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Nitrogen - the world's most abundant gas - has brought life and death to humanity on an epic scale -
Plastics are one of the most useful substances known to man, strong, durable and abundant, but once
Lithium is the electro-chemical element - big in batteries and bipolar disorder. Over two decades it
The rare earth elements are the focus of the latest instalment in Business Daily's exploration of th
Synthetic or natural? Diamond ring hunters may soon be asking themselves this question, as technolog
We take a second look at carbon, one of the most versatile of all the elements, in the latest episod
In our series examining the world economy from the perspective of the chemical elements, we look at
What makes gold so valuable, why is it golden and why is it the only elelment that makes a good curr
Mercury is the bad-boy of the periodic table, often called 'quicksilver', it is both mesmerising and
We look at aluminium, a more dazzling metal than you may imagine. A sceptical Justin Rowlatt visits
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe but very rare on earth. Professor Andrea
In the first of Elementary Business - a new series of programmes about the chemical elements - Justi
