Essential Chemistry: Core Concepts Video Clip Library
Ideal for launching lectures, illustrating concepts, and reinforcing understanding, this comprehensive video library of 46 three-to-six-minute segments sheds light on foundational aspects of chemistry that every science student needs to know. Dozens...
Chemical Equations in the Real World
Very little in the physical world occurs without chemical reactions being involved. This program takes an in-depth look at five common products—soap, polystyrene, aluminum, paint, and car batteries—and explores the chemistry behind their manufac...
Core chemistry
This program shows why the future problems of energy, food, medicines and materials are the problems of chemistry. No science is more at the core of every technology that supports the seven billion people living on the planet today than chemistry. ...
Connections: the long chain
Often, materials discovered by accident alter the course of the world. In the 1600s Dutch commercial freighters controlled Atlantic trade routes. Competing British lines induced America to produce pitch to protect hulls of their royal vessels. This ...
The Hidden Order: Chemistry and the Elements, from John Dalton to Henry Moseley
At the beginning of the 19th century, 55 elements had been discovered, and although scientists had no idea how many more they might yet find, they already had a suspicion that there was some sort of unifying pattern behind them all. This program cha...
The noble gases
The noble gases, like the noble metals, are characterized by low reactivity. Segments in this program include Exploring the Noble Gases (properties of the noble gases); Helium: Rocket Fuel (helium's part in powering the space shuttle); Neon: Fabulou...
Unleashing the Power: Creating Chemical Compounds and Splitting Atoms
Once scientists succeeded in identifying and organizing the 92 naturally occurring chemical elements, the challenge then became how to manipulate them into amazing new configurations—and how to tap their essentially limitless energy. A tale of str...
Mysteries of Matter: Chemistry and the Elements, from Hennig Brandt to Humphry Davy
Until the 17th century, the building blocks of the natural world were a mystery. Of elements there were believed to be four—air, earth, fire, and water—and the science of chemistry had yet to be born. This program identifies some of the first ch...