Did you know that sodium is an alkali metal like lithium and potassium? Is it also “evil,” i.e., explosive, like potassium in water? Yes.
Category: Geology You Use Every Day
Potassium and Your Body
Potassium is a metal like lithium, but no one builds batteries out of it because it’s evil: Well, the human body is mostly water
Lithium – The Great Enabler
What does your smartphone have in common with cooking utensils, an electric garage door, fireworks, Sherlock Holmes, and splitting the atom? The element lithium.
Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes
We see a lot of headlines about the “miracle” properties of graphene and carbon nanotubes, but the stories underneath the headlines are either very vague
Graphite – A Strategic Mineral
What do Elizabethan cannons, your smartphone, #2 pencils, nuclear reactors, diamonds, and carbon nanotubes all have in common? Graphite – that’s what. Without it,
Gold – Useful on Earth and in Space
Gold has spurred humanity’s economic development. We decorate ourselves with it. What is less well known is that gold facilitates much of our modern
