Chemistry in Everyday Life

Chemistry in Everyday Life

27 episodes

Chemistry in Everyday Life is a podcast that aims to explain the fascinating world of chemistry to lay people with the help of common examples encountered all around us.

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Asphalt - Chemie im Straenbau

Published: Jan. 5, 2022, 9:18 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 52 seconds

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Last episode of Chemistry in Everyday Life: Cyanide Poisoning

Published: Sept. 28, 2021, 7:53 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 27 seconds

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Why can we digest starch, but not cellulose?

Published: Sept. 12, 2021, 9:12 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 40 seconds

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Summer Re-runs: Prove It! How do we know what chemicals we have? - Part 2: Analysis

Published: Aug. 29, 2021, 9:07 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 10 seconds

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Summer Re-runs: Protection from the Sun Pt. 1 - The Ozone Layer

Published: Aug. 15, 2021, 8:31 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 27 seconds

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Summer Re-runs: Breathe in, Breathe Out - Oxygen Transfer in the Blood

Published: Aug. 1, 2021, 2:09 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 59 seconds

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You look radiant today - Radiotracers and Imaging

Published: July 16, 2021, 7:03 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes

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Prove It! How do we know what chemicals we have? - Part 1: Purification Techniques

Published: June 20, 2021, 6:57 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 58 seconds

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Absorbing Fats - Bile in Action

Published: June 6, 2021, 2:29 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 38 seconds

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Life-saving explosions - Airbags

Published: May 23, 2021, 7:55 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 38 seconds

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Breathe in, Breathe Out - Oxygen Transfer in the Blood

Published: May 9, 2021, 8:16 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 44 seconds

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Sing this corrosion to me

Published: April 25, 2021, 8:15 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 40 seconds

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The concept of energy in the human body

Published: April 11, 2021, 10:03 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 20 seconds

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Space. The Final Frontier...

Published: March 28, 2021, 9:12 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 28 seconds

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Distilling the essence - Talking about Distillation

Published: March 14, 2021, 10:29 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 49 seconds

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Portable Power - Batteries and their Chemistry

Published: Feb. 28, 2021, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 11 seconds

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A World of Mirror Images

Published: Feb. 14, 2021, 10:21 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds

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Conjugated Systems... no, we are not talking about Latin ;-)

Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 9:59 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 48 seconds

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Glow Sticks - A new year's saving grace

Published: Jan. 17, 2021, 11:26 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 5 seconds

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AdBlue - More than just purifed urine in our car's gas tank?

Published: Jan. 3, 2021, 11:02 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 24 seconds

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Radical Dental Filling

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 8:29 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 17 seconds

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Sweet, sweet bread

Published: Dec. 6, 2020, 10:41 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 13 seconds

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The Nobel Series Part III: The Gene Scissors, CRISPR/CAS9

Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 7:54 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds

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The Nobel Series Part II: Gene Expression

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 9:37 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 24 seconds

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The Nobel Series Part I: DNA

Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 11:28 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds

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Hydrogel - interesting material, exciting uses

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 9:12 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 22 seconds

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Green Statues

Published: Sept. 20, 2020, 7:34 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 5 seconds

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Why do our eyes burn and tear when we cut onions?

Published: Sept. 6, 2020, 7:39 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 45 seconds

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Water's special superpower - hydrogen bonds

Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 2:55 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 8 seconds

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Why better not to use heating fuel in your diesel engine?

Published: Aug. 9, 2020, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds

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Let's talk about soap and detergents...

Published: July 26, 2020, 3:16 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 30 seconds

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Fireworks - Chemistry of Colour

Published: July 12, 2020, 12:27 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 2 seconds

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Carbonated Drinks - Fizzy Fun

Published: June 28, 2020, 11:26 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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Nature's Catalyst - Enzymes

Published: June 14, 2020, 8:44 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 8 seconds

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Accelerated Chemistry - Catalysis

Published: May 31, 2020, 9:40 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 44 seconds

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The disappearing eggshell - Of acids and bases

Published: May 17, 2020, 7:34 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 10 seconds

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Proteins - A Pillar of life

Published: May 5, 2020, 9:25 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds

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Protection from the Sun Pt. 2 - Sun lotion

Published: April 28, 2020, 8:02 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 1 second

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Protection from the Sun Pt. 1 - The Ozone Layer

Published: April 18, 2020, 10:50 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 46 seconds

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Diamond vs. Pencil

Published: April 11, 2020, 10:35 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 57 seconds

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