Science360
Lucky lady lizards
In episode 24, Jordan and Charlie chat about fruit fly parents, the lizard mating game and "yellow" chemistry.
Curated Video
How Matches Ignite and Burn
Explore the science behind matches and how they spark fire. Learn how components of a match, including red phosphorus, sulfur, ammonium phosphate, and paraffin wax, work together to ignite and sustain a flame. This video also explains...
Curated Video
The Versatile Uses of Precious Metals and Essential Elements
Let's take a look back at the elements silver, hydrogen, phosphorous, germanium, and sulfur.
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Purple Bacteria That Are Afraid of Oxygen
“But wait!” you might be saying to yourself. “How can an organism be photosynthetic and so afraid of oxygen? Doesn’t photosynthesis create oxygen?” And yes, you would be correct—most of the time...
The March of Time
1952: GULF COAST PIPELINE: PAN Rural land w/ distant buildings, MINING: VS Sulfur spraying from pipe, workers tending machine. VS Crane bucket scooping into solidified sulfur block, turning to empty, scooping again. Note: Poor contrast, sulphur.
MOT 1952: GULF COAST PIPELINE: PAN Rural land w/ distant buildings, MINING: VS Sulfur spraying from pipe, workers tending machine. VS Crane bucket scooping into solidified sulfur block, turning to empty, scooping again. Note: Poor...
ProTeachersVideo
How Science Works: Journey to Etna: Lava Flow and Gas Emissions
Find out how volcanic eruptions result in new rock formations and can also affect the Earth's atmosphere. Molten rock below ground is called magma, but when it erupts above ground it's known as lava. When the lava flows cool and solidify...
Curated Video
Atmospheric Pollutants from the Combustion of Fuels
The video explains how the combustion of fuels produces atmospheric pollutants, such as greenhouse gases, carbon monoxide, carbon particulates, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides. It describes the chemical reactions that occur during...
Catalyst University
Intestinal Sulfate Reduction to H2S by Sulfur-Reducing Bacteria
In this video, we will explore the source of the major cause of the smell of flatulence. Intestinal sulfate-reducing bacteria reduce sulfate to hydrogen sulfide (H2S). We will see the biochemical pathway here and how it is coupled to...
Curated Video
Exploring Jupiter: The Giant Gas Giant
This video provides a description of the planet Jupiter. It describes Jupiter as a gas giant composed mainly of gases like ammonia, sulfur, and hydrogen. The interior of the planet is explained to consist of compressed hydrogen gas,...
Curated Video
Exploring Mercury: The Smallest Planet in the Solar System
This video provides a description of the planet Mercury, the closest planet to the sun in our solar system. It highlights key facts about Mercury, such as its diameter, mass, lack of moons, and orbit period. The video also mentions the...
Catalyst University
Chemistry | How to Name Binary Molecules
In this video, we discuss the rules [with examples] for naming binary molecules in general chemistry.
Professor Dave Explains
Periodic Table Part 7: Chalcogens (O, S, Se, Te, Po, Lv)
It's time to check out Group 16 on the periodic table, the chalcogens. This includes oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium, polonium, and livermorium. What can we say about their properties, reactivities, and applications? Let's find out!
NASA
Ancient Organics Discovered on Mars
Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has drilled into rocks in search of organics - molecules containing carbon. Organics are the building blocks of all life on Earth, though they can also come from non-living sources....
Professor Dave Explains
IIT/JEE Chemistry Practice #17: Molecular Geometry
Practice REAL problems from actual past IIT/JEE exams with Professor Dave!
Professor Dave Explains
IIT/JEE Chemistry Practice #5: Oxidation Numbers
Practice REAL problems from actual past IIT/JEE exams with Professor Dave!
Journey to the Microcosmos
Kentrophoros: The Mouthless Ciliate With a Back Full of Snacks
This is kentrophoros, a ciliate that James—our master of microscopes—had been searching for, receiving samples from all over the world in the hopes of finding it gliding around. When you first look at it, it doesn’t seem particularly...
ProTeachersVideo
KS3/4 Science: Demonstrating Chemistry: Exciting Elements
Follow a science teacher as she gets expert advice on how to demonstrate spectacular reactions from Groups 1 and 7 of the Periodic Table safely and effectively. Starting with Group1 elements, Dr Kay Stephenson from the Royal Society of...
Next Animation Studio
Planetary collision that created moon made life possible on Earth
Most of Earth's vital elements for life mostly likely came from a planetary collision that also created the moon more than 4.4 billion years ago.
Science360
YELLOW CHEMISTRY' TURNS SULFUR WASTE INTO PLASTICS
While many scientists are hard at work on "green chemistry" projects that will benefit the environment, there are a handful of researchers at the University of Arizona who are starting a trend of their own - "yellow chemistry." That's...
Curated Video
The Value and Versatility of Silver
This video provides an overview of the valuable and versatile element, silver. It explores its properties, uses in industries such as electronics and jewelry, its historical significance as a currency, and how it can be alloyed to...
FuseSchool
Properties of Sulfur
Sulfur is the 16th element of the periodic table, and is a non-metal. In its elemental form it is a bright yellow crystalline solid at room temperature. In this video we are going to look at the basic physical and chemical properties of...
Curated Video
Firecrackers: Exploring How They Work and Proper Usage
Learn about the composition and functioning of firecrackers. Black powder inside the cardboard tube ignites when the fuse is lit, causing a chain reaction that leads to an explosion, flash of light, and loud bang. This video also...
FuseSchool
Manufacturing Sulphuric Acid
Learn the basics about manufacturing sulphuric acid as part of the equilibrium topic within reactions.
Catalyst University
Detoxification of Cyanide by Thiosulfate Sulfotransferase: Physiology and Mechanism
Detoxification of Cyanide by Thiosulfate Sulfotransferase: Physiology and Mechanism