Professor Mark Miodownik travels to Israel to trace the history of
our love affair with gleaming, lustrous metal. He learns how we first
extracted glinting copper from dull rock and used it to shape our world
and reveals how our eternal quest for lighter, stronger metals led us to
forge hard, sharp steel from malleable iron and to create complex
alloys in order to conquer the skies.
He investigates metals at
the atomic level to reveal mysterious properties such as why they get
stronger when they are hit, and he discovers how metal crystals can be
grown to survive inside one of our most extreme environments - the jet
engine
and watch tonight at 9PM
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