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.
The Elements Unearthed 
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.
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
My best wishes to you.
Julio Gutiérrez Samanez
Chemical engineer
I saw some Feynman Diagrams in your intro Do you know how to read them? I copied them from the Feynman VAN but haven’t been able to find anyone to interpret which rxs they are?
I’m listening to the Arsenic (may have caused Dad’s Prostate Cancer…?) When I was researching the essential elements (for humans) I found that Arsenic can be considered to be one (one macrophage used it to bust up foreign bacterial cell walls (but I got he impression it wa a substitution for another element since it was found that a tungsten contaminant was in on this bacteria experiment or something….) my question is “WHY IS ARSENIC POISONOUS?” I asked a BioChem Prof at Sonoma back in 1995 and he just gave me an “I don’t know?” All I could find was maybe the substitution for aP in a ATP chains (thus mitochondria get damaged…
But is a mutagen I guess? gets into the nuclear membrane?????
GB
Randy Ribose
Wow, impressive work. Greets from Madrid, Spain.
Nice work on beryllium production! You might consider a series on the rare earths, as they combine the glamor of ultra-high tech applications with interesting geopolitical facts (I’ve heard the Mountain Pass, CA mine will reopen soon: maybe they’d fund it? Apparently they have similar environmental issues, namely uranium & thorium byproducts that have to be dealt with before mining recommences……)
David,
I found your website while preparing for my college course ‘Materials and Processes’. I plan to use the beryllium clip for my class and look forward to viewing subsequent editions. Your format is very engaging utilizing many resouces and ‘grabbing’ the student’s attention with several ‘hooks’. I have used similar techniques to much success in my PowerPoint presentation for adults.
I hope to hear from you and find the rest of your students’ work on this subject.
I love to use you videos in the chemistry class I teach (high school).
However, from this page I can not access the videos.
How to?