Day 3: Iron

(Clockwise from top left) Stacks of steel tubes (From Pikrepo), Iron as it appears on the periodic table, Lumps of pure iron (from Wikimedia Commons). Had to wade through a bunch of steam irons to find these ¬¬ Day three brings another classic metal element: iron! The chemical symbol of iron, Fe, comes from the

Day 2: Francium

(Left image taken from Wikipedia) A tad more obscure than yesterday’s copper, our 2nd element is Francium. Francium was the last element to be discovered that occurs naturally, with every subsequent element discovered being created in a lab. The only element that is rarer in nature than francium is astatine. It was discovered in 1939

Day 1: Copper

(Clockwise) The Statue of Liberty (from Wikipedia), copper wires (from Demarco) and copper pipes (from Cleanipedia). The first element of the blog: Copper! The word copper comes from the latin word “Cuprum”, which roughly translates to “Cyprus metal”, as the island of Cyprus used to be a rich source of copper back when latin was

Welcome!

As last year was “The Year of the Periodic Table”, and I shamefully missed it, I thought it would be nice to learn (then share said learnings with others) something about each of the elements of the periodic table. The plan is to write a bit about a random element of the periodic table each