How do we separate the seemingly inseparable? - Iddo Magen

Your cell phone is mainly made of plastics and metals. It’s easy to appreciate the process by which those elements add up to something so useful. But there’s another story we don’t hear about -- how did we get our raw ingredients in the first place, from the chaotic tangle of materials that is nature? Iddo Magen uncovers the answer in a group of clever hacks known as separation techniques.

Lesson by Iddo Magen, animation by Augenblick Studios.

[Isaiahdhlee]

The only thing that can separate me from my phone is my parents

[hankhill]

I'm glad Jesse and Walter moved on from making meth.

[sixthcavalier]

This video was EXTREMELY helpful! I'm a 15 year old Guatemalan looking to participate in Google's science fair, I've been looking for something like this for days! Thanks TED! Stay awesome

[TEDEd]

Congratulations +Joshua Guillemette +Wallacy Ryan Martins Gomes, +Jonathan Beckinham and +Ella Malabanan, the winners of last Thursday’s “guess the next TED-Ed lesson game” (which you can find in the comments here: ow.ly/11sN3002w3x). Nicely done!

[untipo.]

The two scientists seem Walter White and Jesse pinkman

[venturi]

Salting In and Salting Out are also important separation techniques. They're used as methods to separate proteins for further study.

[kavitagracenelson]

"Is there a most elementary particle? And if so, what's IT made of?"

My lifelong dilemma in one sentence X/

[gooseguse]

3:30 Who knew it was the muffin man all along...

[NickYT]

"Is there a *most* elementary particle? And if so, what's *it* made of?"

I've got an even better question for you! Does 2+2=4? And if so, why does it equal 5?

[foreverawkwardandjustbeing]

We are learning about this in Natural Science. Soooo thanks Ted this has really helped me understand it a bit more!

[emmants]

why can't learning in class be as easy to understand and entertaining as this?

[Maarrii]

I started watching this during a break in my studying for finals. Funny enough, it ended up being somewhat relevant to my exam in medical laboratory sciences. I can't escape the blood!

[michaelhill]

Loved how you worked the LHC into the video. Besides the Higgs-Boson particle, what other "things" have the researchers found?

[SingZeon]

The front part reminded me of secondary school chemistry lesson ... but then wow the ending was really thought-provoking.

[friedwater]

You can’t separate me and my crippling depression

[sharmeen]

+TED-Ed could you make a video which focuses on the topic of how classical misoc and dubstep music affect our brains and which one is better for studying etc? It'd be really helpful, thanks.

[FunkyStudent]

If you separate the inseparable, does that mean it was never inseparable?

[amaansadri]

Great video, I have learned more from these videos than I have learned in ny class!! Thanks Ted-Ed!!

[runakovacs]

The moment when a TED-ed video is about something you're going to be doing an exam about in lab.

[nikowastaken]

nice video. it helped me with my assignment. thanks ted ed u always help me