Justin Rowlatt, a BBC journalist who has reported on most of the elements in the periodic table, helps us mark the 150th anniversary year of Mendeleev’s chart. He tells host Carol Hills about the Russian inventor of the periodic table, his own favorite among the elements, and just why the periodic table is so remarkable.
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