All History articles – Page 47

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Ostwald's viscometer

    2009-05-29T16:47:00Z

    One man who took little on trust was Wilhelm Ostwald. Born in Riga, Latvia, he studied chemistry at the University of Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia).

  • 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

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2009-04-28T14:32:45Z

    10 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-180
    Opinion

    Gaede's diffusion pump

    2009-04-28T09:50:00Z

    A new generation of faster, stronger and more reliable vacuum pumps

  • 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

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2009-03-31T10:33:51Z

    25 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-250
    Opinion

    Carius tube

    2009-03-30T10:51:00Z

    The Carius tube - still the workhorse of digestion reactions

  • Periodic table of the elements – 93 – Neptunium
    Podcast

    Neptunium

    2009-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Brian Clegg examines an element that keeps on being renamed

  • Periodic table of the elements – 28 – Nickel
    Podcast

    Nickel

    2009-03-18T00:00:00Z

    How Kupfernickel inspired Nickel, with Andrea Sella

  • Periodic table of the elements – 41 – Niobium
    Podcast

    Niobium

    2009-03-11T00:00:00Z

    How Greek mythology informed an element, as presented by Jon Steed

  • Periodic table of the elements – 7 – Nitrogen
    Podcast

    Nitrogen

    2009-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Peter Wothers enlightens us on the many attributes of nitrogen (including blowing things up)

  • Periodic table of the elements – 102 – Nobelium
    Podcast

    Nobelium

    2009-02-25T00:00:00Z

    The element with more names than most

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2009-02-23T13:36:51Z

    40 years ago in Chemistry in Britain