Mercury is so beautiful. I wish it was non toxic

I remember when I was a little kid like maybe 12 or 13 years ago I was at my grandparents house and I was playing with a mercury thermometer in the bathroom and I dropped it on the floor and starting playing with the little metal beads, and my grandad almost had a heart attack when he came in

I am procrastinating so hard right now

Am I the only one annoyed by that tiny little dirt on the mercury?

"Hey guys, Cody's lab here"

Who else clicked on video because of the hand in mercury?

I remember our science teacher let us hold mercury in our hands - about a teaspoonful - It was very heavy and rolled around very quickly, we had to hold it over a tray. This was back in the early 1970ś.

I love mercury for some reason, don’t even know why it’s just really cool. There was a discovery of a huge pool of mercury found in Mexico in an ancient pyramid, there is no telling what they done with it or what it was used for but they believe it had something to do with trying to make the sorcerers stone. Ancient people was fascinated with it and it is still fascinating today

Mercury beads and small spills can be rendered safe by sprinkling with sulfur. The two elements react, forming mercury sulfide (cinnabar), which has no significant vapor pressure and may be collected for mercury recovery or proper disposal.

Sweet! So glad i recently found this channel from the diy foundry. The first time I got mercury I was very uneducated on it. I got a small vial with about 50 grams of it. One of the first things I did was open it and try to smell it. Seriously. I did this mins after getting it from my friend who works at a scientific glass blowing shop. I didnt think he would give me some so i did no research. I knew it was toxic but i thought it was from skin contact. After getting it and getting home i did research and learned that i am a moron.

dude, i love your venturi powered vacuum manifold. excellence in elegance.

I always thought Cody's method of sweeping mercury up with a broom to clean it up was awful. Since you noted how it forms tiny droplets that shouldn't be dispersed, I can see a broom doing just that.

Where did you get your mercury? i've been looking for a large volume to purchase only have been able to get small quantities, pounds at a time.

I'm glad you showed this, that mercury isn't as harmful as many fearmongers, as shown below, would have us believe. I've played with mercury in my hands since I was old enough to remember. To this day I have several pounds of mercury, which I pour out into a glass pan and play with from time to time. You were spot on in your description of mercury as being not well-absorbed through the skin. Even more amazing is that mercury is not even well-absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract. The big hazard is via vapors of mercury or the water-soluble compunds of mercury. It was noted that you had your exhaust fan on while having the mercury exposed to the air in the room. So all you folks out there take note. No, it is not illegal to own mercury. No, it will not dissolve other metals: it may amalgamate with certain metals, but will not dissolve them. No, mercury won't poison you if you handle it moderately. I'm almost 60 years old, have handled it a substantial part of my life, and I have no neurological, psychological or physiological problems for doing so. By the same token, I've always been cautious about the possibility of inhaling vapors, and have never messed with water-soluble compounds of mercury. So, use a little common sense and don't be fear-mongering and making more about it than is necessary. Also, I've read that mercury can be squeezed through a chamois to clean it up, but haven't personally tried this. Your method with the coffee filter seems sooooo much simpler. Good videos, all of them. Keep up the good work!

Your a really great channel! awesome work!!

I remember when I was in the 6th grade back in 1968. The teacher was showing the class some mercury and spilled it on the floor. He had all of us kids trying to pick the stuff up with pieces of cardboard and funnel it into a glass jar. I suppose today he would have been arrested for bringing a hazmat substance to the school. Possibly making the 6 O'clock news.

dude that flask with the long tube and the short tube could totally be used to smoke weed

How about telling us how you clean it from the glassware and change and stuff.

I once used Mercury as an inert liquid of a bubble counter for Borontrifluoride. The BF3 served as a Lewis-acid catalyst for a Friedel-Crafts acylation.

Mercury is so incredibly beautiful!

You, sir, just earned a subscriber.

"I actually have some in my mouth right now".

Mercury is an awesome element, chemically and characteristically.

Cody walked on his Mercury Doug, your move.

4:34 HE TOUCHED IT HE DEAD

GET YOUR GODDAMN HANDS OUT OF THAT

What's a good way to clean the small beads of mercury off the glass? Is there a way without nitric acid?

Hi, I came here after searching how toxic mercury is. A friend and I spilled some while we were outside the other day, and we are very worried, because of reading about how toxic the vapors are. If we were outside, and spilled about 4 tablespoons worth or so, is that dangerous? It is the silver liquid form of mercury. We did our best to clean it up, and were around it outdoors completely ventilated of course for about an hour, though we had cleaned up most of it within a few minutes. Any insight would help a ton! Thanks

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I wish Mercury wasn't so toxic. It is so cool

very cool video- Im sure that the people who had all of the shocked and negative comments about your hand being in there are all those who have read about something, and are parroting about that which they have absolutely no first hand knowledge of. It would be a very different story if it were a soluble form ie. the chloride. nitrate,etc or as you said, the vapors. The thing that surprised me a little was that it didnt immediately amalgamate with the metal- but I suppose that if it was an aluminum item, or if you would have used a mercury salt? its been a while on the chemistry of Hg-perhaps a vid on amalgams some day? THANKS AGAIN-love to see people who are interested in this kind of stuff

Amazing video

The emissions from that mercury would be enough to clear that room according to the epa

What would happen if i had a bit of mercury, and decided to drink some. Lets say, a shot glass of it, what would happen?

i used to play with small amounts in mason jars in my teen and twenty years. trying to get gold to come out of rocks, i'd spill it and sweep it up and put it back. one time i got out a strong magnifying glass that was close to microscope power and was amazed at all the droplets of mercury everywhere. I might of tasted it one time to see what it tastes like. i used to chew on lead.

this has taught me a lot about mercury and a bit of information for my science project. thank you for this video hope you make one on nothingness!

Remembers me of Freddie Mercury.

question,is a mirror made out of mercury?

How do you clean your glassware? Do you use nitric acid or just distilled water rinses?

An ingenius way to remove the Mercury from the container!

3:24 that fly must have died in there

"Doug soon died the day after due to severe mercury poisoning"

Is it possible to turn it red when heating it like with a torch like a nail would?

That's really cool.

Touching mercury with your palm like that, even for a short while, is extremely unwise.

All these safty precautions, and he just sticks his whole hand in it. Wtf?!

Do you use that music in the opener to your more recent videos?

how did you clean the beads from the neck of the erlenmeyer?

I'm loving how many people freaked out over this. I can almost hear their hearts racing uncomfortably. How humorous is it that simply lacking knowledge causes people to punish themselves for lacking knowledge?

10 years later stage 2 cancer yikes!

Wow have to sub to hear and see more. God bless

Where'd you find all this mercury? Cause I want some!

oh fuck no.. i couldn't believe you touched that mercury..!

Jesus christ your intro is way too long

I'm starting to develope a serious jealousy problem, seeing all you youtubers with full size flasks of mercury gives me a serious case of envy lol. I've got 3.5lbs of dental grade mercury I keep in a re-purposed mercury flask/90 gram Co2 tank (I stripped the zinc off the inside with concentrated HCI so it doesn't contaminate the mercury) and I love playing with it, just sloshing it around is kind of entertaining. I wish I could find a source for a full flask like that....

Isn't the water coming from the aspirator getting polluted with the mercury vapors?

It's never safe to touch mercury. You'll hear older people tell you how it used to be common to use liquid mercury in labs and poke at it with fingers and pencils. Yes, they lived to tell the tale, but they may have suffered some small, permanent neurological damage as a result. Mercury absorbs instantly into skin, plus it has an extremely high vapor pressure, so an open container of mercury puts the metal into the air. It sticks to clothing and is absorbed by hair and nails, so you don't want to poke it with a fingernail or wipe it up with a cloth. DO NOT DO THIS

You've been nominated for the 2018 Darwin Award!

That was really cool

What's on the lid/ top of the mercury container? It looks yellow.

wear gloves when touching Mercury

Rip off of codes lab???

Can I place an order for a mercury mirror please?

so were did you get your idea for a channel from?

Copy of codys lab xD

I'm pretty sure it's very dangerous to put your hand in mercury like that...

best youtube intro ever

What happens when you mix mercury with barium sulfate ?

Cody's lab is better

Where can you buy an entire full flask of mercury?

where did you get it?

yeah don't touch that.. you can say it requires a cut, think about cuticles, nailbed, any slight scrape... its an element, it can get into some pretty small "cuts"...

It’s amazing

Mercury is my favorite metal.

wonder if it could break the glass

where did you buy that Hg

Very cool, man.

Where could I buy that much mercury?

That's an unusual bong. How much for it ?

My papa try convert it to the gold using a few old books written over 800 years ago.. as a child ( 7y) I played with mercury , touching with hands.. and it was so fun.. until this day (46y) i have no any issues ..not me and not other family members.. also many times the medical thermometer was broken at our home and we was unable to collect all mercury from the grounds.. its a toxic substance but not that much as they saying in this days ..

how did you get all that mercury

I was lucky to find the three or four milliliters that I have in some very old mercury switches fairly high current I would assume cuz there's almost mil in each one. I can't even imagine how much that must have cost you. That paid 20 bucks and it was a deal for the quantity

where can you buy such large quantities of mercury???

where did you get that much?

where do you dispose of the mercury when your done

Where’d you get so much mercury?

where the heck did you get so much. I just gotta know.

The easiest way to clean mercury is acctually to take a bucket or such and spray some spray glue inside it, dump in the mercury and then swirl it around and pour it of. Spotless in mere seconds.

I had 10kg of it I put a few drops it slowly sank into my hand but was unable to take it out, my skin is acidic also I found caustic soda does not burn like it should, why does it go in my skin but not yours.

This is actually really fucking cool. Mercury is badass

What use had this flask of mercury

i used to play with a 4oz bottle of mercury when I was kid:( any idea what the side effects are from touching it?

Didnt he breath in the vapor? Or how didnt it enter his skin???

people really need to be educated on the dangers of mercury. It's mercury vapour and organic mercury compounds (such as methylmercury) that are highly dangerous.

Is the vacuum pump powered by your sink? It sounds like running water.

This video is almost 5 years old. Is this guy still alive? I mean, he touched mercury, and not just in this video.

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I see you've got a 30 second intro there. Can I interest you in shortening it to 3?

How much for that quantity of mercury?

Is it safe to touch mercury?