Elements

Beryllium (Be)

Rare and toxic, beryllium can do serious damage to your lungs. Presenter Laurence Knight explores...

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Magnesium (Mg)

This metal played a part in the worst car crash in history, the 1955 Le Mans disaster, helping to...

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Titanium (Ti) - catalysts

Titanium is the magic metal that made possible the mass production of plastics and paints, as...

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Hydrogen (H) - Acids

These powerful chemicals are essential to obtain the minerals that build our world, the...

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Oxygen (O) - industrial uses

Why is oxygen essential to steelmaking, how do you extract it from the air, and can you inhale...

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Titanium (Ti) - materials

Stronger and more durable than steel, this glamorous metal crops up in sportscars, hip...

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Elements:Oxygen

The “element of life” also makes the air that we breathe a perilous and costly atmosphere to...

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Cobalt (Co)

Cobalt, the metal in magnets and phone batteries, is synonymous with the colour blue. But what...

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Copper (Cu) - electricity

Copper has long been the metal of electricity generators and wiring. But presenter Justin Rowlatt...

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Copper (Cu) - materials

Copper is the distinctive red metal in pots, pans and water pipes, and also plays a central role...

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Boron (B)

Boron is the mineral from the Wild West that stops glass from shattering and stops bullets in...

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Gallium & Indium (Ga, In)

LED lighting, solar power and lasers are just some of the electronics revolutionised by two...

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Iron (Fe) - industrialisation

Iron is the chemical element at the heart of steel, and by extension of industrialisation, so...

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Iron & Manganese (Fe, Mn) - steel-making

The two key ingredients that enabled the mass production of steel. We travel to Sheffield - the...

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Iron (Fe) - the Industrial Revolution

In the first of three programmes about iron, Justin Rowlatt explores two moments in industrial...

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Technetium (Tc)

Technetium is essential for medical imaging, yet supplies of this short-lived manmade element are...

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Bromine

Bromine puts out fires - both in the home and in the heart. But despite its reputation as an...

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Fluorine (F)

Itself a ferocious yellow gas, fluorine is also the key building block for a string of other...

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Calcium

Calcium is the great structural element. It is the basis of much of the great architecture in...

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Chromium (Cr)

Chromium is the metal of modernity - spawning icons from the Chrysler Building to the Harley...

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