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Last of the Elements Discovered: Periodic Table and Element Use (1951)

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I found this down in the warehouse this morning, published in Popular Science Monthly, September 1951.  It sin’t every day that you see a periodic table with drawings showing the employment of the elements, especially the stained glass windows for the element with the atomic number 92.  Actually uranium glass was a “thing” once upon a time,, at least until the Cold War kicked in, putting a crimp in the supplies of uranium for glass plates and beads and that sort of thing.  

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