What's your favorite element?

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From the Periodic Table, I mean .

Personally, I'm partial to oxygen. :)

[tridim]

1. Manganese

To take care of the Chinch bugs.

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4. Is that what mangoes are made of? nt

[jdots]

2. is coffee and element yet ?

can we borrow some oxygen in L.A. ?

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5. No, and

no. :)

[WindRavenX]

3. Me likey the carbon

Mmmm...organic...:D

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6. Eh, carbon's alright, but it's a little on the conductor

side, for my taste. :)

[WindRavenX]

10. arrghh!! science puns!!

DIE!!!!!! :argh: :P

[Zomby Woof]

7. Hydrogen

The basic building block for which nothing else could exist... from the sun to water.

Honorable mention: Neon, which lights many a bar so we can find our way through dark streets.

Helium is the most fun. Get a balloon to inhale and talk. Great fun and a cheap buzz.

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9. Psssh...hydrogen.

:eyes:

That is SO mainstream.

[Zomby Woof]

14. When it comes to chemistry...

I find anti-mainstream snobbery will get you nowhere. Accept your hydrogen-dependent existence! :D

[WindRavenX]

16. well...

...you might want to thank supernovas for allowing said hydrogen to form heavier elements- otherwise, there'd be hydrogen in this universe, but not a whole lot more than that...

[Zomby Woof]

19. think or thank?

Hydrogen is numero uno baby!

[WindRavenX]

22. dammit, that always happens

I catch a typo right after someone replies x(

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17. Hey, I took chemistry in high school

AND college. I like to think I know just a LITTLE BIT about what the "cool" elements are, k?

[Zomby Woof]

21. If that is so

Then why do you dismiss cadmium or bismuth? They are cool in their own semi-obscure way.

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23. Hey, I never said that.

I NEVER said they weren't cool. Stop putting words in my mouth!

They're kind of out of style nowadays, but they're definitely not overplayed. And that goes a long way.

:P

[Endangered Specie]

8. Francium

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12. That's just cuz you're a traitor wussy liberal.

If you like Francium so much, why don't you MOVE there??

:P

[hfojvt]

11. Molybdenum

but I have always been fond of the Mollies.

[GRLMGC]

13. Mmmm

Neon, because I had to do a report on it in 8th grade.

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15. Neon's cool, for sure.

Definitely high on my list. :)

[American Tragedy]

18. Tantalum

Sexy-sounding name, derived from Classical mythological torture, and I've always had a thing for transition metals.

Apparently, it's on my camera lenses as well.

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20. Oooooo Tantulum...sounds exotic...

Does it have big valence orbitals?

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30. Pretty damn big, in fact

Significantly larger radius than those more mainstream elements like oxygen and hydrogen.

It's not as big as uranium, but still respectable.

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32. Sweet.

I don't like em too big, anyway. :)

[pinniped]

36. Omega made a watch incorporating some tantalum ...

The first time I ever heard of tantalum was on this watch.

File photo:

[Quetzal]

24. Sulfer and Iron

couldn't have fireworks without them :-)

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26. Iron's some NICE shit...

Goes well with my oxygen...

But Sulfur? Come ON, dude.


:P

[arwalden]

25. A-U!! ... Gimme Back My Watch!!

I guess it would have to be GOLD!

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28. Ahhh, you bastard.

Yeah, yeah.

I heard that gold takes steroids, though.

[madrchsod]

27. iron

heat it up and beat the shit out of it or melt it and pour it in a mold.

[bloodyjack]

29. Supremium

:cry:

[TheDebbieDee]

31. Oxygen! It's good for a body.

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33. LOL well, it certainly helps.

:P

[McKenzie]

34. CaCO3...no wait, that's a compund!

calcium carbonate which is what my bones are made of...I like having a skeletal frame.

Element though? Iron, (Fe) coz we can do so much with it.

[kodi]

35. carbon, sp 2 and sp 3 hybridization are just so elegant

the beauty of the capabilities of the carbon atom make it number one on my hit parade and only quantum mechanics is as fascinating.

[Goathead]

37. Silicon

Because I have heard that if they ever find a non-carbon based lifeform in the universe, they speculate it will be silicon based.