Benjamin Franklin – The Episodic Table of Elements

55. Caesium: A Brief History Of Time

February 24, 2020

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Atomic Structure, Benjamin Franklin, Brazil, Chernobyl, Etymology, GPS, Industrial Revolution, Nuclear Accidents, Periodic Table, Radioactivity, Railroads, Roman Catholic Church, Soviet Union, Submarines, Time

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We’ll trace the history of the most important caesium-based technology all the way back to its original roots: a stick.

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30. Zinc: The Lecture Circuit

January 28, 2019

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Alessandro Volta, American Civil War, Andrew Ure, Benjamin Franklin, Biology, Electricity, Electrolysis, Frankenstein, George Forster, Giovanni Aldini, India, Italy, Karl Weinhold, Literature, Lucia Galvani, Luigi Galvani, Mary Shelley, Pharmaceuticals, Primo Levi, Sculpture, Women In Science

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Learn about some of Italy’s most renowned chemists and how they inspired a most gruesome quest to conquer death.

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8. Oxygen: Take What You Can Get

March 5, 2018

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Allotropes, Antoine Lavoisier, Atomic Bonding, Atomic Structure, Benjamin Franklin, Biology, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Classical Elements, Electrolysis, France, French Revolution, Isotopes, Jean-Paul Marat, Joseph Priestley, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Marie Curie, Nobel Prizes, Oxidation, Prehistory, Women In Science

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Element 8 brings us two different stories about a population that gets a little too swept up in the latest craze, happening to commit mass murder in the process.

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