. Amalgams are ONLY dangerous to the clinical staff removing them. They need to be drilled/ground out, and the dust contains a fair amount of mercury. And they do this daily. For patients, they have maybe 150 milligrams of amalgamated mercury, and lose a couple milligrams per year, most of which leaves via bowels. Eating normal tuna is FAR more hazardous.

[@daftnord4957]

Mercury Alloy?

[@Saneyboo]

I really like that Cody uploads the failures as well, so many of these channels "get an idea" and they ALL work out (IE they done the experiement and just keeps the successes), i come back every once in a while and binge all the videos i haven't seen, even though a lot of the stuff isn't really in my sphere of interest he explains so i do get a interested.

[@reneeanderson1820]

This was a great episode. Good job Cody!

[@narcoleptic8982]

MOSFET DAMMIT! NOT MOFSET! AHHHHH! Love the vids, keep them coming!

[@thewolfin]

metal oxide field semiconductor effect transistor

[@fullmetaljacket7]

I was discussing about using this Amalgam vs the kryonaut stuff as a thermal compound in the comments section on the last video. Thanks for testing it!

[@kevinandrews6325]

Excellent video Cody. Keep up the good work.

[@fig1954]

Cody, I am always amazed at your knowledge! You are cool. Because you show your experiments from test stage, to failure, to success. I remember someone told me that a scientist goes through the same process. Thank you for all your work and entertainment from watching you. I always eagerly wait for your next video and I always the press like button.

[@joshualeefyi]

Very interesting video Cody I love the fact that you experimented more with the Mercury copper amalgam thank you for the upload this was cool

[@AaronTheBlackDragon]

It´s really interesting to see more from this amalgam. It´s fascinating to see how it works.

[@alfredodelira1703]

Greetings out here from Texas. Love your videos Cody thanks for uploading such informative content 😄✌🏼️

[@JesseRyan]

super interesting video cody! i loved every second of it

[@Master_Therion]

Did you use high-grade mercury, or retrograde mercury?

[@theCodyReeder]

technical grade.

[@mannys9130]

Heh. I got the joke OP. 😄

[@melody3741]

@@theCodyReeder you probably should have used food grade, just to be safe.

[@wejvi32]

@@melody3741 in his next video he should try the plutonium amalgam

[@melody3741]

@@wejvi32 he should make sure the plutonium is food grade, too.

[@trippprofant8747]

Hey I’ve been a long time subscriber and love ur videos I just wanted to say keep it up

[@GuyInAMountain]

Another amazing science video! I really like your channel, non-common experinents. Regular posting and no too much sophistication. Thank you!

[@theCodyReeder]

no product placements...

[@joshc6699]

Hi Cody! Love your Channel. Keep up the great vids

[@abblabblabalaba]

Hey cody love your videos, there was a thread on reddit suggesting you make some different batteries (one of which looked incredibly toxic lol), I'd love to see you experiment with different types of batteries and explain electrochemistry with various different examples. Might be a cool series. I know I'd love to see it :D

[@theCodyReeder]

im looking ionto it

[@Scrogan]

I’ve heard promising things about aluminium-air cells, and a cell that uses elemental iodine or bromine could be unique.

[@stdorn]

I was interested in making a battery while watching your video on the chlorine generator, after running it it had a 3v cell voltage. I would like to know if that voltage held under load or if it was "overcharged" and abnormally high.

[@realtalkwiththeking7862]

"It's backwards." I was like "Damn, that amalgam has some wild properties." 😂😂😂

[@magisterchief]

Cody always answers the questions I never knew I had.

[@kingofrandom9504]

I love your videos Cody , they're the best on KZbin

[@piranha031091]

15:55 I'm also pretty sure it isn't compatible with WEEE/RoHS regulation...

[@theCodyReeder]

lol nope

[@ReneSchickbauer]

I wonder if you could completely bake out the mercury - would the copper still stick together or would it return to dust? I was thinking along the lines of using the mercury as a kind of solvent to "crystallize" the copper into whatever shape you want, without having to melt it.

[@piranha031091]

I doubt you'lll be able to bake out the mercury without going above copper's melting point anyway.

[@koolman5865]

there is something about experimenting with amalgams that is pretty mystifying, kind of like an alchemist in the middle ages trying to create gold from lead. Great video !! :)

[@tinarekresim8301]

Cody i love your vids, every single one, keep on doing what you do!

[@Tom-ro7em]

i love this channel. keep it up cody!

[@rosselur]

mofset. awesome. also, if that goo can stand liquid nitrogen temperatures, it might actually be usable in overclocking.

[@laser69beam]

mofset switch ;]]]

[@TheGuenther27]

"MOSFET"

[@elitearbor]

With a luminium heatsink!

[@JerseyJimFish]

I have no practical use for any of this, but find it fascinating! Thanks for sharing, Cody!

[@ToddLarsen]

Fascinating👍 Thanks for sharing and as always Keep Building👍

[@casewhite5048]

mercury lava lamp please

[@thatguy431]

"I made a light switch". Nerd puns...ugh

[@williamthomasmi10]

Literally slapped my forehead

[@schregen]

I love you, Cody. Your videos make me feel nice. 🍄

I love so much your videos codys cause its interesting and original, and i can learn english and science !

[@sethles434]

"Flat out flattened."

[@mcflapper7591]

what is a moff sit? got a dog called moff?

[@ronniebrummett4995]

I’m never bored with your videos

[@crazyanim8tion]

Wow, we have both exposure AND focus adjustments! Very nice!

[@luisjosemorales980]

if you leave Cody in a inhabited island, he will survive without problem.

[@Moon_Metty]

Nahhh ... Cody needs at least 1 kg of mercury per day to survive. So unless there's a rich mercury ore vein just below the surface, he is doomed.

[@ScottMaday]

Cody’s Lab in 8 years: I created an alloy breaks the record for the lowest melting point.

[@heideknight9122]

Well darn. Had hoped it would be more useful. Thanks for the video!

[@SDesigns2023]

Great vid Cody!! I never really thought of controlling a gate with a solar cell. Have you thought of doing more electronic experiments? Loved your coil gun vid for one. You always come up with the coolest ideas man

[@beeblaine539]

After reading about galistan, I decided to create my own liquid aloy using tin instead of indium. (Sense they are very symaler )I pressed a piece of tin and gallium together and a liquid was formed. I found later that under miniral oil it flaked, like the tin was falling out. Inspecting it shows it seams like the metal is just separated. Can anybody help?

[@theCodyReeder]

Look up the phase diagram for that mixture.

[@vmelkon]

The thing about liquid metal alloys is that one of the metals might be quite reactive towards oxygen. It would form an oxide and flake off, thus exposing more of the metal and the process continues. That's what happens with mercury-aluminium. The Al continuously forms Al2O3. It also happens with Ga-Al. In your case, it might be the tin forming SnO.

[@8fledermaus8]

Since it's porous maybe you could use it as a filter? Thanks for your vids!! ^^

[@theCodyReeder]

Interesting idea. I wonder if I could change the scize of the pors with different scized copper.

[@KainYusanagi]

@Tristan Sachsenweger So basically like a homemade molecular sieve.

[@thepcmaster1.048]

Cody you are my role model. You are incredible keep up the good work.

[@wuldiba]

Your inquisitiveness is so infectious.........keep up the good work Cody.

[@maxwellssilverhammer]

my youtube buddy is happy

[@johnf6825]

did you just

[@TheWhoman9]

Michel reeves

[@Bulbasauros]

xD

[@Bulbasauros]

@@kriskotooBGXD now they will know

[@redclay4099]

Cody please make a video where you put a vacuum chamber with a gauge on the outside and put it in a larger chamber and pressurized the large container and measure the psi using the change in vacuum.

[@jamesg1367]

Great stuff! You've greatly de-mystified amalgams for me, Cody. Thanks!

[@SuperMegaCoffeeGuru]

Whew first 1k views. Awesome as always Cody!

[@thesentientneuron6550]

Cody do you remember what you said you made the wax blocks for? Any progress on that? Good radiation shield eh?

[@josh5231]

I was thinking the same thing. Also would like an update on the chainmail armor.

[@CristiNeagu]

Not sure if he can't pronounce MOSFET properly or he's just trolling...

[@CraigandCars]

Cristi Neagu I was wondering the same! 😂

[@jones2539]

Same here! It was driving me insane!

[@jarrodfrankum]

He also refers to bleach as "bletch." he pronounces whatever he wants however he wants

[@TheMusicalKnokcers]

how did he say mosfet ?

[@stuartmcconnachie]

TheMusicalKnokcers MOFSET

[@MrAlex173]

yes!!! More videos like these, i loved it a lot

[@oogabooga6479]

I absolutely love your videos.

[@esb3111]

Boba MOS-FETT 😀

[@N5KDA]

Thank you, MOS stands for Metal Oxide Simi-coductor and is pronounced "moss" FET stands for Field Effect Transistor and is pronounced "FETT" so MOSS_FETT or just MOS-FET. GAas - Fet is a GAS_FET.

[@seanflanagan5674]

@07:40 Wow! Cody's reproduced the Philosopher's Stone!

[@zacharymoussette2774]

Hey, Cody.. i watch your video’s all the time & I think your experiments are pretty exciting.. Thankyou for making all of your videos! Sincerely: Zachary Moussette from N.H. USA.

[@mcrekkr]

I hate how long it took me to get your light switch joke but it certainly brightened up my day. :D

[@SchutzmarkeGMBH]

Would Galinstan work better as a conductive paint? That stuff sticks to anything

[@theCodyReeder]

Probably

[@Kavukamari]

is it a MOSFET or a MOFFSET ?

[@The723726]

Hi cody watch your channel all the time and i enjoy everything on it and learn a lot from it and yer its cool you get to play with a lot of stuff we could not get our hands on lol especially in australia please keep up the good work and keep making videos ps. think your videos would be good to show kids in science class.

[@phallus36]

The stuff you do is so random, I don't even know why I watch it. Yet I cannot for the life of me skip one of your videos. Keep doing what you do best man

Can you explain us why mercury bind to metal like copper gold silver etc... and not to iron (and i suppose nickel titanium etc...)

[@theCodyReeder]

Platinum is another it won’t bond with. It’s because mixing with those metals is not energetically favorable.

[@ergohack]

@@theCodyReeder Are you able to explain _why_ it isn't energetically favourable?

Thanks for replying! I was expecting a more detailed explanation. ;) Not energy favorable can come from many things. Can you go further? XD. (I should maybe know this by myself as im phd student in chemistry...) Is it from the crystal lattice? Si maybe a minecraft video can explain it clearly?

[@johnpossum556]

Sounds like a good topic to do a video on.

[@musa4539]

1:21 call Phil Swift, that's what Flex Tape is for! Oh my god I can't believe I got a

[@deadalpeca8099]

He's giving hearts to everyone

[@musa4539]

Idc I'm just happy he acknowledges comments!

[@pyrotechnik9022]

Awesome experiment (as always)

[@A-Goose-]

i've been watching cody's vids quite a while. He explain everything beyond my grasp pretty well. I thought myself i could learn a lot from cody about science in general. Cody : *giggle* i made a light switch

[@lucasgonzalezaleman5077]

would you try to mix mercury with gallium? i was told it wasn't possible........(sorry for the bad English)

[@theCodyReeder]

Yeah they separate like oil and water.

[@lucasgonzalezaleman5077]

nice, i will take a picture of these hahaha thanks for the respond!

[@redclay4099]

Cody do a video where you release two large magnets under water and they are pulled together

[@Psyconaut116]

How is he going to pull them apart afterwards?

[@julymorris6367]

LPH They have magnet splitters. Just use a form of leverage.

[@mckrunchytoast2469]

Love the videos cody! You should try carving a pumpkin with acids haha!

[@HellsMinion]

the pattern on the table you used looks awesome

[@PDeRop]

In 5 years, that's what MOSFET will be called.

[@maurinavoni6925]

damn, you do read a lot of comments. I thought youtubers mostly ignored them

[@embyrr922]

That little giggle after the light switch joke is precious

[@CatManTho]

Cody's favorite element: mercury. Been binge watching all his videos.

[@whtwolf100]

hey cody, what happens if you try to set cement in a vacuum?

[@theCodyReeder]

it dries out willhout setting.

[@whtwolf100]

could you make cement that sets in a vacuum? think of the space applications.

[@coder0xff]

Does that mean it can be recovered and repoured? A do over.

[@TheVirginMeri]

DIY FlexSeal

[@mumeihozumi-chan555]

Lewd and hot

[@doubledarefan]

More like StiffSeal.

[@ultrafox2773]

Hi Cody, I hope you had a great day!

[@sciencechemistry9259]

Great video keep up the good work

[@dELTA13579111315]

Hey Cody, how is your chainmail coming along? I can't wait to see how it turns out

[@theCodyReeder]

I'm thinking of live streaming some of the knitting process.

[@dELTA13579111315]

@@theCodyReeder that would be awesome! I'd watch it lol

[@nonofyourbusiness7078]

hey cody what about making a community discord server?

[@theCodyReeder]

I have no experience with discord.

[@nonofyourbusiness7078]

Discord is a platform where you can make server that have text and voice channel. Its perfect for KZbin communities.

[@alexstromberg7696]

@@nonofyourbusiness7078 but it just a cluster fuck of animeposters and role players. Also every KZbin discord is about everything that is not the KZbin cha6

[@NikohSimonds]

You dont know how happy I was to see these tests. Both for the educational purposes, and that I had asked about its conductivity on Blab. ^_^

[@tuvoca825]

BTW, Thanks for your experiments!