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The Rough Science base this year sits on the slopes of a magnificent mountain: Mount Kendall. And for this week's challenge the team will have the task of getting to know this peak very well, worki...ng out how high it is and how much it weighs. Not just the part we can see sticking up above the Mill, but the root of the mountain, too, right down to the bottom of the Earth's crust. The boys are tasked with producing a pair of sun glasses to protect Kate from the glare of the Sun. At the altitudes they are working, the Sun is particularly glaring. Mike thinks he can make glass out of sand, but it'll need Jonathan to build a furnace that can produce temperatures of over 1200oC for hours at a time.
The Rough Science base this year sits on the slopes of a magnificent mountain: Mount Kendall. And for this week's challenge the team will have the task of getting to know this peak very well, worki...ng out how high it is and how much it weighs. Not just the part we can see sticking up above the Mill, but the root of the mountain, too, right down to the bottom of the Earth's crust. The boys are tasked with producing a pair of sun glasses to protect Kate from the glare of the Sun. At the altitudes they are working, the Sun is particularly glaring. Mike thinks he can make glass out of sand, but it'll need Jonathan to build a furnace that can produce temperatures of over 1200oC for hours at a time.
| Series: | Rough science 6; Series 6 |
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| Episode | 3 |
| Published: | 2005 |
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| Duration: | 00:28:59 |
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| Producer: | Finola Lang |
| Contributors: | Mike Bullivant; Hermione Cockburn; Jonathan Hare; Kate Humble; Ellen McCallie |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/roughscience6/index.html |
| Subject terms: | Glass construction |
| Production number: | JOUA374P |
| Videofinder number: | 7143 |
| Available to public: | no |
