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Series 3: 6. Bridges and Playground Flooring
In today’s episode Maddie is going high and low! She takes her special 360 camera to the top of the longest suspension bridge in the UK to find out how it works. Maddie discovers a suspension bridge has really strong cables that use forces to carry all the people and traffic across the river, and she heads underground to see how the cables are buried. Next, Maddie heads to a playground flooring factory to see how different materials are mixed together, creating a chemical reaction, and melted into a gloopy mixture to make a dolphin shape at a playground.
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