I'm a disabled industrial electrician. I have severe neurological damage after a mercury exposure incident It sent a chill down my spine when you said it was in your boot. It is easily absorbed through the large pores in your feet. Please don't take mercury exposure lightly especially if the exposure is through your feet and hands through the large pores of you body. The effects are devastating to your quality of life.
as far as i known pure mercury cant be absorbed easily but other forms of mercury can be easily absorbed trought the skin (i dont remember wicht types since i looked that info long time ago also sorry for my bad inglish)
He said that there was no mercury in his boots, so he knows it didn't leak. Not that there was and it did. He did say he had gotten some in his glove though
I hope you can gain, or have gained, more autonomy in your life since the incident. Modern life still has a long way to go in becoming more accessible, even in the wealthiest of countries. And society, in people's attitudes towards disability. It's every little bit worth the improvement.
Well, not all mercury is extremely toxic, it depends on the component inside of it. Pure mercury reacts a lot different then when there’s other things inside of it
AngryPotato YES, PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS WISE MAN, CODY :D I bet this would make a great video as I could imagine that it could be a challenge to make it float upright
Or better yet, solid gold "rubber" ducky to have something even denser float on mercury. Only problem then is the gold might dissolve into the mercury.
In many old light houses, the lantern that rotates at the top sits on a heavy cast iron frame and it actually floats around a circular trough of mercury bath, the same principle as seen here
@@Ken-fh4jc In fairness, that could also be due to the isolation and conditions they lived in. In the late 1800's supply and provisioning could be pretty grim. Especially given some of these lighthouses are on Islands in treacherous waters. It might also have something to do with the type of people attracted to such an occupation. Lots of potential causes for the basis of that saying.
Mercury was once used as bearings for heavy rotating components like lighthouse lamps, beacons, directional antennas, etc. The rotating mechanism will sit on a pan of mercury, which acted as a fluid bearing to prevent the rotating & stationary components from contact.
@@techheck3358 do you even listen to yourself? do you even know what bearings are? murcury was used as a LUBRICANT!!!! and not as a bearing!!!! absolute baffoon.
@@TAGSlays Hazmat and heavyweight would also make bigger shipping charges. Also, hatters used to use mercury while making hats. The mental damages caused by that gave them the reputation of madness. Beside that, I wish I just could simply touch that liquid metal which doesn't scald or burn you. That shiny liquid metal that's not hot.
@ecs300 I already had that in mind, but I disregard it because it's not liquid in room temperature, like you said. And it somewhat sticks, stains and sores.
This is all that the anvil ever dreamed about - finally it got to take a nice bath and just float around for a bit. Should've given it a straw hat and an umbrella drink for the occasion!
There's something incredibly surreal about watching an anvil bobbing around on liquid. It's also strange to see a liquid not "Wet out" a cast metal surface. The mercury doesn't even seem to want to stay on it, let alone stick to it. Very odd behaviour to watch.
I love counterintuitive stuff. The "not getting wet" part is because the mercury has a much higher surface tension so the drops stick to themselves better than water. You prob knew this, just saying.
Mercury is used in astronomy. You spin the container of mercury to such a centrifugal force that it creates a bulging depression. You put the lens and gear out of mercury, and you've created a completely unique, and geometrically absolutely perfect mirror. The glass mirror has a fundamental defect, it reflects light beams in a so-called echo, i.e. multiple reflections of a copy of the beam (because the glass with amalgam below reflects beams from the amalgam, but also internally from the outer layer of glass). The mercury mirror does not suffer from any error. That's what my dad taught me 40 years ago. Thank you.
That's mostly correct, but most big telescopes use first surface mirrors. The light never passes through the glass as the incident surface is mirrored. Mostly for the reasons you described
@ Water is H2O, which leads itself to be a highly strong polar bond. Super easy for it to adhere to itself and other items/substances. Oil is usually made of hydrocarbon chains which lends itself to less effective to do what water does. Not saying it can’t stick to you, but water is generally better at sticking to EVERYTHING plus itself. It’s a universal solvent. That’s why you can mix things into water and not usually into oil.
A fantasy sword design I saw once was hollow metal with mercury inside. As you swung the blade, the mercury flowed to the end, giving it more weight and a heavier hit.
That sword was Terminus Est. It was the sword wielded by Severian in Gene Wolfe's science fiction novel, Shadow of the Torturer, and it was appropriated as a unique weapon in Path of Exile.
Cody needs a watermark with the channel name, I remember SmarterEveryDay got a bunch of slomo videos stolen and spammed on facebook/reddit/twitter without credit given
2:00 it's literally 5am and I heard it and I thought "wow, Iron floats better than wood in water? We should make boats out of it!" And then I remembered we already have them... It made me feel like a 17th century CZcams guy
Late 80's, early 90's, when I was a kid, I once saw a program on Dutch television where they had a swimming pool full of mercury. They threw in stuff like a cannonball, a bike, a ship's anchor, etc. I have never been able to find out what program that was so I only had the vivid memories to look back to. It's nice to see this as it's still exactly how I remember!
It's the last thing they learn or never do. My dad does it very rarely these days but my cousins always make this mistake even if I correct them a dozen times lol.
Man... Mercury is one of those things, not unlike vantablack paint, that just looks like it's not from our reality. It looks like it's not even real, like it's CG almost, or pulled out of an animation. Awesome video.
@@Supremax67touching your skin is fine. If you leave your hand submerged in it for a long period of time, or have s cut that would allow it into your bloodstream, then it's bad. Also, breathing the vapors it gives off can be dangerous, but simply touching it won't hurt you, and working with it in short intervals is pretty harmless as long as you're careful
The floating hammer was just more surreal, because the anvil acted and looked more like it was made of a block of wood,i wonder how my brain would perceive rocks 🪨 as floating object’s.
They used to float lighthouses fresnel lenses on mercury as a bearing, it’s amazing when you think the whole arrangement weighing over a ton can be turned using a tiny low voltage motor.
The mention of standing in mercury cutting off your circulation gave me a thought: what is the effect on different objects being submerged in mercury? For example: -Balloons; also the difference when they are filled with different substances like air vs water. (this made me wonder what a mercury filled balloon would act like) -what sorts of things can be crushed by the pressure of the mercury; a ping pong ball? (to be honest I'm having trouble trying to estimate how strong it is so it would be cool to have a practical visual reference) -Can you pop a grape out of its skin? -How strong is the cutting off of circulation? Is it as strong as an average tourniquet? How long would it take for there to actually be physical damage? -Could you measure blood pressure somehow? Or use it as a cast for a broken bone? -You've done that thing wearing a chainmail shirt, could you do something similar with a flotation vest filled with mercury? -What would be the equivalent depth of water to get the same amount of pressure? -does mercury do anything cool in a vacuum? Would it increase the pressure of the mercury on something such as an empty test tube? So many questions about Mercury, and only one man who can answer them for us. Be the hero we need Cody.
A bit out of order but: The equivalent depth of water for the same amount of pressure should just be the density ratio: 13.56 times the depth of mercury. It doesn't do anything interesting in a vacuum; Cody's technically already shown mercury in a vacuum chamber before, as the inert, low vapor pressure fluid you need for a barometer to work! Judging by some estimates for water pressure and the above calculation, a ping pong ball would be crushed when submerged about 2 meters deep in mercury, difficult with the current setup but not unreasonable as a demo with a taller and narrower container. That pressure would be an issue in holding the container together, of course... Measuring blood pressure is an interesting idea, but a cast is meant to be structural support for a broken bone, so that wouldn't really work.
Can't imagine a way to measure blood pressure using mercury that doesn't involve the potential to allow mercury to flow into cody's veins, then again I haven't really thought much about this.
It's bewildering to see a liquid that doesn't wet and slightly discolor everything it touches. The closest thing I've seen to that is soldering material when it's hot.
Thanks Cody, I watched the original and could see it worked but the tub as you say was much to small or the anvil too big. I love how you scrapped the smaller anvil option and went for the BIGGER tub and MOAAR mercury. I had a jar of mercury from a very old and large outside thermometer (over 6-8 feet tall) from an orangery from a large house in Scotland. It was broken and leaked into a bucket below and the owner of the house (a British lord) gave it to me to play with! (1970’d, when health and safety relied on common sense more than written directives)! He did explain safety etc and my mum was a nurse so I was instructed what not to do more than what I could! Floating lead soldiers and toy cars, nails nuts and bolts...brother heated some once and stunned a bird sitting in a nest in the rafters of the coach house it was stored in, it fell out of the nest and took a good 15-30 minutes to recover. Mummy dear chewed his backside for that one! He’s 60 now and still healthy, I don’t know about the bird though! Keep up the great work my friend Peace Charlie UK
@@bloothechronosapien4288 yes, but that stuff he scraped off the surface isn't mercury in it's elemental form. Thats mercury oxides, which can penetrate the skin.
Mercury is only dangerous if you get it inside of you. So for example, if you have any cuts anywhere on your body that's close to where you're going to be handling the mercury then yeah, that's insanely dangerous, but if you don't have any cuts, then just don't huff the fumes from the liquid for long periods of time and you'll be fine
I love the mirror coating the anvil get for an instant, i also love the fact that mercury doesn't stick to stuff as much as galiumn, it's cool to see it roll around the top of the anvil
Celivalg Coincidentally I recently made an anvil in Blender and I couldn't resist rendering it with a mirror finish. Looked as awesome as I hoped it would.
Curious how many other things could float an anvil. The issue I’d expect would be that most things denser than iron melt at a higher temp, so they’d just melt the anvil.
1:47 bro this is so surreal to see. I once dropped an anvil on my foot by accident (The flat part landed on it, not the sharp end, thank god) But it hurt like hell. I knew it weighed a lot, and to see it floating like that?
Man, I loved this! we need more wholesome and informative content. So much better than the toxic crud in my recommendations. I just subscribed to improve my mental health! Thank you
Yes I did! That's a lot of poisonous heavy metal! Enough to pollute xx tons of water or kill 1000th of people. In Germany the secret service will pop up at your door instantly with alone the attempt of buying it I guess... But cool video anyway
Natural organic Mercury is the very very dangerous substance many are thinking of. , this , elemental , although still not to be played with is not as easily absorbed through the skin. When I was 9 , living in the bay area my young Russian friends parents were scientists and would now and then give us a half gallon milk jug of Mercury to play with outside . LOL It sparked a serious desire for knowledge in that direction in me .( now 66 years old ) Amazing substance!
Brilliant. It looks utterly mad, but is exactly the sort of thing I wish that they would demonstrate to schoolkids to get them interested in science. It's so cool, that I reckon that if you were shown this as a kid - you'd never forget it, or why it's happening. Nice one!
What this guy is doing is dangerous and stupid as fuck, he intoxicated himself because mercury evaporates at room temperature. I am seriously baffled that one can buy this amount of mercury.
At university we had a professor Hans Uno Bengtsson. He had a show/lecture titled "a hundred and one ways to kill a theoretical physicist". It was really cool and full of ideas like this. Unfortunately he died really young, before the internet could immortalize him.
It would have to be a metal planet all the way down, because otherwise the liquid metal would be heavy enough to tunnel down to the core. This is what happened to all but a trace of Earth's iron.
I have seen nearly all of your videos and this is by far the most visually mind blowing thing I have seen you do. I get the whole density thing, but seeing that anvil float is just surreal.
1:14 She didn't care at all for the beautiful shinny liquid metal, not even a "hmm" sound! She did care for your leg blood circulation that you simply got over by moving a bit.
Something I never would have seen in my lifetime unless you had done it. Love the sound that it makes when bobbing out of the Mercury, a little bit like water but there's a clearly different element to it. Kind of like a white noise hissing along with what might sound like water.
you should try and contact the slow mo guys and see if they want to do some slow mo stuff with mercury. Seeing a balloon filled with mercury pop in slow mo would be fantastic.
This is really mind bending. On one hand you know physics and physics say the anvil should float, on the other hand you know an anvil is heavy as hell.
It's always important to avoid wearing gold jewelry (wedding rings) when working with mercury, they alloy. It actually happened to a friend a long time ago.
You guys are making me paranoid, but I like it. I'm taking a mental note to choose a wedding band that I can either easily duplicate or have several spares of when I get married someday. I'm 100% serious. Thanks for sparing me the...well, not having spares! (I can't stand losing things and always have backups for keys, cash, batteries, etc. Redundancy is the best the best.)
Wauw that is freaking cool. That 110 pound anvil is floating effortlessly. Its crazy. The mercury flowing over the iron like water looks unreal! Like a simulation. I hope you did not inhale any mercury vapors!! Great video.
*John Connor:* Wait a minute here. You're telling me that this thing can imitate anything it touches? *The Terminator:* Anything it samples by physical contact. *John Connor:* Get real, like it could disguise itself as a pack of cigarettes? *The Terminator:* No, only an object of equal size. *John Connor:* Then why doen't it become a bomb or a machine gun or something to get me? *The Terminator:* The T-1000 can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals in them. Moving parts. It doesn't work that way, but it can form solid metal shapes. *John Connor:* Like what? *The Terminator:* Like an anvil in a bucket.
Mercury would gather up in our water pits of our water drainage system. We had to wash down the concrete slabs under the mercury chlorine cells. We often had to pump out the water using gasoline pumps or air driven sandpiper pumps. We had to secure the pumps to a concrete stanchion because if the suction line of the pump got into the mercury below the water, it slowed the pump down as the weight of the mercury pulled the pump into the pit. Instead of the mercury being lifted up by the pump, it pulled the pump down into the pit.
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The way the Mercury flows back off of the anvil looks like really early computer water physics.
Yes
especially because they also used an option that turns the liquid metallic for better seeing
Things that are easier to do in real life are harder to do on a computer, and things that are easier to do on a computer are harder to do in real life
Grey goo.
@@ivan55599i hope it’s not latex goo..
I'm a disabled industrial electrician. I have severe neurological damage after a mercury exposure incident
It sent a chill down my spine when you said it was in your boot. It is easily absorbed through the large pores in your feet. Please don't take mercury exposure lightly especially if the exposure is through your feet and hands through the large pores of you body. The effects are devastating to your quality of life.
This wouldn’t have been anywhere near enough exposure to harm him, there’s even a video with it spraying it out of his mouth.
as far as i known pure mercury cant be absorbed easily but other forms of mercury can be easily absorbed trought the skin (i dont remember wicht types since i looked that info long time ago also sorry for my bad inglish)
@@pablofernandezdiaz3872 we understood, it was something like that. Thankyou
He said that there was no mercury in his boots, so he knows it didn't leak. Not that there was and it did.
He did say he had gotten some in his glove though
I hope you can gain, or have gained, more autonomy in your life since the incident. Modern life still has a long way to go in becoming more accessible, even in the wealthiest of countries. And society, in people's attitudes towards disability. It's every little bit worth the improvement.
Thank you for sacrificing 20 years of your lifespan to produce this incredible Mercury video.
@nordattack
He also probably shaved off 20 IQ points as this stuff goes to your brain when you breathe the Mercury vapor.
@@Smedley1947 Which means he is now in severe danger of being a Biden supporting, America hating, liberal termite at some point.
@@Smedley1947 and made sure he'll have deformed offspring. How can this moron have acces to so much mercury? Shouldn't this be lillegal?
@@captainkirk4271Glad we have smart youtube comments like yours to prove him wrong with well supported replies. Lol not.
Well, not all mercury is extremely toxic, it depends on the component inside of it. Pure mercury reacts a lot different then when there’s other things inside of it
Why does mercury have to be so toxic. It looks so fun to play with
Do not play with it. It's a heavy metal and very toxic. Play with it and you can shorten your live span.
@@kc5hgv virgin loser mentaliy: mercury is toxic! dont play with it !!!111!!
chad china emperor mentality: Mercury pools, drink mercury everyday
@@kc5hgvmy mans did you not read the comment?
My Mom said that one time her Dad bought her a vial of mercury to play with.
@@Sundown_Clown474no wonder you turned out like this.
I think you should forge an iron ducky for your mercury baths!
AngryPotato YES, PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS WISE MAN, CODY :D
I bet this would make a great video as I could imagine that it could be a challenge to make it float upright
AngryPotato pls do this
Or better yet, solid gold "rubber" ducky to have something even denser float on mercury. Only problem then is the gold might dissolve into the mercury.
DO IT!
Brass duck?
I cannot wrap my head around a liquid being so dense even though it flows so easily
That's not just a simple "liquid", that's "liquid metal".
Not thick or overly viscous, just molecularly dense.
They use mercury in Barometry because it's the densest liquid existing.
Has lower melting point like water, just much heavier than water and iron
imagine zero viscosity and think of space being liquid. 1H1.
In many old light houses, the lantern that rotates at the top sits on a heavy cast iron frame and it actually floats around a circular trough of mercury bath, the same principle as seen here
That’s where they get the old expression “mad as a lighthouse keeper.”
@@Ken-fh4jc In fairness, that could also be due to the isolation and conditions they lived in. In the late 1800's supply and provisioning could be pretty grim. Especially given some of these lighthouses are on Islands in treacherous waters.
It might also have something to do with the type of people attracted to such an occupation.
Lots of potential causes for the basis of that saying.
I used to work in an ironworks and it always amazed me how concrete floated in molten iron
Mercury was once used as bearings for heavy rotating components like lighthouse lamps, beacons, directional antennas, etc. The rotating mechanism will sit on a pan of mercury, which acted as a fluid bearing to prevent the rotating & stationary components from contact.
no... it was 100% not used as a bearing.
@@attack125yes, yes it was lmao
@@techheck3358
do you even listen to yourself?
do you even know what bearings are?
murcury was used as a LUBRICANT!!!!
and not as a bearing!!!! absolute baffoon.
@@attack125"mad as a lighthouse keeper"
@@yt45204 _Proceeds to copy William De Foe_
Just the look of a completely opaque and reflective liquid, like a mirror but with the flow of water, it’s so mesmerising to look at.
It's such a big shame that it's poisonous.
Yeah, I wonder what the implications of a civilian running around with that much mercury are.@@Mi_Fa_Volare
@@TAGSlays Hazmat and heavyweight would also make bigger shipping charges.
Also, hatters used to use mercury while making hats. The mental damages caused by that gave them the reputation of madness.
Beside that, I wish I just could simply touch that liquid metal which doesn't scald or burn you. That shiny liquid metal that's not hot.
@@Mi_Fa_Volareclosest we have for a safer element with similar properties is gallium and that isn’t liquid at room temperature sadly
@ecs300 I already had that in mind, but I disregard it because it's not liquid in room temperature, like you said. And it somewhat sticks, stains and sores.
This is all that the anvil ever dreamed about - finally it got to take a nice bath and just float around for a bit. Should've given it a straw hat and an umbrella drink for the occasion!
Very cool and surreal to watch, the fact it's a liquid but behaves so differently to water messes with the mind.
Thank you!!!
No, thank you.
ayy
Actually THANK YOU
We were waiting for almost a year for you!
Daily Dose Of Internet thank you for leading me to this
There's something incredibly surreal about watching an anvil bobbing around on liquid. It's also strange to see a liquid not "Wet out" a cast metal surface. The mercury doesn't even seem to want to stay on it, let alone stick to it. Very odd behaviour to watch.
And the sloshing noises just make your brain confused
I love counterintuitive stuff. The "not getting wet" part is because the mercury has a much higher surface tension so the drops stick to themselves better than water. You prob knew this, just saying.
But we arent made of anvil so we cant float
@@famirodriguez8301 But witches float, so they must be made of wood. :)
@@famirodriguez8301 speak for yourself
This was one of the funnest videos I've ever seen! Thank you, Cody!
Mercury is used in astronomy. You spin the container of mercury to such a centrifugal force that it creates a bulging depression. You put the lens and gear out of mercury, and you've created a completely unique, and geometrically absolutely perfect mirror. The glass mirror has a fundamental defect, it reflects light beams in a so-called echo, i.e. multiple reflections of a copy of the beam (because the glass with amalgam below reflects beams from the amalgam, but also internally from the outer layer of glass). The mercury mirror does not suffer from any error. That's what my dad taught me 40 years ago. Thank you.
That's mostly correct, but most big telescopes use first surface mirrors. The light never passes through the glass as the incident surface is mirrored. Mostly for the reasons you described
I think the coolest part of this to me is seeing something in liquid, and coming out dry. It's so satisfying to me
Cohesion and adhesion makes liquid water special. Other liquids don’t stick like water.
@@redactedrider7606 I know and use that stuff but that’s something that goes against the whole adhesion thing. It’s cool though.
Is mercury wet
@@itsyurmumm8458 Have you ever stuck your hands in oil?
@ Water is H2O, which leads itself to be a highly strong polar bond. Super easy for it to adhere to itself and other items/substances. Oil is usually made of hydrocarbon chains which lends itself to less effective to do what water does. Not saying it can’t stick to you, but water is generally better at sticking to EVERYTHING plus itself. It’s a universal solvent. That’s why you can mix things into water and not usually into oil.
It's one thing to know exactly what is going to happen but to actually see it is amazing!
Well, only for people with a certain amount of intellectual curiosity.
Nilguiri do you watch Rick and Morty with that "intellectual curiosity"
reeeeeeeee
get out of my IQ
he probably watches Rick and Morty
A fantasy sword design I saw once was hollow metal with mercury inside. As you swung the blade, the mercury flowed to the end, giving it more weight and a heavier hit.
That sword was Terminus Est. It was the sword wielded by Severian in Gene Wolfe's science fiction novel, Shadow of the Torturer, and it was appropriated as a unique weapon in Path of Exile.
definitely one the very coolest things this human has seen on YT to date. Thank you. Bravo!
This is going to go viral. If not the whole video, the anvil covered in Mercury as it floats back to the surface will.
Irishwells slow mo
It will go viral and we saw it first >:D
Cody needs a watermark with the channel name, I remember SmarterEveryDay got a bunch of slomo videos stolen and spammed on facebook/reddit/twitter without credit given
I shared the video, help it get on it's way.
I’ll be waitin to see that
"John the liquid is dirty can you clean it?" "Yeah hun let me get the handkerchief"
Bruh 😂
@@sonofbloke bruh its 2yrs ago 😂
@@Fylnnn Bruh 😂
@@nayeononce Bruh 😂
Bruh😂
2:00 it's literally 5am and I heard it and I thought "wow, Iron floats better than wood in water? We should make boats out of it!" And then I remembered we already have them... It made me feel like a 17th century CZcams guy
That's incredible, thank you for this.
Bro you're a saint for that slowmo at the end!
Late 80's, early 90's, when I was a kid, I once saw a program on Dutch television where they had a swimming pool full of mercury. They threw in stuff like a cannonball, a bike, a ship's anchor, etc. I have never been able to find out what program that was so I only had the vivid memories to look back to. It's nice to see this as it's still exactly how I remember!
I was looking for the same video !! I also watched it on TV and instead I found this
@@DrKarrarLab Wow cool! I've still not found the video, but it's kinda strange that these kind of older videos aren't digitized isn't it?
Hope you find it
Also hoping you'll find it :)
It mist very well be conspiracy
I am impressed that container held itself together with so much weight in. Also, nice to see Canyon back behind the camera !
cody has played with mercury enough times to know how much weight it should be able to handle.
I think it had a wooden frame.
it could have used a few more sticks.
You can see, that the container is screwed to a wooden frame.
"See" and "behind the camera" dosent go well toghether
Mercury fly everywhere on a slowmo. Is that dude still alive?
so is nobody gonna ask where he just casually bought 10 gallons of mercury from
It's very satisfying to see how the mercury isn't sticking to the anvil.
Great video!
Warum bin ich überrascht dich hier zu sehen? Hätte mir auch denken können, dass Cody bei euch in der Abobox steckt! :P
Techtastisch | Experimente und Lifehacks you mean how *the mercury? Englisch und so bro
Lappen
Dein Englisch is aber klasse ;D
It's the last thing they learn or never do. My dad does it very rarely these days but my cousins always make this mistake even if I correct them a dozen times lol.
Man... Mercury is one of those things, not unlike vantablack paint, that just looks like it's not from our reality. It looks like it's not even real, like it's CG almost, or pulled out of an animation. Awesome video.
Also extremely dangerous material to interact with. It should never touch your skin.
@@Supremax67touching your skin is fine. If you leave your hand submerged in it for a long period of time, or have s cut that would allow it into your bloodstream, then it's bad. Also, breathing the vapors it gives off can be dangerous, but simply touching it won't hurt you, and working with it in short intervals is pretty harmless as long as you're careful
The floating hammer was just more surreal, because the anvil acted and looked more like it was made of a block of wood,i wonder how my brain would perceive rocks 🪨 as floating object’s.
This is incredible! Thank you for sharing this
*_Chews indium, touches mercury, drinks cyanide, uses gloves for math, STEPS ON MERCURY_*
Can you say, Darwin Award?
Merkery*
RumpelForeskin , you're an idiot
Verruckter Schakal you are an idiot... He was referring to how cody said mercury sounds like merkery
The Gr8 Malachite , he is still an idiot.
"Metal working is loud so I'm going to float my anvil in Mercury"
"But Cody... Earpl-"
"MERCURY! THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS MERCURY"
Magnificent demo. Thanks.
Well done! Fascinating!
They used to float lighthouses fresnel lenses on mercury as a bearing, it’s amazing when you think the whole arrangement weighing over a ton can be turned using a tiny low voltage motor.
also would conduct the power to the lamp without conventional slip rings
DJ Scottdog
I think the lamp and lamp holder are fixed, it’s just the lens arrangement rotates around it,
DJ Scottdog how would you complete the circuit with just mercury?
Never knew that. That’s pretty clever.
DJ Scottdog
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The mention of standing in mercury cutting off your circulation gave me a thought: what is the effect on different objects being submerged in mercury?
For example:
-Balloons; also the difference when they are filled with different substances like air vs water. (this made me wonder what a mercury filled balloon would act like)
-what sorts of things can be crushed by the pressure of the mercury; a ping pong ball? (to be honest I'm having trouble trying to estimate how strong it is so it would be cool to have a practical visual reference)
-Can you pop a grape out of its skin?
-How strong is the cutting off of circulation? Is it as strong as an average tourniquet? How long would it take for there to actually be physical damage?
-Could you measure blood pressure somehow? Or use it as a cast for a broken bone?
-You've done that thing wearing a chainmail shirt, could you do something similar with a flotation vest filled with mercury?
-What would be the equivalent depth of water to get the same amount of pressure?
-does mercury do anything cool in a vacuum? Would it increase the pressure of the mercury on something such as an empty test tube?
So many questions about Mercury, and only one man who can answer them for us.
Be the hero we need Cody.
Well, for the first question, I recommend that you go over to Taofledermaus' channel. He filled a balloon with mercury a few years ago.
Cameron Jenkins, you beat me to it! :)
A bit out of order but: The equivalent depth of water for the same amount of pressure should just be the density ratio: 13.56 times the depth of mercury. It doesn't do anything interesting in a vacuum; Cody's technically already shown mercury in a vacuum chamber before, as the inert, low vapor pressure fluid you need for a barometer to work! Judging by some estimates for water pressure and the above calculation, a ping pong ball would be crushed when submerged about 2 meters deep in mercury, difficult with the current setup but not unreasonable as a demo with a taller and narrower container. That pressure would be an issue in holding the container together, of course... Measuring blood pressure is an interesting idea, but a cast is meant to be structural support for a broken bone, so that wouldn't really work.
Can't imagine a way to measure blood pressure using mercury that doesn't involve the potential to allow mercury to flow into cody's veins, then again I haven't really thought much about this.
The response to all questions is:
YES
Is so amazing to see that every time I find weird that mercury doesn't stick to everything like water, I can't get used to it.
It's bewildering to see a liquid that doesn't wet and slightly discolor everything it touches.
The closest thing I've seen to that is soldering material when it's hot.
Thanks Cody, I watched the original and could see it worked but the tub as you say was much to small or the anvil too big.
I love how you scrapped the smaller anvil option and went for the BIGGER tub and MOAAR mercury.
I had a jar of mercury from a very old and large outside thermometer (over 6-8 feet tall) from an orangery from a large house in Scotland. It was broken and leaked into a bucket below and the owner of the house (a British lord) gave it to me to play with! (1970’d, when health and safety relied on common sense more than written directives)!
He did explain safety etc and my mum was a nurse so I was instructed what not to do more than what I could!
Floating lead soldiers and toy cars, nails nuts and bolts...brother heated some once and stunned a bird sitting in a nest in the rafters of the coach house it was stored in, it fell out of the nest and took a good 15-30 minutes to recover.
Mummy dear chewed his backside for that one! He’s 60 now and still healthy, I don’t know about the bird though!
Keep up the great work my friend
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Charlie UK
Nice comment Charlie
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Alexandre CA
Awesome story Charlie. I enjoyed reading it!
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J Philippines
Ahh, the good ol' 70's!
Thanks for sharing Charlie.
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Laurits Denmark
I’m confused, why did the bird fall out of the tree? Did the mercury shoot up when it was heated? I don’t get it.
Confusion,
Billy, PA
More bigger is more better!
no one else is gonna talk about how insane playing with vats full of mercury is??
Mercury in its elemental metallic form is supposedly not very dangerous if you aren't exposed to it for prolonged periods
@@bloothechronosapien4288 yes, but that stuff he scraped off the surface isn't mercury in it's elemental form. Thats mercury oxides, which can penetrate the skin.
Exactly my second thought. My first one was: how exactly is he going to get rid of it?
You did notice he's wearing rubber gloves, right?
Mercury is only dangerous if you get it inside of you. So for example, if you have any cuts anywhere on your body that's close to where you're going to be handling the mercury then yeah, that's insanely dangerous, but if you don't have any cuts, then just don't huff the fumes from the liquid for long periods of time and you'll be fine
So cool how it completely absorbs and eliminates nearly all sound from the hammer!
DOING THINGS LIKE THIS IS WHY I ENJOY SCIENCE SO MUCH...AWSOME , THANX FOR THE LEARNING LESSON..!
I love the mirror coating the anvil get for an instant,
i also love the fact that mercury doesn't stick to stuff as much as galiumn, it's cool to see it roll around the top of the anvil
Celivalg Coincidentally I recently made an anvil in Blender and I couldn't resist rendering it with a mirror finish. Looked as awesome as I hoped it would.
This is downright magical! Even when understanding science logically, it never ruins the wonder of the experience. Thank you for sharing this with us!
this is downright dangerous is what it is!
It’s definitely REAL science but and what it proves is that gravity is non-science. Or for some….like myself…gravity is nonsense.
Rational and logic are two different things
A shame how dangerous that is.
Thanks for the content.
Amazing knowledge.
Mercury looks SO COOL!! Great video!
Whatever floats your anvil, man.
Mercury floats your anvil.
Curious how many other things could float an anvil. The issue I’d expect would be that most things denser than iron melt at a higher temp, so they’d just melt the anvil.
This looks like an NVIDIA tech demo. :D Nice video!
totally! lol
Yeah Mercury always reminds me of early fluid simulations
1:47 bro this is so surreal to see. I once dropped an anvil on my foot by accident (The flat part landed on it, not the sharp end, thank god) But it hurt like hell. I knew it weighed a lot, and to see it floating like that?
Fall off a lot of cliffs too??
Man, I loved this! we need more wholesome and informative content. So much better than the toxic crud in my recommendations. I just subscribed to improve my mental health! Thank you
Does anyone else asked himself: what the heck this dude made with all this mercury after the video?
i think the most important thing for him was the views... People like him are cancers for our world
Drink it
Overnight seasoning
Yes I did! That's a lot of poisonous heavy metal! Enough to pollute xx tons of water or kill 1000th of people. In Germany the secret service will pop up at your door instantly with alone the attempt of buying it I guess... But cool video anyway
Used as a drink
I love how a metal is sloshing around and sounds like water.
Metal does not equal solid
Natural organic Mercury is the very very dangerous substance many are thinking of. , this , elemental , although still not to be played with is not as easily absorbed through the skin. When I was 9 , living in the bay area my young Russian friends parents were scientists and would now and then give us a half gallon milk jug of Mercury to play with outside . LOL It sparked a serious desire for knowledge in that direction in me .( now 66 years old ) Amazing substance!
This is really cool. Mercury has always fascinated me.
Brilliant. It looks utterly mad, but is exactly the sort of thing I wish that they would demonstrate to schoolkids to get them interested in science. It's so cool, that I reckon that if you were shown this as a kid - you'd never forget it, or why it's happening. Nice one!
What this guy is doing is dangerous and stupid as fuck, he intoxicated himself because mercury evaporates at room temperature. I am seriously baffled that one can buy this amount of mercury.
Dr. Greenthumb - Do you even _Codys Lab_
At university we had a professor Hans Uno Bengtsson. He had a show/lecture titled "a hundred and one ways to kill a theoretical physicist". It was really cool and full of ideas like this. Unfortunately he died really young, before the internet could immortalize him.
Dr. Greenthumb Alright my boy Cody is fine, he's working in an outdoor space with plenty of air and the evaporation rate is slow.
@Dr. Greenthumb Did you even watch Cody's video where he gets tested for mercury (and other heavy metals)? He got negative.
Imagine a planet with an ocean of mercury or some other metal with enough temperature to exist in a liquidated state, it'd be very interesting to see
Check out "Solaris"
The concept of a metal being liquid without having to heat it is so weird to me it's probably why mercury is my favourite element.
@@apathy3399 Okey
@@OmniversalInsect I mean you still have to _heat it_ as it has some unit of Kelvin worths of energy above 0, but i get what you mean
It would have to be a metal planet all the way down, because otherwise the liquid metal would be heavy enough to tunnel down to the core. This is what happened to all but a trace of Earth's iron.
I didn’t know it was a possibility to obtain that much mercury. Thank you for the video
Note to self
Buy milk
Buy bread
Float anvil on mercury
I could watch the oxide skimming all day long, that is freaking awesome to watch it go from dull to shiny
I have seen nearly all of your videos and this is by far the most visually mind blowing thing I have seen you do. I get the whole density thing, but seeing that anvil float is just surreal.
1:14 She didn't care at all for the beautiful shinny liquid metal, not even a "hmm" sound!
She did care for your leg blood circulation that you simply got over by moving a bit.
Its such a shame Mercury is so toxic, cause its such a cool freaking element.
This is one of the coolest things that i've ever seen
"Floating an Anvil" could have been a good title on its own. :)
Haha, yeah.
Floating anvils, best heavy metal band name ever
honestly, i read it "floating an Evil"! just now realized it's not!
This will be the next album title and cover for the Canadian Heavy Metal Band, 'Anvil'.
About as subtle as getting hit over the head by an An anvil!
ACME industries approves the above comment.
The way mercury glistens and reflects light is so mesmerising.
Somewhere out there in our galaxy, a planet might be there with oceans of liquid mercury. I can't even fathom that!!
Something I never would have seen in my lifetime unless you had done it. Love the sound that it makes when bobbing out of the Mercury, a little bit like water but there's a clearly different element to it. Kind of like a white noise hissing along with what might sound like water.
you should try and contact the slow mo guys and see if they want to do some slow mo stuff with mercury. Seeing a balloon filled with mercury pop in slow mo would be fantastic.
Yes they did, and slow mo... and I think Cody has commentated on a few of there vids... :)
5 years old and this is still a banger
I just learned about old school lighthouses that use mercury as a base bearing and the light housing just floats on it to spin.
Excellent demonstration
This is really mind bending. On one hand you know physics and physics say the anvil should float, on the other hand you know an anvil is heavy as hell.
RIP, sir. And thank you for the video.
This was SO cool to watch!
I once floated a lead fishing weight in mercury and thought that was stunning. This is AMAZING! Thanks Cody!
O Mercury! Why must you be so toxic? Imagine all the fun we could have had together...
yeah
check out gallium
It's perfectly safe with only mild precautions. Stay outside, wash yourself before and after, and do not handle it you have open wound.
Depends on the kind of mercury you're handling
Hg is an element, if you change it it is no longer mercury
'It floats better that wood does'
Oh the irony
Everything settles according to ‘density’
It's always important to avoid wearing gold jewelry (wedding rings) when working with mercury, they alloy. It actually happened to a friend a long time ago.
Then there was that time Cody flushed tossed a gold bar into a Mercury filled toilet...
You guys are making me paranoid, but I like it. I'm taking a mental note to choose a wedding band that I can either easily duplicate or have several spares of when I get married someday. I'm 100% serious. Thanks for sparing me the...well, not having spares! (I can't stand losing things and always have backups for keys, cash, batteries, etc. Redundancy is the best the best.)
My immediate thought is not "how" but "why do they sell that much mercury"
The local hazmat unit: 💀
Wauw that is freaking cool. That 110 pound anvil is floating effortlessly. Its crazy. The mercury flowing over the iron like water looks unreal! Like a simulation. I hope you did not inhale any mercury vapors!! Great video.
Cody : "Oh Mercury, you're my ..... density. I mean ... my ....destiny"
Get your damn hands off her Biff!
McFlyyy!! Is anybody home? I don't think sooo!
*John Connor:* Wait a minute here. You're telling me that this thing can imitate anything it touches?
*The Terminator:* Anything it samples by physical contact.
*John Connor:* Get real, like it could disguise itself as a pack of cigarettes?
*The Terminator:* No, only an object of equal size.
*John Connor:* Then why doen't it become a bomb or a machine gun or something to get me?
*The Terminator:* The T-1000 can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals in them. Moving parts. It doesn't work that way, but it can form solid metal shapes.
*John Connor:* Like what?
*The Terminator:* Like an anvil in a bucket.
Knives and stabbing weapons.
Then they turn around in the same movie with the T1000 being the goddamned floor
um yeah. it was an object of equal size.
That’s awesome! I just learned something new today.
It's odd how entertaining it is watching someone play with mercury.
you'll float too
Why you gotta go there
1234bmt
tell me why not :p
Don't give him ideas
I like how reflective the mercury is
Looks like metal mario
This gives the same magical feeling as seeing feather falling in vacuum chamber
What's funny, is that modern day flat-earthers use stills from this video to prove gravity doesn't exist :D
Brave man - absolutely have no fear to breath in a mercury vapors.
This is not bravery this is stupidity
Man this is one insanely cool video... surreal to see solid iron floating in anything!
Mercury always blows my mind. Cool element.
It feels like a death warrant doing this
I used to work in a Mercury Cell Chlorine plant. We had hundreds of gallons of liquid Mercury.
Mercury would gather up in our water pits of our water drainage system. We had to wash down the concrete slabs under the mercury chlorine cells. We often had to pump out the water using gasoline pumps or air driven sandpiper pumps. We had to secure the pumps to a concrete stanchion because if the suction line of the pump got into the mercury below the water, it slowed the pump down as the weight of the mercury pulled the pump into the pit. Instead of the mercury being lifted up by the pump, it pulled the pump down into the pit.
Put a little rc boat in it see if you can make it go
Edit: it needs to be an rc car that would be cool
I'm not sure if the propellers would even submerge, Mercury has pretty high surface tension, might just bounce up and down on top XD
GearandaltheFirst
Maybe some weights to hold it down. The real question is if the props could push the mercury.
James Nguyen Probably not if it is just some small plastic rc boat with a weak electric motor.
Maybe just a normal rc car, that would be cool since it would basically sit on top.
Haha YES! driving a car on the surface of mercury!
(probably won´t work though)
what a wonderful time for this to show up on my recommended
His constant snickering is exactly how one should feel about an interest