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Chemistry World

 

Chemistry in its element

Chemistry World takes a whirlwind tour of the periodic table: each week a leading scientist or author tells the story behind a different element.



Select the elements with headphones to hear their podcasts - this week's element is ytterbium

 
 
Symbol for Sodium Symbol for Silicon Symbol for Chlorine
Symbol for Scandium Symbol for Titanium Symbol for Chromium Symbol for Nickel
Symbol for Yttrium Symbol for Niobium Symbol for Molybdenum Symbol for Rhodium Symbol for Xenon
Symbol for Caesium
Symbol for Actinium Symbol for Rutherfordium Symbol for Dubnium Symbol for Bohrium Symbol for Hassium Symbol for Meitnerium Symbol for Darmstadtium Symbol for Roentgenium   Symbol for Ununquadium   Symbol for Ununhexium   Symbol for Ununoctium
 
Symbol for Promethium Symbol for Samarium Symbol for Gadolinium Symbol for Dysprosium Symbol for Holmium Symbol for Thulium Symbol for Lutetium
Symbol for Thorium Symbol for Neptunium Symbol for Curium Symbol for Berkelium Symbol for Einsteinium Symbol for Fermium Symbol for Mendelevium Symbol for Nobelium Symbol for Lawrencium