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| Module code and title: | T102, Living with technology: a foundation course |
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| Item code: | T102; 09; 1991 |
| First transmission date: | 01-06-1991 |
| Published: | 1991 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:19 |
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| Producer: | David Jackson |
| Contributor: | Rod Barratt |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Chemistry laboratories; Oxide chemicals; Science Museum, London |
| Footage description: | Footage - Presenter speaking in studio. Containers of chemicals. Reconstruction of 1895 science laboratory in the Science Museum (0'26"-2'27") - Match striking. Unused and used matches dropped to floor. Salt crystals. Salt heated and cooled. Red lead being heated. Metal strip of magnesium being heated. Magnesium being heated in a crucible. Powdered copper being heated in a crucible (2'28"-4'59") - Animation of experimental apparatus. Actual apparatus. Copper being heated. Chemical balance. Copper being weighed before and after heating. Readings. Animation of copper turnings being heated using special apparatus. Actual experimental apparatus (5'00"-7'13") - Nightlight burning in jar containing water. Candle rises. Heated phosphorus left in tube inverted over water dish. Glowing splint held in test tube of various heated compounds. Still photo of copper in crucible. Chemical equation for oxidisation of copper (7'14"- 9'24"). Potassium chlorate being heated in a gas jar. Gas being collected. Vegetable roots and packet of yellow sulphate. Sulphur burning in oxygen. Litmus paper being held in gas jar. Various compounds in containers. Rust on a saw (9'25"-10'43") - B/w illustration of Joseph Priestley. B/w illustration of Lavoisier. B/w illustration of 17th century science laboratory (10'44-11'41) - Litmus paper being used to test the acidity of various compounds. Sodium being cut with a scalpel. Sodium being heated and cooled and tested with litmus paper. Charcoal being heated in a stream of oxygen. Carbon dioxide being tested with litmus paper. Burning sulphur in gas jar. Litmus paper test on sulphur dioxide (11'42"-15'15") - Solution of sulphur dioxide being agitated in water. Animation of production of sulphuric acid. Actual apparatus. Chemical equation. Experiment to produce copper sulphate crystals. Large crystal. Iron nail in copper sulphate solution (15'16"-18'43"). Bell ringing. Burette. Indicator, acid and alkali added to water. Burette scales. Sulphuric acid and sodium hydroxide being heated. Thermometer. Residue of sodium sulphate. Chemical equation (18'45"-21'45") - Table listing some characteristics of metals and non-metals. Copper sulphate, paint and fat being added seperately to carbon tetrachloride. Containers of sodium chloride and carbon tetrachloride. Still of Science Museum's 1895 reconstruced laboratory (21'46"-24'21"). |
| Master spool number: | HOU7052 |
| Production number: | FOUT385X |
| Videofinder number: | 3796 |
| Available to public: | no |
