Explosive Science with Kate the Chemist

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4.6 • 14.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What are chemical reactions like in space? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice team up with Kate the Chemist to explore how cesium helps us tell time, the elusive quest for the periodic table’s “island of stability,” how AI is revolutionizing chemistry, and more!

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0:00.0	Chuck, I think that show we just recorded had good chemistry.
0:06.0	Yes, I especially like the explosions.
0:09.3	Or how to make one.
0:10.9	Coming up on StarTalk.
0:14.6	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:17.2	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:23.2	StarTalk begins right now.
0:28.1	This is StarTalk.
0:30.4	Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:33.0	We're doing cosmic queries today.
0:35.3	That means Chuck is in the house.
0:36.8	Chuck.
0:37.1	Hey, hey. All right, you got the queries. I do right here is in the house. Chuck. Hey, hey.
0:38.0	All right, you got the queries.
0:39.1	I do right here.
0:40.4	And where they come from?
0:41.7	They come from our people at Patreon.
0:44.1	Nice.
0:44.7	The supporters who give us money, and that is why we like them.
0:48.4	No, we like them because they're curious.
0:50.6	Well, that's right.
0:52.4	Yes, that.
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