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Chemistry

Lights and gauges with display screens cover the walls. Illustration of energetic reaction drawn on top. Caption: it releases a lot of energy in the form of heat.
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Episode 3
2 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
People feeding dried hay to goats. Caption: How can we figure out how much energy is stored in this hay?
5 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Three isotopes next to each other that are labeled, “Carbon-12, Carbon-13, Carbon-14.”
Archaeo-Tech
Episode 4
3 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: So a nanometer would be ten to the minus nine meters.
Ask a Scientist
Episode 3
1 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: Nanoparticles have been used in sunscreens
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Episode 7
1 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: and work on it to manage those risks.
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Episode 4
1 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: We can apply an electric field or magnetic fields to them.
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Episode 5
1 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: about nanobots replicating and taking over the world.
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Episode 8
1 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Person speaking. Caption: between one and one hundred nanometers.
Ask a Scientist
Episode 1
1 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking and standing next to a poster board with "Control of matter at the nanoscale" surrounded by logos from different organizations. Caption: of matter at the atomic and molecular level.
Ask a Scientist
Episode 2
1 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: used for both doing diagnostics as well as theranostics.
Ask a Scientist
Episode 6
54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of a squid emitting a glowing cloud while a submarine passes closely. Vampire Squid. Caption: but some animals use it to warn or evade predators,
1 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Two people wearing hard hats walking on a concrete path through an infrastructure of intricate tubing and walkways. Caption: A chemical engineer figures out a way to scale that process up
Career Connections
Episode 14
5 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Computer graphic representation of clusters double helix DNA strands. Caption: We use synthetic DNA to reprogram living cells.
Career Connections
Episode 15
4 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Complex robotic machinery behind a mesh grate with a person standing at a control panel outside of the grated area. Caption: We have electrical engineers that focus on computers.
Career Connections
Episode 26
6 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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A conveyor belt moves rows of light colored, flat, and round objects at a high speed. Caption: but a lot of support goes into making a good product,
Career Connections
Episode 31
5 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of a smiling green Calcium nutrient with a charge of two. Text reads, “Divalent Cation.”
5 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two glow sticks immersed in separate containers of liquid. One stick is glowing much brighter than the other. Caption: The one in hot water gets brighter
5 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Pie chart diagram showing that the atmosphere contains 1/5 oxygen. Caption:  Two ways of O2 entry. Caption: Oxygen makes about 1/5 of the atmosphere,
5 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man stands in front of a black backdrop as he talks to us.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 16
9 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Under the label “Beta-Glucose,” we see a beta-glucose chemical formula with a face looking towards another beta-glucose formula as it tumbles.
4 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Drawing of the sun and a person with a rock in between them obscuring the rays of light from the sun. Caption: Theoretically, observers would never know it's there.
Fast Draw
Episode 3
2 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Linked hexagonal structures drawn on graph paper. Caption: Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms
Fast Draw
Episode 2
3 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of interconnected objects coming apart where light hits. Caption: The light causes the short chains to disassemble
Fast Draw
Episode 4
3 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Gloved hands working with petri dishes covered in a variety of materials. Caption: (narrator) We always look for better ways to get energy we need.
Green Revolution
Episode 5
6 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Gauge in a vehicle with a range of 0 to 8. The indicator is at 1 and the gauge is labeled RPMx1000. Caption: How do electric vehicles compare with other cars?
Green Revolution
Episode 8
6 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Orange explosion throwing debris. Caption: And it contains a lot of energy.
Green Revolution
Episode 4
6 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of objects moving from a chamber with disk shaped spiny structures to an empty chamber. Caption: Here, we force bacteria to move electrons
Green Revolution
Episode 9
5 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Hillside covered in solar panels. Caption: collecting the sun's energy
Green Revolution
Episode 7
5 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Fine white tubes grow in the same direction. Caption: and carbon nanotubes grow like blades of grass.
Science Out Loud
Episode 4
3 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Large spherical object surrounded by smaller multi-sphere objects. Nova Caption: Carbon is one of the most versatile elements.
1 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Many hot air balloons taking off into the sky.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 3 / Ep 10
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 10
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A graph plots pressure in Pascal’s versus temperature in degrees Celsius. The horizontal axis is marked at negative 5, 0, and 100. The vertical axis ranges from 1 kilo Pascal to 100 Mega Pascal’s in increments of exponents of 10. At 1 atmospheric pressure water is in solid ice at negative 5 degrees to 0 degrees, in liquid state from 0 degrees to 100 degrees Celsius, and in vapor form above 100 degrees Celsius.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 29
7 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Man lifts his sunglasses in shock and shows how red and sunburnt his face is. Next to him is an albino man under a glass dome. There are yellow squiggly rays behind them to represent sunrays.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 25
5 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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An astronaut Don Pettit talks to host Joe Hanson. A rocket is seen in the background.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 30
11 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Three glasses are filled with leaves. To the second glass, isopropyl alcohol is added. Caption: Next, cover the leaves in isopropyl alcohol.
4 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A rainbow is forms above a valley. A white band colored band is a part of the rainbow.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 19
8 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
The extent of the Large Hardon Collider is demarcated in a satellite view. Caption: C E R N.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 17
14 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Person looking at a slide in a microscope. Caption: And this is a biochemistry lab.
Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers
Episode 10
6 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Person in a lab coat and gloves putting on protective glasses. Caption: For Rommie, being a chemist was just the beginning.
Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers
Episode 2
5 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Two people walking next to rows of industrial tanks with piping and gauges. Caption: planning the scale-up of a new product.
Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers
Episode 3
6 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Person in a lab coat and gloves pointing something out on a small white object. Caption: A lot of the science is a gradual progression,
Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers
Episode 8
6 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Person holding a tool and working on something with wires. Caption: This is the first prototype of a project called BodyScape,
Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers
Episode 12
6 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Illustration depicts glycerol in zig zag fatty acid chains.Caption: of three fatty acid chains stuck onto a glycerol molecule.
2 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Cluster of nerve fibers. Caption: that can image deep into biological tissue,
Science Nation
Episode 6
3 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Gloved hand holding a round plastic object and putting an electronic chip into it. Caption: to incorporate nanotechnologies into the process.
Science Nation
Episode 43
3 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person holding a tubular instrument to their eye. Caption: (narrator) You might say the chemiscope of an agent of change,
Science Nation
Episode 38
3 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person picking up wood chips and putting them into a plastic bag. Caption: (Huber) Cellulose is basically stored solar energy
Science Nation
Episode 202
4 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
3D model of the connection of polymers. Caption: the molecules that gave rise to the first polymers of life,
Science Nation
Episode 28
3 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Gloved hand holding two small dark discs. Caption: to bring ultra-high-temperature ceramics to marketplace.
Science Nation
Episode 44
3 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Clear vial with a glowing pink liquid. Caption: may one day make treating cancer easier
Science Nation
Episode 198
5 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Microscopic view of a hexagonal structure with arms hovering above a spherical object. Caption: Cell-sized micro grippers retrieve tiny objects,
Science Nation
Episode 95
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Magnified view of intricate metal work. Caption: creating a protective barrier.
Science Nation
Episode 134
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Computer screen showing a line graph of multiple measurements taken at different times. Caption: to add the ultra-fine layers of semiconducting materials
Science Nation
Episode 26
3 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Digital Yellow balls with smaller orange circles around their perimeters float on a violet background. Two of the orange circles are labeled, "Potassium," and "Sodium."
7 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Webs of black lines connect gray and red circles and form two columns at the left. A blue circle connects to a dashed fuchsia oval. Inside, a red circle with a plus side connects to three overlapping red and blue circles.
5 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two people in a lab. One is pouring liquid into a beaker. Caption: So let's see what happens here.
Spot on Science
Episode 1
3 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Alex Dainis holds a lighted match stick in the hand. Caption: So why does it happen.
2 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Large blue machine rolling out 3 strips of metal into a long steel tube.
Untold
Episode 7
12 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Angled side view of a man with dark hair in a gray hoodie jacket with white corded headphones plugged into a smartphone armband on his arm. He runs along a pier on a foggy day with a city skyline in the background.
Untold
Episode 3
11 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Computer graphic of a sphere superimposed with an infrared heat signature on a black background. Most of the globe is bright green with the middle in dark blue and purple and small red spot with yellow shooting out toward the bottom center.
Untold
Episode 8
12 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of chunks of a white substance. Caption: So it's decomposing to ice plus gas.
6 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Illustration of a whale swimming underwater. Music note.
4 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12