How Pee Helped Win the Revolutionary War (Maybe...) - July 4th Special Episode
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Old school gunpowder is really called black powder, and it was so crucial to the Revolutionary War effort that we went to great (and gross) lengths to try and make it. This week on Reactions, find out what exactly those lengths were.
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Sources:
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Chemistry_of_Pyrotechnics.html?id=stoY55Kj7wUC
https://www.livescience.com/7476-gunpowder-changed-world.html
https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/3/8886697/the-chemistry-behind-a-firework-explosion
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-chemist-science-fireworks.html
https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/07/02/the-chemistry-of-gunpowder/
http://time.com/4828701/first-fireworks-history-july-4th/
https://www.nap.edu/read/6289/chapter/1
https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/09/the-gunpowder-shortage/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/song-dynasty/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/raid-bermuda-saved-american-revolution-180970375/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/from-gunpowder-to-teeth-whitener-the-science-behind-historic-uses-of-urine-442390/
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=4130
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wea.2587
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Black_powder
https://www.nps.gov/casa/learn/historyculture/gunpowder.htm
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gun-cotton-and-collodion/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1440-1681.2000.03240.x?sid=nlm%3Apubmed
https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobels-dynamite-companies/
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/npsg/explosives/Chapter2.pdf
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=240495
https://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/lecontesalt/leconte.html
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/bang.htm#Blac
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0119712
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https://youtu.be/iQod_oYnFTc
How Does Double Acting Baking Powder... Doubly Act?
https://youtu.be/f16wezzHPzg
The Dawn of Chemical Warfare
https://youtu.be/e8W3dOURya0
Credits:
Producer: Elaine Seward
Writer: Samantha Jones, PhD
Scientific Consultants: Jimmie Oxley, PhD Jack Kelly
Executive Producer: George Zaidan
Production Manager: Hilary Hudson
Music:
Boston Patriots - Kelly Brent Bryarly
Sam Leopard - Cool Ivory
Sources:
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Chemistry_of_Pyrotechnics.html?id=stoY55Kj7wUC
https://www.livescience.com/7476-gunpowder-changed-world.html
https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/3/8886697/the-chemistry-behind-a-firework-explosion
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-chemist-science-fireworks.html
https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/07/02/the-chemistry-of-gunpowder/
http://time.com/4828701/first-fireworks-history-july-4th/
https://www.nap.edu/read/6289/chapter/1
https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/09/the-gunpowder-shortage/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/song-dynasty/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/raid-bermuda-saved-american-revolution-180970375/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/from-gunpowder-to-teeth-whitener-the-science-behind-historic-uses-of-urine-442390/
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=4130
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wea.2587
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Black_powder
https://www.nps.gov/casa/learn/historyculture/gunpowder.htm
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gun-cotton-and-collodion/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1440-1681.2000.03240.x?sid=nlm%3Apubmed
https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobels-dynamite-companies/
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/npsg/explosives/Chapter2.pdf
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=240495
https://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/lecontesalt/leconte.html
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/bang.htm#Blac
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0119712
Ever wonder why dogs sniff each others' butts? Or how Adderall works? Or whether it's OK to pee in the pool? We've got you covered: Reactions a web series about the chemistry that surrounds you every day.
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