What If You Built Your Own Periodic Table?

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Join Peter on his mission to try and recreate the periodic table in real life! How many elements can he gather? Which elements are impossible to find?
00:00 We Built the Periodic Table of Elements (sort of)
01:02 Goal & Budget
02:13 Row 1
02:45 Row 2
03:25 Row 3
03:57 Row 4
06:07 Row 5
06:56 Row 6
08:09 Row 7
08:53 How did Peter do?
13:19 Win a t-shirt and zoom call with the What If Team!
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[@WhatIfScienceShow]

This is your chance to meet the What If team! Which challenge should Peter do next? The best comment will have a Zoom meeting with us and get a chance to ask any questions and learn more about our show.

[@Slockgaming750]

Hey

[@ITT59Gamer]

nice april fools

[@ZAYMANGAMESTUDIO]

Nice

[@Sponggybobbie]

What if Peter tried breaking bullet proof glass?

[@Seachellev]

Ummm bro ur so funny in real life id like to see more videos like this. My challenge for him is to try to freeze something in dry ice

[@phoenixspirit6014]

That's really nice to bring more variety to the channel. Im excited for more of these!

[@WhatIfScienceShow]

Thank you! Glad to hear you liked the different type of content from us!

[@zilharuthignacio7884]

Looking forward to more of these too.

[@Vibranium_man]

​@@WhatIfScienceShow can you do a what if Vibranium existed in real life video?

[@teamok1025]

​@@WhatIfScienceShowCan you do more of this vlog type vids

[@We_in_Miami]

5:39 😂I love how you blurred it out and then at 6:01 didn’t even care 😂

[@billgaytes9114]

“What if The planets switched places?”

[@KunalKumar-ui9su]

Nothing interesting you just die

[@tyremedlin321]

Equally likely

[@Biologyman63]

Oh hell na-

[@W.A.S.B]

Bro is 9 year old

[@xtremeyoylecake]

We’re dead!

[@shifterzx]

A longer version of this video that showed what you used to get the rare elements and also take the opportunity to educate where you can find such elements and what we use them in. For example you can find rhodium in your cars catalytic converter

[@o_s-24]

Yes. I was gonna say the same thing

[@papang368]

I think your are right but i pick Jewelry😢

[@TheXenProject]

But can you separate it from platinum and palladium?

[@patrickhannon4217]

Woah! That is quite a reaction to an egg & cheese sandwich, it was only in his mouth for miliseconds 🤣🤣

[@Ssm_Gaming135]

6:01 For those who are wondering what the cereal brand it was, it's avoine croquante

[@nissanzenkiboy]

As someone who is taking Chemistry 2 in college rn and driving me crazy this was very cool to watch !

[@King0Ben]

Hi, I have a suggestion, you can recreate the solar system planets in smell (make baloons filled with gases smells like the planets and make them revolves around a fire ball)

[@SHREYA-wj8mv]

Yup that's awesome

[@gevinblue]

So for Uranus he would have to get rotten egg gas? And plus, he would have to gather the smells of 8 billion+ people (of course, in extremely small amounts) to make the planet earth. Sounds harder than getting uranium or something in a box. But I still like the idea. Creative!

[@foocland57273]

Uranus

[@a_random_guy_V]

only issue is that the sun isn't exactly a fireball, it's more like a nuclear reactor, there are planets that have no atmosphere, there are planets like Venus that immediately after breathing the air you would die painfully, there are planets that are made of gas, and only a small solid nucleus, like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, not to mention that they would be out of proportion, they are not at the same distance as in the drawings. also you couldn't smell the gases inside the balloons. nice idea, but I don't know how one could do that. you may get mars and earth, the rest is nearly impossible

[@leonguyen8648]

having all of the elements in the periodic table is nearly impossible, unless you have a superpowerful nuclear fusion machine that can create the heaviest elements. The heaviest elements in the periodic table is only be created in lab or in the high energy cosmic events like supernovae, hypernovae, kilonovae and gamma ray burst

[@o_s-24]

Please do a longer version detailing how you got each element

[@ghostoflego3390]

0:46 the point where you start collecting radioactive elements.

[@ChoiSeongYT]

I love this video!! ❤❤️ Edit: I love seeing him say it in real life, "Well, that's another story, for another... WhatIf." 13:13

[@scorpion-man28]

I love this! What If will never cease to amaze me and the world =D

[@imkurisuchan]

I like this idea for a change! What If vids are now just getting better

[@RawCuriosity]

Thorium can be found in lantern mantels, Americium and be found in smoke detectors, Plutonium can be found in old Soviet smoke detectors, uranium ore can be bought for cheap online. These are some of the elements that you couldn’t find.

[@swasti0109]

Hats off for ur hardwork man!!!

[@SirAthiro]

"I'd be dead." Sure came close from that sandwich. ☠️

[@wajeehanoor6292]

I love the Periodic table 😂❤

[@Nixoth]

I have to say i loved this style video. Most interesting vid on the channel in quite some time

[@zilharuthignacio7884]

This is an amazing content! Kudos whatif team!

[@a_random_guy_V]

there's more nitrogen in the air than oxygen. well there are videos where people who had the budget actually got the pure elements. also, you could've use graphite for carbon which is quite literally just carbon. anyways, nice video. also there is a commercial version of this, that has those elements and more in their pure form

[@windchillstorm1025]

The dude didn't even take a full bite. Lol

[@qorymij37]

Tip: Americium can be found in smoke detectors, and thorium in some lamp mantles

[@ogtobi8547]

“That’s dangerous!” Ima use my Own $500 “Deal that’s a perfect idea”

[@shyamahir3379]

Great episode. Love the change

[@sebastianramirez1516]

12:35 Tasted like sponge

[@SirenDude1003]

Americium is one of the few radioactive elements many people have in their homes. You can find it in some smoke detectors. Im not sure if theyre legal in Canada since they’ve been proven to be not super effective (theyre the kind of smoke alarm that goes off when you burn toast), especially given in the last 5 or so years we’ve tried phasing them out here in the US.

[@WinWin-pz9wq]

You’ve missed some elements: Antimony in ball bearrings Palladium in ceramic capacitors(inside of computers) Lanthanum, cerium, and praseodymium in the flint of lighters Neodymium in neodymium magnets Molybdenum in saw blades Lead in some soldering wires you don’t need to use bolts as representations btw Uranium and thorium can be found in tiny trace amounts in granite and cement Europium, gadolinium, terbium, and dysprosium can be found in phone screens, you missed 2 of them Americium can be found in most smoke detectors Ytterbium is sometimes mixed in stainless steel to make stainless steel pipes and other high quality product that use stainless steel You could’ve got 81😑

[@ruairi9109]

This was actually really enjoyable

[@adityadeshmukh2897]

This is one of the best WhatIf videos ever!

[@sebastianramirez1516]

6:40 Bones!

[@chadfann6180]

Every time I see your notifications without what if in the front I read it as what if I built my own periodic table

[@Neshoo69]

Hello, love your videos i always love watching your videos! ❤️

[@WhatIfScienceShow]

Glad you like them! Thank you for watching

[@DarkZ19]

Haven't watched the video yet but I'm guessing he got most of the elements, excluding the radioactive ones

[@alvenhchanne]

You should be able to find americium in some smoke detectors, uranium in vintage yellow or green glassware or in small traces in granite, and thorium in vacuum tubes.

[@kimlauder6899]

Love this. I am going to try with my children who are homeschooled. Very fun❤

[@eriways2018]

Peter is so adorable!!❤

[@Dracula1217]

Nice try , 68 out of 118 elements. Man i m imagining the effort you made is 🔥🔥🔥

[@abdullahkafitalukder1474]

Seeing you for the first time is awesome

[@nikaxstrophotography]

Loved this video

[@WhatIfScienceShow]

Glad to hear, thanks for watching!

[@Russian_empire132]

"It's like chewing a rubber band" 😂😂😂 You ok?

[@danadnauseam]

Some more research might have disclosed the presence of various elements on hand or obtainable at reasonable cost. Somw time on Wikipedia produced 16 potential sourcces: Catalytic converters usually contain palladium, rhodium, platinum, or cerium, so a reference to a car would probably acquire one of those. Americium is used in smoke detectors. Tungsten can be found in permanent magnets, incandescent bulbs, cathode ray tube filaments, and integrated circuits (computer chips). Hafnium can also be found in Intel and IBM chips. Vacuum tubes, if you can find one, will usually have a barium residue on the interior resulting from the manufacturing process. It is used to chemically remove the last reactive gases within the tube. Spark plugs also often contain a barium-nickel alloy. The most likely sources of cesium would be a two-electrode vacuum tube, an OCR reader, or a video camera tube. Toyota used lanthanum batteries in the Prius, so if if you had access to one of those, you could refer to the battery. electronic Pepto-Bismol contains bismuth. Europium is used in fluorescent bulbs. Terbium can be found cathode ray tubes. Erbium is used in camera filters.

[@Limey_shorts]

Bro forgot about Americium which is usually *FOUND* in older smoke alarms

[@eriways2018]

Love it very much!! Awesome ❤❤❤

[@WhatIfScienceShow]

Thank you for your support!

[@klaustuxs]

What if Peter and all what if crew went to wilderness for a week with just knife and flint? :D

[@nukestorm6841]

"What if R136A1 was our sun" "What if you travelled to the boomerang nebula"

[@sebastianramirez1516]

9:06 I believe it’s 90

[@jonmarquez128]

YoungMendeleev: One day, I will put all the elements together! Chemistry Teacher: You can't put all the elements together. Younh Mendeleev: Challange accepted!

[@arghyaroy5095]

What if peter did the Michelson-Morley experiment? LOVE YOU

[@uwqq2146]

What if there was a working portal between Earth and a rogue planet (you can always switch side)?

[@interNETS-KING]

I already bought one, it has elements in their box things.

[@DobygamesGC]

Gotta catch em' all!

[@notmeyet]

so this is you attempting that old video about what would happen

[@rogerkearns8094]

The banana would do for most of them. Most living things contain traces of the majority of elements.

[@codyjoe2442]

Love your videos Man

[@alextravis4826]

What if the geographic layout of earth was flipped? Here me out; what if the oceans on earth were gigantic landmasses and the current land continents were all oceans- everything still having the same shape outline as the maps we know today? would life have developed differently and would it have affected the course of human history if the same timeline of emergence was still the same?

[@alextravis4826]

i wanted to elaborate a tad more by factoring in the emergance of human life

[@alextravis4826]

I wanted to thank the What If channel Ford Cruising my question for one of their shorts. I feel very very honored as a fan you have inspired his inverted topography short

[@harczymarczy]

For rare earth metals, your Iphone or a CD/DVD would cover a lot of them. I actually had a piece of lead at hand. If you have a car whose catalytic converter contains platinum, you're OK with that, too. For polonium, you may go either to the National Library of France or to any uranium ore mine. The same applies for any element of the uranium-radium decay chain, Np and even Pu. For Am, Cm and even Cf you may visit the NASA. Above 100, if you work in the GSI Helmholtz Centre (in Darmstadt, Germany), that would make things somewhat easier. If you go to Chernobyl you may get some radioactive stuff, too. It has become considerably harder though, with the outbreak of the war.

[@The-One-and-Only100]

Uranium Glass and Ceramics also smoke detectors have americium and thorium in old lantern mantles and welding rods

[@krishnanshkaushik4355]

Mendeleev's periodic table was based on the fact that The properties are a periodic function of their atomic mass while the periodic table we study is based upon the MORDEN PERIODIC LAW, which is the chemical and physical properties of elements are the periodic function of their atomic numbers (And was given by Moseley in 1913 from his x rays studies).

[@Mika_dog154]

Please make a video showing what would happen if dragon from How to Train Your Dragon were real❤🎉😊

[@SAMIAMFNX]

its nice seeing a irl vid

[@RussianPals]

You do know Americium is found in some smoke detectors, however if you don’t have a smoke detector, I feel bad because you could’ve gotten Americium. Like you could’ve just gotten the smoke detector down and BOOM, ya got Americium-241. Idk if I have a smoke detector either, but hey. We all get through a lot of chaotic and weird situations and that is okay, also uhh here’s how I would make my table. Hydrogen: Water Helium: ??? Lithium: Battery Beryllium: ??? Boron: ??? Carbon: Pencils (Pencils have *carbon graphite* in them.) Nitrogen: ??? (But I guess air) Oxygen: B R E A T H Fluorine: Toothpaste too Neon: ??? Sodium: Salt Magnesium: Aluminium Foil Aluminum: Aluminum Foil Silicon: Aluminum Foil Phosphorus: Match Sulfur: ??? Chlorine: ??? Argon: ??? Potassium: BANANA. ORANGE. MEELK. IDK Calcium: ??? Scandium: I guess a bike, if I don’t got a bike then ??? Titanium ??? Vanadium: ??? Chromium: ??? Manganese: Batteries I think Iron: ALUMINUM FOIL Cobalt: ??? Nickel: Nickels (nickels are 25% nickel) Copper: Nickels again Zinc: PENNIES Gallium: ??? (Might have to be pure) Germanium: ??? ARSENIC: ??? Selenium: ??? Bromine: ??? Krypton: ??? Rubidium: I guess a clock Strontium: ??? Yttrium: ??? Zirconium: ??? Niobium: ??? Molybdenum: ??? Technetium: ??? Ruthenium: ??? Rhodium: ??? Palladium: ??? Silver: Spoons ‘n Forks Cadmium: ??? Indium: ??? Tin: TIN CANS ‘N TIN FOIL Antimony: the last element I’ll see Tellerium: ??? Iodine: ??? Xenon: ??? Caesium: I guess a clock Barium: ??? Lanthanum: ??? Cerium: ??? Praseodymium: ??? Neodymium: ??? Promethium: never gettin it Samarium: ??? Europium: ??? Gadolinium: ??? Terbium: ??? Dysprosium: ??? Holmium: ??? Erbium: ??? Thulium: ??? Ytterbium: ??? Lutetium: ??? Hafnium: ??? Tantalum: ??? Tungsten: maybe a lightbulb Rhenium: ??? Osmium: pen? Iridium: ??? Platinum: ??? Gold: Rings? Mercury: ??? Thallium: ??? Lead: hex nuts I guess Bismuth: ??? *now this is where I get into the radioactive stuff* Polonium: ??? Astatine: ??? Radon: ??? Francium: ??? Radium: ??? Actinium: ??? Thorium: ??? Protactinium: ??? Uranium: ??? Neptunium: ??? Plutonium: ??? Americium: Smoke Detector, if I actually got one Curium: ??? Berkelium: ??? Californium: ??? Einsteinium: ??? Fermium to Oganesson: Will just be things that the elements were named after Anything past Polonium, I’ll figure out myself. But before Polonium, try to like suggest something.

[@eplexo]

5:38 I am probably way more happy to see this than most people are.

[@nickpalaestra1948]

Americium (Am) is easy to get, used in smoke detectors. Uranium-containing rocks are also in gem stores and emit mostly alpha radiation which is easily shielded. Bismuth is found in Pepto Bismol, which may help after that egg sandwich..... ;-)

[@RockyandObsidianVR]

Some elements he missed Polonium: record player brush Uranium: ultraviolet minerals Americium: smoke detectors Thorium: welding rod Californium: metal detectors Selenium: dandruff (possibly)

[@Cat-on-a-watermelon50]

I think he purposefully missed them because they're dangerous

[@RebelGirlLayla]

Americium is easy to obtain, its used in standard home smoke detectors.

[@_knightOfficial]

11:37 bro really said deez nuts💀

[@talethaqueen2042]

I love this but I wish they said which foods and other things they found had which elements, even if it was just really quick .... It would have been great to show my kids as they're studying the table right now, but I felt they barely showed anything.

[@Jhelopohi_PH]

YOOO IS THAT URANIU- *dies*

[@jvedits948]

Fact: Scandium and Yttrium are also Rare Earth Metals

[@Z01Xy]

you could possibly buy an iodizing smoke alarm (which has americium in it) or just get one from your home if you have one

[@samyak1409]

That was a good video!

[@MK-ULTRA1]

"so that's what we're going to try today!" gets to uranium

[@priyanka3861]

5:49 symbol for arsenic 33 is As

[@Domoneick]

This was. Really good lol

[@sebastianramirez1516]

7:03 purple area

[@S_Paoli]

is it possible to build my own periodic table, with an actual sample of every element embedded in side the table?

[@prasadbhalerao8556]

Nope

[@kariken1775]

No, if you have plutonium at your house, you’ll also be meeting up with FBI

[@jw8160]

*sigh* You should have talked to a geologist. Many rocks, ores, and gems contain trace amounts of the elements you couldn't find. If you were using a nut for lead then you could have used rocks, ores, and gems to represent other elements. I also don't know why you used nuts for lead, solder has lead as does a lead acid battery. Also, molybdenum could have been represented by the nut since it is used to harden alloys.

[@Air_5556]

New idea: what if all the elements in the periodic table combined?

[@Mika_dog154]

Please make a video showing what would happen if dragon from How to Train Your Dragon race to the edge were real❤🎉😊

[@danspyhor2233]

you could have got 15 more elements with neodimium magnets, because they contain all the lantanides.

[@lundsweden]

I'm finding it hard to find Urianium and Plutonium (FBI watchlist activated!)

[@user-dz9zt4eb7y]

Yea that is radioactive elements

[@lundsweden]

@@user-dz9zt4eb7y I doubt you can actually get your hands on significant quantities of these elements... or at least I hope so!

[@soumilarora3578]

you could have got molybdenum in legumes root since molybdenum is required for nitrogenase activity.

[@Mika_dog154]

Please make a video showing what would happen if dragons from How to Train Your Dragon race to the edge were real

[@Mika_dog154]

Please make a video showing what would happen if dragons from How to Train Your Dragon race to the edge were real❤🎉😊

[@aistoryrealm]

or how about what if peter introduce all team members of what if

[@kariken1775]

He did

[@abhinayduggaraju1459]

Cover whole table with dirt and cover it witha glass wall.All elements are covered in earth and air..

[@PraviLukijanJC]

Just started cant wait to see francium

[@kevinhanz4894]

I collect the elements of the Periodic Table. I will only be going up to.#83 Bismuth. Right now I have 30.

[@fahimredwan]

Love what if❤❤❤

[@-RXB-]

What's weird about egg and cheese together? That's basically an omelette.

[@Rehankundi-qr1ll]

I can tell you about one element if you have not collected that, which is Arsenic in Rice....

[@ilincaleca9947]

The Bingo of the periodic table elements.

[@Elsa-tq1lt]

I wish you can build a whole periodic table next time 😌

[@guywithglasses_]

ogassenon: 👉👈

[@MediumGolfball]

U cant so u just have to represent it.

[@cashplays1643]

Bro how do you get oganesson

[@queensycici9703]

HOW DO YOU MAKE FRANCIUM LAST FOR LONG ENOUGH FOR THIS TO WORK

[@YoungAndTheBitchless]

Tennessine’s most stable form lasts 80 milliseconds before decaying to moscovium. How is that gonna work?

[@Mika_dog154]

Please make a video showing what would happen if dragons from How to Train Your Dragon race to the edge real real

[@crystalfire5564]

6:31 You are in Canada? I didn’t know this was a Canadian channel.

[@starsnake8176]

0:15 "Something you can touch and feel" Touching uranium...

[@guywhoasked6046]

11:37 DEEZ NUTS

[@shahidwani9504]

That’s amazing 🎉