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First posted on FB 10/01/2020 Today’s element depiction is a personal one. Bell metal is a form of bronze (an alloy of copper and tin) that is notable for its high tin content: 22% tin rather than the usual 12%. This gives it greater resonance and produces the sound of church bells that we allContinue reading “Ring out those bells”

First posted on FB 07/01/2020 A day late for Epiphany, but here is my next element – gold, a gift of the Three Wise Men and one of the seven metals known in ancient times. Each of these metals became associated with one of the seven heavenly bodies (the Sun, the Moon and the fiveContinue reading “Heart of gold”

First posted on FB 26/11/2019 Two more elements, both with names that have connections to the sun. Helium, from the ancient Greek Helios for sun, as helium was first discovered in the sun. And nihonium, from a Japanese word for Japan, meaning Land of the Rising Sun.#IYPT2019

First posted on FB on 20th October 2019 New project underway for the end of the International Year of the Periodic Table. I’ve always wanted to have a go at blackwork, and with all the lovely colourful periodic tables around, I thought it would be nice to take it back to its original monochrome. WhenContinue reading “The beginning”