Gemstones' Electric Charge!

Gemstones' Electric Charge!

This week, Natalie explains how the Triboelectric Effect in Quartz and Amber are able to generate an electric charge that will leave many of you shocked (get it?)!

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31 Comments

  1. sad bird productions on October 6, 2021 at 8:53 am

    *makes a quartz gemsona*



  2. Gamerninja 4 on October 6, 2021 at 8:54 am

    You should do a video on the gyms of the final fantasy series



  3. Karen Murphy on October 6, 2021 at 8:58 am

    Love these shows. Just found them today.



  4. I'm gay and also on October 6, 2021 at 8:59 am

    0:55 Hahahahahahaha I’m dead.



  5. Sultan Jamal on October 6, 2021 at 9:00 am

    I have found this Gemstone in my home country Somalia, can you help me recognize to sell?.
    I have uploaded in this below link:
    https://youtu.be/uKrIN-IcQBQ



  6. AManWithaWoodenleg2 on October 6, 2021 at 9:01 am

    Mary me



  7. Juan Miranda on October 6, 2021 at 9:03 am

    Who knows maybe later on the power of cars



  8. Remanje Carter on October 6, 2021 at 9:04 am

    This is a *shocking* video



  9. NAK on October 6, 2021 at 9:05 am

    That was amazing. So what do you think about making a video discussing the many different varieties and colors of Opal? It’s not just the many different varieties that make me think Opal is unique, but how unusual it can sometimes look depending on what mineral traces or associations. Here’s some more examples.

    Wax Opal, a brown to yellow brown variety of Opal with a waxy luster.

    Opal with Cinnabar, milky white Opal with traces of red Cinnabar. Some specimens can remind me of strawberry ice cream, especially ones from the B&B Mine in Fish Lake Valley District, Esmeralda County, Nevada.

    Radiolite Opal, a variety of Opal with traces of Radiolaria skeletons.



  10. Joe Ingles on October 6, 2021 at 9:05 am

    Disliked for the Steven universe clip



  11. Christ the way, truth, life on October 6, 2021 at 9:07 am

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    John 14:6 (NKJV)

    Jesus is the only way to heaven.

    Salvation:-

    Confess and repent of all your sins in prayer
    Believe Jesus died to blot out your sins and that He is your Saviour
    Believe He rose again 3 days later in the flesh by God’s hand
    Be baptised fully immersed in water and be baptised in the Holy Spirit
    Repent daily
    By grace you are saved through Faith (belief)
    Live pure and stop sinning
    Follow the spiritual laws:
    Love you neighbour as yourself and love God with all your heart, soul and mind. Believe Jesus is Lord.
    Do fruitful works



  12. Alexander Zangal on October 6, 2021 at 9:11 am

    Can someone tell me what is a Marjan Stone are they natural do they glow underwater?



  13. KernowShinigamiViper Lil'Dragon on October 6, 2021 at 9:13 am

    Can it create a bolt I can shock my family at the moment like Zeus’ bolt.



  14. Kayenne54 on October 6, 2021 at 9:15 am

    So…I cannot wear a watch without it stopping. I haven’t been able to wear a watch of any kind for many years. At first, it used to take about 6 months before the new watch would stop (and changing the battery and getting it "fixed" never worked for long – 3 weeks max). After a while, any watch I bought, regardless if it was cheap or expensive, would simply stop. After the fifth watch in two years, and trying again a few years later, I no longer wear a watch. So…is my electrical system doing something to the quartz inside those watches? I also frequently "zap" people with static electricity when humidity is very low and during a notable solar flare storm in 1983 I zapped so many people while out shopping that I had to (rudely) drop the money for an item onto the counter, instead of putting it into their hands. I am literally scared of filling the car with petrol, and handle my handbag and keys several times, when I get out of the car, just in case I’ve built up static charge and NEVER sit back in the car while it auto fills. Just in case. Another time I’d built up such a charge that I "knocked out" a light switch with an audible snap and a flash from my finger (causing a lecture room to black out), and only 10 minutes before that I’d zapped a woman on her arm (causing her to yell out in shock and some pain), when touching her upper arm to get her attention. I don’t think she liked me after that (thought I’d done it on purpose lol) – I had over 20 witnesses to both of these incidents. Why would some people build up static charge and others not? I was telling someone that if I travel a certain route several times, even in a car, and there is a faulty street light, as I pass the light, it will either turn on properly, or turn off completely. He didn’t believe me, until I pointed out a flickering street light up ahead (that I’d passed many times) and when we drew level it turned on properly. It happened twice in the same car journey with him, so he stopped scoffing. I have no clear idea of what’s going on re. streetlights, except maybe because they are faulty, I’m somehow tripping them via static field? (In some street light incidents, they are down the midline of a 4 lane highway, so distance doesn’t seem to be an issue). Seeing as how the topic was piezoelectric, maybe someone knows what’s going on re. stopping watches etc.



  15. Gerald on October 6, 2021 at 9:16 am

    Very cool video, good job.



  16. JuccyLps -.- on October 6, 2021 at 9:17 am

    :))) I love your vids. first! ❤️



  17. Azizul Mazlan on October 6, 2021 at 9:17 am

    Phone calls? I’ve heard bout it before, it was famous back then..



  18. KeAnna McClendon on October 6, 2021 at 9:18 am

    Do a video on aquamarine



  19. Carlos Henrique on October 6, 2021 at 9:19 am

    make a video of houseki no kuni



  20. Candice Pegram-Garcia on October 6, 2021 at 9:23 am

    This is a great video and I can’t wait to share with my clients!!! THank you for bringing the science behind it; we are electric just like these stones!



  21. waltzworth on October 6, 2021 at 9:24 am

    Love the Big trouble in little China clip!



  22. Have a Great Gay on October 6, 2021 at 9:24 am

    I got this on a FIDLAR song



  23. Science and maths plus on October 6, 2021 at 9:26 am

    A YouTube comment idiot brought me here.

    The science is legit, but crystal hipsters wildly misrepresent it.



  24. IsraeliMexican 99 on October 6, 2021 at 9:27 am

    You can store information in coins made of quartz up to 360 TB



  25. Sherri Zanoli on October 6, 2021 at 9:34 am

    I always squeeze my quartz Crystal’s on my own time.



  26. Ninja Hombrepalito on October 6, 2021 at 9:39 am

    3:47 I would if I had any, I’d do it in my free time.



  27. Carmen Martinez on October 6, 2021 at 9:40 am

    #sharkboyandlavagirl



  28. Sean Baker on October 6, 2021 at 9:43 am

    I just had a massive brain wave after the cannabis grower for a long time that quartz crystals on the bottom of the bed and the horizonal soil system will be P as electrically charged and also probably create create a pet paramagnetic energy throughout the soil



  29. AGO-Studios on October 6, 2021 at 9:43 am

    personally i love lemon quartz.
    radiate it and it gets a star
    and you can easily remove the radiation



  30. Offi Matrix on October 6, 2021 at 9:45 am

    So there the stones when struck together make sparks to make camp fires before lighters or gas or matchers



  31. Jerreau Driessen on October 6, 2021 at 9:45 am

    could you make a gem that combines all the ”powers” other stones have?