An Introduction to Calorimetry

5 minutes 48 seconds

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Two young science students learn about measuring energy through calorimetry. They conduct experiments to measure the amount of energy in hay.

Media Details

Runtime: 5 minutes 48 seconds

Topic: Mathematics, Science
Subtopic: Chemistry, Mathematics, Science Experiments
Grade/Interest Level: 7 - 12
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Release Year: 2012
Producer/Distributor: Mitk12 Videos

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Person in a science lab. One beaker contains an orange liquid, and one beaker contains a green liquid. Caption: It's orange. That means its pH is 5.

Industrial plant from a distance. Caption: That's the world's largest PLA manufacturing plant.

Person speaking. Caption: So a nanometer would be ten to the minus nine meters.

Person speaking. Caption: Nanoparticles have been used in sunscreens

Person speaking. Caption: and work on it to manage those risks.

Person speaking. Caption: We can apply an electric field or magnetic fields to them.

Person speaking. Caption: about nanobots replicating and taking over the world.

Person speaking. Caption: between one and one hundred nanometers.

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