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Particularly tasteful is their choice of native speaker actors who speak their native language for less important narration, and English with an accent for more important moments, in particular when talking solo to the camera.
The Mystery of Matter episode 1
. Source. The Mystery of Matter episode 2
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. Source. This is OK, but definitely inferior to The Mystery of Matter overall because it is much more interesting to watch period reenactments than Jim Al-Khalili going places. But the latter also has its value.
Articles by others on the same topic
The history of chemistry includes the development of quantitative methods for identifying substances and explaining chemical change. A decisive experimental advance was accounting for gases as material participants: a solid can gain mass during heating while the corresponding enclosed gas loses material to it.
Work on different kinds of air, combustion, and chemical composition helped replace a single undifferentiated view of air with experimentally distinguishable gases. Lavoisier's account of mercury and air records a closed-system interpretation in which only part of the air is consumed, connecting chemical explanation to measured material balance.[ref]
Elements of Chemistry by Antoine Lavoisier. Part I, Chapters III–V, mercury-air experiment and oxygen interpretation