Electrolysis – The Episodic Table of Elements

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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12. Magnesium: White Light/White Heat

April 30, 2018

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Acids & Bases, Automobiles, Electrolysis, England, France, Humphry Davy, Illumination, Oxidation, Photography, Salts

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Magnesium makes for quite a fireworks display, whether inside your body or out.

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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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1. Hydrogen: Close To The Sun

January 8, 2018

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Adolf Hitler, American Civil War, Antoine Lavoisier, Astronomy, Atomic Structure, Classical Elements, Edwin Hubble, Electrolysis, Etymology, Germany, Joseph Goebbels, Mythology, NASA, Nazis, Periodic Table, Space Exploration, Theodore Gray, United States, World War II

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As we investigate our first element, we’ll meet warring balloonists, witness mass media’s first major tragedy, and see how the tiniest mistake can cost a lot of money. Plus, we’ll try to pin down where hydrogen belongs on the periodic table.

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