All elements articles – Page 5

  • Periodic table of the elements – 1 – Hydrogen
    Podcast

    Hydrogen

    2009-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Brian Clegg meets the King of the Elements

  • Periodic table of the elements – 49 – Indium
    Podcast

    Indium

    2009-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Claire Carmalt on the lustrous material that gave indigo its name

  • Periodic table of the elements – 53 – Iodine
    Podcast

    Iodine

    2009-07-22T00:00:00Z

    Andrea Sella's Italian odyssey to Iodine 

  • Periodic table of the elements – 77 – Iridium
    Podcast

    Iridium

    2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Meet the sexiest superhero element in town

  • Periodic table of the elements – 26 – Iron
    Podcast

    Iron

    2009-07-08T00:00:00Z

    Kary Mulllis discovers what makes metabolism possible

  • Periodic table of the elements – 36 – Krypton
    Podcast

    Krypton

    2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Angelos Michaelides meets the element that inspired Superman

  • Periodic table of the elements – 57 – Lanthanum
    Podcast

    Lanthanum

    2009-06-24T00:00:00Z

    The element with film star status

  • Periodic table of the elements – 103 – Lawrencium
    Podcast

    Lawrencium

    2009-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Eric Scerri puts an element back in its place

  • Periodic table of the elements – 82 – Lead
    Podcast

    Lead

    2009-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Phil Ball explores the multifaceted ways of lead (also known as plumbum)

  • Periodic table of the elements – 3 – Lithium
    Podcast

    Lithium

    2009-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Matt Wilkinson and the calming properties of lithium

  • Periodic table of the elements – 71 – Lutetium
    Podcast

    Lutetium

    2009-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton with a personal account of why lutetium matters

  • Periodic table of the elements – 12 – Magnesium
    Podcast

    Magnesium

    2009-05-20T00:00:00Z

    It was once the destroyer of cities – now it's a saver of energy

  • Periodic table of the elements – 25 – Manganese
    Podcast

    Manganese

    2009-05-13T00:00:00Z

    The element that makes photosynthesis happen, with Ron Caspi

  • Periodic table of the elements – 109 – Meitnerium
    Podcast

    Meitnerium

    2009-05-06T00:00:00Z

    Nik Kaltsoyannis enlightens us on how an element was born out of difficult beginnings

  • Periodic table of the elements – 101 – Mendelevium
    Podcast

    Mendelevium

    2009-04-29T00:00:00Z

    A different kind of element, as explained by Hayley Birch

  • Periodic table of the elements – 80 – Mercury
    Podcast

    Mercury

    2009-04-22T00:00:00Z

    Fred Campbell discusses liquid silver and the element the Romans loved

  • Periodic table of the elements – 42 – Molybdenum
    Podcast

    Molybdenum

    2009-04-15T00:00:00Z

    A case of (elemental) mistaken identity, with Quentin Cooper

  • Periodic table of the elements – 60 – Neodymium
    Podcast

    Neodymium

    2009-04-08T00:00:00Z

    One of a pair of elementary twins that now turns up in toys, lasers and powerful magnets

  • Periodic table of the elements – 10 – Neon
    Podcast

    Neon

    2009-04-01T00:00:00Z

    The key to why things glow, with Victoria Gill

  • Periodic table of the elements – 93 – Neptunium
    Podcast

    Neptunium

    2009-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Brian Clegg examines an element that keeps on being renamed