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Sometimes we need a quiet moment in order to step back and look at the bigger picture.
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52. Tellurium: To Hell You Ride
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Collecting elements can be risky business. Tellurium is one of those elements that poses a dire threat — not to one’s health, but to the element collector’s reputation in polite society.
43. Technetium: Naturally Synthetic
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It’s only after we gave up searching for this element that we found it out in the universe.
36. Krypton: It’s A Metric
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Like argon, today’s noble gas coincidentally features prominently in science fiction — albeit in name only. But krypton also takes a place in the science factual story of international weights and measures.