All History articles – Page 51

  • Periodic table of the elements – 74 – Tungsten
    Podcast

    Tungsten

    2008-06-04T00:00:00Z

    How the Swedish name for 'heavy stone' informed an element's future

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-05-28T11:29:02Z

    20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-180
    Opinion

    Drechsel's bottle

    2008-05-28T09:08:00Z

    Western travellers to the East fuelled a fashion for Orientalism which reached its height in the 19th century

  • Periodic table of the elements – 92 – Uranium
    Podcast

    Uranium

    2008-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Infamous for its role in nuclear energy, this element is also responsible for geothermal heat and beautiful green glass

  • Periodic table of the elements – 23 – Vanadium
    Podcast

    Vanadium

    2008-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Any colour you like, as long as it's black. Or red, blue, green, yellow...

  • Periodic table of the elements – 54 – Xenon
    Podcast

    Xenon

    2008-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Bright lights and a bright future for an element discovered at the end of the nineteenth century

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-04-28T12:55:32Z

    30 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-300
    Opinion

    Kjeldahl flask

    2008-04-28T11:01:00Z

    Beer has made an immense contribution to humanity generally and to chemists in particular

  • Periodic table of the elements – 70 – Ytterbium
    Podcast

    Ytterbium

    2008-04-23T00:00:00Z

     The lanthanide that can counter the counterfeiters

  • Periodic table of the elements – 39 – Yttrium
    Podcast

    Yttrium

    2008-04-16T00:00:00Z

    In lasers, televisions and superconductors, yttrium is a wide ranging supporting character

  • Periodic table of the elements – 30 – Zinc
    Podcast

    Zinc

    2008-04-09T00:00:00Z

    We're still very intimate with this element that was known to the ancients

  • Periodic table of the elements – 40 – Zirconium
    Podcast

    Zirconium

    2008-04-02T00:00:00Z

    It holds the key to nuclear energy, and it's got a gem-like name

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-03-26T14:20:50Z

    40 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    Vigreux's column

    2008-03-26T13:06:00Z

    Does anyone blow glass in chemistry labs any more?

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-02-27T08:52:26Z

    40 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-Mohr-250
    Opinion

    Mohr's burette

    2008-02-26T15:31:00Z

    Titrations are the symbol of all that is boring in science

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-01-28T14:10:35Z

    30 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-150
    Opinion

    Sprengel pump

    2008-01-28T13:59:00Z

    It has long been said that nature abhors a vacuum

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2007-12-20T14:38:27Z

    40 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Schlenk apparatus

    2007-12-20T14:20:00Z

    Wilhelm Johann Schlenk, the German chemist who prepared some of the first organosodium and organolithium compounds, and developed the inert-atmosphere techniques now common in many labs