Reserve Material

For Students: These videotapes can be checked out using your student ID, free of charge, at the front desk at both MSLC's offices on the Busch Campus (ARC Building, 618 Allison Rd., 3rd floor, Piscataway) and the Douglass Campus (Chemistry Building, 50 Bishop St., 3rd. floor, New Brunswick). They can be viewed ONLY in the Classrooms and Video Rooms at the MSLC with available VCRs and TVs. Because our Video Rooms holds up to 4-5 students, we welcome groups. At the end of viewing, please rewind the videotape and return it to the Front Desk.

Unfortunately you cannot take the videos home/dorm for viewing.
For Faculty and Staff: If you have other interesting videotapes and they can be use in connection with your course, we will be glad to add them to our collection and make them available for students.


“The Chemical Fun and Magic Show”, presented by Rubin Battino and John Fortman from Wright State University - Ohio, Department of Chemistry, 1987
CHEM 1 PART 1: Introduction & the effect of He on speech; Ira Remsen's memoirs; Dry Ice & Physical Changes; The origins of demonstration shows; Silver trees & Old Nassau; Liquid Nitrogen & Cryogenics; Silver Mirrors & Trees; Household Acids & Bases and the chameleon; A chemical pep rally; The Magic Flask. 60 min
CHEM 2 PART 2: The matchless explosion; The "hot" diaper trick; The ammonia fountain; Hot & Cold; Liquid to Solid and Solid to liquid; The electrolysis of water; Balloon explosion; A chemical volcano; Burning Mg in dry ice, sugar, carbon and the oxygen cycle; potassium permanganate & glycerin; The thermite reaction; Making molten iron. 60 min
CHEM 3 PART 3: Does steel wool burn?; Dust explosions; Old time photographer's flash powder; Alcohol explosions: the chemistry of engines; A light initiated explosions; "Light Tubes"-a controlled explosions; Metals and Chlorine-table salt; The purple cloud; Exploding flask-heterogeneous catalysis; Balloon and needle trick; Atomic structure; Polymers & Plastics; Nylon and Foam; Chemical Patriotism; Pyrotechnics: The chemistry of fireworks. 60 min

 

Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Inc., Princeton, NJ, present: “Practical Techniques in Organic Chemistry”.
CHEM 4 PART ONE: Running a reaction 15 min
CHEM 5 PART TWO: Filtration and the Rotary Evaporator  15 min
CHEM 6 PART THREE: Crystallization 15 min
CHEM 7 PART FOUR: Distillation 15 min
CHEM 8 The visualization of the abstract in Chemistry: Atomic Orbitals 22 min