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Making Science with Tom Whipple

Islands of Ice and Straw

Jun 23, 2025 · 9 min · Season 1 · Episode 3 · 21.8 MB
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In this episode of Making Science, Tom Whipple delves into the intriguing science of latent heat and the thermodynamic properties of water - and how this science played a pivotal role in one of the strangest Allied schemes during World War II - a plan to create an 'iceberg aircraft carrier' known as Project Habakkuk. 

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