The Episodic Table of Elements – A podcast about the fascinating true stories behind each element on the periodic table.

95. Americium: Mundus Novus

September 27, 2025

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Many episodes have incorporated geology, but this one is more about geography. (And amateur nuclear science.)

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94. Plutonium: Weapons-Grade

March 3, 2025

6:00 am

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Astronomy, Glenn T. Seaborg, Harry Daghlian, Harry Truman, Japan, Jons Jacob Berzelius, Los Alamos, Louis Slotin, Mythology, Nuclear Accidents, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons, Radioactivity, Russia, The Demon Core, The Manhattan Project, United States, World War II

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Element 94 causes a bit of a crisis for our collections.

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drawing of the landscape of thorns

93. Neptunium: Great Expectations

August 22, 2024

6:00 am

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Astronomy, Benito Mussolini, Berkeley Edwin McMillan, Bruno Pontecorvo, Clemens Winkler, Coal Power, Deep Time, Dmitri Mendeleev, Edoardo Amaldi, Emilio Segre, Energy, Enrico Fermi, Ettore Majorana, Etymology, Fascism, Finland, Fission, Franco Rasetti, Fritz Strassman, Germany, Hans Rudolph Hermann, Ida Tacke, Indigenous Americans, Isotopes, Italy, Japan, Lise Meitner, Nazis, Nevada, Nobel Prizes, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons, Orso Mario Corbino, Otto Frisch, Otto Hahn, Philip H. Abelson, Radioactivity, Sweden, Synthetic Elements, Tennessee, Tsunamis, United States, Walter Noddack, Women In Science, World War II

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To the person who said, “the episodes are never too long,” I’m terribly sorry.

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The Episodic Table Of Elements Holiday Special

December 20, 2023

6:00 am

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Art & Science, Bubble Lights, Charles Dickens, Christmas, Education, Electricity, England, Henry Dircks, Holidays, Humphry Davy, Illumination, John Millington, John Pepper, Literature, Magnetism, Medicine, Michael Faraday, Mike Wooldridge, Oxidation, Pepper's Ghost, Poisons, Popular Science, The Royal Institution, The Royal Polytechnic Institution

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♪ O chemistry, o chemistry, the study of all matter ♫

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