Madame Curie (1943) is a movie about girl meets boy, girl marries boy, girl and boy isolate radium together. Three scenes in the movie are rich in chemistry. First, Marie realizes the radioactivity in the pitchblende ore is coming from a minor component, and is probably a new element. Next, there is a 4.5-min montage in which Marie and Pierre work in a shed to reduce tons of ore to a workable volume. Finally, there is a 2-min scene with thousands of ceramic dishes in which they perform serial recrystallizations to separate radium from barium. How many of you have seen this movie? myhero/go/hero.asp?hero=marie_curie
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:09:19 +0000
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