Tag: chemistry
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Element Friday: Hydrogen
Hydrogen, the first element on the most beautiful table of all, the periodic table of elements. At the beginning of the Universe, also known as the Big Bang, the Universe comprised mostly two elements, one of which was hydrogen. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe. It makes up seventy-three percent of the…
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Appreciating the Science and Side Stories in Oppenheimer
IsotopesThe star of the movie, aside from the obvious titular character, Oppenheimer, is the use of isotopes. The very much talked about uranium-235.An isotope is a variation of an element with a different number of neutrons. Since an element’s identity and chemical properties lie in the number of protons, adding neutrons changes the mass of…
The Homo Sapien Sapien 