Caesium or Cesium - Periodic Table of Videos
Here it is - five grams of caesium in water... But did you know caesium (aka cesium) is also used to define the length of a second? More links in description below ↓↓↓ For extra footage...
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If you remember back to the last caesium video, Pete and Neil tried to launch a bit of caesiummetal into water with the small metallic collider and they had a few problems with surface areaand caesium still being stuck in the glass as well.What I have been asked to do today, is take this ampoule of caesium into this piece ofmachinery here which is one of our glove boxes, try and get it out of the glass so that wecan put it in as is.Caesium has quite a surprising use, it is used to measure time. I don’t know if youhave ever thought about it but you could define one second as a fraction of a day, one sixtiethof a minute which is which is a sixtieth of an hour which is then a twenty fourth of aday. But the trouble with that is that you will never be able to tell if the...
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If you remember back to the last caesium video, Pete and Neil tried to launch a bit of caesiummetal into water with the small metallic collider and they had a few problems with surface areaand caesium still being stuck in the glass as well.What I have been asked to do today, is take this ampoule of caesium into this piece ofmachinery here which is one of our glove boxes, try and get it out of the glass so that wecan put it in as is.Caesium has quite a surprising use, it is used to measure time. I don’t know if youhave ever thought about it but you could define one second as a fraction of a day, one sixtiethof a minute which is which is a sixtieth of an hour which is then a twenty fourth of aday. But the trouble with that is that you will never be able to tell if the...
