Palladium - Periodic Table of Videos

For our updated Palladium video, we are mining the Royal Society archives for the story of its discovery - a tale of money, an asteroid and stolen samples? The discovery was made by William Hyde Wollaston. Royal Society (Romantic Chemistry Exhibition until June 14): http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/r... This video features Professor Martyn Poliakoff. More chemistry at http://www.periodicvideos.com/ Follow us on Facebook at   / periodicvideos   And on Twitter at   / periodicvideos   From the School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/chemistry... Periodic Videos films are by video journalist Brady Haran: http://www.bradyharan.com/ Brady's other channels include:    / sixtysymbols   (Physics and astronomy)    / numberphile   (Numbers and maths)    / deepskyvideos   (Space stuff)    / nottinghamscience   (Science and behind the scenes)    / foodskey   (Food science)    / backstagescience   (Big science facilities)    / favscientist   (Favourite scientists)    / bibledex   (Academic look at the Bible)    / wordsoftheworld   (Modern language and culture)    / philosophyfile   (Philosophy stuff)    / psyfile   (Psychology stuff)