The elements
A hitchhiker's guide to the elements. John Emsley takes you on a tour of the Periodic Table.
John Emsley looks at the element that shines brightly and keeps cool but continues to puzzle
John Emsley looks at the heavy metal that makes light work of tough jobs
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Education in Chemistry, John Emsley takes a look at the 50th element: tin
John Emsley investigates the element that is the lightest of metals and celebrated in song
John Emsley investigates the element that has harmed many, but now heals a few
We can't live with it and we can't live without it
When the Earth moves so does the price of vanadium
An element with a colourful and dubious past
Goes liquid, glows blue and grabs neutrinos
An essential element of life and lifestyle
Technetium, so unique, so useful, so universal
Cerium, the not so rare earth with down to earth uses
Needed by nerves, plants, and spaceships
Vitamin B12, blue glass and invisible ink
Standard weight and stinging nettles
Red alert
The nuclear fuel that could last 10,000 years
The noble metal that's now down at heel
A little goes a long way
The shadowy metal that shines like the Sun
The inert element with extreme behaviour
Not just another form of silver, it's pure platinum
It's lazy, it's hard working, it's colourless, it's colourful - it's argon
Wear it sparkling on your finger, zirconium is also key to nuclear energy
Once so essential, now mired in controversy
Once the destroyer of cities, magnesium is now an energy saver
Americium emits deadly radiation - but every home should have some
Colourful in the colours it exhibits, and in its chemistry and uses
A knock-out element, xenon changed chemical theory of the noble gases
Forget iron and aluminium, titanium is the metal of the future
Long neglected, indium is essential for solar cells and flat-screen TVs
Can this most vicious of elements, Fluorine, be tamed?
Seeing red? That'll be europium
Features
The intriguing chemistry of antimony, one of the earliest elements to be discovered
A look at the life and work of Russia's most famous chemist, who died 100 years ago
How Mendeleev corrected the atomic weights of In, Ce and U, and thus constructed the remarkable Periodic Table of 1871
