Super Expensive Metals - Periodic Table of Videos

I do wear a tie...But only periodically.

I love it that he uses his tie for educational purposes. This guy kicks ass.

Imagine all the gold and platinum he could steal in just his hair.

As a blacksmith you have no idea how jealous I am of people that get to work with platinum. Those ingots are so smooth and there's no scale (oxide) coming off the stock under that hammer. I need to change my medium.

"Posh way of saying 'chemically boring.'" Love it, Prof.

That is so unreal to see a glowing ingot of metal which is not immediately scaling in the air and no incrustations falling off when forging it, amazing.

He just used his tie to outline which metals he was referring too........... I love him

Here in my garage. Just bought this new uh platinum ingot. Fun to drive up here in the Hollywood Hills.

its quite difficult to get into a place like this, i had to wear a ski mask and some black clothes, plus i had to cut some locks and climb through vents. for some reason they dont want you in here without theyre permission.

Giving a lecture off his tie. What a legend.

Noble - A posh way of saying chemically boring. I have to remember that one.

Back in the late 70s the company I worked at/for. Used rodium coated discs in a memory storage device. 250k bytes. The disc was 1/4 in. Thk ( 6mm) and the size of an album. Other ram memory consisted of a 50KUSD mother board with (4) 5KUSD daughter boards. Memory was so expensive then BUT. Our million dollar systems paid for themselves in less than a year. Those rodium plated disc memory system required nitrogen air purges and any destabilizing shocks could make a disc crash. Literally 250 mag pic ups a millimeter from the disc spinning at. 10K rps. A disc crash ment one pickup blew apart and whiped out everything usually scratching the disc and making another nice souvenir. The discs were mirror like. I was just out of EE school and this stuff blew my mind back in 78. My point; engineering was so cool being able to make positive changes to a company and make mgmt changes. Rodium plated discs made me really open my mind to possibilites or improvements not thought of before. It was a great global company in the 80s. I had lunch with Ronald Reagan he visited our plant. Half our biz was export. Inflation was killing the country. I got a 17% raise and I lost money. Later in the 90s we got bought out a couple if times. Everything went to china a decade or so ago. C'est la vie. Great times great people. Witnessing the destruction of the engineering and support of a company can leave one bitter, forget that. What I experienced is a slow roll compared to now. Nothing is sacred. Chose your dreams carefully.

I'd love to have a shirt made of that platinum weave.

This professor can put a car's worth of dust into his afro!

"Martyn, are you going to wear that hideous tie again?" "I need it for work, Janet"

You are wrong, gold has a reaction, especially when someone finds it.

This guy is the stereotypical mad scientist.

I wish he was my grandpa

This man is my hero, an inspirational man with loads of knowledge

I’m a chemist working in a catalytic converter recycling company, analyzing loads for PGM concentrations. Such an interesting video!