Sports | The Episodic Table of Elements

54. Xenon: Ignoble Gas

February 10, 2020

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Art & Science, Atomic Structure, IBM, Ions, Movie Science, Neil Bartlett, Oxidation, Photography, Poetry, Russia, Sports, Surgery, Ultracold Experiments, William Ramsay

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Truly strange things start to happen when you breathe this rarefied air.

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22. Titanium: Dignity Over Dentures

October 8, 2018

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Bone, Dentistry, Etymology, Frank Gehry, Guggenheim, Jewelry, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Medicine, Mythology, Nuclear Weapons, Per-Ingvar Branemark, Psychology, Spain, Sports

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Titanium is an element valued as much for its beauty as its strength — provided you can find a genuine sample of the stuff.

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21. Scandium: Spoiling For A Fight

September 24, 2018

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Agriculture, Alloys, Atomic Bonding, Australia, Cricket, Dmitri Mendeleev, Etymology, Illumination, Nuclear Weapons, Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Russia, Sports, Strategic Defense Initiative, Sweden, The Cold War, Transition Metals, United States

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From jet fighters to sporting events to Low Earth Orbit, scandium seems to find itself at the center of conflict.

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