Name: Alchemy - In their elements
Start: 2024-05-14T19:30:00
End: 2024-05-14T21:30:00
Location: Middleton Hall

From turning lead into gold, to how we interact with elements on a daily basis, join us for an interactive game of periodic table bingo and hear why the alchemist's dream of turning lead into gold is still just a dream!

Periodic Dinner Table

Chris Armstrong (Lecturer in Physical Chemistry)

Mark Lorch (Professor of Science Communication/ HoD of Chemistry and Chem Eng)

Join us for a rollicking tour of the chemical elements told as a cross between a demo packed show, a comedy sketch and a game of bingo played on a periodic table. You’ll have to keep your eyes peeled as the cast interact with elements, cross them off on your copies of the tables and win prizes/presents for completing row and columns

Alchemy in Action: How Nuclear Physicists Can Turn Lead into Gold

James Keegans (Teaching Fellow)

Transmutation is a modern reality, with isotopes produced in nuclear reactors and particle accelerators that are used in nuclear medicine, materials testing, and fundamental science. Stars transmute elements to produce the energy they need to pause their inevitable collapse. In this talk I'll cover some of the ways elements are changed from one to another - in the lab and in nature - and why the alchemist's dream of turning lead into gold is still just a dream.

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