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Strangest Things

If you beat gold ontoa flat surface, you can create a really thin piece ofgold leaf that...

If you beat gold onto
a flat surface, you can create a really thin piece of
gold leaf that is just a few atoms thick

Full Transcript

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If you beat gold onto a flat surface,
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you can create a really thin piece of gold leaf that is just a few atoms thick.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
15
Timestamp in Movie
00:06:24
Uploaded
May 30, 2025
Season
1
Episode
8
Genres
documentary
Production
A+E Networks,Blink Films

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Movie Summary

From a piece of meteorite found in Tutankhamun's tomb to the Crown of Thorns, explore some of the most perplexing and unusual objects lying hidden away in museums, laboratories and storage rooms.
S01 • E05 [Corey] It's the greatest encryption device - Strangest Things 00:06
[Corey] It's the greatest encryption device
S01 • E09 In 1949, they date Piltdown man - Strangest Things 00:06
In 1949, they date Piltdown man
S01 • E01 [Narrator] It's almost 50 years, - Strangest Things 00:09
[Narrator] It's almost 50 years,
S01 • E04 [Abigail] The inscriptions not only fill in - Strangest Things 00:10
[Abigail] The inscriptions not only fill in
S01 • E06 The Kensington Runestone - Strangest Things 00:05
The Kensington Runestone
S01 • E02 [narrator] The problem is that nearly every dodecahedron - Strangest Things 00:05
[narrator] The problem is that nearly every dodecahedron
S01 • E07 Instead, he goes old school. Vinyl. - Strangest Things 00:05
Instead, he goes old school. Vinyl.
S01 • E05 Why have they gone to so much trouble? - Strangest Things 00:04
Why have they gone to so much trouble?
S01 • E06 The axes and shields, likewise. - Strangest Things 00:06
The axes and shields, likewise.
S01 • E02 And bronze doesn't come cheap. - Strangest Things 00:04
And bronze doesn't come cheap.
S01 • E10 [Elliott] The original interpretations focused on the idea of them being - Strangest Things 00:12
[Elliott] The original interpretations focused on the idea o...
S01 • E07 [Maggie] The idea of using a phonograph, a record, to send information - Strangest Things 00:11
[Maggie] The idea of using a phonograph, a record, to send i...
S01 • E09 This seemed to show that these remains - Strangest Things 00:06
This seemed to show that these remains
S01 • E01 [Dougal] The Italian team go in to the desert - Strangest Things 00:06
[Dougal] The Italian team go in to the desert
S01 • E08 [narrator] Which explains the hats delicate construction. - Strangest Things 00:04
[narrator] Which explains the hats delicate construction.
S01 • E02 It's made out of the same materials that money is made out of. - Strangest Things 00:05
It's made out of the same materials that money is made ...
S01 • E04 [Corey] Experts are even able to read - Strangest Things 00:07
[Corey] Experts are even able to read
S01 • E08 The single sheet of gold that this hat is made out of - Strangest Things 00:08
The single sheet of gold that this hat is made out of
S01 • E06 [narrator] So why all the Viking fakes. - Strangest Things 00:04
[narrator] So why all the Viking fakes.
S01 • E03 It was a different process that was much better known - Strangest Things 00:11
It was a different process that was much better known