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