Carbon is the basis of all organic materials. Topics include charcoal, hydrocarbons, coal, limestone, magnesium burining in CO2, graphite, diamonds, burning a diamond, testing for CO2, fullernes bucky balls and tubes.
Subjects: Chemistry
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Chemistry of Cooking
Chef and RMIT lecturer Louis Ferguson illustrates the following physical and chemical changes in cooking as he whips up an egg sponge; topics discussed include aeration, denaturation, coagulation, gelatinisation, browning reactions, emulsification, crystallization.
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Carbon Cycles and Cycles
Our animated atoms have been prevailed upon to make another appearance. At the “Club Chlorophyll”, carbon atoms set off on their various carbon cycles. Topics examined include glucose, starch, cellulose, coal, oil, limestone, and photosynthesis. At the end students should be able to write their own carbon cycle stories.
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Bonding Between Molecules
Bonding Between Molecules covers the following topics; the biscuit molecule, icing bonds between atoms and butter bonds between molecules, hydrogen to weak, water is special, hydrogen bonding, DNA weak bonding, van der Waal, and crystals.
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Electron Arrangement
The arrangement of electrons in atoms determines the atom’s behaviour or chemistry. Topics covered ionizatons of atoms by electron bombardment, light emission from hot electrons in atoms, the hydrogen spectrum, electron diffraction, quantum mechanical model, Schrodinger wave equation, orbital models and molecular geometry.
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Atoms and Their Electrons
Follow the history of the Atom; meet Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford and Bohr along the way and build up the first 18 atoms by adding protons, neutrons, and electrons. Learn how atoms combine through an animated love story of chlorine and sodium. At the disco, atoms combine in various ways. Carbon forms bucky tubes & balls, we see evolving molecular shapes C02, H20, NH3, CH4. Some atoms dance in pairs e.g.. N2. Chlorine is asked to dance with Ca, Al & C but waits for Na. They dance & transfer an electron. Love at last.
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Bonding Between Atoms
Bonding Between Atoms covers the following topics; electrons in clouds around atoms, the electrons of halogens outer shell, the electrons of alkali metal outer shell, carbon the diamond and graphite share electrons, chlorine combining with the 3rd row, a range of bonds, metallic bond, ionic bond, and ionic solutions.
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Atom Bond
A parody of a James Bond movie.
Gold Metallic Bond is sent off to investigate why Carbon, Nitrogen and other atoms are training themselves in other types of bonds. He discovers their bond school and university finding that they are all working towards “Project D”. In the finale, Bond is shown around a giant DNA. We use all the standard cliches and puns to contrive a way of showing each type of bonding. -
Percy Julian – Forgotten Genius
His house was firebombed. He lost his job on the eve of the Depression. He took on powerful, entrenched interests in the scientific establishment and overcame countless obstacles to become a world-class chemist, a self-made millionaire, and a humanitarian. Yet despite his achievements, Percy Julian’s story is largely unknown. The grandson of Alabama slaves, Julian broke the color barrier in American science more than a decade before Jackie Robinson did in baseball. A brilliant innovator, he discovered a way to turn soybeans into synthetic steroids on an industrial scale, helping to make drugs like cortisone available to millions. In Forgotten Genius, a special two-hour presentation starring Tony-award winning actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson, NOVA brings Julian’s scientific breakthroughs and gripping biography to life, with vivid period reenactments based on newly opened family archives and interviews with dozens of colleagues and relatives.
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Electrophilic Reactions II
The Standard Deviants cover a few of your favorite electrophilic addition reactions. As always, the Standard Deviants walk you through an example of each reaction, step-by-step. Today’s guest reactions are hydroboration oxidation, hydrogenation, and hydroxylation.