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What's your favourite element?

>> No.2491172

vagina. Something you 40yo virgins no nothing about sadly.

>> No.2491181

Pu

>> No.2491184

beans.

in ketchup.

wait, that's 2 elements.

>> No.2491201
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Oxygen. Can't live without it.

>> No.2491203

>>2491160
that's a fucking sweet table i want one

>> No.2491213

Osmium or Thorium.

>> No.2491336

Fluff

>> No.2491349

Antimony

>> No.2491355

>What's your favourite element?
Neodymium, I just love those ultra strong magnets to screw around with while I think.


>>2491201
You couldn't live without a lot of elements, just saying.

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jazz

>> No.2491365
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BISMUTH FUCK YEAH

>> No.2491370

Osmium, because it's what Colossus is made from when he transforms in the Marvel Universe to his 'liquid steel' form.

Does it exist irl?

>> No.2491374

>>2491370
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmium

>> No.2491380

RADIUM FUCK YEAH

>> No.2491393

>>2491370
Osmium also happens to be toxic.

>> No.2491397

Bromium.

It's coolest and manliest of elements.

>> No.2491445

Deprotonated hydrogen

>> No.2491459

>>2491397
I was thinking the same thing, bro.

>> No.2491463

U all elemental racist!

love 'em all and they will love you back

>> No.2491534

>>2491397

You mean bromine?

>> No.2491551

>>2491445
lol wut

>> No.2491557
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YOUR DEATH IS MY FAVOURITE ELEMENT, OUTSIDER.

>> No.2491558

I'm particular to tungsten (wolfram)

>> No.2491568

>implying I'd want to sit on the actinide series

>> No.2491574

Osmium.

Hardest metal in the universe.

>> No.2491596

Like every time this thread pops up, I can't resist stating "mercury".

>> No.2491597

bolonium

>> No.2491610

Boron, he's so misunderstood
>just like me...

>> No.2491633

>>2491597
Pure, weapons grade bolonium?

>> No.2491635

Cobalt makes some pretty awesome compounds.

>> No.2491784

Fluorine.

Doesn't take shit from any other elements, it's having your electrons and there's NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

THINK YOU'RE PRETTY STABLE THERE HUH, XENON? HOW ABOUT I FUCK YOUR SHIT UP BY TAKING SOME ELECTRONS OUTTA THAT ORBITAL OF YOURS?

>> No.2491792

Potassium or calcium ... whichever one gives you the most painful death if you lack it..

>> No.2491843

Silicon, because he's badass.

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>>2491784

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Lithium, it has the highest specific heat capacity of any element except hydrogen. And its like a gagillion times more dense and a solid at room temperature and has a melting point at 180° so it makes for an excellent thermal battery.


It is the only element I know of that is both a fissile and fusion fuel. (might enplane why there is so little of it in the universe) btw it is a key fuel in fusion bombs which don't run of hydrogen they run off lithium hydride

Lithium + fluorine is the most energy dense practice rocket fuel mostly because lithiums relatively low melting point. It's isp is 542s compared to HH+O thats only 450s and lithium is like a million times more dense.
As humanity spreads to the stars I foresee lithium being one of the precious metals most sought after.

>> No.2492084

fire

>> No.2492093

F,U,C,K,Bi,Tc,H,Es,Ge,Tm,O,Ne,Y

>> No.2492115

inb4 magnets

>> No.2492184

diamonds- the hardest metal in the universe

>> No.2492304

>>2492184
Not just the universe, the entire world.

>> No.2492317

Uranium

ALPHA AS FUCK

>> No.2492321

tomato ketchup

>> No.2492330

Helium.

Not even fucking Fluorine messes with the Noble Gasses. They are fucking hardcore.

>> No.2492337

I want to make a case in the shape of the periodic table of elements, and each box will be filled with a small amount of each element.

Collecting elements would probably be the coolest thing you could possibly collect.

>> No.2492355

il/lit/erate here,

Would you guys have any suggestions on where to learn more about each individual element?

I have this idea for a story about guys who control elements(you know, the generic 4 element bullshit stuff like Avatar and other shows/video games pull, except with each guy having control of an element on the periodic table instead).

>> No.2492362

>>2492355
That
Would be
HILARIOUS

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>>2492355
>mfw that

>> No.2492365

>>2492355
>>2492355

Real elements are mostly boring as fuck.

>> No.2492367

my ass

>> No.2492369

Carbon.

Everyone who disagrees is an aspie.

>> No.2492373

>>2492355
>>2492355


Yeah, elements are boring. I don't think it would work. Unless it was some sort of comedy.

>> No.2492377

>>2492355
Everything up to iron is produced in the cores of increasingly large stars, in order to produce elements heavier than iron the star needs to explode because iron fusion is endothermic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability

>> No.2492381

>>2492355

If people had the ability to choose Everyone would go
>Select Carbon
>Select Nitrogen
Make Cyanide
>???
>Profit

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>>2492355
Oh the glory when you actually pull that off

>> No.2492384

>>2492355

I'm stealing this idea.

>> No.2492389

>>2492355
Oh and something remotely similar has been done already. Google Mistborn by Sanderson

>> No.2492398

>>2492369
Truth told. People say life is water based but carbon based is a better description. You can't do shit without carbon. In theory carboned based chemical reactions can take place in a solution of liquid methane or liquid nitrogen but you can't have silicon based life or germanium based life, they do fuck all.

>> No.2492402

>>2492384
>>2492389

There was also an anime that did this, Seikon no Qwaser.

It has an absurd amount of fanservice, mainly because their powers were charged by breastmilk, and the fact that the main characters were a 14 year old boy and a loli voiced by Haruhi.

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>>2492402

I swear, this show had a plot somewhere in it.

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>>2492355
>>2492355

>mfw Hydrogenbender gets pissed

>> No.2492431

>>2492398
nice bluff but your off by a way.

Carbon catenates like a boss, it's the best at catenating it is the second most prolific in number of compounds second only to hydrogen.

catenation (ability to make bonds)

Silicon doesn't do it cos its more favourable in an oxygen enviroment to form Si-O bonds than chaining.

In an oxygen deprived atmosphere it would caternate as well.

The reason silicon based life is difficult is three fold.

Water is a great solvent.

Oxygen makes protein esque shite easy.

Carbon is so much better at what it does and is more abundant.

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>>2492430

>mfw when hydrogenbender will be incredibly overpowered main character, but doesn't appear to have major power until right at the end when they almost destroy the universe but eventually pull though, likely because of heart-felt speech by romantic interest...

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>>2492355
>read this
>>2492369
>then this

Carbonbender would be the most overpowered shit on Earth. You could:

>Plants and vine-tentacle rape
>Shoot fucking diamonds
>Create animals to maul your enemies
>Merge said animals into chimaeras. Can you say Gryphons? Unstoppable killing machines
>Regenerate body parts

Rest of the Periodic Table, are you even trying?

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>>2492446
>mfw I WANT TO SEE THE FACE!

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>>2492455

Plutonium bender here. Why so flammable, carbon?

>> No.2492481

Ca, no contest.

>> No.2492486

>>2492469
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkC6sTnv4TU

>> No.2492490

I prefer carbon, if only for the allotropes.

Super hard diamonds+high strength nanotubes= razor floss.

Ofcourse, then there's always the Uranium bender...