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OUR CHEMICAL (ST240)
日常生活的化學應用
This series is designed for people who have previously studied science. They take a unique approach by using the audience's immediate environment as a way to explore underlying chemical ideas. They focus on how chemistry has shaped the world in which we live and how chemists try to understand this.
本系列節目用深入淺出的方法探討我們日常生活的化學現象和原理，幫助觀眾對四周發生的事物有更深入的認識。
1. THE CHEMISTRY OF CREATION (ST240/01V)
生命與化學
A broad introduction to the application of chemical explanations to the development of life, which addresses a number of questions. How do sperm find eggs? What is the role of calcium in starting egg cell division? What are the roles of chemicals in animal and human sexual communication? Why are we 'carbon-based' life forms? How did life form on earth in the first place? How do structures form during egg development?
本節目廣泛介紹如何運用化學解釋生命發展中諸多問題。原版英文發音。
24 mins.
English version
2. THE CHEMISTRY OF THE INVISIBLE (ST240/02V)
分子與化學
Explores how we investigate what we cannot see. The concept of molecular modelling is explained, visiting a pharmaceutical company to show the use they put computer molecular modelling to. The programme then goes on to appraise the role of chemistry in establishing the origins of the ancient world and also looks at forensic chemistry.
本節目探討電腦分子模擬與化學的關係，以及介紹化學在確立古代世界起源的作用。原版英文發音。
24 mins.
English version
3. THE CHEMISTRY OF CREATIVITY (ST240/03V)
美學:化學的創造力
Examines the relationship between chemistry and aesthetics, questioning society's perception of the chemist and chemistry as realms which exclude art. An installation artist talks about her interpretation of chemical reactions, and Nobel Prize winning chemist, Roald Hoffman describes how his knowledge of chemistry enriches his appreciation of the aesthetic. The programme examines the many different ways in which chemical solutions and reactions are significant in everyday phenomena, and looks at changing perceptions of chemistry.
考察化學與美學的關係，展現日常生活現象中化學方法和化學反應的重要作用以及人們化學觀念的改變。原版英文發音。
24 mins.
English version
4. THE CHEMISTRY OF SURVIVAL (ST240/04V)
生存與化學
Surveys the roles chemistry can play in helping with various aspects of survival. These include; recycling of student equipment in India; how the materials of a space suit keep an astronaut alive; the natural 'anti-freeze' that frogs produce in winter and the products of the neem tree in India, which the West is now looking to synthesize.
本節目舉例說明化學在生存方面發揮的作用，內容包括儀器循環再造、維生太空衣、抗凍的青蛙及印度自由樹的種植等。原版英文發音。
24 mins.
English version
5. THE CHEMISTRY
OF POWER (ST240/05V)
政經與化學
Uses a number of different stories to illustrate the relationship
between chemistry and political and economic power.
- Fritz Haber's process for synthesizing ammonia - originally
designed to solve the problem of a lack of fertilizer and
then subsequently used by the explosives industry in World
War I.
- The importance of the element carbon, looking at how diamonds
were first synthesized in America during the 1950s for use
in industry.
- The role of drugs companies in medical research, revealing
how they decide where to invest money.
- Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize and inventor of
dynamite.
- The chemist, Roald Hoffman, explains how, in his opinion,
chemists have a responsibility to society for their discoveries.
本節目用一系列例子闡釋化學與政治和經濟力量的關係。例如：第一次世界大戰合成氮用於爆炸藥工廠、美國用碳素合成工業鑽石、藥廠投資料研的角色。炸藥發明家諾貝爾及化學家霍夫曼認為其發明對社會的責任性。原版英文發音。
24 mins.
English version
6. THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE AND DEATH (ST240/06V)
生死與化學
Investigates various aspects of life and death from a chemical perspective. The programme examines such issues as the role of oxygen in the origins of life, how toxic by-products of oxygen - so called free-radicals - threaten the lives of premature babies, the role of the toxin ricin, and the chemistry of human decomposition.
從化學角度剖析生命與死亡的現象。涉及氧氣及其副產品毒素，毒性蛋白質在生命中的作以及人體分解化學。原版英文發音。
24 mins.
English version
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