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Oxygen (O) - industrial uses
Why is oxygen essential to steelmaking, and can you inhale too much of it?
Titanium (Ti) - materials
Stronger than steel, could this glamorous metal eventually become as common as steel?
Oxygen (O) - oxidation
The βelement of lifeβ also makes our atmosphere very dangerous and costly to operate in.
Cobalt (Co)
The metal in magnets and phone batteries - but is some of it being mined by children?
Copper (Cu) - electricity
Why copper wires? And do solar power and batteries herald the death of the old AC grid?
Copper (Cu) - materials
The distinctive red metal that distills whisky and kills hospital super-bugs.
Boron (B)
The mineral from the Wild West that toughens glass and stops bullets in their tracks.
Gallium & Indium (Ga, In)
LED lighting and the other electronics revolutionised by two obscure chemical elements.
