Potassium - Periodic Table of Videos
Potassium is an "evil" element, but it's crucial to life. In this video see some violent explosions and the gentle creation of a potassium mirror. More links in description below ↓↓↓...
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So Potassium metal is very reactive. One of my colleagues who used to work with it, described it as evil. So we've come out behind the chemistry department. In the open air. To try and do a re-take of the Potassium video. The last sample of Potassium was very very small, maybe 500mg. It will react, it is so reactive that if you have it in a box with Argon, so that it can't get Oxygen from anywhere, it will take the Oxygen out of paper. Which is, paper is a compound of Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen. And it can extract this. It's a reactive element. It's used in our body all the time. We have like, lots of Potassium floating around. And we've got some samples here, about a gram, maybe a gram and a half of each. It's a pretty ...
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So Potassium metal is very reactive. One of my colleagues who used to work with it, described it as evil. So we've come out behind the chemistry department. In the open air. To try and do a re-take of the Potassium video. The last sample of Potassium was very very small, maybe 500mg. It will react, it is so reactive that if you have it in a box with Argon, so that it can't get Oxygen from anywhere, it will take the Oxygen out of paper. Which is, paper is a compound of Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen. And it can extract this. It's a reactive element. It's used in our body all the time. We have like, lots of Potassium floating around. And we've got some samples here, about a gram, maybe a gram and a half of each. It's a pretty ...
