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  • Lars Öhrström relates the various roles played by rhodium in our daily lives, ranging from car components to drugs.

    • Lars Öhrström
    In Your Element

  • Iulia Georgescu explains why rubidium is atomic physicists' favourite chemical element.

    • Iulia Georgescu
    In Your Element

  • From sugar beets to TV screens, François-Xavier Coudert explores the history, applications and perils of the Scottish element, strontium

    • François-Xavier Coudert
    In Your Element

  • Giovanni Baccolo relates tales of tantalum, an element known, and named, for its inertness, yet one that holds some surprises, such as a naturally occurring nuclear isomer.

    • Giovanni Baccolo
    In Your Element

  • Christoph E. Düllmann reflects on the excitement, and implications, of probing the reactivity of heavy element seaborgium.

    • Christoph E. Düllmann
    In Your Element

  • Anders Lennartson ponders on the contribution of thallium to society, since its main characteristic is its toxicity.

    • Anders Lennartson
    In Your Element

  • Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette consider holmium's hotly contested discovery and later obscurity.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    • Shawn C. Burdette
    In Your Element

  • Lars Öhrström ponders the importance of potassium in matters of life and death.

    • Lars Öhrström
    In Your Element

  • Eric Ansoborlo and Richard Wayne Leggett discuss the chemical and radiological characteristics that make caesium a captivating element but also a troublesome contaminant.

    • Eric Ansoborlo
    • Richard Wayne Leggett
    In Your Element

  • Wojciech Grochala describes how the oldest, lightest and most abundant element in the universe continues to play an essential role on today's Earth.

    • Wojciech Grochala
    In Your Element

  • Michael Tarselli reflects on the intriguing characteristics of a rather underrated element, niobium, in its 'missing' and existing forms.

    • Michael A. Tarselli
    In Your Element