Chemistry
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- Posted8 June 2017
In Their Element. Series 1, Silicon - The World's Building Block. Audio, 28 minutes
The key component of rocks, sand and materials from glass and concrete to microelectronics
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In Their Element. Series 1, Carbon - the backbone of life. Audio, 28 minutes
Why is all known life built on carbon?
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In Their Element. Series 1, And then there was Li. Audio, 28 minutes
The element that links the formation of the universe with the functioning of our brains.
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- Posted3 May 2017
In Their Element. Series 1, Oxygen: The Breath of Life. Audio, 28 minutes
Trevor Cox takes a deep breath and tells the story of oxygen on earth and in space.
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In Their Element. Series 1, Mercury - Chemistry's Jekyll and Hyde. Audio, 28 minutes
The most beautiful and shimmering of the elements, the weirdest, and yet the most reviled.
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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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Exchanges at the Frontier. Robert Langer - Biochemical Engineer. Audio, 55 minutes
What treatments are in the pipeline from the realm of medical tissue engineering?
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