The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements

The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements

Season 1
The Mystery of Matter is an exciting PBS series about one of the great adventures in the history of science: the long (and continuing) quest to understand what the world is made of--to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter.
IMDb 8.220153 episodesTV-PG
DocumentaryHistorical
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Out of Thin Air

    August 18, 2015
    54min
    TV-PG
    One of science's great odd couples--British minister Joseph Priestley and French tax administrator Antoine Lavoisier--together discover a fantastic new gas called oxygen, overturning the reigning theory of chemistry and triggering a worldwide search for new elements.
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  2. S1 E2 - Unruly Elements

    August 18, 2015
    54min
    TV-PG
    Over a single weekend in 1869, a young Russian chemistry professor named Dmitri Mendeleev invents the Periodic Table, bringing order to the growing gaggle of elements.
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  3. S1 E3 - Into the Atom

    August 18, 2015
    55min
    TV-PG
    Caught up in the race to discover the atom's internal parts--and learn how they fit together--is a young British physicist named Harry Moseley, who uses newly discovered X-rays to put the Periodic Table in a whole new light.
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