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  1. Iodine

    8/8Why iodine is essential for our health?

  2. Phosphorus

    7/8How a discovery in boiled urine led to the trade union movement and chemical weapons.

  3. Lead

    6/8The impact of the use and abuse of lead on humanity.

  4. Silicon - The World's Building Block

    5/8The key component of rocks, sand and materials from glass and concrete to microelectronics

  5. Carbon - the backbone of life

    4/8Why is all known life built on carbon?

  6. And then there was Li

    3/8The element that links the formation of the universe with the functioning of our brains

  7. Oxygen: The breath of Life

    2/8Trevor Cox takes a deep breath and tells the story of oxygen on earth and in space

  8. Mercury - Chemistry's Jekyll and Hyde

    1/8The most beautiful and shimmering of the elements, the weirdest, and yet the most reviled

  9. Helium

    Science and art of helium

  10. Aluminium and strontium

    Science and art of aluminium and strontium

  11. Gold and silver

    Science and art of gold and silver