What Happens If You Candle Dip Bismuth?

[@zachell1991]

did anyone else see the strong optical illusion at @5:40 My brain made it look inverse like it was a bismuth mound, not a geode LOL. The protrusions looked like intrusions and the intrusions looked like protrusions!

[@johnwalshaw]

That is so cool and the foil casting reminded me of melting lead for casting toy soldiers.

[@dannyobrian5957]

I like your enthusiasm for syrange science good luck with your channel subbed !

[@simonstrandgaard5503]

Beautiful

[@trstmeimadctr]

I would be interested to see what happens when you repeat this with a deeper, narrower vessel so that it more closely resembles the depth that you usually dip when making candles

[@AsimJawahir]

Awesome Video!! Bismuth looks so pretty!

[@HChandler2010]

Great video

[@amandahugankiss4110]

Bismuth miniatures for table top gaming may be neat.

[@alveolate]

dayum this is yet another nice idea for a live demo in physics class! instead of boring crystallization diagrams... you could show students a buncha awesome bismuth crystals forming in real time. where was all this cool shit when i was in middle school >.

[@del7o]

i wonder if you used the aluminum foil geode method, but heated the foil in such a way that it cooled much much slower, would it produce bigger/more defined crystals on the inside? in nature large crystals are usually formed when they cool very slowly so maybe the same would happen here

[@haroldtheescapist2865]

These were some great ideas and may have useful application such as the layering of bismuth. I am curious if you could do micro layers of bismuth and other metals, aluminium, magnesium etc would all of these bind with each other with this method to create single layer multi alloys? curious about what magnetic properties layering like this could produce

[@AlbertFilice]

Your videos are awesome

[@HoldYourSeahorses]

I think that’s what the new titanium iPhone is made of.

[@scottcates]

good

[@TheMrbazooka]

Top Job chap 🤘 You have a sub from me, now how do i get away with doing this at home without the other-half finding out!?

[@JohnHoranzy]

Just buy a small cheap cast iron frying pan. My gas stove works good and as would electric. Just prepare ahead of time to handle 520 degree F material and keep some water nearby in case it ignites some wood or something. It is not toxic. It is in Pepto-Bismol. Have fun. Forgot .... 500 degree pan on a glass cook top would probably crack it so do not do it on a glass cook top.

[@flomojo2u]

I've always found bismuth to be endlessly annoying to work with, you have less and less to work with due to the rapid oxidation, and it conducts heat so poorly that it's difficult to melt larger amounts of it unless it's completely immersed in a heated crucible.

[@paulmh]

Yes it also expands as it freezes like water which can shatter graphite crucibles if you let it cool in them

[@veaxvoid]

Deep it in vacuum?

[@RichartEgli]

if anyone wants to grow crystals...i can give you a lot of know-how....my "biggest" crystal is 1030 G.

[@NonameDerp]

Your Bismuth dipper was reaaaaaaaal worthless.