The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Out of Thin Air (1754-1806)
See how the discovery of oxygen by one of science's great odd couples-Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier-triggers a worldwide search for new elements. Soon caught up in the hunt is chemist Humphry Davy, whose showmanship dazzles London audiences.
Unruly Elements (1859-1902)
Dmitri Mendeleev invents the Periodic Table, bringing order to the elements. This order is shattered when Marie Curie discovers radioactivity, revealing that elements can change identities-and atoms contain undiscovered parts.
Into the Atom (1910-1960)
Caught up in the race to discover the atom's internal parts, Harry Moseley uses newly discovered X-rays to put the Periodic Table in a whole new light. Glenn Seaborg creates a new element-plutonium-that changes the world forever.
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