NEVER POUR MOLTEN METAL ONTO CONCRETE!!! That pop you heard is the same reaction that, on a bigger scale, would shower you and everything else around you in molten metal. This is metal casting safety 101. PLEASE don't do this again, or at least don't post video of it. I would hate for some thumbhead with less luck than you get permanently disfigured as a result. PLEASE read up on metal casting and the safety procedures required. Thank you.
Rinoa Super-Genius Really he's right, just be careful you know I would miss your videos if you get burned by metal splashing on you. It's A-OK for low temperature melting but DEFINETELY NEVER do that with anything hotter than 300°C!
Rinoa Super-Genius You've been damn lucky then. And luck isn't real, so substitute clear thought and safety. Or, as I said before, at least don't present unsafe casting methodology under the pretense of being instructional. That's just basic, responsible, adult behaviour and consideration for others.
What is stuck to the ladle isn't bismuth: it's the impurities. I didn't hear an exhaust fan running. Inhaling heavy metal vapours? Nice way to fek your long term health.
love your videos! you remind me so much of my grandma, she's been buying and fixing junkers for years (without any formal training or safety equipment, hah.) super cool demonstration of the properties of bismuth!
Bismuth coils (instead of copper coils) will significantly reduce the Lenz law drag of an electric generator when a load is applied! More power can be generated using the same amount of fuel.
Greetings! I bought some bismuth online but it makes very small crystals and no coloring only a soldering like layer. I suspect it is tin alloy, do you have any idea how to refine it? thank you!
Ive wanted to do this for a long time, I bought some tin/bismuth allows just to play with melting and sculpting but always wanted to get some pure bismuth and make crystals! The lab grown ones are so beautiful, and homemade ones have a pretty awesome look too!
So I was planning to melt bismuth now I have some of the stuff for it on the way but I was wondering if I could get some tips on how to do it any help would be a big help thanks
I really enjoy watching your Blacksmithing Video. Perhaps you can do a hole series on that. I'd also like to see some sort of a showdown of the garage and your progress. Thanks for making such great videos!
Thanks for showing us how much bismuth to expect when ordering a pound. I was sceptical about ordering because I didn't know how much bismuth would actually come if I ordered just a lb. but thanks to this video my next stop will be eBay! Unless you can suggest a better place to aquire some?
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the colour vary caused by the temperatur differenz while its growing , the lower you bring it down the more coloureful it will be ! sorry for the english torture i am bavarian....
Ja havidere xD Muss zugeben, bei der "Temparatur Differenz" musst ich schon bissle lachen, hat sich gelesen wie aus einem dieser "What does german sound like" Videos xD
How much bismuth did you have there in total in the beginning? I'm trying to figure out how large a 4lb or 5lb chunk of the standard thickness bismuth chunks sold all over the internet would be.
Numisaccent www.rotometals.com/pure-bismuth-metal-for-sale-s/4.htm is cheeper... ebay is 10 bucks for 3.5 ounces... the link above is 20 for half a kilo
Very nice! Reminds me of when I played with bismuth - except as you can see on my video, I melted it with a large Fresnel lens and let the sun provide the heat, worked quite well.
That stuff in the ladle I'm pretty sure is just impurities. (not bismuth) It's like when you melt aluminium cans and the impurities will stay in your crucible. Side note: I could be totally wrong in saying that, but that's what I was told once before. Side note 2: You should try using a muffin tray to make ingots, quality ones have worked alright when melting cans so I don't see why it wouldn't work with bismuth.
BBPINEAPPLE The IUPAC periodic tables shows both soellings, but the original person to name it called it aluminum, but those dumb brits thought it had to rhyme with the other -ium suffixes. Those damn brits can be quite controlling. Good thing their empire has shrunk to next to nothing.
LoneWolf CombatTactics Why did you feel you had to correct him so hard? You seem very emotionally invested in this argument about aluminum / aluminium, which is quite odd.....
No, but this you can peel of with your bare hands, and if you solder it well it stick pretty well. Also, (just a random thought) does normal solder crystalize like this? Might be a problem since crystals are brittle and easy to just break. But just a random thought ;)
Filip Carlén metal is a crystal, if you take most metals and acid etch them you can see their crystalline structure. you may have seen the crystal nucleation on anodized roofing metal. when they dip it in the molted zinc and pull it out to dry, the zinc nucleates and grows flat crystals till they all meat and so it looks like scales.
bismuth is the only heavy metal that is not toxic in fact bismuth oxides are also used in cosmetics due to their colour. however I wouldn't advice eating or cooking in the pot you 'll use to melt it cause
really enjoyed :-) perhaps your next subscriber waymark can be a forged one! :-D what metal would you want to use for that? :-p hmmm are the same crystals gonna be in that ingot or did your poking or something with the swiss let the air in and that caused them?
almost all metal is a crystal, its just bismuth grows bigger crystals as it cools. poking it did nothing special but was just me trying to feel if a crystal was growing or not.
Someday when nuclear energy takes off and we need bismuth to make the heavier atoms and it's worth many times more than gold we're going to look back and miss playing with it!
About metal crystals, are they like a good chance of saving the Earth from excessive mining? Like, why wait for metal meteorites to come down when we can literally grow metal, like plants?
Wow ive gotta get me some of that , Safer than smelting lead recovered from a old battery , Im sure theres loads of uses we can think of for this stuff :-)
Also noticed you using a pc psu lid as a table , They must be like the minecraft equivalent of a crafting table since thats what i use too for various stuff :-)
+Michael the mad inventor actually its less than weakly radioactive, it releases so little radiation that it took decades to discover it was radioactive. also its only the common isotope, every element has a radioactive isotope. for instance i have samples of Uranium and Americium back home that are kinda a mixture of the highly reactive and lesser reactive isotopes.
+Michael the mad inventor Well, yeah, but do you know how radioactive it is? It is so radioactive, that you'd have to live about 10000 years in order to have any effects from it., with the half life of the most stable of isotope (Bi-209) being 600 yottaseconds, that is, 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 seconds, so yeah, you are not going to witness that halflife in your life time, well, if you had an clump of Bi-209 that has never before gone a halflife before the time of observation.
NEVER POUR MOLTEN METAL ONTO CONCRETE!!! That pop you heard is the same reaction that, on a bigger scale, would shower you and everything else around you in molten metal. This is metal casting safety 101. PLEASE don't do this again, or at least don't post video of it. I would hate for some thumbhead with less luck than you get permanently disfigured as a result. PLEASE read up on metal casting and the safety procedures required. Thank you.
well i did, so deal with it.
Rinoa Super-Genius
Really he's right, just be careful you know I would miss your videos if you get burned by metal splashing on you. It's A-OK for low temperature melting but DEFINETELY NEVER do that with anything hotter than 300°C!
MrOpenGL
i think its funny that everyone seems to think ive never cast metal before.
Rinoa Super-Genius Well judging by the way you poured it onto concrete I would surmise as such......
Rinoa Super-Genius You've been damn lucky then. And luck isn't real, so substitute clear thought and safety. Or, as I said before, at least don't present unsafe casting methodology under the pretense of being instructional. That's just basic, responsible, adult behaviour and consideration for others.
Rest in peace screwdriver. And his lungs, don't pour molten metal on surfaces with coatings, it can kill.
Okay, but your opening statement should have been, "Now, let's get down to bismuth…".
Tori Munton “Were back in bismuth”
Did u copy that from su?
Hilarious how clueless this guy is... 😆
Doesn't sound like a guy if you ask me!
***** Exactly, a cringe worthy video for anyone who deals with metal.
O.my.god. I can't believe how dumb this was lol he clearly knew not a thing lol
+Nightmare Ego It's almost like a weird version of Kermit the Frog.
+Matthew Wilcken sounds like tod howard
"fuck!" "oh shit" lol that shit cracked me up
Same tho
So this is what homeworld thinks of fusion..
Lol. Its punishment for the war. ITS NOT OUR FAULT
Wtf are you talking about
What is homeworld
+Jamie Avery lmfao.
The world of home
Melting bismuth like it's nobody's business haha... I'll let myself out.
What is stuck to the ladle isn't bismuth: it's the impurities. I didn't hear an exhaust fan running. Inhaling heavy metal vapours? Nice way to fek your long term health.
love your videos! you remind me so much of my grandma, she's been buying and fixing junkers for years (without any formal training or safety equipment, hah.) super cool demonstration of the properties of bismuth!
Man, you had me nervous throughout the entirety of your video. You should change your username to CZcams’s Most Haphazard Scientist.
wow everything is changing! and were building bases out of wood now!? who's terrible idea was this?
and then she was melted
And where is everybody else?
Persinette Watterfalls Being Over run.
Everybody else?
+Geneditty Yeah, the rest of the Crystal Gems. Old Crazy Lace, Biggs, Snowflake...
Bismuth coils (instead of copper coils) will significantly reduce the Lenz law drag of an electric generator when a load is applied! More power can be generated using the same amount of fuel.
+furulevi Interesting. I wonder what the return on investment would be for the cost of the more rare metal.
Mod MINI bismuth is an alloy, so it’s not that rare
Interesting, I wonder if anyone has tried this. Bitmuth is also heavy... and brittle, but maybe an alloy?
@@ewannoel4963 Bismuth is an element. I suppose you could make an alloy but the stuff you usually buy on ebay is 99.99+% pure.
Greetings! I bought some bismuth online but it makes very small crystals and no coloring only a soldering like layer. I suspect it is tin alloy, do you have any idea how to refine it? thank you!
Tin electrolosis
Ive wanted to do this for a long time, I bought some tin/bismuth allows just to play with melting and sculpting but always wanted to get some pure bismuth and make crystals! The lab grown ones are so beautiful, and homemade ones have a pretty awesome look too!
So I was planning to melt bismuth now I have some of the stuff for it on the way but I was wondering if I could get some tips on how to do it any help would be a big help thanks
"I dont [sic] worry about a dumbass melting their face." This 'Rinoa Super-Genius' sure is a nice fellow.
Thought u could make bismuth crystal with a pan and a stove
I really enjoy watching your Blacksmithing Video. Perhaps you can do a hole series on that. I'd also like to see some sort of a showdown of the garage and your progress. Thanks for making such great videos!
Thanks for showing us how much bismuth to expect when ordering a pound. I was sceptical about ordering because I didn't know how much bismuth would actually come if I ordered just a lb. but thanks to this video my next stop will be eBay! Unless you can suggest a better place to aquire some?
This video is actually really cool! Bismuth is so pretty and has many varity of colors!
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Does different metals have different smells?
what swiss army knife are you using
Ooooh my god, my OCD kicked in so hard when you kept tapping it. "YOU'RE RUINING IT!1"
+Eskir well then thats your problem not mine
Rinoa Super-Genius Man you gotta work on your sense of humor. That, however is your problem, not mine XD
Eskir
i'd only need to do that if you made a funny joke.
So why do the oxides have different colours? different rations of oxygen to bismuth or varying thicknesses?
the colour vary caused by the temperatur differenz while its growing , the lower you bring it down the more coloureful it will be ! sorry for the english torture i am bavarian....
Ja havidere xD
Muss zugeben, bei der "Temparatur Differenz" musst ich schon bissle lachen, hat sich gelesen wie aus einem dieser "What does german sound like" Videos xD
Andres
I thought that might be what did it. The crystal expands as it cools, so differential expansion should result in differential color sheen.
whats the composition of torch and where can I get bismuth and for how much?
1. propane is the blue canisters 2.ever heard of google?
Random_rapper20
no
how are you heating bismuth without creating bismuth oxide
It was a chunk, I imagine by the time the oxide forms noticably (low surface area) the chunk gets hot enough for the oxide to break down
how much did you buy?
About how many lbs was that in the video?
where did you get that ladle? Looks better.
I learned something new that all bismuth crystals represent something
Great stuff, what are you going to melt next?. Cant wait. Im going to watch some paint drying this afternoon.
how much is that?
I gotta try this! Great video.
Where did you buy your bismuth from for $ 20.00 a lb
i bought 2.2 pounds for 26$
How much bismuth did you have there in total in the beginning? I'm trying to figure out how large a 4lb or 5lb chunk of the standard thickness bismuth chunks sold all over the internet would be.
HighlanderNorth1 it maybe 25 to 35 bucks
Isn't that cool?
No, it is hot.
That was the best ingot cast I have ever seen LOL
Those raw ingots you took out of the bag, how many pounds were they in total?
Idk but it looks similar to a 100 gram piece i got a few weeks ago.
Oh alright good, I've ordered 2,5lbs myself. Should last long enough.
this is some great comedy
Where can you buy Bismuth?
Numisaccent www.rotometals.com/pure-bismuth-metal-for-sale-s/4.htm is cheeper... ebay is 10 bucks for 3.5 ounces... the link above is 20 for half a kilo
Bismuth is my fav element its always a butiful element its right on the edge of being stable and unstable its such a unique element
Bismuth IS actually unstable
Very nice! Reminds me of when I played with bismuth - except as you can see on my video, I melted it with a large Fresnel lens and let the sun provide the heat, worked quite well.
these is so awesome super cool video man !!
"oh it's getting hard"
Rinoa Super-Genius -2015
What is the ladle made out of? Looks like a pretty versatile 'metal'
Connor Norng iron
Rinoa Super-Genius Really? Plain iron?
Connor Norng
think so
+Connor Norng Cast Iron..
+KraziIvan that pop scared the living shit out fo you didnt it
My friend with a speech impediment is setting up a business making jewelry from these crystals.
He is calling it strictly bismuth.
Thats gold
@@bobbypatton4903 No, it's bismuth.
That stuff in the ladle I'm pretty sure is just impurities. (not bismuth) It's like when you melt aluminium cans and the impurities will stay in your crucible.
Side note: I could be totally wrong in saying that, but that's what I was told once before.
Side note 2: You should try using a muffin tray to make ingots, quality ones have worked alright when melting cans so I don't see why it wouldn't work with bismuth.
i could use a silicone tray because it's a low enough temp, then i could just peal the tray away.
LoneWolf CombatTactics IUPAC disagrees with you.
BBPINEAPPLE just checked my college general chem lab book and periodic table shows as aluminum.
BBPINEAPPLE The IUPAC periodic tables shows both soellings, but the original person to name it called it aluminum, but those dumb brits thought it had to rhyme with the other -ium suffixes. Those damn brits can be quite controlling. Good thing their empire has shrunk to next to nothing.
LoneWolf CombatTactics Why did you feel you had to correct him so hard? You seem very emotionally invested in this argument about aluminum / aluminium, which is quite odd.....
The 'ah ha ha!' After you uncovered the crystals made you sound like Seth from Red Dead Redemption :)
dethmaul i havent played the game, just googled some of his cutscenes and yeah i agree a lot haha.
Oh I recognized you from your profile pic. It's badass!
Is bismuth a metal
I really enjoed your video! Thank you!
Stuff seems pretty easy to melt, I wonder if you can use it as solder
Na, since it wont stick that well it would be hard. Possible, but hard
Filip Carlén
solder doesn't stick very well either. I can easily knock it off my tools. Without the flux it doesn't stick to anything worth a damn.
No, but this you can peel of with your bare hands, and if you solder it well it stick pretty well. Also, (just a random thought) does normal solder crystalize like this? Might be a problem since crystals are brittle and easy to just break. But just a random thought ;)
Filip Carlén
metal is a crystal, if you take most metals and acid etch them you can see their crystalline structure. you may have seen the crystal nucleation on anodized roofing metal. when they dip it in the molted zinc and pull it out to dry, the zinc nucleates and grows flat crystals till they all meat and so it looks like scales.
it is used in solder.
We're did u get it
Amazon or eBay
This video should be titled "How to not use you're Swiss army knife"
one question, can you melt foil ?
+Optimua Prima of coarse, you can melt anything you just need the right amount of heat
Ok
Were can I buy bismuth
you can find on eBay. in the US, it's about $9-11 per pound. he had about a pound in this vid
How do I get some bismuth?
buy it online, or mine it yourself.
how deep was you voice on this to your new vids...
before my gender transition you mean.
5:51 "awww shit"
This looks really cool I wanna try this myself Ofcorse I would like to know if would be safe to use in my house
bismuth is the only heavy metal that is not toxic in fact bismuth oxides are also used in cosmetics due to their colour. however I wouldn't advice eating or cooking in the pot you 'll use to melt it cause
let's get down to bismuth
Bismuth = Awesome!
hell yeah!
that was bismuth oxide right? cuz i wanna have fun with it too
anybody else fucking die when he pours the slag in the liquid metal
Is that a wooden table?
Very very nice, you're like me you don't get stopped by being in a town! I melted aluminium once on my balcony in the centre of a town :D
I miss my house, garage, and mini lab.
really enjoyed :-) perhaps your next subscriber waymark can be a forged one! :-D what metal would you want to use for that? :-p hmmm are the same crystals gonna be in that ingot or did your poking or something with the swiss let the air in and that caused them?
almost all metal is a crystal, its just bismuth grows bigger crystals as it cools. poking it did nothing special but was just me trying to feel if a crystal was growing or not.
How did this guy not burn his shop down?
Someday when nuclear energy takes off and we need bismuth to make the heavier atoms and it's worth many times more than gold we're going to look back and miss playing with it!
That isn’t going to work like that
@@RinoaL Bismuth + neutron = Polonium, read about it.
Hahaha!!! Best part was at 5:53. Made me laugh. Gotta get me some bismuth!
What does 100grams of bismuth look like?
Tiny, it's about the size of a small wallet.
+Nadim Mourad cool thanks
lol I bought 100 grams on amazon too
The safest radioactive metal
Half life 14 billion years slow Radioactive slower then what’s in our bodies
Depends upon which isotope. Potassium can also be said to be the safest radioactive metal.
I think a better thing to say is the heaviest safe metal
Bismuth this bismuth that lets talk bismuth bismuth bismuth bismuth! Lol
that second melted bismuth looks just like Texas!!!!!
"oh look at that!" thats what she said
4:19
The bismuth has become Texas
7:51
The bismuth has become West Virginia
lol
Where can I buy some?
rotometals.com
When cooking this metal, do you need a mask? Does it stink?
+The Readers Corner it never hurts to where a mask when working with molten metals.
£8 for 100 grams on amazon
From where I can buy busmth
Bismuth **
Amazon or eBay
The crystals he made remind me of " Tron ".
looks like it's getting hard
Can you remelt the bismuth
Me and my stepdad did this on the kitchen stove we didn't need a propane torch, and also its fragile enough to break with you hands
Very cool.
Is bismuth radioactive ?
TV screens are more radioactive than Bismuth
+Daniel Caolo wow didn't know that
him cursing was funney
You should make an ant hill casting so you can decorate room number 2 with it!
yeah i'd do that with aluminium though, i've wanted to do that for a long while now. but i'll need a good gallow or more of molten aluminium for that.
The King Of Random made a cool and simple forge, you better get yo work collecting soda cans!
Tyler Kobs
why, when i have slabs of aluminium back home?
Rinoa Super-Genius That works too
Cant believe how perfect are these cubic/square structures. How the fuck this is possible?
Gabriel Guelfi science
surprised how heavy the flakes were
About metal crystals, are they like a good chance of saving the Earth from excessive mining? Like, why wait for metal meteorites to come down when we can literally grow metal, like plants?
thats not how any of this works
wait inst bismith one of those slightly radioative matierals
...your phone is more radioactive apparently...
i don't use my phone that often and yes my spelling is bad i know. and my grammar to.
David Spade has cool hobbies, who knew?!
Wow ive gotta get me some of that , Safer than smelting lead recovered from a old battery , Im sure theres loads of uses we can think of for this stuff :-)
its highly diamagnetic :)
I haven't done much research on the metal yet but i wonder what would happen if a strong magnet was next to it.
Also noticed you using a pc psu lid as a table , They must be like the minecraft equivalent of a crafting table since thats what i use too for various stuff :-)
Did you know that Bismuth is diamagnetic? You should wrap and induction coil around it.
I saw you made a bit of a mistake. You are supposed to remove the built up stuff on top while it's heating so it makes that square-ish bismuth shape.
this is so interesting
This is honest video. With all that it not "pr0", hence more valuable.
I have that exact same type of pocket knife
Maybe because that's arguably the most commonly owned pocket knife ever made.
rinoa you do now that bismuth is weakly radioactive right 😂😂
+Michael the mad inventor actually its less than weakly radioactive, it releases so little radiation that it took decades to discover it was radioactive.
also its only the common isotope, every element has a radioactive isotope. for instance i have samples of Uranium and Americium back home that are kinda a mixture of the highly reactive and lesser reactive isotopes.
+Michael the mad inventor Well, yeah, but do you know how radioactive it is?
It is so radioactive, that you'd have to live about 10000 years in order to have any effects from it., with the half life of the most stable of isotope (Bi-209) being 600 yottaseconds, that is, 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 seconds, so yeah, you are not going to witness that halflife in your life time, well, if you had an clump of Bi-209 that has never before gone a halflife before the time of observation.
OK why do you need to get involved I have already had a reply thanks Mazaroth
+Michael the mad inventor fire alarms produce more radiation
+Michael the mad inventor per wiki: "with a half life more than a billion times the estimated age of the universe"
Am I wrong for laughing my ass off when it popped and he spilled it everywhere? 5:52
nope, not at all. ^^