Mining – The Episodic Table of Elements

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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38. Strontium: Little Town

June 3, 2019

6:00 am

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Atomic Structure, Mining, Nuclear Weapons, Pharmaceuticals, Radioactivity, Russia, Television, Women In Science

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Let’s look past the bad reputation this element has to learn how it’s an essential part of an idyllic childhood.

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29. Copper: Wires Crossed

January 14, 2019

6:00 am

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Communications, Douglass Houghton, Electricity, Erie Canal, Geography, Geology, Imperialism, Medicine, Michigan, Mining, Numismatics, Ohio, Painting, Samuel Morse, Stevens T. Mason, Sweden, Toledo

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We get lost in the woods with a couple of little guys in today’s episode, and learn about a lesser-known American Civil War.

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27. Cobalt: Mischief Managed

December 17, 2018

6:00 am

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Albert Einstein, Chien-Shiung Wu, Fallout, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Georg Brandt, Leo Szilard, Magnetism, Medicine, Mining, Mythology, Nobel Prizes, Nuclear Weapons, Parity, Radioactivity, Symmetry, Wolfgang Pauli, Women In Science, World War II

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Cobalt is a tricksy little element, which means the scientists who’ve dealt with it the most are some of the cleverest people to have ever walked the Earth.

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