Thermodynamics – The Episodic Table of Elements

37. Rubidium: What’s Cooler Than Being Cool?

May 20, 2019

6:00 am

Leave a comment on 37. Rubidium: What’s Cooler Than Being Cool?

Bose-Einstein Condensate, Etymology, Gustav Kirchhoff, Laboratory Equipment, Lasers, Robert Bunsen, Satyendra Nath Bose, Spectroscopy, States Of Matter, Thermodynamics, Ultracold Experiments

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Rubidium is more explosive than the alkali metals above it on the table, but it’s much more interesting when it’s standing almost perfectly still.

Continue reading “37. Rubidium: What’s Cooler Than Being Cool?” →

6. Carbon: The Circle Of Life

February 12, 2018

6:00 am

5 Comments on 6. Carbon: The Circle Of Life

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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.

Continue reading “6. Carbon: The Circle Of Life” →