Using waste and recycling as a way in to the periodic table (open access)
Issue 374 | Page 47 | Published Sep 2019
Description
We find that the way we sort our rubbish for recycling has strong links with the way the elements in them are bonded – a sort of periodic table for compounds emerges.
More from this issue
The role that strontium played as a treatment for the brittle bone disease osteoporosis, and the subsequent safety concerns learnt from monitoring...
A wide-ranging discussion of elements that are used to treat, prevent or diagnose disease, injury or illness.