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Hunting the Elements 39 Season 16 Episode
55 min
1974
7.1
Where do natureโs building blocks, called the elements, come from? Theyโre the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. To unlock their secrets, David Pogue, the lively host of NOVAโs popular "Making Stuff" series and technology correspondent of The New York Times, spins viewers through the world of weird, extreme chemistry: the strongest acids, the deadliest poisons, the universeโs most abundant elements, and the rarest of the rareโsubstances cooked up in atom smashers that flicker into existence for only fractions of a second.
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