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Lithium
In the build-up to the Christmas Lectures in 2012, the Royal Institution published a new video for every day of advent revealing the elements that really excite and inspire people.
In this short film, physicist Jim Al-Khalili focuses his attention on the very strange nucleus from an isotope of lithium that only exists due to the "weird rules of quantum mechanics".
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