Palladium - Periodic Table of Videos

For our updated Palladium video, we are mining the Royal Society archives for the story of its discovery - a tale of money, an asteroid and stolen samples?

The discovery was made by William Hyde Wollaston.

This video features Professor Martyn Poliakoff.

Brady's other channels include:

[Odincdaj]

That's amazing, essentially literally touching history--the pieces of metal that FARADAY of all people used. Astounding.

[terrattenfanger]

"He was furious!" Professor Poliakoff was so emotional while delivering that line! A great scientist and natural hoster.

[RobertGallop]

So cool to think Faraday actually touched those very same metals! Thanks as always for the glimpse into a wonderful past Brady!

[zantrua]

Exactly. A lot of the viewership are school children who are just learning these things, and it's incredibly helpful to have it explained by someone who is an expert and who has done such a good job creating a visual depiction of these things.

[TheScandinavianOne]

Precisely. I for one am relearning Chemistry from a very basic level at the moment and I find this channel's teaching style most informative and extremely compelling at the same time.
I think I've been in front of the computer for hours now thinking of experiments I'll do when I get my lab up and running and I have these guys to thank for it. :)

[analyzingfunny]

You Sir, are inspiring. I wanted to attend school for extractive metallurgy, when I was young. But, growing up poor, abused, desolate, and low self esteem, I gave up. This is absolutely fascinating, and so complete. Exactly what I was looking for. 

[ThinkingNstuff]

Yeah, the way he explains all the chemistry related jargon is one of the best things about this channel. It makes some of the more difficult parts of chemistry easy to understand for anyone who wants to learn something new (:

[RzzRBladezofoccham]

Brady's channels are doing exactly what they are meant to do, making difficult science accessible to a large community of people, creating an atmosphere of learning and understanding that many of us could otherwise not enjoy and the videos are of course very entertaining.
What I don't understand is that many universities stay absent from this niche, since it is their core business to educate people. (I am aware of the classes that are being uploaded by other universities)

[matthewirvine]

This was good, the background information on palladium and wollaston him self was interesting! good stuff :D

[Starchface]

Perhaps he has acquired this habit because he does not want to impose any barriers to his students, some of whom may not be native English speakers or just might not know a given word.

I haven't attended any of Poliakoff's lectures, but I strongly suspect that he is a superb lecturer. I've had enough incomprehensible lecturers and instructors in my time to appreciate The Professor's clear, lucid delivery. His unique style and charming personality are important ingredients of Periodic Videos.

[Draxis]

It's such a fabulous thing that Professor Poliakoff has acess to the Royal Society Archives and that Brady can go with him to record a video explaining amazing pieces of history.
I feel privileged only to be a subscriber at periodic videos.

[miskee]

I hope you'll watch Tyler DeWitt's speech at TED, "Hey science teachers -- make it fun", and explore his suggestion to the fullest. I really think there are other mediums which more advanced students of chemistry can learn through with the pace they wish to learn at. I don't think I'm slowing anyone down. If someone chooses to view "less advanced" videos while being capable of much more, they are actually slowing themselves down. Interest creates a thrust for excellence.

[denEtwasAnderen]

Thanks for all the effort you always put in every single video<3 Greetings from Germany !

[storyspren]

0:32 "Imagine that you've discovered a new element. What would you do?"
I'd name it after myself :P

[byront]

That splinter isnt a splinter at all. It is what is called a lamination or De-lamination issue or error. It happens in the rolling of probably any metal that has developed an oxide layer. During rolling or milling the metal will not develop a mechanical bond with the metal around it because the oxide layer. What your seeing the metal actually pealing away.

[pinkskullsntattoos]

i love you guys and thanks to all of you i rekindled my love for chemistry !!! i love you all, keep up your passion for science.

[wayneshafton]

A lot of young kids and people from non-english speaking backgrounds watch these excellent videos too. I think everyone involved does an excellent job in engaging such a wide and mixed audience.

[jamesswartz]

If you are really only 11 then i commend you on your thirst for knowledge and rather advanced vocab (at least compared to my own). Keep it up young one, you have slightly increased my hopes in humanity.

[punishedexistence]

I can listen to the Prof talk all day, such an interesting person! And I'm willing to bet that package is worth quite a bit, it's nice that they show stuff like this, back in those days, it probably took a LOT of work to extract all that platiunum and palladium. Pretty darn cool!

[riskinhos]

love the new video about palladium. still a lot to do since some elements only have 1min clip without seeing the actual element.

I feel very sad when I watch this videos from the royal society. why isn't this shown to the public? why do they have to keep it store so no one except a very few ones are able to see it?
isn't the royal society also responsible to promote science? really shame on them. just make a museum so we can all appreciate and learn.

thank god there's periodic videos.