Ferrie, Chris
Summary: Offers a simple illustrated introduction to organic chemistry, describing how carbin, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms react differently to one another to create many unique molecue structures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2018
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: BRDSummary: 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: Whether a student dreams of becoming an artist or an astronaut, the world of laboratory-created substances will figure prominently in his or her career. This program brings students up-to-date on synthetic materials research that is leading to breakthroughs in many creative and technical fields. Demonstrating the tremendous influence of silicone and super-strength polymers on a wide range of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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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,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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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: What benefits will emerge from molecular research in the coming years? Use this program to explore the boundaries of the "nanocosm" and discover chemistry's seemingly endless possibilities. Viewers are introduced to a wide variety of developments, including SAM polymers, textile fibers with built-in antimicrobial functions; SPS ship construction, which creates a highly durable elastic hull...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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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
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Summary: This program brings students up-to-date on synthetic materials research that is leading to breakthroughs in many technical fields. Demonstrating the tremendous influence of nanotechnology and super-strength polymers on a wide range of occupations-including architecture, building construction, art restoration, auto design, medicine, and sports-the video uses high-tech laboratory footage and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Cells are, in a sense, just tiny bags of chemicals-so what "instructs" them to divide and function? This program shows how biologists addressed the question during the 19th and 20th centuries. Starting with Friedrich Miescher's discovery of nuclein, or DNA, the film examines Theodor Boveri's work with sea urchins, which clarified the role of chromosomes, as well as Thomas Hunt Morgan's study of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: From hydras to humans, every organism on Earth can trace its ancestry back to the first primitive cell. Will biotechnology one day create a cell outside of that family tree? This program looks at 21st-century genetic science and its search for the secret of life's creation. Background information highlights the Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis and its vision of a prebiotic soup as well as Stanley...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010