Chemical Curiosities: Surprising Science and Dramatic Demonstrations
Professor Chris Bishop, presenter of the 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, leads us through a spectacular tour of the curious, and sometimes surprising, world of chemistry. Please...
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welcome to this lecture on chemical curiosities I'm gonna start with the liquid in this container and I just pour some into this cylinder since it's a nice bright red color let's see what happens if I keep pouring I think you can see every time I pour out the liquid I seem to get a different color so, in the dictionary the word curious is defined to mean something which is puzzling or surprising or unexpected and this demonstration might seem rather puzzling at first until we realize that the cylinders were not empty at the start each of them had a little speck of chemical which reacted with the liquid in this container and it produced a color change and we'll look at the chemistry of that in just a moment let's have a look at the liqui...
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welcome to this lecture on chemical curiosities I'm gonna start with the liquid in this container and I just pour some into this cylinder since it's a nice bright red color let's see what happens if I keep pouring I think you can see every time I pour out the liquid I seem to get a different color so, in the dictionary the word curious is defined to mean something which is puzzling or surprising or unexpected and this demonstration might seem rather puzzling at first until we realize that the cylinders were not empty at the start each of them had a little speck of chemical which reacted with the liquid in this container and it produced a color change and we'll look at the chemistry of that in just a moment let's have a look at the liqui...
