Aluminum more valuable than gold?

[doctorpanigrahi]

Interesting fact :- Aluminium was so valuable that Nepoleon iii reserved a prized set of aluminium cutlery for special guests at banquets . Less favoured guests used gold knives and forks.

[jacksonmwangi]

If only I had a time machine to smuggle all the aluminum I have 😢

[Matt]

This is only the 2nd video I’ve seen on YT from you, but I’m glad I’m getting these videos. So tired of seeing all that’s wrong in the world and honestly just mindless/pointless social media posts, now I get to have some interesting learning in small segments. Much appreciated sir!

[stproducciones]

fun fact: his labcoat reads "the cook" in spanish. i see you Heisenberg

[thespudtato]

I'm pretty sure this is why there is an aluminium cap on the washington monument. It used to be very expensive then :3

[VapidFart]

When it was hard to make in metal form they capped the tip of the washington monumemt with it. Kinda funny how shortly after that it was figured out how to produce it cheaply.

[sukai]

I wish I had you as a chem teacher in high school!

[gus]

😂 That grin while doing the process... ! 😎✌️

[empressofshurima]

I'm just surprised that they didn't keep the aluminium prices artificially high, like they did with diamonds.

[iamgriff]

Alcoa manufactures a really nice line of Semi Truck rims. I do believe they are heavily into industrial rims also

[STEAMerBear]

I love your videos. I’ve had the pleasure of working in great labs at Michigan State and Stanford. Now I am greatly challenged teaching just one period of chemistry per day(along with 5 other STEM classes) in a tiny school with few resources. You videos keep me inspired. THANK YOU!!!
(I wish someone knew of or would create a video series on setting up the cheapest, safest, yet still effective chemistry classroom!)

[romanbengaldrole]

To do this at home and avoid the toxic copper chloride, mix citric acid and copper sulfate (copper sulfate is only toxic when dehydrated and mildly toxic and corrosive in a solution, so don’t touch the solution, don’t spill it and wear gloves). Place aluminum in the mix. It releases hydrogen gas. Copper sulfate is a blue “root killer” product, citric acid is easy to find.

[geoben]

Consider that in less than a hundred years it was then made into airplanes and other aerospace vehicles and equipment as well as the thousands of other products we use every day! Amazing ! 😮

[phoebus]

And apparently you can make purple gold out it.

[himekowo]

Aluminium was actually more expensive than gold. Before they found Criolite, the heat used for melting Aluminium was much higher than Gold, Al2O3 (2050°C) Au (1064°C).

[spiderdude]

Fun fact:

Both spellings of Aluminum and Aluminium came from British scientists. The “American” spelling of “Aluminum” was coined by the man credited with its discovery Sir Humphrey Davey. The “British” spelling was coined by a colleague of his writing a review of Davey’s paper

[gwninja]

Metal + Acid = salt + Hydrogen gas
And hydrogen burns with a pop sound ❤

[HighFrequency]

My mom worked at Alcoa, she made good money! She was absolutely beautiful, looked like kim basinger! She never drank, never smoked, she got brain cancer at 57 they gave her 6 months to live, she made it a year and a half! Miss her every day, she never got to see my son, he has her eyes!

[cameronhamer]

Rio Tinto built a new aluminum smelter at Kitimat British Columbia, even though it’s a brand new smelter they don’t have any way to clean the toxins they release . They’ve been granted a permit to release even more than the old smelter it replaced . 👍🇨🇦

[imrustyokay]

I love how I live near a town named after Alcoa, that was actually built by Alcoa. It's also down the road from Oak Ridge, built for the Manhattan Project!