Every Type of Chemistry Explained
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What is chemistry? Well it turns out it's not just one thing - it's a whole bunch of things! Anal chemistry was a painful course to take, it was a real pain in the butt.
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dude you are amazing
nice video man, super underrated
You specialized in sulfur chemistry - that's a true masochist.
Have you ever made oxytocin? I am very curious about this. How is it extracted from ergot fungus? I really want to extract it myself. Can you teach me?
Love hormone is very mysterious. After searching in more than a dozen languages, no one on the entire Internet has prepared it, and there is no preparation method. The more it is not available, the greater my curiosity. Teacher, what do you think of love hormone? Do you want to make it? Impulsive?
“Blowing up your neighborhood” chemistry and “getting arrested” chemistry are my favorites!
What about meth making chemistry?
@@polishonion6292thats under the category of getting arrested chemistry
We all have a soft spot for Clandestine Chemistry
@@Chemical_Individual Can't forget the War Crime Chemistry!
Good thing they're mutually exclusive
Geochemistry: Chemistry that involves licking rocks and eating sediment
Licking fossil poop
I was REALLY good at getting the different shapes into the right holes during daycare playtime. So when I heard about how proteins and ligands are basically the same thing but smaller, I was all in.
um molecules are bigger than shapes lol, they're made up of multiple :D
You missed plasma chemistry: Getting a gas really hot, but not quite hot enough to become physics.
Lol
As a chemical engineer I reallly really need chemist to include more thermal properties in papers including new mechanisms catalyst and new molecules. It’s like chemist are scared of thermodynamics. It makes my life so difficult when I have to find 30 papers of the same mechanism just to find a single thermal property.
we usually don't have any incentive to study thermal properties - if you ask chemists to collaborate you may get better insight - I just have a really hard time finding anyone who will let me tour their industrial scale plants so that I can get a better sense of how things work
Chemists are also 100% scared of thermodynamics
Calculators are scary - I will gladly work with pyrophic, toxic, light sensitive whatever nightmare sluge and vodoo a crystal structure out of it but I will not touch anything more complex than a boiling/melting point when it comes to thermodynamics.
As a chemist i can confirm we are 100% scared of thermodynamic
@@40winkbro, as well as quantum chemistry
"Microwave chemistry" sounds like something out of a Florida man type news story
As a Green Polymer chemist, I honestly think you could make a whole video just about this one field. Polymer chemistry is a sort of brigde between synthetic chemistry and material science/engineering. Polymers are so unique compared to other molecules because of their size so unlike small molecules you can see and hold polymers, meaning that their study extends far beyond just characterization.
Also, while I do agree that green chemistry has it's faults, I would say the bigger problem is everyone CLAIMING to have made something "green," only to then go on and pull some stupid process out of their ass, which will never be industrially viable. If you'd like some good people to read for green polymer chemistry I'd recommend Michael Meier, Anne McNeil, and Joshua Worch. I think these three PIs really show some of the good work being done.
My polymers class did a week or two covering "green polymers". Biodegradeable polymers tend to not be the best in terms of material properties compared to other polymers. However, I the professor mentioned some research into various treatments of wheat gluten which have better properties than stuff like PLA and such.
It's been a few years so I don't have my notes on it anymore. I'm also not sure whether this is even related to polymer chemistry or not.
Thank you I'm very interested in this field and appreciate the recommendations.
I'm a first year college student and your descriptions of biochem and chemical engineering helped me realize that chemical engineering is better for what I want to do. My school doesn't have that great engineering programs so I will likely go somewhere else after I graduate.
I wish I could show this to my students because a number of them ask what my PhD is about and "shooting lasers in the dungeon of the chemistry building" gives them more questions than answers
"the atmosphere is the nature's bin", I think it's more humanity's bin
I'm a nanomaterials chemist, mostly working with nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage, chemical sensing, and readtion engineering. Currently I'm fascinated with something called plasmon enhanced catalysis, which absolutely blows my mind
My favourite fields are pharmacodynamics and neurochemistry, which I study pretty often, albeit on a surface level, and from which derive much pleasure. One of my favourite subjects is release of endogenous opioids 10-20 minutes after ingesting capsaicin.
This is extremely concerning
Thank you for this video. I was always curious about how many fields there are in the chemistry world, and I bet when it comes to subfields we can go on and on!
Glad it was helpful!
There are a lot more like Solid State Chemistry, but it would have been too much to explain all of them.
For me, as a *true* inorganic (water + oxide) chemist, any "inorganic" chemistry involving C-H or C-C containing ligands is organometallic.
"My chemistry was mostly fluorine chemistry..."
[*concern intensifies*]
Damn near every orgo textbook I've looked at has largely confined its treatment of fluorine in organic chem to "don't," plus or minus some explanation of *why* you shouldn't.
I suppose somebody has yo figure out where/when you *can*, so your efforts in this regard are appreciated!
Organometallic Chemistry is this super weird uncle that you meet once a year at Thanksgiving and try to ignore for the better. He has some pretty weird views and Noone really understands why he's doing anything but he gets invited anyways.
But seriously - our field combines some of the worst aspects from inorganic and organic chemistry. We're doing multi step synthesis work for our ligands starting on the gallon scale just to do dozends of in situ studies on the single digit milligram scale and then do insane numbers of crystallizations and reproductions praying to the crystal gods. Not to speak of the unspeakable horrors when you realize that you've lost several grams of precious metal precursor somewhere in your synthesis.
This is really cool and even as a biochem major I had no idea there were so many different fields! I wish we spent just a day going of these careers in my gen chem 1 class.
that was exactly why we made this video
The veritasium edit was amazing 😂 thank you for blessing us
Video idea: it would be really cool if you did videos on these individual fields. Like an extended overview of the history or its prominent figures. Or maybe videos on new and promising sub fields, like mechanochemistry (BC mechanochem is based).
I really like radiochemistry. And as soon as I get a geiger tube for alpha particles aswell, I'll do some myself😝
it sounds cool but they make you work in a special place separated from everyone and they get scared of you
@@That_Chemist I honestly want to see more of that on youtube. Chemiolis already made two videos with uranium. But apart from some smaller stuff there not much else
They did that to Ted Kaczynski , too , and he never did any radio chemistry .
He was the evil secret Santa tho .
Makes you wonder what Christmas was like in that household .
" Oh , this one's from Teddy ! "
Every body runs , screaming ....
Normal Geiger tubes will NOT pick up alpha particles you need an alpha Scintillation detector or a pancake type detector (ludlum 44-9, ect)
Simons Nuclear Chemistry makes solid Entry level Videos on it
I like CZcams chemistry, the kind where I can watch someone else do things I have no interest in doing myself.
Tip for students: If you wanna make a ton of money as a chemist, pick chemical engineering or electrochemistry. Chemical engineers are always in high demand, and electrochemistry is super hot right now because of solar panels, batteries (electric cars), fuel cells, hydrogen production, etc.
Definitely! But don't forget anything related to pharmaceutical chemistry. There will never, ever be enough people to meet demand. Even after nuclear armageddon, people will be sick (maybe especially then). But this is no dick measuring contest, every type of chemistry is awesome in their own right!
@@letzte_maahsname Awesome field, I started my career in pharma. But automated high-throughput hit discovery is everywhere nowadays, and a lot of pharma R&D has moved to India and China. It's all about minimizing R&D spending and maximizing reactor & process efficiency. So chemical engineers win again. (I'm jealous of them, I'm an R&D man myself.) Still a big shortage of analytical chemists in pharma though, so it's amazing if you love HPLC.
14:48 My lecture of Heterocycles this semester is done by a prof who does "green" chemistry. It is so annoying to listen to him, because he thinks all of us students want to work in (organic) synthesis (because everything else is a waste of time), and always promotes his research because it is so "good" and "green" and "important to the world" etc. The most hillarious which happened during one of his lecures was, that he was not on time "because he had a photo shooting" which was related to him and his work group being one of the candidates for a 100mil € fund for his "green" chemistry.
Ah so perfomative activism but instead it's chemistry
He sounds more like a narcissist than an environmentalist
@@Sniperboy5551 that seems about right. He also looks down on people who don't want to do synthesis but analysis or "worse" physical/ theoretical chemistry like me, like we are some sort of "lesser" chemists.
He even claimed that "physicists would be nothing without us chemists", which made me (a former physics student who swapped to chemistry) so mad that i glared at him for the rest of the lecture.
Definitely a monomer moment.
this video is amazing and the pacing of your switching between each type of chemistry back and forth was perfect. love the content as always and your sense of humor! keep it up! I have no background in chemical science but I look forward to a new That Chemist video every time i pop open this website. much love!
Somehow, i got hired as an analytical chemist, and now i can't escape. I miss the organic days.
As an organic chemist about to graduate, this is my fear. I don't mind doing analysis of the compounds I'm synthesizing/studying, but I really don't want to spend my days feeding samples into machines.
@christineg8151 "but your resume says you have x experience and not y experience"
The parafilm has me ROLLING lol
one roll of parafilm costs more than a waygu steak
@@That_Chemistpremium jerky
I love the "emerging from the edge" picture of nilered at the beginning!!!
Now do types of chemists. And don't forget to include the best one, basement.
You knocked it out of the park with this video. Great info. Great pacing. Thank you.
I just finished a biomaterials class which was essentially polymer chemistry, it was fun. I really admire method chemists, that is probably the most impressive to me.
I worked in medical (pathology) labs. They had the usual biochemistry lab where the focus was mainly on discrete auto-analysers. They did have a special lab in a clean room for measuring metals in nano and pico quantities. They used exceptionally pure reagents but what got me was the use of plastic volumetric flasks as glass would leach metal ions into solution.
There were also toxicologists who specialised in assaying drugs and their metabolites. They had a impressive array of instruments such as HPLCs, GLCs plus many more. Their pride and joy was a baby mass spec. This was a long time ago so I guess all of this would be archaic by now.
This is the video I wish I had in highschool. It took me months to figure out which major I wanted to go into (materials science and engineering), and you distinctly describe it in a couple minutes
I’m a biochem undergrad but I really enjoy neurochemistry and psychopharmacology so I like learning about different psychiatric meds and how they work. I also like learning about how the imbalance of neurotransmitters can cause psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Glad to see computational chemistry represented
Ikr 😭😭
Is it just me or is biochem becoming increasingly dominant in chemistry nobel prize winnings?
That's because biochemistry is the best
Would make sense considering that Biochem is relatively young and particually aplicable.
Damn Joey that was eye-opening. I haven't heard of Maingroup or Flow chemistry, and green chemistry was mentioned to TODAY for the first time, so great timing! You definitely achieved some neurochemistry bro ❤
awesome :)
Love your videos! Fun while learning 😊
I'm glad you enjoyed it :D
I love the „polymers and monomers“ toungebreaker section this vid! Did you have to redo those lines a lot?
This overwhelmed me because it's basically what I do the last ten years with ba in applied physical chemistry and master in theoretical biochemistry I answered the question which kind of chemistry you like with all of it.
The topic, the animations and the memes made this Video really entertaining!🤩👍
Summing up all those fieldst must have cost a lot of work an time. Thanks!
13:34 in some cases, sonication has been used to fragment DNA as a preparatory step in sequqncing studies
With good endonucleases and long-read sequencing maturing, id have to research where this technique would still be applicable
Great vid, both informative and entertaining!
I just realized that "either" and "ether" sound identical if you happen to live in a suitable area.
i've never heard anyone pronounce a voiceless dental fricative for either
Fun video! Personal favorite is organic chemistry, definitely (organic chemistry is BEST chemistry) and the particular flavor I'm hoping to become employed in is cosmetics chemistry. All of my research is in dyes, though, and that's a hell of a lot of fun too.
Taking a Marine Geochemistry course right now. Way more interesting than it sounds!!
I'm currently working towards a bachelor of science in pharmacology! Cool to see it come up in the video :)
Most of the courses, especially after the first year, are microbio, biochem and pharmaceuticals! Super excited
Ok, now do a Venn diagram that shows the overlap between the types.
this is genuinely really helpful for a silly little highschooler like me that has no clue what field of chem i really want to do when i go to college, i just know i wanna play with the silly powders
I’m glad to hear it - I hope I have given you a fair chance to know about chemistry! I was not given any context when I was in highschool
Time for my daily dose of chemistry! Thanks for doing what you do! 🥳 Have you thought about doing a radioactive elements/isotopes tierlist?
Love this idea
I'm a biochemistry student and this video was amazing to have some insight into what i'm going to study in the future!
14:00 And the microchip scale! "Lab on a chip" is how blood glucose test strips work. This was only invented in the past 25 years.
Hey bud I think this topic is fairly new and practically unexplored: It's about reactions in deep eutectic solvents.
You can make Grignard reactions at and in AIR with it.
One professor at my university is doing research into it.
If you're interested look uf Eva Hevia and deep eutectic solvents.
Who knows what other reactions we'll be able to do with these solvents while also not caring about air/moisture.
What about supramolecular chemistry 😊
the chem undergrad who is planning to go gradschool must watch this video.
please share it ;)
Love you dude thx for the vids
Love that you also slip some nitbits of Theoretical Chemistry, which is one of difficult thing to learn because proving it in a simulation requires certain steps to do 😅😊
I JUST finished my quantitative analytical chem course at university! it was so hard but super cool. i may take advanced analytical later on, but idk 😅
Do it
I'm considering studying technical chemistry, though it just sounds like not quite being a chemist or chemical engineer, because it's hard to find information on the field
I see Nigel in the thumbnail so I'm guessing piss chemistry is on the list
4:45 as a polymer chem phd student, we do not deal with tar problem. we just distill out the good stuff. sure it does get messy, but no harms in doing research
Thanks for the Video.
I have a mildly infuriating story. I participated in the Austrian chemistry Olympiad last year, the 2nd part of the final is 5h in which you have to do a synthesis, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis and do a bit of theory to them (expect for the qualitative). We had to dispose of heavy metals during the exam, I went to pour it through a funnel at the front of the class. Since the bottle is very dark, and I couldn't see the water level due to the funnel, I ended up spilling it all over the table. The cleanup cost me 10 minutes, because of which I wasn't able to complete the theory...
that seems like their issue tbh - I hate it when waste bottles overflow
day = ruined
I was a freshman, and given that it's for all highschool students, I didn't mind placing 16., but it did slightly piss me off
@@keikazazic3296I wanted to participate in a local chemistry Olympiad in Germany, but my teacher didn't allow me to participate and forced a random other student to go
@@mortenbund1219 I have a German friend whom I recently got into chemistry, so out of curiosity I read the Wikipedia article for the way Germany does the chemistry Olympiad and it simply sucks compares to ours
My lab is formally in the chemistry department at our uni, however really we do a lot of bioanalytical chemistry (proteomics via mass spectrometry). Mass spec is one of my favorite methods, because I've used it both for this and forensically to detect veterinary toxic metals in clinical samples. One of my favorite jokes in our lab is that to get better data, we should never wear deodorant; deodorant has lots of polysilloxane polymers which are volatile and so it can increase the background noise of our mass spec. Don't worry, we actually do wear deodorant.
Thanks for this video! Learning is funny!
Please do a video on Flourine chemistry. Specifically, ClF3, as there are ZERO high quality videos showing reactions with it. Apparently Ex&F and ChemicalForce just won't touch the stuff.
*Nigel* "Wanna some Red Phosphorus?? No...? Bummers."
4:25 oh those happy styrenes dancing :)
Actually designing a tetra peptide-platinum based anti cancer drug for my thesis.
Chemistry overlap: I am a analytical chemist, focusing primarily in food chemistry and I have had a PET scan.
Thank u for mentioning computational chemistry everyone always ignores us 💔
Is there a good book about synthetic methodology you can recommend?
There's also bio-inorganic chemistry.
Come on, any chemist could be enticed by the cofactor of nitrogenase and the mysterious carbon atom in its middle.
"My chemistry was mostly flourine chemistry"
*concern*
thanks for the helpful video! I'm a first year chem student!
Thanks for the vid and to the thumbnail artist
Me lol
Lol the good old dry ice in a bottle. Back in my high school years I did exactly that once, in my neighbourhood on a quiet Sunday. It was the first and the only time I did it, so the neighbours were very confused.
This is a chemistry meme video and I am here for it
If I can add one I studied, it would be chemical ecology, a biology oriented branch who studies how organisms use chemicals to interact with eachother for example with pheromone or how predators detect their prey, etc.
Quick question,what about the field of energetics ? (Explosive compounds)
The E&F clips absolutely made this
Electrochemistry also has applications in machining/manufacturing
Metallurgy is basically physical chemistry for pyromaniacs. Change my mind.
Chem undergrad here, this is such a great video thank you for making this!
I'm glad it helps - make sure you share it with your peers ;)
Synthetic biology is constantly on that scifi grind.
Metabolic engineers be like: "let's make organic chemists compete with enzymes for jobs."
Always funny to see geology treated as an afterthought when its applications are some of the most critical pillars of society 😂
As a biochemist I can prove that it moslelly about pharma, as a PhD in meme cenetics, I can admit that this video is a masterpice
Please reach out to me via email or on discord - I would love to learn more about your PhD work and memetics in general - you see what I am going for, and nobody else except for you has seen that yet.
@@That_Chemist @That_Chemist Sorry, I actually have a biochemical education, but meme science is nowhere near my proficiency, that was a joke and I had to point it out. I apologise for confusing you! But memetics definitely would have been a great subject of research
Maybe russians have another type of sence of humor or that just was a bad joke xd
A chocolate chip cocoa volcano would be a delicious chemistry project
As someone who wants to go into med chem seeing the sheer amount of options is staggering, I’m not sure if I want to go into pharmacology or maybe focus more on bioselectivity or what, only time will tell but the insight is greatly appreciated
A degreed Los Angeles *pharmacist* is salaried $53-$77/hr, 2080 works hrs/yr. Do the math for your first day on the job.
@@unclealwell I live in the opposite side of the planet for one, but more importantly it isn’t about money but rather what I can accomplish, it’s bio*medicine* after all - I want to help people but without the whole surgery and 90 hour work weeks
@@eris9062 It is very much about the money. It won't stop bullets, but it will buy weapons, ammo, a foxhole...and a cleaning kit plus solvent.
Follow your heart...but don't forget your head.
Great listen whilst suffering through the hell that is physical chemistry exams 👍
I need to sit and really think what I want to do because I've only been in a paperwork role followed by QC analysis role and I just want to make stuff dang it (but don't want to fork out for a masters/PhD)
10:01 So sad to see the stress of what he had done had caused veritasium to resort to stress eating.
What is the name of the channels in the lower right? 2:38. the one with 3 hexagons. is the purple guy also a reference to channel?
"Chemistry touches every aspect of our lives"
Duh, if you can touch it, then it's a chemical.
Some chemical you can't even touch.
How much overlap is there between nuclear chemistry and nuclear physics?
Why is the styrene dancing?
Really Goofy!
Keep up the good work :D
I'm glad all that wastewater chemistry I was doing for 35 years is now called "flow chemistry". The one area, I wondered if you thought about is "Military Chemistry". Or is that the area that covers them all?
A positron is basically a microscopic Sphere of Annihilation? Gah, I wonder how much random science stuff either inspired or has parallels in Tabletop Games. (Or some other concept I haven't thought of.)
in a discord im in we have a joke that medchem is just taking an existing drug and putting a trifluoromethyl group somewhere on it
Fluorine chemistry be like
It feels wrong to hear "Ladies and gentlemen we gott'em. FBI OPEN UP" without mega deepfried Baby I'm Yours