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Discovering Science: Boiling Water

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When water boils it produces about 1,700 times its own volume of steam. In this programme Gerd Sommerhoff explains how this tremendous expansion can be used to drive turbines and other forms of steam engine.
For Schools
Previously shown in January 1963
Repeated on Wednesday at 11.35 a.m.
(to 10.22)

Contributors

Presenter:
Gerd Sommerhoff
Producer:
Geoffrey Hall
Source: Radio Times

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