Chemistry
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- Posted13 April 2017
Things That Made the Modern Economy. Series 1, Haber-Bosch Process. Audio, 15 minutes
Saving lives with thin air - by taking nitrogen from it to make fertiliser.
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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy. Haber-Bosch Process. Audio, 9 minutes
Saving lives with thin air - by taking nitrogen from the air to make fertiliser
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Desert Island Discs. Dr Robert Langer. Audio, 45 minutes
Dr Robert Langer, scientist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
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Elements. Cobalt. Audio, 27 minutes
The metal in magnets and phone batteries - but is some of it being mined by children?
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Discovery. The Colour Purple. Audio, 27 minutes
How William Perkin brought purple to the people in Victorian London
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Elements. Technetium. Audio, 23 minutes
Essential for medical imaging, supplies of this manmade element are far from guaranteed.
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The Life Scientific. Niamh Nic Daeid on forensic science. Audio, 28 minutes
Forensic chemist Niamh Nic Daeid talks about investigating fires and analysing legal highs
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Science Stories. How Perkin brought purple to the people. Audio, 28 minutes
How William Perkin brought purple to the people in Victorian London.
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Elements. Calcium (Ca) Audio, 23 minutes
The great structural element - both in the natural world and in modern engineering
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The Life Scientific. Jackie Akhavan on explosives. Audio, 28 minutes
Jackie Akhavan talks about the ethical issues of working on explosives used in war.
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The Life Scientific. Carol Robinson on chemistry. Audio, 28 minutes
Carol Robinson on her journey from lab technician to professor of chemistry.
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Elements. Tin (Sn) Audio, 27 minutes
Tin: From the glue that holds our electronic world together to a revolution glass-making
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Four Thought. Series 4, Chemophobia. Audio, 15 minutes
Chemistry lecturer Mark Lorch asks why we are all so afraid of chemicals.
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The Why Factor. Gold. Audio, 18 minutes
Why are we so fascinated by gold?
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In Our Time. Water. Audio, 43 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss water, one of the most remarkable of all molecules.
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The Why Factor. Nitrogen: Forgetting Fritz. Audio, 18 minutes
Why have we forgotten Fritz Haber?
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Frontiers. Artificial Photosynthesis. Audio, 30 minutes
Andrea Sella on the race to find a cheap inorganic way to mimic nature's green stuff.
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The Infinite Monkey Cage. Series 5, I'm a Chemist Get Me Out of Here. Audio, 30 minutes
Dara O'Briain joins the Infinite Monkeys Robin Ince and Brian Cox for science/comedy chat.
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Spooklights. Audio, 30 minutes
Chemist Andrea Sella investigates things that go flash in the dark.
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Desert Island Discs. Prof David Phillips. Audio, 45 minutes
Professor of Chemistry David Phillips joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs
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The Chemist of Life and Death. Audio, 30 minutes
How chemist Fritz Haber saved billions from starvation - and pioneered gas warfare too.
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Desert Island Discs. Sir Harry Kroto. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue Lawley's castaway is chemist Sir Harry Kroto
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Experiments that Changed the World. Otto Hahn's Nuclear Power. Audio, 14 minutes
First broadcast in 2000. Nuclear fission and the foundation for nuclear power
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