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Article: Stories from the source enrich almost-complete collection of samples.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- October 22, 2004
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Byline: Alexandra Witze
DENTON, Texas _ Some couples collect Christmas ornaments or antique furniture. The Marshalls collect chemical elements.
In their townhouse in Denton, Texas, chemistry professor Jim Marshall and his wife, Virginia, have compiled perhaps the world's only collection of every element from hydrogen (atomic number 1) to uranium (atomic number 92).
Not content with that, they have also traveled to most of the places where each element was discovered, bringing back a sample of the original minerals.
Shelf after shelf, the collection brims with chemical history. The elements span the ancient, used by alchemists in their ...