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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer... Morea bout this programme: www.bbc.co.uk/p... Professor Mark Miodownik reveals why aluminium became the metal that took us into the age of flight.
Professor Mark Miodownik travels to Israel to trace the history of our love affair with gleaming, lustrous metal. He learns how we first extracted glinting copper from dull rock and used it to shape our world. We see how our eternal quest for lighter, stronger metals led us to forge hard, sharp steel from malleable iron and to create complex alloys in order to conquer the skies.
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