Oxidation – Page 2 – The Episodic Table of Elements

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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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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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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