Magnesium - Periodic Table of Videos
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Magnesium is one of the lightest elements. It’s right at the beginning of the period table and, in fact, it’s the first of the light metals that you can actually use. Lithium and sodium react violently with water so you can’t really use them as a metal and beryllium is fantastically poisonous so unless you are using it in the lab where you can be sure that nobody is going to touch it, it’s useless, so magnesium is the lightest metal you can use. So, for example, if you are trying to make mobile phones that are really light, then you can make the frame of the mobile phone out of magnesium. You can use it for laptops. There is a professor in Germany, who has promised to send me a laptop frame made of magnesium, but it hasn’t arrived yet. So ano...
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Magnesium is one of the lightest elements. It’s right at the beginning of the period table and, in fact, it’s the first of the light metals that you can actually use. Lithium and sodium react violently with water so you can’t really use them as a metal and beryllium is fantastically poisonous so unless you are using it in the lab where you can be sure that nobody is going to touch it, it’s useless, so magnesium is the lightest metal you can use. So, for example, if you are trying to make mobile phones that are really light, then you can make the frame of the mobile phone out of magnesium. You can use it for laptops. There is a professor in Germany, who has promised to send me a laptop frame made of magnesium, but it hasn’t arrived yet. So ano...
