>> ^Porksandwich:

Well I think I'd pick a ring that could at least be cut off if needed. Although that mercury ring would be neat....
Personally I think if you could get the various metals to stay together, I wouldn't mind seeing varying shades of steel, titanium, gold, copper, and platinum made into a neat pattern. Kind of a mix and match but all one loop, not inlays or anything like that. Like how marbles are made, especially gold lutz marbles.

It'd certainly be unique, I doubt any one band would be the same if they could manage to get them to be solid enough to stay together on someone's finger in a not-to-big loop.



Cool idea. Start with the four metals as wires and then twist them into a spiral and then forge them into a cylinder.

>> ^Jinx:

Damascus steel would be pretty cool, partly because of its pattern but also because its a lost technique - nobody really knows for sure how they made it. Would probably corrode quite easily though.


what does sweat and normal body oils do to steel? preserve?

>> ^deathcow:

DUH osmium

That's what I thought of before I even clicked this link.

The densest metal! Osmium!

*promote the periodic table of videos

>> ^siftbot:

This video has already declared quality - ignoring quality request by therealblankman.


Always with the negative waves, Sifty!

In reply to this comment by Boise_Lib:
All the best parts together in one video.
*promote


Thanks for that.

>> ^sme4r:

quality
I like silicon29, it might just become my new sockpuppet.


Remember to wash it regularly.

>> ^BoneRemake:

HAH, the Prof got a hair cut.

LOL.. his hair jumped from a high orbit to a low orbit energy state.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'huge diamond, sold, news, millions, pounds' to 'Diamond, sold, news, Martyn Poliakoff, Periodic table of videos, yellow diamond' - edited by BoneRemake

Hey, i'll tell professor poliakof your idiot ass sends regards.

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hey cockface. they're koalas.. not bears

>> ^coolhund:

I agree completely with visionep. Milkmans points are just not true or avoidable.
Theres also the point of engines not being able to run Ethanol at all. Vintage cars for example.
In the end this bio ethanol is just another farce to make money, at a very high cost to... as always... the poor.
What this guy says in the video is just not true. Even with only E10, a higher priced gasoline will still give you better mileage (up to 10%). This is happening in Germany right now. Nobody is buying this ethanol crap because it simply isnt worth it. Not to mention because of the detrimental effects on people and cars.


Yes, some older cars do not run well with an ethanol blend, and some might take that to a point where they wouldn't run at all.

You say bio ethanol is a farce to make money (aren't all businesses?) and the cost targets the poor. That makes a good soundtext-bite but I don't see how ethanol production is particularly detrimental to the poor, at least not in any way that isn't heavily outweighed by other competitors. Care to elaborate?

About mileage: yes, any blend of ethanol will give lower gas mileage than pure gasoline. The point that I would suggest is that when you burn that gallon of gasoline, it isn't coming back. At least not for a few million years. We can/will keep on burning through oil for a while, but as we do so the prices will go up.

Right now, today, the market settles out so that in Brazil the cost per unit of distance traveled may actually favor gasoline; car owners "vote" at the pump. But I'm talking about the long term, in the future. Corn, or better yet switchgrass, grows back. Not in millions of years, *next* year. We're just a few years down the line from the initial introduction of ethanol and ethanol blends as a fuel. And yet already it is making a bit of competition with big oil.

If better alternative fuels come along (hydrogen fuel cells or whatever), I'll be open to them. But at this point ethanol seems like one that actually works, and has been working, in spite of the fact that it doesn't have a fully stable infrastructure yet.

This video is from their "Periodic table of videos" channel, not their "Sixty symbols" channel.
The periodic videos are about chemistry but the sixty symbols videos are about physics and astronomy.

>> ^raverman:

hmmm sorry found it a bit dull really... lots of talking, little to look at...
e.g. hamburger in acid for 3 hours seems to dissolve... a bit any way. But if you did a control with a hamburger in water for 3 hours you'd probably find the bread and mince starting to dissolve and fall apart anyway...


You are not the only one with a problem with the burger aspect of the video. Good thing there is another twelve minutes or so to fill up the rest of the time around the burger.

http://videosift.com/video/Hydrochloric-Acid-Periodic-Table-of-Videos

Here is the full video of that one I thought was really shitty, the Hydrochloric acid burger one ya posted. Boo to it, YAY to this one.