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More episodes of the podcast The Romance of Modern Chemistry by James C. Philip

• 00 - Preface
• 01 - The Dawn of Chemistry
• 02 - Alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone
• 03 - Nature's Building Material
• 04 - Invisible Substances, and How We Know of Their Existence
• 05 - Elements with a Double Identity
• 06 - Metals, Common and Uncommon
• 07 - Where Two Metals are Better than One
• 08 - Acids and Alkalis
• 09 - Natural Waters, and What They May Contain
• 10 - Chemical Changes which Produce Light and Heat
• 11 - How Fire Is Made
• 12 - Nature's Store of Fuels
• 13 - More About Fuel
• 14 - Flame: What is It?
• 15 - Explosions and Explosives
• 16 - Below Zero
• 17 - Chemistry at High Temperatures
• 18 - Chemistry of the Stars
• 19 - Chemistry of Agriculture
• 20 - Sugar and Starch
• 21 - Fats and Oils
• 22 - How Man Competes with Nature
• 23 - The Adulteration of Food
• 24 - The Value of the By-product
• 25 - Valuable Substances from Unlikely Sources
• 26 - Chemistry and Electricity
• 27 - Some Interesting Facts about Solutions
• 28 - From Solutions to Crystals
• 29 - Great Effects from Small Causes
• 30 - How Trifling Observations Lead to Great Discoveries