Discovery Education™ Greatest Discoveries with Bill Nye Chemistry DVD

Bill Nye looks back over the past 2 centuries, during which chemistry has brought us from a time when atoms were a hypothesis to an age where scientists may be able to combine particles on the atomic level into micro-machines. Learn how electricity transforms chemicals, elements can combine into more complex molecules, and the combination of nonliving substances produced organic compounds that led to pharmacology. Nye also examines the 2nd half of the nineteenth-century, a time dominated by discoveries relating to light, electrons, radioactivity, and the periodic table of the elements, as well...