Though aesthetically pleasing, gold is scientifically quite boring. It is chemically inert, meaning it doesn鈥檛 easily react with other chemicals and remains shiny for long periods which is why it...
Physicians today are unlikely to encounter 鈥淕ilder鈥檚 palsy.鈥 But prior to the 19th century this ailment had to be considered when a patient presented with tremors, irritability, increased...
Archimedes鈥 principle states that any object, totally or partially immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. But. it was not the...
Once upon a time, about four hundred years ago, there lived a cobbler in Bologna by the name of Vincenzo Cascariolo.聽 But this cobbler was interested in more than just making shoes last longer, he...
鈥淎u鈥 is also the chemical symbol for the element. 鈥淎urora鈥 was the Roman goddess of the dawn and her name became associated with gold because of the colour of the sky at dawn. Ian Fleming named his...
No. We do not breathe through our skin. James Bond seemingly was unaware of this fact given that after discovering the golden corpse he tells M: 鈥淪he died of skin suffocation, it鈥檚 been known to...
It鈥檚 hard for us here in North America to believe that gold is killing hundreds of children in Nigeria. Well, it isn鈥檛 exactly the gold that is killing them, it is the lead oxide and lead carbonate...
Mention the word arsenic and our thoughts immediately turn to poison. But there other interesting connections as well. Arsenic rarely is found in nature in its elemental state, it is found as part...