Hooked On Chemistrian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlRhLicNo8Q&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPHzzYuWy6fYEaX9mQQ8oGr

One of the things that confuse me the most about chemistry, is it's language! In this youtube video brought to you by Hank Green and his youtube channel "Crash Course." I found this video to be very helpful, because I haven't taken Chemistry since my sophomore year of high school and it was nice to remember how crazy I went trying to learn all the prefixes and suffixes that coincided with the compound based on its properties. Hank Green talks about how to determine formulas and names of monatomic ions, finding cation-and anion-forming elements on a periodic table, writing formulas and naming transition metals, and naming acids and their anions. Now for those new to chemistry this video really breaks it down on how compounds are named and what it means to be an alakali metal (a group of elements in the first group that hold very common properties) and that when you lose an electron you become a cation or a positively charged element. This is just one of the things Hank Green explains in the chemistrian language that we all dread from time to time.

The video is part of a series of chemistry based videos that the channel makes every week, and deciding on which one I should blog about, I thought this one would be appropriate, just for the fact that we are early in our semester and having watched this video it helped in reviewing the basic chemistry terms and the bases of what the periodic table is about. This video was refreshing and I'm glad that I was able to use this to steep up my chemistrian lingo. 

I recommend this youtube channel and Hank Green's other youtube channel "SciShow" where he brings upon current science events and breakthroughs that occurring at our present times. These are videos that can be very educational, but by all means not boring at all.

Submitted by Saul Alejandro Zamora