Red-Hot Platinum Ingot - Periodic Table of Videos

Casting a 4kg platinum ingot. It's worth... well, that depends on today's platinum price!
More from our visit: Super Expensive Metals - Periodic Tab...

Subscribe to computerphile - http://bit.ly/XqEDYi

Filmed at Johnson Matthey - our thanks to them.

More from visit to Johnson Matthey's noble metals section is coming soon.

More chemistry at http://www.periodicvideos.com/
Follow us on Facebook at Facebook: periodicvideos
And on Twitter at Twitter: periodicvideos
From the School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/chemistry...

Periodic Videos films are by video journalist Brady Haran: http://www.bradyharan.com/

Brady's other channels include:
sixtysymbols (Physics and astronomy)
numberphile (Numbers and maths)
deepskyvideos (Space stuff)
nottinghamscience (Science and behind the scenes)
foodskey (Food science)
backstagescience (Big science facilities)
favscientist (Favourite scientists)
bibledex (Academic look at the Bible)
wordsoftheworld (Modern language and culture)
philosophyfile (Philosophy stuff)

• #
• #chemistry
• #periodicvideos
• #periodic_table_of_videos
• #platinum
• #ingot
• #bar