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ScienceCasts: August 2017: A Big Month for Astronomy

Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. The Perseid meteor shower will peak on August 11, 12, and 13, and a Total Solar Eclipse will be visible in the United States from coast to coast on August 21. (This video is from 2017)

Making a Deadly Liquid that Builds Computers

Head to https://squarespace.com/amateurchemistry to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code AMATEURCHEMISTRY In this video I make the incredibly dangerous and useful chemical silicon tetrachloride from my homemade silicon while getting really angry at its properties and l

Turning Batteries into Purple Paint

Head to https://squarespace.com/amateurchemistry to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code AMATEURCHEMISTRY In this video I turn some good old carbon-zinc batteries into gorgeous purple paint (Manganese violet) while producing enough chlorine to recreate World War I and

Turning Mercury into Toxic Playdough

Head to https://squarespace.com/amateurchemistry to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code AMATEURCHEMISTRY In this video I go on a journey to create and experiment with the mythical clay-like copper amalgam while making some ultrafine copper powder and going through a w

Turning Forks into Mutagenic Crystals

Head to https://squarespace.com/amateurchemistry to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code AMATEURCHEMISTRY In this video I make the incredibly dangerous potassium dichromate from just some regular forks using a ton of incredibly colorful chemical transformations while g

ScienceCasts: NASA's Next Great Space Telescope

Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. Assembly of NASA's next great space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is underway. It will show researchers the first stars and galaxies that formed in the early universe. JWST WebbCam: http

Galileo Galilei's discoveries

Galileo Galilei's telescope was a milestone for his astronomical observations. One major finding: The Milky Way is not a nebula, but consists of millions of stars. However, he was wrong about the cause of the tides. Authors: ZDF/Terra X/S. Hillmann/B. v. Dadelsen/S. Utzt/C. v. Westphalen/M. Mohr T