Index

(n refers to footnotes)

A

Abelson, Philip ref1

actinium (Ac) ref1, ref2, ref3

ActivT ref1

agate ref1

AIDS ref1

alchemy ref1, ref2

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

americium (Am) ref1, ref2

amethyst ref1, ref2

ammonia ref1, ref2

Amundsen, Roald ref1

Anderson, Herbert L. ref1

antimony (Sb) ref1n, ref2

aqua regia ref1, ref2, ref3

Arfwedson, Johan August ref1

argon (Ar) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

argyrodite ref1

Arrhenius, Carl Axel ref1

arsenic (As) ref1, ref2n

astatine (At) ref1, ref2n, ref3

Averani, Giuseppe ref1

B

Balard, Antoine-Jérôme ref1

barium (Ba) ref1

Bartlett, Neil ref1

bastnäsite ref1

batmanium ref1

bauxite ref1, ref2

Becquerel, Henri ref1, ref2

Berg, Otto ref1

berkelium (Bk) ref1, ref2

beryllium (Be) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Berzelius, Jöns Jacob ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Bessemer process ref1, ref2

Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda ref1

Big Bang ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

bismuth (Bi) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Black, Joseph ref1, ref2

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

bromine (Br) ref1, ref2

bronze ref1, ref2

Buckyball ref1

Bunsen, Robert ref1, ref2, ref3

C

cadmium (Cd) ref1, ref2

caesium (Cs) ref1, ref2

calcium (Be) ref1, ref2, ref3

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

CFCs ref1, ref2

Chadwick, James ref1

Chernobyl (1986) ref1, ref2

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

Crookes, William ref1, ref2

cryolite ref1

Curie, Marie ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Curie, Pierre ref1, ref2, ref3

curium (Cm) ref1, ref2

D

Dalton, John ref1, ref2

Darmstadtium (Ds) ref1

Davy, Sir Humphry ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

Debierne, André ref1, ref2

Demarçay, Eugène-Anatole ref1

dephlogisticated air ref1, ref2, ref3

deuterium ref1, ref2

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

Fajans, Kasimir ref1, ref2

feldspar ref1

Fermi, Enrico ref1

Fermium (Fm) ref1

First World War ref1, ref2, ref3

Fleischmann, Martin ref1

flerovium (Fl) ref1

fluorine (F) ref1, ref2

francium (Fr) ref1, ref2

French Academy of Sciences ref1

fullerenes ref1, ref2

G

Gadolin, Johan ref1, ref2

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

global warming ref1, ref2

gold (Au) ref1

Gore, George ref1

Gough, John ref1

granite ref1, ref2

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

iodine (I) 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

laughing gas ref1, ref2

Lavoisier, Antoine ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Lawrence, Ernest ref1

lawrencium (Lr) ref1, ref2

lead (Pb) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

LHC ref1

lithium (Li) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Litvinenko, Alexander ref1

livermorium (Lv) ref1

Lockyer, Norman ref1

lutetium (Lu) ref1, ref2

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

Manhattan Project ref1, ref2

Marggraf, Andreas ref1

Marignac, Jean Charles Galissard de ref1, ref2, ref3

Masataka Ogawa ref1

MASH ref1

Meitner, Lise ref1, ref2

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

MRI ref1, ref2

myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) ref1

N

Napoleon III ref1

NASA ref1, ref2

natrium ref1

natronium ref1

neilsbohrium ref1

neodymium (Nd) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

neon (Ne) ref1

Neptune ref1

neptunium (Np) ref1, ref2, ref3

NIB ref1, ref2

nickel (Ni) ref1, ref2

nihonium (Nh) ref1

Nilson, Lars Fredrik ref1

niobium (Nb) ref1, ref2

nitrogen (N) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Nobel, Alfred ref1

nobelium (No) ref1

Noddack, Walter ref1, ref2

O

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) ref1

Oganessian, Yuri ref1, ref2

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

ozone ref1, ref2

P

Pacific Coast Borax Company ref1

palladium (Pd) ref1, ref2

Paneth, F.A. ref1

Paracelsus ref1, ref2

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

phlogiston ref1, ref2, ref3

phosphorous (P) ref1, ref2, ref3

Pilkington’s ActivT ref1

pitchblende ref1, ref2, ref3

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

quartz ref1, ref2

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

rhenium (Re) ref1, ref2

rhodium (Rh) ref1, ref2, ref3

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 (Si) ref1, ref2n

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

sulphur (S) ref1, ref2, ref3

Superman ref1

T

Tacke, Ida ref1, ref2

Talbot, Henry Fox ref1

tantalum (Ta) ref1, ref2

Targioni, Cipriano ref1

technetium (Tc) ref1, ref2, ref3

tellurium (Te) ref1n, ref2

Tennant, Smithson ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

tennessine (Ts) ref1

terbium (Tb) ref1, ref2, ref3

thallium (Tl) ref1

Thénard, Louis-Jacques ref1

thorium (Th) ref1, ref2

thulium (Tm) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

tin (Sn) ref1

titanium (Ti) ref1, ref2

Tokyo subway (1995) ref1

transfermium elements ref1

Travers, Morris ref1, ref2, ref3

tritium ref1

The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony (Valentine) ref1

tungsten (W) ref1, ref2

20 Mule Team Borax ref1

U

uranium (U) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

Uranus ref1, ref2, ref3

Urbain, Georges ref1

V

Valentine, Basil ref1

vanadium (V) ref1, ref2

Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas ref1, ref2

Vinci, Leonardo da ref1

W

Weintraub, Ezekiel ref1

Welsbach, Carl Auer von ref1

witherite ref1

Wöhler, Friedrich ref1, ref2

wolfram ref1, ref2, ref3

Wollaston, William ref1, ref2

X

X-rays ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

xenon (Xe) ref1, ref2

XIPS ref1

Y

YBCO ref1, ref2

ytterbium (Yb) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

yttrium (Y) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Z

zeppelins ref1

zinc (Zn) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

zincblende ref1

zirconium (Zr) ref1, ref2