Aluminium (or Aluminum) - Periodic Table of Videos

I'm curious, is that clear aluminium tube electrically conductive, or is it an insulator like glass?

His voice makes me sleepy

Why not just call it »Alu«, and everyone can be happy?

my favorite metal

Thanks Professor this is great for all ages!

nature has time... lovely saying

if it's so damn important to have a standard nomenclature all over the world, why do English speaking chemists say sodium instead of natrium?

It's hilarious how worked up over the pronunciation of "aluminum" Brits get, yet none of the Americans care at all.

I agree with you professor aluminium sounds better the way to stupid Yankees pronounce it

My degree is in biology (which requires significant study in chemistry), and all my professors referred to it as aluminUM. The first time I heard someone say aluminIUM I must have been in my 30's, and I felt I had to hold my tongue out of politeness because the poor idiot didn't even know how to pronounce such a common word correctly.

aluminum dose not glow red/Orange when hot/molten. Just saying

stop hatin on americans

WHOOOSH!

In most languages it's called something like "aluminium", so it makes more sense to use that term. (German, Danish, French: "Aluminium"; Spanish, Portuguese, Italian: Al(l)uminio;  Russian, Ukrainian: Aljuminij)

So.. British people shouldn't think it's just another stupid American thing, it's actually a stupid British thing. ;)
(Not meaning to call anyone stupid here, you know what i mean)

"Aluminum"?

... Sodum





;)

Aluminum....Aluminium....

Potato, Potahto.....

Big deal.  Same thing.

Aluminium.
Colour.
Armour.
Grey.
Neighbour.
Centre.
Fibre.
Practise.
Advise.
Paralyse.

When I was a child I stole several containers of aluminium powder that was intended for metallic paint. I burned it all because I was puzzled how is it that the same material that saucepans are made out of can burn, and the cooking ware doesn't, when placed upon a hot gas flame. I didn't get any answers until years later. lol

I love his ties

So I'm not sure if a lot of people know this, but Americans kept the original spelling, pronunciation and usage of a lot of the words we commonly use. It would only be later that there would be differences between Standard(-ish) English and American English. I've heard ( though it's impossible to confirm 100%) that the American Southern accent is similar to the older British accent. Basically, what I mean to say is it doesn't matter. The fact you're comparing the two means you know they're a relationship between the two, enough so that they're talked about in the same exact context. So stop it.

His periodic table is titled in Catalan! I guess he must have been to a conference in Barcelona.

How toxic is Aluminium? particularly wrt to aluminum foils and vessels used for cooking?

Nice hairstyle!

the correct way to say it is "levi-O-sa"

Here's another: Do you say "capacitator" and sound like you have education; or say "capacitor" and sound like an imbecile.

From my European point of view, this debate (or troll) between Aluminum and Aluminium is as stupid as the one between Imperial and Metric units.

Indeed
Al=Aluminium
and
Metric units are the correct one tu use.

Period.




(oh no I have accidentally started another troll on units. lol)

Dear Prof. Martyn,
I would like to ask you why don't the "serious chemists" call Potassium its true name, i.e. Kalium (for K)?
Many thanks in advance!
Kind regards,

SO MANY PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT Aluminum vs Aluminium and how this some how "breaks the globe" or is globally keeping us down. Well pardon me for doing the MENTAL gymnastics of remembering two words that sound VERY much alike can mean the same thing! I guess not everybody is smart enough. Better get rid of the word "Waste Basket" and "Trash Can" because that is screwing over the WHOLE earth! Better just say "paper waste basket" because thats the English english. Can't be using my todler yankee talk to tell the british where to throw their paper cups or else they'll be littering in the street.

ok, so on abundance periodic chart, i see francium has quite large area. isn't francium not even suppose to be on the chart since it is the most scarce element in the world?

Aluminum comes from the term alumina, the oxide.

Lets just call it Aluminuminium.

the weird periodic table is in catalan! "Els Elements Químics d'Acord amb la seva abundància a la Terra!"

"Aluminium [sic] 'Fallen Astronaut'
statuette was the first art on the Moon."

ART
4a :  the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects; also :  works so produced

You err.
The first man-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959.

Aluminium was actually predicted by Mendyelye"yev or Mendeleev before it was actually discovered.  He predicted that the empty spot in the periodic table is not a flaw, but an undiscovered element

the way he said Nomenclature sounds far too difficult

that's one buff chemist

i like your tie

aluminium powder reacts nicely with iron oxide :)

Salad fingers

Can you talk about the reaction between aluminium and mercury in a future video?

I luv the small details this guy tells you

We use aluminum powder for solid rocket motors. It is wonderful at increasing the ISP of the engine and decreasing the reaction time giving the engine far more thrust per unit time. Unfortunately, we've been having issue that the aluminum likes to clump up during the mixing. This causes a lot of slag, which in addition to greatly reducing the amount of thrust also destroys our nozzle (graphite). Reducing the amount of aluminum in the fuel does lead to lower levels of slag; however, it is far below what the chemistry would seem to dictate. Why does the aluminum powder like to gather in little packets rather than staying more uniformly distributed across the APCP? Also how do you think this could be avoided other than to reduce the aluminum concentration?

Things you can thank America for...

Light Bulbs 
Telephones
Cars
Successful Manned Flight
Televisions
Microwave Ovens
Robots
Lasers 
Microchips
Personal Computers
Facebook (eh...) 
Stop Lights
Peanut Butter
Nuclear Energy
Blood Banks
Gas Masks
Video Games



AND finally... THE INTERNET SO YOU CAN CRY ABOUT YOUR ALUMINUM. 

I have learned more through these video about chemistry, astronomy and physics than my entire college career (though I was a Psychology major). I hope that one day Psychology and Neuroscience will be as respected as your profoundly important fields. Thanks to all the professors taking time to share their knowledge and the filming/editing gentleman for making this information public. Keep it up!

einstien is alive and well