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All Those Things We Ever Dreamt This is the way it's going down All we know is…
At This Time of Year At this time of year The wind can blow cold At this…
Bad Medicine Days go by in haze In the summer heat And the winter…
Choices You sit alone at the corner table And wonder how this…
Dusty Deities Whatever comes to living It's not about giving up Whatever w…
Good Almost Waters fall from the sky But the sky does not fall In…
Great Unknown We are going into The great unknown You can't see the destin…
Radio Silence Today Is the day It's goin' to Take place Until that it's r…
Something Special I don't know How long I've been Sitting here waiting Specia…

Storm in the Making There is a storm in the making That we will all…
Uphill I put on my tattered boots To get some fresh air Didn't…
Where the Beast Sleeps You know Where the beast sleeps But you don't know When it …

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

Tom P

6y↑204

Hi Atlas Pro!

This is a really well put together video, I loved the pacing, the production and the narrative tone. The research on the abundance of elements in the crust was spot on as far as I could tell, and I thought it was a nice way to introduce the concept of radioactive decay in Earth materials. I'm actually making this post because there were a few glaring errors early on however, which I just couldn't get past as a geologist! Specifically:

"Anything below the crust is completely inaccessible to us, both in terms of mining and research"

Not in terms of research. We use indirect geophysical methods to 'access' and image the mantle/core, but we also have actual rock samples from the mantle in the form of xenoliths - chunks of rock which have survived a journey from the mantle into a crustal magma chamber and eventually spat out by a volcano for us to examine.

The Kola Superdeep borehole was not stopped due to "heat from the mantle", but due to the heat from the higher than expected geothermal gradient of the crust that was being drilled into. Although heat from the mantle would have contributed to total overall heat, geothermal gradients in continental crust are much higher than in the mantle and quite variable - it wasn't foreseen how high the gradient would be at the Kola Superdeep Borehole site.

"Earths's crust can reach up to 40,000 metres deep". In fact, Earth's crust can be even thicker than this at sites of plate convergence and mountain building. Here we can get a crustal thickness of up to 80,000 metres, which is seen in parts of the Himalaya today.

"We don't actually have any precise measurements of what's beyond the crust". In truth, we have loads of physical measurements from seismology and magnetic detection, we also have loads of geochemical measurements from mantle xenoliths.

"The molten lava that comes from the mantle mostly consists of material from the crust which just melted from contact with the mantle." This is the biggest error in the video. Crustal material which gets assimilated into magma chambers does play an important role in the chemical evolution of many magmas, but the vast majority of magmas on Earth represent partial melting of the mantle. All magmas produced everywhere originate from this partial melting of mantle material (with a literal handful of extremely rare cases from the Himalaya where melting can originate in the crust). This is why lavas can be so useful as a window into mantle processes - that's where they come from. Magma chambers are filled with material melted from the mantle, and provided it doesn't sit around too long in there, it may not ever receive any crustal component. The ocean floors are made from basalt which was melted from the mantle alone, mid-ocean ridges are home to magma chambers which are constantly erupting and being replenished.

"Therefore in reality, lava offers little insight into what's beyond the crust". An entire field of geoscience has been long established which deals with classifying lavas, their origin and what they can tell us about the Earth's interior, in particular the mantle. This is known as igneous petrology.

All comments from YouTube:

Evank

5y↑6K

Conspiracy theory: Astatine was created by the government in between Polonium (Po) and Radon (Rn) to keep the periodic table from saying Po Rn

~Rin's Empire~

AHHAHAH

cjack56

Thanks
Pp

brazil87ful

Need to pay more attention..

linkbirds

Real Real Real

Andrew Todaro

😂

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Grebulocities

4y↑341

When I saw helium and neon, I went and got my pressurized ampule of xenon (encased in acrylic) out of the fridge. It's easily the rarest stable element in the Earth's crust. I got it for an amazing property: it turns from a liquid to a state of matter we don't usually get to see - a supercritical fluid - between fridge and room temp. Its critical point falls at 16.6 C or 61.9 F, at a pressure of about 58 atmospheres. As I tilt it back and forth, the interface between the vapor and liquid eventually becomes blurry and then vanishes altogether. Also, it's beautiful in an electric field. It set me back $103 but it's worth every penny.

...but then you bypassed it and went on to trace radioactive elements. That's fine, no hard feelings. Astatine is cool but I had worse luck ordering it. Amazon got it to me in 2 days but only 1/64 of what I ordered was there. So I sent it back but they claimed they only got 1/4096 of what they sent me. Goddamn Jeff Bezos!

VexGotBloxxed

@Human I care a lot

Spacewarp Photography

Astatine is one of my two favorite elements, along with Fluorine. Astatine desperately wants to not exist, and Fluorine desperately wants everything else to not exist! Who knows what would happen if they ever met!

Mihail Milev

@kingdom of Bird nice pfp

Mihail Milev

What else is interesting abt ur vile of xenon?

Mihail Milev

@kingdom of Bird me too 😢

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Miłosz Skrzyński

4y↑195

It might sound strange, but I am much more amazed that we can know all of this, than the fact that these element are so rare.

Aerin Trouette

We can predict elemental properties due to valence electrons and position on the table, even if it’s highly reactive or scarce like Francium.

John Russel Santos

@nomadbrad how about you question your listening skills first? He said that the crust may likely be 40,000 meters deep. Then stated that the deepest the Borehole got was 12,262 meters due to the machines overheating.

Louis Robitaille

@brusso456 How do pulsars turn light into matter lmao. Nothing turns light into matter 😶.

Louis Robitaille

@Maalik Serebryakov Their mass among other things. There're a lot of methods to tell how big an atom is and what it's made of. What it can decay into is also an indicator.

Maalik Serebryakov

2y↑1

@brusso456 How do we know the number of subatomic particles in each atom

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Leonardo Ribeiro

3y↑23

I am a Nuclear Engineer, I was really curious to see how you would address the radioactive elements when I saw the title. Congratulations, I learned a lot of new stuff with this video.

F.B.I

3y↑1

Probably a hard job ey?

ChronicBoom

3y↑42

I worked as a jeweler for about 10 years; the most likely reason Pt is “worth” more than Au is that it’s a much more sturdy metal (desired to secure large stones) than gold and also keeps a cleaner look (less discoloration). Also, depending on trends, white metals can be more popular in general (white gold and rhodium plating being the solution for gold). Gold needs to be maintained by regular cleaning and re-plating. It’s also a tougher metal to work with (need welding goggles) so it’s just more expensive to work with (labor being much more involved and working with much higher temps). It may also have to do with how it’s removed from the crust but I’m less aware of how that’s done.

Dan

Look up Larry Lawton if you're not familiar with him

Ricky Earp

Pure gold is so soft, ALL gold bullion is hardened with platinum so the bullion bars can be stacked and handled without undo WEAR and loss of value. I'm not that smart-National Geographic 30+ years ago had an entire issue devoted to "GOLD". Bullion is .9987% "pure gold" or Credit Suisse Alloy settled upon in the late 1860's as the "World Standard" for bullion. Gold almost always has a tiny bit of very pure COPPER added for better color for jewelry. It only takes about 6% Pt to turn gold "white" (20 carat Gold can be "white Gold"). Even less rhodium. 100% PURE GOLD feels "greasy" to the touch, as your are rubbing some metal off on your fingers-rub 10 minutes and you'll "gold leaf" your fingerprints!

Spacewarp Photography

4y↑2.4K

Astatine and Fluorine are my two favorite elements. Astatine desperately wants to not exist, and Fluorine desperately wants EVERYTHING ELSE to not exist!

~Rin's Empire~

2y↑1

damn didnt know i could relate to elements

Andrew Barragan

2y↑1

My favorite is fluorine too

Kalibus Kristof

@Torahboy1 it wasn't very surprising, my brain correctly guessed the word "surprise" when i saw the read more click, and now i want ma fuckin' cookie.

Nima BEN

Cesium.
Wants anything to not exist, liquid at 28° and rare.

Spacewarp Photography

2y↑1

@🦂Mavetorr the Eldritch God of Destruction🦂
So many wonderful poisons available, but we keep coming back to good old dependable arsenic.

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Alternative Duck

3y↑81

My favorite random fact about Helium is that it was discovered by observing emission lines from the sun. Hence it being named for the sun (Helios).

wavion2

2y↑3

One thing to consider when it comes to rarity and value is how easy it is to extract/refine. As you noted, aluminum is one of the most abundant elements on earth, but until the late 1800's it was more valuable than gold, because people didn't know how to efficiently get it out of the rocks.

Benjamin Pilgrim

2y↑3

Wow, I learned something within the first 2 minutes. I had no idea that Oxygen could be anything other than a gas. As a crystal and gem collector: this knowledge is a game changer.

Gualberto Micolano

3y↑4

I learned a lot from this video and enjoyed it, so thumbs up for it, but in my opinion the mole fraction is more expressive of the actual occurrence of the elements than the mass fraction and also the mole fraction is more consistent with the count of atoms.

Darasilverdragon

4y↑2.3K

I can tell you why platinum is widely considered more valuable than gold
platinum's melting point is insane for a metal in that part of the periodic table - this stuff is utterly nutterly butterly, it doesn't melt until 1768C! Compare that with the melting point of gold, 1064 (which you'll note is within spitting distance of half as hot). On top of this, gold and silver are far more malleable compared to platinum, which is only slightly less hard than iron and prone to being brittle.
This made brightsmiths (blacksmiths worked iron and steel, brightsmiths worked precious metals) loathe to touch the stuff as it was next to impossible to cast into jewelry and insanely difficult to smith into shape with common brightsmithing hammers and equipment - the stuff was a NIGHTMARE to work, requiring the touch of only the most skilled of smiths. Because of this, anything made of platinum was an absolute chad move on the part of the owner, because it meant having the cash to throw around that you could commission the finest smiths in the known world for enough money that they were persuaded to work with this absolute nightmare metal that was also exceedingly rare at the time because it was so unworkable that no one really bothered mining it.
Obviously with the advent of modern tech, and the use of platinum in things like catalytic converters, it's become more commonly mined and is completely workable with modern machinery, so it's lost a lot of its value- but the cultural memories of its old status remain

Taasin Ahmed

I always wondered this but never knew, thank you very much

Mikhail Romanov

Pretty much every part of your comment is wrong. Pure platinum is the most malleable metal in existance. But nobody works with pure metals. 🤣Palladium can be added to lower the melting point to a meager 599C. And no, “pre-melting” both metals neither required nor recommended. Beaides, platinum is rarer than gold, and more difficult to mine and purify. Silversmiths (brightsmiths usually work with iron and tin 😂) would not have access to a large enough quanty of sufficiently pure platinum for this to even be a shadow of a problem.

Albert Norton Onymous

The last time platinum was worth more than gold was January of 2015.

tyler soto

Oh ok cool, since neon is a rare element, that if I go to Las Vegas and steal hundreds of neon lights etc and sell it on the black market I would be a millionaire lol

Lesseirg Papers

@Birchtree22 Your full of it. You majored in Physics? H20 absorbs the full sun spectrum and there is about 100 x more than CO2. And your simple hate tirades of science denying is Greta's talking points. Anybody can calculate that you would need 14 times the vegetation since 1901 to keep O2 at 20%. I know you are a fraud if you claim something and can note quite the source. That shows complete lack of understand simple formalities of science. Great Oxygenation Crisis proves what? Cyanobacteria proves what?

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Ben McReynolds

3y↑20

It's so facinating that so much diversity occurs from the simplest building blocks (particles) just in slightly different arrangements and charges +&- 👍

Jade_Bee.

3y↑6

To be honest, yttrium has always been one if my favorites to experiment with
Its so cool!

His Lordship The Employer

2y↑5

i think this is the stuff they found that is the only source of negative matter. but yes, it's so rare and they can only make just tiny bits of it at a time, it's what they'd need a lot of in order to actually make the time travel possible. It takes too much of the stuff to make it happen, and it can only be made, but at little bits at a time

Iain Burgess

3y↑6

The platinum vs gold thing is a combination of its relatively recent discovery as a viable material outside base research, and the cachet of that recent rarity/cost of production.

The J

5y↑5.6K

46% of the earth crust is oxygen

Me: Inhales rocks

Dia-Dia

@Gorgi Stanojevik because you can't see Atoms with your average microscope.

Michael Clark

Those rocks are all oxides of metals and metalloids

boiled egg flavored corn chip

breathe water

soeun khin

@Dino uh

Comrade_Vasily

@daniel bagus of course other planets have oxides or they wouldn't be solids they would be giant balls of fire like the sun otherwise

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Kill Putin NOW!

3y↑1

Makes me wonder what the Earth looked like before the oxygen-rich atmosphere developed. All those minerals in their natural state? Did the oxygen arrive with the water?

David H Braun

4y↑2

The best thing I like about this video is that the narration includes explanation of what is and is not under consideration, and the rationale.
Saying, "These elements are more or less abundant", without mention that only the accessible crust is in view, would leave us totally in the dark & unable to know what is even being described.

Electronics by Julie

Neon's rarity being comparable to gold and platinum is surprising, but since neon is a gas, a gram of it is a lot more for practical purposes than a gram of precious metal. It takes up a lot more space, and only a very small amount of neon is necessary to make a sign because the pressure has to be very low for the electricity to arc.

JR Beeler

3y↑1

86 nanograms of Astatine would be about 250 trillion atoms. For Astatine, that's an enormous amount -- a cube would be 60000 atoms on a side, and would easily vaporize.

Also, since Plutonium-244 has a half-life of 83 million years, I'm sure it's more common than the five elements immediately above it in your list.

João Rodrigues

5y↑4.7K

Villagers: I'll give you 3 bread for that.

Ashley Elliott

Tree fiddy

Jonathan Cole

@G4L1L_Buckz Con Stars

Derian Vandalsen

How much for 12 bamboo?

Hardikinnit.

@xelalexa done

xelalexa

make this 69 answers

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Prometheus Prime

2y↑2

If you count oxides as oxygen when determining the most abundant element in the earth then shouldn’t you include H2O when calculating the amount of hydrogen? The oceans are a naturally occurring layer like the crust.

BJM Graphics

4y↑3

If we can capture a little of these extreme rare elements and stabilize them, we can test to see if these elements can make some of our distant theories such as a quantum battery a reality.

Monica Bello

3y↑1

Very very interesting. The funny things is that most of us see elements like solid unchanging stuff, while it isn't, they can trasform themselves in something else, that's nice

thomas aquinas

4y↑1

Palladium and platinum are probably the most important elements, being useful, rare, expensive, and durable. What's really rare, valuable (one day), etc. is helium-3. It's necessary for future nuclear power generation and research. Unfortunately most helium escapes our atmosphere; the largest known sources of it are the major planets, and the Moon...

Ben McReynolds

Do you think it's possible that those elements that exist for only a second or so, could exist for playing a role in being the chemistry spark or radiation spark to cause further chemistry change or even the beginning of microbial life?? Idk

Unoriginal

But one thing to remember is that all of these gasses are spread pretty far apart, like nitrogen in the atmosphere. The atoms would be far apart so it would fill lots of space with few atoms. But, things like gold are quite dense so its lots of atoms in a small space.

Rick Elleman

I'm an old guy, so I knew the 'rarest element on Earth' wasn't what it was when I was a kid.
That was Technetium back then. In fact, it wasn't even the rarest element on Earth... it was first discovered in the spectrum of the sun and, at the time, not thought to be present on earth. To be fair, most of it is still synthesized by nuclear reaction.

ANNA CLARA Fenyo

There was never a time after the big bang when the universe was all hydrogen. It was 75% hydrogen isotopes and 25% helium, with 1% lithium and trace amounts of heavier stuff, and that's more or less how it stayed, because those abundances are still roughly accurate.

Josip Ćurić

5y↑4.2K

Astatine: *exists*
oh, wait, it's gone already

Spotsumo

3y↑1

Sad Bismuth 209 noises

InternalSobbing

Oof :(

Joel Unruh

@Andrew Calvo
FFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Octobsession

@𝗗𝗢𝗚𝗘 oganesson

Octobsession

Astatine : *exists*
Also astatine : *mesa disappearing*

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P E

3y↑2

7:10 i think the reason platinum is still considered "above" gold in most people's minds is that it USED to be more valuable than gold AND even now that it isn't (monetarily) it's still more DIFFICULT to melt and refine than gold is...PLUS economically viable deposits of it are actually still more rare than economically viable deposits of gold as far as we (humans) are aware

Boom Stick

4y↑5

Wouldn’t the characteristics of Astatine make it the “least important” element on earth?

clawwwie

3y↑1

2:53 Hydrogen can only be said to make up a large part of baryonic matter. Dark matter has been calculated to make up over 5 times as much as all baryons combined.

유리큐브 제왕Lord of the Glass Cube

Wait, so if rocks have a lot of oxygen in them, would it be possible to produce oxygen on mars or the moon without having to bring our own?

JasonStarRising

5y↑893

If they released the caves update maybe we will find this element

Aperion

This aged well.

Zero Two

1.17 much?

wobbly_bubbly123

@Warlord Huo its op?
Armour is supposed to not break and protect you

X-90

4y↑9

Do I have news for you

3000BlackJetsOfAllah

Netherite

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Michael Hibbs

Helium is indeed the 2nd most abundant element in the universe, but most of it doesn't come from nuclear fusion in stars. Instead, most of the helium in the universe was created at nearly the same time as hydrogen, as the universe cooled down from the big bang. The close match between the measured abundance of helium (about 25% of the atoms in the universe) and theoretical calculations of big-bang nucleosynthesis is one of the earliest confirmations of the big bang theory.

Sam

4y↑2

A few moments later...
I started researching and collecting every elements to combine every single elements to make my own combat set

Philip Doring

4y↑6

Radon is listed as being extremely rare but in some parts of the world basements need fans to remove it as it builds up to toxic levels.

danguee1

@Balls ong You shouldn't guess. Especially if your guesses are WAY off the mark - as you must surely have noticed by now?

taken

4y↑13

this makes me realize how finite our resources really are

Jimmy Zimmerman

5y↑755

That picture at 0:28 isn't of the Kola borehole. That is the Mirny mine in Siberia. Which is an open pit diamond mine located in Sakha Republic in Russia. The borehole in fact is (was now that is is demolished) a rather nondescript building. The hole itself is just a small steel cap on a slab of concrete.

nomadbrad

The deepest the Kola hole ever got was 12,262 meters (40,230 ft) , NOT 40,000 meters

Gustav Idsäter

@antcowan It is still the deepest man made hole because that oil rig drilled diagonally

FrostyLava

@John R ah man your late, I am watching this video there. Good thing there's WiFi here.

MCGamer 826

4y↑1

tf I made that comment almost a year ago

Nidhal Sormali

@Themoreyouknow mr toxic dumbass

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JEKSINA// MARIYA//

4y↑4

"this process continues to this day and even now the earth loses an estimated 95,000 tons of hydrogen each year just from it leaking into space"
i came here to hear about the rarest element on earth and i left with anxiety

Michael

Common sense says, the heaviest elements are rare on the surface and ejected by volcanic activity. But there may be heavier elements that cannot escape gravity. Or are extremely magnetic and are bonded in the core. It could be Gold has decayed from something twice as dense. The heat could be from a radioactive compound far heavier than we have seen.

swag

Even though some of these are like 1 in some quadrillions, if you think about it, it really isn’t that much as you have quintillions and maybe even sextillions of atoms just in your foot. Meaning there is a chance you are made partially of radon or even plutonium

Mark Cassel

It's nice to know that someone was present at the big bang to document how much hydrogen was there.

grindupBaker

5y↑2.3K

The rarest element on Earth is the element of surprise. Gotcha !!

Jesus Luna

You got ms

William Yerrill

Wish u could see the dislikes on this comment

Jones Thomas

@Augustine M I disagree the time most the moment of suprise was done ×1 billion when my teacher took a suprise test right after a picnic in which someone got hurt bad

Jumanji

@Tyler Solvestri NO ITS TIN AND LOVE AND BLAHSJDHDBXHDUJ-stupid dude 2021 yeah he died yeah he was dumb

Jumanji

Tin is rare but it costs like, £5.00 what?like,how tho?

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anneeq008

4y↑2

Some if these facts are just mind blowing. Especially the lack of nitrogen. I can't believe how rare that is in the surface in comparison to it's composition is the air

Sigh Phi Guy

3y↑1

"tinfoil" is made from aluminium since WW2.
and "half" the crust being oxide doesnt mean half the crust is oxygen. it means it is 25% being that oxide is 1 oxygen atom + 1 atom of another element.

Juan Ausensi

The proportion doesn't need to be 1 to 1.

Human Isomer

4y↑1

@Atlas Pro You're mixing molar abundance and mass abundance. Titanium being ~5x more mass abundant than Hydrogen actually still means that for each Titanium atom, there are more than 10 Hydrogen atoms to be found. So, your example of explaining the meaning of ppm on Terbium is a misconception.

Neels B

Very interesting. I'm just confused about something... you said nobody knows what astatine looks like... but then you continue to say that scientists are able to "make" small amounts of astatine... so how does nobody know what it looks like, if it has been made (artificially)? And how do scientists know it exists, if nobody has ever "seen" it?

Jim McClarin

I question your figures, specifically the claim about oxygen and carbon being the first and second most abundant elements in the human body. We are said to be 60% water, which consists of two hydrogen atoms to one oxygen atom. That means, even without delving into organic chemistry, hydrogen atoms outnumber anything else in the body. That would push oxygen down to #2 and carbon to #3.

Varuna Pathak

2y↑1

I think maybe he meant 'by mass' since Hydrogen is so light.

Jaime Perez

4y↑1

Wow! What a great educational video! Super thanks, for making it...

Krums Korner

Tritium is extremely rare and really cool. There is supposedly only like 7kg on all of earth.

luckyjinxer

I like how you know your stuff, did your research and explained how your thumbnail actually wasn't just click bait.

Tom P

6y↑204

Kurt Maverick P. Guarin

Too lazy to reaf

ffggddss

@James Collier Yeah, this has, at the terminator, the Sun rising in the west. So just think of it as a time-reversed movie ;–)

Fred

D. R.

Thanks for the post, hope it stays near the top.

Nathan Levesque

6y↑2

@Noobly Walker *cite

Gnorts Mr Alien

Crustal 😏

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Daryl Walsh

Very informative and enjoyable video.

Joji

4y↑123

Astatine is like the perfect girl. No where to technically be found...

captainphoenix

3y↑1

"These are what are called 'unicorns'. They don't exist."

Tristan_MP

astatine is lime my happiness

generic interneter

3y↑5

And she’s very unstable.

generic interneter

3y↑7

And she breaks up with you because she’s highly radioactive.

Hunter Kepon

Yeah no one is perfect

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Erick Bush

The crust can actually be much thicker then 40km. Mountain chains formed from continental collisions like the Himalayas, Alps, ural, Appalachian and many others can have roots that go much deeper. As they push against each other one plate subsides and the other sort of crumbles and folds in on itself. The result is a mountain chain growing up and down. It's similar to an iceberg having most of its mass below the surface. The depths vary and as a mountain erodes it starts to rise up so older mountains like the urals and appalachians have shallower roots. Still forming mountain chains like the alps and Himalayas have deeper roots. So you'd probably want to double that 40km.

Tyler Alexander

4y↑9

I mean, there’s still a lot of hydrogen on Earth. It’s just, you know, in the ocean

Paul Bedichek

The water isn't deep.

May the Science be with You

3y↑2

That is taken into account in those numbers

Wout Melis

4y↑1K

10:00 “handful of atoms” well that’s a lot of atoms

4096th Number

true

Marco Moon

@TheCerealArsonist a mole of astatine is about 200 grams a mole is about 6x10^23. 2 too many 0's maybe

Marco Moon

Ahh, I'm 2 years late and just wrote the same thing 😆

dlkline27

"Handful" is a colloquialism indicating a small amount such as the fingers on one hand, NOT the number of atoms one could hold in one hand - a very small, nonspecific number.

Wyatt Miller

@Backwards World never heard this before, must not be common in this part of the world

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Lapis Lazuli

I find it kinda surprising that astatine is the rarest element, considering it's NOT the least stable naturally-occuring element. THAT record goes to francium, which despite having a half-life of only 22 minutes (assuming the most stable isotope), is more common than the comparatively stable astatine.

Matt Potter

3y↑1

The price of gold and platinum on a commodities market doesn't have that much to do with how rare they are but mostly how much humans, those in the market want to buy it, plus how many owners of it want to buy it. It also will depend upon demand, ease of production, amount processed into ownable materials (like gold bars), and other factors, but I don't think how rare a metal is in the earth's crust determines its cost, especially when two metals are similarly very rare.

Rursus

Rare Earth Elements are called so because they were first found in "rare earths," which is what today would be called rare minerals. Later they were found in abundance in other minerals too, but they weren't discovered therein. Therefore there is little point in pointing out how non-rare the Rare Earth Elements often are.

Edward Fleming

It’s only recently that platinum has been worth less than gold and this drop in price is in no small part because they have stopped using it in catalytic converters. It’s a very simple supply and demand equation.

Ranking Every Doctor Who Story: Professor Zaroff

Technically elements up to 98 can occur in minute quantities due to radioactive decay.

Donnie White

So if we haven't even been halfway through the Earth's crust, how could we possibly know what's below that? Is there even a mantle or a core? How could anybody possibly know this?

Jim Parsons

Interesting clip. Carbon (diamond) is sometimes found near some volcanos --- diamonds are formed about 50 miles below the Earth's surface. So carbon is one of those 'trace elements.'

Sampanna

50 miles is nowhere near crossing the earth's crust

Красная гвардия

4y↑1

I didn’t know that Helium was actually hard to find even though it is the second atomic number on the periodic table, cool.

Dongdong Yang

its the second atomic number on the periodic table becuz its the second lightest element

James Koen

4y↑763

And here I thought the rarest element on earth these days is common sense.

Jesse Yu

@Tom Gunn True! I’ve once tried saying that humans are as smart as koalas, and then people asked me what smart things koalas have done for the planet. Just proves my point.

Tom Gunn

3y↑1

pray that there's intelligent life out in space, 'cause there's sure none down here on earth!

Edgar Deitz

Good one! ;)

InternalSobbing

True

PixelMaster

this joke is literally in the video description (though I don't know if Atlas Pro took that from your comment) ^^

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InfinitY

I think the phrase "... element on earth" is misleading, as the atmosphere can be considered to be part of the earth as well, which makes basically all of the gases much more abundant than listed here.

Dylan G

At 0:30 when you have the photo, that is not the Kola Super Deep Borehole. That is the Mirny Mine in the Sakha Republic in eastern Siberia/Russian Far East. It’s an open pit diamond that has since closed in 2004.

The Kola Super Deep Borehole is on the Kola Peninsula northwest of Murmansk. It is also about 1ft wide and capped with a metal plate.

Jorge Haswag

3y↑6

7:20 hey, actually the only color in neon signs that ever uses neon is red. the process is done by (recalling my 9th grade science here so possibly wrong) i think heating it, and each element gives off a different color.

Lawrence Iverson

Nope it lights up by having electricity thru it!!!

Shane Cullinane

I wonder if anyone was ever working in a mine and uncovered some astatine and was left dumbfounded when it just decayed away in front of them

kailomonkey

I'd like a deep dive into Astatine uses, properties etc.

j u p i t e r

its element astatine and only approximately 25 grams occur naturally on the planet at any given time. Its existence was predicted in the 1800s, but was finally discovered about 70 years later. Decades after its discovery, very little is known about astatine ur welcome

johnpearcey

Did you forget the amount of water on the planet? That would make Hydrogen twice as abundant as Oxygen.

Ted Phillips

What about Phosphorus ? Without phosphorus, there can be no adenosine triphosphate . We should note, some bacteria have evolved the capacity to substitute Arsenic for Sulfur in their DNA.

Ent

5y↑7

What a coincidence about the astatine thing.

I had an entrepreneurship project, and one of the questions was why a business (theoretically or real) could’ve undergone scarcity.

So through a bunch of google searches on rarer elements, astatine being a possibility to treat thyroid cancer was the theoretical situation I had chose.

LanceAndrei Balbiran

4y↑103

The Rarest Element Is Good Friend That Will Never Left You Behind.

Just aR

3y↑1

@Tony Anchondo lol

Just aR

@LanceAndrei Balbiran bro its been 6 month since thebmn

LanceAndrei Balbiran

3y↑1

@Just aR sorry im not good at english because i live in nigeria but im in america

Yehia

Definitely

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@vlada what?

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dlkline27

Excellent and very informative presentation.

Clair Pahlavi

Helium is produced by electrical nucleo-synthesis above the liquid hydrogen surface of our Sun. Other stars have different current intensities and expanded plasma photospheres of different sizes.

Antonio Grancino

Iridium tells its own story:
Iridium is a very rare element in the Earth's crust, but is found in anomalously high concentrations (around 100 times greater than normal) in a thin worldwide layer of clay marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, 66 million years ago. This boundary is marked by a major extinction event, including that of the dinosaurs along with about 70% of all other species. The clay layer also contains small grains of shocked quartz and, in some places, small weathered glass beads thought to be tektites.
Some geologists believe the "Iridium Anomaly" was deposited by a meteorite impact on the Yucatan peninsula a few years back.

kulturfreund66

I’m truly impressed. Very smart people who found out all this. One question comes to mind: Why is our fate influenced if not determined by morons most of the time?

clutch

4y↑3

When I first saw this video, I was in 6th grade and i was like "how does any of this make sense to anybody ever" and know im taking physical science on 8th grade and i feel like im smart

Furn

I can't get over just how good this video is

Kender the extremophile

The earth's hydrogen has been diminishing,can it represent a danger for living beings ?

nowthatsjustducky

4y↑160

We need to name an element felonium, just to show that even the realm of physics has a criminal element.

Colin Newman

Crimininium? Should sort out people that have had a drink.

nowthatsjustducky

@danoso0931 That would probably be a natural explosive too...It really blows.

danoso0931

2y↑1

Also one named Felatium, to show that is has an erotic element

Rock that looks like a face

2y↑1

We also need to name a crystal amirite.

Conrad McDougall

3y↑1

Nigrogen

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SwagYoutubeMan55

I got a question. How do they know about these elements that died when the earth was made. Like the ones with half lives really short

Nick Thompson

I’m curious. If earth is so old, and the radioactive elements theoretically were created by supernovae, does that mean at one point the earth had a huge abundance of these elements and was almost completely inhospitable to life as we know it? Or perhaps did there exist elements with far larger atomic radii than we currently understand? I’m sure those questions are trying to be answered by scientists when they created the last elements on the periodic table, but those elements have notoriously short (as in nanoseconds) half-lives. So my question remains: which scenario makes more sense in the context of probability?

magnetmannenbannanen

so with a astitine detector , we could track nuclear reactors in the universe?

74KU

4y↑1

Comparing rocky minerals to gasses in rocks and saying "see its not that rare" is like calling fire the rarest thing on earth because you never see it at the bottom of the ocean!

Jason Mclaren

5y↑788

Gold: "Hey Astatine, how was your day?"
Astatine: Aight imma head out

Rock that looks like a face

Probably wouldn’t even last a day.

IPunchShiteEatingWokeTards

@Titan Object Cosmos [CAO] [UOM] 723

Titan Object Cosmos [CAO] [UOM]

4y↑2

@IPunchShiteEatingWokeTards It’s not lame. people that are jerks just don’t understand

Alex

@yaphace A man of culture I see

Ritsu AFK

4y↑2

Obamium : Am I a joke to you ?

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Mary Patten

Is it possible that hydrogen was more prevelant in rocks way back when the pyramids were being built?

Pedro FIgueiredo

Hydrogen H2 is lighter than He, hence it leaves the Earth much faster than He. The gravity of Earth would be able to keep H2 only at very low temperature. In other words, the Earth never had an atmosphere of hydrogen except traces.

ProfessorDBehrman

A long time ago I read an essay by Isaac Asimov which contained a little anecdote about Asimov assaulting his long-suffering wife with little-known trivia. He asked her:
"Do you know how rare astatine 215 is? If you searched the top layer of the crust, do you know how many atoms would you find?"
She said: "No, how many?"
His response: "Practically none. Only a trillion."

Stephen Knapp

I'm guessing that you're NOT considering the oceans when you talk about the elements in the Earth's crust. I gotta believe that all that water would account for a tiny bit of Hydrogen.

kid funky fri

6y↑434

If you need help with the Platinum and gold confusion it's because Platinum is actually in a decline right now in the market place for a few reasons. Historically Platinum has almost always been more expensive because of it's properties and suspected rarity.

Sludge

@John Fernandez they are using more palladium now hence why palladium costs twice as much as platinum

Where's my Dragonator?

I'm pretty sure most of the supply of gold is being horded. They're not exactly ultra rare. It's just that no one is willing to sell them.

effexon

@Fuzzy Duo at the same time i believe technology has advanced, so they can make thinner layers of gold(electronics is as valid), so need for it hasnt skyrocketed despite usefulness. in 90s it was rumour that 486 cpus were more valuable than gold, so those were stolen a lot. they also had gold connectors. still odd phenomenom.

Objects in Motion

5y↑1

No matter how you slice it, Gold is more valuable than Platinum. Gold has a higher demand, lower supply, and lower source abundance. The only reason platinum is above gold is because of a historical accident in the 20th century, just like for a time Aluminum was above gold in the 19th century. It is a fad that will fade with time and Gold will once again be on top.

-XTX-OppaiMonster

k i think it just sounds more cool

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Justin Monroe

Yeah I would consider those numbers estimations, not literally. As we know temperature affects chemical, and atomic, and even quantum bonds. Having said that I'd estimate that those numbers are higher, and our extraction methods would have to be updated to make use of those particular elements. I'm just not a fan of speculations, or estimations, unless factoring in as much as can be applied. We are far from determining such things, especially relying on estimations that may be way off.

J. Frank Mortimer

4:22. Scandium is a transition metal, in fact the lightest transition metal. It is not a rare earth.

Excuse You?

Btw rare earth elements only got that name because they used to be considered to be rare because they are all spread out evenly, so it’s uncommon to find a large mass of ore in a specific place.

Thom Walbran

The main difference between Oxide and Oxygen is that the Oxide is a chemical compound with at least one oxygen atom and Oxygen is a element with the atomic number of 8. An oxide is a chemical compound that contains less than one oxygen atom and one other element in its chemical formula. YOU CAN'T BREATH OXIDE, OXYGEN IS WHAT CAUSES METALS TO BREAKDOWN......

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