Gilbert Lewis – The Episodic Table of Elements

9. Fluorine: Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright

March 19, 2018

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Andre-Marie Ampere, Astronomy, Atomic Structure, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Dmitri Mendeleev, Edmund Fremy, Etymology, Fritz Haber, George Gore, Georgius Agricola, Gilbert Lewis, Henri Moissan, Humphry Davy, Ions, Isaac Newton, Jerome Nickles, Knox Brothers, Mineralogy, Multiple Discovery, NASA, Nobel Prizes, Oxidation, Paulin Louyet, Pharmaceuticals, Pliny the Elder, Poisons, Pollution, Radioactivity

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Just try to tally the body count behind the periodic table’s most reactive element, and learn why you should drink it.

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7. Nitrogen: Taking The Good With The Bad

February 19, 2018

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Adolf Hitler, Agriculture, Alfred Nobel, Belgium, Biology, Clara Immerwahr, Ernest Rutherford, Etymology, Fritz Haber, Germany, Gilbert Lewis, Guano, Pharmaceuticals, Poetry, Poisons, Robert Bunsen, Women In Science, World War I, World War II

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Today we meet one man who’s responsible for the death of millions — and the survival of billions.

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6. Carbon: The Circle Of Life

February 12, 2018

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Allotropes, Anthropology, Archaeology, Atomic Bonding, Atomic Structure, Biology, Carbon Dating, Energy, England, Gilbert Lewis, Harold Urey, Industrial Revolution, Irving Langmuir, Isotopes, Mineralogy, Nobel Prizes, Pollution, Prehistory, Radioactivity, Stanley Miller, Thermodynamics

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Learn why carbon is the foundation of all life on Earth as we investigate a chemist’s suicide, death by air pollution, and one very, very cold murder case.

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