Periodic Table Part 10: Transition Metals, Lanthanides and Actinides

With the main-group elements covered, it's time to check out the other sections of the periodic table, those being the transition metals, as well as the lanthanides and actinides. We rarely discuss most of these elements, so what are they all about? Let's find out!

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[scisher]

Dave - I know these videos are not your most viewed, but I want you to know that it is incredibly valuable for me and my students. Thank you for creating this useful explanation 😊

[MichaelLeightonsKarlyPilkboys]

Hi Professor Dave,

Just wanted to say I read "Is This Wifi Organic?" a few months ago and loved it. I always struggled with chemistry at school and thought it too abstract and complex for me to understand, but your step-by-step introduction to understanding chemical structures and basic concepts was so clear and concise that it's really sparked an interest in chemistry for me.

Going through your chemistry series now and wanted to say you are an excellent teacher. When I was at school, I was always one of the last to understand things in science classes so I kind of wrote it off as something beyond my understanding. However you make it very accessible and fascinating for people like me.

Thank you so much for the great videos, they are fantastic.

[waelfadlallah]

Yes we are continuing with the rest of the periodic table elements thank you professor Dave

[amciuam]

I love periodic table of elements. How about a video about the island of stability and future of elements research? We are now able to change lead into gold, which was literally the alchemist dream. Albeit the process is expensive and produces tiny tiny amounts, probably less than a few hundred atoms per year.

[abcde_fz]

Every Single Time I see a good video on the Periodic, I learn yet ANOTHER type of information that's contained in it. I can say I got a solid start in Chemistry, ('elective' course at school), but soon found out I wasn't 'getting' a feel for the several different patterns of sub-sets of the atom, (the ones they start to branch out into after getting you comfortable with the basics of Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons). I got the shells, and the importance of the sharing of electrons, we got to something called "valance numbers", and it was right after that I think we started getting intros into more than one system at a time. Where we'd only needed to keep say 5 basic facts in mind for the first month, all of a sudden there was 3 branches with 2 facts each, ... and I couldn't keep up. I'm glad I got the VERY basics out of the way, so that a good video like this CAN teach me something about more nuts and bolts, without having to define "ion" and "atomic number" again.
Anyway what was it in here, a chart about "Aubrey" this-or-that? NEVER saw that introduced before, so BACK TO THE FUN OF WATCHING!!!

[aryanpatel]

Hi Dave,

I just want to say that I have fallen in love with ur teaching style and mostly at the starting of your video, I absolutely love it.

[fahimahsan]

Your video is much better than any premium subscriptions or coaching I have in this country.

Thanks for such amazing contents

[ganeshbhantana]

This is so beneficial for me because I have to study in our syllabus. Thanks, Dave, as usual, It's a great video so far.

[dominicestebanrice]

Some REALLY useful visuals here! Thanks.

[rickkwitkoski]

Thank you. Informative and concise as usual.

That last bit about some people wanting to "believe" something else about elements is so telling in this current time of so much false and mythological garbage being spread around.

The Periodic Table of the Elements is so elegant that it almost seems "designed" !!!

[richardkeilig]

Once again, I am amazed at how well you teach, organize, and illustrate. I will have my chemistry class watch this program and answer some questions. Well done. Rick
MUHS App. County, Iowa

[WarlockHolmes]

I love your content. Longtime subscriber. Thank you very much Dave.

[cillianennis]

This is great to understand. In my writing I had alchemy having its own elements but to do it I decided they'd use things we don't have in real life those being a parallel electronmagnetism that allows for new elements but also by this we have to make up rules that prevent certain ones existing due to a form of repulsion & attraction between the particles. The Rale is like an electron & is attracted to the Kale but these particles are repulsed by the opposite of their form. So basically the Rale is attracted to electrons but not protons making a form of repulsion that basically allows it to be intresting.

[malekthiek]

Absolutely understood sir, thanks for this fantastic lesson

[marcusscience]

9:35 Actually, to be more precise, at the start of the f block, an electron is indeed placed in the d subshell instead of f, but later on, that d electron hops to the f subshell, and the d subshell starts filling for real at the start of the d block, right where it’s supposed to.

[thewatcher]

I ordered your book yesterday on Amazon! Arrives tomorrow! Thanks Professor Dave! Forever grateful for YouTube's autoplay feature for randomly playing your response to globebusters. That's how I found you!

[vasanthisuperkaruna]

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[tonymcmayer]

For some reason I never noticed that uranium, neptunium, and plutonium are clearly named after the planets.

[strenter]

Fun fact: Osmium was, as Tungsten (Wolfram in German, hence the W) is nowadays, used for incandescend light bulbs as the glowing parts.
That is also how that big company making light bulbs was named - Osmiumwolfram, or short: Osram.

[pagescience]

Oh, you completely dissected the periodic table. Thank you. The periodic table is better than the new periodic table, like a triangle or a spiral.