What Is Tinsel Made Of? Speaking of Chemistry Ep. 12 скачать в хорошем качестве

What Is Tinsel Made Of? Speaking of Chemistry Ep. 12

How is the shiny tinsel that decorates many Christmas trees made? Today it's mostly made of plastic. But did you know tinsel used to contain chemical elements like lead, aluminum, or copper? Find out all about tinsel's chemistry history in this very special holiday episode of Speaking of Chemistry. Special thanks to the following for photos: Materialscientist/Wikimedia commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminiu... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper#m... AlchemistHP/Wikimedia commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead#med... Brite Star Manufacturing Co. (tinsel product photos) Darron Fick/Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/thunder... Jüppsche/Wikimedia commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil... Rene Schwietzke/Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/rene-ge... simpleinsomnia/Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/simplei... https://www.flickr.com/photos/simplei... snapshotsofthepast/Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/oldeyan... https://www.flickr.com/photos/oldeyan... Carmen Drahl Susan Waggoner Like C&EN? Want more chemistry video goodness? Subscribe to our YouTube channel:    / cenonline   Subscribe to C&EN to watch science videos with a focus on chemistry, and to hear from the researchers behind it all. -- Looking for C&EN elsewhere on the internet? Homepage: http://cen.acs.org Facebook:   / cenews   Twitter:   / cenmag