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Tardis
Periodic table in Shada

Ek on the periodic table. (TV: Shada)

Ek

Ek was the symbol of an element on the periodic table with an atomic number of 104. (TV: Shada)

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Element 104 was first synthesised in in the 1960s and named Rutherfordium (Rf) in 1997, years after the 1979 setting of the television story Shada. The element was temporarily named unnilquadium (Unq) but was also known as eka-hafnium.

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