Veritasium
What Is Chemistry?
Hard to describe, even harder to grasp in some cases, what is chemistry? According to participants in an impromptu video, it's more about ... love? See the perspective of all walks of life when the narrator pops the question in an...
American Chemical Society
The Four "New" Elements and How We Got Them
How are new elements created? Are they really new? Journey to the end of the periodic table with a video from the American Chemical Society's Reactions playlist. The narrator describes the conditions under which new elements are formed...
Periodic Videos
Tellurium
The US Department of Energy estimates the demand for tellurium will cause a deficiency by 2025. Chemistry professors introduce this semi-metallic element as part of the larger series introducing each element on the periodic table. They...
GPB Television
Chemistry 102: The Metric System
Although this lesson is directed at a chemistry class, all laboratory classes require the use of metric measurement. Here is a half-hour video introduction to measurement systems and a thorough teaching about the base-ten metric system...
GPB Television
Chemistry 203: Separation of Mixtures
Do not pass this resource by! Everything you need to teach the property of density,and the separation of mixtures is here: an educational video, several classroom handouts, and a laboratory exercise. The video is engaging, though a...
GPB Television
Chemistry 502: The World of Atoms is Not Enough – Bonding Part II
"The name is Bond. James Bond." Or is that "Chemical Bond?" Assign the viewing of the video as homework, and then have your chemists come to class to practice drawing electron dot diagrams and Lewis structures with the several bonus...
Periodic Videos
Hassium
Hassium decays so quickly that scientists do not expect to ever see the element in an observable state. Chemists share more about the synthetic element by visiting the lab in which researchers discovered it. They explain the properties...
Periodic Videos
Rutherfordium
Physicist Ernest Rutherford might have hated chemistry, but we love his contribution to science! Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Viewers learn about this interesting man through a look at his personal photos, research, and...
Periodic Videos
Darmstadtium
Scientists originally discovered darmstadtium in 1994 in Germany. A chemistry professor shows the lab where this happened and describes the process of creating the synthetic element in an engaging video.
Periodic Videos
Rubidium
Both plants and animals actively absorb rubidium, though it does not seem to serve a purpose. Highly reactive to both air and water, rubidium rarely finds its way into a chemistry lab. Viewers learn about the properties and applications...
Periodic Videos
Zinc
While some find zinc uninteresting, others use it to shoot fire across the lab. A chemistry video details the metal, along with demonstrations that provide new insight to an common element.