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A introduction to carbon - the main building block of our world. The film looks at a range of carbon compounds and the varying properties they exhibit in the laboratory. It then examines the properties and...
Viewfinder 110 was published in March 2018. Contents of our archives and collections issue: WOMEN’S WORK PROJECT Dr Melanie Bell, University of Leeds, provides an overview of a new Learning on...
Video demonstrating chemical reaction when carbon dioxide is placed in water. A lump of solid carbon dioxide is placed in water containing a few drops of universal indicator. The indicator changes to an acid...
Investigates the properties of carbon and some of its uses. In six 10-minute segments: Carbon the Compromiser (discovery of a method to produce organic compounds, covalent bonds); The Shape of Carbon...
The discovery of carbon nanotubes, made by Dr Sumio Iijima of NEC, Japan, is one of the most exciting advances of the last years of the 20th century. These tubes, some thousand times smaller thatn...
Shawn Burns is one of a new breed of wheeler-dealers known as "Carbon Hunters" who know the fight to save the planet from global warming has created a lucrative industry: getting CO2 out of the air. In the...
Shows the diversity of the carbon atom, staring with simple compounds and moving in logical sequence through to complex branched chains. Shows the molecules using 3-D graphics and illustrates many practical...
Video recording of a lecture given in 2010 by Malcolm Heggie, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Sussex, in which he talks about the properties of graphite (one of the crystalline forms...
A Royal Institution Discourse in which Harold Kroto discusses the discovery of C60 buckminsterfullerene in 1985 in an experiment designed to unravel the carbon chemistry in Red Giant stars. The elegant cage...
Shows making a carbon support film by sublimating graphite on to a mica sheet. Preparing the vacuum evaporation plant, deposition process, controlling the thickness of the coating by interference colour...
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