Electricity – The Episodic Table of Elements

The Episodic Table Of Elements Holiday Special

December 20, 2023

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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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56. Barium: Glow-Getter

March 9, 2020

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Alchemy, Computers, Electricity, Electronics, Humphry Davy, John Fleming, Lee de Forest, Medicine, Nuclear Weapons, Thomas Edison

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When you really want to suck all the air out of a room, barium will help you out.

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40. Zirconium: Burning Up, Melting Down

July 1, 2019

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Earthquakes, Electricity, Fukushima, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Mineralogy, Mythology, Nuclear Accidents, Nuclear Power, Radioactivity, Tsunamis

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Today, we reach the last element on the periodic table — but only alphabetically speaking.

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39. Yttrium: It’s A Quiet Village

June 17, 2019

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Carl Axel Arrhenius, Carl Mosander, Electricity, Etymology, Friedrich Wohler, Japan, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Johan Gadolin, Lasers, Michael Collins, Mining, Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Space Exploration, Superconductors, Sweden, Television, Ultracold Experiments, Ytterby

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Welcome to the sleepy Swedish town of Ytterby. I hope you like it, because we’ll be spending an awful lot of time there later in the series.

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