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- The Gas That Wouldn't Burn
- Article describing how Alpha Chi Sigma members were involved with the events described on a pictured Kansas historical marker relating to the discovery of helium in a deposit of natural gas.
- Helium Monument
- Front cover of the summer 2012 issue of The Hexagon, which features the Helium Monument in Amarillo, Texas. The visible portion of this monument is a metal sculpture of a helium molecule hanging from the center of a structure of metal bars. The inside cover contains a table of contents, a staff list, an editorial, and a description of the Helium Monument.
- Die Köpfe (The Heads)
- Front cover of the winter 2010 issue of the Hexagon, which features a sculpture of a bearded head. The inside cover includes a table of contents, a list of staff, an editorial, and a description of the cover.
- Manaccan Church, Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England.
- Cover of The Hexagon bearing the image of the Church of Manacca in Cornwall, England. The church is a stone building with arched windows visible on two levels. A crenelated tower extends up from the nearest portion of the church. Tombstones are visible near the bottom of the image, with a fronded plant to the left. The picture has the logo of The Hexagon across its top, a photo of James and Virginia Marshall on the right, and a photo from an article about pharmaceutical jobs near the center.
- Nikolaikirche and Apotheke zum Bären, Berlin, Germany
- Front cover of volume 100, issue 1 of The Hexagon, featuring the multistory brick and stone church, Nikolaikirche. The church's first several floors are comprised of older stone work while the upper stories use newer red brick. People and vehicles are on the street near the church, and a row of buildings can be seen in the background to the left. The magazine's logo is printed over the church's bluish roof spires. The inside cover contains a table of contents, staff credits, and an editorial.
- Pharmacy at Quedlinburg
- Front cover of the spring 2012 issue of The Hexagon, featuring the pharmacy at Quedlinburg, Germany, where Martin Heinrich Klaproth was trained. The three story building is pinkish with white trim around its windows. A triangular stone piece with the image of a flying bird sits on the third floor over the entrance. The inside cover of the magazine contains a table of contents, staff listings, an editorial, and a description of the building.
- Recent Foolery in the Periodic Table
- Article which satirically claims that several elements on the periodic table were faked.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Agricola
- Article describing the career and discoveries of Georgius Agricola. Tourist information regarding locations important to his life are visited and discussed.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Althofen, Austria and Auer von Welsbach
- Article recounting a visit to sites related to Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, discoverer of lutetium and ytterbium and inventor of the incandescent "Welsbach mantle." Maps and tourist information are provided regarding the Welsbach Museum in Treibach, Austria.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Aluminum
- Article describing the history of aluminum, from its use in alum to its isolation. Tourist information is given regarding locations pertinent to aluminum.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Carl Wilhelm Scheele
- Article describing the career and discoveries of Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Tourist information regarding locations important to Scheele's life are visited and discussed.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Columbium and Tantalum
- Article describing the discovery of columbium and tantalum. Tourist information regarding locations significant to these discoveries are included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Courtois and Iodine
- Article describing the history of iodine, including its discovery by Bernard Courtois while during the production of saltpeter. Tourist information regarding pertinent locations is included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Cronstedt and Nickel
- Article describing Axel Fredrik Cronstedt and his discovery of nickel. Information regarding pertinent locations is included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Daniel Rutherford, Nitrogen, and the Demise of Phlogiston
- Article describing Daniel Rutherford's discovery of nitrogen. The article also details the work of other scientists revolving around the discovery of nitrogen.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Europium. Eugène Demarcay
- Article describing Eugène Demarcay and his discovery of europium. The authors toured Paris, France, in search of locations important to Demarcay, providing the reader with maps and historical information regarding the sites.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Fluorine
- Article describing the isolation of elemental fluorine. Tourist information is given regarding locations pertinent to the element's history.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Gallium
- Article describing the discovery of the element gallium. The authors travel to sites pertinent to the history of gallium, including the home and laboratory of its discoverer and the location from which it was procured.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Germanium
- Article recounting the history of the element Germanium, including background material on mining in Germany and the isolation of Germanium by Clemens A. Winkler. Tourist information is provided regarding Winkler's laboratory and mines open to the public as museums.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Hafnium
- Article describing the search for element 72, the scientists involved, and the nationalist politics surrounding the discovery. Tourist information is included for areas significant to the history of hafnium.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Helium
- Article describing the discovery of helium in the sun and on Earth via spectroscopy. Tourist information is included for areas significant to those involved.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Jáchymov (Joachimsthal), Czech Republic
- Article describing Jáchymov, Czech Republic, and its relation to radon. Tourist information is included for pertinent areas.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
- Article describing the life of Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner and his attempts to systematically organize the elements. Tourist information regarding locations significant to his history is included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Jöns Jakob Berzelius
- Article describing the life and career of Jöns Jakob Berzelius. Tourist information regarding locations significant to his history is included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Joseph Black. Magnesia and Fixed Air
- Article describing Joseph Black and his discovery of magnesia and fixed air. The authors toured Edinburgh, Scotland in search of locations important to Black, providing the reader with maps and historical information regarding the sites.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Joseph Priestley
- Article describing the career and discoveries of Joseph Priestley. Tourist information regarding locations important to Priestley's life are visited and discussed.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Klaproth
- Article describing the life and career of Martin Heinrich Klaproth, including his discoveries of uranium and zirconium. Tourist information regarding locations significant to his history is included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Madam Curie
- Article describing the career of Marie Curie and the discovery of polonium and radium. Tourist information regarding the areas where the Curies were most active are included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Mineral Waters and Spectroscopy
- Article describing the career of Robert Bunsen and the history of spectroscopy and its use in mineral analysis. The discovery of cesium and rubidium using spectroscopy on mineral water is included. In addition, the authors offer tourist information regarding locations pertinent to Bunsen and certain mineral water springs.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Montpellier and Bromine
- Article recounting the history of the element Bromine, including its discovery in the salt lagoons of the Montpellier region of France by Antoine-Jérome Balard. Maps of the region and of Balard's birthplace are presented.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Moseley and Atomic Numbers
- Article describing the career of Henry Moseley and his findings regarding atomic numbers. Tourist information is included for areas relevant to Moseley.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Niobium and Tantalum
- Article describing the discovery of niobium and tantalum. Tourist information regarding locations significant to these discoveries are included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Paracelsus
- Article describing the career and discoveries of Phillippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombastus von Hohenheim. Tourist information regarding locations important to his life are visited and discussed.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Phlogiston and Lavoisier
- Article describing the rise and fall of the eighteenth century idea of phlogiston. Tourist information is provided regarding pertinent areas of phlogiston's history.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Phosphoro di Bologna
- Article recounting a visit to sites related to the discovery of phosphorescent stone (barium sulfide) in Bologna, Italy. Maps with driving directions are included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Phosphorus
- Article describing the discovery of phosphorus in 1669 by an alchemist searching for the philosopher's stone, and its use a century later by Lavoisier to help usher in the era of modern chemistry. Tourist information regarding sites pertinent to this history are included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Rhenium and Technetium
- Article describing the discovery of rhenium and technetium by Walter Karl Friedrich Noddack and Ida Eva Noddack-Tacke. Information regarding pertinent locations is included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Riddarhyttan, Sweden
- Article describing the authors' tour through Riddarhyttan, Sweden, to visit the areas where cerium and cobalt were discovered. Maps and photographs of pertinent locations are located as well as a history of the area and the elements discovered there.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Ruthenium
- Article describing the discovery of platinum in Russia and the history of ruthenium. Tourist information regarding sites pertinent to this history are included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Rutherford and Radon
- Article describing the history of the discovery of radon. Tourist information is included for areas significant to radon and its discoverers.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Sir Humphry Davy and the Alkalis
- Article provides information on the history of alkalis, particularly discoveries associated with potassium and sodium. The article also gives information on Humphry Davy, the first person to prepare alkalis in elemental form.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Soddy and Isotopes
- Article describing Frederick Soddy's career and research of isotopes. Tourist information is included for areas significant to Soddy's life and work.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Strontium
- Article describing the history of the element strontium from its discovery in Strontian, Scotland, to its early uses in English medicine. Maps with directions and photographs of pertinent locations are included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Tellurium and Fata Baii (Fascebanya), Romania.
- Article describing the discovery of the element tellurium. The authors travel through Romania to visit the Transylvanian mine where tellurium was discovered. They also visit the Brukenthal Museum of Sibiu and describe the museum's mineral collection.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: Thallium, Crookes, and Lamy
- Article describing the nearly simultaneous discovery of thallium by William Crookes and Claude-August Lamy. Tourist information is included for areas in London, England, and Lille, France, that are significant to the lives of these two men.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: The Curious Case of Vestium
- Article describing Jedrzej Sniadecki's career and his flawed findings regarding vestium. Tourist information is included for areas significant to Sniadecki's life and work.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: The Grand Tour
- Article advertising the release of "Rediscovery of the Elements" on DVD with additional information.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: The Harz Mountains and Göttingen
- Article describing the importance of the Harz Mountains and the University of Göttingen in the discovery of cadmium and thallium. Tourist information regarding the area is included.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: The Noble Gases--Rayleigh and Ramsay
- Article describing the discovery of argon, helium, and other inert gases by Lord Rayleigh, Sir William Ramsay, and other collaborators. Ramsay also characterized the noble gases and classified them within the structure of the Periodic Table of Elements.
- Rediscovery of the Elements: The Periodic Table
- Article recounting the history of the development of the Periodic Table. Sites pertinent to this development were visited by the authors, who provide related tourist information.