In this blog I will include a timeline of scientific discoveries, my reviews on science related books and thoughts on current affairs in the scientific world.
In 1846 caesium was almost discovered by Carl Plattner while investigating mineral pollucite which is caesium aluminium silicate. Unfortunately, as he ran out of material to analyse from he only accounted for 93% of the elements it contained. Eventually in 1860, Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen discovered caesium in mineral water at Heidelberg using the […]
Read More Caesium – Cause of the Most Accurate Clocks on EarthTo talk about the periodicity of group 1 metals its important to know the chemicals involved and the theories that allowed these chemicals to be grouped. One of the first group 1 metals discovered around the ancient times was sodium. However it was not associated with elements until much later on, rather it was known […]
Read More Discovery of Periodicity and the Formation of the Periodic TableI want to start my first post off by going through the discovery of the first chemical element – copper. After reading ‘The disappearing spoon’, which I will review in a later post, I realised the importance of chemical discoveries and the interesting stories that come along with them so what better element to start […]
Read More Discovery of the first chemical element – Copper
Hasan's thoughts and analysis of science related topics 