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William Crookes: Spirits, Plasma, and Thallium

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Halloween energy, but make it scientific! Aarati tells the story of a chemist who discovered thallium and the fourth state of matter, plasma. But he also used science to investigate spirits, believing he could explain the unexplainable supernatural phenomena he observed.

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