The Episodic Table of Elements

Many episodes have incorporated geology, but this one is more about geography. (And amateur nuclear science.)

To the person who said, "the episodes are never too long," I'm terribly sorry.

America's worst radioactive accident isn't Three Mile Island, and the Nazi nuclear physicist wasn't assassinated by the famous baseball player.

Sure, thorium could provide practically limitless clean energy, but then we couldn't build weapons of mass destruction.

Out of all the characters who encounter radium in this episode, the only one to emerge unscathed is the guy who comes face-to-face with Satan.

You know something's amiss when you set off the radiation alarms while walking in to the nuclear power plant.

Sadly, it's no longer possible to purchase this lethally radioactive element for fifteen cents and a cereal boxtop.

We just can't seem to stop chasing the sweet, sweet taste of element 82.

Even if you hate tuna, have flawless teeth, and only use digital thermometers, humans have historically not been shy about getting a mouthful of mercury.

Sometimes, being set in stone isn't permanent enough.

This entire episode serves as cautionary advice to anyone seeking to add osmium to their element collection.

All right, everybody settle down. Welcome to the weekly meeting of the National Association Of W Lovers.

The science suggests hafnium can't be used to create a gamma ray bomb, but that won't stop the U.S. government from trying.