This is gallium.
It's one of the elements of the periodic table, which is this thing here.
And if you're not a scientist, you probably only know this as a chart
you're supposed to memorize in high school.
But what if, instead of being a boring chart,
well, it was something that you could touch and feel.
That's what we're going to try to do today.
But is it even possible?
Well, I'm not sure yet.
Hey, we're doing a video about the periodic table of the elements.
I'm asking people how many of them they think we can find
high seventies, maybe 20 to 30.
But I'm optimistic, hoping for a lot more.
Ballpark 20.
There's 118 in total. Right.
And I'm going to get to 118.
Well, you can collect all of them.
So there's a number
yet. At what point would your periodic table start killing you?
Exposure to toxic smoke would have already killed you.
Would be like a nuclear bomb exploding over and over again to kind of remember,
it's been a long time, but Bill Gates has the entire collection in his office.
Why can't I?
So why don't you just go to Christina, get a budget from her?
Let's motivate you a little bit.
I don't think you're going to collect too many, but let's say you can collect 80
if you collect under 80 elements. Yeah.
Or if you go over budget. Yeah.
How about you eat
cheese and eggs
per? Here's the thing.
I don't eat cheese or eggs.
I don't I don't really.
Eat the sandwich or not.
If I don't get 80 elements, I will need an egg and cheese sandwich.
Or if you go over budget.
I'm not going to go over budgets.
You deal. Okay.
Despite the fact that everyone I spoke to thought it was going to be impossible,
I still wanted to figure out if there was a way we could do this.
So I went to talk to a chemistry expert for some advice.
It is pretty impossible to make your own table at home
without specialized equipment, and I don't advertise it.
Okay.
Well, is there any way to create it with everyday items?
Maybe if you try it, the majority of elements
you would probably collect them,
if not in pure form then then in some kind of mixture.
But that was all I needed to hear.
So with 500 bucks in my pocket.
All right. Do you go for it?
And the determination not to eat an egg sandwich, it's like spongy.
It's like chewing a rubber band.
It was time to get to work to build our periodic table.
We're going to go row by row.
I expect that later elements of the periodic table will be a lot harder
and more expensive to find, but we don't have to worry about that for right now.
The earlier things are going to be a little bit cheaper, easier to find
or borrow from someone, and that's going to save us a lot of money.
First of all, is easy.
Hydrogen is found in pretty much every living thing,
including plants, and helium can be found in balloons.
Luckily, it's cheap.
Also makes you talk funny.
Now we're on
to a row with some solids and again, these are pretty cheap and easy
and it can be found around the office, my house or just outside.
Things like lithium, beryllium
and boron can all be found in things like batteries, bikes.
And I dropped the bike.
We're going to borrow from a friend of mine.
As for things like carbon and oxygen, well, those things are everywhere.
Like without them, we'd all be dead.
So just don't cross those off the list.
Nitrogen is in our soil.
Fluorine is in our toothpaste.
And this neon sign here has,
you guessed it, neon in it, but it took up a huge chunk of our budget.
Now, we were on to row three and by this time I got to say
I was feeling really good about this.
It was super easy. We managed to get
all the things on our list so far and we stayed on budget.
This is just for the haters and the ones who doubted me.
What are you doing?
I am.
But you kind of my launched above.
We're doing a thing for what if I do one of the elements of.
Okay, yeah, okay. Yeah. No, that's fair.
That's fair.
We'll buy you.
It's coming out the budget though.
Okay, now time for a quick trip to the grocery store.
Turns out a lot of the items on this row are things
we can find in different kinds of food.
I did some reading earlier about the periodic table
and I think that was about the time.
We should talk a little bit more about it and tell you what it's all about.
The periodic table was developed as a map for scientists
to help them understand what the elements do and what the for.
It didn't start like this either.
It looked like this at one point, and then this.
There's even other versions that don't look like a table, but more like a globe.
And they wrap around.
But this one, the one that's popular now, was invented
by a guy named Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.
And Mendeleev didn't just list the elements
or put them in groups that had all been done before.
Mendeleev's contributions
came from being able to find elements that previously didn't exist.
Weird, I know, but stick with me here.
He figured to arrange the table periodically, but as he was doing that,
he noticed gaps in the table.
Well, that's because at the time, only 60 elements were considered for
the periodic tables based on Mendeleev's table.
He knew there'd be over 100 elements after you took into account
all the atomic weights.
Looking at the chemical and physical properties of the elements
next to his gaps, Mendeleev was able to predict
which elements would exist in the future, and his predictions were spot on.
He predicted
gallium right down to its atomic weight and properties, and over the next 20 years
he predicted the existence of other elements like scandium and germanium.
Those were discovered after he died.
So I guess I've got Mendeleev to thank for this scavenger hunt
and for that egg and cheese sandwich if I lose.
Oh, and by the way, if we got
to the steps we needed for row four, it was a bit expensive.
Those groceries are these days, but we managed to stay on budget somehow.
We also managed to find arsenic.
Now, I always thought this was strictly a poison, but apparently it's in
mushrooms, although not in the quantity enough to poison someone.
I hope. Oh,
my disclosure, I mentioned that.
Too bad.
That's tasty stuff.
Okay, now, we were under rule five.
We were able to get a couple of these elements, but
as we went on, they were increasingly rare and hard to find,
like the element xenon, which is found in cameras
or tellurium.
This element is found mostly in fridges,
but then we ran into some issues.
Okay, I'm seeing here antimony is found mostly in bullets.
Well, we're in Canada, so that's not likely going to happen.
And technician looks only really be used in X-ray machines.
You need to go for an X-ray anytime soon.
Yeah, well, that's also out of the budget.
So we were able to get a couple of these elements, but there were a bunch others
that were way out of reach.
They were either too hard to find our way too expensive.
Now, we were under Rule six and here's where things started to get tricky.
We have some old favorites on here, like Gold Lead and Mercury.
Those were easy to get.
Some of the elements we had to borrow, others we had to buy.
But they were getting more and more expensive.
And then we started to get to the rare earth metals
not only are these metals rare, but they're also really difficult to extract.
And because of that, they're only used in certain real world products
like thallium is really only used in laser surgery.
And again, that's out of our budget.
But we were still able to get a couple of these things like europium
in televisions and terbium in fluorescent lamps.
Okay, we're starting to approach the end of row six
and things were starting to get a little weird.
We've covered the solids, liquids, gases, but now we were starting
to get into radioactive materials and those are stupidly expensive
and not to mention downright impossible to find.
Take ascertain.
For example, scientists say at max
there's only 25 grams of it on earth at any one given time.
And even if you were able to find it, it would decay in less than a day.
And the weirdness didn't stop there.
Under Roe seven, we were really only able to get one of these elements.
It was radium, which is found in some watches
and the rest are pretty much
exclusive to nuclear reactors or stuff we just can't get a hold of.
And then there are these elements here.
These things are really, really strange.
They barely exist and they're only used for research purposes.
Their use, if any, is unknown.
And some of them have only existed in the form
of a couple of atoms for barely a second.
And with the periodic table now complete,
it's time to see how many items I've managed to collect.
Oh, let's hope it's 80.
Okay. Okay, Marina, I think I'm ready.
I got it all.
Okay.
I don't think it looks like it to me here. Do you think you've got any.
One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
21, 22, 23, 24, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, 36, 30, 40, 41
oh, well.
Techniques here we just can't get.
61, 62,
63 Yeah, that's led.
And you sure about this? It's a representation of land.
Of course, nuts would never be made of lead
because their lead is pliable.
And that wouldn't work for nuts.
For 65.
Would you get this one in 66?
66. Yeah.
I only see 66.
No what that means.
Exxon which but
I, we stayed completely under budget.
We could probably
since I save some money, maybe I can slide it to you
and you could keep it and I wouldn't need an extra cent, but.
No, no, no, no.
We agreed that 80 and you stay under Budget.
Institute, Tennessee.
You want to do one more of this?
Yes, I have two more. Okay.
So 68. Sure.
How are you going to bring them to implement?
It will take.
Okay.
These are halogen lamps that go for shooting
TV, camera lights and it's 167.
Yes. Okay. Cut it out loud.
Shout it loud and proud.
68. Yeah.
So missing 12.
So what are you going to do?
What are you going. To do about it? Yeah.
You're going to eat a sandwich.
That's what you're going to do.
So let's open it up.
It has agonies taking it.
It is not looking good for me.
Uh, I'm not looking forward.
Oh, no, you were.
I brought along a bucket here
because I'm probably going to chuck my guts out,
but it turns out it's pretty much impossible
to collect an exact copy of the periodic table.
And that's because
a lot of these ones in the bottom line, the act annoys are radioactive
and a lot of these in the 100 row are used for research purposes only.
So even a bookcase full of periodic table elements of bill Gates has in his office,
those are probably just representations
in the same way that we use these nuts to represent LED,
he doesn't have all those radioactive materials in his office.
It would probably be illegal.
So we really shouldn't feel too bad because we came up with 68 out of the 118
elements on the periodic table, and we came in way under budget.
So there's a good chance that I don't have to eat that egg sandwich
anyway.
Yeah.
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I mean, every people lived through this, right?
It's not the end of the world.
It's a poison.
Here we go.
I don't Bianchi's or that
it's like spongy is actually a rubber band
that was hotter.
That's all that was all real
good.
So it's probably for the best that we are not able
to recreate the periodic table because we'd be met
with a lot of explosions, I'd be dead and we'd likely set off a nuke.
This experiment didn't work out quite the best for us.
Neither did this experiment.
But let us know in the comments what you think we should do next.
And hopefully it doesn't have anything
to do with disgusting foods or swallowing something.
Maybe make it a little bit easier on me, please, but that's a story for another.
What if?