19 Jul 2019

Element of the Week

From Nights, 8:10 pm on 19 July 2019
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To mark 2019 as the year of the Periodic Table, RNZ Nights has teamed up with the MacDiarmid Institute to bring you Element of The Week.

Tonight, Dr Natalie Plank, Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute, and Senior Lecturer in Physics at Victoria University of Wellington introduces us to the element Gold and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to Wealth.

The pure gold ore found in the mine is in the hands of men.

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