hi everyone you might know it's ten
years since our first upload and
hopefully you've watched professor
polyakov's top ten video list if you
have you may have come here and I'm
going to name my top ten from the other
side of the camera and the only Caviar's
I'm not going to name any that were on
the professor's list so here we go
number one has to be our gold bullion
vault video at the time no one had
previously been allowed inside this
vault to film all the gold and I have to
tell you I'm sorry it looked even more
amazing in real life but altogether if
you look at the bank's annual report
it's worth a hundred and ninety seven
billion pounds what an incredible thing
to say all that gold in one place really
memorable experience next boiling water
as we went to Everest base camp each
night we'd boil water at a different
altitude showing how the boiling point
was changing as we got higher and higher
[Music]
this was obviously a really amazing trip
to do I think the video turned out
really pretty and the music from Alan
Stewart was also right on point
bit of a nostalgic one here cesium the
emperor of alkali metals we always
talked about caesium reactions we've
done quite a few over the years now but
looking back at the early days when we
first tried it with news ingenious
contraptions and the excitement of not
knowing what the caesium would do in the
water and let's see what happens
ready guys
you might argue it was a bit of an
anti-climax I don't know I still think
it's an amazing thing to see and it
brings back a lot of fond memories
watching this video
nice purple flare really quite nice
chemistry another road trip
it'll be going to the mine just outside
Stockholm in Sweden that gave its name
to four elements on the periodic table
this had a real sense of adventure I
think it may have been the first trip we
ever did we've reached the top we look
at the under left oh wow
and it really felt like we were chasing
periodic table history another periodic
videos favorite is the barking dog'
reaction we've done it numerous times in
numerous ways but it wasn't until we got
a really good slow-motion camera on it
that we saw this chugging of the
reaction front as it went down the tube
it was a bit of a surprise and really
exciting to see it we saw the reaction
in a way we hadn't seen it before
another nostalgic one remembering the
early days when all these reactions were
new and exciting and we first dropped
sodium in water it went off with a bang
we were having so much fun and then
there was that candid moment when Pete
and Neil realized some of the sodium had
come out of the reaction bowl onto my
camera and they noticed while I was
filming it was something fun to include
in the video what's on your camera oh it
is - good thing we're all wearing safety
specs the people who know me may know
I'm really into the Apollo moon landings
so this next video about a hypergolic
reaction was really good fun this is the
same reaction that was used to propel
the lunar modules from the moon after
they'd landed it also had a really
remarkable sound and opening the switch
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and speaking of sound my next choice is
a video that was made for us by Dave
from boy and a band a good friend and a
really clever guy and he came to the
labs recorded a whole bunch of sounds
and turned it into this dubstep music
track which I thought was really
ingenious and something really different
on the channel we love doing reactions
with things that are a little bit iconic
like say a cheeseburger or in this case
cans of coke here an acid and alkali not
only did this look spectacular and way
more interesting than we thought I love
this candid reaction from Sam Tang it
really shows our enthusiasm for the
project I hadn't expected it to be quite
so Wow last but certainly not least hot
charcoal in liquid oxygen this is a
favorite of Neal he loves doing it any
chance he gets and when we pointed the
slow-motion camera on it we saw how
beautiful it really was one of the
prettiest things we've filmed thanks so
much for your support over 10 years we
really appreciate it I'll include links
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