What is matter? -- Ideas of the Greeks -- Investigating matter -- Solid matter -- The world of crystals -- Metals and alloys -- Properties of liquids -- Gases and their properties -- Changes of state -- Colloids and glasses -- Mixtures and compounds -- Conservation of matter -- Burning matter -- Charting the elements -- The building blocks -- Molecules -- Molecules in motion -- Carbon rings and chains -- Living matter -- Designing molecules -- Radioactivity -- Inside the atom -- Electrons, shells and bonds -- Architecture of the nucleus -- Splitting the atom -- Hot matter -- Subatomic particles -- The four forces -- The birth and death of matter.
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