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  1. Hot And Cold: Foil For Survival

    Date released
    1983
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    307
    NoS ID
    352458
    Story no
    6 / 6

    COI synopsis: Scientists and engineers are, today, exploring the outer reaches of heat and cold: how they can create, control and, when necessary, prevent either and how this will effect today’s society....

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  2. Chromatium Adenii ('Thiorhodaceae’): Bio-Convection Aero and Phototactic Behaviour (1966 Film)

    Director
    N Pfennig
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the effects of convection currents on suspended ‘Chromatium’ bacilli; also the effects of air (which repels) and light (which attracts) these motile organisms. Made from material shot in 1965. An...

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  3. Modes of Transport During Electrolysis: Migration - Diffusion - Convection (1967 Film)

    Director
    M Audon; J Badoz
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Animated diagrams show the role of the migration of ions during electrolysis. An experiment then shows that this migration is necessary for a battery to function. The respective roles of diffusion and...

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  4. Atmospheric Convection and Simulation (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 32 min.

    Nature of convection in the atmosphere (time-lapse of cumulus over sun-heated mountains) and in the laboratory (tank demonstration). Description of ‘meteotron’ and shots of experiments in 1978-79 to...

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  5. Atmospheric Temperature (195 Film)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes temperature measurement and change of temperature with height; lapse rate, inversion and isothermal layer. Star radiation and the transfer of heat by conduction and convection. Adiabatic lapse...

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  6. Atmospheric Circulation (1996 Video)

    aka: World Weather

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £31.75 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the causes of the world’s wind patterns. Covers: global heat budget; convection; Coriolis effect; general circulation of the atmosphere; trade winds; seasons; monsoons; synoptic charts.

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  7. Continental Deep Drilling Programme: Lithosphere Dynamics (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 32 min., 1996 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Demonstration using animation of the principles of plate tectonics: the movement of lithosphere plates over the past 600 million years, the movement of the plate edges and convection as the motor of these...

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  8. Looking at Heat (1982 Video)

    Producer
    Kevin Newport; Martin Wright
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Demonstrates the use of infra-red thermography to monitor the effectiveness of arthritic drug treatments. Another important method of heat transfer is convection and this is illustrated using the technique...

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  9. Cirrus Shields in Thunderstorms (1979 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 7 min., 1996 sale: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Convection during thunderstorms caused by heat leads to an ascension of the clouds with the formation of a cirrus shield, an overshooting top; anvil forms result from wind shearing. Explanations using...

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  10. Life in Space (1996 Video)

    Director
    Peter Howell
    Producer
    Harold Kroto
    Subject
    Physics; Space science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £12.50 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Helen Sharman, the UK’s first female astronaut, gives an account of her personal experiences of life in space, using models and film to illustrate the key scientific concepts involved in space flight....

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