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  • čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
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    In this video I show you how the light for one of the world's most poserful laser's is made. The COIL laser for the YAL-1 laser uses light that is easily made by combining two chemicals to produce singlet oxygen
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  • @dhonors999
    @dhonors999 Před 10 měsíci +1928

    Just want to chime in that pulsed lasers don't just exist because of electrical restrictions, they have many interesting properties, uses, and advantages compared to CW lasers. For example, in laser cutting, a sufficiently fast pulsed laser will dump energy into the material so quickly that the heat does not have time to dissipate before the material vaporizes, giving a much cleaner cut.

    • @marca9955
      @marca9955 Před 10 měsíci +9

      CW lasers don't also do that?

    • @tylisirn
      @tylisirn Před 10 měsíci +125

      @@marca9955 Lower peak output, so they heat up the material slower at the exact point of burn, or they have to be more powerful to achieve same output. They dump more energy into the material overall, but we don't want that, we want to burn exactly what we want to burn and touch nothing else. So the pulsed laser is more controlled, the CW is less, but allows faster cutting. There are pros and cons to each. Also depending on material, the pulsed laser also can allow the vaporized material to clear the cut before the laser dumps more heat into it, while the CW will dump some of the energy into the vapor cloud, resulting in absorption and scattering.

    • @randfee
      @randfee Před 10 měsíci +48

      while I understand what you're saying, technically, the guys' statement is correct. If you had a cw laser with the same average power as a pulsed laser's peak power, than you would achieve the same thing if you gated the cw laser accordingly (which might be impossible electrically for high loads if it's >xMHz). Anyways, a 1MHz 1ns pulsed laser with 1kW average power has 1MW peak power. If you use that to process at 1m/s than you could achieve similar results if you processed using a 1MW cw laser at 1000m/s , just get a fast polygon scanner :P - well, obviously I'm aware of the thermal limitations in optical components and also power-density limits during most material processes.
      If you want higher peak powers/fluences however, you're out of luck. Imagine a 100kHz 1ps laser with 200W average power - one can get those off-the shelf too. That's 2GW peak power. Now we need a small rocket to match the power output, or two standard sized nuclear power plants... Not gonna happen.
      --> Pulsed lasers will win!
      regards - a laser physicist.

    • @GetOwnedInc
      @GetOwnedInc Před 10 měsíci +4

      The only comment he liked was this one.

    • @jasonharrison25
      @jasonharrison25 Před 10 měsíci +10

      It also allows time for some of the smoke to clear out of the way so as to not block the laser. A CW laser has to shine through the smoke generated while a pulsed one can be timed to limit the smoke interaction thus imparting more energy into the target

  • @_chopper_
    @_chopper_ Před 11 měsíci +3253

    The strongest laser is your ceiling light at 6 am when your dad wakes you up

    • @dumflame
      @dumflame Před 11 měsíci +190

      You get temporary blindness for 15 seconds

    • @mr.ks.6499
      @mr.ks.6499 Před 11 měsíci +23

      Warm lights are good for eyes

    • @mr.ks.6499
      @mr.ks.6499 Před 11 měsíci +19

      ​@@dumflamejust like in cod mw2

    • @realspacepro
      @realspacepro Před 11 měsíci +24

      Imagine waking up at 3:00 am and your mom saying "wake up now"

    • @patricklang7162
      @patricklang7162 Před 11 měsíci +23

      Imagine you being on the second floor and your mom being on the first and her hitting the ceiling with the handle of a broom every morning at 5:00 a.m. don’t tell me shit about waking up. That’s the worst way on the planet.

  • @zippoc04
    @zippoc04 Před 10 měsíci +1060

    Just want to be clear, there’s a huge difference between FDA approved and FDA cleared. I have a degree in biomedical engineering, and it takes very little effort to get a medical device “FDA cleared”. It takes exponentially more to get something FDA Approved, which is what really means something.

    • @astronautdyno3120
      @astronautdyno3120 Před 10 měsíci +210

      Maybe I haven’t watched enough of his videos but that kind of ad came out of nowhere for me 😂

    • @fig8man
      @fig8man Před 10 měsíci +58

      ​@@astronautdyno3120 me too bud

    • @lookupverazhou8599
      @lookupverazhou8599 Před 10 měsíci

      So, you can still kill people as soon as it is FDA cleared, though, right?

    • @danielreed5199
      @danielreed5199 Před 10 měsíci +94

      @@astronautdyno3120 Seems like a lot of CZcamsrs succumb to the temptation of ad revenue, it is shame when money becomes more important than being critical and honest for the sake of your viewers.

    • @nonchip
      @nonchip Před 10 měsíci +89

      that's because the device he's selling doesn't do anything but slightly tingle your face muscles into feeling a tiny bit softer. if it works at all it's like "hey skin, pretend i botoxed you for 5 minutes". guess he went from science to money communicator.

  • @danieldevito6380
    @danieldevito6380 Před 10 měsíci +219

    It's crazy how some dry pellets and some fluid can produce such brilliant, bright light.

  • @BetaDude40
    @BetaDude40 Před 11 měsíci +1230

    The chemical storage was only a small factor for the decommissioning of the Boeing YAL-1. Testing showed that the atmosphere had too much of an affect on the powerful laser, causing it to lose a significant amount of energy due to heat and light scattering. While they initially billeted the laser as being able to operate from hundreds of kilometers away from its target, after testing it was shown the actual effective range was not nearly as long as they had hoped. They would basically have to fly into hostile airspace to get a chance to shoot their targets long enough to destroy them, which defeated the purpose of a standoff ABMS.
    As of yet, there is no effective way to destroy an ICBM during its first phase of the launch because they are extremely fast and positioned very far inland in most nations that have them. Most efforts nowadays are into stopping them during the second phase (the ~15 minutes while they are freefalling in space) or the third phase (the ~2 minutes of terminal velocity before airburst of the warhead). As of right now, the big huge chemical laser of the YAL-1 will probably remain unused, unless we decide to put those things in space, lol

    • @PhilJonesIII
      @PhilJonesIII Před 11 měsíci +129

      Yes, it struck me as odd that an organisation that routinely carries massive amounts of explosives should shy away from a few (admittedly reactive) chemicals.

    • @poepflater
      @poepflater Před 10 měsíci +30

      Bring on the Tesla Death Ray!

    • @maindepth8830
      @maindepth8830 Před 10 měsíci +4

      What with the lol

    • @Neo-vz8nh
      @Neo-vz8nh Před 10 měsíci +36

      I don't think it would operate in space either. Every laser has a divergence, which is in a range of a few degrees. They are very focused from close but become huge beam at a distance. Even with lower then one degree divergance in few hunred km distance the laser beam would be still around a kilometer wide.

    • @psychopiper8224
      @psychopiper8224 Před 10 měsíci +57

      @@Neo-vz8nh I have a feeling that if their testing concluded the atmosphere is the factor causing it to lose its effective range, I would trust their word and assume it would work fine in space. These are engineers we're talking about - they probably had the laser's divergence in mind when calculating the original effective range

  • @jangschoen1019
    @jangschoen1019 Před 11 měsíci +263

    Ah great, he called on StyroPyro to make a Death Star laser.

    • @arnefines2356
      @arnefines2356 Před 11 měsíci +64

      I fear a Styropyro and Nilred collab.

    • @neutronenstern.
      @neutronenstern. Před 11 měsíci +21

      ​@@arnefines2356Styropyro by himselve is a chemist.

    • @brylozketrzyn
      @brylozketrzyn Před 11 měsíci +17

      Okay, now we are toast. I smell nuclear powered 10GW laser pointer

    • @TheArchaeon7777
      @TheArchaeon7777 Před 10 měsíci +25

      ​@@arnefines2356StyroPyro and I Did A Thing

    • @StuffandThings_
      @StuffandThings_ Před 10 měsíci +13

      @@brylozketrzyn Not toast. Plasma at the rate things are going.

  • @PekMeh12
    @PekMeh12 Před 10 měsíci +627

    wouldn't expect a science youtuber to be shilling a sketchy wellness product

    • @AlexN-Astro
      @AlexN-Astro Před 7 měsíci +82

      You gonna pay the man's bills?

    • @G0rgar
      @G0rgar Před 7 měsíci +165

      I was really surprised how hard I had to look to find someone saying this. That shit looked fishy as fuck. Credibility matters when you're trying to teach people.

    • @lunadecat1991
      @lunadecat1991 Před 7 měsíci +63

      I find he looks worried and a bit beat up, maybe he has troublesome time right now and needed that money.

    • @darrellbeets7758
      @darrellbeets7758 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@lunadecat1991so he fucks over his viewers😂😂

    • @99Teutons
      @99Teutons Před 7 měsíci +45

      ​@@G0rgarcut him some slack paying bills is honestly more important. And the people who come here often are educated enough to understand that he did the marketing out of desperation and not because he actually endorses it.

  • @darrennew8211
    @darrennew8211 Před 10 měsíci +144

    Kyle Hill did a (as always) hilarious video analyzing the death star laser, determining that it would destroy the deathstar and everyone in it with hundreds of G of recoil.

    • @wernerviehhauser94
      @wernerviehhauser94 Před 10 měsíci +47

      He did? Then I assume he made a math error, since the recoil would be the least of their problems :-) Even at 99.99% efficiency, the laser would produce enough waste heat to instantly turn the Death Star into an expanding cloud of plasma at around 20000K. They should vaporize before they could feel any recoil.

    • @windowsxpmemesandstufflol
      @windowsxpmemesandstufflol Před 10 měsíci +4

      You forgot about the reflection part

    • @aceae4210
      @aceae4210 Před 10 měsíci +11

      @@wernerviehhauser94 he did the video on the channel "because science"
      the video was called
      _The Death Star's OTHER Fatal Flaw_

    • @wernerviehhauser94
      @wernerviehhauser94 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@aceae4210 thanks, I had already found it

    • @jonr4291
      @jonr4291 Před 10 měsíci +18

      @@wernerviehhauser94 "Even at 99.99% efficiency, the laser would produce enough waste heat to instantly turn the Death Star into an expanding cloud of plasma at around 20000K"
      They use the same tech that they use to energize the ridiculously dense power packs used in blasters and thermal detonators to store the waste heat until it can be dissipated safely over time via a stream of high-energy ions. As long as the exhaust port remains clear during the years-long dissipation process, they should be fine.
      (hat tip to Irregular Webcomic ofc)

  • @junkerzn7312
    @junkerzn7312 Před 11 měsíci +612

    Hopefully you had the right cartridge for your mask. But even wearing a mask, chlorine gas absorbs through the skin too and that mask wasn't a full cowl or even a full face mask, so it can be exceptionally dangerous. Best to do it outside if at all.

    • @Relkond
      @Relkond Před 11 měsíci +61

      I was going to suggest a fume hood.

    • @captianmorgan7627
      @captianmorgan7627 Před 10 měsíci +34

      That cartridge looks like the right kind, a multi gas (including organic vapors) cartridge.
      I doubt he was wearing a respirator for the first test, in the beaker. His voice is way to clear.
      As he doesn't talk for the test with the chlorine spread out on the mat I can't tell if he was wearing one then or not.

    • @The1stDukeDroklar
      @The1stDukeDroklar Před 10 měsíci +31

      Eh. A little chlorine gas never hurt anybody... oh wait 😜

    • @captianmorgan7627
      @captianmorgan7627 Před 10 měsíci +8

      @@The1stDukeDroklar No Nibbler!

    • @Poldovico
      @Poldovico Před 10 měsíci +65

      @@captianmorgan7627 Could also be dubbed over. No reason he should be trying to record lines while messing with poison gas.

  • @nBasedAce
    @nBasedAce Před 11 měsíci +30

    I really love your videos which is why I was so disappointed when you partnered with a scam wellness company. I don't care if you aren't making money on your videos, no science channel should ever promote wellness scams.

  • @BuildinWings
    @BuildinWings Před 11 měsíci +44

    Great video. One nerdy thing: The Death Star did use pulses. My brother and I had a longstanding argument about this because we're very mature people. The remaster shows it as clear as day - There's a targeting laser but pulses are what destroys Alderaan.

    • @jamesphillips2285
      @jamesphillips2285 Před 10 měsíci +6

      You can handwave that pulsed lasers are more effective because they give the material burned off the surface time to drift away. Otherwise the clouds of material can obscure the remaining undamaged surface.

    • @FluidKaos
      @FluidKaos Před 10 měsíci +8

      High power continuous lasers suffer from a problem called 'blooming', where the energy in the laser beam ionizes the air and causes a spreading lensing effect that defocuses the energy of the laser at distance. It's part of the reason why most modern laser weapons are pulsed power and not continuous. They get their shots off so fast that the air doesn't have time to ionize before the energy has been put into the target.

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@jamesphillips2285 Probably also helps when each pulse targets a different part of the planet, causing an explosive chain reaction in the crust

    • @Turboy65
      @Turboy65 Před 4 měsíci

      The Death Star primary weapon is not a laser though it does use lasers for aiming. It is a directed energy weapon that uses a form of beam energy that suppresses the nuclear Strong Force, causing atoms to fly apart with the same energy release as thermonuclear fusion reactions. ALL the matter the beam contacts reacts in this manner., which explains the destructive consequences of even a light strike.

  • @tanishqhooda
    @tanishqhooda Před 10 měsíci +2

    Wasn't expecting that Ad specially on this channel

  • @Aerox90
    @Aerox90 Před 11 měsíci +27

    I love that you mentioned Styropyro 😂

  • @TheMemeDynamics
    @TheMemeDynamics Před 11 měsíci +164

    Ah, the YAL-1. I love that thing. It looks goofy, yet cool.

  • @brianhawthorne7603
    @brianhawthorne7603 Před 10 měsíci +30

    You know, most labs have a fume hood for things like this. Apparently not the Action lab!

  • @MyKharli
    @MyKharli Před 9 měsíci +8

    That bear device reeks of non returnable scam to me ! There is so little online info and reviews to be extremely wary . Its also effectively a 250 quid tens machine and is a scam on price alone . 20% off is still a ripoff .

  • @yohaijohn
    @yohaijohn Před 11 měsíci +101

    This has to be the coolest chemical reaction i have ever seen

    • @spiderdude2099
      @spiderdude2099 Před 11 měsíci +6

      It’s also very dangerous

    • @hollisspear6278
      @hollisspear6278 Před 10 měsíci +2

      Agreed. It doesn't even look real. It looks like a cheap CGI effect. It actually looks creepier with the room lights on.

    • @alexturnbackthearmy1907
      @alexturnbackthearmy1907 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@hollisspear6278 Wait until you see the dark flame. This is what look unreal.

    • @nayhem
      @nayhem Před 10 měsíci

      Just obscenely red

  • @JohnClark-tt2bl
    @JohnClark-tt2bl Před 11 měsíci +61

    Do they seriously think your viewers will be interested in some sort of hokey face lift gadget?😂

    • @ElMoonLite
      @ElMoonLite Před 11 měsíci +3

      Perhaps it is another science experiment in itself. Testing if click rate and target audience have any correlation at all

    •  Před 11 měsíci +7

      Meanwhile, here i am watching the first part of the video and thought you ment a gadget death star face lift

    • @justinpatterson5291
      @justinpatterson5291 Před 11 měsíci +1

      It's like all that Tiege stuff... Ive made it to nearly 40 without needing that schist. I'm not about to start using it now.

    • @somecsguy9824
      @somecsguy9824 Před 11 měsíci +4

      eh, I used to be annoyed with channels advertising certain products like this if they were super cheesy and/or obviously bs, but ya gotta remember they're just trying to earn money off their work like anyone else. i'm betting this company is giving him a good chunk of money to advertise their nonsense product. at least YT hasn't come up with an evil way to prevent users from skipping past in video ads (yet)

    • @JohnClark-tt2bl
      @JohnClark-tt2bl Před 11 měsíci +8

      @@somecsguy9824 No I'm not knocking him for taking the ad, I'm questioning what makes the advertiser think he has viewers who would buy it.

  • @mrbatweed
    @mrbatweed Před 10 měsíci +15

    "can definitely tell the difference on my skin, giving it a more chiseled look"
    "it's two outermost electrons are in different orbitals and have the same spin"
    one statement earns him money, the other earns him respect.

    • @AdmiralQuality
      @AdmiralQuality Před 10 měsíci +15

      One statement earned him an unfollow and a complete loss of my respect.

    • @Leo-mu8kn
      @Leo-mu8kn Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@AdmiralQualityI mean it's weird but they have to get their bag too bro :/

    • @AdmiralQuality
      @AdmiralQuality Před 10 měsíci +4

      @@Leo-mu8knWhile he scares off his former audience who used to respect him. Not smart.

    • @emanuellandeholm5657
      @emanuellandeholm5657 Před 10 měsíci +5

      Orgill lost 100% of my respect for shilling snake oil
      Bye!

    • @sethcowan9592
      @sethcowan9592 Před 9 měsíci

      This guy was respected at some point? "This actually producing chlorine gas, so you should be careful". There's not even a fume hood, this guy is a joke that's going to get dumb kids killed while he makes money selling bogus products.

  • @djwoodgate
    @djwoodgate Před 10 měsíci +2

    It's great how that little bear has given you the chiselled old revenant look.

  • @petersmythe6462
    @petersmythe6462 Před 11 měsíci +111

    Would be interesting seeing the YAL-1 trying to use its laser as point defense or for dogfighting.

    • @jonnafry
      @jonnafry Před 10 měsíci +15

      They'd need to add BRRRRRRRRRRT sound effects though!

    • @TENDRKRISP
      @TENDRKRISP Před 10 měsíci +5

      @@jonnafry Zippidy Zap!

    • @dominikmilien
      @dominikmilien Před 10 měsíci +2

      @@jonnafry A-10

    • @marcus8710
      @marcus8710 Před 10 měsíci +10

      We don't have weapons for this fight!
      "Wiggle that big old laser across the enemy pilot's cockpit, see how he likes it."

    • @davidgraham2673
      @davidgraham2673 Před 10 měsíci +3

      You bring up a very good point.
      A plane with one if these, using fighter jets to protect it, would be able to very quickly clear an area of enemy aircraft.
      They may not be good for super long distances, but a few hundred miles might be in their range of effectiveness.
      Great point.

  • @3v068
    @3v068 Před 11 měsíci +37

    I love seeing Singlet Oxygen in action. Its one of my favorite colors on the planet, a deep but vibrant red. This was cool.

    • @FluidKaos
      @FluidKaos Před 10 měsíci +9

      This, a Strontium red flame, and Cherenkov blue are my favorite physics/chemistry colors.

    • @3v068
      @3v068 Před 10 měsíci +3

      @@FluidKaos Mine too! Quite pretty but dangerous colors!

  • @ferdinandpurnomo
    @ferdinandpurnomo Před 10 měsíci +39

    Thanks for the amazing choices of experiments and great efforts in producing these videos!

  • @stephan5279
    @stephan5279 Před 10 měsíci +5

    Thanks for the idea!
    I make a simmilar reaction as in one of our lectures and therefore I need a quite complicated setup. This is much easier! Have to try it if I can use this too!

  • @brfisher1123
    @brfisher1123 Před 11 měsíci +29

    I remember trying to alert you of this awesome singlet oxygen red glow effect but never got a response, I'm glad to see you experiment with this cool phenomenon!! 👍👍

  • @Baiano29
    @Baiano29 Před 11 měsíci +11

    A Chemical reaction that creates laser AND toxic gas. Awesome

    • @archdornan3694
      @archdornan3694 Před 11 měsíci

      that’s what we call a two for one

    • @jamesphillips2285
      @jamesphillips2285 Před 10 měsíci

      Poisonous gas, not toxic.
      Toxic materials, like asbestos, kill you over time.
      Poisonous substances, like chlorine, kill you immediately.

  • @gabor6259
    @gabor6259 Před 10 měsíci +30

    2:49 Fun fact: FDA cleared is not the same as FDA approved.

  • @Lucius_Chiaraviglio
    @Lucius_Chiaraviglio Před 10 měsíci +62

    Would have liked to hear about singlet oxygen's disinfectant properties. Our own immune system makes small amounts of singlet oxygen as well as other reactive oxygen compounds/radicals (and even hypochlorite) to attempt to kill invaders.

    • @kennethmiyasaki
      @kennethmiyasaki Před 10 měsíci +10

      And our leukocytes light-up as they use oxygen in this manner.👍

    • @Lucius_Chiaraviglio
      @Lucius_Chiaraviglio Před 10 měsíci +7

      @@kennethmiyasaki Indeed -- I found 2 articles on this with a cursory Google search, although they both say that the wavelength of the light thus emitted is 1270 nm, which is in the infrared -- detectable with the right instruments, but not by our eyes.

    • @kennethmiyasaki
      @kennethmiyasaki Před 10 měsíci +9

      @@Lucius_Chiaraviglio We used a "luminometer" (we also measured dissolved O2 uptake with a potentiometer and oxygen electrode)... many moons ago!). 🙂 We used various enzymes/dyes to measure other forms of reduced oxygen (superoxide/hydrogen peroxide/HOCl). It was not my main interest, but it was kind of a necessary thing to measure. I was interested in neutrophil myeloperoxidase and later, non-oxidative antimicrobial mechanisms.

    • @veeseir
      @veeseir Před 10 měsíci +2

      the human body is sponsored by clorox?

    • @kennethmiyasaki
      @kennethmiyasaki Před 10 měsíci

      The acidic form HOCl, yes. Chlorox is NaOCl.@@veeseir

  • @AvishiKansal
    @AvishiKansal Před 11 měsíci +20

    Wow. I really love your videos, I've never been a fan of science, but now I'm a really big fan. Thank you!

  • @HwSystems
    @HwSystems Před 11 měsíci +18

    Disrespect for promoting scam, and also the worth nothing Tesla bot.

  • @Iris_and_or_George
    @Iris_and_or_George Před 10 měsíci

    6:42 that shout out is so deserved when talking about lasers! He is amazing!

  • @frederikhein4195
    @frederikhein4195 Před 10 měsíci +18

    Little note from a nerd: Star Wars blasters aren’t laser guns, they shoot plasma bolts.
    Cool video as always

    • @howiedavis2316
      @howiedavis2316 Před 10 měsíci

      OK now I'm curious. Is a plasma bolt just the electrons off of an atom 'bottled up and shot in a stream" whereas laser is a stream of protons, or electromagnetic radiation? Yours is the comment making me think at 3 am lol

    • @benb8075
      @benb8075 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Lasers emit a stream of photons, not protons (although, other particles may also be present). Plasma is an ionized substance that has been charged (electrified). The ions in the air become charged during a lightning strike and generate very bright plasma, for example.

    • @howiedavis2316
      @howiedavis2316 Před 10 měsíci

      thank you @@benb8075 that helps. so, a photon is a particle or 'chunk' of light i.e. electromagnetic energy with no charge, where as a proton is a positively charged subatomic particle. So blasters shot photon bolts?

  • @ozarkmedia
    @ozarkmedia Před 9 měsíci +4

    I was involved in some of the potential basing studies for the YAL-1 if it were ever to be deployed. No joke, the considerations on the ground for the chemical farm were pretty serious. And the aircraft itself was a flying toxic chemical storage facility. It would work, but mitigating the risk from the chemicals involved was problematic.

  • @Chris06660
    @Chris06660 Před 7 měsíci +5

    I'm actually surprised styropyro hasn't made one of these lasers yet, considering it combines his love of both chemistry and lasers

  • @massimodevitis6069
    @massimodevitis6069 Před 10 měsíci +4

    5:00 this is just the sound of items burning in minecraft

  • @vasilkrastev694
    @vasilkrastev694 Před 10 měsíci +2

    5:05 When you place a water bucket in a lava pool

  • @greezyhammer764
    @greezyhammer764 Před 10 měsíci +8

    It's funny how the laser project worked but was decommissioned because of "dangerous chemicals".
    As opposed to B-2's and B-52's carrying fissile heavy metals to make everyone feel safer.

    • @Hoshimaru57
      @Hoshimaru57 Před 7 měsíci

      Fissile heavy metals don’t explode when exposed to air melting everything around them.
      Even angry glowing rocks need to be sufficiently provoked before you get a big boom. Otherwise it’s just a little poof and you launch a manhole cover into space.

  • @hominidaetheodosia
    @hominidaetheodosia Před 9 měsíci +3

    I’ve been telling Styro for ages now that he needs to up his chemical laser game, glad you’re on board!

    • @bane349
      @bane349 Před 7 měsíci

      Ya'll ought naught temp that young man. 😅

  • @Jenny_Digital
    @Jenny_Digital Před 10 měsíci +1

    Where I work we had a Trumpf laser cutter that had a 1.8kw CW square folded gas laser. When it started to show its age, we bought a Salvagnini cutter that had a fibre laser of 4Kw power. We were told not to use both at the same time but the suits ignited the warnings.
    All of a sudden, the lights literally went bang, and we’d blown three 250A fuses and the t” cabling in the street, which had to be replaced. Office staff swarmed out of their cubicles in panic, coffee going cold, and I was summoned to turn the whole building off and change the fuses.
    The inefficiency and power that lasers use is no joke!

  • @deanlawson6880
    @deanlawson6880 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Very cool experiment! I had no idea about singlet oxygen, and the photon it gives off as a result of that reaction.

  • @ddha897
    @ddha897 Před 11 měsíci +11

    Science is impressive and extremly fascinating and salute to guys like u who actually explain each concept while doing it in practicle .
    I love ur way of explaining and just everthing...❤❤

  • @darrylpioch2055
    @darrylpioch2055 Před 10 měsíci +13

    This is the most amazing chemical reaction you’ve ever shown on this channel. Holy s***!!!!! It’s scary to think what a one megawatt laser could do when just a couple watt laser with a small focus lights things on fire from across the room 😅
    Also small correction: ultra high power electric laser diodes I believe are usually pulsed to maximize the average power output with the diode’s duty cycle capability in mind. Delivering thousands of watts continuously isn’t an issue. By pulsing the incoming signal, the diode can emit a higher average power level than if it was running continuous duty, and the peaks will be hotter upon contact with the material the laser is cutting optimizing the performance even more. There are actually laser diodes that pump out thousands of watts continuous duty now (mostly infrared ones in the 1100nm range). Backyard scientist had a 2kW cleaning laser on his channel and that thing is literally a deadly weapon 😅

  • @TrainsandRockets
    @TrainsandRockets Před 10 měsíci +2

    Now that is the best chemistry experiment I have seen in this whole month...❤

  • @gabedarrett1301
    @gabedarrett1301 Před 10 měsíci

    That was actually really interesting! Glad I subscribed!

  • @bablema7808
    @bablema7808 Před 10 měsíci +3

    when i first saw this video i instantly thought of styropyro then at 6:39 he apsolutely caught me off guard.

  • @SUNBEAM_404
    @SUNBEAM_404 Před 11 měsíci +6

    Imagine Styropyro succeeds in making a planet destroying orbital laser like the Death Star.

    • @lucasdiniz5642
      @lucasdiniz5642 Před 11 měsíci +5

      with parts bought on ebay and soviet valves

    • @Enderllama_
      @Enderllama_ Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@lucasdiniz5642 don't forget the microwave

  • @HelloKittyFanMan
    @HelloKittyFanMan Před 10 měsíci

    Wow, I bet this O1 lighting thing looks even better in person. It would be interesting to see how it looks without the effects of video standing in the way!

  • @mikeharless4596
    @mikeharless4596 Před 10 měsíci +1

    This was an amazing chemical reaction! Thanks for sharing 😊

  • @headbanger1428
    @headbanger1428 Před 10 měsíci +6

    Are we seeing the dynamic range of the camera color sensor failing to acquire the red, or is it that the intensity at that monochromatic range is simply too great for the sensor? Given the lack of automatic exposure compensation, I'm going with the former case. However, it's possible the camera was set at static exposure. Interesting technical for a camera operator and camera designer. I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

  • @OriginalFrozenJoe
    @OriginalFrozenJoe Před 10 měsíci +8

    The blasters in SW are not “laser guns”
    They shoot plasma bolts

    • @SoulDelSol
      @SoulDelSol Před 10 měsíci

      How do they work

    • @AdmiralQuality
      @AdmiralQuality Před 10 měsíci

      @@SoulDelSol Fictionally. But we do see a head-on shot of a bolt when Leia is stunned and it appears to be toroidal in shape, which is a plausibly stable way for "bolt" of energy to propagate. (Bubbles under water often form as rings and you will occasionally see smoke rings produced by factory smokestacks, etc.)

    • @OriginalFrozenJoe
      @OriginalFrozenJoe Před 10 měsíci

      @@SoulDelSol magnets

    • @gothboschincarnate3931
      @gothboschincarnate3931 Před 10 měsíci

      Blasters are so uncivilized..

  • @balaam_7087
    @balaam_7087 Před 10 měsíci +2

    @2:35 Yes, I remember Tarkin pausing to thank Ferreo on behalf of the Galactic Empire after obliterating Alderaan.

  • @IAMZERG
    @IAMZERG Před 7 měsíci

    My dad played a tiny part in the YAL project. Was pretty cool learning about it.

  • @AeroGraphica
    @AeroGraphica Před 11 měsíci +39

    What would be the power of the reactions you showed us, and how the light is converted into a beam ?

    • @neutronenstern.
      @neutronenstern. Před 11 měsíci +7

      A laser works by exciting a medium like a gas or a crystal with "normal" light or high voltage,or heat. Then to the left and to the right of this medium there will be a mirrow. One of them is semitransparent.
      So i think this light coming from the reaction is used to excite the medium. Then when this medium is excited some atoms in it will de-excite by coincidence and release a photon. This photon then bounces back and forth between the mirrow, and by this hits other atoms in the medium, which then get de-exited by this photon, and thus release another photon with same frequency and same polarisation and same phase. So then two photons bounce back and forth, then four, then eight, ... . Then due to the fact that one mirrow is semitransparent, with some probability a photon will pass. These passing photons then make up the laser beam, which is very directional, coherent (same phase) and polarized and with high intensity.

    • @kmoecub
      @kmoecub Před 11 měsíci +6

      @@neutronenstern. The light created by the chemical reaction is the laser. It's not used to excite anything. It gets collected by mirrors and passed through lenses to direct it onto the target.

    • @CraftyF0X
      @CraftyF0X Před 11 měsíci

      @@kmoecub Great, now I wonder why it emits 2 diff wavelenght 762nm and 634nm and if this count as "monochromatic" when technically it emits in 2 different frequency ?

    • @meloney
      @meloney Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@CraftyF0X Monochrome also means that it (could be) is a value of one colour as well, so depending on the definition you use, it could mean that as well :)

    • @u1zha
      @u1zha Před 11 měsíci +2

      ​@@kmoecub LASER means Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. I think you should stop and reread the encyclopedia section about lasers.
      If you don't leverage excited states then emission is probably not gonna deserve to be called stimulated but just spontaneous. The benefit of excited medium and stimulated emission is that the light is coherent, the exciting beam and the emitted beam go parallel at the get-go.
      The method with mirrors and lenses does not allow creating a straight beam of the laser kind, from a spontaneously emitted light (that travels in all the random directions). Try it. There was an Action Lab video about it too.

  • @cmdr_scotty
    @cmdr_scotty Před 10 měsíci +5

    You might like reading up the lore for laser weapons in the battletech/MechWarrior universe. Chemical lasers were used prior to better power supplies (IE Fusion reactors)

    • @WarttHog
      @WarttHog Před 10 měsíci +1

      That's a name I haven't heard in a like time... A long time.

  • @carlbrenninkmeijer8925
    @carlbrenninkmeijer8925 Před 10 měsíci

    Thank you for explaining always so clearly fascinating physics !

  • @MoxxoM
    @MoxxoM Před 7 měsíci +2

    0:14: Showing the Tesla Bot as reference for robotics in modern times is like showing a bronze sword as the pinnacle of swordsmanship to blacksmiths that worked with steel for their whole career..

  • @Paulkjoss
    @Paulkjoss Před 10 měsíci +4

    I follow quite a few of he big Science / STEM channels on CZcams and they are great 👍🏼
    But theres something about The Action Lab that is ‘so cool’ that I think I enjoy you the most 😊
    Keep on keeping on Action Lab guy 😃

  • @ender_slayer3
    @ender_slayer3 Před 10 měsíci +5

    Can you imagine a ground based facility with a system like that? Like the old WWII beachfront bunkers, but with a gigantic multistory chemically driven continuous laser

    • @sylvrwolflol
      @sylvrwolflol Před 9 měsíci

      Sounds like an excellent target to get a hypersonic missile strike on. Wouldn't even need much in the way of explosives to cause a shitload of damage for free, you'd just need to breach the containment structure conveniently located right next to the weapon you want to disable.

    • @Shinzon23
      @Shinzon23 Před 9 měsíci

      You wouldn't need to use chemical lasers for that application. You would just have a direct feed to the power grid.

    • @V01DIORE
      @V01DIORE Před 6 měsíci

      @@sylvrwolflol Eh "hypersonic missiles" are such an overrated wunderwaffe first made by the US in the 1950's, not as well as people make them out to be. Stuff has been able to shoot them down for ages.

  • @rivulet-rw
    @rivulet-rw Před 5 měsíci

    Can we just admire how beautifully scarlet that glow was? I absolutely think it's one of the prettiest colours on earf.

  • @connorseunninga2324
    @connorseunninga2324 Před 10 měsíci +1

    That Styropyro reference was pure gold bruh

  • @DrDeFord
    @DrDeFord Před 11 měsíci +5

    1:20 The death star laser is also pulsed, but charge over minutes and fire over seconds, not pulsing on the order of milliseconds.

    • @kmoecub
      @kmoecub Před 11 měsíci

      It's not pulsed. That would be like saying that naval artillary is a fully automatic weapon, but it takes minutes to chamber the projectile instead of miliseconds.

    • @u1zha
      @u1zha Před 11 měsíci

      @@kmoecub How long a laser fire is no longer pulsed in your opinion? Is there a rule? 😃

    • @labrat810
      @labrat810 Před 10 měsíci

      The only way the 'laser' on the Death Star could have had such destructive force (in-universe, or otherwise), would be if it was 'pulsed' in quantum wavelengths; functioning as a 'disruptor' more than a 'laser', basically.
      Disruptors exist in-universe, and even 'laser guns' in Star Wars are not a laser beam weapon, they're a laser-excited 'packetized' energy-projectile DEW.

  • @Hydroverse
    @Hydroverse Před 10 měsíci +6

    Dude should seriously be a High School teacher. I never seen a video where I got bored from the intriguing facts and experiments he does.

  • @parthbartakke7988
    @parthbartakke7988 Před 8 měsíci

    You always give us extreme valuable stuff...

  • @zr7699
    @zr7699 Před 10 měsíci

    One of the most interesting things I have ever seen! You rock!

  • @jackiec498
    @jackiec498 Před 11 měsíci +8

    Styro-pyro is the sort of lunatic you can really look up to

    • @labrat810
      @labrat810 Před 10 měsíci

      StyroPyro - The Beneficent

    • @whyisblue923taken
      @whyisblue923taken Před 10 měsíci +1

      You need special glasses to look up to him or you will go blind from the lasers.

  • @KronosGodwisen
    @KronosGodwisen Před 11 měsíci +3

    That is an interesting reaction I normally wouldn't be looking for. If I saw that I might suspect there was phosphorous or some other element involved. It looks pretty cool.

  • @TheFarmacySeedsNetwork
    @TheFarmacySeedsNetwork Před 11 měsíci

    Very interesting! Thank you as always!

  • @joeyclams1707
    @joeyclams1707 Před měsícem

    the styropyro shoutout was a neccessity for this video. great content as always

  • @krabbediem
    @krabbediem Před 11 měsíci +3

    Hmmm it's funny. @3:44 that electron configuration violates Hund's rule of maximum multiplicity. I never realised it was possible. I always thought excited electrons were forced to obey BOTH Pauli and Hund. Thank you for the update.

    • @kylebowles9820
      @kylebowles9820 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Hund's rule comes from a statistical gradient whereas Pauli is more of a law that has to do with spin

    • @tatianaes3354
      @tatianaes3354 Před 11 měsíci +1

      The Action chap is PhD is chemical engineering, so this is the area he can provide us with the best information like this.

  • @merk1701
    @merk1701 Před 10 měsíci +7

    Please be a little more selective in the ads you run. These beauty products all just feel like scam products (regardless of they are or aren't) and they just make your vids seem less trustworthy.

  • @HelloKittyFanMan
    @HelloKittyFanMan Před 10 měsíci

    Interesting video, James, thanks!

  • @johnsuarez1404
    @johnsuarez1404 Před 8 měsíci

    I like the way you credit other CZcamsrs for even inspiring you

  • @NoThankYou_1
    @NoThankYou_1 Před 10 měsíci +3

    I was messing around with elephant toothpaste experiments, and I doubt this is possible, but I might have made crystalized singlet oxygen.

    • @onradioactivewaves
      @onradioactivewaves Před 10 měsíci

      You actually just made an oxy-moron

    • @atashgallagher5139
      @atashgallagher5139 Před 10 měsíci +1

      That is not, in fact, possible.
      I wish it was but it isn't. The stuff is so angry that it will react with anything, including itself, to stabilize, either by oxidizing something around it, or by oxidizing other singlet oxygen to create O2 the stuff we breath.

    • @NoThankYou_1
      @NoThankYou_1 Před 10 měsíci

      @@atashgallagher5139 ok got it don’t know that much about singlet oxegen

  • @nikiTricoteuse
    @nikiTricoteuse Před 10 měsíci +3

    Spent the first few minutes of the video terribly confused as, 'singlet' is what we call sleeveless undershirts here in Aotearoa/ New Zealand (and Australia). They're mostly worn by hard working men instead of T shirts. I've smelled a few of them so, l was completely prepared to believe they were capable of producing something scary! The red light at the end completely made up for my confusion though. 😊

  • @rg3412
    @rg3412 Před 9 měsíci

    It’s such a pleasure to watch this heart-warming job

  • @austint.6627
    @austint.6627 Před 9 měsíci

    Awesome video, thanks a ton

  • @runcycleskixc
    @runcycleskixc Před 10 měsíci +3

    One would think that the acidic piranha solution would also have plenty of singlet O generated, too (although I've never made piranha in the dark).

    • @fododude
      @fododude Před 7 měsíci

      I just made a small batch last week. Used it while it was still hot. The volumetric flask I was cleaning had a chunk of something I didn't notice. Boom. Acid cannon.

  • @Dr_Mario2007
    @Dr_Mario2007 Před 11 měsíci +12

    Chemical lasers are equally as interesting since they tend to be chemically venomous by themselves separately, yet when you combine the substances together, they react violently, to the point they give up a lot of light that can then be selectively amplified. It's just attractive to the military because it means they don't have to drag the nuclear power plant across the road (considering the fact that diesel fuel is a precious commodity nowadays, especially with the price - it all adds up quickly).
    Yet for shorter laser wavelength, electric lasers are best for that because of energy required to obtain UV and X-ray laser, while chemical lasers are much more efficient in the Infrared and red bands.

    • @MirlitronOne
      @MirlitronOne Před 10 měsíci

      Chemically venomous?

    • @Dr_Mario2007
      @Dr_Mario2007 Před 10 měsíci

      @@MirlitronOne It's more of a figure of speech, some chemicals involved in generation of laser light are just as dangerous - like the Halogens in general, in this case Chlorine.

  • @videakias3000
    @videakias3000 Před 9 měsíci +2

    0:10 starwars is science fantasy not science fiction.
    these 2 are different genres.
    for anyone who does not know:
    science fantasy is when things that are impossible become pausible (anti-gravity, teleportation, size change etc).
    science fiction is when things that are plausible become possible (genetically modified lifeforms that have been modified through crispr, brain implants that allow mind reading, general ai etc).

  • @williampalmer4448
    @williampalmer4448 Před 10 měsíci

    Who knew that radical reactions and lasers would be so related. Cool video

  • @13deadghosts
    @13deadghosts Před 11 měsíci +23

    Some constructive criticism: Your not using a proper gas mask (It doesn't cover your entire face, also the filters and mask look like a Particle filter, are you sure this is a GAS mask?) and aren't using a fume hood or doing the experiment outside. Chlorine gas is toxic and extremely toxic corrosive towards almost anything, aka: you, your pets, your walls, the water- and power line in your walls, your eyes. This was extremely bad practice, even with your warning notification, as such a notification does not protect yourself and it also understates what a terrible idea it is to produce large amounts of chlorine gas in an enclosed room with no proper PPE. Please don’t take this comment the wrong way, the video was really interesting, I just want to offer some constructive criticism. Please stay safe :)

    • @bhc1892
      @bhc1892 Před 10 měsíci +2

      Wouldn't be the internet without some good ole concern trolling. You have no idea what the layout of the room was, how good the ventilation was, or how much he did at once. He's not dead so I'd say he did just fine.

    • @LittleWhole
      @LittleWhole Před 10 měsíci

      @@bhc1892 Fr lmfao. First of all that looks like a multi gas cartridge, not a particulate filter (just because you see a mesh doesn't mean it's particulate, multi gas cartridges have the same pattern, e.g. 6006, and also in the first place organic vapor cartridges are magenta/purple) and he's posted pictures of his setup on Instagram before and it looks just fine.

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou Před 10 měsíci

      @@bhc1892 He's not trolling. Why are you so defensive about it. Something doesn't have to kill you to be bad. The worst part is that he is setting a bad example to viewers who may be intrigued to repeat this.

  • @Guapter
    @Guapter Před 11 měsíci +7

    you should stop advertising scam like this "microcurrent devices"

  • @raid.leader
    @raid.leader Před 10 měsíci

    nice styropyro shoutout, love that guy's vids

  • @mumblesbadly7708
    @mumblesbadly7708 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Pulse lasers also allow the vaporized material to be pushed out of the way in between the pulses, increasing the efficiency in cutting power.

  • @nerd26373
    @nerd26373 Před 11 měsíci +11

    The strongest laser light must be seen even from a thousand miles away. I'm almost certain it can cut through anything it passes.

    • @johnshedIetsky
      @johnshedIetsky Před 11 měsíci +1

      yes

    • @Endermax3852
      @Endermax3852 Před 11 měsíci +1

      ​@@HeisenbergIsHerenuh uh

    • @VidsBeCool
      @VidsBeCool Před 11 měsíci

      Probably

    • @bertvansas7206
      @bertvansas7206 Před 11 měsíci

      @@Endermax3852 ขณะนี้ความเสี่ยงที่ช่องของคุณจะถูกโดน CZcams Strike เร็ว ๆ นี้กำลังจะเกิดขึ้น และวิธีเดียวที่คุณสามารถป้องกันได้คือลบความคิดเห็นของคุณทิ้งไป
      ...

    • @kmoecub
      @kmoecub Před 11 měsíci +2

      The laser that was first used to measure the distance to the moon and how that varies, travel 240,000 miles (on average) was only 14,000 Watts. It didn't cut through anything because of the short duration of the pulse.

  • @BierBart12
    @BierBart12 Před 7 měsíci

    I really appreciate that he knows about Styropyro

  • @freedomandguns3231
    @freedomandguns3231 Před 10 měsíci

    That shoutout at the end is the kind Im here for haha.

  • @StealthyDead
    @StealthyDead Před 10 měsíci +18

    Science channel advertising BS snake oil, wow

  • @0whitestone
    @0whitestone Před 11 měsíci +5

    This is a great video, but I'm a little disappointed in your sponsor this week. You're an ambassador for critical thinking and the scientific process, making content that is well researched and founded. Snake-oil beauty products that have no medical or scientific backing feels a little....not right. I'm glad you're getting sponsors, I think you totally deserve it, you make awesome content, but I hate to see you hawking something over-priced beauty crap that "gives you chiseled skin."

    • @kmoecub
      @kmoecub Před 11 měsíci +1

      I'm not advoating for snake-oil, but did you read any of the studies he cited? Did you take a moment to consider that the product may actually do what it claims to do, at least to some degree? I'm not critical of your stance (in fact I agree with it), but to comment without checking things out is as bad as selling snake oil IMO.

    • @0whitestone
      @0whitestone Před 10 měsíci

      @@kmoecub I have seen way too many beauty products in my lifetime to take any of this nonsense seriously. If somebody that actually figured out something that made you look younger, it would be literally everywhere. We're talking electrode belts and laser masks here... They all have "scientific studies" that support them, and yet they always die off in oblivion because they don't actually work. Cherry-picking information, mayfacuters running their own strides, manipulating statistics to sell products is all standard fare and is not the same as legitimate scientific or medical backing.

    • @jondoef
      @jondoef Před 10 měsíci +4

      ​@@kmoecubI did, one was from China and the other was from the Nu Skin R & D department, a known sketchy MLM company.

    • @maythesciencebewithyou
      @maythesciencebewithyou Před 10 měsíci +1

      It's not the first time he promoted this BS and looks like it won't be the last.

  • @TheWatermelonSquad1000
    @TheWatermelonSquad1000 Před 10 měsíci

    About the spaceship at the beginning: I saw that movie about 5 years ago and I still remember that scene

  • @Bob-qk2zg
    @Bob-qk2zg Před 10 měsíci

    Good demonstration and presentation. 👍😀

  • @BVLVI
    @BVLVI Před 10 měsíci

    calling out styro was perfect! very cool

  • @yuribruxel6074
    @yuribruxel6074 Před 10 měsíci

    Keep up the good work!

  • @zzoidbergz727
    @zzoidbergz727 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Never thought of seeing a beauty add on this channel hahaha

  • @JustPlainRob
    @JustPlainRob Před 10 měsíci

    That dual wavelength color is so neat. It's almost like a magenta-red.

  • @jozefnovak7750
    @jozefnovak7750 Před 5 měsíci

    Super! Thank you very much!

  • @sapandream
    @sapandream Před 10 měsíci

    Wow nice video man ❤

  • @ColinTimmins
    @ColinTimmins Před 10 měsíci

    I’ve been watching your content for years. 😊

  • @huyked
    @huyked Před 10 měsíci

    Haha. I like that you referenced StyroPyro.

  • @mdderrek9280
    @mdderrek9280 Před 10 měsíci

    😆😆😆😆 The *StyroPyro* shoutout was actually funny!