One Hundred And Ninety Seven Billion Quid’s Worth Of Gold

at


The charming and ebulliently coiffed University of Nottingham Professor Martyn Poliakoff from The Periodic Table Of Videos takes us on a visit to the Bank Of England bullion vault.

Lamenting the fact – true chemist that he is – that all this gold could be doing something much more interesting than just lying around: like taking part in interesting chemical reactions.

Previous Poliakoff: Schrödinger’s Cat: Here Comes The Science

boingboing

Sponsored Link
Sponsored Link
Broadsheet.ie