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The benefits that chemicals bring us are not totally without risk. It is up to us whether we choose to use them or not, not the chemists.
The benefits that chemicals bring us are not totally without risk. It is up to us whether we choose to use them or not, not the chemists.
| Module code and title: | S246, Organic chemistry |
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| Item code: | S246; 08; 1991 |
| First transmission date: | 1981 |
| Published: | 1991 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Tony Jolly |
| Contributor: | Bob Selinger |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Flavourings and additives; Garden centres, DIY pesticides fertilizers; Homelife, shaving dressing washing-up |
| Subject terms: | Chemical industry; Chemistry, organic |
| Footage description: | Footage - Product quality control laboratory (0'20"-0'35") - People in a supermarket. Silicone based products. Yellow plastic pipes being fusion welded. Nylon marine hauser being made. Hip ball & socket joint. Pharmaceutical samples. Pesticides (0'36-1'40") - Graphic of fabricated environemt and newspaper headlines (1'41"-2'32") - Graphic of a balance (2'33"-3'26") - Mrs Thatcher addressing Ozone Conference (3'27"-3'42") - Ben Selinger talking about chemical decisions using shaving foam, bath gel, toothpaste, aftershave lotions, glasses, cotton polyester shirt, mattress (3'55"-5'49") - Aircraft fire (5'50"-6'05") - Ben Selinger talking about chemicals at breakfast e.g. coffee, sugar, toast, orange juice, washing detergent. Film of foam on rivers (6'27"-9'19") - Ben Selinger in garden then Garden centre looking at fertilisers, soil test kit, pesticides, sulphur candle, rat traps, insecticides, weedkiller, watering cans s pool liner (9'20"-14'36"). Iron bridge (14'37"-15'09") - Ben Selinger in a pub talking about fermenting of beer, distillation (15'19"-16'48") - Ben Selinger in a betting shop talking about risk, then in a chemistry research laboratory talking about filtration, solvents (17'37"-19'34") - Cartoons of Ben crossing a road, a race of chemicals to consumer market (19'36"-20'50") - Newport Pagnell Art Supplies. Paints and the chemicals they contain. Painting a radiator (20'51"-23'20"). |
| Master spool number: | HOU7034 |
| Production number: | FOUS635D |
| Videofinder number: | 4065 |
| Available to public: | no |
