 2011 Lecture: The Science of Fireworks!
1 November 2011 11am – 12pm Schools only!
The Royal Institution, London
1 November 2011 6pm –7:10pm
The Royal Institution, London
4 November 2011 7pm – 8pm
Department of Chemistry, University Of Cambridge
5 November 2011 3pm – 4pm
Department of Chemistry, University Of Cambridge
Join Professor Chris Bishop, presenter of the 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, for a spectacular family lecture packed with demonstrations of pyrotechnic chemistry. How did Chinese incendiaries made from honey lead to the development of gunpowder? Why do the loud bangs made by fireworks have their origins in photography? How did an accident in a nineteenth-century kitchen lead to the development of new chemistry for this century’s fireworks? All will be revealed through exciting, and sometimes explosive, demonstrations.
WARNING LOUD BANGS!
These lectures are now fully booked. However, the Saturday lecture will be filmed and made available online from the Royal Institution web site in mid-December. |
Chemical Curiosities 
