Chemistry in its element podcast – Elements – Page 5

  • Periodic table of the elements – 19 – Potassium
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    Potassium

    2008-12-31T00:00:00Z

    Peter Wothers on how potassium got its name

  • Periodic table of the elements – 59 – Praseodymium
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    Praseodymium

    2008-12-24T00:00:00Z

    The 'green twin' from didymium safety glasses

  • Periodic table of the elements – Promethium
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    Promethium

    2008-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Enter the world of Greek mythology to reveal the great powers of the element promethium

  • Periodic table of the elements – 91 – Protactinium
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    Protactinium

    2008-12-10T00:00:00Z

     Eric Scerri on the mysteries of protactinium

  • Periodic table of the elements – 88 – Radium
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    Radium

    2008-12-03T00:00:00Z

    The self illuminating story of element number 88

  • Periodic table of the elements – 86 – Radon
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    Radon

    2008-11-26T00:00:00Z

     Katherine Holt on the element that accounts for half of the UK population's annual radiation dose

  • Periodic table of the elements – 75 – Rhenium
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    Rhenium

    2008-11-19T00:00:00Z

    One of the rarest naturally occuring elements – and full of surprises – Eric Scerri introduces rhenium

  • Periodic table of the elements – 45 – Rhodium
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    Rhodium

    2008-11-12T00:00:00Z

    An element whose rarity and reluctance to react make it oh so special

  • Periodic table of the elements – 111 – Roentgenium
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    Roentgenium

    2008-11-05T00:00:00Z

    An element that needs just the right conditions in order to get a successful collision

  • Periodic table of the elements – 37 – Rubidium
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    Rubidium

    2008-10-29T00:00:00Z

     A radioactive element that's good at keeping time

  • Periodic table of the elements – 44 – Ruthenium
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    Ruthenium

    2008-10-22T00:00:00Z

    An element for 'connoisseurs'

  • Periodic table of the elements – 104 – Rutherfordium
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    Rutherfordium

    2008-10-15T00:00:00Z

    An element born from the intense scientific competition between Russia and America

  • Periodic table of the elements – 62 – Samarium
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    Samarium

    2008-10-08T00:00:00Z

    A rare, lustrous element whose isotopes have unfathomably long half-lives

  • Periodic table of the elements – 21 – Scandium
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    Scandium

    2008-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The element that proved the predictive power of Mendeleev's periodic table

  • Periodic table of the elements – 106 – Seaborgium
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    Seaborgium

    2008-09-24T00:00:00Z

    One of just a handful of elements named after a living person

  • Periodic table of the elements – 34 – Selenium
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    Selenium

    2008-09-17T00:00:00Z

    A versatile if pungent element that keeps horses healthy and skunks stinky

  • Periodic table of the elements – 14 – Silicon
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    Silicon

    2008-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Andrea Sella introduces the second most abundant element in Earth's crust

  • Periodic table of the elements – 47 – Silver
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    Silver

    2008-09-03T00:00:00Z

    The sought after element that gave us the photograph

  • Periodic table of the elements – 11 – Sodium
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    Sodium

    2008-08-27T00:00:00Z

    An essential element with a split personality

  • Periodic table of the elements – 38 – Strontium
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    Strontium

    2008-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Vegetarian gladiators, red fireworks and a mineral mistaken for barium; they are all under strontium's spotlight