Dr Peter Wothers weighs a volunteer from the 2012 Christmas Lectures audience with 24 carat pure gold. Finding himself a little short of the right amount, he calls in help from famous chemist Sir Harry Kroto and his gold Nobel Prize medal (awarded in 1996 for his discovery of a new form of Carbon, C60).
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