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  • Silicon is a very abundant and important element.
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Komentáře • 110

  • @DwcpfDwcpf
    @DwcpfDwcpf Před 10 lety +261

    Me: Should I make a joke about Silicon?
    Spanish man: Si.

  • @imadgibbs9063
    @imadgibbs9063 Před 10 lety +135

    Any chance of an updated silicon video? This one's now 6 years old

  • @ColePaquette
    @ColePaquette Před 11 lety +78

    I wish I had taken chemistry from these people.
    My teachers managed to turn me off from chemistry, sadly.

  • @whangie1
    @whangie1 Před 12 lety +14

    I read a lot of stuff in the press about Graphene. I read a recent article in New Scientist (a UK magazine) and they were saying they have discovered a way to make one atom thick sheets of Si called Silicene which has similar applications to Graphene but is more compatible with modern Silicon based circuits and technology than Graphene and so is predicted to be more widely used.

  •  Před 10 lety +75

    If you want to find out what science looks like to people who don't know anything about science, go to 1:50, mute the sound and just watch for 5 seconds.

  • @Emin3mFreaker
    @Emin3mFreaker Před 10 lety +35

    the younger guy sounds like he is sweet talking the silicon

  • @alasanof
    @alasanof Před 13 lety +36

    I wonder if silicate aliens use carbons for computing...

  • @efrem1
    @efrem1 Před 14 lety +9

    These videos are good introductions to the elements. Makes me want to get a chunk of indium for example and study it.

  • @Silvertarian
    @Silvertarian Před 9 lety +32

    I didn't know the turbine in turbos were silicon nitride thats cool to know.

  • @smooooth_
    @smooooth_ Před 11 lety +39

    that man's hair was awesome

  • @blindandwatching
    @blindandwatching Před 9 lety +26

    Silicon forms chains like carbon, but not as well carbon.

  • @znewt99
    @znewt99 Před 11 lety +9

    Where can I get that tie and mug

  • @gpq21
    @gpq21 Před 14 lety +6

    Hey I got a question: Could it be possible for silicon-based life to exist? I know this is a wide issue but I can't stop wondering about the possibility of life that's based on silicon...

  • @BattousaiHBr
    @BattousaiHBr Před 11 lety +3

    0:45 nice screensaver you got there

  • @mjallan123
    @mjallan123 Před 12 lety +4

    I have the same cup at 1:18!

  • @AaronAlso
    @AaronAlso Před 16 lety +1

    It is classified as a semi-conductor that is primarily what makes it so special.
    And...
    the waste silicon from CPUs is not just tossed out much of it goes to be used in photo-voltaic cells. (solar panels)

  • @bennemann
    @bennemann Před 15 lety +1

    Silicon is called "silício" in portuguese and I believe spanish also has a similar pronunciation. So it's no surprise that some people mix up the two and say silicium. It makes alot more sense than silicon anyways, as most other elements end with -ium (rubidium, einstenium, gadolinium... I could go on all day)

  • @Muscleduck
    @Muscleduck Před 14 lety +3

    That wafer is awesome!

  • @srgwarcock
    @srgwarcock Před 13 lety +9

    Needed to do a report on silicon, Thanks Periodic your the Beez kneez

  • @OOZ662
    @OOZ662 Před 13 lety

    One of my old teachers has a wafer of Pentium 3 processors. I always loved bringing out out and showing it to the Freshmen; their eyes would get huge and they'd almost always want to take it home.

  • @CharlieBBoy12345
    @CharlieBBoy12345 Před 16 lety +1

    What is it about silicon that makes it useful to computing? Is it the way it can be grown on wafers as the vid showed, or are there other properties of it that make it appropriate?

  • @alasanof
    @alasanof Před 13 lety +1

    @nonchalantgamer I'm just wondering if its possible for Carbon to be used in computing since there can be living organisms made mainly of Silicon.

  • @djscottdog1
    @djscottdog1 Před 11 lety +1

    with the silicone disk they dont use the chips on the out side ( only the ones from the middle) because they are more likely to have problems

  • @annettefaulkner7235
    @annettefaulkner7235 Před 10 lety +3

    that was interesting thanks!

  • @EJ3001
    @EJ3001 Před 9 lety +2

    I love these videos!
    :D

  • @silverchill1
    @silverchill1 Před 13 lety +27

    now we know why the professor wasn't a surgeon

  • @EmeraldxFairy
    @EmeraldxFairy Před 15 lety

    No wonder Opals are so beautiful and reflect light magnificently. They are made of Silicon Dioxide (SiO2). :) Wonderful!

  • @asymptotichigh5
    @asymptotichigh5 Před 13 lety

    @replypdf because silicon is a semi conductor, therefore allowing the photons to excite the electrons and create a current.

  • @bertomeeggo
    @bertomeeggo Před 12 lety +1

    going to rev my engine just for Prof. Poliakoff!

  • @pug6666
    @pug6666 Před 13 lety

    @Quasi84 Yea if sand is silicon oxide then how do you tear them apart from the compound i doubt just melting would do that.

  • @GRAHAMAUS
    @GRAHAMAUS Před 13 lety +1

    Is there a silicon analogue of diamond?

  • @denelson83
    @denelson83 Před 15 lety +1

    So how come silicon nitride isn't used for the fuselage of an aircraft?

  • @CharlieBBoy12345
    @CharlieBBoy12345 Před 16 lety +1

    Thanks - good old wiki!

  • @deldarel
    @deldarel Před 11 lety

    what a really quite fantastic video

  • @hassoony1981
    @hassoony1981 Před 10 lety +1

    My fav element

  • @pixelatedxenon9579
    @pixelatedxenon9579 Před 4 měsíci

    Any chance of an update?

  • @sillypiggy2
    @sillypiggy2 Před 16 lety

    sweet i love all this stuff

  • @macro312
    @macro312 Před 13 lety

    @vlptr
    It is an observation. AND The professor is awesome.

  • @replypdf
    @replypdf Před 14 lety

    What about silicon in solar cells? How and why is it used?
    What about black silicone which supposedly should make more effective solar cells?
    Thanks for the good videos.

  • @onimotoko
    @onimotoko Před 14 lety +1

    Silicon may be the single most important element in the modern world.

  • @importedtermite8
    @importedtermite8 Před 12 lety

    quantum computing, and yeah they're pretty much turning on and off electrons somehow is kinda what I was getting from what I heard. check it out it's pretty cool

  • @nonchalantgamer
    @nonchalantgamer Před 13 lety

    @alasanof It just sounded like something someone would say when they're high, lol. Yeah, it probably could. Carbon is conductive isn't it?

  • @BlantonDelbert
    @BlantonDelbert Před 12 lety

    I saw a video with Michio Kaku who said that the silicon chip is almost maxed out. In other words, it can get no thinner. This is how they made advances in the chip by making it thinner year after year. Now, it is about as thin as it can get so we have maxed out the computing power of the silicon chip. Now what? Michio Kaku thinks they will start writing Machine Code directly onto single atoms. I don't see how this is possible.

  • @Sheggy6626
    @Sheggy6626 Před 14 lety

    @thrunt x wrong. he is professor.

  • @kyu5289
    @kyu5289 Před 15 lety

    Answer's in the video for Manganese!

  • @mullingitover
    @mullingitover Před 16 lety +1

    That afro is powerful. Respeck.

  • @bipbop4232
    @bipbop4232 Před 12 lety

    ever heard of graphene, that will replace silicon. its the thinnest material in the world (one atom thick) and can conduct electricity very well. it wil be the base for future supercomputers

  • @cthulhex
    @cthulhex Před 15 lety +1

    The professor looks rather placid, not mad at all.

  • @macro312
    @macro312 Před 13 lety

    He is got every trembl-y hands.

  • @Toastmaster_5000
    @Toastmaster_5000 Před 14 lety

    @carl0071
    actually, most of the cost is the architecture and fabrication systems. the pins are gold PLATED, so they're not even entirely gold. you can find new cpus for less than $40 that have more pins than the socket 478 p4, and the reason they're so cheap is because they don't offer anything special in today's standards

  • @didaloca
    @didaloca Před 12 lety

    What?! Where was the silicone wire on a reel?

  • @onimotoko
    @onimotoko Před 14 lety +1

    @ShadowRayzzz without silicon erbium would not have any value in computers. No computers, no internets.

  • @JasoniumGH
    @JasoniumGH Před 16 lety

    lol his hands shake when he was holding the silicon disc

  • @daemiax
    @daemiax Před 15 lety

    my point was not the name, i heard them saying that it GROWS, thats why i said that it is a fruit. which seemed to be weird. besides i think the name Silicium Comes From LATIN

  • @Evaldas521
    @Evaldas521 Před 14 lety

    @serialkissersband
    make some?

  • @madamerotten
    @madamerotten Před 15 lety

    Silicone is a synthetic rubber based on silicon, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, among other elements.

  • @HLSDK
    @HLSDK Před 16 lety

    breat implants are sillicone, rather than sillicon. Despite the name, they are pretty different materials. It just wouldn't feel very nice with silicon!

  • @theOriginalMrGlass
    @theOriginalMrGlass Před 15 lety

    and who is to say he didnt jus aquire it recently before the video was made? and how many people realy have a waffer in that good of shape i have a bunch pentium 1 waffers in a storsge tray that i got wen my stepdad worket @ intel installing pipes for there cleanrooms unfortunatly they were all baddly damaged
    and only had 4 out of maybe 40 of em were intact

  • @rageagainstthebath
    @rageagainstthebath Před 13 lety

    @MagaCarey It's rather strange that Silicon Dioxide is in your cat's food, because it's just a pure sand (As the Prof said in this movie)...

  • @technoman9000
    @technoman9000 Před 15 lety

    That's not true at all. If you're referring to "silicon-on-sapphire" technology, the sapphire is a separate layer which is used for data transfer. The transistors are still silcon.

  • @Draxis32
    @Draxis32 Před 15 lety

    Metallic Silicion, i think its even more expensive than metallic titanium, this materials are surrounding us, but their god damn oxides are extremely hard and expensive to obtain the metallic material from them.

  • @PGordonKennedy
    @PGordonKennedy Před 13 lety

    5 people dislike silicon and yet without silicon they couldn't even watch this, let alone dislike it! :)

  • @Sheggy6626
    @Sheggy6626 Před 14 lety

    @thingy291 NOOOOO!!!

  • @Sheggy6626
    @Sheggy6626 Před 14 lety

    @onceigoblack yes

  • @nonchalantgamer
    @nonchalantgamer Před 13 lety

    @tastythighs180 Pamela Anderson is in my computer.

  • @moomilkboy
    @moomilkboy Před 16 lety

    wow he just handled a couple hundred bucks worth of pentium 4 processors like it was nothing

  • @TheSpeshulShark
    @TheSpeshulShark Před 13 lety

    @HRHooChicken It doesn't. My dad works there, and is always complaining xD

  • @daemiax
    @daemiax Před 15 lety

    first of all , i knew that latin America was the place between n and south america, wher cuba is.OK W/E call it w/e u want . i will call it silicium. this is how my chemistry teacher thought me like this and i will call it silicium. or simply , maby they call it silicium in romania, how may u know.

  • @bruenor82
    @bruenor82 Před 16 lety

    i just noticed...nice mug

  • @AdventLt
    @AdventLt Před 14 lety

    That plate of silicon cost plenty of money :)

  • @mykasikna
    @mykasikna Před 13 lety +1

    1:45 so let me take that. lol voice :D

  • @BruceNJeffAreMyFlies
    @BruceNJeffAreMyFlies Před 13 lety

    @tastythighs180 Technically, silicon is also in pams chesticles. Silicone is made partially from silicon.
    Just a tidbit of info for ya.

  • @TheOnlySapien
    @TheOnlySapien Před 12 lety

    Professor has a nice cup

  • @alanna4858
    @alanna4858 Před 16 lety

    go into it!

  • @mjallan123
    @mjallan123 Před 12 lety +1

    Clearly you, but you took the time to reply to a 2 month old comment.

  • @HighlordSarnex
    @HighlordSarnex Před 14 lety

    @replypdf ah and those are a question for another time... or the internet whichever you prefer xD

  • @Bendeco08
    @Bendeco08 Před 15 lety

    erm silicon on this video is the metal and silicone is like rubber stuff lol

  • @daemiax
    @daemiax Před 15 lety

    what is silicium, a fruit so that it grows? sounds funny.

  • @MrGallade475
    @MrGallade475 Před 12 lety

    pentium 4 wafer, the slowest you will ever see a piece of that grade silicon go.

  • @Toastmaster_5000
    @Toastmaster_5000 Před 14 lety

    damn how'd they get their hands on intel's wafers? i'd like one of those

  • @jlmadill
    @jlmadill Před 13 lety

    @ltjb145 Silicon reacts with JUSTIN BIEBER

  • @HRHooChicken
    @HRHooChicken Před 14 lety

    Poor guy, he shakes a lot. I don't think that university provides propper central heating

  • @bennemann
    @bennemann Před 15 lety

    When did I say it does not come from latin? Portuguese are spanish are derived from latin, that's why our continent is called Latin America :)

  • @OO7ACEMASTER
    @OO7ACEMASTER Před 13 lety

    20 nanometers thick!

  • @Arkphyre
    @Arkphyre Před 16 lety

    Mm I think that's silicone, this is about silicon.

  • @bennemann
    @bennemann Před 15 lety

    you mean valley =)

  • @Deby_M1
    @Deby_M1 Před 14 lety

    that guy looks very much like Jamie Oliver

  • @punishedexistence
    @punishedexistence Před 13 lety

    5 people don't like computers.

  • @mafl25
    @mafl25 Před 14 lety +1

    I want that waffer!

  • @theOriginalMrGlass
    @theOriginalMrGlass Před 15 lety

    that waffer he is holding is hella expensive and his shaky hand when he lets go with the other hand and his right hand starts to shake it makes me hope he paid for it so if he breaks it some one else isnt assed out of alot of money lol

  • @aswhit5
    @aswhit5 Před 15 lety

    silicon is an outdated semiconductor. we have found many better molecular compounds for use in optoelectrical devices. mainly polythiolene derivatives.

  • @danbison
    @danbison Před 16 lety

    I know some silly Kates.

  • @FrostPegasus
    @FrostPegasus Před 16 lety

    Maybe it's the age. :-P

  • @AaronAlso
    @AaronAlso Před 16 lety

    Doh! forgot th important part...
    /wiki/Silicon

  • @nonchalantgamer
    @nonchalantgamer Před 13 lety

    @alasanof Are you high?

  • @zasgat
    @zasgat Před 11 lety

    lonely anytime?

  • @mozkitolife5437
    @mozkitolife5437 Před 11 lety

    "Right, I'll just put that there because I want to put that back in a bag". lawl... this is what makes these videos enjoyable because you're not up yourselfs AT. ALL. Cute stuff indeed.

  • @Asurael
    @Asurael Před 16 lety +1

    I wonder if Professor Martyn has Parkinsons of Parkinson-like tremors. Either that or he just gets nervous in front of the camera.
    Great video as usual :P

  • @3800S1
    @3800S1 Před 12 lety +1

    yes its was a terrible CPU architecture.

  • @bruenor82
    @bruenor82 Před 16 lety

    give him a break man, you'll get that when your his age