Prehistory – The Episodic Table of Elements

25. Manganese: Undercover Operations

November 19, 2018

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Bone, Botany, CIA, Comics, Cosmetics, Henry Kissinger, Howard Hughes, Iron Man, Marine Biology, Neanderthals, Paleontology, Prehistory, Sharks, Soviet Union, Stan Lee, Star Trek, The Cold War

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From giant prehistoric sharks to clandestine Cold War projects, manganese is an element that has concealed a lot of secrets.

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14. Silicon: Tool Of All Trades

May 28, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy, Atomic Bonding, Biology, Computers, Electronics, Galileo Galilei, Glass, Isaac Newton, Italy, Marine Biology, Prehistory, Rome, Science Fiction, Television

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From prehistoric times right through today, our hand-held tools have been made of silicon.

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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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6. Carbon: The Circle Of Life

February 12, 2018

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Allotropes, Anthropology, Archaeology, Atomic Bonding, Atomic Structure, Biology, Carbon Dating, Energy, England, Gilbert Lewis, Harold Urey, Industrial Revolution, Irving Langmuir, Isotopes, Mineralogy, Nobel Prizes, Pollution, Prehistory, Radioactivity, Stanley Miller, Thermodynamics

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Learn why carbon is the foundation of all life on Earth as we investigate a chemist’s suicide, death by air pollution, and one very, very cold murder case.

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