Nobel Prizes – The Episodic Table of Elements

27. Cobalt: Mischief Managed

December 17, 2018

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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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17. Chlorine: Too High Or Too Low, There Ain’t No In-Betweens

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July 23, 2018

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Cholera, Dante Alighieri, DDT, Dorothy Colson, DuPont, Environmentalism, Fritz Haber, John Leal, Malaria, Mosquitoes, Nobel Prizes, Paracelsus, Paul Muller, Poisons, Public Health, Purgatory, Rachel Carson, Satan, Typhoid, Women In Science

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Chlorine is an element that causes some extreme reactions, and occasionally inspires some pretty extreme reactions in humans, too.

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16. Sulfur: No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents

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July 9, 2018

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Adolf Hitler, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Goodyear, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gerhard Domagk, Nazis, Nobel Prizes, Odor, Pharmaceuticals, Rubber, Satan, Thioacetone, Vulcanization, Vultures, Winston Churchill, World War II

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From Vulcan to vultures, today’s element brings stories of unintended consequences.

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9. Fluorine: Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright

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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 it’s good for your health.

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