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kernite 130

Kirchhoff, Gustav 34

kohl 161

krypton 188, 196

L

Lamy, Claude-Auguste 138

lanthanides 109

lanthanum 109, 110

Large Hadron Collider,

Switzerland 190

lasers 75, 117, 194, 196

Lavoisier, Antoine 10

Lawrence Livermore

National Laboratory, USA

175

Lawrence, Ernest 127

lawrencium 127

LCD screens 131

lead 150–151

LED 74–75, 136

lepidolite 24, 32

leucite 32

life cycles 155

light bulbs 89, 101, 114

liquids 8, 11

lithium 24–25

livermorium 165, 175

lutetium 117

M

magnesium 10, 40–41

magnets 65, 67

malachite 68

manganese 58–59

Marggraf, Andreas 72

medical imaging 33, 79, 114,

116

medical procedures 49

medicines 41, 95, 163, 169

Meitner, Lise 105

meitnerium 105

melonite 173

melting points 89

Mendeleev, Dmitri 15, 126,

148

mendelevium 125, 126

mercury 100–101

meteorites 60, 92

microchips 87, 148

microscopes 81,

86, 91

military tanks

131

millerite 81

mining 29, 96, 130

missiles 112

mixtures 17

Moissan, Henri 179

molybdenite 78, 90

molybdenum 78–79

monazite 74

Morita, Kozuka 139

moscovium 139, 163

motorcycles 57

MRI scanners 191

mummification 27

musical instruments 67, 69,

83, 113

N

NASA (National Aeronautics

and Space Administration)

74, 77, 93

nebula 21, 192–193

neodymium 112

neon 194

neptunium 122

neutrons 13

Nevada Desert, USA 44–45

nickel 66–67, 178

nickeline 66

night-vision equipment 33

nihonium 139

niobium 77

nitratine 154

nitrogen 152–153, 154–155,

157

nitroglycerine 154

nitromethane 156

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

103

Nobel, Alfred 127

nobelium 127

noble gases 189

nuclear fuel 123

nuclear reactors 187

nucleus 13

O

Oak Ridge National

Laboratory, USA 187

oceans 182–183

Oganessian, Yuri 163, 199

oganesson 199

oil 117, 143

onions 168

Orion Nebula 21

orpiment 160

osmiridium 91

osmium 91

oxygen 164–165, 166–167,

189

P

paints 50, 65, 86, 112

palladium 82–83

particle accelerators 103,

104, 106, 125, 127, 151,

175, 187, 190

pencils 143

pens 83

pentlandite 66, 80

Perey, Marguerite 35

periods 14, 15

perovskite 55

pesticides 159

petalite 24

petrol 59

pewter 149

Phoenix lander 155

phosphorus 158–159

photocopy machines 172

photography 85, 94, 185

pink diamonds 144–145

pipes 150

plants 167

Plaster of Paris 43

platinum 94–95

plutonium 123

pnictogens 153

poisons 160

pollucite 32, 34

polonium 174

polythene 143

pools 28–29, 44–45

potash 30

potassium 22, 30–31

potassium bromide 184

pottery 49, 116

praseodymium 111

printing presses 161

promethium 112

protactinium 121

protective clothing 183, 195

proton 13

PVC 181

pyrargyrite 84

pyrite 60, 138

pyrolusite 58

Q-R

quartz 146

radium 50–51

radon 50, 198–199

railway tracks 59

Ramsay, Sir William 190

reactions, chemical 16–17

rebreather 31

rhenium 90

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