Periodic Tales (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• William Ramsay: Add a description of this character.
• Humphry Davy
• Seaborg
• Lavoisier
• Priestley
• Marie Curie
• Besant
• Armbruster
• Leadbeater
• Berzelius
• Tennant
• Gehry
• Auer
• Pierre
• Wren
• Haber
• Kiefer
• Lockyer
• Scheele
• Jim
• Bassanio
• Napoleon
• David
• John
• Dmitrii Mendeleev
• Michelangelo
• Bohr
• Hisinger
• Cocteau
• Lecoq
• Wright
• Lancaster
• Courtois
• Hamilton
• Lutz
• El Dorado
• Christie
• Janssen
• Wagner
• Schinkel
• Brandt
• Stromeyer

Quotes edit see section history

• “I don't even have a piece of the highly collectible radioactive Fiesta chinaware made in the United States from the 1930s, whose papaya orange colour arises from uranium oxide used in its glaze. Pg. 78”

  Hugh Aldersey-Williams

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• Civilization, it is immediately apparent, is simply organized resistance to oxidation.

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• The deep red of rubies and limpid green of emeralds is only the half of it: the chromium in both stones also fluoresces with red light, so that the stones appear to flicker with inner fire.

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• Combustion is a rapid form of oxidation, the chemical combination of a substance with oxygen, while what goes on in the stomach is the opposite process, known as reduction, which is accomplished by the action of bacteria.

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• Today pewter is entirely made from tin with a little antimony, bismuth and copper.

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• atomic number (that is to say, the number of protons in the nuclei of their atoms)

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• (Krypton means ‘hidden’, argon means ‘lazy’, so as far as the gases’ chemistry goes the names are much of a muchness, but since krypton is rarer than argon it was a good call.)

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• he imagined, his fellow monks would be the better for a like dose. The experiment, however, succeeded so ill, that they all died of it; and the medicine was henceforth called antimoine; antimonk.

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• Titanium may be cut and hammered but not soldered. Joining pieces of titanium is a matter of specialist welding, which is why David has bought the laser.

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• Even the ‘smell of the sea’, it has recently been found, is owing to a sulphurous gas, this time dimethyl sulphide, released by living microbes in surface waters.

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• Peter van der Krogt, a geographer at the University of Utrecht and a cartographic historian, clearly appreciates this. His website gives the etymology and the history of the discovery of 112 elements.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Europe
• London
• Paris
• South America
• Sweden
• Britain
• Spain
• France
• United States
• Wollaston
• Stockholm
• Germany
• Uppsala
• Gadolin
• China
• Berlin
• New York
• England
• Ytterby
• Vauquelin
• Italy
• Russia
• Cornwall
• Berkeley
• Saxony
• Norwich
• Africa
• Atlantic
• Carrara
• Egypt
• Mars
• Copenhagen
• Persia
• Mexico
• Bristol
• Geevor
• Scotland
• Cambridge
• Ypres
• Almadén
• Poland
• Chabaneau

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 500

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science