The Most Bizarre Elements in the Universe

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• SI

  @Sideprojects · 3 years ago · pinned

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• CL

  @claywest9528 · 3 years ago

  How often do we see a video about the elements? Periodically!!

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• MI

  @mittensfastpaw · 3 years ago

  I always like to view the less used elements as just not useful <s>yet</s> and we will eventually find something for them down the road.

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• SY

  @sydhenderson6753 · 3 years ago (edited)

  By the way, when Mendeleev made his periodic table, he didn&apos;t know that the second space below Manganese was also empty. (People were discovering rare earths which confused everything). In 1908 Masataka Ogawa announced he had discovered element 43 and named it Nipponium. Of course it wasn&apos;t element 43. For some reason, it never occurred to anybody to check if it was element 75, which is the second element under Manganese. That element was officially discovered in 1925, seventeen years after Ogawa probably found and misidentified it. (The evidence is disputed but I lean on the side that he did.) This is one of of the reasons element 113 was named Nihonium, named for another form of the Japanese name for Japan. It was explicitly to honor Ogawa. (They couldn&apos;t reuse nipponium since it had been used for another element; &nbsp;although neptunium is the third use of the name and that was okay.)<br><br>One of the things I love about Bismuth is that the three elements to the left of it in the periodic table are deadly poisonous, as are the two above (antimony less than arsenic) and the next six are all deathly radioactive. And of course Bismuth is hardly toxic or radioactive at all and we use it for stomach aches and to substitute for lead in some things. And it&apos;s pretty.

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• SP

  @SparePartz77 · 6 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHS7LEDL9JU&amp;t=651">10:51</a> yall remember when walmart sold that cesium shrimp. Pepridge farm remembers

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• DR

  @dreamingwolf8382 · 3 years ago

  Congratulations on filming your one Millionth episode Simon.<br>You win a cookie.

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• IG

  @ignitionfrn2223 · 3 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHS7LEDL9JU&amp;t=45">0:45</a> - Chapter 1 - Technetium<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHS7LEDL9JU&amp;t=190">3:10</a> - Mid roll ads<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHS7LEDL9JU&amp;t=280">4:40</a> - Back to the video<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHS7LEDL9JU&amp;t=365">6:05</a> - Chapter 2 - Osmium<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHS7LEDL9JU&amp;t=510">8:30</a> - Chapter 3 - Bismuth<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHS7LEDL9JU&amp;t=625">10:25</a> - Chapter 4 - Caesium<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHS7LEDL9JU&amp;t=805">13:25</a> - Chapter 5 - Beyond the periodic table

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• KA

  @kaylzshter6153 · 3 years ago

  This was fantastically written! I specifically like the description of how neutrons help distribute the protons to prevent them from overcoming the strong nuclear force. &nbsp;Simon, there was a time long ago when I was worried that your broad diversification could negatively impact the quality of your work. That worry was clearly unfounded, thank you and your team for the well researched, well written, and entertaining content!

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• JA

  @jadduajones · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHS7LEDL9JU&amp;t=145">2:25</a> Check out Oppenheimer with his pipe in the top middle. Legend.

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• YA

  @yates667 · 3 years ago

  Watching shows like this reminds me of being a kid in school. The science teacher was always telling me to learn that on my own time. This was pre-Internet time too.

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• DE

  @DeadJDona · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHS7LEDL9JU&amp;t=512">8:32</a> BISMUTO

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• IO

  @Iodotoluene · 3 years ago

  Osmium is also used in electron microscopy to coat items via osmium tetroxide

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