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Mendeleev's Dream
Title
Mendeleev's Dream [electronic resource (video)] / 4 Learning (Firm).
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011], c2002.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (20 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
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Notes
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 14, 2011.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description.
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Summary
What is the universe made of? It took humankind thousands of years just to formulate a way to ask the question-with the first rigorous study of matter's "ingredients" appearing in czarist Russia. This program tells the story of Dmitri Mendeleev, the chemist and inventor who devised the periodic table of the elements-vastly improving our understanding of the building blocks of the cosmos. Presented by British author Adam-Hart Davis, the film explores some of the groundwork laid by Mendeleev's predecessors, including Robert Boyle and Sir Humphry Davy, then describes how the Russian pioneer analyzed data and detected patterns that enabled him to group the known 63 elements into families based on their properties and their increasing atomic weight. Viewers also learn how Mendeleev made predictions about elements that had not yet been discovered, predictions that proved extremely accurate.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: 4 Learning (Firm), 2002.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Big Questions: The Nature of Scientific Inquiry
System details note
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Mode of access: Internet.
Audience
6 & up.
Contents
What is Earth Made of? (2:00)
Early Alchemy (2:34)
Weird Experiments (3:09)
Chemical Reactions and Element Patterns (2:05)
Russian Chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (2:02)
Mendeleev's Periodic Table (3:19)
Periodic Table of the Elements (3:30)
Credits: Mendeleev's Dream (0:25)
Videorecording number
43672s Infobase
43676 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
4 Learning (Firm)
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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