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Reducing agents
EuropiumA single centimeter of pure europium metal will turn from a gleaming silver to a dull, dark brown crust within just a few days of exposure to the air.
DysprosiumIn 1886, French chemist Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran spent more than thirty attempts to isolate a new substance from holmium oxide, a process so…
ZincZinc is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature, yet it possesses a shiny blue-white luster when its surface oxidation is removed.
HydrogenIn 1766, Henry Cavendish discovered a gas that burned with a pop and produced water, yet he called it inflammable air and believed it was a component of fire…
CarbonCarbon was known to the earliest human civilizations as soot and charcoal, yet it remained a mystery until the 18th century when scientists began to…
SiliconSteve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, stood on a stage in San Jose on the 17th of April 2015 and announced a radical new idea that would change the…