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Our Changing World for Thursday 25 April 2019

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  • Our Changing World for 25 April 2019

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    9:05 PM.University of Canterbury's Lava Lab, plans to drill into a volcano's magma chamber and a Curious Mind volcano drilling game for schools. Audio

  • Lava Lab and drilling into a volcano's magma chamber

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    Molten lava pouring out the crucible down the tilted metal plate and beginning to cool down.

    9:06 PM.University of Canterbury's Lava Lab, plans to drill into a volcano's magma chamber and a Curious Mind volcano drilling game for schools. Read more Audio

  • Carbon - life & times of the 'king of elements'

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    8:00 AM.Carbon underpins life as we know it, fuels our world and gets its own branch of chemistry, according to AUT professor Allan Blackman, in ep 17 of Elemental. Read more Audio

  • Cerium - combustible and confusing

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    8:00 AM.Cerium is the most abundant rare-earth element and pops up in self-cleaning ovens, cigarette lighter flints and spectacle glass. Find out more with Allan Blackman from AUT in ep 18 of Elemental. Read more Audio

  • Chlorine - good for health, bad for health

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    8:00 AM.Chlorine is the culprit in the 'case of the exploding trousers'. It is also well-known as a disinfectant and chloride ions are essential for life, but as DDT & CFCs, chlorine is bad news. Allan… Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Thursday, 18 April 2019
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