Polymers: Crash Course Chemistry #45

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  • čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
  • Did you know that Polymers save the lives of Elephants? Well, now you do! The world of Polymers is so amazingly integrated into our daily lives that we sometimes forget how amazing they are. Here, Hank talks about how they were developed, and the different types of Polymers that are common in the world today, including some that may surprise you.
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    Table of Contents
    Commercial Polymers & Saved Elephants 0:00
    Ethene AKA Ethylene 2:29
    Addition Reactions 3:08
    Ethene Based Polymers 4:44
    Addition Polymerization & Condensation Reactions 6:32
    Proteins & Other Natural Polymers 8:33
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  • @crashcourse
    @crashcourse  Před 4 lety +60

    Pssst... we made flashcards to help you review the content in this episode! Find them on the free Crash Course App!
    Download it here for Apple Devices: apple.co/3d4eyZo
    Download it here for Android Devices: bit.ly/2SrDulJ

  • @Rasty1989
    @Rasty1989 Před 10 lety +192

    I'm on youtube instead of studying for my exam on polymers and what comes up? POLYMERS I can't escape...

  • @celtriot
    @celtriot Před 8 lety +588

    Can you crash course the rest of university now pls

  • @RequiemFear
    @RequiemFear Před 10 lety +605

    Half a semester of my 12th grade chemistry in 10 minutes. Wow.

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid Před 10 lety +68

      Proportionally, you must have spent three weeks alone on Darwin's balls.

    • @kittyletitrain7489
      @kittyletitrain7489 Před 10 lety +4

      I remember wen i was a student i got a very low grades in chemistry huhuhu...

    • @bulipap
      @bulipap Před 10 lety +20

      This is everything that's wrong with our current school system.

    • @Tiki_H
      @Tiki_H Před 7 lety +6

      @bulipap it's not that easy to teach

    • @logitasj6280
      @logitasj6280 Před 7 lety +1

      ikr! well, i'm a 10th grader, but still!

  • @lovolai4019
    @lovolai4019 Před 8 lety +399

    Hank's shirt.
    An owl wearing a bowtie and a fez.
    Doctor Hoo.
    I'll leave now.

  • @JuanPhys
    @JuanPhys Před 9 lety +244

    Incredible well done job. This 10 minutes video was still better than 6 hours of classes with my teacher. :)

    • @kuntakintedd5328
      @kuntakintedd5328 Před 5 lety +1

      No it wasnt. this video is not for teaching purpose. and if it is this video doesnt teach its just information after watching this in the next 20 minutes u wont remember anything

  • @Dangerousthings
    @Dangerousthings Před 8 lety +96

    Correction - at 4:12 you state "loses some of its opacity" when you mean to say "loses some of its transparency" (gaining opacity).

  • @LeenaSregneva
    @LeenaSregneva Před 8 lety +145

    Got a Chem test tomorrow about this stuff. Wish me luck!

  • @pauldamon4028
    @pauldamon4028 Před 9 lety +23

    Thanks for making all of these Crash Course Videos. I learn WAY more from these than actually going to class! It is very clever to make these videos short enough to pacify the short attention span of most people.

  • @plzno3788
    @plzno3788 Před 8 lety +352

    I've got some suggestions for new crash course series:
    - Crash Course Physics
    - Crash Course Calculous
    - Crash Course Computer Science

    • @AayushChaurasia
      @AayushChaurasia Před 8 lety +6

      +Joe Irvine Certainly would love to have a Crash Course Physics

    • @museachang1309
      @museachang1309 Před 8 lety +9

      +Aayush Chaurasia I believe that Crash Course Physics is one of their Patreon goals

    • @muaz4530
      @muaz4530 Před 8 lety +4

      +Joe Irvine I would love physics

    • @arousedsquirrel2429
      @arousedsquirrel2429 Před 8 lety +8

      +Joe Irvine Physics needs to happen.

    • @its_maalik
      @its_maalik Před 8 lety +4

      +Joe Irvine Crash course physics and programming would be damn amazing

  • @juancpgo
    @juancpgo Před 6 lety +29

    I just fell in love with chemistry watching this. Here we go again, one more subject that will consume countless hours of my life :D

  • @cat5220
    @cat5220 Před 7 lety +42

    I understood nothing... I just enjoy listening to Hank talking :D

  • @chefkendranguyen
    @chefkendranguyen Před 10 lety +10

    Very interesting. I learned something, then again I always do watching crash course.

  • @danheidel
    @danheidel Před 10 lety +28

    4:13 - Psst Hank, I think you meant to say that it loses some of its transparency, not opacity...

  • @TheRosa63
    @TheRosa63 Před 9 lety +23

    I have to say I have been watching alot of your videos and find you very informative thank you for sharing your knowledge with others. it is educational and sometimes even fun.

  • @Garv-gk8bm
    @Garv-gk8bm Před 2 lety +3

    love how fast and explanatory you are instead of spending years explaining one topic

  • @wbgw6476
    @wbgw6476 Před 7 lety

    I love Love LOVE how you talk fast to get it all in. Makes it energetic & fun :) And of course, it's a video, so i can just re-watch anything I need to hear twice. Thank you so much for your time. You're perfect!!!

  • @keithmorrison9452
    @keithmorrison9452 Před 10 lety

    I just wanted to thank you for this video. Work with PTFE in offshore supply for oil and gas and never knew the science behind it. Everything makes so much more sense now. Thank you once again.

  • @Flobadobadob
    @Flobadobadob Před 8 lety +18

    "The balls that were so valuable" I honestly don't know why that got to me :D

  • @Erik-yw9kj
    @Erik-yw9kj Před 9 lety +17

    "Oh! Mr. DNA! Where'd you come from?" - "From your blood!" -- Thank you, Jurassic Park reference. =)

  • @arsenewenger9351
    @arsenewenger9351 Před 10 lety +26

    Oh, I get what you're on about. Polymerisation was my favourite Yu-Gi-Oh card. Love this channel!

    • @GalanDun
      @GalanDun Před 10 lety +7

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  • @logitasj6280
    @logitasj6280 Před 7 lety +1

    i love Crash Course! I was sheerly petrified in my chemistry class, and when i checked out Crash Course, well, i just became as shining as the billiard balls! Thank you, team Crash Course! Love you!

  • @gita509
    @gita509 Před 7 lety +6

    Last month I had a project on this and I did so much research! Now, one month later I find everything I need in one 10 minute video.

  • @lawrencium4101
    @lawrencium4101 Před 6 lety +1

    I've had a shitty Chemistry teacher for this past year and I'm to sit my GCSE's in June! Binging your videos and they're probably most halpful on CZcams! (you along with FreeScienceLessons have probably saved my grade) thak you so much Hank & the team!

  • @orleibovich8433
    @orleibovich8433 Před 10 lety +7

    6:49 gotta love that barret (ff VII) refrence!

  • @matchalovers999
    @matchalovers999 Před 5 lety +1

    i love this video! My lecturer always gives me a boring lesson, but with this just 10 minutes enough to give me explanation! i want to know more about polymer after watching this :)

  • @dragonheart1465
    @dragonheart1465 Před 4 lety +6

    I hate studying chem. So I watch your videos before I start studying a chapter to keep me interested. Thanks man😁

  • @user-iw1dp4oz3h
    @user-iw1dp4oz3h Před 6 lety +1

    Your channel is AMAZING. Everytime I have an exam, I just come to this channel! Extraoridinary, honestly. Wonderful work, keep it up!💕

  • @surrency1992
    @surrency1992 Před 10 lety +3

    I would like to thank Crash Course for the helping me attain the ability to pass my chemistry class this coming semester. I never knew it would be this hard to take chemistry as a hybrid course. Luckily the labs are still in person!

  • @abhaysharma9317
    @abhaysharma9317 Před 5 lety

    I often think how much the polymers have impacted on our lives this has made most of the gadgets efficiently possible and I love the fast pacing knowledge that the crash course provides that is just all what I wabt.

  • @eliskakotounova7590
    @eliskakotounova7590 Před 8 lety

    Thank you for this amazing video. Studying for finals was very boring until I found your channel. I think I'm gonna watch other courses as well. This makes it more fun than just simple book reading and stuf like that. I like the way you explain things.

  • @anmrivera6736
    @anmrivera6736 Před 6 lety +1

    Your brother helped me in Humanities Pre-History and now you're helping me with my AnP Class.... Thank You! 😊👌👍

  • @zoranasimovic278
    @zoranasimovic278 Před 4 lety

    I´m 30yrs old and recently I started new position in a new company..chemical industry..I literally have to learn chemistry from the scratch..thank you for this :D It helped a lot :)

  • @xboxboy93941
    @xboxboy93941 Před 9 lety +2

    In Organic Chemistry Lab, we did a similar experiment where we made nylon, but it was made with sebacoyl chloride (10-carbon chain with carboxyl groups on both ends) and 1,6-hexadiamine. Different kind of nylon than the video, but the technique with the immiscible solvents was the same.

  • @Nexus2Eden
    @Nexus2Eden Před 10 lety

    Amazing Hank! Seriously - well done. And the staff as well. ;)

  • @lorddiaboboss
    @lorddiaboboss Před 7 lety

    The children and I love Crash Crash. Thank - you for creating great ways to engage in what was once painful !!

  • @rishabhbhonsle7831
    @rishabhbhonsle7831 Před 7 lety

    Your videos are amazing Hank! Make my life much simpler... Thanks!!

  • @ImranZakhaev9
    @ImranZakhaev9 Před 8 lety +46

    I love crash course so much I literally can't even

  • @Eizaz7
    @Eizaz7 Před 10 lety

    These videos are SO useful for me on revising for my GCSEs. Thank you so much!

  • @sofiagarrett4696
    @sofiagarrett4696 Před 7 lety +1

    extremely helpful video for my plastics and packaging course

  • @anthonyred3991
    @anthonyred3991 Před 10 lety

    The episodes written by Hank himself are the best- probably also, because he can present his own material more authentically.

  • @tuseroni
    @tuseroni Před 10 lety +19

    the barret free radical made me lol....

  • @robertkarlpekarek1806
    @robertkarlpekarek1806 Před 10 lety

    I have a test on this stuff tomorrow. Your video came just in time!

  • @MrHulshizer
    @MrHulshizer Před 8 lety

    Thank you for the FF VII and Jurassic Park cameos late in the video.. Love it.

  • @gregorygolando
    @gregorygolando Před 7 lety +1

    Wow! super informative. Subscribing after watching this. Great educational video, super condensed too, no waste of time, great!

  • @RedShirtSmith
    @RedShirtSmith Před 10 lety

    Another cool thing about PVC in particular, you can add a certain thing called a plasticizer to make these chain longer and more ordered to make the fabric sort of PVC.

  • @MeganWithCamera
    @MeganWithCamera Před 10 lety

    Thanks for the Chemistry revision help Hank, now I understand!

  • @jasvinjames5773
    @jasvinjames5773 Před 8 lety

    Awesome video, subscribed right away, keep up d good work

  • @djalitanaful
    @djalitanaful Před 7 lety +1

    hi, every time I watch your videos and I really find them useful. today finally taking my time to give you feedback. thank you.

  • @rogerdotlee
    @rogerdotlee Před 10 lety

    Thanks again, Hank. Another episode that will likely take me a few watchings to completely grok. Well done.

    • @rogerdotlee
      @rogerdotlee Před 10 lety +2

      Amino Acids. "Did you see that coming?"
      No, Hank, I didn't. Even the third time I watched it.

  • @AriesVidz
    @AriesVidz Před 9 lety

    thank you...keep making these man. helped me out a lot

  • @mohammedsalah8887
    @mohammedsalah8887 Před 4 lety

    so we spent a week learning this and i didn't understand that well and this sums everything in 10mins wow great video

  • @lawrencium4101
    @lawrencium4101 Před 6 lety

    You guys are literally one of my favourite channel on youtube, I watch Scishow out of curiosity! My Science teacher put a Scishow video on and I gasped (loads of people looked at me and I went super red lol)

  • @darcey7288
    @darcey7288 Před 7 lety

    Chemistry GCSE begins this week. I have such a strong feeling this is going to come up as a 6 mark question! Thank you for this!

  • @Levipaulsen
    @Levipaulsen Před 7 lety

    Would love a Crash Course Organic Chemistry,... This stuff is great Guys. Keep it coming.

  • @ZoggFromBetelgeuse
    @ZoggFromBetelgeuse Před 10 lety +209

    Given that Darwin carried around some genius DNA, it makes kinda sense to say that one of his most valuable possessions were his balls... ,)

    • @tomwhiteley4126
      @tomwhiteley4126 Před 10 lety +3

      Felipe de Oliveira you just ruined it........poo

    • @spunkymcmonkey5972
      @spunkymcmonkey5972 Před 10 lety +6

      Greetings Professor Zogg. I am one of your many students in Earthlings 101. It gives me great pleasure to see that you have taken the time to observe one of my earthling neighbor's videos that I also watch.
      Sincerely,
      Mr. McMonkey of Alpha Centauri

    • @antivanti
      @antivanti Před 10 lety +4

      ***** Actually the increased risk of inherited diseases due to recessive genes with cousins is negligible. It is only with repeated cousin offspring over generations that the risks increase with any real significance. It is mostly just a cultural taboo. =)

    • @mohamedamiin3481
      @mohamedamiin3481 Před 10 lety +5

      ***** there is no such thing as evolution

    • @tomwhiteley4126
      @tomwhiteley4126 Před 10 lety +2

      ...no, i mean the joke, Darwin was a genius, end of! and rich as hell

  • @amanmartolia2359
    @amanmartolia2359 Před 9 lety +4

    Thank you... your videos alwys help me alot for exams

  • @akankshasharma3937
    @akankshasharma3937 Před 10 lety

    great video!! helps a lot to understand polymerisation:)

  • @kevluv93
    @kevluv93 Před 10 lety

    These are amazingly good, learn something new every day!

  • @riri109360
    @riri109360 Před 10 lety

    I love these videos! They are so informative, and the animations make them so much fun!! I can't thank you enough :)

  • @petraarkian7720
    @petraarkian7720 Před 10 lety

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    @cornycontent1915 Před 8 lety +130

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    @carleescorner7347 Před 7 lety +1

    this is my absolute favorite channel!!!

  • @heatherfreeman5274
    @heatherfreeman5274 Před 6 lety

    Holy heck I am in a polymer engineering class thank you for summing up the first 4 lectures youre doing great crash course

  • @sonivishwakarma3248
    @sonivishwakarma3248 Před 8 lety

    just awsmm way of teaching ; coz no one is gonna miss it out , u have to concentrate!!!!!

  • @EliotPearson
    @EliotPearson Před 10 lety +2

    Very informative. It was way better than any course I took in school.

  • @frankdoherty8999
    @frankdoherty8999 Před 5 lety

    Awesome, making AP chem a breeze!!
    Would love to see a video detailing molecular engines and mini motors - nanoscience is the future !

  • @kavyamohta2590
    @kavyamohta2590 Před 6 lety

    This video saved my life. I have a test about this in two days. Thank gods

  • @GeorgeTheo212
    @GeorgeTheo212 Před 9 lety +106

    Is there every going to be a Crash Course Physics?

  • @sanchitgngplays
    @sanchitgngplays Před 7 lety +1

    I wanted this only .....fast quick and everything.....thanks .

  • @NaCN
    @NaCN Před 5 lety

    Your videos are incredible! Can you do a video on substitution, addition and elimination reactions?

  • @saxon215
    @saxon215 Před 8 lety

    Cool thanks man I'm going to watch more of these

  • @justacookie8844
    @justacookie8844 Před rokem +1

    i love life man, the world is full of fun facts and interesting people. thank you for contributing to the beauty that is our world :)

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    Thanks for making all of these Crash Course Videos from morocco .

  • @Espinozawolf
    @Espinozawolf Před 10 lety

    Can't wait for next week!

  • @autumnelizabeth533
    @autumnelizabeth533 Před 4 lety

    Wow this is a really clear explanation

  • @ryanjamesfuentesconiendo4999

    amazing... thanks crashcourse!

  • @paulzackowski2129
    @paulzackowski2129 Před 10 lety +2

    I have to point out that HDPE and LDPE don't necessarily have different molecular weights, LDPE just has more side chains which lowers the amount of crystallization lowering the density (low density)

  • @neil.vezeau
    @neil.vezeau Před 10 lety

    thank you so much for doing these!

  • @dakilangraikage9988
    @dakilangraikage9988 Před 8 lety

    THANKS FOR THE INFO!!
    IT HELPS ME ALOT!!
    :D

  • @breeliah
    @breeliah Před 9 lety

    you make science worth listening to

  • @erictremblay7102
    @erictremblay7102 Před 9 lety

    Thank you for this video. It is really great!

  • @vonpredator
    @vonpredator Před 10 lety

    Extremely informative!
    Another example of the difference between Thermoset and Thermoplastics is:
    Thermoplastics are like butter, you can warm them up and can recycle them easily with the addition of heat.
    Thermosets are like a egg, once you boil the egg it's hard and you can't change it shape with more heat.
    Keep up the great work!

  • @aldo3749
    @aldo3749 Před 9 lety

    Very informative.. Thank you!

  • @surbhikohli8559
    @surbhikohli8559 Před 10 lety

    superb video ,it was really helpful for me

  • @worldmayor2008
    @worldmayor2008 Před 10 lety

    This guy is great, cheers for the info.

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    Awesome channel
    I just discovered this beautiful channel while simply surfing CZcams and now I'm wondering,"What have I been doing all these years on CZcams?"

  • @ayusheesharma3576
    @ayusheesharma3576 Před 8 lety

    These video r super cool thanks :)

  • @MinnieMouse8270262
    @MinnieMouse8270262 Před 9 lety

    Countin on hank to get me through my midterm🙌🙌

  • @areejfaheem7398
    @areejfaheem7398 Před 6 lety +1

    listen to him often to catch his speed " He is just fine" :)

  • @mannygomez5367
    @mannygomez5367 Před 5 lety

    This was understood better than a chemistry teacher I encountered with.

  • @ayblablabla
    @ayblablabla Před 4 lety +1

    Hey Hank sorry for bothering but like are you guys will make a video about functional groups' and hydrocarbons' reactions? Like with more detail and explain things like ksilen, formaldyhde, allil, anilin etc.? I'd really appreciate it if you do it. Thanks for the videos btw!

  • @AngirasDarbha
    @AngirasDarbha Před 7 lety +3

    6:50 Hey..... isn't that Barret?

  • @ali51034
    @ali51034 Před 5 lety

    sir please tell me how can i change the green color plastic bottle in to transparent ?

  • @jeffkosmoski9997
    @jeffkosmoski9997 Před 8 lety

    You rock! Great video!

  • @elliegracelatham5663
    @elliegracelatham5663 Před 9 lety +5

    This was very helpful! I have an exam tomorrow... I must have fallen asleep in this lesson... 😂

  • @patrickcarter9867
    @patrickcarter9867 Před 10 lety

    Great presentation.

  • @thronesdomination4013
    @thronesdomination4013 Před 6 lety +1

    This is amazing

  • @HailAnts
    @HailAnts Před 10 lety

    According to James Burke's Connections those first artificial billiard balls would sometimes 'crack' like gunfire when hit, not a sound you want to make in a saloon...

  • @YeLLowCarDxGirL
    @YeLLowCarDxGirL Před 10 lety

    There needs to be a video dedicated to explaining all the different isomers.