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What is your favorite periodic table element and why? Mines ununoctium because its just a fucking super heavy badass

>> No.3930518

bump

>> No.3930515

Fluorine, because it has the highest electron affinity.

>> No.3930523

>>3930501
hipster

mine is mercury, because fucking woah

>> No.3930521

Mine is element 115 because the aliens use it for energy in space travel. I like aliens.

>> No.3930525

>>3930523
op
mercury is probably second for me
Just another plain badass of the universe

>> No.3930527

Hydrogen, it's the only one I can solve analytically.

>> No.3930531
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3930531

Bismuth, yesterday, today, and forever.

>> No.3930536

>>3930531

This, nothing can top bismuth oxide crystals for sheer beauty.

Not even red gold.

>> No.3930538

because you're Bi?
ohoho

>> No.3930544

hydrogen

because it's the simplest, and the purest

>> No.3930546

one proton's all you need

>> No.3930554

tungsten, melting point

>> No.3930567

Another badass element is lead
The half life is longer than the existance of the universe
Pb for lyfe

>> No.3930568

Fucking bismuth got isotopes like no other.

>> No.3930571

Technetium is number 43 and has no stable isotopes, dude whaaaaat

>> No.3930581

thorium of course.

>> No.3930586
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3930586

Caesium, because of its vehement reactions.

>> No.3930590

>>3930527
Sup Bohr.

Noble Gases were here, bonding peasant elements are fags.

>> No.3930600

Oxygen, it burns shit, yo.

>> No.3930614

I've always had a love/hate relationship with Francium...

it reminds me of my ex-gf... unstable

>> No.3930636

>>3930614
She decayed into atoms of radon and radium?
Iknowthatfeelbro.jpg

>> No.3930640

>>3930636
Is this going to be the new burst into treats?

>> No.3930673
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3930673

bumpthisshit
with ununoctium

>> No.3930680

bump

>> No.3930684

My favorite element is fire cause its like soooooooooo powerful and awesome^__^!!!!!!!!11!!

>> No.3930685

>>3930684
Polonium benders kick the shit out of fire benders

>> No.3930688

Argon, the proof that not everything will give you cancer.

>> No.3930692

carbon, not even diamonds are forever

>> No.3930702

Mercury, fucking liquid metal.

>> No.3930712

>>3930702
every metal can be liquid, but mercury is cool, it was in my favorite computer game, HoMaM

>> No.3930714

>>3930685
Polonium benders need bismuth accelerators.

Palladium, makes a great co-catalyst in salt form. Just endlessly useful that precious, pretty stuff.

>> No.3930743

>>3930712

The at room temperature was implied.

>> No.3930745

Nickel. I just happen to like the number 28.

I also like Mercury.

>> No.3930746

Titanium.

It has generally awesome properties, it's used in all sorts of crazy stuff like hip replacements, plastic colouring and spectacle frames. And you can make it pretty much any colour through some sort of oxidation process or something.

>> No.3930747

>>3930712
Liquid tungsten
try to melt that shit

>> No.3930761

>>3930640
>Go to Thoriumstop because I want some Thorium to build my own reactor
>Almost trip over my lab coat as I enter the shop
>8/10 Cashier giggles
>Sweat a little because I don't usually see females (I spend most of the time in my lab)
>Pick up the first box of thorium I see and run to the check out
>Cashier tries to make some small talk with me
>Mumble something about neutrinos under my breath
>She looks awkwardly at me and tells me that'll be $599
>Open my fanny pack to grab my money
>Electrical wires fall out
>Other people in the store start to look at me
>Panic while trying to pick up all my wires
>Lab coat gets stuck
>Drop all my electrical wires
>Decay into protactinium 233

>> No.3930771

>>3930761

I lol'd

>> No.3930773

>>3930761
made my day

>> No.3930777

Carbon.

Having a thousand different forms based on density like a boss.

Also being the basis of the mechanics of life.

>> No.3930786

>>3930777
>having a thousand different forms based on density
wat

>> No.3930795

>>3930786

Okay it's much less than that and it's more based around molecular structure but
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Carbon_forms

>> No.3930808

>>3930795
yeah, carbon gets around
pimp of the elements

>> No.3930816

Bismuth like a boss

>> No.3930826

>>3930816
Shitload of people are Bi in this thread

>> No.3930846

bump

>> No.3930865

bump for periodic justice

>> No.3930983

Is it possible to make a suit of armor out of tungsten?

>> No.3931081

>>3930761
lol'd hard

>> No.3931760

>>3930983
It will break very easily.

>> No.3931765

>>3931760
not as easily as the shitty condom i used last night. fucking trojan... now i've probably got herpes

>> No.3931773

intelligent calcium

>> No.3931791

Feynmanium owns all y'all.

>> No.3931804

>>3930501
Bismuth.

>> No.3931808

Needs more love for Pd.
Catalyzing shit all day.

>> No.3931823

>>3931808
Dat hydrogenation.

>> No.3931831

>>3930761
>Thorium
>$599
You got ripped off.

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3931833

I like Dubsnium.

>> No.3931837
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3931837

Thorium all the way.

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>>3931833
Get out.

Also, Thorium is the only right answer.

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>>3931833
Clever girl.

>> No.3931849

helium, because good luck cooling things to ultra low temps without it.

also only superfluid we've made i think

>> No.3931854

>>3931849
We've actually made at least 2 distinct superfluids from it (He3 and He4 behave differently; one's a boson and the other a fermion).

>> No.3931858

>>3931854
ones a femanon? not suprised it acts differently

>> No.3931861

>>3931854
Correction: outside of a magnetic field, He3 has two superfluid phases on its own. He4 (I believe) only has one.

>> No.3931875

Weed coz like the long term effects are beneficial to brain power and stuff

>> No.3932038

>>3931849
Enjoy it while you can. Helium is running out. The US has the largest reserves I think, and is trying to exhaust it within the next 20 years or so.

>> No.3932051

Nice links for rare metals and such

http://www.unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=16_17_69

http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=16_17_69&products_id=525

>> No.3932066

>>3932038

>Thinks Helium is running out

>> No.3932080

Iron, because I am not a huge fucking faggot.

>> No.3932358

>>3932066
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/08/25/nobel-prize-winner-warns-world-were-running-out
-of-helium/

interesting ,could be a cheap lotto ticket to store a couple tanks for a couple years lol

>> No.3932373

Seaborgium because it has the best name.

>> No.3932378

Gold because it is soft, heavy & addictive.