207rhodium 81
rhodochrosite 58
RIKEN Nuclear Research
Centre, Japan 139
rock salt 29
rockets 21, 167
Röntgen, Wilhelm 106
roentgenium 106
roofing materials 151
Roscoe, Henry 56
rovers (spacecraft) 136, 174
rubidium 32–33
rust 17
Rutherford, Ernest 13, 102
rutherfordium 102
ruthernium 80S
salt 26–27, 28–29
samarium 113
sand 146
Saturn 190
scandium 54
Seaborg, Glenn T 103, 124
seaborgium 103
sealife 186
Segrè, Emilio 187
selenium 172
serpentine 40
shells (atom) 12
shells (sea) 42
Sikkeland, Torbørn 127
silicon 146–147
silver 84–85
silver nitrate 85
skunks 168
smelting 61, 63
smithsonite 73
smoke detectors 123
sodalite 26
sodium 26–27
sodium chloride 26, 177,
180
sodium hypochlorite 183
solar cells 172
solids 8, 11
solutions (mixture) 17space probes 124, 155
spacecraft 21, 77, 174
spark plugs 49
spectacles 139
sperrylite 94
sphalerite 72, 137
stainless steel 57, 85
Statue of Liberty 69
steel 57, 85, 167
steelmaking 62–63
stibnite 161
strontianite 46
strontium 46–47
suitcases 181
sulfur 10, 48, 168–169,
170–171
Sun 20
sunglasses 85
sunscreen 55
Super Heavy Ion Linear
Accelerator, USA 103
supernova 193
suspensions (mixture) 17
swimming pools 181
sylvite 30
symbols, elements 15T
tantalite 88
tantalum 88
technetium 79
telescopes 39
televisions 70, 111
tellurium 164, 173
tennessine 187
terbium 114
thallium 138–139
Thénard, Louis Jacques 131
thermometers 101, 136
thorite 35
thorium 50, 120
thulium 116
tin 149
titanium 55
TNT 154
toasters 67
tools 56, 61, 142–143toothpaste 47, 179
touchscreens 137
tractors 61
trains 191
transition metals 53
tungsten 89
turbine, jet 134–135
Tutankhamun 97
tyres 169U
ulexite 130
Ulloa, Antonio de 95
University of California, USA
124
uraninite 35, 50, 187, 198
uranite 120
uranium 118, 122V
vacuum tubes 120
vanadinite 56
vanadium 56
variscite 132
Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas 39
volcanic activity 45, 194,
198W
Walton, John R. 127
Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep,
Thailand 97watches 50–51, 55, 88, 147
water 20, 23, 166
waterproof clothing 179
weather stations 47
welding 137, 195
Welsbach, Carl Auer von
112
windows 137, 195
Winkler, Clemens A 148
wires, copper 70–71
witherite 48
Wöhler, Friedrich 75
wolframite 89X
xenon 197
xenotime 74
X-rays 49, 90, 93, 116Y
ytterbium 117
yttrium 74–75Z
zeolite 26
zinc 72–73
zircon 76, 87
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