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.
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