The History of Chemistry
By Steve Cohen
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Chemistry is everywhere, and involves everything. But how did chemistry get to be what it is? I'm Steve Cohen, a chemist and writer, bringing you The History of Chemistry. This podcast explores the development of chemistry from prehistoric times to the present, including the people and societies who made chemistry what it is today. The History of Chemistry is for you, whether you hated chemistry in high school, or got a PhD in inorganic chemistry. We'll explore how chemistry affected art, music, language, politics and vice-versa. Whether it's ancient Greek philosophers, medieval alchemists, or modern laboratory apparatus, it's all here. Don't forget to support my series at https://www.patreon.com/thehistoryofchemistry !
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184: Alles ist Chemie (Conclusion)
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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183: New World Coming
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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182: It's Life, Jim, But Not As We Know It
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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181: A Work in Progress
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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180: Farm to Market
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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179: This Episode is Meta
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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178: Honors and Awards
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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177: Greek Salad
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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176: Inside Information
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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175: It's All Fun and Games Until...
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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174: Just Add Water
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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173: Midnight Blue
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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172: A Life of Its Own
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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171: Talk Dirty to Me
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May 29, 2025 |
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170: A Clean Break
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May 23, 2025 |
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169: A Bone to Pick
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May 07, 2025 |
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168: Chill Out
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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167: A Sound Idea
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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166: The Dagwood
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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165: Building Blocks
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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164: Mirror, Mirror
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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163: Basic Fuel
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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162: The Game of Life
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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161: Political Science
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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160: Reuse It or Lose It
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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159: Suck It Up, Buttercup!
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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158: It's a Gas
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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157: Cain and Abel
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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156: Quantum Love
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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155: Sci-fi Chemistry
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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154: Tile by Tile
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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153: Plastic Arts
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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152: Built to Last
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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151: No Bones about It
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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150: The Medium is the Message
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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149: It's the Kosher Thing
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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148: The New Electronics
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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147: Good to the Last Drop
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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146: Electrical Switch
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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145: State of the Art
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Break Time
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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144: Rare as Hens' Teeth
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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143: Queer as a Clockwork Orange
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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142: Molecular Valves
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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141: Chemical Communications
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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140: Chemical Paranoia
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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139: To the Max
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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138: Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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137: Light My Fire
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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136: AI, Robot
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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135: Bond, Chemical Bond
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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134: Atto-boy!
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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133: A Horse of a Different Color
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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132: Name Dropping
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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131: From Fluor to Ceiling
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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130: I Have an Axe to Grind
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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129: Sheets and Giggles
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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128: Heavy, Man, Heavy!
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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127: Black is Beautiful
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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126: Run of the Mill
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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125: Das Model
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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124: Lumen Large
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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123: Setting the Ground Rules
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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122: Catch the 'Wave
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May 26, 2024 |
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121: Let the Sun Shine in
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May 19, 2024 |
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120: Snap Judgement
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May 12, 2024 |
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119: Tiny but Mighty
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May 05, 2024 |
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118: Hold Tight, Stick Tight
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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117: The Set Table
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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116: Open Frame of Mind
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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115: Reach for the Stars
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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114: We Can Work It Out
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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113: Ready Set Go
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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112: Connect the Dots
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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111: O Say Can You See
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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110: Rattle My Cage
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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109: Bon Appetit
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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108: Fuel Transformation
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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107: Transfermium Wars
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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106: Natural Order of Things
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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105: Safety First
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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104: Inside Job
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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103: It's Not Easy Being Green
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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102: Chemical Philosophy
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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101: Totally Tubular
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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100: I Have the Power
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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99: Lite Brite
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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98: Surface Chemistry
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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97: Moving Atoms
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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96: Journal Square
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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95: Plastic Love
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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94: Grape Expectations
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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93: Resistance is Futile
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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92: Infinite Loop
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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91: In the Air Tonight
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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90: Computerwelt
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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89: Pathological Science
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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88: Contamination
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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87: Charge It Up
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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86: Turnabout is Fair Play
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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85: Great Balls of Fire
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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84: Tunnel Vision
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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83: Measure Twice, Cut Once
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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82: Diamond in the Rough
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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81: Cover Story
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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80: I Call Your Name
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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79: Suit Yourself
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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78: Guiding Light
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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77: Moody Blues
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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76: The Final Frontier
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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75: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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74: Laser Squad
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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73: Living in the Plastic Age
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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72: What's in a Name?
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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71: Toxic Relationship
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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70: Go with the Flow
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May 28, 2023 |
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69: Look for the Union Label
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May 21, 2023 |
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68: Transuranium Elements
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May 15, 2023 |
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67: Let's Scratch the Surface
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May 09, 2023 |
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66: Plastic Dreams
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May 03, 2023 |
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65: Down to Earth
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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64: Like Groovy, Man
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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63: We Gotta Get Out of This Place
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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62: It is Rocket Science
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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61: Super Trouper
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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60: Join the Club
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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59: Don't Shoot the Messenger
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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58: Smoke Signals
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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57: The Future is Plastics
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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56: Chill Pill
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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55: Fab Four
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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54: Talkin' 'bout a Revolution
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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53: Beads on a String
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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52: Making It
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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51: Let's Take a Field Trip
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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50: This Mortal Coil
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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49: Hot Lead
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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48: Food for Thought
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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47: Good Vibrations
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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46: Polythene Pam
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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45: Mechanisms
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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44: Teflon Don
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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43: Elemental Masters
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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42: The Shape of You
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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41: By Land and by Air
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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40: Chain Gang
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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39: This Means War
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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38: Same but Different
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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37: Come to the Lab
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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36: An Oily Character
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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35: Au Pair
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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34: Plastic Fantastic
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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33: I Want a New Drug
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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32: Shell Game
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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31: What's Inside
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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30: X ray Vision
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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29: Electrons
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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28: A Nobel, Booming Business
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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27: Salt of the Earth
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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26: Color Me Synthetic
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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25: Seeing the Light
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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24: Free Energy
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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23: Ionic but not Doric nor Corinthian
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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22: Hot Stuff
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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21: The Periodic Prophet
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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20: The Element of Surprise
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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19: Molecules in 3D
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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18: Ouroboros
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Bonus episode: Behind the Scenes
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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17: Electrochemistry
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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16: You're Not My Type
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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15: It's Organic
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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14: Berzelius
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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13: Up and Atom!
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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12: Revolution’s Aftermath
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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11: Love is Like Oxygen
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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10: Phlogiston: A Burning Question
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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9: The First Chemists—Or Chymists?
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May 29, 2022 |
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8: The Decline of Alchemy
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May 24, 2022 |
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7: European Alchemy
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May 19, 2022 |
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6: Arab Alchemy
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May 13, 2022 |
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5: The Rise of Khemeia
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May 09, 2022 |
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4: It's Elementary!
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May 09, 2022 |
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3: Metallica and More
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May 09, 2022 |
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Trailer to The History of Chemistry
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May 07, 2022 |
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1: Introduction to The History of Chemistry
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May 07, 2022 |
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2: All Fired Up
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May 07, 2022 |