I love it that he uses his tie for educational purposes. This guy kicks ass.

I do wear a tie...But only periodically.

Imagine all the gold and platinum he could steal in just his hair.

As a blacksmith you have no idea how jealous I am of people that get to work with platinum. Those ingots are so smooth and there's no scale (oxide) coming off the stock under that hammer. I need to change my medium.

"Posh way of saying 'chemically boring.'" Love it, Prof.

its quite difficult to get into a place like this, i had to wear a ski mask and some black clothes, plus i had to cut some locks and climb through vents. for some reason they dont want you in here without theyre permission.

He just used his tie to outline which metals he was referring too........... I love him

Here in my garage. Just bought this new uh platinum ingot. Fun to drive up here in the Hollywood Hills.

That is so unreal to see a glowing ingot of metal which is not immediately scaling in the air and no incrustations falling off when forging it, amazing.

Giving a lecture off his tie. What a legend.

Noble - A posh way of saying chemically boring. I have to remember that one.

This professor can put a car's worth of dust into his afro!

Back in the late 70s the company I worked at/for. Used rodium coated discs in a memory storage device. 250k bytes. The disc was 1/4 in. Thk ( 6mm) and the size of an album. Other ram memory consisted of a 50KUSD mother board with (4) 5KUSD daughter boards. Memory was so expensive then BUT. Our million dollar systems paid for themselves in less than a year. Those rodium plated disc memory system required nitrogen air purges and any destabilizing shocks could make a disc crash. Literally 250 mag pic ups a millimeter from the disc spinning at. 10K rps. A disc crash ment one pickup blew apart and whiped out everything usually scratching the disc and making another nice souvenir. The discs were mirror like. I was just out of EE school and this stuff blew my mind back in 78. My point; engineering was so cool being able to make positive changes to a company and make mgmt changes. Rodium plated discs made me really open my mind to possibilites or improvements not thought of before. It was a great global company in the 80s. I had lunch with Ronald Reagan he visited our plant. Half our biz was export. Inflation was killing the country. I got a 17% raise and I lost money. Later in the 90s we got bought out a couple if times. Everything went to china a decade or so ago. C'est la vie. Great times great people. Witnessing the destruction of the engineering and support of a company can leave one bitter, forget that. What I experienced is a slow roll compared to now. Nothing is sacred. Chose your dreams carefully.

I'd love to have a shirt made of that platinum weave.

I wish he was my grandpa

This guy is the stereotypical mad scientist.

You are wrong, gold has a reaction, especially when someone finds it.

"Martyn, are you going to wear that hideous tie again?" "I need it for work, Janet"

This man is my hero, an inspirational man with loads of knowledge

I’m a chemist working in a catalytic converter recycling company, analyzing loads for PGM concentrations. Such an interesting video!

5:30 Mythril

That hammer is slightly terrifying.

Where did you get your tie? I want it.

Smelted ingot is perhaps the most beautiful object I've ever seen.

An excellent dose of much-needed perspective...I'm going to save this and re-watch it every time I'm tempted to complain mightily about how long it's taking me to save up enough money to buy a platinum flute. Small wonder they're so hideously expensive!

"We're going to need the dust you've collected." "What? That's outrageous, I haven't been collecting dust to steal!" "No, sir, by walking around, your shoes have collected enough platinum, iridium, and gold dust to most likely pay off your car and house combined. We need it back." That's the kind of conversation that would put me in jaw-to-the-floor stasis.

"Why do chemists call helium, curium, and barium 'the medical elements'? Because, if you can't 'helium' or 'curium', you 'barium'! Hm hm!"

I would've loved to have him as my chemistry professor . He's such an interesting speaker. Hello from Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Oh, I adore him so. Being able to have crazy hair is definitely a perk to being a guy, especially an older gentleman. I tried to let it go as a girl myself, but it's too much of a matting situation. Also, I adore how he's conveniently wearing his mobile periodic table.❤️😊

Why brush the bottoms of the shoes. Docs haircut probably caught more super-expensive dust XD

Tons of passion needed to be that prof..u are legend sir

English speaking is so clear for learning English with chemistry , Great master, thank you very much

I want to know who does your hair man.

"chemically boring" I like this guy!

I really appreciate you taking the time to show us this and its funny when you point out your tie.

The best chemistry videos on You Tube...just mesmerizing.....

I wonder how many kilogram those metals doc hide into his hair ;)

Did they have to sift through his hair when he left the facility ????

I just love the way you talk, your eloquence is one of a kind

I love these videos! Thank you so much for making these!

Very educational, loved it. I would've liked to know more about applications

I wonder if the security at this place is tight, If platinum is more expensive than gold! Any one up for a little job?

Thank You Noble Metals for that wonderful look at your metals and factory.

I watched this post many times and never get bored to watch it again.

When he said "one point five million pounds worth of metals", I immediately thought "Wouldn't that break the table?". Then I realized he meant currency.

I love professor Martin

Fabulous video.... and tie! Keep them coming, we will keep learning :)

I loved that video thanks for sharing!!

You sir are the embodiment of chemistry

I clicked on this video thinking the title said explosive metals. Nonetheless still very interesting.

Thank you sir. It is great too see the real life processing of materials we use in everyday products.

I'm totally out of my league with this channel but I absolutely love it and cannot get enough of it

When in High School I would regularly fail in Chemestry. And because of that I started to hate the subject. Now, watching those videos, I wish this guy was my teacher (I know it's a bit pretentious of me). But if I had a teacher like this guy, who would explain complex things in a way that even someone like me can understand, things would be very different for me in Chemistry.

I'd rather watch these interesting video's than go to school. That is for sure.

this was absolutely fascinating!!!! I love chemistry and its amazing after so many years of studying it I can finally see its applications

Love how happy and excited he is to be there!

I only took physics class so I dont even know whats he is talkig about in the chart but he looks so smart and i repect him for being to nice and sharing his knowlage

I've actually removed and installed these catalyst bags "tea bags" in a nitric acid plant on several different occasions. Also split the heat exchanger train behind the catalyst. Its quite an interesting process. Everything involved once the heat exchangers are opened is sent back for recovery, paper booties, tyvek coveralls, vacuums, tarps and gloves.

A fabulous tie!! Marvellous

These are wonderful. Fantastic content !

this guy looks like science

An 14 kilo metal ingot costs more than a lamorgini

That tie is absolutely brilliant! I'd love to find one.

I love this profesor , thank you for making everything you talk about exiting

And just think, if we start asteroid mining this stuff could be much more abundant!

This man's hair is made of science

I love listening to the way you explain this stuff

I never new metal could be made so fine and woven, pretty amazing.

I love the fact that his didactic tie functions as a teaching aide, here.

he's so cute " it's like magic ... i was mesmerized"

very clear explaination, thank you prof

Great lecture , thanks for sharing.

Chuck Norris is on the periodic table... For the element of surprise!

If science was a person it would look like this guy

incredible video! thanks you.

excellent thermocoupling materials!

Iridium is 25$ a gram on eBay in powder and can alloy gold, the gold becoming heavy. Osmium is the densest iridium is a hair off

i love how he used his tie for the refrencing now that a try scientist

I love these videos so much.

great video, very nice to leran and see those metals

After many years of exposure to bad chemicals and probably radioactive materials he still has so much hair.Or... maybe some of them grew hair!What a secret.

Surely they have non-metallic belts for visitors to borrow.

Interesting video. I worked in a warehouse at a palladium mine for a summer. I found a number of the processes fascinating. A lot of work goes into extracting metals

i use these videos for school. They are very useful!

He reminds me of Dr. Wright from Sim City for the SNES.

There was nothing magical about the coiling of that platinum bar. Notice the three rollers immediately prior to the coil; as the metal moved through the three rollers, it was given a stress in one direction, so after the wire passed the last roller, it simply "relaxed" by assuming a curved shaped. This technique is normally used to straighten wire for multiple industrial processes.

Fantastic Video's Doctor.

Very interesting. Nice tie.

"chemically boring" lol

Screw all those precious metals, I want that tie!

Amazing stuff!

Love all your videos

2.17 million US Dollars in metals for those who are curious

"I didn't actually take my hair out to measure but i believe it" Now that's a real scientist!

That tie is awesome!

He looks so giddy and excited; I love it.

I would see if I could get away with swallowing some of them platinum pellets and then latter go mining for them in my shit >:-)

posh way of saying its boring ahahaha :P The professor is simply epic :D

periodic videos is love, periodic videos if life.

Fabulous on many, many levels.