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Elementary, my dear Watson – O2 Oxygen

18th April 2023 SharpieType301 2324 Comments

By now, you should be getting quite used to meandering through the mesmerising memoirs of the elements. So far,  we’ve covered Hydrogen, Carbon, Mercury, and Bromine. In doing so, we’ve also covered a good chunk [more…]

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Elementary, my dear Watson – Hg Mercury

21st March 2023 SharpieType301 2658 Comments

In previous articles, we’ve explored the development of the Periodic Table (a.k.a. the Periodic Table of the Elements), and examined the elements Hydrogen, and Carbon. In this, the fourth, I’m going to take a closer [more…]

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Elementary, my dear Watson – the Periodic Table

21st February 2023 SharpieType301 2527 Comments

Behold the Periodic Table (a.k.a. the Periodic Table of the Elements). I’m pretty sure that we are all pretty familiar with this, from happy days in the school classroom if not more recently. It’s an [more…]

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Part One of the Postcard from Romania covered our arrival in the beautiful city of Cluj-Napoca, in May of 2018. In writing it, I tried to dispel just a little of the negative impression many [more…]

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