What element of the periodic table would you use to describe yourself?

[Democracy White]

Or that you would like to be and why?

Here's a site if you need help. I love this site cause it so artistic and beautiful:

http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/pertable_fla.htm

Anyways I chose nitrogen:

A colourless, odourless gas that makes up 78% of the air by volume. Nitrogen is essential for life since it is part of DNA, but it is also needed for protein and many other components of the living cell. There is a so-called ‘nitrogen cycle’ in nature - that is, it is possible to trace its movements from the air to plants, to animals, to the soil where it can be recycled or washed into rivers, and where some microbes can turn it back into nitrogen gas and return it to the atmosphere. About 50 million tonnes of nitrogen are extracted every year, mainly for use in making fertiliser, but also for making plastics, dyes and explosives.

I chose this because I respect life and nitrogen is a very important part of sustaining life on this planet. Also I have a very broad worldview and spirtuality in that I look at the bigger picture in things. Also it recycles itself as it states above and that is important to me in that we use old ways in order to learn the new.

I'm on a brain freeze today. Just went swimming so I am not as articulate that I would like to be. :)



Dee

[smiley_glad_hands]

1. Fluorine

I wanna be a Free Radical.

[stellanoir]

2. can I incorporate two ???

NO2, here. Bwaaaaaaa

[havocmom]

3. I am

the tack that hold it on the wall

[iconoclastic cat]

4. Dumbassium.

[Floogeldy]

5. Iron!

Pronounced "eye run," not "eye earn."

B-)

[El Fuego]

6. I'll be plutonium.

Just for laughs.

[the_spectator]

26. Cool Oppenheimer reference on that visual -

That's the Hindu goddess, Shiva, the goddess of death. As Robert Oppenheimer said when the first nuclear weapon was successfully tested, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

[El Fuego]

30. I like that!

Very cool! :7

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Cobalt. Maybe Palladium.

Cobalt:



Discovered : 1735 by G. Brandt

Isolated in Stockholm, Sweden

Origin : The name is derived from the German ‘Kobald’, meaning goblin.

Description :

A lustrous, silvery metal with a blue cast. It can be magnetised like iron and so is used to make magnets, as well as in ceramics and paints. The radioactive isotope cobalt-60 is used in medical treatment and, in some countries, to irradiate food to preserve it. Cobalt is an essential element for humans since it is part of vitamin B12. The amount needed is very small, and the body contains only about 1 milligram.

Image :

China blue. Click here to see larger version of this image.

http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/cobalt.html






Palladium:



Discovered : by W.H. Wollaston in 1803

Isolated in London, UK

Origin : The element is named after the asteriod Pallas, also discovered in 1803.

Description :

A silvery metal that resists corrosion and is used as a catalyst in the chemicals industry. Palladium metal has one unique feature - hydrogen gas can filter through it.

Image: Asteroid. Click here to see larger version of this image.
http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/palladium.html

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Krypton

Because Superman was born on me, but then I exploded.

[derby378]

9. Hydrogen

Like nitrogen, I'm essential for the building blocks of life as we know it - but on a different level. I'm in everything from the water you drink to the core of the star that gives you light and warmth. I'm the most plentiful element in the universe. I'm everywhere, baby!

And if I want a neutron in my nucleus, no problem. Take a look at that glass of water you're drinking. One out of every thousand hydrogen atoms in that glass is actually an atom of heavy hydrogen, also known as deuterium. So I can afford to be flexible, even if you can't get rid of me.

Well, I take that back. You can get rid of me by concentrating all the hydrogen in the universe into stars where I get converted into helium, then carbon, and - in the larger stars - iron. Then all the stars will either burn out or go supernova, and in either case the universe will grow really dark and really, really cold. And how much fun would we have then?

So you see, you need me just as much as I need you. So please be gentle.

[Democracy White]

10. Nice reply

I just can't come up with something like that.

Dee

[derby378]

15. Thanks - you did pretty damn good yourself

Very nice integration of nitrogen into your weltanschuung. Not many people can pull that off!

[Democracy White]

16. I used to be a chemical head, lol

not very big on science though, but while I was on my chemistry kick, I learned to integrate the symbols and elements into my spiritual life, heck it's the Universe ok? lol.

Dee

[BrklynLiberal]

11. Mercury..also the Planet of Gemini. .. I am a Gemini.

That is a fantastic Periodic Table....








Discovered : known to ancient civilisations

Origin : The element is named after the planet Mercury and the symbol comes from the Latin ‘hydragyrum’, meaning liquid silver.

Description :

Mercury is one of the seven metals of alchemy (gold, silver, mercury, copper, lead, iron & tin). The symbol for mercury could also be used to represent the planet of the same name in astrology. The metal is often also represented by a serpent or snake.

Mercury, called quicksilver by the ancients was used to make red mercuric oxide by heating the element in a solution of nitric acid. The reaction of quicksilver in nitric acid is striking as a thick red vapor hovers over the surface and bright red crystals precipitate to the bottom. Alchemists were convinced that mercury transcended both the solid and liquid states, both earth and heaven, both life and death.

Mercury has fascinated people for millennia as a heavy liquid metal that can be extracted easily by heating cinnabar, a red ore (mercury sulfide). Mercury is known to be dangerous in all its forms, and use is now confined to industry where it is employed in the manufacture of chlorine and sodium hydroxide, although even here it is being phased out. Some is still used to treat seed corn to make it resistant to fungus disease, and in street lighting, dental amalgam and electrical apparatus. Older uses - in thermometers, in felt production and as a de-worming powder - have all been superseded. Mercury is widespread in the environment - every mouthful of food we eat contains a little. Our daily intake is about 0.01 milligram (about 0.3g in a lifetime), and this we can cope with easily. However, one form of mercury - methylmercury - is particularly dangerous; it can be formed by micro-organisms in polluted waters, absorbed by fish and so eaten by people.

[Democracy White]

12. Wouldn't this be the freeper element?

Description :

A man-made radioactive metal, a few grams of which are produced from plutonium in nuclear reactors each year.

Dee

[Democracy White]

13. I also like Maganese

Description :

A hard, brittle, silvery metal used to harden steel. It is an essential element for all living things. Certain soils are deficient in it, and so it is added to some fertilisers and given as a food supplement to grazing animals. The average human body contains about 12 milligrams and takes in about 4 milligrams per day from such foods as nuts, bran, wholegrain cereals, tea and parsley.

I feel that I am spiritually nuturing when I am in the mood and like this element I can help people grow better and live better. I consider myself somewhat of an advisor.

Dee

[derby378]

14. My wife wants to be Sarcastium

It's an element that can devastate the weak.

:sarcasm:

[Lannes]

17. Hunkonium

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Administratium.

The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by researchers at the University of Fulchester. The element, tentatively named Administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have 1 neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons and 111 assistant vice neutrons. This gives it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called morons.

Since it has no electrons, Administratium is inert. However, it can be detected chemically as it impedes every reaction it comes in contact with. According to the discoverers, a minute amount of Administratium caused one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would have normally occurred in less than one second. Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years, at which time it does not actually decay but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. Some studies have shown that the atomic mass actually increases after each reorganisation.

Research at other laboratories indicates that Administratium occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It tends to concentrate at certain points such as government agencies, large corporations and universities and can usually be found in the newest, best appointed and best maintained buildings.

Scientists point out that Administratium is known to be toxic at any level of concentration and can easily destroy any productive reaction where it is allowed to accumulate. Attempts are being made to determine how Administratium can be controlled to prevent irreversible damage, but results to date are not promising.

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/administ.htm

[the_spectator]

29. smilie time -

:rofl:

[Democracy White]

31. I didn't get this at first

but now I do. Ha ha that made me laugh. Certainly a smile for a day.

Dee

[fortyfeetunder]

19. Hotsnottium

'cause I am so bad...trouble is, when it decays it becomes coldboogerium!

[TroubleMan]

20. Tin, for a real stupid reason

I got in a fight in jail over a scrabble game because of that word. He didn't believe that you could pluralize tin (as in I have two tins of sardines). No scrabble dictionary was there to back me up. It resulted in a fist fight.

Stupidest reason for a jail fight.....ever.

[datasuspect]

21. who?

DOLEMITE motherfucker!

(from a movie)

[TroubleMan]

22. That would be HumanTornadium

If you saw Dolemite II.

[datasuspect]

24. or howsabout "avenging disco godfather"

that was a fucking classic.

[TroubleMan]

25. PeteyWheatstrownium

I liked all of Rudy Ray Moore's movies. Well I haven't seen all of them, yet, but I love the ones I have seen.

[datasuspect]

27. i dig your icon

what's happening brother (or sister?)

i didn't check

i had a detroit mix (alternate mixes of the album "what's going on.")

marvin is/was the shit

to the bone

[TroubleMan]

28. Thanks

nt.

[SarahB]

23. Carbon

Hello? I am an organically based life form! :P

[EstimatedProphet]

32. Gooooolllld!

I love gooollld!
Hey everybody, I ma from Holland. Isn't that wierd?

[Xipe Totec]

33. Otherwise known as Aurum

Yea, I like it too!

[Xipe Totec]

34. Natron ( Sodium )

because of my caustic personality.