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Cinema and crystallography

2012; Wiley; Volume: 68; Issue: a1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1107/s0108767312097450

1600-5724

Laura Torre‐Fernández, Santiago García‐Granda,

Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies

Cinema and television contents can be used as a useful tool to introduce to students the scientific knowledge in a rigorous way.Nowadays the scientific series as "Bones", "Numbers" or "Breaking Bad" are very popular and allow us to introduce important scientific concepts to students.In a previous work [1] we introduce some examples of movies and series which can be used to explain important chemical concepts as saponification process, "Fight Club", and chemical substances and their uses as nitrous oxide, "The fast and the furious" and "Lethal weapon".In this communication, we choose some examples to introduce Crystallography to students in a enjoyable but also rigourous way.We used "Superman III" to explain the difference between crystalline and amorphous material, "Breaking Bad" and "Alice in the wonderland" to explain the quirality concept, "Superman" and "The man with x-ray eyes" to introduce the x-ray nature.Some of these examples were used in two workshops organized by the University of Oviedo, "La Química en el Cine: Ficción o realidad" [2] and "La ciencia en el cine y la televisión" [3].In these workshops the students saw some scenes or these movies and series and after that the teacher explined the concept in-depth way.The final results of these workshops were very satisfactory and the students showed a lot of interest.