Dmitri Mendeleev – The Episodic Table of Elements

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93. Neptunium: Great Expectations

August 22, 2024

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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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91. Protactinium: Decolonize Science

October 19, 2022

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Agriculture, Alchemy, Dmitri Mendeleev, Eugenics, George Washington Carver, Imperialism, Kasimir Fajans, Lise Meitner, Multiple Discovery, Otto Gohring, Otto Hahn, Ronald Ross

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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

December 30, 2019

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Astronomy, Atomic Structure, Australia, Dmitri Mendeleev, Etymology, Linus Pauling, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Mehmed II, Mineralogy, Mining, Odor, Romania, Science Fiction, United States, Vlad the Impaler

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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.

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43. Technetium: Naturally Synthetic

August 12, 2019

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Carlo Perrier, Dmitri Mendeleev, Emilio Segre, Ernest Lawrence, Etymology, Fission, Gabon, Germany, Ida Tacke, Italy, Medicine, Nuclear Power, Oklo, Otto Berg, Particle Accelerators, Synthetic Elements, Walter Noddack

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It’s only after we gave up searching for this element that we found it out in the universe.

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