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  • čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
  • Kenneth Wade recently passed away. Here we discuss his time as a student in Nottingham and his famous (in some chemistry circles) Wade's Rules.
    Speaking in this video are Martyn Poliakoff and Debbie Kays.
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Komentáře • 102

  • @therealjammit
    @therealjammit Před 10 lety +98

    Wait.
    They didn't call a ring of boron a boring?

  • @chmis3
    @chmis3 Před 10 lety +164

    On my lest chemistry exam I had to propose a method to detect amonia borane and couldn't come up with anything. Should have written "It squeaks".

  • @headrockbeats
    @headrockbeats Před 10 lety +64

    And it squeaks!!
    Also I'm glad to know Boron Girl is still hard at work protecting Nottingham from the evil forces of not-Boron atoms.

  • @TheBreed010
    @TheBreed010 Před 10 lety +22

    Thumbs up for our long not seen Debbie Kays!!!!

  • @jeremyj.5687
    @jeremyj.5687 Před 10 lety +25

    5:47
    Professor Poliakoff at his loveliest and cutest.

  • @mandydax
    @mandydax Před 10 lety +25

    I giggled a little when he said that the inorganic chemist had to use carbon paper. :3

  • @MrZerausogaitnas
    @MrZerausogaitnas Před 10 lety +11

    min 05:54 "and it squeaks"
    I love this man.

  • @diablo0073
    @diablo0073 Před 10 lety +2

    Really well done. I'd heard about "Wade's Rules" from my undergraduate professors in the past. Never thought I'd see someone who knew the guy after whom the rules are named.

  • @TheLordAncient
    @TheLordAncient Před 10 lety +77

    5:53 LOL Hilarious

  • @halesworth01
    @halesworth01 Před 10 lety +12

    I only watch these video's because Debbie makes them really interesting!

  • @midwinter78
    @midwinter78 Před 10 lety +2

    When I was an undergrad, I was in a lecture given by Ron Snaith, one of Wade's old PhD students. He was recounting the time when Wade proposed Wade's rules for the first time. Apparently this was met with "never mind that, it's your round!"

  • @DuCaDo003
    @DuCaDo003 Před 10 lety +27

    Debbie loves boron!!!

  • @lhl2500
    @lhl2500 Před 10 lety +18

    ".. and it squeaks.. No it doesn't really squeak" LMAO! XD

  • @PINGPONGROCKSBRAH
    @PINGPONGROCKSBRAH Před 10 lety +10

    Why am I up at 4 in the morning watching a video about Boron compounds? I am not a chemistry major.

  • @kenlee5509
    @kenlee5509 Před 10 lety +4

    Giants, on whose shoulders we all stand. Bravo Ken! Well lived indeed! Huzzah! for those with their names on rules and laws! Huzzah!

  • @RAS19551
    @RAS19551 Před 10 lety +1

    I am very happy to see you again professor.

  • @gabekarl82
    @gabekarl82 Před 10 lety +28

    Dr Deborah Kays :)

  • @DerpingtonJr
    @DerpingtonJr Před 10 lety +2

    I now have the theme from Wayne's World stuck in my head... and all this wonderful inorganic chemistry knowledge.

  • @Vettec8
    @Vettec8 Před 10 lety +11

    watching this in canada at 4am right now wooooh

    • @Nexus2Eden
      @Nexus2Eden Před 10 lety

      Watching in Kentucky, USA at 6 am - still amazing, even at this hour. lol

  • @auntied4950
    @auntied4950 Před 10 lety +3

    Thank you for this, much appreciated.

  • @irene_deneb
    @irene_deneb Před 10 lety +2

    Could you guys do a video on alternative biochemistries that might drive extraterrestrial life?
    For example, Ammonia, Methane, or Hydrogen Fluoride in lieu of Water as an organic solvent, or Boron in lieu of Carbon, or alternate photosynthetic processes.
    Exobiology has always fascinated me.

  • @ChuckCanada1
    @ChuckCanada1 Před 10 lety +2

    This was a wonderful video, I will try to find a copy of Wade's book thesis.

  • @DudokX
    @DudokX Před 10 lety +4

    This is not boring at all!

  • @Heschoscho
    @Heschoscho Před 10 lety

    coming home from school and seeing this video is just great

  • @RFC3514
    @RFC3514 Před 10 lety +11

    1:53 - Flip-Flop plant by the window.

  • @garethdean6382
    @garethdean6382 Před 10 lety +2

    All very nice, but can we have some more discussion of those rules? Boranes (an indeed the structure of boron itself.) are intriguing subjects.

  • @SuperFinGuy
    @SuperFinGuy Před 10 lety +1

    Yay Debbie is back!
    BTW, the rules don't seem very general, shouldn't all molecular structures be formed by quantum wave functions, electrical charge and temperature?

  • @MCRDOTCOM
    @MCRDOTCOM Před 10 lety +6

    I miss Debbie! Get some more Boron videos :D

  • @barretojazjab5894
    @barretojazjab5894 Před 10 lety +2

    Thank you professor. Let's adopt the Greek letters for grades again!

  • @BricksOfAwesome
    @BricksOfAwesome Před 10 lety +9

    Well, now I know where the expression 'carbon copy' came from.

  • @RandomExperiments
    @RandomExperiments Před 10 lety +2

    Nice video! :) My last exam was also about Wade's rules :)

  • @FPSGameClips
    @FPSGameClips Před 10 lety +5

    'Nido' means 'nest' and 'ragno' means 'spider' in Italian. ;)

  • @LucasPreti
    @LucasPreti Před 10 lety +5

    You should make a video on how to have a haircut like his

  • @r.b.4611
    @r.b.4611 Před 10 lety

    This video taught me the exact meaning of the common phrase "Carbon copy".

  • @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time

    Nice video!!!

  • @thenoticerofthe13
    @thenoticerofthe13 Před 10 lety +1

    see the monitor in the backround ? im using the same one right now ! :)

  • @JodyBarnettgplus
    @JodyBarnettgplus Před 10 lety +1

    So when will all these books be scanned into digital formats like .epub files? or at least copied by high definition flat bed scanners, into digital format. Or has this process taken place already?

  • @RichardTScott-me2rm
    @RichardTScott-me2rm Před 10 lety

    I liked this video. It was a nice peace of human history of a dedicated person.

  • @alisoncheng6667
    @alisoncheng6667 Před 10 lety

    "they'd react together and they'd squeak" hahahah

  • @5000loto
    @5000loto Před 10 lety

    I also had to hand draw figures and hand letter these figure in my dissertation (couldn’t even use rub off transfers). It was, however typed on an IBM Selectric electric typewriter (slightly out of the dark ages).

  • @filitalian
    @filitalian Před 10 lety

    So H loosely forms 2 bonds when joined with Boron?

  • @sexyxenomorph
    @sexyxenomorph Před 10 lety +1

    Is that plant in the background at #2:20 alive? O.o

  • @ieuanhunt552
    @ieuanhunt552 Před 10 lety +1

    E.Kenway
    RIP Ken wade

  • @owenb111
    @owenb111 Před 10 lety +22

    'younger researchers like me' ummmm

    • @evildude109
      @evildude109 Před 10 lety +2

      The Professor was a doctoral student in the 60s, if I recall correctly.

    • @JWQweqOPDH
      @JWQweqOPDH Před 10 lety

      finished reading your comment right as that part of the video was playing :)

  • @omichron420
    @omichron420 Před 10 lety

    The pic of Kenneth Wade reminds me of a combination of Fred Armisen and Rick Moranis.

  • @Domeiertho
    @Domeiertho Před 10 lety +1

    All I can think of when I hear "Wade's rules" is "Wayne's World!"

  • @jeebersjumpincryst
    @jeebersjumpincryst Před 10 lety +3

    but what are these borane molecules used for? do they have any applications?

  • @zasgat
    @zasgat Před 10 lety

    really great video!

  • @TheIcecreamGeek
    @TheIcecreamGeek Před 10 lety

    Was OCR called the Cambridge Union earlier in its history?

  • @The101damnations
    @The101damnations Před 10 lety +2

    4th? My life is complete. E=mc^2.

  • @NinjaOnANinja
    @NinjaOnANinja Před 10 lety

    5:53
    Did he actually make a joke? A joke that actually made me grin? Woah.

  • @EPICGUYDUDE
    @EPICGUYDUDE Před 10 lety +3

    How on earth does hydrogen have 2 bonds in diborane?

    • @evildude109
      @evildude109 Před 10 lety +2

      Everything taught to you in intro chem is incorrect.

    • @ehTrotcoD
      @ehTrotcoD Před 10 lety

      The 2 bonds aren't quite whole bonds. They have a much longer bond length than the singly bonded H's coming off the ends. Without delving into molecular orbital theory, a simple explanation is that each hydrogen in the bridge has a half bond to each boron.

    • @ShinyMudkipable
      @ShinyMudkipable Před 10 lety +1

      After searching a bit, I found a concept called "three-center two-electron bond." As its name implies, two electrons are shared among three atoms. This is the case in the diborane compound with those hydrogen "bridges". It may be worth checking out for the interest.

  • @jezzalike22
    @jezzalike22 Před 10 lety

    How can hydrogen bond with more than one element? I thought it only has the one free electron to bond with?

    • @floriL3636
      @floriL3636 Před 10 lety

      maybe you mixed it with nitrogen?

  • @Desmaad
    @Desmaad Před 10 lety +1

    Diborane is fascinatingly bizzarre: how can one hydrogen atom have, in effect, two bonds to it? It's stronger than the usual hydrogen bonding, I know.

  • @rogerwilco2
    @rogerwilco2 Před 10 lety

    There will be no record cards 70 years from now. I think that they would be hard pressed to even have records from 15-20 years ago, given the retention time of digital formats.

  • @zasgat
    @zasgat Před 10 lety

    Google had a doodle on Percy Julian recently. A video on him would be nice

  • @1959Edsel
    @1959Edsel Před 10 lety +3

    Someone needs to develop a boron-nitrogen compound that squeaks.

  • @MultiAxian
    @MultiAxian Před 10 lety

    LOL "wiggle wiggle"

  • @DaxenSama
    @DaxenSama Před 10 lety +5

    That book must have been BORing, that's why nobody's BOROed it for so long :P
    Sorry that was a bad joke...

  • @NeonsStyleHD
    @NeonsStyleHD Před 10 lety +1

    Shame we lost such a brilliant mind.

  • @yoppindia
    @yoppindia Před 10 lety

    Can wade rules be applied to professor's hair?

  • @eagkk253
    @eagkk253 Před 10 lety +2

    "Wiggle, wiggle..."

  • @MrKmanrambo
    @MrKmanrambo Před 10 lety

    Can't VSEPR theory describe the same things Wade's Rules are trying to determine?

  • @fakjbf
    @fakjbf Před 10 lety +2

    When they say "Ken Wade" I keep hearing "Kenway" like Edward Kenway from AC4 or his son Haytham from AC3

  • @daisukekichigoru4900
    @daisukekichigoru4900 Před 10 lety

    So that's where the term carbon copy came from in emails O.o

  • @Neueregel
    @Neueregel Před 10 lety +1

    Boron, kind of weird element

  • @colt4667
    @colt4667 Před 10 lety

    Boron isn't boring.

  • @davidbuschhorn6539
    @davidbuschhorn6539 Před 10 lety

    That's not really his hair. Those are actually his eyebrows. Epic, epic eyebrows.

  • @atg6432
    @atg6432 Před 10 lety +1

    An "inorganic chemist"!? Was he a robot?!?

  • @hartzellos
    @hartzellos Před 7 lety

    Just thought I'd comment as no one have done it for years

  • @enzyme20056
    @enzyme20056 Před 10 lety +15

    Lol boron enthusiasts

  • @NinjaOnANinja
    @NinjaOnANinja Před 10 lety +5

    2:17
    2 BH3's aren't the only 2 things coming together ; D

  • @WhiterunGuard11998
    @WhiterunGuard11998 Před 10 lety

    Wow, I never knew what a carbon copy was before. Imagine what we'll be looking back on in the future. "And we had to attach the files to our emails and send them out! So much manual work, life is so much easier nowadays with our brain-channeled hyperlinks and stuff."

  • @Planejerle18
    @Planejerle18 Před 10 lety

    What is the most dangerous chemical reaction you've ever done?

  • @bikramkalsi1
    @bikramkalsi1 Před 10 lety

    It squeaks XD XD.. I love Professor Poliakoff

  • @r.b.4611
    @r.b.4611 Před 10 lety

    This audio, to the video of liquid oxygen cauldron from mid 2013.

  • @slhines7
    @slhines7 Před 10 lety

    I wonder what caused Prof Ken Wade to pass away unexpectedly?

  • @spiguy420
    @spiguy420 Před 10 lety

    Debbie.

  • @death0intj
    @death0intj Před 10 lety

    arrgh! i can't take that plant on the window out of my head!

  • @Snipper08
    @Snipper08 Před 10 lety +3

    Never been first before :o
    Love these videos :D

  • @Stokie09123
    @Stokie09123 Před 10 lety

    Tempted to get the thesis out of Hallward........

  • @pancakerizer
    @pancakerizer Před 10 lety +2

    Did he just pronounce roentgenium "rentegenum"?

  • @jhyland87
    @jhyland87 Před 5 lety

    I think the professor should initiate a new field of study: Wiggly Giggly Chem.

  • @EoganachtaMor
    @EoganachtaMor Před 10 lety +1

    And it squeaks.

  • @rogerwilco2
    @rogerwilco2 Před 10 lety

    It enables chemists doing their experiments to understand their results. Isn't that the whole point of Chemistry as a science?

  • @michaelnilsson3322
    @michaelnilsson3322 Před 10 lety

    ...Boron.

  • @OttawaOldFart
    @OttawaOldFart Před 10 lety

    and it squeaks

  • @berzerius
    @berzerius Před 10 lety

    Cool It squeaks

  • @Calispeedboi
    @Calispeedboi Před 10 lety

    4th