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Young scientists of Moscow State University (MSU) will present the interactive exposition dedicated to the start of the International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements by Dmitri Mendeleev at UNESCO headquarters on January 29-31. This expo will be unique because it will be addressed to scientific community and broad masses at the same time, Nauchnaya Rossia informs.
Scientists and professors of MSU will present discoveries and researches of MSU in field of chemistry. The visitors of exposition will learn about MSU’s scientific work at first hand, talk to scientists and ask questions, and get the simple answers that are clear even for profanes. Guests of exposition will be able to take part in some experiments and see the results. For example, there will be the experiments with hydrogen, electric current, potassium, phosphorus and other elements and combinations. Organizers promise that these experiments will be totally different from school experimentations and will let the guests take different look at chemistry.
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Experts have already called the exposition a unique innovative format of communication between scientific community and ordinary people. One of central stands of exposition will present the virtual office of Dmitri Mendeleev, where the guests of expo will be able to take a walk and learn about the purpose of the items on Mendeleev’s desk and shelves.
Organizers of the exhibition told that its main goals are raising the profile of Russian science in the international arena, and the demonstration of scientific tasks being solved by chemists, which are available for understanding by the wider society.
Russkiy Mir
