Laura: Hello and welcome to the first ever live edition of Lexx Education.
Laura: Ron and I are in the same room.
Ron: Hello.
Ron: And we have a live studio audience.
Laura: Hello, studio audience.
Laura: It's girlfriend of the podcast Judith.
Laura: Also, if you watched the cornflower experiment, that was Tom in that.
Laura: Hello, Tom.
Ron: Hello.
Laura: Hello.
Laura: Girlfriend of the podcast Judith.
Laura: Hello.
Laura: We're all reunited because happy 70th birthday, dad.
Laura: What?
Ron: Father of the podcast.
Laura: Master of the podcast.
Laura: Howard turned 70 in November, but we are surprising him in August.
Laura: So that's exciting.
Laura: Welcome to the show episode.
Laura: Thank you to Pod, Spike.
Laura: As ever, we always start the show with a big thank you to Pod Spike, who got us going with well, I mean, you hear what we're like.
Laura: Do you think you'd be listening to this if it had been left to us to market it?
Laura: No, you wouldn't, because we like to be nonsensical.
Laura: We don't have a marketing plan.
Laura: But Pod Spike really helped us with launching.
Laura: So if you are doing a podcast or thinking of doing a podcast, then you're like, I don't know where to start.
Laura: Talk to Pods Spike.
Ron: Even if you're doing a podcast and you think you're doing all right, still talk to them.
Ron: They'll get you more on track.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Even if you don't want Pod marketing help, just say hello, Dan.
Ron: Yeah, they're nice.
Laura: They're really nice people.
Laura: And Suji.
Laura: Hi, Suji.
Laura: Anyway, so that's Podspike.
Laura: We've got some thank yous to you, the lab rats, obviously.
Laura: Thank you so much, Stephen, for my top Trumps.
Laura: Ron, I was at stage at Green Man Festival and then Stephen, sitting in the front row, surprised me with a present wrapped up in the same colour purple as Dairy milk chocolate.
Laura: So I thought, he's giving me a chocolate bar.
Laura: No, it was some chemical element topped where are they?
Laura: They're in a bag over there.
Laura: We're taking them this weekend to play.
Ron: Okay.
Ron: I feel like we should have had them for the episode.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Do you know where they are?
Ron: You said they're in a bag over there.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Be more specific about the bag and the over there.
Laura: They'll be in my pink Kate spade, but second Handbag.
Girlfriend of the Podcast Judith: I think I saw that earlier.
Ron: Stay tuned till after the episode and we'll play some Top Trump.
Laura: The studio audience have now gone off on an errand, so thank you, Stephen.
Laura: We love you very much.
Ron: Joe sends us a song about blood, which was by they Might Be Giants.
Ron: They might Be Giants.
Ron: So I've been on a Malcolm in the middle of nostalgia.
Ron: No, maybe.
Laura: I don't know.
Ron: And then I did loads of research into them because I was like, Are they a novelty band?
Ron: I didn't really do much research about Blood looking into them.
Ron: Are they a novelty band?
Ron: No, they just did a science album for kids.
Ron: Just for the kids?
Ron: Just to help have the kids.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Nice boys.
Laura: I think they might be nice guys.
Laura: Oh, it wasn't in that handbag.
Laura: I'll find it during the episode, Goulash has waded in on the sugar and tea debate.
Laura: It's not really a debate, is it?
Laura: We just decided sugar and tea is bad.
Laura: That's done.
Ron: Drink tea how you like Listers.
Ron: Enjoy your life.
Laura: Squarely barely wants merch that says magnets on the front.
Laura: And don't just say stuff on the back.
Ron: I think that T shirts to say don't just say stuff would be quite a universal cell.
Ron: I think that would go well.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: I mean, it does work in all aspects of life.
Ron: People don't want people to just say stuff.
Laura: We gotta laugh in the studio audience.
Laura: Other.
Laura: Thank yous this week.
Laura: To Matt Jeff.
Laura: To Jenny's Kms.
Laura: Steven and the podcast just films in that.
Laura: Thank you very much for recommending us to all your followers.
Laura: That's very lovely if you were very grateful.
Laura: And thank you to Becky and everyone else who got in touch.
Laura: We're very grateful to you guys for being as interactive as you are.
Laura: We very much look forward to Mondays now, don't we, Ron?
Ron: Yeah, we're too anxiety ridden, stressed out people, and it's really taken sort of the thing out of being alive.
Ron: No, I was going to say the anxiety out of putting something out there because Emily was very nice.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: So we're chemistry this week.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: Noble guesses.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: It's all right, this one, isn't it?
Laura: We don't get too mad at each other.
Ron: Yeah, there's a bit of a revision in this one.
Ron: It's all fairly cordial, although there is a lot of you asking for extra context, which makes sense.
Ron: You then refuse.
Laura: Enjoy.
Laura: Now, listen, so we did biology last week.
Laura: It's chemistry this week.
Laura: I don't have my periodic table with me because I'm in Norway.
Laura: Is it going to be about periodic table?
Ron: It's going to be a lot about elements, but if you just Google periodic.
Laura: Tables my periodic table, though, I've got.
Ron: Mine, they're all the same.
Ron: That's kind of the point.
Ron: Google's got a very nice interactive one that you can use.
Laura: What?
Ron: Yeah, they've got those little spinning pictures of all of the elements.
Laura: Spinning?
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Where do I get that from?
Ron: Google.
Laura: What do you mean, Google?
Laura: What do I Google?
Laura: Just periodic taste.
Ron: Yeah, that's what they said.
Ron: This is not a good sign, spinning.
Laura: How do I make them spin?
Ron: Click on one of the elements.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: It should appear on the right hand.
Laura: Side and then Chromium is just having a little dance.
Laura: It looks like a blueberry.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: And you can grab it and move it around yourself.
Laura: Only if it says yes.
Laura: Oh, yeah, look, there's force fields.
Laura: All right, okay.
Laura: I do miss my periodic table, though.
Laura: My one's nicer.
Ron: Shouldn't have forgotten it.
Laura: Yeah, it's been a stressful week.
Laura: It's been a stressful week.
Laura: But you know what?
Laura: It's a lovely day in Oslo, and I think by tomorrow I'll be able to walk again to see it.
Laura: So good times.
Laura: All right.
Laura: I thought we'd learned everything about the periodic table now.
Laura: Didn't we do that last week?
Ron: Yeah, we learned a lot about the periodic table.
Ron: Now we're going to learn about specifically some elements.
Laura: We're getting down and deep with some guys.
Ron: Yeah, we've gone through a lot of the concepts that we're going through today, but that's just because I'm a fantastic teacher.
Ron: So I've kind of added context as we've gone along, but we're going to go into a bit more detail and some specific groups.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: So the first thing that we're going to talk about, and we read you have talked to previous episodes about metal bananas.
Ron: Is potassium a metal?
Ron: What is a metal?
Ron: Is there metal in your blood?
Laura: There is to all those questions.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: So the first thing that it wants us to learn is what is a metal?
Ron: What is not a metal?
Ron: What do you reckon things that are.
Laura: Metal are metal and things that aren't metal aren't metal.
Ron: Do you want to try?
Laura: What do you mean?
Ron: What do you think a metal is?
Laura: That's metal, isn't it?
Laura: What do you mean?
Laura: What do you mean?
Laura: Lots of metal.
Laura: Like screws there metal.
Ron: No.
Ron: So screws will be made out of, I think, usually nickel.
Ron: Nickel alloy.
Ron: What makes nickel a metal?
Laura: Somebody told me it was a metal.
Laura: This is your catch me out science here because no such thing as a metal.
Laura: Probably it's just whatever got called a metal.
Ron: No, so simply but elements that form positive ions are metals.
Ron: Elements that do not form positive ions are not metals.
Laura: What's an ion?
Ron: You know what an ion is?
Ron: Come on.
Laura: An isotope?
Laura: No, magnet.
Ron: An ion is an atom that has lost or gained electrons, so it has a charge.
Laura: Okay, so what was a metal?
Ron: An ion, an element that forms a positive ion.
Ron: So, for example, sodium that we talked about before it loses its electron, it forms a positive ion.
Ron: Thus is a metal.
Ron: Okay.
Ron: Chlorine gains an electron, therefore forms a negative ion, not a metal.
Ron: You're going to need some emotional resilience because this is so easy.
Ron: If you look like you're not stop crying.
Laura: It's easy.
Laura: It's just that why is what you are dependent on what happens to you?
Laura: So how do you know what it is when it's just in its normal state?
Ron: You investigate and you find out what it does.
Ron: You don't just posit a guess from a mile away.
Laura: That seems irresponsible to not just take things at surface value.
Laura: I'd hate to be judged on how I've reacted instead of just how I was before something provoked me.
Laura: Do you know what I mean?
Laura: Is it a metal before it's lost its ion?
Ron: Then yes, it's an element that forms a positive ion.
Ron: It is not necessarily a positive ion, but there is a reason for that, but we'll go into that later on.
Laura: Good.
Laura: Can't wait.
Ron: Next week or next chemistry.
Ron: Be cool.
Laura: I'm not being cool.
Ron: You are not being cool.
Laura: Well, you just jumped straight in with some radioactive nonsense.
Ron: Radioactive nonsense?
Ron: You're the one that was banging on about metal bananas.
Ron: I thought you might be interested to find out how and why these things were classified.
Laura: Yeah, I am interested, but you can't get mad at me when I don't know it straight away.
Laura: Otherwise it would be the world's most boring podcast, wouldn't it?
Ron: I just get mad at you because you didn't know it.
Laura: You did.
Laura: You said I had to buck up or whatever.
Ron: You said I said you needed some emotional resilience because you got so sad after I said that to you because.
Laura: We just did the quiz for the last episode and I got it all right?
Laura: And then the problem is we do a quiz and I've learned something and then we have to go and learn something new and I don't already know this.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Also, I can't feel my baby toes.
Laura: The feeling hasn't come back to them yet.
Laura: Do you think they're going to fall off?
Ron: Maybe that'd be cool.
Ron: Then you'd be like the Simpsons.
Laura: Oh, that would be cool.
Laura: All right.
Laura: Everybody that's just got, like, a random extra sad boy is a metal.
Laura: And everybody that's got a good party that attracts a sad boy is a why are you shaking your head?
Ron: Because I thought you meant when you said extra sad boy.
Ron: I thought you meant it in the ones that attract a new sad boy.
Laura: No, they've got a spare sad boy.
Laura: If you've got a spare sad boy that wanders off, you're a mess.
Ron: Yeah, it's not spare, though, because they're still equal to the number of pros.
Laura: Yes, but it looks spare, doesn't it?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: The ones that lose sad boys are metals that gain sad boys or don't react and not metals.
Laura: Okay, so how can we remember this?
Laura: It's like a metal band and the drummer has gone off somewhere else.
Ron: Can't we just remember it?
Laura: No, we physically because, Ron, I've clearly already learned this at some point in my life and now you're talking it at me and it is like you are explaining that the grass has always been on the ceiling and I'm supposed to have known that.
Laura: It is baffling to me that anyone has ever said half these words to me before.
Ron: I don't know, though.
Ron: Like, we didn't go to the best school.
Ron: Yeah, but it might have just been like, cows are an element, a star.
Ron: Well done, Laura.
Ron: After drama school.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: And then everything else is not a metal.
Laura: Yeah, all right.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: And that's it.
Ron: That's all we need to know on that issue.
Ron: We're done with the metal versus non metal thing.
Laura: Okay, you explain the next bit.
Laura: I just need to reply to a text message.
Ron: Okay, well, we're learning about some groups of elements today, aka up, downers from last time.
Ron: The first one that we're going to learn about is group zero.
Ron: The noble gases I have in my notes leave space for Laura to do an impression of a noble gas.
Ron: All right, do you want to tell me about noble gases, then?
Laura: The noble gases are very stable.
Laura: They're very stable.
Ron: Why?
Laura: Because they have very full outer rings.
Ron: Yes, the outer rings are completely full.
Ron: So it's very hard for them to lose or gain electrons, which is why it's safe to even let children inhale them, because they just don't react to anything.
Laura: And you can make lights out of neon?
Ron: You can.
Ron: You can actually make lights out of all of them.
Ron: Which leads me onto this picture that I'm about to send you.
Laura: I like a picture round.
Laura: You said it's very hard to get them to lose or gain one.
Laura: How can you force it?
Ron: So, with all of these things, it's about energy, right?
Ron: So if you applied enough energy, you could get something like that to happen.
Ron: But it's just the chances are they're in nature, like not under sort of scientific circumstances or something, that amount of energy will never be concentrated into one place.
Laura: Got you.
Ron: Send the picture.
Ron: God d*** it.
Ron: It's not letting me do it.
Laura: The rumbling makes it sound like you are trying to physically post it to me.
Ron: Sorry, I need to burp.
Ron: It really threw me off with your reaction to that first, but I'm quite sad now.
Laura: Why sad?
Laura: I've done so much listening.
Ron: Okay, I sent it to you.
Laura: Got it.
Laura: Ron just sent me a picture of different lights made by the different noble gases.
Laura: So helium makes a pale purple light, neon.
Laura: But neon lights can be all sorts of colours, can't they?
Laura: Just change the glass around them.
Laura: I see neon's making, like, an orangey light, maybe with a bit of purple in there.
Laura: Argon is making a dark purple light, krypton is white light and xenon is blue.
Laura: Pretty.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So, like all of these groups that we've talked about before, the properties are all the same, but then either increase or decrease as you go up or down the group.
Ron: So one of the things that it wants you to know about is, because of the relative atomic mass of the different gases, as you go down the group, the boiling points of these gases changes as you go down.
Laura: You can't boil a gas.
Laura: How did you boil a gas?
Ron: I have in my notes, because I knew that you were going to say that.
Ron: Yes, they are all gases, but gases still have boiling points.
Ron: But those boiling points are just at temperatures that we don't come across in our daily lives.
Ron: So, helium, what does the gas turn.
Laura: Into when you boil it?
Ron: A gas.
Laura: It goes into another gas.
Ron: No.
Ron: So helium, the party gas.
Ron: Its boiling point is at 4.2 Kelvin.
Ron: Do you know what Kelvin is?
Laura: Temperature.
Laura: Temperature.
Laura: It's the SR unit of temperature.
Ron: It is, yes.
Ron: But do you know why it matters or what it is?
Ron: So centergrade, which is the one that we use most of the time, right.
Ron: Centigrade is based around water.
Ron: So zero centigrade is the freezing point of water.
Ron: 100 centigrade is the boiling point of water.
Ron: That's how it was worked out.
Ron: It was just that temperature bracket divided by 100 kelvin is done from absolute zero.
Ron: So you need to react to it.
Ron: I need some kind of affirmation.
Laura: Look, you say something absolute zero, like that means diddily squat.
Laura: What is absolute zero?
Ron: So absolute zero is the point where every substance has no heat energy in it.
Laura: Okay, who's got the lowest one?
Ron: The lowest what?
Laura: So that must be one element freezing point.
Laura: Do you know what I mean?
Ron: Yes.
Ron: So that, I think, is hydrogen.
Ron: But I might be wrong.
Laura: Okay, cool.
Laura: All right.
Ron: So zero Kelvin, absolute zero is about -272.
Ron: Degrees.
Laura: That's very cold.
Ron: Very, very cold.
Ron: So the boiling point of helium.
Laura: How did you get something that cold?
Ron: I don't know.
Ron: Super fridges, I think the boiling point of helium is 4.2 Kelvin.
Ron: So that is -268.
Ron: So before that colder than that, helium is a liquid and then it boils into a gas, right?
Laura: No way.
Ron: Yes way.
Ron: And then we have neon, the tube gas, 27 Kelvin, is the boiling point.
Ron: That's -246, degrees, celsius argon.
Ron: The bulb gas is 83 Kelvin.
Ron: You see, it gets bigger and bigger.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: And then I found some other uses for the other gases.
Ron: Crypt on killing Superman used in lasers to kill Superman.
Ron: And then Xenon, right.
Ron: According to Wikipedia, used as propellant for ion thrusters, because apparently now we live in science fiction movies.
Laura: What's an ion thruster?
Ron: F*** knows.
Ron: But it sounds cool.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Xenon Warrior Princess is one of my favourite gas based hero stories.
Ron: And radon is leaking.
Laura: I would like to see some fan art of Xenon Warrior Princess, please.
Laura: One of our listeners must be creative.
Laura: Please draw Xenon Warrior Princess.
Ron: And radon is just leaking out of the rocks in Cornwall and killing people.
Laura: Is it?
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Why?
Ron: Because it's in the rocks and it's radioactive.
Laura: Radioactive?
Laura: Why is it in the wrong?
Ron: I can't do that every time we say you simply must stop.
Laura: What if I don't want to?
Laura: I'm getting fewer and fewer chances to join in.
Laura: The more complicated it gets active is the perfect use of my time.
Ron: It's in the rocks because that's where it is.
Laura: Sucks to be you.
Laura: The Cornish.
Ron: Yeah, it does.
Ron: Like, Cornish people often will have radon detectors in their basements and stuff.
Ron: And my friend Ross, that is from Cornwall, has told me before that there are, like, theories that that's why Cornish people can be a bit weird sometimes, because the radiation is just getting having.
Laura: Met your friend ross.
Laura: I don't disagree in his case.
Ron: Did I tell you about the most Cornish man ever saw?
Ron: When we were in Cornwall last September, we were having like, a nice brunch at this little cafe, sat outside and there's these three guys that all got farms and really old men in the country.
Ron: So I just have really worn baseball caps.
Ron: There's those kind of guys.
Ron: And one of the girls there's only one good kind of rapper, a sweet rapper, and the two guys with him lost it.
Ron: He was laughing for so long, it was brilliant.
Ron: They were so red in the face.
Ron: I loved every second of it.
Ron: Right, that is group zero.
Ron: Oh, the other thing I wanted to say, helium makes your voice really squeaky inhaling.
Ron: Do you know that?
Ron: That changes with the mass of the gas?
Ron: If you inhale Zenon, it makes your voice really low.
Ron: Yeah, if you inhale Zen on, darling.
Laura: That'S group zero, even though it's all the way over the right hand side.
Laura: Well, that doesn't work for me.
Ron: Yeah, I don't really know why it's like that, to be honest.
Laura: I suppose it makes sense.
Laura: Is it Arabic?
Laura: In Hebrew you write from left to right.
Ron: Maybe.
Ron: I don't know about Cyrillic, though, because if it was Mandalayev no.
Ron: Okay.
Ron: Right, next up, we're going to do group one, which we've already done before, so we're not going to spend super loads of time on it.
Ron: But I just wanted to sort of head back reconfirm in your own words, in your own time, can you give me a rundown of the properties of group one and how those changes?
Ron: You go down the group yes.
Laura: Which one are we calling group one on this table?
Laura: The one next to group zero.
Ron: No.
Ron: There should be one labelled group one, though.
Laura: No, because this periodic table is stupid.
Laura: There's nothing number on it.
Ron: The alkali metals.
Ron: So, lithium, sodium and that bunch let me think.
Laura: Something about a cheese knife.
Laura: Why am I thinking about a cheese knife?
Ron: F*** nose.
Ron: F*** nose.
Ron: Honestly.
Laura: You can put them in water, those ones, and they all do different things in the water.
Laura: Some of them are getting bit farty.
Laura: Some of them go fire start at.
Ron: The top of their group.
Ron: What do you think lithium does when you put it in water?
Laura: Relaxes.
Laura: Bobs about a bit.
Laura: That's a lovely day.
Laura: No?
Ron: And then what does sodium do?
Laura: Dissolves.
Laura: No, slowly.
Laura: It does butts about a bit.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Farty bubbles.
Ron: It sort of bimbles around the top.
Ron: Potassium starts catching fire.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: I said all that.
Laura: Square has been talking about your girlfriend.
Laura: It's something about cheese knives.
Ron: No, they're soft.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: We didn't even mention cheese knives last time we talked about I think I.
Laura: Was picturing yeah, you can cut them.
Laura: Yeah, yeah.
Laura: And I was picturing doing it with a cheese knife.
Laura: There we go.
Laura: That's what it is.
Laura: They're soft and you can cut them maybe with each other, probably very soft, reactive.
Laura: Very reactive.
Laura: What else do I have to say anymore?
Ron: No, that's good.
Ron: I wanted you to maybe talk about why they're really reactive a little bit.
Laura: Because they've got the metals, so they've got an extra sad boy.
Laura: They've got one loose sad boy far out on a lone ring away from the magnetic pull.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So why do they get more reactive as you go down the grid?
Laura: Because there's more sad boys filling up the ring.
Laura: So the loan sad boy out on his own is very far away from the magnets.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: Okay, cool, right?
Ron: Yes.
Ron: Good job.
Ron: So what we're going to do now is you're going to predict and work out you from your bottle right now.
Ron: It's very awkward.
Laura: Sorry.
Laura: I'm trying to keep hydrated to keep my nephron active.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: You're going to predict some reactions for me.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Shock or surprise?
Laura: Delight.
Laura: Fury.
Laura: Good reactions.
Laura: Thumbs up.
Laura: Emoji.
Ron: You didn't predict the disappointment.
Laura: Sorry.
Laura: Disappointed.
Ron: We're going to stick with our good friend chlorine, and we're going to start the hotel opposite.
Laura: Mine is one of those cool window cleaners, like, scaling down.
Laura: Also, I tell you a cool thing about Norway.
Laura: The breakfast just has as much salmon as you can eat.
Ron: I told you about the campsite that we'll go to with some friends next month.
Laura: No.
Ron: I was left to book the campsite for the Eindhoven leg of our road trip, and I found one that's on a working trout farm on the website.
Ron: Like, the third thing that it says is we are quite often smoking and feasting on trail, which I'm very much looking forward to.
Ron: Okay, cool.
Ron: So as I said, we're going to start with our good friend sodium, and we're going to start with a reaction that you know the answer to already.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: Does it make salt with chlorine?
Ron: Yes.
Ron: That's what we're going to do.
Ron: We're going to talk about sodium reacting with chlorine.
Ron: Chlorine, as with all group seven, allergens we'll come to them in a second exists as a gas or when it's just chlorine itself in little two tours.
Ron: So two chlorines bonded together.
Laura: Okay, so you never have a lone chlorine?
Ron: No, not really.
Ron: In nature, no.
Laura: How is there always enough?
Laura: How is there always an even number?
Ron: Just works out.
Ron: So you know what it will form in the end.
Ron: Can you talk me through this reaction?
Ron: What happens?
Laura: Yeah, go on.
Ron: Yeah, go on, man.
Laura: You mean by this reaction?
Laura: What reaction?
Ron: Sodium and chlorine.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: They make a pear.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: And it's delicious.
Ron: Talk me through it.
Ron: You know what happens.
Laura: Yeah, they make a pear.
Laura: I have said that twice now.
Ron: Tell me about it.
Laura: What else can I say?
Laura: They join up.
Ron: Talk about the electrons, something.
Laura: One of them goes to the other one.
Ron: We've got three of these to do.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: And I'm trying stop staring at me like I know what format you want the answer in.
Laura: Sodium's got eleven and chlorine's got no 17.
Laura: So probably a sad boy off sodium goes and sees chlorine.
Ron: Okay, so is it going to be a minute?
Laura: How do they stick together, then?
Ron: Because they're attracted to each other.
Ron: One of them is positive and one of them is negative.
Ron: But as I've said, chlorine travels around in a little pair.
Ron: So it's not going to be just one sodium atom reacting to the chlorine, is it?
Laura: No.
Laura: There's going to be a real jealous chlorine.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: The equation that you end up with is two NA, two sodium plus CL.
Ron: Two.
Ron: A chlorine molecule equals two NaCl.
Ron: Right.
Laura: It's like we're having a chat and then you just do a little triple jump.
Laura: Just, hello, this is number one.
Laura: I've made a hat.
Laura: It's like you need to talk through all the process stages of making a hat before we get there from number one.
Laura: So it's two sodiums get involved in the chlorine.
Ron: Because there are two chlorine atoms in a chlorine molecule.
Laura: I thought maybe one of the chlorines would go away.
Ron: No.
Ron: So when you do reaction equations like this, you always have to balance them so that they work.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Okay.
Ron: As I say, we've got two more of these to do, so buckle up.
Laura: Well, how the h*** would I know that chlorine's inner two?
Ron: Because I told you that.
Laura: Yeah, but how would I know if I was a science and you weren't telling me?
Laura: A scientist and you weren't telling me?
Ron: I don't know.
Ron: They've worked it out at some point.
Laura: How would I work out on my own accord, though?
Laura: If that was a question, you don't have to.
Ron: I've told you that.
Laura: But what if it's in an exam workout?
Ron: Chlorine?
Ron: That's what would be a question.
Ron: We're doing the syllabus.
Ron: I'm not just pulling this stuff from nowhere.
Laura: What if the question was, how does a chlorine and a sodium react to each other?
Laura: How would I know that they were in a two?
Ron: You'd know, I've told you, that's the purpose of learning.
Laura: So I just got to memorise all of the ones that come in a two?
Ron: No, there are specific ones that you have to know about.
Ron: Chlorine is one of them.
Ron: But that's like saying, how am I supposed to know that sodium loses a sad boy?
Laura: Because I look at it and I see the extra sad boy.
Ron: But you didn't know what a sad boy was twelve weeks ago when we.
Laura: Started doing no, and I'm still referring to it as a sad boy rather than whatever it actually is.
Ron: An electron.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So I don't know why this extra piece of information is the bridge to.
Laura: Arbitrary, and that's just a thing you have to know that is stupid.
Laura: If it's going to be science, it needs to be so logical.
Laura: You can work out the whole thing itself, or it ought to be a different thing.
Ron: Do you want to know why it works like this?
Ron: Because I think this is going to f*** you off, but I will tell you.
Laura: How could I know that without knowing it?
Ron: I can tell you.
Laura: Yeah, tell me, then.
Laura: Why are you being so horrible today?
Ron: Because you are going tankers.
Laura: Yes.
Laura: I'm tired and sad and broken.
Ron: Right, so we will come to this later on.
Ron: We just have not yet.
Ron: Molecules are formed when added.
Laura: What's the molecule again?
Ron: You interrupted my f****** definition to ask that.
Laura: Okay, sorry.
Ron: Molecules are formed when atoms create covalent bonds between each other.
Ron: I'm about to explain it.
Laura: What molecules?
Ron: Molecules are when too, when it's a structure made by covalent bonds.
Ron: Now I'm about to define what a covalent bond is.
Ron: Right.
Ron: So electrons, when they are concave, electrons when they are with and around an atom, they like to be in pairs.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: Me too.
Laura: I hate to be alone.
Ron: Yes, we all do.
Ron: Being alone is the worst.
Ron: Electrons like to be in pets.
Ron: Chlorine, as you know, has seven electrons in its outer shell.
Ron: Okay?
Laura: Yes, sir.
Ron: So that means there's three pairs and then one on its own.
Ron: So when it's reacting with chlorine, the one on its own from one chlorine and the one on its own from another chlorine form a pair that is a covalent bond and then that is why they travel around in a two, because two of their little outside whizzers are hanging out.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Makes sense.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: So then we move on to our formula.
Ron: So the chlorine is going around in a tour.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: So then we need two sodiums to react with that.
Laura: Why does the chlorine still want to react if all the pears are happy?
Ron: Because it's better for the chlorine to fill it out.
Ron: Because they could both fill their outside rings if they steal these electrons from the sodiums.
Laura: Okay, so it's a bit of an unhappy sort of marriage of utility, really, isn't it?
Ron: There's actually very little emotion flying around.
Laura: I think that's my problem with a lot of science, is that I can't help adding emotion to the situation.
Laura: I just give them all personalities.
Ron: So the next one that we're going to look at is oxygen reacting with.
Laura: So sometimes when I edit these, I worry that people think I've edited a bit out when there's just a pause and then you move on.
Laura: And I hope people know that that is just actually how the conversation goes.
Laura: I say something very profound and then Ron just pauses for a second and carries on.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Sometimes I worry that I've edited it out too much of the thinking time.
Laura: People.
Ron: Think you're getting it a lot quicker and then I'm just being really rude to you because sometimes they had.
Laura: It out like, he is, he is.
Ron: Sometimes I had it out like, 30 seconds of, like and then you say.
Ron: Something and I'm like, no, you idiot.
Ron: Anyway, okay, so oxygen also exists as a pair.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: If you want to learn about this as well, oxygen has two Covalent bonds between it because it has two single boys on its outside.
Ron: So then the two single boys of one oxygen hang out with the two single boys of the other oxygen.
Ron: It forms two Covalent bonds between the oxygens.
Laura: It's going to have two single bonds on its outside.
Laura: That's a pair.
Ron: It's to do with the way that the electron rings are made.
Ron: They come in different shells.
Ron: It's a whole thing, and it's an A level thing, and I'd rather we.
Laura: Just didn't okay, me too, mate.
Ron: Can you please?
Ron: And I've gone through a pipe, so I'm putting a bit more level head.
Ron: Now.
Ron: Let's do this together.
Ron: Let's figure it out.
Ron: Okay, it's going to be a nice experience, but let's figure out what the balanced reaction will be between sodium and oxygen, okay?
Ron: Okay, let's think about it in terms of electrons.
Ron: So how many electrons does oxygen have in its outer shell?
Laura: Stop spinning.
Laura: Six.
Ron: How many gaps does it have in its outer shell?
Laura: Run it's spinning.
Ron: Don't count them.
Ron: Use your memories and knowledge.
Ron: Also, you can't count gaps.
Laura: I can't count gaps.
Laura: Do you mean the gaps in between the electrons?
Ron: No.
Ron: How many electrons is it missing from its outer shell?
Laura: Oh, two.
Ron: You've just gotten super loud.
Laura: Is that better?
Ron: Yeah, it's a bit better, but no, don't shout.
Laura: Two.
Ron: Okay.
Ron: Yes, that is correct.
Ron: So for sodium to fill those, how many sodiums would you need?
Laura: Sodium's got one sad boy in its outer ring.
Laura: So you need two sodiums.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: But oxygen travels in a pair.
Ron: So what would the balanced reaction equation be?
Laura: Well, four sodiums then, plus four more.
Ron: No, four sodiums plus two equals.
Laura: Hey, happy days.
Ron: So when sodium and chlorine reacted, we got NaCl, didn't we?
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: It sounds like a university, doesn't it?
Ron: No, it just sounds a bit like UCL.
Ron: Now, if that's NaCl, there's, like, American.
Laura: Ones, I'm sure, that are like University of California.
Ron: So that's NaCl.
Ron: What do you think the chemical name for what we've just made with oxygen, sodium oxide would be?
Laura: Can you say that again, please?
Laura: I wasn't listening.
Ron: So when we have one sodium and one chloride, we get NaCl.
Ron: So now we've got two sodiums and an oxide ion.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: What do you think the chemical symbol for that would be?
Laura: Four NA.
Laura: Two.
Ron: No, because it's two sodiums per oxygen.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: So it's going to be NA two, but then there's two of them.
Ron: So it's two NA.
Ron: 02:01 oxygen.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: But they come in sets, right?
Ron: Because each oxygen reacts with two sodiums.
Ron: So that's NA, two o.
Ron: Okay.
Ron: That's what that is.
Ron: And then there's two of those.
Ron: So it's two NA, two o.
Laura: Why don't you have to say that there's two o's?
Ron: Because you've already said that because there's a two at the beginning.
Ron: Imagine it with brackets.
Ron: So brackets around the NA.
Ron: Two o.
Ron: Right.
Ron: That's one thing.
Ron: And then there's two of those.
Ron: So there are two.
Laura: Oh, I see.
Laura: So you need two nas for each O-N-A two.
Laura: And it's that little hanging down two on the bottom, isn't it?
Laura: Exactly.
Laura: Line duck.
Laura: And that adds up to one o.
Laura: But you saying that that will never happen on its own.
Laura: It'll always be double.
Ron: Exactly.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: It doesn't come as a single option.
Laura: You've got to have the meal deal.
Ron: Yeah, exactly.
Laura: I don't know if you can hear that.
Laura: I'm very sorry.
Laura: The room next door is being serviced.
Laura: There is a vacuum cleaner.
Ron: That's fine.
Ron: Okay, the last one that we're going to do is sodium reacting with water.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: Sodium.
Laura: Whale of sodium.
Laura: We were just looking at it.
Laura: N A.
Laura: God, I wish it wasn't called NA.
Ron: Why?
Laura: Just because it doesn't sound like salt or sodium, does it?
Laura: Say yes to sodium not.
Laura: Nah.
Laura: Sodium is delicious.
Laura: What else did you say?
Laura: Water?
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Wait, that is not going to be on here because it is H 20.
Ron: So what you need to know to work this one out is that when.
Laura: Water reacts with stuff that's covered hydrogen, by the way.
Ron: When water reacts with stuff, it splits into an oh minus ion.
Laura: You can't no, don't change it now.
Laura: Let's just keep it all in the same way the others were.
Ron: What do you mean?
Laura: What are you talking about?
Laura: Now?
Laura: Let's not learn those ones.
Ron: Interrupts me to ask me something I'm physically telling you.
Laura: I'm not asking you anything.
Laura: I'm telling you not to teach me this bit because I don't think it's relevant.
Ron: It is, and it's fun.
Ron: It's like a cool puzzle.
Laura: Fast and loose with the word cool there on.
Laura: I did a puzzle at the weekend.
Laura: It was really horrible.
Laura: It was like a princess with some dogs and horses and a full moon and a castle.
Laura: It was real bad.
Ron: So water splits into an oh minus ion and an H plus.
Laura: Okay, if you say so.
Laura: Ron, you can't say that and then look at me like I'm being a d*** when I don't go.
Laura: Makes perfect sense.
Ron: I'm really not trying to.
Laura: It's like me going, this bus splits into a Tubeiron 960 and a flergon eight.
Ron: No, it's not.
Laura: Mean.
Ron: You know what?
Ron: This week.
Ron: Right, okay, cancel the rest of the podcast.
Ron: We're going to talk about this now.
Laura: No.
Laura: What does oh minus one mean?
Ron: Water is H 20.
Ron: You understand what that is, right?
Laura: Yes, I do.
Ron: So it's two hydrogens and an oxygen.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: You know what minus and plus mean in these scenarios?
Ron: It means that it's either got too many electrons or not enough.
Ron: So have a think for a second.
Ron: What do you think oh minus means?
Ron: What's in it?
Laura: I don't know.
Ron: An oxygen or hydrogen, and it's got a negative charge.
Laura: Oh, why have they switched around?
Ron: Okay, ho minus.
Ron: It doesn't make a difference.
Laura: What do you mean minus one?
Ron: It's got a minus charge.
Ron: You call it oh, minus.
Laura: What's happening?
Laura: Why have those two gone off on their own?
Ron: That's just the thing that I'm telling you.
Ron: That's just how it works.
Ron: That's what happens.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: I love it.
Laura: It's brilliant.
Laura: You told me not to interrupt, and you're explaining, so I'll just no, I.
Ron: Told you not to interrupt.
Ron: The question about water, I'm explaining.
Ron: So water splits into those two ions.
Laura: What was the other one?
Laura: Oh minus one.
Ron: Just oh, minus one.
Ron: How do you think water would react with sodium?
Ron: What's going to be attracted to each other?
Ron: The sodium is going to lose an electron.
Ron: It's going to become n a plus.
Ron: What's that going to get attracted to?
Laura: You'd hope it would be the other happy guy, because I think it's unhealthy that the sad ones and the happy ones always get attracted to each other.
Laura: It's pressure on the happy one.
Laura: I'd hope that they would get off with the H plus guy and just go and have an adventurous life together.
Laura: But I assume because of the magnet thing, it'll be sad one and happy.
Ron: One because it's the lack of feeling of these submicroscopic particles.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: So it will be N A and then H plus or just Disney about on his own.
Ron: Do you remember the farty bubbles all the time from when we were throwing sodium into water?
Laura: Yes.
Ron: That was hydrogen gas.
Ron: So what you get is you get NAO and you get and you get h two hydrogen gas produced.
Laura: Why is he in h two now?
Ron: Because they join up to make hydrogen gas.
Laura: Oh, h is another twoer.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So it's the same concept, because each h has just got one electron whizzing around.
Ron: It shares it with the other h.
Ron: Covalent bond.
Laura: Sometimes that will happen when there's two in the outer thing.
Laura: No, I swear you said that earlier.
Laura: I swear you said that about oxygen doesn't have a lonely guy.
Ron: It's got two lonely guys.
Laura: Exactly.
Ron: Just trust me.
Ron: You don't want me to get into Covalent shells.
Laura: I don't want you to get into this feat.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: That's why I'm desperately trying to get through this, because I've just got to go back to work after this.
Ron: Yeah, but, like, in a few hours.
Laura: No, I've got another recording in 45 minutes.
Laura: Thank you very much.
Ron: I'm going to come out of this going to be so hot and angry.
Laura: I don't know why you're angry with me.
Laura: I'm doing my best, but it doesn't make any sense off of this.
Laura: This one does this because the guy's lonely.
Laura: All right, I get it.
Laura: Oh, now it does.
Laura: It because even though there's two of them, they're not actually that close.
Laura: So they're both still lonely even though they're together.
Laura: Remember that.
Laura: Don't add emotions, though.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: It's just you swerve wildly between you being like, I don't give a f***, who cares?
Ron: Don't tell me about this.
Ron: To what?
Ron: Why?
Ron: Tell me exactly how this works.
Ron: Even though that's not part of the syllabus.
Ron: Some things we just have to just learn.
Laura: Yeah, I did get told off for that a lot at school.
Laura: Just learn it.
Laura: Stop needing to know why.
Laura: To know it and just know it.
Ron: Yeah, because it's like stuff like the covalent bonds, we'll get on to that, but just for right now, they just go round of pairs.
Laura: But then you look at me in some stuff and you go, but you should know this because I told you why.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Because the difference with that is that with those things, I've told you why.
Ron: The last thing that we're going to go through is group seven or 17, which is the halogens.
Laura: Halogen?
Laura: Halogen.
Ron: This is your chlorines and your chlorines and euphromines and your hydines and your estatenes.
Laura: I see.
Laura: There they are over there.
Ron: By group zero, they are highly reactive.
Ron: We know why.
Ron: It's because they have super attractive powers.
Ron: Because they just got one empty spot at the games table that one of the sad boys can come in and sit at.
Laura: Games table now, is it?
Ron: Yeah, that's why I always think about it.
Ron: We've got one more spot at the table.
Ron: Come in rather than with sodium.
Ron: It's like one person sat at a table alone and they're like, wow, wait.
Laura: They'Re over the right hand side of the table.
Laura: So shouldn't they be less reactive because they're further away from their magnets?
Ron: No, because that's up down, isn't it?
Laura: Remember left and right?
Ron: No.
Ron: Same as the others.
Ron: The boiling point goes up as you go down the group to the point that bromine is actually a liquid at room temperature.
Ron: It's brown.
Ron: Kind of a ready brown.
Ron: As we've discussed before, they get more reactive at the top of the group.
Ron: Can you remember why?
Laura: Closer to the magnets.
Ron: Closer to the magnets.
Ron: That's what we want with these ones.
Ron: And then the last thing that it wants us to know about group seven is that.
Laura: Later on May come on, I'm going to learn this.
Ron: A more reactive halogen can displace a less reactive halogen from its salt in aqueous solution.
Laura: Jesus Christ.
Laura: There goes another hop.
Laura: Skipper, jump.
Laura: Also, I spent half of that sentence going, what's a more reactive subject?
Laura: Before I realised you were saying the words more unreactive.
Laura: This is a whole new breed I've not heard of.
Ron: So if there's some sodium bromide iNSolution, we can bubble through some chlorine gas, it will kick the bromine out and then we'd have sodium chloride iNSolution.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: Do you get it?
Laura: No, but you told me to stop trying to get it and just learn it.
Laura: Blavitate back, Your Honour, because that is precisely what you just told me to do to stop questioning it and trying to understand it and just say, I understood it.
Ron: No, it's not.
Ron: No, you can question the thing that we're learning, but just not like going off on a tadgent to understand something else.
Laura: All right, then what are you talking about, Ron?
Ron: So chlorine more reactive than bromine, right?
Laura: Yes.
Ron: Let's say we've got some sodium bromide dissolved in some water.
Laura: Some sodium bromide.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: It's exactly like sodium chloride.
Ron: The reaction is exactly the same because they've got the same outer shells of electrons.
Laura: When is it chloride and a bromide instead of chlorine and a bromine?
Ron: When they're ions.
Laura: That's two of them.
Ron: No, it's two of them when they're in a molecule.
Ron: So then that's chlorine gas or bromine liquid.
Laura: What's an ion?
Laura: Is that when there's more neutron?
Ron: When it's got a charge?
Ron: No, when the electrons are off.
Ron: When it's got a charge.
Laura: God in heaven.
Ron: So bromide ion is going to be BR minus.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: So there's some chloride bromide in some water.
Ron: Sodium bromide.
Laura: Sodium bromide.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: That's floating around having a lovely time.
Ron: Then what we want to do, then what we do is we bubble through some chlorine gas.
Ron: So these are your CL two's.
Ron: Okay.
Ron: The chlorine is more reactive than the bromine, so the sodium is more attracted to the chlorine than it ever was to the bromine.
Ron: So the sodium goes and reacts with the chlorine.
Ron: Now we've got sodium chloride, the bromine go, I guess we didn't want the sodium anyway.
Ron: They match up with each other and form bromine as.
Laura: A little incel.
Laura: Bro party.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: See, isn't life easier when you give it emotions?
Laura: Ron, this makes so much more sense when you explain it like that, instead of because of numbers and magnets.
Laura: Do you not think that this makes way more sense?
Ron: No, I really like math.
Ron: Math makes so much sense to me.
Laura: No, it's too cold.
Laura: There's no logic behind it.
Laura: Where is that?
Ron: There is logic behind it.
Ron: No, that's it for the day.
Laura: I don't feel like we learned anything today.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: So what have we learned today?
Laura: Because honestly, I've made no notes because I haven't got my notepad, so just the quiz is going to be absolute disaster.
Ron: We learned what the difference between metals and nonmetals are.
Ron: We learnt about the noble gases, we learnt about group one elements.
Ron: We did some chemical reaction equations and we learned about group seven, the halogens.
Laura: My God, it's going to be a bloodbath.
Laura: We'll see you after the music.
Laura: God, chemistry is getting worse and worse.
Laura: We're back it's two weeks later due to unforeseen scheduling issues.
Laura: Ron.
Laura: I found my notebook.
Ron: That's good, but you didn't make any notes in it last time.
Laura: No.
Ron: I'm in a very good mood this week.
Ron: To subtly date the record for listeners, I've been listening to a lot of mica, so that's been a mood list.
Ron: So I've been quite kind I think with the good because I can't even.
Laura: Remember what subject we did last time.
Laura: Eleven.
Laura: That must make it chemistry, right?
Laura: Okay, well, at least I can do the math like that.
Ron: Okay, question one for one point.
Ron: Wait, hang on.
Ron: I'm going to say that there are 12341 day.
Laura: I'm going to make a montage of just you counting up numbers.
Ron: Oh, your hair is long.
Laura: Yeah, it really needs cutting, Ron.
Laura: It's so dry.
Laura: I could start like a localised bushfire.
Ron: I've never been wetter, to be honest.
Ron: It's so hot in this flat thing.
Laura: That that phrase should be someone was literally asking me yesterday, is this podcast suitable for children?
Laura: And I said it depends.
Laura: We don't do any graphic content, but we do sometimes swear.
Laura: But now you've just bombed that up the wall.
Ron: Yeah, I'm a one man swamp at the moment.
Ron: It's so hot.
Ron: And we can't open the windows because of the kids.
Laura: Get the nets for the windows.
Laura: Ron, you cannot go a whole summer living in an attic with closed windows.
Laura: You're going to die.
Ron: I slept on the floor in the office last night.
Laura: What's wrong with you?
Laura: Just get the net things for the windows.
Laura: You can't let a cat dictate your life.
Ron: I already do.
Laura: Yeah, you need to change it, Ron.
Laura: I'm starting an intervention now.
Laura: The cat will be fine, just put a net on the windows.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: What are you worried about?
Laura: That the cat will like get really into fishing?
Ron: No, I don't even know.
Ron: It seems like a big to do.
Laura: Oh my goodness.
Ron: Okay, question one for one out of five points, carefully counted five points.
Ron: Why are the noble gases inert?
Laura: Because inert is a good word, isn't it?
Laura: Because they have very full outer rings.
Ron: Very full, yes.
Laura: As full as they can be?
Ron: Yes.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: Very full.
Ron: You might have wanted to find it just full.
Laura: Well, I wanted to make sure you extra knew.
Laura: I knew what I meant.
Ron: Very.
Ron: Why does that mean that they are in?
Laura: It no space at the party, bro.
Laura: This party is full of electrons.
Laura: So other ones that are looking to give away an electron, the noble gases are like no gas, only they're isolationist.
Ron: They don't need anybody else's electrons and they also don't need to get rid of any.
Ron: Yeah, correct.
Ron: Okay, that's one point and I gave two answers there.
Ron: Yeah, that's all one point because it was quite easy.
Ron: Question two though.
Ron: Three points on offer here.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: What is the balanced reaction equation of lithium reacting with fluorine?
Ron: That's macky scruffling around on the floor around you.
Laura: Well, she's actually downstairs.
Laura: She'll be sitting at the bottom of the ladder to my office just gazing up.
Laura: It sounds like she's found a toilet roll holder or something somewhere.
Laura: What was the question?
Laura: Ron?
Laura: This just isn't ringing a bell.
Laura: And not a single bell.
Ron: What is the balance reaction equation of lithium reacting with fluorine.
Laura: I can't remember this at all.
Laura: Twelve.
Laura: Is this with the triangles?
Laura: Is this where the triangles came in?
Laura: Was that this?
Ron: That was episodes ago.
Ron: I think that was physics.
Ron: So yeah, that was like three episodes.
Laura: So lithium is three, fluorine is nine.
Laura: The best I bought is twelve.
Laura: I can't remember doing this.
Laura: Lithium and fluorine.
Laura: Oh, my God.
Laura: I don't know, Ron.
Laura: I just can't even hazard a guess.
Laura: Twelve.
Laura: That's all I've got.
Laura: I don't know.
Ron: So let's not think about trying to write the equation of it.
Laura: Good.
Ron: What do you think would happen based off your knowledge of electron shells and that?
Laura: Oh, wait, is this where two buddies have to become one buddy?
Laura: Is that this?
Ron: I think you're hinting at it, yeah.
Laura: All right, so lithium, if that's the number three, that means it's got a ring of two and then a spare one, and then fluorine being nine, that's got two and then seven.
Laura: So it's got one space.
Laura: So it's just one lithium and one fluorine, their buddies.
Ron: But fluorine goes around in a pair.
Laura: There's no way I could have known that.
Ron: There is, because last week when we spoke about this and I know this because I've just edited this, so I know that you went there's no way I could have known that if you're not going to explain why, and then I explained why.
Laura: Why is it I.
Ron: Can'T tell you that.
Ron: Question number three.
Laura: So two floorines and two lithiums.
Ron: Okay, you're not going to get that.
Laura: I can't remember this.
Laura: This is too stupid.
Laura: Again, we've strayed into stupid territory.
Ron: Remember from last week?
Ron: If the numbers before the element, that's how many are there?
Ron: So it's two li, two lithium plus FL.
Ron: Two.
Ron: That little two afterwards means that they're in a molecule together that has two of them, and then they make two.
Ron: Lithium, fluoride, lisl.
Ron: We did this exact equation, but we did it with sodium and chlorine last time.
Laura: It's not the exact equation then, is it?
Ron: Well, it is, because remember like how for about three months now we've been talking about how groups up, downers of elements work in the same way?
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: I just don't remember that at all.
Laura: I'm not sure I did.
Ron: That's.
Ron: A north out of three for Laura.
Ron: For those gambling along at home, I'll give you a point for two FL.
Ron: Two and a point for two Lifl.
Ron: Ready for question number three, Laura?
Laura: No.
Laura: I'm not doing very well.
Ron: No, you're not.
Laura: I can't remember any of it.
Laura: Where's it gone?
Ron: You didn't listen great last time.
Ron: And it's not so much your fault.
Ron: You kind of had the feet equivalent of like those squishy things you could buy from Hawkins Bazaar that you can't hold on to.
Laura: Oh, my God.
Laura: Ron, they've got worse.
Laura: My turnout has entirely fallen off.
Ron: Just keep it to yourself.
Laura: So disgusting.
Laura: It looks like a chewed sausage.
Ron: So question number three.
Laura: You know the cuticle on your nails, like that little half moon thing?
Laura: Did you know that's?
Laura: Like a little pillow of skin underneath.
Ron: So question number three is why do halogen elements for molecules of two atoms, the specially requested piece of information from last episode.
Laura: Why the halogens group seven do what.
Ron: Now form molecules of two atoms?
Ron: Why is it FL two or CL two or just one?
Laura: Cause they lonely.
Laura: They got a lonely boy.
Laura: They don't like to be lonely.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: They hate being reactive.
Laura: So they just incest it up instead of looking for a different body.
Ron: Explain it.
Laura: Yeah, that's an explanation you just heard.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: That they've got an extra electron.
Laura: Sad boy.
Laura: I'm so aware of the fan of your computer.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: It's so hard to open the window.
Laura: Then there's no cat in that room with you.
Ron: Okay, shut up for a second so that we can edit this out.
Laura: I can hear the rain now.
Ron: Nice.
Laura: Is it getting on you?
Ron: It's splashing on me, but I'm kind of loving it now.
Laura: You're double swamped.
Ron: I'm on three showers a day.
Laura: Dirty boy.
Laura: Gosh.
Laura: God, ron I don't know.
Laura: Yes, it's that it's what I just said.
Laura: They have an extra electron and they don't like it.
Ron: They have no preference at all.
Ron: They are not lonely and they don't prefer it one way or the other.
Laura: Well, they do, otherwise they wouldn't do it, would they?
Laura: Oh, wrong.
Laura: This is wet.
Laura: All right.
Laura: I don't know how to describe things out of those terms.
Laura: They've got an extra electron and it's just for no reason.
Laura: They're getting a pair for no reason.
Laura: This is a disaster.
Laura: Your house is flooding.
Laura: I can't describe things without emotion.
Laura: They just get in a pear on rather than be alone.
Laura: And that's not about feeling lonely.
Laura: Alone is a thing.
Laura: That is a thing.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: So they get with their own kind.
Ron: What likes to be in a pair?
Laura: The electrons.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: The atoms.
Ron: I'm going to give you half a mark.
Laura: Oh, okay.
Ron: I think you get it, but I think it was just so incompetently explained that I cannot in good faith give you a hallmark.
Laura: Feels like we put the rein in to articulate how I'm feeling.
Laura: Do you hear that sound?
Laura: That is the sound of girlfriend of the podcast Judith slapping herself silly.
Laura: It's ron Juffling Top Chumps.
Laura: We're going to play a little bit of elements.
Laura: Top times we're on that episode really fell apart towards the end there.
Laura: We gave up on each other and science.
Laura: I think you're dealing all the cards.
Laura: This is going to be a long episode, buddy.
Laura: Okay, so these are Stevens Top Trumps that he gave me.
Laura: Also, just before we get distracted with Top Trumps, I will just say I will be accepting images of Xenon warrior princess on all social medias and to our email address, Lexeducation@gmail.com.
Laura: All right, Ron, I'm going first.
Laura: So I'm looking at my thing.
Laura: The options on my top terms are melting point, density, price, discovery date and size of atom, but I don't know what of these.
Laura: I don't know what this element would be impressive in.
Laura: Not a problem.
Ron: I think I'm going to win this handily.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: With discovery date, we're thinking earliest is the better, aren't we?
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Now I'm going to go with melting.
Laura: Point.
Laura: -271.
Ron: What winds.
Ron: Higher or lower a melting point higher again.
Ron: Sure.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: 115.
Ron: Why did you go for a minus?
Laura: Well, I thought lower.
Ron: Why then it's just a liquid or a gas or something.
Laura: No, Ron wins.
Laura: Helium.
Laura: That makes more sense.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Girlfriend of the podcast.
Laura: You.
Laura: This is on my side.
Ron: That's really eastern melting is about hot, so the hotter the better.
Laura: The hotter the wetter the stronger the better.
Laura: That's a Catholic babe.
Laura: Have you been listening to the podcast?
Ron: No.
Laura: You're such an awesome.
Ron: Okay, I have the same options because it's top Trump.
Ron: My picture has a picture of some very green bananas on it.
Laura: I think I've got a solar panel on mine.
Ron: I'm going to say I have no idea.
Ron: Density 862.
Laura: Hang on.
Laura: Is it more dense or less dense?
Ron: More dense is better.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: 1873 cesium.
Laura: Your cardium.
Laura: I had cesium.
Laura: Ron had potassium.
Laura: Yeah, bananas.
Laura: Potassium.
Laura: We're learning.
Laura: We're laughing.
Laura: We're learning.
Laura: Oh, yeah, I've heard of this one oh, I'm going to go density here then.
Laura: Density 8650.
Ron: Density 10,500.
Laura: What's more dense than cadmium?
Ron: Silver?
Ron: It's my turn now.
Ron: This is s***.
Ron: What a s*** element.
Ron: What is it?
Ron: Oxygen.
Ron: Bloody user.
Laura: I was going to guess it was oxygen.
Ron: Size of atom, 304.
Laura: 346 damage.
Laura: Just beat you with old magnesium.
Laura: Well done, Maggie May.
Laura: All right, this one is said differently across the Atlantic.
Laura: It's not a good one, though.
Ron: I do why there's a picture of a thermometer on it.
Laura: I've got an aeroplane.
Laura: I'm getting a melting point.
Laura: 660.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Shouldn't have told you it was mercury, a liquid at room temperature.
Laura: I learned this in the National Treasures podcast.
Laura: My other podcast.
Laura: Sorry to cross pollinate that aluminium being the body of a Concorde, is the reason concord was limited to a speed of mac, too, because above that, the aluminium gets too hot and starts to melt.
Laura: Full effects.
Laura: It's me again, right?
Laura: Oh, this has got a very high melting point.
Laura: I'm going to go with that.
Laura: 1538.
Ron: Sorry, I wasn't listening.
Ron: Which one?
Laura: Melting point.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: You win.
Laura: You can't melt iron, b******.
Ron: You can melt arsenic.
Laura: Oh, arsenic.
Laura: That's not on the periodic table.
Ron: Yes, it is.
Laura: I didn't see it on mine.
Laura: Well done, science.
Laura: I've got a crop duster here.
Laura: It doesn't look good.
Laura: Whoa.
Laura: Arsenal was discovered in 1250.
Laura: I am having a good time.
Ron: I can't wait to see the listeners.
Ron: Daddy.
Laura: It'S not a good card, this one.
Laura: Let's go.
Laura: It's very cheap.
Laura: There's a price on here.
Laura: I've not used it once because I've got no sense of how expensive an atom should be.
Laura: Oh, no.
Laura: It's per 100 grammes, not atom.
Laura: I'm going to go size of atom, 374.
Ron: 20.
Ron: Okay.
Ron: Christ, there's nothing good about this one.
Laura: Is it?
Laura: The element drawn.
Ron: Size of item 353 84.
Laura: Boron.
Laura: Boron beats chlorine.
Laura: OOH, who's this?
Laura: Oh, Richard Osmium.
Laura: I'm going to go price.
Laura: £16,000 per 100 grand.
Ron: God d*** it.
Ron: £15,000 europium.
Laura: Come to me with a few spinny cards.
Laura: There.
Ron: Your favourite element.
Laura: This one's absolute garbage.
Laura: Nothing here.
Laura: Neon.
Laura: Discovery date.
Ron: Right.
Ron: Discovery date, 9000 BC.
Laura: Whoa.
Laura: Yeah, you take some nitrogen off me there.
Laura: What was that?
Laura: Copper.
Laura: The copper age.
Ron: Discovery date 30,000 BC.
Laura: Jesus.
Laura: Snow.
Laura: What?
Ron: Fluorine carbon density?
Ron: 11,350.
Laura: No, I'm down to two cards.
Ron: Only because Tom stolen.
Laura: How do you win?
Laura: Top Trump.
Ron: You get them all.
Ron: We're not playing the whole game.
Laura: Oh, right.
Ron: We can't do that.
Laura: We'll do that on the picture.
Ron: This is all ready.
Ron: Size of atom?
Ron: 462.
Laura: D*** it.
Laura: 364.
Laura: Take my lithium.
Laura: Okay, final card.
Laura: Come on, we want to win this one.
Ron: You should take your lithium.
Ron: Discovery date?
Ron: 3000 BC.
Laura: P***.
Ron: And that's a win for wrong.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: All right.
Laura: Well, thank you so much, Steven.
Laura: And thank you, listeners.
Laura: If you're a silent lurker or a chatter, we love you.
Ron: We're still there.
Laura: We really love you.
Laura: Let us know if you did listen to the end of the Top Trump.
Laura: I'd be fascinated to know.
Laura: Let us know if you unsubscribed as an outcome to this game.
Laura: Let us know if this is the reason we got that many one star reviews this week.
Laura: Listen, we'll see you next week for physics.
Ron: Physics.
Laura: The first non arguments are the most.
Ron: Amicable physics you'll ever hear.
Laura: Bye.
Ron: Class dismissed.
