These animations support the teaching of concepts in chemistry in freshman through graduate level courses. The chemistry courses that profit from these sorts of multimedia content include instrumental analysis, environmental chemistry, atmospheric chemistry and air quality. The gold foil experiment movie augments a completely on-line freshman chemistry course . A few of these animation are available as shockwave flash files. With the appropriate plugin these will play directly in your browser.
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All you need to do is choose the link for the movie you want and click on it. The next page that appears will automatically display the movie as a series of GIFs. Unfortunately the sounds for each movie can not be included in this format . Many of the GIF animations include some running text in the movie to try to make up for the missing narrations. These texts have mostly been removed from the QuickTime movies.