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58 A house in Narsaq A workers’ camp near the former uranium mine has been maintained but not used since the late 1980s ...

59 Bloomberg Businessweek / SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 THE ELEMENTS Narsaq, on the Tunulliarfik Fjord The abandoned uranium mine outside ...

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 ...

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61 The lutetium-based atomic clock at the National University of Singapore radiation.Soif thenumberofcycles ofradiationnecessary ...

62 ytterbium-based clocks had set records for precision, stability, and reproducibil- ity of results. Lutetium was a late entry ...

ByE.TammyKim PhotographbyDanielShea Night Vision Binoculars Nightvisiontechnologyhasbecomereliableandwidespread, usedbyeveryonef ...

64 I maginea closet stuffed with a billion envelopes. One has a check for $100,000 inside. Do you go hunting? Anthony Lipmann do ...

65 figuredoutwaystorecyclerhenium, causingthepricetoslump.It’sstill essential,butwithanannualproduc- tionofabout 50 tonsin2018,i ...

◼ Osmium $12,860 / kg Engelhardspot 76 Os Osmium T he band at the 43rd annual International Precious Metals Institute Conference ...

distinctiveproperties,suchasosmium’s highest-of-all-metalsdensityanditsgor- geous,Atlantis-bluefinish. Osmiumalsohappenstobea po ...

68 commodities conference in 2013, he bumped into the secret future labora- tory collaborator, who was searching for a partner t ...

69 tellsmeina RussianaccentthatI’mnot authorizedtoreferenceit inmyarticle. “Otherwiseyouwillonedaybreathe the long breath of osm ...

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 ...

AdventuresinWonderland, the Mad Hatter is mad—as in insane— becausea common milliner’s mercury compound presumably ravagedhisner ...

73 toinsanity,paralysis,anddeath.Birthdefectsfollowed. Thedisasterwasa watershedmoment,toa point.Thedump- ingstopped,inMinamataa ...

81 Tl Thallium (MOSTLY) USELESS ▶WHAT’SIT LOOKLIKE? Dullandblue-gray,thalliumis soquick totarnishin airthatit mustbepre- servedi ...

75 WHAT’SIT LOOKLIKE? Nooneknows.Thebest wecandois examine a shardofuranium oreandimaginethe hundredorsoatoms thatliesomewherei ...