Ultracold Experiments – 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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39. Yttrium: It’s A Quiet Village

June 17, 2019

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Carl Axel Arrhenius, Carl Mosander, Electricity, Etymology, Friedrich Wohler, Japan, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Johan Gadolin, Lasers, Michael Collins, Mining, Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Space Exploration, Superconductors, Sweden, Television, Ultracold Experiments, Ytterby

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Welcome to the sleepy Swedish town of Ytterby. I hope you like it, because we’ll be spending an awful lot of time there later in the series.

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

May 20, 2019

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

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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.

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