Paracelsus – The Episodic Table of Elements

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

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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3. Lithium: The Element of Surprise

January 22, 2018

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Atomic Structure, Australia, Bolivia, Energy, Ernest Rutherford, Fission, Guano, Imperialism, Mining, Nobel Prizes, Paracelsus, Particle Accelerators, Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatry, Salts, Singapore, Spain, World War I, World War II

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We cautiously approach this explosively reactive element and learn about its surprising ability to stabilize moods, with a brief foray into Bolivian economics along the way.

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