So this is Mercury. It’s a liquid metal, it is one of the, well, one liquid metal at this temperature. There are a couple of liquid metals in a little bit more exotic places in the world like Spain...
Estou no trem indo para o Morro do Corcovado, no Rio de Janeiro, no Brasil. Indo ver um dos mais famosos monumentos em todo Brasil. A estátua do Cristo Redentor, e vamos falar sobre algumas coisas...

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No final da última semana, e durante o final de semana ocorreu esta terrível tragédia no Japão. Primeiro o terremoto e o tsunami e depois a dificuldade com o reator nuclear. Eu tenho um interesse...
So Element 96 was Curium which named after Marie Curie and Pierre Curie who were the discoverers of Radium. Because of its high levels of radioactivity curium can be used in thermoelectric generators...
Obviously Einsteinium has a slight resonance for me because many people think that I look like Einstein, though of course Einstein, when he was young, looked nothing like me. Einsteinium, the first...
Lovely! I’ve just realised that erbium is the most crucial element for the internet of all the elements on the periodic table, and so I want to take you across to materials engineering where we can...
So Californium is another element which was first prepared at the Berkeley labs in California. It’s got quite a few military applications, usually involving the word ‘nuclear’. But what most people...
Aqui está o lítio. Lítio está no topo dos metais alcalinos. O mais leve de todos. É muito reativo Usamos muito em química orgânica. Para ativar a formação de ligação carbono-carbono Pode ver aqui, é...
Tellurium is, is quite a nice element here. I shall pick it up carefully. Tellurium. You’ve never had anything to do with this? Nothing to do with it in my life. So this is a new one for me. This is...
Mendelevium, which is named after one of the most important people as far as the periodic table is concerned, which is Dimitri Mendeleev. Mendelevium is named after Mendeleev, in Russia the periodic...