Fireworks, Explosions and Chemistry

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2005

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this explosions extravaganza, John Emsley and Jacqueline Akhavan describe the chemistry behind the bangs on bonfire night, George Pendle talks about Jack Parsons and the history of rocketry, Mark Schrope comes back down to earth to describe his experience of flying into the eye of Hurricane Rita, and Dave and Derek cool us off with a home made fire extinguisher in kitchen science. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:41.0	Welcome to this week's edition of The Naked Scientists with me Dr. Chris Smith and with Dr
0:46.0	Catherine Hawkins who is also here to present tonight show. Good evening, Catherine.
0:49.2	Hi there, Chris. Well coming up tonight we have an explosive show for you for Bonfire Night because it is the 6th of November
0:55.2	And we're going to be discussing the science of fireworks and the science of November the 5th and here to help us do that we have chemist and prize-winning author Dr John
1:03.6	Emsley good evening John good evening Chris. John's here to take any question
1:07.3	you'd like to ask him about how fireworks work, how explosives work, the
1:10.8	chemistry behind fireworks so perhaps you've been to a display this weekend, and you thought,
1:14.8	well that was a fantastic firework. How did they do that? How did they make those amazing colors?
1:18.8	How did they create those special effects? If you'd like to know those questions or have them answered for you,
1:23.4	08-49-25-2,000 is the phone number to call us in on.
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1:30.0	Also joining us this evening, Jacqueline Ackavan, who's also an expert on explosives and pyrotechnics.
1:34.7	She'll be on the telephone later, and she can also take those kinds of questions.
1:38.2	So call in if there's anything you'd like to know about blowing things up, basically.
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