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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Fire and Mud

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2008

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Get Red Hot and Dirty with the Naked Scientists as we explore the science of volcanoes. We discover how the heat from hot rocks can be used to work out what gases are emerging, how likely a volcano is to erupt and whether it will go with a bang or a whimper. We also hear how hot runny rock can shatter under pressure to trigger an earthquake, and dip into the cooler, dirtier world of mud Volcanoes, like Lusi, which is currently pouring millions of gallons of mud onto the island of Java. Plus, we find out how a small date plant made history by being the oldest seed ever to germinate, why the... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

It's science,

0:05.0

science, but not as you know it.

0:08.0

The Naked Scientists.

0:10.0

Hello, than steel and it's all thanks to some nifty nano engineering so that means we can do

0:23.5

some vigorous sneezes in the hay fever season and we won't end up blowing a

0:26.7

hole in the hanky there's also been a breakthrough in understanding how

0:29.5

cancers spread around the body and we'll be finding out how that works and we'll also be

0:33.2

talking to a scientist who's just broken the record for germinating the world's

0:37.2

oldest seed was 2,000 years old that's all on the way Richard.

0:40.5

Thanks Chris also this week we'll be hearing about some hot research in the field of volcanology.

0:45.8

So we'll be finding out how analyzing the gases coming out of a volcano can give you clues about

0:50.4

when it's going to erupt.

0:51.6

And we'll also be hearing about a different volcanic beast entirely,

0:55.0

the mud volcano.

0:57.0

And there's one in Indonesia at the moment

0:58.0

has been going for two years

1:00.0

and it's spewing out millions of gallons of mud.

1:02.0

And there's even one of these in

1:03.5

Britain we'll tell you where later in the show. Plus we've also got the answer to

1:07.8

this week's calorie conscious question of the week. Recently a friend of mine

1:11.4

was telling me about a pizza that he burned to the point of becoming

1:14.0

a charred husk ten times smaller than the original.

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