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Elemental

Page 17

by Tim James

repulsion

  rogue

  and the Schrödinger wave equation

  substructure

  uranium

  psi (Ψ)

  pyrolusite

  Pythagorean order

  quantum field theory

  quantum leaps

  quantum theory

  quarks

  radiation

  exposure measurement

  poisoning

  sickness

  radiograms

  radium

  radon

  rainbows

  rat studies

  reactivity

  relativy theory, special

  resiniferatoxin

  resistance

  respiration

  rhenium

  rhodium

  Richter scale

  roentgenium

  Romans

  Royal Navy

  Royal Society

  rubber

  rubidium

  Russia

  rust

  ruthenium

  Rutherford, Ernest

  rutherfordium

  salt (sodium chloride)

  Salvarsan

  samarium

  sapphire

  scandium

  scanning tunneling microscope

  Scheele, Carl

  Scheelite (calcium tungstate)

  Schrödinger, Erwin

  Schrödinger wave equation

  generalized time-dependent version

  Schulze, Johann

  science

  Scoville Heat Units (SHUs)

  Seaborg, Glenn

  seaborgium

  Second World War

  selenium

  semi-conductors

  senses

  shells

  Shockley, William

  siemens per meter

  sieverts

  silicon

  silver

  silver fulminate

  silver nitrate

  silver screen

  smelting

  Smith, Mike

  smoke-detectors

  smoking

  Sörensen, Sören

  sodium

  sodium chloride

  sodium-potassium

  solar systems

  solder

  solids

  space

  spectroscopy

  spiciness

  spontaneous human combustion

  stability

  Stahl, Georg

  stardust

  stars

  death

  formation

  super-giant

  static electricity

  steel

  Stone Age

  stop-motion films

  strontium

  sucrose

  sugar

  sulfate

  sulfur

  sulfuric acid

  Sun

  suns

  superacids

  supernovas

  sweet

  syphilis

  tantalum

  technetium

  teflon

  Telford’s suspension bridge

  tellurium

  tennessine

  terbium

  terne

  tetrahedral arrays

  Thales

  thallium

  theobromine

  thermometers

  Thomson, Joseph John “J. J.”

  thorium

  thulium

  tin

  titanium

  TNT

  Tokyo Institute of Technology

  tooth enamel

  transistors

  transmutation

  triboelectric effect

  triflic acid

  Trinity

  TRPVI receptors

  Tsar Bomba

  tungsten

  unbihexium

  United States

  Universe

  beginnings of the

  coldest place

  composition

  and gravity

  unstable substances

  uranium

  uranium bombs

  uranium-235

  urea

  urine

  USSR

  vaccinations

  vanadium

  vantablack

  vinegar

  viscosity

  vitalism

  voltage

  volcanoes

  von Helmholtz, Hermann

  water

  wavefunction

  Werner, Alfred

  Westinghouse, George

  White, Harvey

  will-o’-the-wisps

  Wöhler, Friedrich

  X-rays, dental

  xenon

  ytterbium

  yttrium

  zeppelins

  zinc

  zinc sulfide (ZnS)

  zirconium

  Zwierlein, Martin

 

 

 


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