The Map of Chemistry

The entire field of chemistry summarised in 12mins from simple atoms to the molecules that keep you alive.

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Errata and notes:
1. I got the Oxidising Agent and the Reducing Agent the wrong way around! Sodium is the Reducing agent and Chlorine is the Oxidising agent. My confusion was that when a sodium atom looses an electron it becomes oxidised, so in my simple brain, I called it the oxidising agent. That is wrong because the agent that oxidises the sodium is the chlorine atom and so the labels are the wrong way around. Doh!
2. I drew the hydrogen H2 molecule with a double bond but it should be a single bond because they are bonded with a single covalent bond.
3. Where I have drawn carbon dioxide, the carbon should have a double bond to each of the oxygens.
4. Apparently Feynman diagrams are not that useful for theoretical chemistry, so perhaps that wasn't the best choice for the illustration. The feedback in the comments from a real theoretical chemist is "All we deal with is shuffling around electrons, but many many many electrons, so a Feynman diagram would need to be huge but at the same time would be very very repetitive."
5. In analytical chemistry, I should have called it distillation rather than precipitation.
6. My definition of organic chemistry being about ‘life’ is not very good. I should have said that organic chemistry looks at compounds that contain carbon. But there are some compounds in inorganic chemistry that also contain carbon, like carbon dioxide so I guess I'd also have to state that inorganic chemistry is almost everything else.
7. I said that fuels are inorganic chemistry which is misleading when I drew a car next to it. My understanding is that there are inorganic fuels that don't contain carbon, but obviously all the fuels we are familiar with are organic. I thought a picture of a car would tie a few things together elegantly, but it ended up giving the wrong impression. That’s okay, I’m still learning! :D
8. In inorganic chemistry, I should have stated that all natural minerals fall under inorganic chemistry so as not to be misleading, otherwise you might go way thinking that only man-made substances fall under inorganic chemistry which is not true. I said that 'a lot of the inorganic compounds that are studied are man-made' meaning that the cutting edge of research is mostly man-made substances.
9. Apparently water is not the most inflammable substance. I thought it was so that is interesting.
10. In the bonding section, hydrogen bonding and van der waals forces are technically inter molecular forces.

Here are some of the references I used for this video if you’d like to dig a little deeper
Early smelting:
Categorisation of reactions

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[llewelynmoriscorvinus]

DoS: Water, the least explody or burny thing around.

Alkali Metals: Hold my electron.

[Paleiko]

PhD in physical chemistry here, just wanted to say: Very well done, thank you, I'm glad to see quantum chemistry being included.

[cyanide]

Short answer: periodic table
Long answer: periodic table doing stuff

[workout]

No one:

Schools: Wanna learn about water for a semester?

[JanboelPe]

Chemistry is about the things that matter.

[unlimited]

If most Education were like this, the efficiency in content assimiliation would be astronomic.

[MynameisS_A]

This guy taught me 12 years of chemistry in just 12 minutes. Legend

[ahwanitavi]

4:45
In this reaction, Chlorine (Cl) gains an electron and gets reduced so it is oxidising Sodium (Na), therefore it should be oxidising agent and Sodium (Na) vice-versa should be reducing agent.

[melancholics]

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[zachkills]

Watching this made me realize how difficult chemistry is. Physics was actually easier for me.

[loriwitzel]

I'd make a chemistry joke...
but I wouldn't get a reaction

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[Green__Man]

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[ACSReactions]

Yes! We've been waiting for this one! Great video.

[MakisHMMY]

One thing i liked a lot back when i was being taught some chem, was the Van der Waals bonding. It's the first bond which is really very weak, but has a great impact.

Good stuff!

[melyxcyberspace]

I get really nervous and confused when ppl tell me to "follow along" without knowing the bigger picture of concepts, so this video really helps as a guide with that, the video also re-enforces what i already know, to make sure i understood it correctly. Thank you for doing this and putting it out for the world :)

[sitansh]

"I like to think about chemistry as the study of change"

[caine]

Great video but you got oxidising agent and reducing agent mixed up