(n refers to footnotes)
A
Abelson, Philip ref1
actinium (Ac) ref1, ref2, ref3
ActivT ref1
agate ref1
AIDS ref1
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll) ref1
aluminium (Al) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n, ref8, ref9
Alvarez, Luis ref1
American Chemical Society (ACS) ref1
Amundsen, Roald ref1
Anderson, Herbert L. ref1
Arfwedson, Johan August ref1
argon (Ar) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
argyrodite ref1
Arrhenius, Carl Axel ref1
astatine (At) ref1, ref2n, ref3
Averani, Giuseppe ref1
B
Balard, Antoine-Jérôme ref1
barium (Ba) ref1
Bartlett, Neil ref1
bastnäsite ref1
batmanium ref1
Berg, Otto ref1
beryllium (Be) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Berzelius, Jöns Jacob ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda ref1
Big Bang ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
bismuth (Bi) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bohr, Niels ref1
bohrium (Bh) ref1
Boisbaudran, Paul-Émile Lecoq de ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bologna Stone (lapis solaris) ref1
Bonaparte, Napoleon ref1, ref2
boron (B) ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4
Boyle, Robert ref1
brain-to-computer interface ref1
Brand, Hennig ref1
Brande, William Thomas ref1
Brandt, Georg ref1
Branner, John Bohuslav ref1
brevium ref1
Broek, Antonius van den ref1
Buckyball ref1
Bunsen, Robert ref1, ref2, ref3
C
californium (Cf) ref1
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) ref1
carbon (C) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n, ref7, ref8
Casciarolo, Vincenzo ref1
Cassini ref1
Cavendish, Henry ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Celsus, Cornelius ref1
cerium (Ce) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Chadwick, James ref1
Chicago Pile-1 ref1
Chicxulub crater ref1
chlorine (Cl) ref1, ref2, ref3
Chou-Chu ref1
chromium (Cr) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) ref1
cinnabar ref1
cisplatin ref1
Claude, Georges ref1
Claude Neon ref1
Cleve, Per Teodor ref1
cobalt (Co) ref1
Coca-Cola ref1
coltan ref1
columbium ref1
copernicum (Cn) ref1
copper (Cu) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Corson, Segrè and Dale ref1
Coster, Dirk ref1
Courtois, Bernard ref1
Cronstedt, Axel Fredrik ref1
cryolite ref1
Curie, Marie ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Curie, Pierre ref1, ref2, ref3
D
Darmstadtium (Ds) ref1
Davy, Sir Humphry ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Demarçay, Eugène-Anatole ref1
dephlogisticated air ref1, ref2, ref3
Deville, Henri ref1
dilithium ref1
Dirac, Paul ref1
DNA ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
‘doped’ silicon ref1
Dorn, Friedrich Ernst ref1
dubnium (Db) ref1
dynamite, invention of ref1
dysprosium (Dy) ref1, ref2, ref3
E
einsteinium (Es) ref1
Ekeberg, Anders Gustav ref1
Elhuyar, Juan and Fausto ref1, ref2
erbium (Er) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
europium (Eu) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
F
feldspar ref1
Fermi, Enrico ref1
Fermium (Fm) ref1
First World War ref1, ref2, ref3
Fleischmann, Martin ref1
flerovium (Fl) ref1
French Academy of Sciences ref1
G
gadolinium (Gd) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Gahn, Johan Gottlieb ref1
Galen ref1
gallium (Ga) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Galvani, Luigi ref1
Gandhi, Mahatma ref1
Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis ref1
Geoffroy, Claude François (Geoffroy the Younger) ref1
germanium (Ge) ref1, ref2n, ref3
Gesellschaft für
Schwerionenforschung (GSI) ref1
gold (Au) ref1
Gore, George ref1
Gough, John ref1
graphene ref1
Gregor, William ref1
Grigg, Charles Leiper ref1
H
Haber, Fritz ref1
hafnium (Hf) ref1
Hahn, Otto ref1
hahnium ref1
Hall, Charles Martin ref1
Hall–Héroult process ref1
Hamburg firestorms (1943) ref1
hassium (Hs) ref1
Hatchett, Charles ref1
Haussmann, Baron ref1
Haüy, René-Just ref1
Hawkins, John Isaac ref1
helium (He) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Héroult, Paul-Louis-Toussaint ref1
Hevesy, George de ref1
Hittite civilization ref1
Hjelm, Peter Jacob ref1
holmium (Ho) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Hope, Thomas Charles ref1
Howdy Corporation ref1
hydrogen (H) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
I
impact winter ref1
indium (In) ref1
inheritance powder ref1
Institute of Atomic Energy ref1
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research ref1
International Bureau of Weights and Measures ref1
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) ref1, ref2, ref3
iridium (Ir) ref1
iron (Fe) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
J
jadarite ref1
Janssen, Jules ref1
Join Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) ref1, ref2, ref3
Jupiter ref1
K
K–Pg boundary ref1
Kirchhoff, Gustav ref1
Klaproth, Martin Heinrich ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Klaus, Karl Karlovich ref1
Kr-85 ref1
krypton (Kr) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
kupfernickel ref1
L
Lamy, Claude-Auguste ref1
Languid Centaurs ref1
lanthanides ref1
lanthanum (La) ref1, ref2, ref3
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ref1
Lavoisier, Antoine ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Lawrence, Ernest ref1
lead (Pb) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
LHC ref1
lithium (Li) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Litvinenko, Alexander ref1
livermorium (Lv) ref1
Lockyer, Norman ref1
LZ 129 Hindenburg ref1
M
McMillan, Edwin ref1
magnesium (Mg) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Magnus, Albertus ref1
‘The Making of the Missing Chemical Elements’ (Paneth) ref1
manganese (Mn) ref1
Marggraf, Andreas ref1
Marignac, Jean Charles Galissard de ref1, ref2, ref3
Masataka Ogawa ref1
MASH ref1
meitnerium (Mt) ref1
menachanite ref1
Mendeleev, Dmitri ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
mendelevium (Md) ref1
mephitic air ref1
mercury (Hg) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Mickey Mouse effect ref1
Midgley, Thomas ref1
Millikan, Robert ref1
Moissan, Henri ref1
molybdenum (Mo) ref1, ref2, ref3
monazite ref1
Mond, Ludwig ref1
Montreal Protocol ref1
Mosander, Carl Gustav ref1, ref2, ref3
moscovium (Mc) ref1
Moseley, Henry ref1, ref2, ref3
myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) ref1
N
Napoleon III ref1
natrium ref1
natronium ref1
neilsbohrium ref1
neodymium (Nd) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
neon (Ne) ref1
Neptune ref1
neptunium (Np) ref1, ref2, ref3
nihonium (Nh) ref1
Nilson, Lars Fredrik ref1
nitrogen (N) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Nobel, Alfred ref1
nobelium (No) ref1
O
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) ref1
oganesson (Og) ref1
orpiment ref1
Ørsted, Hans Christian ref1
Osann, Gottfried ref1
osmium (Os) ref1
Osram ref1
oxy-gène ref1
oxygen (O) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
P
Pacific Coast Borax Company ref1
Paneth, F.A. ref1
Paris Exhibition (1910) ref1
Péligot, Eugène ref1
Perey, Marguerite Catherine ref1, ref2
periodic law, creation of ref1
periodic table, discovery of ref1
Perrier, Carlo ref1
philosopher’s stone ref1
phlogisticated air ref1
phosphorous (P) ref1, ref2, ref3
Pilkington’s ActivT ref1
platinum (Pt) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Plunkett, Roy ref1
Plutonium Prank ref1
plutonium (Pu) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
polonium (Po) ref1n, ref2, ref3
Pons, Stanley ref1
potassium
‘ferrihexacyanoferrate’ ref1
potassium (K) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
praseodymium (Pr) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Priestley, Joseph ref1
promethium (Pm) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
protactinium (Pa) ref1
protium ref1
Proust’s law ref1
Q
quicksilver ref1
R
radioactivity, brief guide to ref1
radium (Ra) ref1
radon (Rn) ref1
Ramsay, Sir William ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
rare earths ref1
Reich, Ferdinand ref1
Reichenstein, Franz Joseph Müller von ref1
Respour, P. Moras de ref1
Richards, Theodore William ref1
Richter, Hieronymus ref1
Robards, Marie ref1
roentgenium (Rg) ref1
Röntgen, Wilhelm ref1
Roscoe, Sir Henry ref1
Rose, Gustav ref1
Rose, Heinrich ref1
Rosenberg, Barnett ref1
Royal Institution (RI) ref1
rubidium (Rb) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
ruthenium (Ru) ref1
Rutherford, Daniel ref1
Rutherford, Ernest ref1, ref2, ref3
rutherfordium (Rf) ref1
Ryoji Noyori ref1
S
Saddam Hussein ref1
Sagan, Carl ref1
Salerno, Roger of ref1
salt taxes ref1
samarium (Sm) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Samarsky, Colonel ref1
Saturn ref1
scandium (Sc) ref1, ref2, ref3
Scheele, Carl Wilhelm ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Schulze, Johann Heinrich ref1
Scott, Robert Falcon ref1
sea snail (spiny dye-murex) (Bolinus brandaris) ref1
Seaborg, Glenn ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
seaborgium (Sg) ref1
Second World War ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Sefström, Nils Gabriel ref1
Segrè, Emilio ref1
selenium (Se) ref1n, ref2, ref3
Setterberg, Carl Theodor ref1
7 Up ref1
Silicon Valley ref1
silver (Ag) ref1
Śniadecki, Jędrzej ref1
Snow, Dr John ref1
sodium (Na) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Soranus of Ephesus ref1
sphalerite ref1
St Nicholas’s copper (‘kupfernickel’) ref1
stainless steel ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Standard Oil ref1
Star Trek ref1
Strassmann, Fritz ref1
Stromeyer, Friedrich ref1
strontium (Sr) ref1, ref2, ref3
Strutt, John (Lord Rayleigh) ref1, ref2
Superman ref1
T
Talbot, Henry Fox ref1
Targioni, Cipriano ref1
technetium (Tc) ref1, ref2, ref3
Tennant, Smithson ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
tennessine (Ts) ref1
thallium (Tl) ref1
Thénard, Louis-Jacques ref1
thulium (Tm) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
tin (Sn) ref1
Tokyo subway (1995) ref1
transfermium elements ref1
Travers, Morris ref1, ref2, ref3
tritium ref1
The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony (Valentine) ref1
20 Mule Team Borax ref1
U
uranium (U) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Urbain, Georges ref1
V
Valentine, Basil ref1
Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas ref1, ref2
Vinci, Leonardo da ref1
W
Weintraub, Ezekiel ref1
Welsbach, Carl Auer von ref1
witherite ref1
X
X-rays ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
XIPS ref1
Y
ytterbium (Yb) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
yttrium (Y) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Z
zeppelins ref1
zinc (Zn) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
zincblende ref1