Periodic table

You're listening to the Episodic Table of Elements, and I'm T.R. Appleton.

Each episode, we take a look at the fascinating true stories behind one element on the Periodic Table.

Today, we're claiming intellectual property about Curium.

Admittedly, Madame Curie had some strong opinions, and she very well may have had a low opinion of us as well.

Something that stands in for the real deal, to recreate what it might be like to display a lump of curium, if we could.

Gadolinium would make a good base.

It's directly above today's subject on the periodic table, so you know what that means.

Their similar electron arrangements make them behave alike, in a chemical sense.

It's funny.

I didn't catch on when they did their first argon, but then carbon, I'm like, wait, they're doing the periodic table for their models.

Which

is really smart because, you know, like they can actually expand to any number of you know, the possibilities.

And

apparently I could talk about the periodic table of elements.

Like on purpose? No, because the other day I was talking to Tristan about it.

He's like, how do you know so much about the periodic table of elements? I'm like, I don't

know.

Why do you know so much about the periodic table of

elements? What's number one?

My gut says oxygen.

He went home, worked for 30 years as the manager of a paint factory, and wrote.

In 1975, he published a book called The Periodic Table.

It has 21 chapters, and each is named after an element.

Argonne is about his ancestors, the Jews of Piedmont, who he says were like the inert gases, noble and inclined to keep to themselves.

Then eighteen.

2, 8, 8, 18.

Those are the lengths of the rows of the periodic table.

That's the answer to Mendeleev's riddle.

I've got six new trivia questions for you, so let's get into it, and we can do that by cueing some bass music.

Question one, periodic table.

What medal that caps the Washington Monument because it was so rare is ironically the most abundant medal in the Earth's crust? What medal that caps the Washington Monument because it was so rare is ironically the most abundant medal in the Earth's crust? Bad news for those with Triskaidekaphobia.

Question two, musical inventions.

Some are very famous and others are little known, but they are all interesting to discover.

I will also tell you about the periodic table of elements, which we are going to follow and detail in our systematic exploration.

And I will explain plenty of other things about what distinguishes elements, their atomic structure, how and why they combine to form molecules and chemical compounds.

We will see where they are found and how they are used in industry or research.

And to this nucleus are bound one or several electrons that change place very fast and form a sort of swarm around this nucleus.

This is what an atom is like.

And what defines an element in the periodic table is the number of protons in its nucleus.

The number of protons is called the atomic number.

Thanks for joining us today, Culture Kids.

Stay tuned for more adventures in the Santa Ynez Valley, plus a time-traveling journey to discover the Periodic Table of Elements.

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Bye-bye!

Same as myself.

So this feels a bit like the time that Daniel Radcliffe started singing The Periodic Table on Graham Norton show.

But what's selenium and what does that do for us? Like I haven't a clue what it is.

So selenium is a really important nutrient.