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The Elements

A hitchhiker's guide to the elements. John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the Periodic Table. 

The Elements

The Elements

platinum ring

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the Periodic Table. In this issue: not just another form of silver, it's pure platinum



Argon symbol from Visual elements Periodic Table

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the periodic table. In this issue: It's lazy, it's hard working, it's colourless, it's colourful - it's argon



jewel

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the periodic table. In this issue: Wear it sparkling on your finger, zirconium is also key to nuclear energy



Fire extinguisher

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the periodic table. In this issue: Once so essential, now mired in controversy is bromine



Magnesium symbol from the Visual Elements Periodic Table

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the periodic table. In this issue: Once the destroyer of cities, magnesium is now an energy saver



smoke detector

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the periodic table. In this issue: Americium emits deadly radiation - but every home should have some



Gold bars

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the periodic table. In this issue: gold - colourful in the colours it exhibits, and in its chemistry and uses



Xenon on Periodic Table

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the Periodic Table. In this issue: a knock-out element, xenon changed chemical theory of the noble gases



Visual Elements symbol for titanium

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the Periodic Table. In this issue: forget iron and aluminium, titanium is the metal of the future



Flat-screen tv

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the Periodic Table. In this issue: long neglected, indium is essential for solar cells and flat-screen TVs



Tap water

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the Periodic Table. In this issue: Can this most vicious of elements, Fluorine, be tamed?



Euro notes

The Elements

John Emsley, University of Cambridge, takes you on a tour of the Periodic Table. In this issue: seeing red? that will be europium


Features

Antimony on the Periodic Table

Antimony revisited

The intriguing chemistry of antimony, one of the earliest elements to be discovered



Mendeleev

Mendeleev - the man and his legacy...

A look at the life and work of Russia's most famous chemist, who died 100 years ago



The Periodic Tables of Mendeleev

How Mendeleev corrected the atomic weights of In, Ce and U, and thus constructed the remarkable Periodic Table of 1871


Also of interest

Visual Elements

An eye-catching interpretation of the table of elements - the most stunning periodic table on the web

Chemistry in its element

Introducing Chemistry in its element: a tour of the periodic table. A leading scientist or author tells the stories behind the elements in each weekly five minute podcast