A fresh look at iron
Periodic Videos released a new and improved episode about iron, revisiting the element and linking to the team’s thermite experiments.
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Martyn Poliakoff
Sir Martyn Poliakoff is a Nottingham chemist and the familiar face of Periodic Videos, sharing the elements, laboratory experiments and the possibilities of greener chemistry.
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Explaining a copper sandwich
Martyn discusses cuprocene, a newly reported copper sandwich molecule, and the research behind it.
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Cooking steak with thermite
Martyn joins senior technician Neil Barnes in a Brady Haran video that uses the thermite reaction to cook a steak in 6.8 seconds.
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Meeting the boron buckyball
Martyn discusses a newly discovered boron buckyball alongside lead researcher Lai-Sheng Wang of Brown University.
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Returning to gadolinium
A new element episode features Martyn, Pete Harvey and Neil Barnes. The accompanying material explores gadolinium as an MRI contrast agent.
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