What Happens if you MIX ALL The METALS Together?

[Music] oh hi everyone do you like my new periodic table display case i really love it also so far i have mainly only collected different metals in one of my previous videos we tried to melt down some of these refractory elements however what will happen if we try to alley all this metal together will we obtain some super ally or perhaps even a new incredible material like one called vibranium from the marvel comics let's find out this video is sponsored by brilliant i recommend you a great educational website called brilliant there you will learn how problems and not your school typical ones as that can be solved with a practical approach you'll receive a whole set of tools with the help of which will be able to solve problems of such disciplines as mathematics geometry computer science and other academic disciplines of steam our problems are accompanied by illustrations so that you can look into the very essence of the solution and not just learn the algorithm for finding the answer after all simple climbing without understanding will never improve your skills there are as many as 60 interactive courses in mathematics natural sciences and computer science and i took a course of chemical reactions refreshed by knowledge and learned something new for myself i strongly advise you to check it out the lin will be in the description registration is free and the first 200 people will get 20 discount on the annual subscription so don't miss it metals inserted in my display case have some similar properties which are common for this class of elements they all have high density metallic shine and also high thermal and electrical conductivity in comparison to other simple elements like sulfur or argon but these metals also have certain differences for instance iron is very hard and cheap which is why it is used to make practically anything whereas copper has a high electrical conductivity which is why it is used as an electrical conductor however some pure metals have certain disadvantages for instance even flow iron is hard it easily oxidizes in the ear and even for copper has high thermal conductivity it is quite soft and isn't that suitable for making tools with the needed properties that is why since ancient times people have mixed some metals obtaining alloys which had much better properties than there are materials nowadays there are over 5000 alloys that is why first let us obtain some of them and better acquaint ourselves with these materials the first metal people began alone was copper which even naturally occurs in its pure form which is why its extraction is quite simple the first copper-based alloy people discard was bronze which consisted of copper and arsenic yes it was metallic arsenic that was the first alone component in this alloy making it harder and more durable however since arsenic is extremely toxic it was later substituted with another metal which was thin this is the metal i am going to use for obtaining bronze to begin with i need some pure copper to extract it i decided to cut my old copper electrodes which lay aimlessly for a year i decided to make a nine percent thin copper alloy to do that i measured out the needed amounts of initial metals beforehand i am going to make an arrow in my own furnace which can heat metals to 1150 degrees celsius and i think it should be enough first i am putting several pieces of pure copper into a graphite crucible and i'm adding in some borax which will serve as a flux thus there will be forming less slag upon heating after heating up in my furnace and melting copper i'm adding pieces of tin into the crucible fortunately due to its low melting temperature the metal melts instantly after adding tin i'm stirring the content of the crucible in order to create a smooth alloy it is not worthy that the graphite crucible slowly burns in the ear at such a high temperature after stirring the mixture i'm heating up the graphite mold i'm pouring into it bronze along with leftover borax it's true that metal melting is a fascinating process let us leave this nugget to cool down in the meantime we can make another copper based alloy which is brass this aloe is made of copper and zinc to make my brush i decided to use a mixture of copper and 60 of zinc just as i did last time first i'm putting into the crucible pieces of copper and pouring in borax or as it's also known sodium tetraborate after melting copper i'm adding pieces of zinc to the crucible oops seems like at such a high temperature zinc quickly burns out however if i hadn't added borax this process would have run even faster just as i did before i'm stirring the content of the crucible before pouring it into the mold in order for the melted copper to better bond with the zinc five more minutes later i am pouring the brass into the heated graphite mode and waiting for it to cool down [Music] while my furnace is still hot i think we can also melt down these brass factory components which didn't serve my purpose after loading the crucible to top it off i'm adding some borax 10 minutes later the mixture has melted and it's time to make a nugget from the factory brass seems like this alloy contained more zinc than my do-it-yourself sample because it was burning out quite actively not even borax was able to prevent that in order for the hardened borax to come off the obtained nuggets more easily it should be sprayed with water once all the nuggets have cooled down i remove the excess borax from them at this point the quality of the arrow is not apparent because of the oxide layers and left our slag on the surface of the metal to fix this i decided to polish surface of the nagis with an angle grinder now it's apparent that the colors of bronze and brass differ and the difference gets even more obvious if they put a copper nugget next to them bran's properties make it the hardest ally of this three but it also makes it more difficult to machine it brass is much easier to work with and is especially suitable for making small components this is why first watch and other science tools began to be made of this alloy however even hard bronze is no mesh for iron and its alloys this is why the bronze age was followed by the iron age and people have come up with thousands of iron-based alloys for various purposes in this video besides copper based alloys i also would like to show you several iron-based alloys let us start with stainless steel however iron melting temperature is way over 1100 degrees celsius and the heat produced by my old furnace will not be enough for making some iron-based alloys that is why i decided to buy an induction heater for my next experiments which will be able to heat up this graphite crucible to 1700 degrees celsius and will easily melt iron in reality there are over 100 stainless steel brands but i'm going to use a classical alloy consisting of iron nickel and chromium that is why i'm waiting out 30 grams of the kneaded metals using my scales eighty percent of which is chromium one percent is nickel and eighty one percent is iron coming in the form of such low carbon steel addition of chromium protects this area from corrosion creating a firm chromium oxide film protecting metal from oxidizing after loading the crucible with other metals to top it off addition of some flux is essential however this time instead of borax i'm adding a more refractory and inert chemical which is magnesium fluoride because borax can enrich the area with boron ions after turning on the heater the crucible gets quite hot in mere minutes i can sense its power you need to prevent overheating of the copper coil cold water needs to be passed through it after melting all the ingredients i'm also stirring the content of the crucible in order for the metals to mix better after 10 more minutes of heating i think we can mold a small stainless steel nugget [Music] although this steel is called stainless it manages to get oxidized in the ear at a such high temperature that is why to better demonstrate the snugget to you i decided to polish it with an angle grinder by the way it is not worthly that it almost didn't spark as i was polishing it for comparison purposes i also decided to polish a regular steel bolt and it sparked quite intensely various polishing of stainless steel doesn't spark because nickel and heroin in its composition makes the metal more resistant to oxidation after polishing the obtained nugget it looks more like stainless steel also it gets strongly attracted to a magnet when brought close to it the thing is i have made a so-called ferric stainless steel which preserves its ferromagnetic properties because of containing a lot of iron there are other iron-based alloys which don't react to magnets at all for instance one of such alloys being magnaloy which is used to make tracks of tanks or tractors besides iron such an alloy also contains 14 of metallic manganese which makes the ant incredibly durable and for instance prevents tank tracks from wearing out i have also weighted out steel nuts and bits of manganese into the crucible for making out alloy after that i melted it all in the heater [Music] what's interesting is that when i was casting this metal it was quite a viscous apparently addition of manganese significantly changed casting properties of the obtained alloy after cooling off i have got a dim and oxidized piece of metal and i need to polish it to check its quality basically after polishing i have got a rather beautiful piece of mangaloy how will it react if i bring close to a magnet indeed it doesn't react to the magnet at all even though iron content in it is 80 i am wondering is it possible to make an ally for producing magnus of course it's possible the very magnet i am holding in my hand is made of the ulnico alloy the components of which are easy to figure out to make this alloy i have weighted out 30 grams of the metal mixture 53 percent of which is iron 10 is aluminium 19 percent is naked and 18 is cobbled after loading the crucible with all the components and adding flags we can start the heating process [Music] after melting the mixture as usual i'm stirring the content of the crucible and then burn it out into the heated graphite mode in my opinion graphite is an ideal material for making such molds because no metal sticks to it and such a mode is quite durable after my alloy has cooled off it is clear that addition of such metals as cobalt and aluminum has also improved its alloys casting properties and it easily filled the whole mode and its shape has come out quite even after cooling off and some polishing at the moment the obtained nugget is not a permanent magnet because a special technological process with heating and running electric current through this nugget is needed and so far i haven't mastered this technique yet maybe in my future videos i'll show you how to make a real magnet still if you rub this nugget with a strong enough magnet the nugget can acquire some magnetic properties well you have learned what some of the widespread alloys now we can try to alloy together all the metals i have got at hand for creating my incredible alloy i have selected 29 different metals which i had at hand i just tried to alloy them all together just like water in cooking serve as the main ingredient of a good soup i decided to use iron which will serve as the base metal in my area in which i will be dissolving other elements that is why first of all i'm placing a big steel boat into my crucible just as in my previous experiments chromium nickel cobalt and manganese will be the main casting components in this alloy to make this alley harder and more rigid i'm adding a piece of niobium foil and a small vanadium crystal then i'm adding a whole array of metals such as aluminum silicon zinc copper titanium bismuth tin lead indium and silver and how could we not use some precious metals small pieces of gold platinum rhodium and palladium will certainly give this alley some special properties in the end i'm adding such refractory metals as arenium molybdenum and tungsten to increase the hardness of our alloy and these metals will be accompanied by tantalum magnesium zirconium half num and rare earth metal ether of course i decided not to add uranium or mercury to my alley because of their higher toxicity and it also does make sense to add such alkaline metals as sodium or season because they will just burn upon being heated after loading the crucible with all the metals as usual in the end i add magnesium fluoride and send it all to my induction heater after heating it up i need to give it a good stir because there are lots of metals here and all the ingredients should mix well also i have to be extra vigilant because you never know what can happen when such unusual metals are mixed together for instance there may happen an explosive creation of inter metallics that is why i need to be extra careful after 15 minutes of melting and stirring nothing dangerous happened also wait a bit after taking off the lid flames started getting out of the crucible most probably it was zinc and magnesium burning that is why i need to quickly put the lid back on five more minutes later i think the alley is ready and we can cast it surprisingly enough this other is very liquid apparently all the additions have improved its casting properties oops i forgot to hold the crucible in place but everything seems to be alright and nothing has caught on fire after cooling off as usual i have got a gray piece of metal and i need to polish it to better examine it it is not worthy that this early consisting of so many metals came out to be quite easy to work with usually always with such a large number of components get very fragile i decided to check the hardness of my nugget with a hammer it is a worse love note that it didn't even crack after running several tests i found out that this nugget is quite hard and it easily scratched my cast iron wise besides when being polished with an angle grinder this nugget almost didn't spark which means it is resistant to corrosion if we bring a magnet close to it we will see that this allo has ferromagnetic properties and reacts to magnesium if we take a closer look at this nugget we'll see that some metals didn't mix that well haven't formed such balls of course i'm here to find out all the properties of this alley but so far this alloy only surprises me that is why basically if we early various metals used in the right proportions we'll get a material with rather unusual properties also they won't be as impressive as zeus of vibranium and also in the end i want to say a big thanks the company called lucitre for providing me such a beautiful metal cubes and these elements stand i'll put a link to their site in the video description so if you like this video don't forget to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see many more new and interesting 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Length: 19min 47sec (1187 seconds)

Published: Sat May 22 2021