All History articles – Page 50

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Abbes refractometer

    2008-10-29T09:25:00Z

    The other day I found myself in the supermarket staring at a frozen cliff of buttery spreads

  • Periodic table of the elements – 37 – Rubidium
    Podcast

    Rubidium

    2008-10-29T00:00:00Z

     A radioactive element that's good at keeping time

  • Periodic table of the elements – 44 – Ruthenium
    Podcast

    Ruthenium

    2008-10-22T00:00:00Z

    An element for 'connoisseurs'

  • Periodic table of the elements – 104 – Rutherfordium
    Podcast

    Rutherfordium

    2008-10-15T00:00:00Z

    An element born from the intense scientific competition between Russia and America

  • Periodic table of the elements – 62 – Samarium
    Podcast

    Samarium

    2008-10-08T00:00:00Z

    A rare, lustrous element whose isotopes have unfathomably long half-lives

  • Periodic table of the elements – 21 – Scandium
    Podcast

    Scandium

    2008-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The element that proved the predictive power of Mendeleev's periodic table

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-09-26T13:07:05Z

    40 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Claisen's flask

    2008-09-26T12:58:00Z

    In the name of effective multi-tasking, modern technology tries to combine as many functions into one small gadget as possible

  • Periodic table of the elements – 106 – Seaborgium
    Podcast

    Seaborgium

    2008-09-24T00:00:00Z

    One of just a handful of elements named after a living person

  • Periodic table of the elements – 34 – Selenium
    Podcast

    Selenium

    2008-09-17T00:00:00Z

    A versatile if pungent element that keeps horses healthy and skunks stinky

  • Periodic table of the elements – 14 – Silicon
    Podcast

    Silicon

    2008-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Andrea Sella introduces the second most abundant element in Earth's crust

  • Periodic table of the elements – 47 – Silver
    Podcast

    Silver

    2008-09-03T00:00:00Z

    The sought after element that gave us the photograph

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-08-27T11:29:11Z

    20 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • CLASSIC-KIT-300
    Opinion

    Raschig's rings

    2008-08-27T11:15:00Z

    Few who have listened to the music of Richard Wagner can remain indifferent to it.

  • Periodic table of the elements – 11 – Sodium
    Podcast

    Sodium

    2008-08-27T00:00:00Z

    An essential element with a split personality

  • Periodic table of the elements – 38 – Strontium
    Podcast

    Strontium

    2008-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Vegetarian gladiators, red fireworks and a mineral mistaken for barium; they are all under strontium's spotlight

  • Periodic table of the elements – 16 – Sulfur
    Podcast

    Sulfur

    2008-08-13T00:00:00Z

     An element with a hellish reputation

  • Periodic table of the elements – 73 – Tantalum
    Podcast

    Tantalum

    2008-08-06T00:00:00Z

    The element that makes modern electronics so easy to lose

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2008-07-31T08:55:07Z

    30 years ago in Chemistry in Britain

  • Opinion

    Dewar's flask

    2008-07-30T08:05:00Z

    A thing of rare beauty which every chemist should have on their mantelpiece