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The periodic table is in large part a mystic mystery to those of us without a science background. What is Osmium? Roentgenium? Yttrium? We know these things . . . exist, but we don’t know how ...
Shiny fictional metals ranked, from vibranium to Valyrian steel. Here’s your guide to pop culture's periodic table, featuring Game of Thrones, Black Panther, The Lord of the Rings, and more.
Once we knew we wanted it to be a periodic table, the rest just became easy.” The minerals are divided into segments that include television shows, animated series, games, comic books, films and ...
We explore if it's really possible that new elements exist beyond the periodic table. Adamantium, bolognium, dilithium. Element Zero, Kryptonite. Mythril, Netherite, Orichalcum, Unobtanium. We ...
Collins, who is executive director of LTU’s Marburger STEM Center, says the fictional element was a good way of getting students to think seriously about the periodic table.
Arranged like the familiar periodic table of chemical elements (but missing the array of lanthanides and acitinides that sometimes punctuates the block between columns two and three), this ...
Topatco's Periodic Table of Sci-Fi Film and Television belongs on every geek's wall.
DC Comics has licensed DK Books to publish a periodic table for the DC Universe, including all manner of fictional elements and their effects on the characters within. As well as defining ...
The story behind Pixar‘s latest animated feature “Elemental” is a personal one to filmmaker Peter Sohn. The opening shows a family arriving at the fictional port of Elemental City, which ...
(via PBS Eons) Adamantium, bolognium, dilithium. Element Zero, Kryptonite. Mythril, Netherite, Orichalcum, Unobtanium. We love the idea of fictional elements with miraculous properties that science ...