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 Nathaniel Davis, Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington and Associate Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute introduces us to the element Lead and the reason for tonight's sonic tonic dedicated to writing.
Photo: By Hi-Res Images of Chemical Elements (http://images-of-elements.com/lead.php) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
