Periodic Table Part 1: Hydrogen

It's time to start our survey of the periodic table, and we are going to start with just one element, hydrogen. This is the most abundant element in the universe by a wide margin. What does it do? What are its properties? What are its applications? There's more to talk about than you might think!

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[mamabearworries]

I love studying the periodic table and was good at it when young. I’m like 🤔 now at 61. If ya don’t use it ya lose it!! Retain as much as you can from your youth. Keeps ya young! Have a great day and thank you professor Dave!

[seasong]

This has to be one of the top 10 elements. It's literally everywhere!

[jobethk]

I'm 65 and never took chemistry. I'm enjoying exercising my mind watching your videos.

[houmamkitet]

Can't waitfor episode 118, though i really like the early elements as well 😝

Keep up the good work

[greengelacid]

Dude, this is gonna be great...I've been out of school for 20 years and desperately needed this update of information...thanks Professor Dave....

[patrickkilduff]

You made me read the entire Wiki for Niobium...it is now my favorite element...

[mvsawyer]

I'm gonna be glued to this series. I love the Periodic Table!

[vivi]

I remember when we had to memorize the periodic table in school but we never knew what these elements actually are and do. Great series, can't wait for future videos!

[thedrunkenfish]

Wow this was a lot more in depth than I thought it would be. Very nice video and very informative thank you professor Dave !

[anhomagebeauty]

Hydrogen fusses with Hydrogen to creat Helium and energy. That is how the sun works. My question is heavier elements are created in supernovas. Does that mean all elements heavier than helium? And do the elements need to be the same. Does Iron only fuse with Iron or can different elements fuse together?

[MATTERSGAMES]

Isn’t weird how learning anything you want about chemistry when you want to makes it more interesting that learning it in school?

[danielsayre]

Hey Dave. This series couldn't have come at a better time, I just started learning about the periodic table as an adult to learn chemistry about a month ago.
#1: This explanation is more in depth than I'm able to follow when talking about "Harmonic Oscillator" and "Morse Potential" unfortunately :(
#2: This explanation touching on both orbitals and spin is necessary and I can't thank you enough for including it. When I was in highschool just a few years ago atoms were still widely represented by the Niels Bohr model from the 1910's, and spin was never mentioned.

[moreorless]

This has piqued my interest, I can’t wait for a playlist of this series!

[virtualfingers]

Very nice. This reignited my desire to design a visual representation of every element based on where it was formed (or based on orbitals, or maybe layered) and form a tiled periodic table that way. Hope you keep doing this. All the best.

[seionne]

I'm very excited for this series, it's off to a great start!

[JohnPaul-cryh]

Thank u so much, u are helping cover my school work by covering the periodic table

[ivoryas]

Dang, Dave _sure _*_is_* making it easy to study on that H2 covalent bond grindset 😤

[arsenic]

What I got from this was that "I don't know chemistry". As simple as a hydrogen atom, I couldn't grasp nearly anything. Other than I've made Hydrogen by using electricity and two metals in water. I should probably start with another video :P

[vianavelos]

OMG IM SO HYPED FOR THIS, this year I will be reached the periodic table and they told me is kinda hard, this will make my studying easier :)

[RamblingMaddGod]

first time trying this kind of your content but I'm liking it a lot, soothing.