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A acid rain 169 actinides 119 actinium 119, 120 , 121 aerogel 147 aeschynite 122 aircraft 54, 133, 134–135 airships 191 alchemy 9 alkali metals 23 alkaline earth metals 37 aluminium 132–133, 134–135 Alvarez, Luis Walter 93 americium 123 amethyst 146 anaesthesia machines 197 Andes Mountains, Peru 28–29 anglesite 150 antimony 161 apatite 159 aphthitalite 30 aquamarine 38 aragonite 42 argenite 84 argon 195 Armbruster, Peter 104 arsenic 160 artificial joints 55, 64, 88 astatine 187 astronauts 97 Atlas V (rocket) 167 atom bombs 174 atomic clocks 34 atoms 12–13

B Badlands National Park, USA 92 Balard, Antoine–Jérôme 185 balloons 21, 191 bank notes 113 barite 48 barium 36, 48–49 barometers 101 bastnasite 110 batteries 25, 59, 86 battery acid 169 bauxite 132 benitoite 48 berkelium 124 beryllium 38–39 Berzelius, Jacob 11 bicycles 78, 143 bismuth 152, 162–163, 187 bleach 181 body armour 55 Bohr, Niels 104 bohrium 104 bombs 21, 174 Boric acid 131 bornite 68 boron 129, 130–131 Boyle, Robert 9 braggite 82 Brand, Hennig 158 brimstone 168 bromine 184–185 brookite 55 Buddha 98 Bunsen, Robert 11, 34 buses 21

C cadmium 86 caesium 11, 34 calaverite 96

calcite 42 calcium 42–43, 44–45, 199 californium 125 , 199 cameras 40, 110, 148 cancer 86 cans 149 carbon 140–141, 142–143, 145 carbon monoxide testers 82 cars 25, 79, 197 cassiterite 149 catalytic converters 82, 83 caves 43, 59 celestine 168 ceramics 47, 172, 179 cerium 11, 111 chalcopyrite 68 chalk 43 Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) 93 chemical reactions 16–17 china 159 chlorine 180–181, 182–183 chloroform 181 chlorophyll 41 chromite 57 chromium 57 chrysoberyl 38 cinnabar 100 circuit boards 80, 85, 147 clay 131 Cleve, Per Teodor 115 clocks 34 clouds 85 coal 142 cobalt 52, 64–65 coins 67, 83, 84 colloids 17 columbite 77 combustion 166 compasses 93 compounds 17 conductors 68, 75, 133

copernicium 107 Copernicus, Nicolaus 107 copper 68–69, 70–71 cosmetics 51, 162, 163 covalent bonds 17 crocoite 57, 150 Crookes, William 138 cryolite 178 cubic zirconia 115 Curie, Marie 51, 124, 174 Curie, Pierre 51, 174 curium 124 cutlery 85 cyclotron particle accelerator 122, 127

D Dalton, John 11 Damascus Steel 56 Danakil Depression 170–171 darmstadtium 106 dating (rock) 33 Davy, Humphry 10, 46, 48 Dead Sea 184 death masks 97

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