Surgery – 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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18. Argon: More Than Meets The Eye

August 6, 2018

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Declaration of Independence, Glass, Illumination, Lasers, Oxidation, Preservation, Science Fiction, Surgery, Washington DC, Weaponry

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Today’s element gets called “lazy,” but that’s actually a terrible misnomer.

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