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Moissanite (/ ˈmɔɪsəˌnaɪt /) [ 5 ] is naturally occurring silicon carbide and its various crystalline polymorphs. It has the chemical formula SiC and is a rare mineral, discovered by the French chemist Henri Moissan in 1893. Silicon carbide or moissanite is useful for commercial and industrial applications due to its hardness, optical ...
This is a list of television programs currently broadcast (in first-run or reruns), scheduled to be broadcast, or formerly broadcast on Discovery Kids, a Latin American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel was launched on November 1, 1996, and airs a mix of animated and live-action programming. [1]
As a gemstone used in jewelry, silicon carbide is called "synthetic moissanite" or just "moissanite" after the mineral name. Moissanite is similar to diamond in several important respects: it is transparent and hard (9–9.5 on the Mohs scale, compared to 10 for diamond), with a refractive index between 2.65 and 2.69 (compared to 2.42 for diamond).
Ready Set Learn! is an American television block broadcast from late 1992 until 2010 across the TLC and Discovery Kids networks, both owned by Discovery Communications.A cable competitor to PBS' children's offerings, it comprised three hours of original, imported, and rerun programming plus music videos geared towards preschoolers, broadcast twice on weekday mornings.
In 1947, NBC's first major children's program was Howdy Doody, one of the era's first breakthrough television programs. The series, which ran for 13 years until it ended in 1960, featured a myriad of characters led by a freckle-faced marionette voiced by the show's host, "Buffalo" Bob Smith. Howdy Doody spent the first nine years of its run ...
Programs from other Discovery Networks channels, PBS and the BBC are either regularly or occasionally aired on the network. Television series produced in the 1990s, such as Discover Magazine and Understanding, are carried on the network's weekday schedule. Science also broadcasts programs such as Moments of Impact and An Idiot Abroad.
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The SMART Center evolved quickly into the Discovery Center of Science and Technology and began offering public science experiences. When the Discovery Center separated from Lehigh University in 1999, it was a small, grass-roots organization that served school field trips for grades K-8 primarily and had limited exhibit and program engagement.