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Index K Mendeleev, Dmitri 15, 126, Nickel balls periods 14, 15
148
perovskite 55
mendelevium 125, 126
kernite 130 pesticides 159
mercury 100–101
Kirchhoff, Gustav 34 petalite 24
meteorites 60, 92
kohl 161 petrol 59
microchips 87, 148
krypton 188, 196 pewter 149
microscopes 81, Phoenix lander 155
86, 91
L military tanks phosphorus 158–159
photocopy machines 172
131
Lamy, Claude-Auguste 138 millerite 81 photography 85, 94, 185
lanthanides 109 mining 29, 96, 130 pink diamonds 144–145
lanthanum 109, 110 missiles 112 pipes 150
Large Hadron Collider, mixtures 17 plants 167
Switzerland 190 Plaster of Paris 43
Moissan, Henri 179 Nobel, Alfred 127
lasers 75, 117, 194, 196 platinum 94–95
molybdenite 78, 90 nobelium 127
Lavoisier, Antoine 10 plutonium 123
molybdenum 78–79 noble gases 189
Lawrence Livermore monazite 74 pnictogens 153
National Laboratory, USA nuclear fuel 123 poisons 160
175 Morita, Kozuka 139 nuclear reactors 187
Lawrence, Ernest 127 moscovium 139, 163 nucleus 13 pollucite 32, 34
lawrencium 127 motorcycles 57 polonium 174
LCD screens 131 MRI scanners 191 O polythene 143
lead 150–151 mummification 27 pools 28–29, 44–45
LED 74–75, 136 musical instruments 67, 69, Oak Ridge National potash 30
83, 113 potassium 22, 30–31
lepidolite 24, 32 Laboratory, USA 187
potassium bromide 184
leucite 32 oceans 182–183
life cycles 155 N Oganessian, Yuri 163, 199 pottery 49, 116
light bulbs 89, 101, 114 oganesson 199 praseodymium 111
liquids 8, 11 NASA (National Aeronautics oil 117, 143 printing presses 161
and Space Administration) promethium 112
lithium 24–25 74, 77, 93 onions 168
livermorium 165, 175 protactinium 121
nebula 21, 192–193 Orion Nebula 21
lutetium 117 protective clothing 183, 195
neodymium 112 orpiment 160 proton 13
osmiridium 91
neon 194
M neptunium 122 osmium 91 PVC 181
pyrargyrite 84
oxygen 164–165, 166–167,
magnesium 10, 40–41 neutrons 13 189 pyrite 60, 138
Nevada Desert, USA 44–45
magnets 65, 67 nickel 66–67, 178 pyrolusite 58
malachite 68 night-vision equipment 33 P
nickeline 66
manganese 58–59 Q-R
Marggraf, Andreas 72 nihonium 139 paints 50, 65, 86, 112
medical imaging 33, 79, 114, niobium 77 palladium 82–83 quartz 146
116 radium 50–51
nitratine 154 particle accelerators 103,
medical procedures 49 104, 106, 125, 127, 151, radon 50, 198–199
nitrogen 152–153, 154–155,
medicines 41, 95, 163, 169 157 175, 187, 190 railway tracks 59
Meitner, Lise 105 nitroglycerine 154 pencils 143 Ramsay, Sir William 190
meitnerium 105 nitromethane 156 pens 83 reactions, chemical 16–17
melonite 173 Nobel Prize in Chemistry pentlandite 66, 80 rebreather 31
206 melting points 89 103 Perey, Marguerite 35 rhenium 90

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