Periodic Table

Philly Materials Day Online: Experiments for Home
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Miners Hauling Electronics Amidst Pollution

C&EN: Rare Earths’ Magic Comes at a Cost
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Science History Institute Launches Second Podcast Series
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Tales of Love and Madness from the Periodic Table

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Ode to the Periodic Table

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How the Elements Got Their Names

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Woman at lab with instrument

A Seat at the Table

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The Dual Legacies of Henry Moseley

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Man in profile in front of wall chart

The Transfermium Wars: Scientific Brawling and Name-Calling during the Cold War

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Illustration highlighting the rare earth elements in the periodic table

Book Club: The Risks and Rewards of Rare Earth Elements

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New York Times: Is It Time to Upend the Periodic Table?
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The Oprah Magazine: 20 Best History Podcasts That’ll Make You Rethink What You Learned in School
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Magnifying glass over rare earth element

Introduction
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miners hauling electronics that are causing pollution

Rare Earths: The Hidden Cost to Their Magic

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Periodic table with cellphones depicting US and China flags

Green Tech Media: A Strategic Approach to Rare Earth Elements as Global Trade Tensions Flare
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Rare earth elements

Rare Earth Elements Project
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Periodic table showing rare earth elements

GreenBiz: Reimagining Rare Earth Elements in a Sacrifice Zone-Free Future
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Plate 7: Arrangements of elastic fluid particles

What’s In a Logo?

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Braving the Elements: Why Mendeleev Left Russian Soil for American Oil

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Coloring Chemistry

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Modern Books and Journals
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev as a young man.

Julius Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
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Stanislao Cannizzaro. Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Stanislao Cannizzaro
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John Dalton
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William Ramsay.

William Ramsay
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Amedeo Avogadro. Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Amedeo Avogadro
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An 1830 engraving of Sir Humphry Davy, by G. R. Newton, after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830).

Humphry Davy
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Making Modernity exhibit at the Science History Institute

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Blow Pipe Kit

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Medusa Nebula

Elements of Invention

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Yasser Arafat

Nuclear Option

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composite image of Mendeleev, Meyer, and their periodic systems

An Element of Order

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Detail from The Periodic Printmaking Project

The Periodic Table Printmaking Project

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A periodic table of cupcakes

The Periodic Table at Play

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Stanislao Cannizzaro at the age of 32, after a sketch by Demetrio Salazzaro. Courtesy Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Setting the Table

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Dmitri Mendeleev at the Working Desk.

Mendeleev at Home

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Mendeleev’s Legacy: The Periodic System

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