Everything Matters: Tales from the Periodic Table: Hydrogen

Explore the lightest and most abundant element. Discover its history and highly flammable properties with host Ron Hipschman and watch Exploratorium teacher-in-residence Zeke Kossover use electrolysis to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen gas. Learn the origins of the periodic table with Exploratorium exhibit developer Paul Stepahin, and find out how the ancient elements of fire, water, earth, and air led to an elegant system based on the predictions of quantum mechanics.