All History articles – Page 47

  • Periodic table of the elements – 67 – Holmium
    Podcast

    Holmium

    2009-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Hayley Birch's mythical monopoles

  • 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

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    Opinion

    Thiele tube

    2009-07-28T14:07:00Z

    Johannes Thiele - the Prussian inventor of a temperature-stable convection heating tube for melting point analysis

  • 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

  • CLASSIC-KIT-310
    Opinion

    Mary's bath

    2009-06-29T10:22:00Z

    Approximately 2nd century AD. One of the earliest alchemists, inventor of the 'bain marie', the kerotakis apparatus and the tribikos still

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2009-06-26T15:26:07Z

    30 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • 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

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2009-05-29T17:57:14Z

    30 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • 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