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How To Hold Something That's 10,000,000 Degrees

SciShow, 15 min, 245.3K views, Oct 27, 2026

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Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started with Brilliant’s tutor for free and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. How do you trap something that dissolves its container? Or is too small or hot or fast or...? Here are the solutions experts came up with to hold alkali metals, fluorine gas, a single atom, antimatter, light, bose-einstein condensate, and plasma. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: ., Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Bethany Matthews, Blood Doctor Kelly, Cye Stoner, Anita, Anne Herrington, Friso, Jeremy Mattern, Garrett Galloway, Chris Curry, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, David Johnston, Eric Jensen, J.V. Rosenbalm, Jaap Westera, Jacob Puthoff, Jason A Saslow, Jon Coffman, Joseph Ruf, Jp Lynch, Kevin Bealer, Kevin Knupp, Lyndsay Brown, Matt Curls, Piya Shedden, Shaji John, Steve Gums, Timos Gies, Toyas Dhake, yeyette ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/scishow.bsky.social #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTMySV4eHM_JrS_krYd0ING4A4B2LNi9rcIDr8nuywjwJXHaA1J3PVKdGW6uB-sPdY1vb3IJRAP2Zxs/pub

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