Melting and combining 19 elements! Does it make a Super-Alloy?!

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  • @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access
    @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access Před 4 lety +10498

    Now you should combine 69 elements, I bet the resulting alloy would be *nice*

  • @rj9955hi
    @rj9955hi Před 4 lety +3877

    This is the Grown up version of mixing all the paint together trying to get black, when all you actually make is a crappy brown XD

  • @theCodyReeder
    @theCodyReeder Před 4 lety +5612

    Separating them sounds like it could be fun.

    • @theflano23
      @theflano23 Před 4 lety +184

      How would you even go about separating metals? It seems pretty hard.

    • @dandanthedandan7558
      @dandanthedandan7558 Před 4 lety +352

      My gosh everyone commented about you it's amazing seeing you here

    • @Vistrus
      @Vistrus Před 4 lety +19

      Please do it

    • @Petertronic
      @Petertronic Před 4 lety +17

      Charge him at least 30%

    • @dhruvpatel2107
      @dhruvpatel2107 Před 4 lety +34

      The legend himself is here

  • @enzo_frsh
    @enzo_frsh Před 4 lety +1851

    "i'll never see that piece of gold again"
    Just ask NileRed. He'll get it back for you haha

  • @Vivi_Sterling
    @Vivi_Sterling Před 3 lety +1011

    Imagine killing someone with this knife, and they run a mass spec on the fragments and dust left in the wounds and then the technician just looks at the reading and mouths "WTF" because some florida man made a knife with 19 elements

    • @Goofygooberdawg
      @Goofygooberdawg Před 3 lety +11

      Perhaps you might just be right...

    • @joemelton4747
      @joemelton4747 Před 3 lety +76

      Forensics is gonna have a field day with this one

    • @MajorWagz418
      @MajorWagz418 Před 3 lety +8

      Make it 100 elements

    • @mojn4249
      @mojn4249 Před 2 lety +3

      @@MajorWagz418
      Xkcd: NOOOOOOO

    • @w_ldan
      @w_ldan Před 2 lety +9

      "This is the way"
      The way of Florida man

  • @AmusementLabs
    @AmusementLabs Před 4 lety +1534

    Alternate title: Florida man left alone with 19 elements and a metal foundry

    • @darstar217
      @darstar217 Před 4 lety +42

      He is basically Florida man, but in the best way

    • @ANNON10123
      @ANNON10123 Před 4 lety +27

      @@darstar217 Florida's leading scientist

    • @MrE_
      @MrE_ Před 4 lety +4

      I'm proud to be a Florida man

    • @DaveC2729
      @DaveC2729 Před 4 lety +3

      And his girlfriend. Don't forget the girlfriend.

    • @guyinaroom7771
      @guyinaroom7771 Před 4 lety

      That's just bad

  • @comndrchf1097
    @comndrchf1097 Před 4 lety +1309

    Fun fact, alloying a lot of different alloys increase the number of dislocations in the crystal structure which increases its hardness but at the cost of making the alloy much more brittle, annealing can help to reduce the brittleness.

    • @mikehart6193
      @mikehart6193 Před 4 lety +34

      i would rea like to see what the alloy would be after annealing it

    • @nutmeg9005
      @nutmeg9005 Před 4 lety +20

      Whats annealing mean/do to the structure?

    • @nutmeg9005
      @nutmeg9005 Před 4 lety +2

      J•Erik oh okay thnx

    • @ryandean3162
      @ryandean3162 Před 4 lety +105

      @@nutmeg9005 Annealing is heating the metal up to the point that the atoms in it can move around pretty freely and then letting it cool down slowly. This lets the atoms move around to where they are more "comfortable", as it were, in the lattice structure of the metal, which they don't get a chance to do if you quench it/cool it down quickly. The dislocations that ComndrChf referred to are places where the atoms don't connect up to one another, due to an atom (or bunch of atoms) being next to an atom (or bunch of atoms) that's already got its connections filled up. All these breaks in the crystal lattice make it very easy to break. Letting it cool slowly gives them time to move around to find a place that they can link up, improving the ability for the whole structure to hold together under stress.

    • @wazabi41
      @wazabi41 Před 4 lety +19

      Adding to the dislocation part : we know the grains were small because of the quench(idk if water or oil would've been nest here tbh), dislocations move through the metal from one atom to the other. When they meet a grain joint(where the structure changes) the dislocations get stuck hardening the metal. Its also possible that the difference in size of the atoms and/or new compounds acted as obstacles. The annealing would be useless and would most likely fracture the alloy(if the mix isn't homogenous) with the stress being released at different moment from the kinetic energy gain.
      A diagram of that alloy would be insane, three main components make it hard to read already xD. Also, english is a second language, my scientific jargon is not the best and i know it.

  • @sarchlalaith8836
    @sarchlalaith8836 Před 3 lety +214

    Hey, 29 years casting here.
    You need a sprue, on the back, towards the tip of your knife create an L shape with a straw, so you have two holes in the the top of the mold. This let's the trapped air escape to avoid air pockets.
    Also make the mold deeper than the knife by an extra 30% that way you have space to create a reservoir cone that you pour into to avoid lost metal and if possible, preheat the mold near to the pouring temperature to keep the flow going better, then quench when it's still hot to align the crystals in the metal, anneal gently to stress relieve, then dip in a used motor oil, lots of crushed charcoal and petrol and carbon dust and burn the oil off, the petrol will make it burn rapidly, surface hardening, then quench in cold oil, again plenty of carbon like crushed charcoal, you don't have to do that but it gives you a very tough surface that's whether resistant and the core is fully stress relieved so it's not fragile.

  • @Metal_Master_YT
    @Metal_Master_YT Před 3 lety +269

    " instead of hearing me say bloop 20 more times, how bout I show you this cool box from kiwico"
    honestly, I'd rather hear you say bloop 20 more times.

    • @whatthefridge1o1
      @whatthefridge1o1 Před 2 lety +3

      Samw

    • @JimboJuice
      @JimboJuice Před rokem

      WHERE ARE THE VIDEO METAL MASTER?

    • @Metal_Master_YT
      @Metal_Master_YT Před rokem +2

      @@JimboJuice wdym?
      I mean, I haven't posted any youtube videos because I've been really busy working to keep my family stable. xD

    • @JimboJuice
      @JimboJuice Před rokem

      @@Metal_Master_YT your supreme terror ends soon

    • @amogusmeme7
      @amogusmeme7 Před rokem

      same

  • @justinteal495
    @justinteal495 Před 4 lety +417

    "Im probably never gonna see this gold again"
    Cody's lab: I got you bro

  • @methyllithium323
    @methyllithium323 Před 3 lety +125

    Him: Randomly mixing 19 different elements into a metalloid mess
    The guys who had to spend days obtaining and purifying this stuff: -_-

  • @h7ngz
    @h7ngz Před 2 lety +5

    9:17 Wow, thats a nice transition taking off your gloves 😎

  • @pyromaniac000000
    @pyromaniac000000 Před 4 lety +957

    If you want that gold back, send your alloy to Cody, he’s good at separating metals

  • @garyhoward8321
    @garyhoward8321 Před 4 lety +948

    Challenge: send. It to “Cody’s lab” and see if he can separate all the elements again!

    • @snepNL
      @snepNL Před 4 lety +36

      Yeah or nileRed

    • @raverkidloki
      @raverkidloki Před 4 lety +8

      @@snepNL Nile red doesn't do the same type of chemical work

    • @jasontaylor7419
      @jasontaylor7419 Před 4 lety +10

      And sell the gold to buy a knife blank from the water jet channel

    • @snepNL
      @snepNL Před 4 lety +1

      @@raverkidloki is that so.

    • @MrOllitheOne
      @MrOllitheOne Před 4 lety

      He can.

  • @noah2067
    @noah2067 Před rokem +31

    Hey Kevin, I’m a high school student who just learned chemistry and the main reason I think your alloy may have been brittle was because you put in metaloids such as Boron, Germanium, and Silicon which are basically transition elements from the metals to gases. I think if you try this again without the metalloids this time it may work a lot better. The metalloid elements you want to avoid putting in are Boron, Silicon, Germanium, Arsenic, Selenium, Tellurium, and Astatine. I love your vids man keep up the good work!!!

  • @MrrSirrr
    @MrrSirrr Před 4 lety +11

    3:09 "too expensive" **melts gold**

  • @Henchman1977
    @Henchman1977 Před 4 lety +136

    Send the alloy to Cody, make him un-alloy it.

    • @simloverify
      @simloverify Před 4 lety +12

      Or nile red

    • @among-us-99999
      @among-us-99999 Před 4 lety +5

      @Zion castillo NileRed has no proper furnace for this, he tried it a few times in the past

  • @The_Keeper
    @The_Keeper Před 4 lety +465

    Congratulations, you've made Anti-Mithril:
    A silvery, heavy, and super brittle metal.

  • @OffbeatJoe
    @OffbeatJoe Před 2 lety +8

    After having found this channel, I'm beginning to feel like a kid again, with actual inspiration to keep me going forward right when I thought I was running out of steam. Thank you.

  • @GunnarTobus
    @GunnarTobus Před 3 lety +23

    I swear if Chernobyl happens again it’s his damn fault.

  • @tdsk774
    @tdsk774 Před 4 lety +1266

    "Some things were just too expensive"
    *melts some gold*

    • @Mazaroth
      @Mazaroth Před 4 lety +97

      Gold isn't even that expensive, relatively speaking.
      Osmium is actually way more expensive, it's actually one of the most expensive elements that are non-radioactive and easiest to get but again, relatively speaking, because osmium is quite rare.

    • @ZenoDLC
      @ZenoDLC Před 4 lety +20

      What are you? A Conquistador visiting the Incas?

    • @godlesswolf5816
      @godlesswolf5816 Před 4 lety +4

      Bloop

    • @speckkatze2724
      @speckkatze2724 Před 4 lety +4

      @Mazaroth | Osmium is also the element with the highest density.

    • @Stegibbon
      @Stegibbon Před 4 lety +6

      Saffron costs more than gold

  • @amarug
    @amarug Před 4 lety +89

    BYS: "i am probably not gonna see that piece of gold ever again"
    cody: "hold my xray gun"

  • @averagepo4474
    @averagepo4474 Před 2 lety +2

    2:56 When he said Manganese I instantly thought of the JonTron halloween thing where he threw Manganese in the fire and flash banged himself. Classic.

  • @anthonysoto6988
    @anthonysoto6988 Před 3 lety +8

    I love this guy. Makes science actually fun. Should've been my bio teacher

  • @dylanwells9769
    @dylanwells9769 Před 4 lety +116

    Nobody:
    Backyard Scientist: This bad boy can fit so many elements in it.

  • @jamar3905
    @jamar3905 Před 4 lety +490

    Him: This cost me 700 dollars, my soul, and my whole pack of legos
    Also Him: **plOoOp**

  • @ldee5478
    @ldee5478 Před rokem +1

    I love you backyard scientist! 😁
    Edit: 5:55 he cut the cheese. 😆

  • @derekpeltzer26
    @derekpeltzer26 Před 2 lety +3

    2:05 parents signing their signature on the restaurant bill be like

  • @TechyBen
    @TechyBen Před 4 lety +268

    "Never been done before"
    The industrial revolution and many other times in history have left the chat:

    • @JommerMan
      @JommerMan Před 4 lety +1

      TechyBen your account was in my sub box years ago what are the odds

    • @dylanfisher3022
      @dylanfisher3022 Před 3 lety +1

      Industrial revolution ever mixed alloys. Just advancing in technology

  • @koneeche
    @koneeche Před 4 lety +46

    I swear, this guy.
    The next thing you know he's gonna try making a philosopher's stone in his backyard by sacrificing his whole neighborhood

  • @olincarpenter6337
    @olincarpenter6337 Před 4 lety +6

    Love how he was surprised when he couldn't melt the tungsten cube...

  • @ZstackZip
    @ZstackZip Před rokem +3

    This metal COULD maybe have some kind of use for making breakaway props for movies

  • @Jordan-sk9po
    @Jordan-sk9po Před 4 lety +454

    “Trying to melt tungsten”
    I just learned how hard tungsten is to melt in dr stone lmao

  • @yeticrab7901
    @yeticrab7901 Před 4 lety +161

    Backyard Scientists: says the metals names perfectly
    Me: bless you

  • @patrickczader3995
    @patrickczader3995 Před 2 lety +4

    I think a big part why the metal was so brittle is the way you quenched it. Normally, blacksmiths have a process they follow so that the metal doesn’t become weak

  • @MrMakulit1959
    @MrMakulit1959 Před 2 lety +1

    We didn't have kiwico. We had rusty bits of metal, used nails, steel cans and cast off appliances and we were glad to have em

  • @JacobMcGee69
    @JacobMcGee69 Před 4 lety +198

    Send it to Cody’s lab so he can make a video recovering the original ore.
    Somehow

  • @mr.raymond9176
    @mr.raymond9176 Před 4 lety +42

    "How to make a brittle cheese knife with 19 household elements in 3 simple steps!!" - I revised your title, you're welcome.

  • @mirobulj8187
    @mirobulj8187 Před 2 lety +1

    I've been wondering about what would happen if you mixed that many elements for years, great video!

  • @ILI.D.
    @ILI.D. Před 2 lety +1

    Who knew that molten glowing metal poured on grapes would look so satisfying

  • @picklesmoothieproductions9599

    This man's posts are like water in the dessert

    • @Whitemale69
      @Whitemale69 Před 4 lety +20

      Yeah nothing better than pouring a nice cold glass of water over some cheesecake

    • @m0w0ss
      @m0w0ss Před 4 lety +1

      did you mean desert perhaps

    • @mitchelllally732
      @mitchelllally732 Před 4 lety

      The Tylenol I take when my head hurts

    • @RWBHere
      @RWBHere Před 4 lety +2

      Well, a dessert without any water in it would be very unappetising. Desiccated strawberries and clotted cream solids, anyone?

    • @m0w0ss
      @m0w0ss Před 4 lety +1

      @@RWBHere i mean those oven cooked foam thing made of egg are dry and tasty

  • @scottkelley9013
    @scottkelley9013 Před 4 lety +284

    “It’s a monthly subscription serv-“
    *10 Seconds >>*

  • @SirArcherOfficial
    @SirArcherOfficial Před 4 lety

    I have always wondered what happens if several diffrent metal element got mixed and here is the answer. That was one of my childhood fantasy. tnx dude.

  • @stevenb3554
    @stevenb3554 Před 2 lety

    I can't stop watching your videos! Super amazing content! Even your ads are entertaining well placed, thank you!
    P.S. please don't hurt yourself!

  • @diegosanchez894
    @diegosanchez894 Před 4 lety +215

    I'm studying materials engineering, have a class called "metals and alloys"
    Let me just say I would want to have the phase diagram of that monstrosity.

    • @charlesmatlock2177
      @charlesmatlock2177 Před 4 lety +18

      Hey! I'm studying Metallurgical engineering (mostly metals)! Just letting ya know, it would be impossible to have a phase diagram of that many components. As it is the most components we can do and have a full phase diagram is 3 (Ternary phase diagram with temperature on the z-axis. Good luck with materials engineering!

    • @y.w.6243
      @y.w.6243 Před 4 lety +7

      Charles Matlock yeah true. Our computational power is limited. Btw, dealing with the lattice mismatch from the very beginning is impossible

    • @charlesmatlock2177
      @charlesmatlock2177 Před 4 lety +10

      @@y.w.6243 Yeah, I feel like a little more research about the structures of each metal would have gone a looonng way. Plus, he added a ton of Boron which embrittles the metal.

    • @poowhynot1268
      @poowhynot1268 Před 4 lety +4

      thought you material guys might enjoy this, but at my workplace we get to machine this alloy called "toughmet" its insane stuff, copper nickle tin alloy

    • @fractal_lynn
      @fractal_lynn Před 4 lety +1

      @@y.w.6243 How much more computing power would be needed to calculate more? Perhaps a quantum computer could be of great benefit to this.

  • @arshith3733
    @arshith3733 Před 4 lety +101

    0:44 "it cost $150... meh... let's put it in the furnace."
    Yep that's Kevin.
    PS awesome video........as always
    Edit:a 100 likes...wow never got this many
    THanks people

    • @gamergarb8375
      @gamergarb8375 Před 4 lety +1

      Oof

    • @wasmadeinthe80s
      @wasmadeinthe80s Před 4 lety

      I mean, PressTube did like 40k in gold. Lol

    • @theambergryphon4266
      @theambergryphon4266 Před 4 lety +2

      @@wasmadeinthe80s Yes but you can just melt it and get back all if not most of it and then cast it again and boom it's back to how it was

    • @virtualtools_3021
      @virtualtools_3021 Před 4 lety

      Don't worry he probs got more than that from the shillscription box

    • @sonamdua87
      @sonamdua87 Před rokem

      Wrong 101

  • @revertnormal8529
    @revertnormal8529 Před 2 lety

    I've always wanted to try this but never had the money but then I came across this and I can finally see it, thank you

  • @peteragurkis3590
    @peteragurkis3590 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you for the periodic table color coded with red=dead and flammable stuff. Will come in handy as I am smart enough and handy enough to be curious and experiment but not smart enough to not do something dangerous

  • @AxeMan04x
    @AxeMan04x Před 4 lety +61

    This guy could do a killer Kermit the frog impression.

  • @niceguy1891
    @niceguy1891 Před 4 lety +157

    It's hilarious hearing the word "Tungsten" as a swede.
    The words comes from Swedish.
    Tung=Heavy
    Sten=Stone

    • @possiblebot6858
      @possiblebot6858 Před 4 lety +12

      Some words theirself in swedish are funny like kock

    • @niceguy1891
      @niceguy1891 Před 4 lety +11

      @@possiblebot6858 hahahha well, if your a Swede, it doesn't sound weird at all. But you can also use the word "Köksmästare".

    • @burningpentagram666
      @burningpentagram666 Před 4 lety

      @@niceguy1891 Swedish Chef ? ;)

    • @virtualtools_3021
      @virtualtools_3021 Před 4 lety +2

      @@niceguy1891 tungsten ore is kinda like a stone, and it is probably heavy too

    • @AltarParssoy
      @AltarParssoy Před 4 lety +1

      i mean, not because i don't like the language, in the matter of fact, i do and i'd love to learn swedish... but seriously bro, is it really that boring to be in sweden?

  • @VideoGameMontagination
    @VideoGameMontagination Před 2 lety +1

    This is exactly what I’ve been wanting

  • @onelext3166
    @onelext3166 Před 2 lety +2

    9:55 I like the fact that burnt watermelon is something he has smelled.

  • @johnw9589
    @johnw9589 Před 4 lety +125

    Someone has been watching too much "Forged in Fire"

    • @culinarycow3181
      @culinarycow3181 Před 4 lety +14

      Yeah watching him try to cast a knife with random elements expecting a knife like result made me cringe unbelievably hard

    • @tavishdangri6212
      @tavishdangri6212 Před 3 lety +1

      It will just make brittle garbage and he added non metals(silicon)?Why?

    • @JMRSplatt
      @JMRSplatt Před 3 lety +1

      Yes, will it "KEAL"?

    • @KristoffLam1
      @KristoffLam1 Před 3 lety +1

      Its a damascus blend.

    • @packetdrinks9215
      @packetdrinks9215 Před 3 lety +1

      @@JMRSplatt it will *k e a l*

  • @fabiosantana3226
    @fabiosantana3226 Před 4 lety +66

    Ya know he's the backyard scientist when he knows the scent of burnt watermelon

  • @nygelmartin
    @nygelmartin Před 3 lety +1

    You are the best CZcamsr The backyard science

  • @sharadkumarsingh8972
    @sharadkumarsingh8972 Před 3 lety +1

    9:06 the best Halloween lamp

  • @yeeturmcbeetur8197
    @yeeturmcbeetur8197 Před 4 lety +89

    You should’ve done some different testing of the metal like electrical conductivity and what not.

  • @koolaidman007
    @koolaidman007 Před 4 lety +1669

    You're going to make brittle garbage.
    Love,
    An actual metallurgist

    • @heitman78
      @heitman78 Před 4 lety +125

      I wasn't expecting anything good from the title, but putting silicon in seems like it would guarantee brittleness. Thoughts?

    • @bamberghh1691
      @bamberghh1691 Před 4 lety +52

      @@heitman78 boron too

    • @koolaidman007
      @koolaidman007 Před 4 lety +188

      Silicon and Boron on their own don't guarantee brittleness necessarily. Me real explanation is much longer than a youtube comment (I actually do quite a bit of work with high entropy alloys). The quick and simple explanation for this is, throwing all this together with no rhyme or reason is guaranteed to formed incoherent intermetallic compounds which, unless done in a purposeful and controlled way, pretty much guarantees your end product will be useless junk.
      This isn't science. This is uncoordinated flailing for views. 10 minutes on google would've predicted this result.

    • @Axel23410
      @Axel23410 Před 4 lety +64

      @@koolaidman007 since you're a metallurgist I just wanted to ask a question:
      Is it true that pouring molten metal (more specificaly aluminum) into water is extremely dangerous and that the only way thebackyardscientist is still alive today after his precedent videos about molten aluminum is due to the poor conditions he melted the metal in, preventing it from reacting with water thanks to an oxyde layer ?

    • @yeeturmcbeetur8197
      @yeeturmcbeetur8197 Před 4 lety +3

      Axel23410 this^

  • @jacobj5567
    @jacobj5567 Před 4 lety

    This is like a cooking show for crazy science

  • @eurus8516
    @eurus8516 Před 4 lety

    Just the type of video I was looking for.

  • @AmusementLabs
    @AmusementLabs Před 4 lety +64

    Can it cut cheese?
    I see the joke budget was 5¢...

    • @chronosorion6911
      @chronosorion6911 Před 4 lety +3

      Hey, those Babybel single semisofts are 75¢ before tax thanks you very much. :-p

    • @AmusementLabs
      @AmusementLabs Před 4 lety +1

      @@chronosorion6911 😅

  • @bundleoffuck2986
    @bundleoffuck2986 Před 4 lety +114

    This guy gonna make an element that blows up half the damn earth.

    • @striver2180
      @striver2180 Před 4 lety +3

      I would call it Hygon

    • @kobayashi9123
      @kobayashi9123 Před 4 lety +4

      Is it bc its going to come (Hi) and go(gone)

    • @condorcircus323
      @condorcircus323 Před 4 lety

      Wholesome nugget why do you have a none wholesome comment

    • @Shock_Treatment
      @Shock_Treatment Před 4 lety

      I don't think there are any elements left to discover. Maybe it could still be possible with a particle accelerator, but the chance of it happening would be super rare. We've already gone up to the atomic number 118, and anything above that is very unstable and will decay very rapidly into other elements, probably within nanoseconds. Anyway, you definitely can't make a new element by combining existing elements like this; all you get is an alloy.

    • @manolososadavinci1937
      @manolososadavinci1937 Před 2 lety

      @Duner250R you stoopid foc those are our nukes not just the governments if you want to use it Issa okay just put it back where you found it when you’re done with it

  • @mikasopenlehto7376
    @mikasopenlehto7376 Před 4 lety

    I love this channel bc it’s so cool and fun to watch

  • @TheCompleteMental
    @TheCompleteMental Před 2 lety

    Tungsten: "Man it's toasty in here :)"
    Other metals: *_"AAAAAAOOOOOUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH"_*

  • @LoyalSol
    @LoyalSol Před 4 lety +71

    Looks like you ended up with a heterogeneous metal that was loosely bound together. The little molten balls likely indicate that some of the metal didn't mix at all.

  • @bent.5687
    @bent.5687 Před 4 lety +30

    "This piece of gold is more than 150 dollars!"
    (Throws it away)

  • @braderbell6814
    @braderbell6814 Před 8 měsíci

    The metal mixture was sweating when you re-heated it after quenching it because the solution is saturated and the max dissolved concentration becomes less and less as the temperature drops.
    Normally you would observe this sweating as the solid solution is cooling, but since you quenched it, the solution was frozen in a saturated state and didn't have enough energy to escape into its favored concentration until you gave it an energy boost with the blowtorch which is why it started sweating

  • @milktestingwoman
    @milktestingwoman Před 2 lety

    the demo for kiwico is a lot more interesting than shown; it ends up being a very good demonstration for the concept of "chaos theory," a concept in theoretical physics. basically, we can determine any outcome from the starting values, but since the starting values cant be known to a satisfying degree of certainty, there will always be major variation

  • @ironbiscuit
    @ironbiscuit Před 4 lety +14

    (puts bismuth and aluminum in) "it's so brittle!"

  • @miketwo482
    @miketwo482 Před 4 lety +38

    Backyard scientist does an experiment that could lead to a groundbreaking new material that stronger that steel
    Also backyard scientist takes said material and pours it into grapes

    • @among-us-99999
      @among-us-99999 Před 4 lety +6

      "groundbreaking new material"
      That’s not how metallurgy works. I pretty much expected it to become a brittle mess.
      Real superalloys use one base metal (nickel is quite popular for this) and some carefully chosen additives.

    • @koneeche
      @koneeche Před 4 lety

      @@among-us-99999 I don't know too much about metallurgy, but what about titanium? It's just an element on the periodic table, but our shop uses it rather often for sturdy projects. Stronger and lighter than steel (and stainless steel). Can it be 'superalloyed'?

    • @koneeche
      @koneeche Před 4 lety

      @@awashburn6944 Good to know!
      I've always wondered why some of our contracts require titanium. The more you know I guess.
      Whats the price difference between titanium and nickel-based superalloys?

  • @foongchowfong3318
    @foongchowfong3318 Před 4 lety

    This is what i am looking for from youtube and found about this video. Thank you. Maybe you can mix with some other element such as barium, strontium?

  • @jackrogersjr.4014
    @jackrogersjr.4014 Před 2 lety

    Wow that looks really cool! It looks like coral or something!!!!!!

  • @judahbest0719
    @judahbest0719 Před 4 lety +110

    “Florida man found dead with a new element “

  • @ThijmenGThN
    @ThijmenGThN Před 4 lety +48

    *Everyone:* has furnace outside.
    *Backyard scientist:* Nah inside should be fine, its not that hot anyway.

    • @koneeche
      @koneeche Před 4 lety +4

      A cheap solution for heating during the winter season!

    • @navotj3528
      @navotj3528 Před 4 lety +3

      let me just pour some excess liquid metal on my table right here

    • @darkshadowsx5949
      @darkshadowsx5949 Před 4 lety +1

      a friend of mine has a large kiln in his garage. there is no way were wheeling that thing outside to melt stuff. plus schools use them without dragging them outside too.

  • @balls536
    @balls536 Před 4 lety +1

    Seeing someone mix random metals hurts my soul to the point where god is only a concept and pain is the true master of the universe.

  • @esnethen5915
    @esnethen5915 Před 2 lety +1

    Congratulations, you have created that mythical substance known as silver peanut brittle, except you forgot the peanuts.

  • @crackedemerald4930
    @crackedemerald4930 Před 4 lety +4

    This is like putting loads of play-dough together and seeing whatever it does.

  • @tiankuohua5167
    @tiankuohua5167 Před 4 lety +12

    2:51 Kevin: Aluminum
    *shows symbols for Iron*

  • @71thelegend
    @71thelegend Před 2 lety

    ```one of the best content out there```

  • @travis4798
    @travis4798 Před 4 lety +1

    I would mix elements based on their melting point, aka, add the highest temperature elements first, then work your way to the lowest. They might bond better. Also adding chemicals into the mix will help change properties of the metal.

  • @speed2574
    @speed2574 Před 4 lety +14

    0:37
    Au= Gold
    Au=Australia
    And that gold coin is from Australia

  • @nineballking06351
    @nineballking06351 Před 4 lety +13

    Send it to Codys Lab. He'll separate the metals back out.

  • @goldenandesite
    @goldenandesite Před 8 měsíci +1

    I wonder if you kept melting it down and removing the slag if it would eventually become less brittle. (Not a chemist, don’t know if that’s how it works)

  • @nigeypants5500
    @nigeypants5500 Před 5 měsíci

    The background music has tones that sound like a phone vibrating. Triggers my brain to check my phone every couple minutes

  • @schwaahh1021
    @schwaahh1021 Před 4 lety +3

    1:56
    The pendulum makes a wholesome love heart

  • @YCorey
    @YCorey Před 4 lety +9

    "this has never really been done before" later... "their doing this already to create new metals" -_-

  • @Lyssebabz
    @Lyssebabz Před rokem

    You should send the metals you got from these experiments of to be analysed, would be cool to see what metals actually stuck together

  • @DirtyIhmSeinSchwanneck

    This bottle of WD-40 @ 0:51 just makes me so comfortable... IDKW xD

  • @saltyhalaman
    @saltyhalaman Před 4 lety +13

    That pendulum in the dark looks like my cursor movement while playing osu

  • @agcacustoms2852
    @agcacustoms2852 Před 4 lety +9

    We all really know he's just trying to make some real life beskar.

  • @LoliLoveJuice
    @LoliLoveJuice Před 3 lety +7

    love how he's doin all that infront of his pc 😂

    • @Warhawk76
      @Warhawk76 Před 3 lety

      @Azula X ah you beat me to it!

    • @Warhawk76
      @Warhawk76 Před 3 lety

      I was hoping he would set his toy "computer" on fire. That is about the only good use for a Mac.

  • @matty_hug0
    @matty_hug0 Před 2 lety

    You are the best thing to watch, when there's nothing to watch 🖤🖤🙌🙏🙏🙏

  • @cowboy777120031
    @cowboy777120031 Před 4 lety +4

    To the backyard scientist I love your videos I wish you would put more out

  • @kevtris
    @kevtris Před 4 lety +6

    It looks like he made an expensive version of pot metal. pot metal tends to be brittle and crack over time because it's an unstable mixture of several low melting point metals.

  • @verticaljayden4312
    @verticaljayden4312 Před 3 lety

    This guy makes learning fun

  • @cheatlink11
    @cheatlink11 Před 3 lety

    The byeah crossing music is amazing

  • @onehere8690
    @onehere8690 Před 4 lety +17

    How to die in only in 19 steps

  • @no1ofconsequence936
    @no1ofconsequence936 Před 4 lety +9

    Last time I was this early, there were only four elements.

  • @OldSport3291
    @OldSport3291 Před 9 měsíci

    I think that the metals that didn't melt would've really helped its strength, maybe try it again if you get a better crucible

  • @Lardzor
    @Lardzor Před 3 lety

    I like the sculpture you made at the end. You should spray it with mud, and grow moss on it.
    (if the heavy metals don't kill the moss)