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Imagine being short of oxygen, fighting for breath, your lungs filling with fluid, brain swelling, struggling to stay alive. This is what it feels like to a patient in intensive care as they struggle to get...
Twelve film clips, each covering a single chemical process, which describe how each process works, looking at raw materials, uses for the products, and the geographical siting of the plant. Topics are:...
4 (72 min): Explores water purity, safety and the role that chemistry plays in managing the environment. Looks at water management from the maintenance of river water quality to the detailed chemistry of the...
Aspects of life and death from a chemical perspective. What happens to our body chemistry when we have a heart attack? What role did oxygen play in the origins of life? How do the toxic by-products of oxygen...
The 1991 Christmas Lecture 1991 in which Dave Nicholls tells how air is liquified and separated, then shows the effect on materials of freezing in liquid nitrogen. Demonstrates the burning of materials from...
Discusses different explanations given for the existence of fire and air from Aristotle to Georg Ernst Stahl’s theory of phlogiston, before covering the dramatic events that effect those pneumatic chemists...
Animals have evolved many different methods for obtaining oxygen from their environment. This programme explores the respiratory challenges of two organisms: the water-breathing crab and the air-breathing...
Traces the history of aerobiosis, then discusses mitochondrion structure, NADH production with an overview of the Krebs cycle, the electron transfer chain, ATP synthesis and chloroplasts as the site of...
Reviews the technique of oxygen administration by various methods including BLP masks, nasal catheters, oro-pharyngeal catheters and different types of oxygen tent. Summary of the position in the mid 1950s.
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