Summary: From charcoal to diamonds, carbon is essential to a multitude of products-and to life itself. This program illustrates the mechanics of the carbon cycle, explores some of the special properties of the ubiquitous element, and looks at the importance of carbon in the chemical makeup of all living things. Describing the best-known carbon allotropes, the program examines the characteristics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: 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 chemical elements to be discovered by spotlighting the work of Hennig Brandt, Robert Boyle, Henry Cavendish, Joseph Priestly, Antoine Lavoisier, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Swanson, Jennifer
Summary: "This Big Fat Notebook covers everything you need to know during a year of high school chemistry class, breaking down one big bad subject into accessible units. Learn to study better and get better grades using mnemonic devices, definitions, diagrams, educational doodles, and quizzes to recap it all."--Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 540.76 SWASummary: 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 charts the quest for order among the chemical elements by examining the contributions of Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: 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 struggle meeting serendipity and of accident meeting design, this program focuses on element-related flashpoints in modern science history: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: 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 manufacture and use. With the help of graphics and footage from inside manufacturing plants, the video reveals just how surface chemistry, redox chemistry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Maximize your knowledge and minimize your risk! That's the primary message of this program, an informative introduction to the chemistry laboratory that shows high school and first-year college students precisely how to conduct themselves in a safe and professional manner. Familiarity with the properties and safe handling of all materials used in the lab is stressed, including how to dispose of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: From the ancient Greek concept of "atomos" to today's fission and fusion technologies, this program guides viewers through the landscape of atomic theory and the hidden world of subatomic particles. Topics include the makeup of atomic nuclei and the factors that make them stable or unstable; the discovery and use of radioisotopes; and the difference between fission and fusion. Providing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Chen, Loris
Summary: This new edition of Painless Chemistry provides students with a lighthearted, step-by-step approach to understanding chemistry concepts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's Educational Series 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 540 CHESummary: What distinguishes science from other human endeavors? How does scientific knowledge develop? What differentiates pseudo-science from science? This program attempts to answer these questions and give an account of the characteristics of scientific activity. The show deals with the importance of scientific instruments in the exploration of the universe and our view of the world. It also shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Paul Rothemund won a MacArthur fellowship to pursue research in a fairly esoteric area of study: the folding of DNA. Rothemund's work combines the study of self-assembly with DNA nanotechnology and points the way toward self-assembling devices at microscale, making computer memory, for instance, smaller, faster, and maybe even cheaper. In this TEDTalk, Rothemund provides an overview of DNA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: General chemistry-the starting point for understanding many different sciences-is a rigorous discipline. This program, filmed at Dartmouth College, will help students stay engaged with the coursework as it explains the necessity and the benefits of making a wholehearted commitment. The nine strategies presented by a mix of professors and students are: set goals, manage your time, keep up with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Imagine the conversation if some of the world's greatest minds in the sciences and arts convened in one room. In this program, host Sarah Montague moderates a unique, interdisciplinary round table discussion among seven 2008 Nobel Laureates: biochemists Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien; physicist Makoto Kobayashi; virologists Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi; economist Paul Krugman;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This collection of 34 visually stunning video clips explores the environment and facets of physics. Properties of rain, ice, snow, oil, trees, volcanoes, and salt are examined, as are aspects of quantum physics, light phenomena, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, Newton's Laws, and electricity.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program examines the basic elements of the scientific method: defining and researching the problem, forming a hypothesis, gathering information through experimentation and observation, analyzing the data, forming a conclusion, and communicating the results. Practical applications of the scientific method, such as testing new medicines and analyzing the performance of sporting goods, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: There's nothing boring about stopping a speeding bullet, especially when it's accomplished with liquid. How about designing robots based on insect anatomy.or using computers to figure out what George Washington really looked like? This video shows students the thrills and rewards of working in the physical sciences, demonstrating that becoming a chemist, physicist, or engineer involves fun,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In this program, scientists from various disciplines sit down together in one room-specifically, the king's library in the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. Hosted by the BBC's Zeinab Badawi, ten 2009 Nobel Laureates take part in an inspiring roundtable discussion of 21st-century physics, chemistry, medicine, and other subjects. Viewers meet molecular biologists Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Using scanning electron microscopy, this collection of 36 video clips takes a close-up look at the extraordinary qualities of ordinary things. Journey of the Invisible brings science home-literally-by scrutinizing objects that can be found in and around the house. Video clips include. In the Kitchen * Salt * Bread * Orange * Walnut * Cauliflower * Oat Flakes * Coffee Bean * Coconut *...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The consensus of the world's science academies, reached after a series of annual conferences, is that climate change is real, and that it's caused by human activity. Why, then, do so many people doubt these findings? In this program Nobel Prize winner Paul Nurse seeks to understand what may be the greatest amount of suspicion of the scientific community since the Dark Ages. Nurse goes head to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011