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Title Absolute zero / produced and directed by David Dugan ; written by Tom Shachtman ; a production of Windfall Films and Meridian Productions for TPT/Twin Cities Public Television and WGBH/Nova in association with the BBC.

Publication Info. [Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, [2008]

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  DVD 536 ABSOLUTE    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD. Region 1; NTSC.
Performer Narrator, Neil Ross.
Note Based on the book: Absolute zero and the conquest of cold / by Tom Shachtman.
Originally broadcast on public television as an episode of the television program Nova in 2007.
Anamorphic widescreen (16:9) format; Dolby digital.
Funding This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation ESI-0307939
Audience Not rated.
Summary Presents the history of low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer. The conquest of cold opens with experiments in the 1600s that asked what heat and cold are and whether they are different aspects of the same phenomenon. Shows how the experiments that settled those questions helped stoke the Industrial Revolution. The race for absolute zero dramatizes the rivalry between Scottish researcher James Dewar and Dutch physicist Heike Onnes, who plunged cold science to the forbidding realm at which oxygen and then hydrogen turn into liquids. Shows how the quest continues today as scientists pioneer super-fast computing near absolute zero--the ultimate chill of -459.67° F, where atoms slow to a virtual standstill.
Contents The conquest of cold. A malevolent force ; Quantifying cold ; The ice trade ; Cold engines ; The cold resource -- The race for absolute zero. The holy grail ; A temperature cascade ; Superconductivity ; A new state of matter ; Applications.
Note Special features include: printable materials for educators (PDF format).
Language Closed-captioned. Optional audio-described soundtrack.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Low temperature research.
Low temperatures.
Cold.
Genre/Form Television programs.
Science television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Television adaptations.
Nonfiction television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
Added Author Dugan, David. Producer. Director.
Shachtman, Tom, 1942- Screenwriter.
Ross, Neil, 1944- Narrator.
Shachtman, Tom, 1942- Absolute zero and the conquest of cold.
Windfall Films (Firm)
Meridian Productions, Inc.
Twin Cities Public Television (Saint Paul, Minn.)
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
British Broadcasting Corporation.
WGBH Video (Firm)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Note Title on container: Absolute zero : chasing the ultimate freezing point
Added Title Nova (Television program)
Conquest of cold.
Race for absolute zero.
ISBN 9781593758196
Standard No. 783421424494
Music No. WG42449 WGBH Boston Video
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