Name: 10: 釷和鋨(12天的聖誕節) (10: Thorium and Osmium (12 Days of Christmas))
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we have two really quite unusual elements

which is one of the few metals that's blue

and this is a very beautiful crystalline example.

It has arguably the highest melting point.

There is some argument whether it's Iridium (77) or osmium. They are very close together

The other element is the hardest one to get hold of

and this is Thorium, which is element number 90.

who are specialists in preparing samples of the elements.

Thorium is particularly hard to transport.

You can't send it through the post, because it's radioactive,

so they gave it to me and I brought it back to Nottingham in my pocket.

I was slightly worried that there might be anti-terrorist radiation-meters,

but I think the plastic is sufficiently thick that you can't get any radiation out from it.

We'll be making a video quite soon about Thorium,

but it's quite interresting. The sample here are more wires

and it's a slight black-ish colour which quite surprised me.

and he jumped up from the audience as I was walking through and said 'I have a present for you'

and whipped out some Osmium from his pocket.

For day ten, we have two really exciting elements: Osmium; Thorium,

and one piece of tartaric acid from a Swiss wine barrel.

[Professor Mike Merrifield] ...cluster, so a pair  of stars in tight orbit around one another.

The Sun then encounters this binary star.

what are called "free body encounters," so a binary star

has a third star coming into it -- is that the third star can

get kicked out at high speed. And in fact, typical speed

you'd expect the sun to get kicked out at in that case