Hang on, Doctor Octopus
Episode 5 · Audio file · May 13th, 2016 · 49 mins 52 secs
What makes a molecule, and why do things explode?
- The periodic table - how atoms are organised (ptable.com)
- Reactivity trends within the periodic table (BBC)
- Hydrogen is highly flammable (Wikipedia)
- Cool slo-mo hydrogen balloon explosions (YouTube)
- The Hindenburg disaster news reel: 1937 (YouTube)
- The Hindenburg disaster (Wikipedia)
- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping (FBI)
- Helium isn't reactive (Jefferson Lab)
- Lithium is very reactive (Jefferson Lab)
- How lithium ion batteries work (HowStuffWorks)
- Carbon is pretty stable (Jefferson Lab)
- Carbon-12 is the most common form of carbon (Wikipedia)
- Neon isn't reactive (Jefferson Lab)
- The Noble gases are snobs (Slate)
- You don't hear much about berrylium (Jefferson Lab)
- Sodium is very reactive (Jefferson Lab)
- Potassium is very reactive (Jefferson Lab)
- Lithium, sodium & potassium react with water (YouTube)
- Magnesium is a bit less reactive becasue it's in column 2 (Jefferson Lab)
- Magnesium still reacts with water (YouTube)
- Magnesium ribbon burns bright white (YouTube)
- Dimitri Mendeleev & the periodic table (Royal Society of Chemistry)
- When hydrogen explodes it bonds with oxygen & forms water (Rutgers)
- Water is held together by covalent bonds (GCSE Science)
- The Water in Your Glass Might Be Older Than the Sun (The New York Times)
- Table salt (NaCl) is held together by ionic bonds (GCSE Science)
- Fiji Water
- What is heavy water? (About Education)
- Oxygen in the atmosphere is a molecule: O2 (Wikipedia)
- A diagram of the O2 molecule (BBC)
- Atom model with electron shells (Wikipedia)
- Oxygen in its natural state has 6 electrons in outer shell (About Education)
- Atoms share electrons in a covalent bond, they don't exchange them (BBC)
- Electrons are shared in a covalent bond & transferred in an ionic bond (UC Davis ChemWiki)
- The H2Octopus drawn scientifically (BBC)
- A simple animation of how atoms join together (BBC)
- Doctor Octopus (Marvel)
- Hydrogen without its electron is an ion: H+ (basically it's a proton) (Encyclopaedia Brittanica)
- A proper study about the Hindenburg fire (University of Colorado)
- What is a catalyst? (GCSE Science)
- The strong nuclear force (Smoot Group)
- Major differences between nuclear & chemical reactions (Georgetown University)
- The combustion of wood produces CO2 + H2O (What is Chemistry)
- Common types of chemical reactions (About Education)
- Reaction of water + sodium (Web Elements)
- Picture of benzene's structure (ChemTech)
- Steam is still water but as a gas (TLV)
- Hydrogen fuel cell fact sheet (US Department of Energy Hydrogen Program)
- Hydrogen fuel cells release water as a by product (Renewable Energy World)
- Fuel cell basics (Smithsonian)
- Water Powered Car
- Water-fuelled car (Wikipedia)
- There are many water-fuelled car conspiracy theories (Henry Makow)
- You lose a lot of electricity in the transmission of electricity: global stats (World Bank)
- Pros & cons of hydrogen as a fuel (BBC)
- Why is water clear? A tricky question it seems (Physics StackExchange)
