The Quest To Make Unbreakable Glass - feedback requested
Added 2024-11-07 22:24:04 +0000 UTCA final version of this will go out on YouTube in a few days, but there's still time to make changes. Does it all make sense? Is there anything you'd tweak, add, leave out? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks as always for your input and support.
Petr and Team Veritasium
Comments
It would be interesting to know how gorilla glass, being so tough, is shaped precisely to make a phone screen.
Walker Mangum
2024-11-14 14:22:50 +0000 UTCHep Derek--if you're looking for a case, dbrand makes some really good ones! Also, they're suing Casetify.
darkwater4213
2024-11-11 19:06:40 +0000 UTCYou should mention borosilicate glass is commonly known as Pyrex.
Keith Arnold
2024-11-09 19:06:23 +0000 UTCAt 6:45, the lack of slip systems in the amorphous solid is also a factor in the high hardness of glass. If it is impossible to dent it, you also can not scratch it.
idanfri
2024-11-09 06:35:17 +0000 UTCAt 8:44, the temperature in °C is shown as C°. I see no reason for that uncommon notation.
Paul Peijzel
2024-11-08 21:02:12 +0000 UTCSlide 20 has interesting dialogue; looking forward to the final run. There’s only so much time/money available for these shows. I would think (The Amazing) Corning might have a “short history of cookware” video that could be linked to this show. But, this is about glass hardness. When you covered Borosilicate glass for “Lab-ware”, the impermeability was mentioned, but not how that affects the accuracy of measurements (composition/absorption & etc.). Another avenue could be “Musical Glass”; from the sonic reflections off Stained Glass on choral and organ music composition (sustain; leading to more complex polyphony) and glass instruments: wine glasses, leading to rotating bowls used in (Mozart’s) glass harmonium and glass trumpets (an example is in the Wagner Museum, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland).
Timothy-Douglas Alvey
2024-11-08 20:34:47 +0000 UTCWhoa! That is news. Thank you for the link.
Patrick W. Gilmore
2024-11-08 14:55:57 +0000 UTCI love that you are making a video about glass. You focused quite a bit on Gorilla glass, but you also covered important applications other than "unbreakable phone screens". One thing that was missing (to me) is the fact that glass is so inert that it can be used to study the chemical reactions of other substances and store extremely volatile substances.
Jeffrey Erlich
2024-11-08 10:14:13 +0000 UTCAnd at 19:08 where you show the optical fiber you miss an opportunity to say that there would be no practical internet without fiber optic cables, or something to that regard. For the Prince Rupert’s Drop it would be good to show a simple diagram with the forces - you’ll need it for the glass later also.
Robert Blum
2024-11-08 05:11:33 +0000 UTCCar windshields are made of laminated glass, that’s why it doesn’t quite shatter. So I recommend using a different image. At 7:09
Robert Blum
2024-11-08 04:49:59 +0000 UTCI didn't hear a clear "glass is ", but it's chemistry is explained at @5:30. Does this mean that if there is a transparent material that isn't made primarily of silicon and oxygen, that make the material not glass? Aluminum oxide can be grown under controlled lab conditions into an almost perfectly flawless sapphire with excellent optical potential, but it's not made of silicon, so that means that is is not glass, correct?
chromicacid
2024-11-08 03:54:08 +0000 UTC4:34 This photo seems to be low resolution compared to the rest of the video.
Max Goldstein
2024-11-08 02:14:56 +0000 UTC7:03, great explanation of the brittle anatomical structure of glass. Consider using a slide of the prince Rupert’s drop from Smarter Every Day on this slide when explaining how glass breaks “catastrophically”
Andrew Gonzalez
2024-11-08 01:38:53 +0000 UTCSlide 20 was especially amazing! I would like to offer my daughter's services to Corning as her iPhone frequently looks like it was thrown from a fast moving van.
Robert Iadanza
2024-11-07 23:53:35 +0000 UTCI really like the analogy with people standing shoulder to shoulder, but the footage could be better in supporting that. Maybe you can add an animation or film some people actually standing shoulder to shoulder while someone tries to pass through.
Max Bruckner
2024-11-07 23:20:54 +0000 UTCYou've made a few videos which could be considered a long commercial for the product. But I think you do a really good job of not making it sound like a commercial. Other channels who have done this do not always succeed. (A really bad SciShow / IBM one from many years ago comes to mind - but they took that down after a few of us explained the error of their ways.) To be clear: I want to know how Gorilla Glass is made, and I love the demonstrations. It is a good video, I will give it a like when it is published. Thank you! But maybe you could do a bit of "competitive research" or something to show the closest non-Corning alternatives? Of course, that could end up seeming even more like a "Corning Commercial" if all the alternatives suck. :-) Just a thought.
Patrick W. Gilmore
2024-11-07 23:18:32 +0000 UTCYour dates do not add up. At 11:20 you said the first step was "around 100AD" when semi-opaque glass was invented in Alexandria. Then at 11:50 you said "the first truly transparent glass was made 14 centuries later". That would be around 1500 AD. However, at 16:15, you said "sometime in the early 1300s..." and talked about lenses / glasses. How did we get glasses in the 1300s if truly transparent glass was not around for two hundred more years? Also, out of curiosity, could you give us a date, or even a general idea of the decade, when Barovier first made transparent glass (around 12:40)?
Patrick W. Gilmore
2024-11-07 23:05:56 +0000 UTCFascinating ... but ... video release timing could be an issue. The EU has opened an anti-trust investigation of Corning. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/11/corning-faces-antitrust-actions-for-its-gorilla-glass-dominance/ You may face some backlash without some kind of disclaimer.
Kimberly Green
2024-11-07 22:59:42 +0000 UTC
