Why do irons have to be hot to de-wrinkle things?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
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🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
A volcano forms when the hot melted rock deep under the Earth’s crust bubbles to the surface and breaks through. Sometimes, a volcano will go from active to dormant, meaning it doesn’t erupt anymore. How does that happen? We asked geochemist Kelsey Woody to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind Brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:03.2 | Um, um, um, um, um. |
| 0:09.2 | Moment of um comes to you from 8 p.m. studios. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Nancy von Splatat, the naked mole rat. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm sure you've seen pictures of us naked mole rats. |
| 0:21.0 | Long, yellow teeth, bewitchingly beady eyes, and of course bald wrinkly pink skin. |
| 0:29.2 | It's like what you'd get if you crossed a hot dog with a crumpled up old tissue. Perfection. |
| 0:35.0 | Everyone's always like, Nancy, why don't you naked mole rats put some clothes on already? |
| 0:41.0 | Pshh, and cover up all this gorgeous pink skin? Ridiculous. But today I have a |
| 0:48.1 | job interview and apparently you're not allowed to go to a job interview naked. |
| 0:54.4 | Rude. |
| 0:55.4 | Anyway, I got my hot pink power suit out of the back of my burrow, |
| 0:59.8 | but the blazers all creased. |
| 1:02.2 | And apparently, you're also not supposed |
| 1:04.8 | to show up to a job interview in a wrinkly power suit. |
| 1:08.9 | Why? |
| 1:10.0 | Wrinkles are beautiful. Well, guess I gotta iron it now to get all these wrinkles out. |
| 1:17.0 | Better heat up the iron. |
| 1:18.8 | Ah, okay, it's ready. |
| 1:21.6 | Say, why do you need to get iron so hot anyway? Julia had the same question. |
| 1:28.3 | You wouldn't expect that ironing your clothes involves chemistry, but it does. My name is Professor Mark |
| 1:34.8 | Lorge and I'm a chemist and science communicator at the University of Hull in the |
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