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Silicon - The World's Building Block
The key component of rocks, sand and materials from glass and concrete to microelectronics
Carbon - the backbone of life
Why is all known life built on carbon?
And then there was Li
The element that links the formation of the universe with the functioning of our brains.
Oxygen: The Breath of Life
Trevor Cox takes a deep breath and tells the story of oxygen on earth and in space.
Mercury - Chemistry's Jekyll and Hyde
The most beautiful and shimmering of the elements, the weirdest, and yet the most reviled.
