Are chance and science two mutually exclusive opposites?
Not at all, because many discoveries and achievements in the field of chemistry are due to chance.
For example, car tyres made of rubber might not yet exist or sticky notes might not yet have been invented.
Dr Andreas Hoischen will re-enact some of these historical accidental discoveries in his well-known Christmas lecture. Other curious experiments without application but with fire and flame are also included. For example, nobody has ever wondered why defrosting blackberries in the microwave is just as dangerous as smoking in the oven.
In order to get through everyday life and especially the festive season safely, the background to these phenomena is then explained in a light-hearted, Christmassy and scientifically understandable way, so that accidental discoveries can become planned research.
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