Summary: Students new to chemistry might think it's all about beakers and test tubes. Use this program to show them what chemistry is really about-the foundation of life, and the innovations that make life better. Outlining Earth's early development and the creation of the first organic substances, the video focuses on what humanity has been able to accomplish, and what challenges the future holds, in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Iron ore is reduced and manufactured into steel in a modern plant where, in a continuous process, ore is crushed and mixed with coke and then fed into the top of a blast furnace. Molten iron flows off from the bottom; slag is skimmed off; and iron is converted to steel by blowing oxygen through it to remove residual carbon, adding lime and magnesium powder to remove other trace solid...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Polyethylene is one of many commercially important organic compounds derived from crude oil. This program demonstrates the polymerization of ethylene at different pressures and in the presence of different catalysts, depending on the intended end use of the polyethylene-low-density polyethylene for flexible products like film and plastic bags is produced at between 1500 and 2000 atm with trace...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007