The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has an interactive, multimedia site called
Dynamic Earth that explores some of the science involved in four areas: minerals and gems, plate tectonics and volcanoes, the solar system, and rocks and mining. The most interesting content for the material science subject is a mock assignment that a girl is given to explore
which is more valuable, aluminum or gold. The link heads to a summary of the website contents around the topic and to a transcript of the video.
To get to the video involved today via the
multimedia site, skip the intro, click to
rocks and mining then
mining, then
minerals matter, and finally on
Aluminum or Gold. Embedded there is a tiny (in size, not in length or content) video. I tried to find the same video over on YouTube or via Google but with no success.
I am linking to the
non-multimedia version, because the multimedia version has only a single external link.
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