All History articles – Page 48

  • 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

  • CLASSIC-KIT-250.
    Opinion

    Hirsch's funnel

    2009-02-23T11:44:00Z

    Separating crystals is a cinch using a Hirsch funnel, but it was not always thus

  • Periodic table of the elements – 76 – Osmium
    Podcast

    Osmium

    2009-02-18T00:00:00Z

    The element that's also a smellement, as told by Quentin Cooper

  • Periodic table of the elements – 8 – Oxygen
    Podcast

    Oxygen

    2009-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Mark Peplow gives the oxygen of publicity to, well, oxygen.

  • Periodic table of the elements – 46 – Palladium
    Podcast

    Palladium

    2009-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Simon Cotton explores the secret weapon to purifying hydrogen

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2009-01-28T10:47:39Z

    20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    Abderhalden's drying pistol

    2009-01-28T08:58:00Z

    Humans have been preoccupied with purity for thousands of years

  • Periodic table of the elements – 15 – Phosphorus
    Podcast

    Phosphorus

    2009-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Nina Notman enlightens us on an element with many uses

  • Periodic table of the elements – 78 – Platinum
    Podcast

    Platinum

    2009-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The story of 'unripe gold', with Katherine Hoxton

  • Periodic table of the elements – 94 – Plutonium
    Podcast

    Plutonium

    2009-01-14T00:00:00Z

    The secret at the heart of the stars – Plutonium with Ian Farnan

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2009-01-08T12:42:47Z

    20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain