Life-saving explosions - Airbags

Chemistry in Everyday Life by Johannes Vogel

May 23, 202100:21:38Science & Medicine

In this episode I confront the horrible memory of my one and only bad car crash. I only remember fragments, but the airbag was a big part of the memory. If you want to know how explosions save lives everyday on the road,...

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