This page provides a quick access to all the videos created so far for The Elements Unearthed Project. They will be added here in the order they are created. Please feel free to embed these videos in your own site or use them as you please. They are distributed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License: Attribution Only. Please mention in any usage that they were created by The Elements Unearthed Project. If you use them for educational purposes, either for yourself or in a classroom setting, please let us know how you used them and how well they worked for you, along with any suggestions, at: elementsunearthed@gmail.com.
Part 2 on beryllium, including the history of the Spor Mt. mine; current mining operations; concentration of bertrandite to beryllium hydroxide at the Delta, Utah plant; final refining to beryllium metal, alloys, and ceramics; and health hazards of beryllium including Chronic Beryllium Disease.
Part 1 of the episode on Beryllium. Includes uses, sources, and geology.
Section from Beryllium Part 1: The Geology of the Bertrandite Deposits of Western Utah
Video Episode 1: “Project Rationale Part A” This is a video overview of the concept, rationale, and objectives of The Elements Unearthed project.
Video Episode 2: “Project Rationale Part B” This is a video overview of the concept, rationale, and objectives of The Elements Unearthed project.
Video Episode 3: “The Periodic Table Part 1: Before Mendeleev” An interview with Dr. Eric Scerri of UCLA on the history and development of the periodic table.
Video Episode 4: “The Periodic Table Part 2: Mendeleev & Beyond” An interview with Dr. Eric Scerri of UCLA on the history and development of the periodic table.
Video Episode 5: “Overview of The Elements Unearthed Project” A short explanation of this project and previous projects my students and I have worked on, created for the PBS Innovative Teachers program.
More episodes will be coming soon.
David,
I found your blog by reading through another blog which had an entry on the value of the iPad. (I was surfing around looking for opinions on iPad). I was intrigued by your comments on that blog regarding this Elements Unearthed project. I will definitely be viewing your videos. I myself have biochemistry degree, so I already have an affinity for the elements. Currently I am homeschooling my three young boys and this will definitely go on my resource/ “to-do” list. I haven’t watch any of the videos yet, so it’s possible that my boys are still a bit young for it, but what a neat project. THIS is what is so fantastic about the Internet. Thanks for all your hard work.
Catherine
Dear David V. Black
My wife and I just saw your video about the periodic table and of your project and we have amazed, because I am studying this issue for many years.
For your information I enclose some of the work done, one is on the work of Oswaldo Mendoza Baca (1908 – 1962), Peruvian scientist who sought to find mathematical functions that explain the periodic table in 1953, whose work we have uploaded on You Tube at the following address.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAecg9D_1As&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHFpuzP8NGM&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHFpuzP8NGM&feature=channel
Also I am entrusting my work ¨Periodic Harmonic Table, published in Spanish in 2006.
http://www.monografias.com/trabajos-pdf/tabla-periodica-nuevo-modelo/tabla-periodica-nuevo-modelo.shtml
and finally a video on my proposal Telluric Helix as development Chancourtoix thruster, which, due to limitations of the software, we could not put symbols of the elements.
NDA of the Materia or the Gutierrez Samanez telluric screw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6959WqYcOQ
My best wishes to you.
Julio Gutiérrez Samanez
Chemical engineer