Tellurium - THE MOST INSIDIOUS ELEMENT ON EARTH!

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Do not repeat the experiments shown in this video!
In this video I would like to tell you about the most treacherous element that will make anyone who dares to hold it just for a few seconds in his hands, regret his decision. In the periodic table of chemical elements tellurium is right below selenium, in group 16, and in contrast to the elements preceding it, tellurium belongs to semimetals. Tellurium is very scarce in Earth’s crust and its rarity is compared to that of platinum. Tellurium is so rare because during the first stages of Earth formation, its compounds reacted with water forming volatile hydrogen telluride, which has easily vanished into the open space throughout Earth’s existence. Today this same metal is obtained when copper electroplating produces by-products in the form of tellurides of precious metals, which later on are reduced to mettalic tellurium. After refining, pieces of this metal look very similar to pieces of any other metal, although holding this metal in the hands for just a few seconds is enough to make sure it is tellurium. Smallest bits of tellurium can bind with oil on our fingers and get inside the organism through skin pores. This is not necessarily deadly but it’s very unpleasant to those around you because inside the organism, tellurium metabolizes into dimethyl telluride.

[RatFacedJasper]

Garlic breath is almost like a gift compared to the horrors I assumed.

[mrguy]

"not necessarily deadly"
Whether that is optimism or a disclaimer, it's hilarious

[medexamtoolscom]

One of the few forms of gold compounds that occurs in nature is gold telluride. There's a story of a town in Australia that LITERALLY paved their roads with gold for years without knowing it, because they found some nearby abundant mineral that they had never seen before but which was good for making concrete out and it turned out to be gold telluride.

[claytonbenignus]

Tellurium is one of the few things that Gold readily combines with. In fact, there is a mineral, Calaverite (AuTe2), that can be found near certain Australian Gold Mines.

[razgon]

Tellurium can be obtained on archwing missions.

[Soup_cant_play]

Lead Bullets: 0% Damage vs. Vampires
Silver Bullets: 200% Damage vs. Vampires
Tellurium Bullets that break down into Garlic: 30000% Damage vs. Vampire?

[thetimewizard]

step 1: buy tellurium powder
step 2: cover everything in tellurium
step 3: free garlic scented humans

[NoahSpurrier]

I have microwaved a lot of CDs in my time (for fun), but every once in a while there would be a CD that would make a really terrible smell, and not just that burning plastic smell which really isn’t that bad, but a truly nasty smell that made me regret my decision to microwave the CD. Now I wonder if those stinky burning CDs were ones with tellurium. Fascinating.

[jerry]

Tellurium is also one of the few elements to have an unstable isotope more prevalent than stable ones

[metatag]

I worked with tellurium in the past. You might think that you were clear of the stuff, but the most notable thing I remember of it is the release of odour on washing my face in the morning. The hot water would release the stuff, which did smell like garlic.

[KowboyUSA]

Make a nice Tellurium coated necklace for my lovely ex-wife.

[genericgoon]

me after watching video: *looks at thousands of DVDs in cellar*

Welcome to my laboratory where safety is number one priority.

[SuperAngelofglory]

Haha the only element discovered in my country is a stinker

[galliumgames]

Somebody that knew I liked chemistry gifted me a 500 gram block of Tellurium for Christmas two years ago. WHY???

[rucussing]

I feel like I am colluding when watching this channel.

[benjaminallan-clark]

So he's a German, Russian, Swedish Borat impersonator? NIIIICE!

[Twobarpsi]

Need to make me some Tellurium bread with my next pasta alfredo...

[medexamtoolscom]

There's another reason why tellurium is rare at Earth's surface. Because it's the only element that combines with quite a few unreactive metals like gold, and then it ended up getting pulled to the Earth's core. Gold telluride is an actual thing, that is found in nature.

[williamzhang]

Iron: I'm one of the most useful metals in the world, so what do you do?

Tellurium: I make people smell like garlic