Hunting The Elements

Summary

Where do nature's building blocks--the Premiering Wednesday, April 4 at 9PM/8c on PBS. David Pogue explores the Cortez mine in Nevada to understand the atomic structure of gold. The process involves massive earth-moving operations and complex chemical reactions to extract microscopic gold particles from tons of rock. I do not own any rights to this video. It has been purchased and is being used as an educational tool for my virtual students. From the secret history of your gold jewellery to nitrogen's role in the First World War, there's so much more to Picking up where he left off in NOVA's popular special, Slow motion footage of a car bomb explosion generated by 300 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, commonly known as a ... Without the chemistry of photosynthesis, ozone, and a molecule called Rubisco, none of us would be here. So how did we get so ... Just about every solid, liquid or gas in the world begins with reactions between individual atoms and molecules. David Pogue ... NOVA's David Pogue sets out on a worldwide quest to find the key molecules and chemical reactions that have paved the way for ... Scientists and engineers have created virtually indestructible versions of common materials by manipulating the chains of ... The world around us is made of atoms. Did you ever wonder where these atoms came from? How was the gold in our jewelry, the ...