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Eric M Rogers puts real radioactivity to use, demonstrating how a tomato plant drinks up radioactive water.
Watch the full fourth lecture of the series: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1979/atoms-for-enquiring-minds/atoms-that-explode?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description
Eric M Rogers gave the 1979 Christmas Lectures “Atoms for Enquiring Minds” about atoms, these particles that are too small to be seen with a naked eye, but can be indirectly visualised and explored.
The fourth lecture “Atoms That Explode”, where this clip is from, explores how some radioactive atoms explode and hurl out a small ‘chip’ thus becoming quite a different atom — an atom of a different chemical element.
Watch the full series:
https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1979/atoms-for-enquiring-minds?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description
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