Helen Czerski - Coccolithophores and Calcium

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11 жыл бұрын

From coccolithophores to the White Cliffs of Dover, physicist Helen Czerski explains the amazing cycle that makes Calcium her favourite element.
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@tommos1 11 жыл бұрын

Coccolithophore drawing made with Coccolithophore chalk explaining Coccolithophores. CoccolithophoreCEPTION

@chocolaterockz 11 жыл бұрын

CHALK! This was really interesting. I loved the idea. Thanks Coccolithophores! and Calcium and also Science and the Royal Institution. : )

@Artifactorfiction 11 жыл бұрын

Best one yet

@PixelCortex 11 жыл бұрын

Beautiful answer.

@just4fun620 9 жыл бұрын

imagine using dead bodies to draw pictures of dead bodies.

@JonathanWeberese 8 жыл бұрын

+just4fun620 "I'll paint the Mona Lisa with her ground bones and dried blood." Sounds like Hannibal Lecter.

@reiniergamboa 6 жыл бұрын

Look up the color mummy brown :)

@JonMarcLang 11 жыл бұрын

I love guessing these before the element is named!

@gowthamkudupudi1012 5 жыл бұрын

❤️ u Helen! This music!

@farouk.remita 7 жыл бұрын

thanks ! this helped me a lot on my project on coccolithe .

@wesamhashish9 3 жыл бұрын

You are incredible but also credible!

@1.4142 2 жыл бұрын

There's this really cool one called Braarudosphaera that has a regular dodecahedron shell!

@douro20 11 жыл бұрын

A very appropriate name: it comes from modern Greek: 'kokkos', berry (referring to its round shape); lithos, stone; phorein, to bear.

@maxximumb 6 жыл бұрын

It's probably why they chose the name.

@blattmacher 11 жыл бұрын

shame on you guys.. shame on me too. SHE'S WONDERFUL

@wesamhashish9 3 жыл бұрын

You just saved my ass! Thank you & I love U !

@ArnoldRoderick 11 жыл бұрын

So let me get this straight, she drew the organism with the dead and mutilated remains of that same organism?

@dipi71 7 жыл бұрын

NASA's APOD 2017-04-24 _(»A White Battle in the Black Sea«)_ sent me here. Cheers!

@zapfanzapfan 3 жыл бұрын

Slightly morbid but also very cool :-)

@Freakydemon 11 жыл бұрын

So is the electricity powering your computer, which was most likely gained by burning remains of dinosaurs and other primordial crap

@elvee88 11 жыл бұрын

i meant in a way of for instance cutting a pigs leg of and then feed it to him...

@elvee88 11 жыл бұрын

thats kinda morbid isnt it xD