All History articles – Page 44

  • Periodic table of the elements – 31 – Gallium
    Podcast

    Gallium

    2009-09-23T00:00:00Z

    An element used in solar powered cars and in space probes

  • Periodic table of the elements – 32 – Germanium
    Podcast

    Germanium

    2009-09-16T00:00:00Z

    Brian Clegg with the story of an element named after the country it first came from

  • Periodic table of the elements – 79 – Gold
    Podcast

    Gold

    2009-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Join Johnny Ball as we're going for Gold

  • Periodic table of the elements – 72 – Hafnium
    Podcast

    Hafnium

    2009-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Eric Scerri on super alloys, nuclear reactors and space rockets

  • Periodic table of the elements – 108 – Hassium
    Podcast

    Hassium

    2009-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Anna Lewcock talks the 1980s, big hair and synthesising element 108

  • CLASSIC-KIT-Liebig_200
    Opinion

    Liebig's Kaliapparat

    2009-08-25T15:14:00Z

    Justus von Liebig (1803–1873) was a German chemist, co-discoverer of isomerism, father of agricultural chemistry and revolutionised chemical analysis

  • Periodic table of the elements – 2 – Helium
    Podcast

    Helium

    2009-08-19T00:00:00Z

    At the top of the table with Peter Wothers

  • 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

  • CLASSIC-KIT-Thiele-250
    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)