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- The history of the Periodic Table in just 2 minutes
- How certain elements changed the course of history
- How the different parts of our planet are made up of the same elemental building blocks
- Where different elements occur, and what places they get their names from
- Which elements make up the human body
- The elements that are vital, and dangerous, to human life
- How an element's atomic structure determines the shape of the table
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Alkali metals
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Putting the elements in order
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Properties of gold
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