Anna Newman Named “little silver” but more precious than gold Found in your jewellery as I’m nice to behold I’m really quite durable, don’t tend to react But you’re after a catalyst? Well I’m [...]
Matt Ball-Jones There once was the man Smithson Tennant Who discovered a new metal element The second densest they claim And iridium’s the name Its inertness is particularly evident About the [...]
Debbie Hammond My high strength alloys are the engineers darling, For blades tipped with tungsten have teeth that are snarling. In argon and helium, I can help you to weld. Or be a life proof [...]
Will McMahon Tantalum can fix your skull, Its other uses are kind of dull. This element, found in the back of your phone, Can also be used to replace your bone. Often found at the tip of a [...]
Freya Cleasby This metal found silvery and white, Discovery led to a fight Chemists all started to bicker But just who found it quicker? In the end it was Urbain who was right! About the Author [...]
Beth Crowston In the year 1878, de Marignac discovered something really great. Ytterbia is what he founded, but suspected it was compounded. Georges Urbain did separate the two, and Ytterbium [...]
Marika Meijer somewhere in the farthest reaches of the medieval north, in the vast, deep, dark unknown lies a mystical silvery metal, rarest of the rare earthen elements. there she waits, a [...]
