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2010-03-03T00:00:00Z
Steve Mylon with a painful lesson about a heavy metal
2010-02-24T00:00:00Z
Peter Wothers shares the story of his favourite element: caesium
2010-02-17T00:00:00Z
The element that gives us cement, plaster of Paris, hard teeth and hard water
2010-02-10T00:00:00Z
Brian Clegg tells the story of element 98: californium
2010-02-03T00:00:00Z
Katherine Holt introduces an element with an entire branch of chemistry devoted to its reactions
2010-01-27T00:00:00Z
Andrea Sella tells the story of an element that sparks up lighters, vanishes burns, and helps to clean up the fumes from cars and trucks
2010-01-20T00:00:00Z
Tim Harrison brings us the story of a 'Jekyll and Hyde' element
2010-01-13T00:00:00Z
The colourful history of chromium
2010-01-06T00:00:00Z
An element named after the German word for goblin or trouble maker
2009-12-30T00:00:00Z
Steve Mylon tells the story of the element that has carried us from the Stone Age to the Information Age
2009-12-23T00:00:00Z
Richard Corfield tells the story of a hard, brittle, radioactive metal that can only be produced in nuclear reactors
2009-12-16T00:00:00Z
Brian Clegg explains the fast paced chemistry of darmstadium
2009-12-09T00:00:00Z
The Cold War fight to find new elements
2009-12-02T00:00:00Z
Simon Cotton explains the widely applied chemistry of dysprosium
2009-11-25T00:00:00Z
The element named after the most famous scientist that has ever lived
2009-11-18T00:00:00Z
Sigurd Hofmann shares the story of the search for element 112: copernicium
2009-11-04T00:00:00Z
Andrea Sella tells the story of Robert Bunsen and the element erbium
2009-10-28T00:00:00Z
The element that put red into colour TV
2009-10-21T00:00:00Z
The story of element 100: fermium
2009-10-14T00:00:00Z
Kira Weissman introduces the 'tiger of chemistry'