Is glass really made from sand? | James May's Q&A (Ep 11) | Head Squeeze
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- James May delves into what glass is actually made from. Is it really made from sand?
James May's Q&A:
With his own unique spin, James May asks and answers the oddball questions we've all wondered about from 'What Exactly Is One Second?' to 'Is Invisibility Possible?'
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What is Sand Made Of?
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The History of Glass: inventors.about...
Characteristics and Functions of Glass: www.glassforeur...
10 Famous Glass Buldings: blog.2modern.co...
Guiness World Record: Most glass panes smashed Consecutively www.guinnesswor...
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these short series are brilliant ,and james may is very entertaining to listen to ,while educating you.
Whenever James gets to do a segment himself, he doesn't get shut down by Jezza and Hammond, and he explains everything behind what is happening. The Moon Rover review is a great example of that, and I hope Mr. May here gets to do more like this on TG.
His voice is so nice to listen to. Could listen to him for hours.
wow what a coincidence, I was eating sand when watching this video
lmao
Same.
And I was licking windows.
Eating sand??
on minecraft you put sand in a furnace and it makes glass so that explains it.
If only life were as simple as minecraft :P
+Tom M I want my 1m cubed gold blocks
i wish it was that simple :(
Little disappointed you didn't mention how the nuclear tests in the midwest turned bits of desert into glass. Glass now known as trinitite.
Didn't know this, and that's awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Borkthein There's similar glass in some ancient Egyptian jewelry, which was created by a meteorite that landed in the Sahara.
He's from Britian not the midwest of the United States of America
@@joshuahadams Also in Cental Europe (mainly in Czechia) you can find naturally occuring glass named Moldavite (vltavín in Czech) after the river Vltava (Moldau in German/English), because it is mostly found in its sediments. It was created by a meteorite impact about 17 million years ago in southern Germany and the ejecta peppered the future Bohemian countryside. It looks a bit like green beer bottle glass.
@@navylaks2 That knowledge is certainly not beyond horizons of someone like him no matter where he is from. And it would be quite interesting addition to this video, because there are more ways of creating glass unintentionally than just by a lightning strike.
Awesome stuff. We need more James May on TV and the Intertubes. Can't wait for BBCA to start airing Man Lab. :)
James May, I must say that you are not only my favorite Top Gear presenter, but the best CZcams science boffin I've seen. Cheers from America!
This is the first Head Squeeze I've seen: loved it, subscribes and went on to see the others. Great!
Farhan Martin - Some glass sand is mined from beaches and some from fossil beach sands (sand mines). Nature has done us a great service by concentrating these sands. BTW some of the finest glass sands comes are mined from the St. Peter sandstone formation Mining locations:
St. Peter sandstone is or has been mined
Arkansas: Guion, Arkansas
Illinois: Ottawa, Illinois, Sheridan, Illinois, Wedron, Illinois, and Naplate, Illinois
Minnesota: Kasota, Minnesota and Ottawa Township, Minnesota
Missouri: Pacific, Festus, Crystal City, Augusta, and Pevely
I know time travel is possible because James May's clothes and hair are from 1978.
+Brian Battles Time travel is possible; it's just unfair.
Will anyone get that reference? XD
+Brian Battles Time travel is simple. It's going in reverse that is difficult.
Robbert-Jan merk Well with recent evidence, that might be true. I can't wait for the way we find out...
Plot Twist: James May is really Brian May's brother as well as a time traveler.
+Noel Goetowski and there mum is home secretary
it's amazing how james does it, 4 minutes went byyyyyyy sooo slooowwwwww capt'n
Why is everyone saying James May is boring? His videos are very interesting!
I think it is similar to Steel; it is technically made of Iron, and from there several mixtures are made for different properties; but in essence Steel is made of Iron.
Nice analogy
+erdvilla and it's even harder than steel
+Games Games But the C content vares greatly. It is mostly added to remove Oxygen from the mixture. It is an adhitive and not the main protagonist, just like in glass somo elements are added for other properties.
+Games Games It's the correct proportion of carbon that makes it steel; otherwise, if I understand correctly, you get wrought iron or cast iron.
steel is iron with added carbon
This video really raised more questions than answers for me. I think in future videos, there should be more time spent on research, and more complete answers given. I'm sure the number one question everyone has in their mind after watching this is: How is modern glass made? Among of other things. I do enjoy this channel, but this is one of my critiques that I think more or less applies to all the videos I have seen so far.
More of James May please
These are pretty much the explanations Mames May gives for things on Top Gear. However, on Top Gear they cut them out and make a joke out of it. I dont like it how they cut it out, they are very interesting.
Captain Know it all
I removed my previous comment as James miraculously managed to answer my question simply by linking a previous episode in this one.
I was going to ask if glass really does "flow" like a liquid.
Thanks for answering my question before I asked it, James!
Dat end tho
another great video from Cpt.Slow
"from the people who brought you the wheel & fire" hahaha this guy *does the face and arm gesture*
i'm not watching TV ever again, this is fun great and very informative
Hi, James! You are awesome!
I think the episodes with James are excellent, I can even stand watching the ones with the badger but I just cannot watch any with that animation thing.
1. Tread blocks can take up the brunt of it.
2. It usually isn't big enough fragments to get in between and puncture the tire in the valleys(Where it's easier to go all the way through)
3. Tires are like magnets...They're magic
I'll tell you that the Vsause guy says ten times the amount you do and you still don't know what he's saying. You are a great knowledgeable teacher. Keep up the good work.
You are my new favourite CZcams user.
vid is 4:20 minutes long
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Kyle
4:20
i was already blazing
that’s the culture that made me search for this 🤣👌🏿
I've heard several times that glass is actually liquid. Not as much as water but window pane over years shall get thinner at the top and thicker at the bottom as it slowly flows down.
Hrnek Bezucha It's not. There are plenty of videos here on CZcams about that if you're interested in searching.
Got the answer in the first couple of minutes but stayed because of James May
i like this guys voice, it sounds like a history show narrator or a tutorial video. or the voice from little big planet or stanley parable game. i also want him to say "please keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle and enjoy the ride"
I too look at geography books when i want to learn about geology. Thanks May glad to see i'm not the only one.
Geology drives geography as you've noticed.
Wish I knew how MUCH I liked doing those correlations as an amateur before attending College, might have specialized in Geography instead of just having Geology as a second major.
that clamp squeezing the brain at the end always reminds me of that scene from casino
very good video! loved the Africa challenge too
Time to head down to the pub again.
You have nearly as many likes as the video
Good going sir
James earned a pint for this explanation.
That is the most understated shirt I've ever seen on Mister May.
he's such a clever bloke
I wonder then how they make those huge TV screens? Or has glass production become so easy nowadays?
When you mentioned wind and rain wearing away at rock, I thought about the Grand Canyon. I then thought, "how deep could the grand canyon get?" Will it just keep getting deeper and deeper over time?
All that wearing away, or erosion, proceeds in balance with an overall base limit to the erosion, Ultimately that is sea level. Because the GC base elevation is around 2,200 feet, If the future sea level does not change, the base erosion limit would be another 2,200 feet. However, it will take a very long time in to the future to erode to this final depth (perhaps several million years) and who knows whether the future sea level will be lower or higher than the present. Also this would assume no future further rise or lowering in overall elevation of the GC. It is impossible to predict.
mandobob and human activity can be factored in, right? Like dam building, either present or future...
mandobob Nothing is impossible. We are, after all, standing on a pile of dust made from a star who had previously died before. From it's ashes spawned another star, the earth, mars, and every asteroid in our solar system. The story is the like for every other solar system you could ever imagine. If we can be the phoenix, who knows what we can become after we learn to fly.
The links are not working, just going to the main CZcams page. But I'm guessing they're from his 20th Century series, where they were talking about Pilkington glass and jumped on and dropped the Mini on the glass, to highlight it's strength.
Good videos. I think I´ll subscribe.
I heard somewhere that glass is in fact a fluid material on a molecular level. Meaning that it is always on the move and never static. Even though by its very nature of it being fragile.
How true is this I do not know.maybe James May could shed some light on this subject?
If you look at old windows you will see a slight irregularity in shape with a slight bulging towards the bottom. I thought this was to do with people in the past just being rubbish glass makers. But is apparently just the molecules of the glass slipping downwards over time. My house is 110 years old with original panes while still perfectly functional and useful do show this effect.
Malthus0 Nope! Glass is an amorphous solid. Structurally glasses are similar to liquids, but that doesn't mean they are liquid. Glass does not flow like liquids, that's just a (popular) urban legend.
Some old windows are thicker at the bottom because they were manufactured that way.
Malthus0 thats just an old wife's tale , it takes thousands of years for glass to move, to be notable with the eye :)
Amorphous solid is just another way to say it's glass, not a classic liquid or solid. Resembles the common description of super cooled liquid more than it does liquid or solid, definitely doesn't go through a phase transition to make it a crystalline solid.
Really has it's own properties, and what you call it depends on fine definitions that haven't been regularized to a standard. To all practical purposes it's solid, but best described simply as a glass (intermediate form with it's own properties between liquid & solid).
Glass is a liquid. That's why if you check victorian glass its wider at the bottom than the top but it's so slow that you can't see it happening. Scientist know it happens but can't find a way to record it happening that's all.
nice skull on the diamond shaped glass under the purple shaped glass :)
Jeremy should pop in and roll his eyes and they should start to bicker then Jeremy breaks glass with a hammer and James calls him a "loblolly philistine."
When James mentioned the bit about lightning hitting sand and making glass tubes I bet in the back of his mind he was thinking: "I wonder if we could make this happen in Manlab"
Dear Headsqueeze, please can you get James to explain; 1. HiGGS Boson/particle or and particle physics and 2. hydrogen and fuel cells (yes he'll hate me for asking yet again).
James spend plenty time at the beach before filming this. Quite a sunburn
If you Google the video codes you can see that they are still there. I don't understand why copying the links to the address bar doesn't work, but CZcams works in mysterious ways it seems.
James May always reminds me of Top Gear
The mighty trio!
So I've heard that glass is the only known substance to become harder when submerged in water. is that true, and how does that work?
2:45 Even though glass may only be fortified to survive in Scotland, it still works pretty well in the USA, in my experience.
There is a newly discovered type of deep sea sponge called Venus flower basket glass sponge (Euplectella aspergillum). It uses silica to create its' skeleton. Technically I guess it's a pure form of glass, it's just very brittle.
Dear James May, when will the new Series of Man Lab be released? I'm longing for it quite badly. Where can i watch it in Germany?
Agreed.
Wait, James May have a channel like this? How the hell didnt I know?!
Vsauce did a video about it, I think it's a green colour. Can't remember but it was a good video :)
ye but it would be interesting to see what James thinks about it
"Sand" can be anything. Rubber sand is used in synthetic sports fields beneath the fibers. Sand refers to particle size.
does the term "tails never fails" have any merit? is the likely hood of "tails" winning larger than "heads" is?
May reminds me of Mr. Carson from Downton Abbey.
listening to james may only makes me imagine Clarkson rolling his eyes
Thanks I will try that way
Found your channel thanks to Vsauce. Love the videos.
lmao how come your videos have way better quality then top gear?
Actually, no, spectacle lenses are made from flint glass, crown glass, high refractive index glasses or some sort of polymer. Not soda lime glass.
Top Gear!
1;45 "silica can actually form a rubbishy type of glas by itself as seen in fulgurite..." well, fulgurite does not have any technical uses afaik. However there is glass made from pure SiO2 (quartz or silica). it is not 'rubbishy' at all, rather it is very much more durable and heat resistant as common glas.
Dear James, dear BBC I like your educational videos. However I think you should put some more research into them.
BBC to me is synonymous with very well researched docus and alike. So, please keep up the high standards!
forgot to mention: pure SiO2 glass is called fused silica or fused quartz
I think he meant geography, owing to different coastline makeups tropical or not, etc.
Glass isn't a liquid, it's an amorphous solid. Look up the article "Fact or Fiction?: Glass Is a (Supercooled) Liquid" in Scientific American (can't post links here) or look up Wikipedia's "List of common misconceptions".
What about several different colors of sand, how do they form?
watch the video from nottingham science about that :P Professor Moriarty explains it very nicely
Watching this and it's raining, I'm in Scotland and I just checked my window
Should've said "... making anything larger than a small pane, was a BIG pain."
Yup
Now I know how to stop my sand castles from falling.
I'm sure Roman's made several tons of glass in huge panels found in egypt and judea.
The more badass type of fulgurite is trinitite. Which is formed in the craters of nuclear bombs.
Worth noting .. modern glass production does NOT occur without HUGE volumes of? .. scrap glass ... "Cullet" as it's called is added in a large percentage ... and modern glass windows, bottles, jars, etc cannot be made economically without scrap glass.
bruh shouldn't you be driving cars
lmao nah Cpt. Slow is a born rambler 😂😂😂😂
By which you mean it is an amorphous solid that flows like a highly viscous liquid.
I get the feeling they only put the Subscribe button where it is once James has pointed somewhere
That is true glass actually does melt but very very very slowly like it would take 10000 years before it melts fully
All of James May's video end close to 4:20
Next Q&A: Did you really discover the source of the Nile?
if you put wet sand in a metal pot on a lightning rod, you can get sand even without a lightning strike
I remember when I was a kid. I asked my friend if he knew what people put in machines to make glass, and he said ''batteries''.
1:05 "Looked at a geography book with disdain"
You mean geology? :P
its great that being smart is starting to become cool. its about damn time.
You certainly didn't waste our time, James!
Don't even need to check the window in Manchester!
parent: what make glass?
me: sand
parent: how do u know?
me: minecraft
this video was published on 14th march, my birthday! nom nom
omai james tells us about the science in cars and transportation
Good
SIR JAMES MAY, EXPLORER OF THE AFRICAN PLAINS, DISCOVERER OF THE TRUE SOURCE OF THE NILE
I live in the tropics, so the answer is "no". Dead coral and ground up seashells and fish bones don't make good glass, what a pity. I thought I would one day find a fulgurite coz of all the lightning in the tropics. But now I guess I won't. Alas.
Since he didn't answer the principal question: Glass is generally made of a combination of sand, gypsum, soda ash, limestone and dolomite. You welcome.