Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements: October 2014

TUNE IN MONDAY FOR THE FINAL EPISODE

Episode 3: Into the Atom airs Monday, Nov. 3, at 10 p.m. on OPB
Or record it Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 3 a.m. on OPB

A young British physicist named Harry Moseley uses newly discovered X-rays to determine "how many elements God created," putting the Periodic Table in a whole new light. And a young American chemist named Glenn Seaborg creates a new element—plutonium—that changes the world forever, unleashing a force of unimaginable destructive power: the atomic bomb.

See Episode 3 promos at the links below.

Hour 3 Seaborg promo 0:30

https://vimeo.com/135676330

Hour 3, 0:20 "Moseley"
https://vimeo.com/109454596

Late night chemistry!

Oregonians, if you missed The Mystery of Matter last night, you can still catch it. Set your Tivo, DVR or VCR to record it tonight.

Episode 2 airs again Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 3 a.m. on OPB

See Hour 2 promos below:

Marie Curie: Unlikely revolutionary
https://vimeo.com/109454606

Dmitri Mendeleev: Inventing an icon
https://vimeo.com/135676329

Marie Curie: A whole new way to look at the world
https://vimeo.com/109454599

Next time on The Mystery of Matter --

A young Russian chemistry professor named Dmitri Mendeleev invents the Periodic Table, finally bringing order to the elements -- only to watch as Marie Sklodowska Curie, a Polish graduate student in Paris, shatters that sense of order with the discovery of radioactivity, showing that elements could change identities -- and that atoms have smaller parts still awaiting discovery.

Episode 2 airs Monday, Oct. 27th, at 10 p.m. on OPB
Or record it at 3 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29

See Hour 2 promos below:

Marie Curie: Unlikely revolutionary
https://vimeo.com/109454606

Dmitri Mendeleev: Inventing an icon
https://vimeo.com/135676329

Marie Curie: A whole new way to look at the world
https://vimeo.com/109454599

One more chance!

Oregonians, if you missed the Mystery of Matter premiere last night at 10, you can still catch it. Set your DVR or VCR to record it tonight.

Hour 1 airs again Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 3 a.m. on OPB

See promos for the series and Hour 1 at the Vimeo links below:

What is the world made of? 60-second series promo

https://vimeo.com/135674595

Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier discover oxygen

https://vimeo.com/109152865

Priestley discovers a "super air"

https://vimeo.com/109152867

A man and a mouse

https://vimeo.com/109152863

Humphry Davy discovers laughing gas

https://vimeo.com/109155827

Is electricity part of matter?