PickVidsBest Chemistry Videos
The 56 Chemistry videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 12 intermediate, 42 for a general viewer, and 2 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Applied Science, Veritasium, NileRed.
Jet Fuel VS Diesel VS Gasoline how they burn and what color are they.
A hands-on comparison of how jet fuel, diesel, heating oil, kerosene, avgas and gasoline burn and what color they are.
Solar Powered Air Conditioner!
Tech Ingredients builds a larger solar-powered desiccant air conditioner that uses a calcium chloride liquid desiccant with evaporative cooling to cool their lab.
Professor Jeff Dahn | WIN Seminar Series
Professor Jeff Dahn lectures on why lithium-ion batteries die and how chemistry changes could make them last decades.
Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967
A 1967 live film of Tom Lehrer performing his patter song "The Elements" in Copenhagen, reciting the chemical elements to a Gilbert and Sullivan tune.
Behind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory
A behind-the-scenes tour of the ILFORD factory in Mobberley, England, showing how black and white film, paper and chemicals are made.
Demo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
Ben Krasnow of Applied Science demonstrates an X-ray fluorescence gun that measures chemical composition, tears it down, analyzes its failure, and discusses a new XRF technology appearing on eBay.
High speed camera reveals why sodium explodes!
Thunderf00t presents high-speed camera footage of alkali metals such as sodium and NaK reacting with water.
Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even @johnnyharris)
ACS Reactions investigates why Mexican Coke, supposedly cane sugar sweetened, tested as having glucose and fructose, explaining that sucrose breaks down in acidic soda.
The Molecular Shape of You (Ed Sheeran Parody) | A Capella Science
A Capella Science parody of Ed Sheeran's Shape of You, rewritten about molecular bonding and orbitals and sung a cappella.
Updated BP Texas City Animation on the 15th Anniversary of the Explosion
The US Chemical Safety Board's updated animation of the 2005 BP Texas City refinery explosion, which killed 15 workers.
A Scientist Spilled 2 Drops Organic Mercury On Her Hand. This Is What Happened To Her Brain.
Chubbyemu narrates the true case of a professor who spilled two drops of dimethylmercury on her hand and suffered fatal neurological damage.
Making uranium glass
NileRed makes radioactive uranium glass from scratch, showing the chemistry involved and the green fluorescence under a blacklight.
My Video Got 2 Companies Shut Down! (And even worse negative ion products)
The Thought Emporium follows up on his earlier video showing negative ion products are radioactive, reporting that Amazon pulled listings and companies shut down.
What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?
PBS Space Time considers whether life could be based on silicon instead of carbon, comparing the two elements' chemistry and why silicon is the most plausible alternative.
CANDO: A Compiled Programming Language for Computer-Aided Nanomaterial Design and Optimization
Christian Schafmeister presents CANDO at the 2016 European Lisp Symposium.
Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
Veritasium's long documentary on the history of Monsanto's herbicides, including glyphosate, and how patented seeds prevent farmers from replanting.
Inferno: Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar
A US Chemical Safety Board video explaining how sugar dust explosions at the Imperial Sugar plant in Georgia killed fourteen workers in 2008.
What salt tastes the best? Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and more
The Explosions&Fire channel taste-tests the chloride salts of the alkali metals (lithium through cesium), plus some alkaline earth metals and ammonium.
Antique 4x5 camera creates 20 micron photolithography masks: Super tiny tax form
Ben Krasnow of Applied Science uses an antique 4x5 view camera to make high-resolution photolithography masks in a home shop.
Making purple gold
NileRed tries to make a ring from pure purple gold, a gold-aluminium intermetallic that is brittle and hard to work with.
[593] Gallium vs. Titalium - Abus Padlock Meets a Gruesome End
LockPickingLawyer shows what happens when liquid gallium is applied to an aluminum Abus padlock, which weakens and breaks the metal.
Daniel Radcliffe sings "The Elements" - The Graham Norton Show - Series 8 Episode 4 - BBC
Daniel Radcliffe performs his party trick on The Graham Norton Show: singing Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements', the periodic table song, from memory.
Making YBCO superconductor
Ben Krasnow of Applied Science shows how to make and test YBCO high-temperature superconductor with a kiln and eBay chemicals.
Synthesizing Chicken Noodle Soup From Pure Chemicals
The Thought Emporium synthesizes chicken noodle soup from pure chemicals, following an original patent for artificial chicken flavor.