How Many Elements Are There? | BBC Earth Science

Welcome to BBC Earth Lab! Here we answer all your curious questions about science in the world around you.

[Questn]

I was going to tell a chemistry joke...
But then I thought there will be no reaction.

[MrsWhiterock]

I wish my chemistry teacher could have explained his lessons in such a memorable way like you did :)
At least this way chemistry would have actually been fun

[richNfitlife]

No. Not boring at all. Also, what you have going for you is that you are quite good looking. Really lovely to look at...while learning some chemistry.

[User-kcbu]

This was actually very educating, good job on the video. I wish you would make a part 2 video about how many possible elements are there actually, and what would be necessary to do to create them(I'm talking about precise calculations of how much energy it needs to create the heaviest possible atoms).

[rickseiden]

Almost 30 years ago, I got to my Chem 101 final a little early. The professor wasn't there yet, so I decided to have a little fun. I wrote on the board, in big letters, "Chemistry is BOHRING." I thought it was hysterical. When the professor got there, he looked at it, shook his head, and erased it. I'm not sure if he didn't find it funny (because it implied chemistry is boring), or if he had heard it so many times he was sick of it.

[joebloe]

Wow I didn't know all the ununo watata elements have actually been discovered now.

[wanderingknight]

Great voice good content thank you big guy 👍

[karlschurmann]

Here for the cheesy puns,

Learnt some science too.

[gallendugall]

Now do a video entitled, "How many elephants are there?" just to confuse the search algorithm.

[GenerousViewer]

my school is watching this vid right now

[LaserFur]

do you have to have the beeping sound in the background around 2:10. it's so distracting.

[Dan-ulsf]

Probs loads of new elements in all these exoplanets we've yet to discover

[prich]

I reckon the elements heavier then Uranium are also natural, it's the fact that they don't last long which is why we don't find them when mining which is why we say they are man made

[IzzyTheEditor]

We all know the 5th Element was Leeloo.

[Lightmaker]

Limitless to be exact. The universe is limitless.

[joeceonnia]

You forgot element 115 - but excellent otherwise mate!!

[-_Nuke_-]

To be fair, Greeks did believed in atoms, actually the word "atom" is a Greek word that means "atomos" (in Greek) and indivisible in English...

We Greeks actually still use that same word till this day, which is pretty cool if you think about it.

[grindedgrapejuice]

There are so many chemisty jokes in this comment section, it gets bohring to read after awhile..

[BrokebackBob]

We should have a separate table for man-made elements, scientists argue about whether many of them really exist.

[KarlFFF]

I for one enjoy your PlutoniumNitrides :)