What's /sci/'s favourite element and why?

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H4U2 Mon Dec 29 20:12:15 2014 No.6977928 [Reply] [Original]

What's /sci/'s favourite element and why?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:13:46 2014 No.6977933 >>6977928 Mercury Because Hydrargyrum is fun to say

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:19:06 2014 No.6977943 File: 23 KB, 400x300, jim+lynch+eagle[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Americium.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:25:25 2014 No.6977954 Lithium I like the sound of it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:27:34 2014 No.6977959 >>6977928 Gold, because Gold

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:28:17 2014 No.6977962 fluorine. dat electronegativity and i like asking people how to spell it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:31:19 2014 No.6977965 >>6977962 flourine is industrial waste! muh penal gland!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:32:19 2014 No.6977966 File: 1.62 MB, 360x203, breddybatriodick.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6977943 >ameri-cum

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:34:28 2014 No.6977972 >>6977928 question. is roentigenium a good conductor?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:34:33 2014 No.6977973 File: 1.88 MB, 400x276, Hballoons.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >he doesn't worship Hydrogen's superconductivity >he doesn't worship Neodymium's magnetic abilites

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:35:42 2014 No.6977974 http://planetstar.wikia.com/wiki/Feynmanium

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:47:50 2014 No.6977991 >>6977928 Everyone knows the based elements are the noble gases. Helium is the best noble gas, closely followed by Radon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:48:07 2014 No.6977992 File: 1.68 MB, 5000x2574, 1360527115923.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6977928 >using a pleb table

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:50:44 2014 No.6977996 >>6977991 >gases are you fucking stupid Copper is obviously the greatest, being such a good conductor for price.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:52:10 2014 No.6977999 >>6977996 Silver is a better conductor. In fact it's the BEST conductor (of pure elements). It also has god tier heat conduction. It's also not even too expensive.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:52:17 2014 No.6978000 Hydrogen (and all it's isotopes) is based as fuck for dat fusion also Polonium for dat radioactivity and niobium for dem superconducting electromagnets (based Nb3Sn)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:53:52 2014 No.6978005 >>6977996 >being this shit Copper is the plebeian tier metal. Only the lowest class of plebs use it for their filthy wiring. Real men get about in based dirigibles that float under the power of based helium. Silver replaces copper in every way

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:57:48 2014 No.6978015 >>6977992 >needing pics like a five year old

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 20:57:57 2014 No.6978016 >>6977999 >>6978005 >silver >cost effective you delusional fucks

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 21:01:02 2014 No.6978025 File: 343 KB, 481x750, 3D catcocks.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6978015 The picture of zinc reminds me of a super smash ball.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 21:01:14 2014 No.6978026 >>6978016 Cost effective compared to other materials that might do the job better but at much higher price. Also everything is a shit compared to tungsten.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 21:01:49 2014 No.6978028 >>6977928 W, Tsungsten Because I love say Tungsten

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 21:03:53 2014 No.6978033 File: 494 KB, 300x224, ohyvooctlhwgvryx6ewg.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6977928 Hydrogen Master RACE!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 21:04:02 2014 No.6978035 File: 928 KB, 1189x1491, ronpaul.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6978016 >buy all the silver >the happening is upon us back to /pol/ you go

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 21:23:53 2014 No.6978089 Osmium because it's super dense and I think that's neat.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 21:39:19 2014 No.6978113 File: 1.51 MB, 854x480, KSP.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6978028 >>6978026 U.S. military use soon brothers

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 21:41:52 2014 No.6978119 File: 2.94 MB, 853x480, tungsteinrods.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6978113 >>6978028 >>6978026

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 21:59:38 2014 No.6978156 File: 9 KB, 236x188, 1bd51d8ee787c5f6f603fdf18bf90d66[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6978119 Ferrum aka iron! >DYEL?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 22:22:24 2014 No.6978188 >>6977973 Chemfags are just people trying to justify the hobby of blowing stuff up.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 22:39:34 2014 No.6978199 File: 8 KB, 200x200, elementofsurprise.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ←

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 22:51:00 2014 No.6978216 File: 208 KB, 1047x847, Hamilton Shill.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6977959 The divine metal. >>6977928 Iron

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 22:56:43 2014 No.6978227 Technetium--it's one of only two naturally-occurring elements that is too cool to be found naturally on Earth.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 23:10:31 2014 No.6978241 >>6977965 HAH didnt spell fluorine right.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 23:15:57 2014 No.6978247 File: 94 KB, 800x740, Ayumu."Osaka".Kasuga.full.1320862.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6978199

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 00:51:03 2014 No.6978383 >>6978216 >F3/F:NV >not having GTA:SA as your leisure underage detected

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 00:53:15 2014 No.6978387 >>6978383 eww > choosing one of the worst GTAs

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 01:45:31 2014 No.6978434 >>6978387 >San Andreas >the worst I bet you like GTAIV realism mods

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 01:51:06 2014 No.6978438 >>6978434 Actually I think GTA 4 is the worst. I tried playing it again this week. Vice City and 3 were the best IIRC San Andres was the one that introduced exercising and hot coffee right?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 01:56:23 2014 No.6978441 File: 190 KB, 1600x1000, LifeForce.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 05:11:11 2014 No.6978572 >>6978216 >saturn >best heavenly body That isn't Jupiter you fucking faggot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 05:15:27 2014 No.6978581 >>6977928 I-is uranium t-too mainstream? Maybe I should pick a more hipster element.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 05:22:38 2014 No.6978588 >>6977928 carbon, because organic chemistry.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 12:58:02 2014 No.6979158 >>6977928 Fluorine. Because its a badass. And its one of the few I've never handled.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 13:12:22 2014 No.6979192 >>6978572 There's a fucking hexagon on Saturn. Why don't you make your own?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:16:25 2014 No.6979285 >>6977965 >flourine is gluten-free?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:20:23 2014 No.6979287 Ignorant here. I'm just going to arbitrarily choose Samarium. What's that like?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 14:24:39 2014 No.6979295 >ctrl + + platinum >zero results Come on now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 15:17:45 2014 No.6979380 Honda

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 15:26:31 2014 No.6979390 Hydrogen to keep me breath

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 15:39:33 2014 No.6979406 ruthenium

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 15:48:37 2014 No.6979419 carbon

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 16:03:20 2014 No.6979437 Palladium for dat god-tier catalysis

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 16:07:23 2014 No.6979441 >>6978000 also zirconium is pretty based >zircaloy for nuke fuel cladding >TZM alloy with great material properties

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 16:17:52 2014 No.6979451 >>6977928 >>6977992 >Not using the updated table >No Flerovium >No Livermorium

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 16:25:09 2014 No.6979457 >>6977928 yttrium because superconductivity

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 16:29:56 2014 No.6979466 >>6977992 >theodore gray table mah nigga

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 16:31:18 2014 No.6979467 File: 52 KB, 596x417, qbYMgmq.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] right huuuurrrrrr

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 16:33:24 2014 No.6979471 >>6978026 silver corrodes easily, and thus must be cleaned periodically. Imagine trying to clean all the gold parts in your computer weekly

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 16:35:46 2014 No.6979472 File: 1.34 MB, 800x533, 999.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Helium hehehehe

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 16:55:03 2014 No.6979496 iron because it wont let stars go any further

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 17:40:02 2014 No.6979595 >>6979496 but anon we are all made of stars http://youtu.be/x1rFAaAKpVc

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:55:03 2014 No.6980271 >>6977928 Hydrogen Master race Hydrogen -> star fuel Everything else -> star shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:56:48 2014 No.6980280 Bromine and Barium

>>	Nd Tue Dec 30 23:25:05 2014 No.6980321 >>6980271 >1 proton A simple element for simple people.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 07:28:19 2014 No.6980853 >>6980271 but where the hydrogen come from??

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 07:42:53 2014 No.6980866 Hydrogen, because you can solve its Schrödinger equation analytically

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 07:50:12 2014 No.6980872 Steel

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 07:52:23 2014 No.6980874 >>6980271 >what is helium

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 08:01:52 2014 No.6980883 Thorium, glorious inexhaustible nuclear fuel.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 08:03:34 2014 No.6980888 >>6977928 Surprise

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 08:20:29 2014 No.6980902 File: 1.89 MB, 310x233, 1419459880620.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I like carbon because it's gay

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 09:15:54 2014 No.6980934 >no one mentioning hafnium >plebs, plebs everywhere

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 10:47:36 2014 No.6981043 File: 199 KB, 1445x1336, Nitrogen.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Not loving the nitrogen >Not freezing shit >Number 7 >[N]iggers

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 11:01:09 2014 No.6981055 >>6980934 Yup, you should be grateful for hafnium! HfO2 is the gate dielectric used in cutting-edge transistors since 2006. Without it, Moore's law would have ended ages ago - your computer from 2006 would be as fast as your computer from 2014!

pasta Wed Dec 31 11:18:56 2014 No.6981069
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Let's talk about Fluorine.

Fluorine is the most reactive and most electronegative of all the elements. SO BOW DOWN

This shit doesn't exist in nature in it's elemental form because it's so reactive but it will FUCK YOUR SHIT HARD if you attempt to RELEASE THE BEAST. Don't ask me, though, just ask all those stupid scientists that died trying.

Hydrofluoric Acid; put it in glass Pyrex it's like FUCK THAT SHIT and eats right through it. Iron? No problem. Lead? Fuck you.

Fluoroantimonic Acid; strongest acid know to man. You even think about touching this shit your whole family dies and your stupid cats. ALIEN BLOOD EAT YOUR HEART OUT. You can only store it in a Teflon container, which reminds me..

Polytetrafluoroethylene, aka Teflon; one of the most corrosive resistant and stable compounds known to man. Suzy homemakers reading this better check their panties. You can't fuck with this shit OH, I FORGOT, unless you have...

PERFLUORODECALINE; this shit DISSOLVES teflon. LOLZ, YOU NEED FLUORINE TO BEAT FLUORINE. Bitches. Oh, and you can dissolve a shitload of oxygen in this and BREATHE LIQUID. Well, at least until you don't die from carbon dioxide build-up. But FUCK YOU only pussies die.

Uranium Hexafluoride; you need this to isolate U-235 from naturally occurring Uranium to make an atomic bomb. Yep, that's right bitches, without fluorine all those stupid gooks would still be alive. HA HA!

LOL, FLUORINE FUCKS YOUR SHIT NIGGERS AND YOU KNOW IT

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 11:31:53 2014 No.6981083 Water

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 11:34:14 2014 No.6981086 >>6981055 ehh do you mean its so fast that the computer of 2006 would be as fast af mine right now or do you mean that the one from 2014 would just be slow?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 11:40:10 2014 No.6981093 >>6981069 OBJECTION! Fluorine does exist in nature in it's elemental form. Fluorite deposits found near sources of radiation have been found to contain elemental fluorine gas: https://www.tum.de/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/long/article/29962/

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 12:05:56 2014 No.6981118 +1 to fluorine. The only Element noble gases even bother to react with.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 12:23:39 2014 No.6981136 >>6977992 fucking bismuth is so ridiculous

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 12:32:29 2014 No.6981153 >ctrl+f cesium >no results I am very disappointed in you

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 12:43:13 2014 No.6981175 File: 3.76 MB, 5176x3519, Wismut_Kristall_und_1cm3_Wuerfel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Bismuth, look at it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 12:51:31 2014 No.6981188 Definitely Carbon Graphene, Diamonds, life.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 14:04:29 2014 No.6981300 >>6977973 >he is a faggot

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 20:34:22 2014 No.6981858 >>6981175 2edgy4me

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 20:37:41 2014 No.6981870 >>6980853 It's one proton. It's all over interstellar space in the form of fucking-your-day-up radiation from stars and winds.

Anonymous Wed Dec 31 20:57:42 2014 No.6981911
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>>6977928
Aluminum
Is my favorite but I also like
Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Helium, Platinum, Iron

>>6981086
He means without hafnium computers would have abruptly stopped getting faster and more powerful around 2006 because of the major limitations in how we build computers. We delayed many of these issues thanks to the introduction of hafnium. However we really just moved the limit a little as current growth limits top out around 2015 without some fundamental breakthrough. New 3D structuring is expected to allow us to push it to 2025 or 2035, which more and more are already using on some level, but we really need to address the possibility that computers may not get faster forever.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 21:24:09 2014 No.6981945 File: 540 KB, 127x189, ayy.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] iridium because space

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 21:29:26 2014 No.6981955 >>6981945 Neodymium >dat magnetism

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 21:30:26 2014 No.6981960 >>6981945 >>6981955 didnt mean to click on you

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 21:41:53 2014 No.6981979 >>6981945 ayyy

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 21:48:15 2014 No.6981988 >>6981955 >magnetism >not niobium

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 22:01:18 2014 No.6982007 Silicium because I am addicted to computers and internet and I like it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 1 06:46:40 2015 No.6982448 >>6977928 Bismuth duh

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 1 06:49:38 2015 No.6982450 >>6978113 Sorry im a pleb what is that

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 1 06:53:07 2015 No.6982454 >>6978216 Mein nigga

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 1 06:54:19 2015 No.6982456 Francium because its the most reactive alkalai metal (and one of the 2 most reactive elements)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 1 06:55:02 2015 No.6982457 >>6978441 You know that quote has nothing to do with elements right

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 1 13:47:15 2015 No.6982832 >>6981069 Quality post. Fluorine should not be fucked with. The amount of chemists who have died because of fluorine is unrivaled.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 1 13:50:31 2015 No.6982844 >>6980280 Mr. White?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 1 13:57:41 2015 No.6982864 >>6977928 Ti, Th, W, C, Os, Ir.. How do you choose?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 2 14:39:47 2015 No.6984779 >>6980888 This.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 2 18:45:01 2015 No.6985354 Galium. Melting a solid metal in hot water blows kids minds.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 2 18:45:56 2015 No.6985359 >>6985354 you can melt it in your hand

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 3 21:13:28 2015 No.6986978 >>6978016 electrons run along the surface of a conductor, and so all required is a thin coating of silver for improved conductivity.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 3 21:32:59 2015 No.6987033 >>6977928 The Element of... SURPRISE!!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 3 21:35:38 2015 No.6987039 My favorite element is water. Without water life would be impossible.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 3 21:36:42 2015 No.6987043 >>6987039 0/10

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 3 21:49:37 2015 No.6987066 >>6987039 My favourite element is fire, because fire bending can transform into thunder bending. Thunder bending will conduct into the water and kill you, that's why fire is the best. captcha:aHotter

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 3 22:10:39 2015 No.6987109 >>6977928 Adamantium, of course.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 3 23:36:35 2015 No.6987254 File: 9 KB, 206x245, Veritasium.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6977928 >Veritasium anyone? It's an element of truth.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 3 23:45:42 2015 No.6987282 Radium

Anonymous Sun Jan 4 01:12:53 2015 No.6987455

>>6981093
It's also found within putrid fluorite. For years, scientists had wondered why this mineral had bubbles in it, and they figured out that breaking them open causes a minute release of Fluorine gas, which quickly turns into Hydrogen fluoride, an apparently very odorous gas.

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