Name: Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Engines Don't
Released: 2010-12-29

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

S45 · E2 — Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Engines Don't

S45:E2 · Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Engines Don't

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Dr Mark Miodownik zooms into the microscopic world beneath our fingertips. In this unfamiliar landscape, strange forces dominate the world and common sense goes out of the window. He reveals how this tiny hidden world can make objects behave like magic, and discovers the secrets of the extraordinary metals that make jet engines possible. With a mass audience taste test, Mark reveals why chocolate is actually one of the most sophisticated and highly engineered materials on the planet, using special crystals designed to melt in the mouth. He looks forward to new era of self-healing materials where a broken mobile phone or car bumper could heal itself and how, one day, material scientists might even create artificial life.

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Why Chocolate Melts and Jet Engines Don't

Season 45 · Episode 2 · Dec 29, 2010

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