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©2012
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally broadcast April 4, 2012, as part of the PBS series Nova
Where do nature's building blocks, called the elements, come from? They're the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. To unlock their secrets, David Pogue, the lively host of NOVA's popular "Making Stuff" series and technology correspondent of The New York Times, spins viewers through the world of weird, extreme chemistry: the strongest acids, the deadliest poisons, the universe's most abundant elements, and the rarest of the rare--substances cooked up in atom smashers that flicker into existence for only fractions of a second
Written, produced, and directed by Chris Schmidt ; produced by Dan McCabe
Host, David Pogue
DVD ; NTSC ; region 1 ; widescreen
In English ; Closed captioned