The Periodic Table of Videos
by Phil on Jan 27 2009 (1571 Views)I’d like to share this link with you: The Periodic Table of Videos (http://www.periodicvideos.com/).
A group of lecturers around Prof. Martyn Poliakoff from the University of Nottingham have compiled this “Periodic Table”, which contains a video of a few minutes for every (!) known element. Sometimes it’s an explosive experiment (e.g., Hydrogen), in other cases they simply show a sample, while giving some information about the element. I must say, I am impressed how they manage to come up with something for all the lanthanoids and actinoids. For Ytterbium, Yttrium, Terbium and Erbium, they even went on a trip to Ytterby (Sweden), the town these elements are named after. A great distraction for rainy days, and also a useful video collection for teaching!
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Jan 28, 2009 - 05:01:09I’ve seen that before. You can tell they really have trouble thinking of interesting things to say for some of them, check out the one for Ne, it basically ends with a flustered, “Neon is really boring.” (Or something to that effect.)
This is of course redeemed by the childish glee of them blowing something up when it fits into a discussion of an element. (Group 1 metals, Aluminum thermite reactions, etc.) I also like seeing some of the rarer metals spooled up as really thin wire. Damn that stuff is expensive.
Anyone else really disappointed with their Cesium video?
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