Bloomberg Businessweek USA - 02.09.2019
59 Bloomberg Businessweek / SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 THEELEMENTS Narsaq, on the Tunulliarfik Fjord The abandoned uranium mine outside N ...
69 Tm Thulium 60 Thulium $12,000 / kg 99.95% pure sample on Amazon.com Ytterbium $15.50 / kg 99.99% ytterbium oxide, China m ...
61 The lutetium-based atomic clock at the National University of Singapore radiation. So if the number of cycles of radiation ne ...
62 ytterbium-based clocks had set records for precision, stability, and reproducibil- ity of results. Lutetium was a late entry ...
By E. Tammy Kim Photograph by Daniel Shea Night Vision Binoculars Night vision technology has become reliable and widespread, us ...
64 I magine a closet stuffed with a billion envelopes. One has a check for $100,000 inside. Do you go hunting? Anthony Lipmann d ...
65 figured out ways to recycle rhenium, causing the price to slump. It’s still essential, but with an annual produc- tion of abo ...
◼ Osmium $12,860 / kg Engelhard spot 76 Os Osmium T he band at the 43rd annual International Precious Metals Institute Conferenc ...
distinctive properties, such as osmium’s highest-of-all-metals density and its gor- geous, Atlantis-blue finish. Osmium also hap ...
68 commodities conference in 2013, he bumped into the secret future labora- tory collaborator, who was searching for a partner t ...
69 tells me in a Russian accent that I’m not authorized to reference it in my article. “Otherwise you will one day breathe the l ...
70 ◼ Gold $48,413 / kg London Metal Exchange cash spot In a twist on the old saying, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, ...
71 GOLD MEDAL: COURTESY TOKYO 2020 4 5 6 7 Bloomberg Businessweek / SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 THE ELEMENTS ...
Adventures in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter is mad—as in insane— because a common milliner’s mercury compound presumably ravaged hi ...
73 to insanity, paralysis, and death. Birth defects followed. The disaster was a watershed moment, to a point. The dump- ing sto ...
81 Tl Thallium (MOSTLY) USELESS ▶WHAT’S IT LOOK LIKE? Dull and blue-gray, thallium is so quick to tarnish in air that it must be ...
75 WHAT’S IT LOOK LIKE? No one knows. The best we can do is examine a shard of uranium ore and imagine the hundred or so atoms ...
76 CURIE: SCIENCE SOURCE. ACTINIUM: COURTESY OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY. PROTACTINIUM: COURTESY U.S. DOE. THORIUM: COURTESY O ...
91 Pa Protactinium (MOSTLY) USELESS By Samanth Subramanian 77 Nuclear power’s once-bright promise of reliable carbon-free electr ...
78 ◼ Neptunium ◼ Plutonium ◼ Americium ◼ Curium ◼ Berkelium ◼ Californium ◼ Einsteinium ◼ Fermium ◼ Mendelevium ◼ Nobelium ◼ Law ...
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