'Metal Structures' Excerpt

A silent excerpt from 'Metal Structures' showing the demonstration of close packing of atoms within structures through the filling up of a 3-dimensional pyramid shape with ball-bearings to form a dense arrangement of congruent spheres in regular arrangement (or lattice shaped). For this film, and several others in our collection, we have tried to contact any known copyright holders and believe it to be an orphan work. If you are the rights holder, would like it to be taken down, or have any more information, please get in touch at [email protected]. Subscribe to our other YouTube channel for weekly science talks and explosive short films: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalInstitution We're on twitter: https://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/