Illumination – The Episodic Table of Elements

The Episodic Table Of Elements Holiday Special

December 20, 2023

6:00 am

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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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90. Thorium: Bright Lights, Big City

February 22, 2022

8:30 am

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Alsos, Alvin Weinberg, Auergesellschaft, Candoluminescence, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Illumination, India, Jons Jacob Berzelius, Leslie Groves, Mythology, Nazis, New York City, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons, Oak Ridge National Labs, Radioactivity, The Manhattan Project

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Sure, thorium could provide practically limitless clean energy, but then we couldn’t build weapons of mass destruction.

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63. Europium: The Age Of Enlightenment

June 22, 2020

6:00 am

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Color, Frank Harold Spedding, Herbert N. McCoy, Illumination, Optics, Particle Accelerators, Radioactivity, Television

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As element collectors, may we all one day be as fortunate as Frank Harold Spedding.

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61. Promethium: What A Friend We Have In Prometheus

May 18, 2020

6:00 am

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Art & Science, Henry Moseley, Illumination, Italy, Mythology, Radioactivity

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We’ve met mythological light-bearers before, but this one possesses a decidedly nobler spirit.

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