Stuff. A Horizon Guide to Materials
Description
Recent decades have seen an explosion in the field of materials science, with the advent of new substances and newly found uses for known substances, intriguing scientists and industrial manufacturers alike. Using footage from the Horizon television series archives, this program reviews the advances that have shaped the modern materials age, with a look at uranium, manganese nodules, helium-3, superplastic metals, the discovery of superconductivity, silicon chips, and more.
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50 min
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Date of Publication
[2013], c2012
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