Introduction

Join Professor Chris Bishop, presenter of the 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, for a spectacular family lecture packed with demonstrations of pyrotechnic chemistry. How did Chinese incendiaries made from honey lead to the development of gunpowder? Why do the loud bangs made by fireworks have their origins in photography? How did an accident in a nineteenth-century kitchen lead to the development of new chemistry for this century's fireworks? All will be revealed through exciting, and sometimes explosive, demonstrations.

Sponsorship & supporting organisations

RSC Mid-Anglia, SCI CaGE Section, Microsoft Research, Le Maitre & International Year of Chemistry

Venue

University of Cambridge

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom

Useful links

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Organised by

SCI CaGE Section and the Department of Chemistry