Chapter 12
Summary:
Kean starts off the chapter talking about Marie Curie. Marie discovered a way that eased the discovery of elements on the periodic table. Marie discovered 2 elements in her uranium waste which is just funny to me because 1 mans trash is literally another mans treasure. Her element was controversial due to the name she wanted to give it. Polania, tribute to Poland, which, for some reason, didn't sit so well with the Chemistry committee. Hevesy is explained through his discovery of radium-D. His career was in quantum mechanics and hafnium. Furthermore, Kean tells us about brevium being renamed proactinium due to it actually lasting for thousands of years. This chapter fills the audience up with political ideas and it amazes me that politics is always a problem in the world.
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