The Episodic Table of Elements
A podcast about the fascinating true stories behind each element on the periodic table.
Insights from recent episode analysis
Audience Interest
- science enthusiasts
- chemistry learners
Podcast Focus
- stories behind periodic elements
- chemistry history
Publishing Consistency
- 98 episodes produced
- active for 8 years
Platform Reach
- no platforms detected
- unknown distribution
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Back-catalog monthly reach
Based on 1 signal · back-catalog reach only (show is inactive).
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By chart position
- 🇺🇸United States · ChemistryHOME#1870K to 4.6M
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom · Chemistry#161K to 322K
- 🇨🇦Canada · Chemistry#139K to 207K
- 🇦🇺Australia · Chemistry#130K to 161K
- 🇮🇳India · Chemistry#415K to 79K
- Per-Episode Audience
No new episodes in 90+ days
—🎙 Sporadic cadence·98 episodes·Long inactive - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
1.1M to 5.7M🇺🇸81%🇬🇧6%🇨🇦4%+4 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
214K to 1.1M
Market Insights
Platform Distribution
Reach across major podcast platforms, updated hourly
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 9/27/25 |  95. Americium: Mundus Novus | Many episodes have incorporated geology, but this one is more about geography. (And amateur nuclear science.) | — | ||||||
| 3/3/25 | 94. Plutonium: Weapons-Grade | Element 94 causes a bit of a crisis for our collections. | — | ||||||
| 8/22/24 | 93. Neptunium: Great Expectations | To the person who said, "the episodes are never too long," I'm terribly sorry. | — | ||||||
| 12/20/23 | The Episodic Table Of Elements Holiday Special | ♪ O chemistry, o chemistry, the study of all matter ♫ | — | ||||||
| 5/29/23 | 92. Uranium: Two Untold Tales (Live At Harvard) | America's worst radioactive accident isn't Three Mile Island, and the Nazi nuclear physicist wasn't assassinated by the famous baseball player. | — | ||||||
| 10/19/22 | 91. Protactinium: Decolonize Science | Sometimes we need a quiet moment in order to step back and look at the bigger picture. | — | ||||||
| 2/22/22 | 90. Thorium: Bright Lights, Big City | Sure, thorium could provide practically limitless clean energy, but then we couldn't build weapons of mass destruction. | — | ||||||
| 11/8/21 | 89. Actinium: The Windup… And The Pitchblende | We all know that radioactive rocks glow in the dark, except they actually don't, except for when they actually do. | — | ||||||
| 10/18/21 | 88. Radium: Several Sordid Affairs | 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. | — | ||||||
| 9/13/21 | 87. Francium: Nothing To Do With Cats | You don't have to have a degree to do science, but it helps. | — | ||||||
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| 8/23/21 | 86. Radon: It’s Coming From Inside The House | You know something's amiss when you set off the radiation alarms while walking in to the nuclear power plant. | — | ||||||
| 8/2/21 | 85. Astatine: Pathological Science | The story of astatine takes us to Alabama, Dacca, Romania, Vienna, and California, but definitely not Switzerland. | — | ||||||
| 7/5/21 | 84. Polonium: The Distinguished Alumna Of Warsaw’s Flying University | Sadly, it's no longer possible to purchase this lethally radioactive element for fifteen cents and a cereal boxtop. | — | ||||||
| 6/14/21 | 83. Bismuth: The Friendly Oddball | The periodic table shows the natural patterns and trends among the elements. Bismuth does not abide. | — | ||||||
| 5/24/21 | 82. Lead: Irrational Self-Interest | We just can't seem to stop chasing the sweet, sweet taste of element 82. | — | ||||||
| 4/26/21 | 81. Thallium: It Rides A Pale Horse | In which we learn how reading mystery novels might very well save a life. | — | ||||||
| 4/12/21 | 80. Mercury: Fatally Toxic And Probably In Your Mouth | 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. | — | ||||||
| 3/29/21 | 79. Gold: Lump Sum | All other metals step aside, because today we deal with the king of elements. | — | ||||||
| 3/15/21 | 78. Platinum: A Tous Les Temps, A Tous Les Peuples | Sometimes, being set in stone isn't permanent enough. | — | ||||||
| 3/1/21 | 77. Iridium: T. Rex And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | Alvarez noticed a great disturbance in the rocks, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. | — | ||||||
| 2/8/21 | 76. Osmium: It Stinks! | This entire episode serves as cautionary advice to anyone seeking to add osmium to their element collection. | — | ||||||
| 1/25/21 | 75. Rhenium: A Love Of Two Brains | Witness an incredible, unbreakable bond between two who couldn't be more alike. We'll also learn about a married couple. | — | ||||||
| 1/11/21 | 74. Tungsten: What Is The Atom We Love? | All right, everybody settle down. Welcome to the weekly meeting of the National Association Of W Lovers. | — | ||||||
| 12/28/20 | 73. Tantalum: Mystery Meat | Once more, the periodic table drags us to hell -- this time by way of ancient Greece. | — | ||||||
| 12/14/20 | 72. Hafnium: The Isomer Bomb | 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. | — | ||||||
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Distribution & Reach
About the show, platforms, and key insights.
Distribution & Reach
About the show, platforms, and key insights.
Key insights
What the show covers
- stories behind periodic elements
- chemistry history
- scientific discoveries
- elemental characteristics
Audience interests
- science enthusiasts
- chemistry learners
- history buffs
- element trivia fans
Platform reach
- no platforms detected
- unknown distribution
- potential for growth
- limited audience visibility
Publishing consistency
- 98 episodes produced
- active for 8 years
- weekly release schedule
- consistent content delivery
Chart history for The Episodic Table of Elements
Peaked at #1 in United States, top 10 in 26 of 45 tracked markets, currently #1 in United States.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| United States | — | #1 | #1 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #1 | #1 | — |
| Canada | — | #1 | #1 | — |
| Australia | — | #1 | #1 | — |
| Netherlands | — | #1 | #1 | — |
| SG | — | #1 | #1 | — |
| South Africa | — | #1 | #1 | — |
| Sweden | — | #2 | #2 | — |
| Norway | — | #2 | #2 | — |
| Denmark | — | #2 | #2 | — |
| India | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| AT | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| RO | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| AE | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| HK | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| TW | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| Ireland | — | #7 | #7 | — |
| Finland | — | #7 | #7 | — |
| NG | — | #7 | #7 | — |
Chart Positions
45 placements across 34 markets.
Chart Positions
45 placements across 34 markets.