Lighthouse Posted 14 January, 2013 Posted 14 January, 2013 Got to be caesium for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umn5YG3RBSM
buctootim Posted 14 January, 2013 Posted 14 January, 2013 Lithium http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/shortcuts/2011/dec/05/should-we-put-lithium-in-water
Ex Ringwood Saint Posted 14 January, 2013 Posted 14 January, 2013 As a chemist I would have to say elemental fluorine is pretty cool, although i have mot handed it. As metals go using potassium and sodium together is always fun. Never got the chance to play with caesium, as you just don't use it unless you have nothing better to do!! Bromine is fun, fuming noxious liquid that is incredibly dense, and you can set fire to magnesium and nickel catalysts pretty easily if you are not careful. Chemistry is fun!
Halo Stickman Posted 14 January, 2013 Posted 14 January, 2013 You’ve got to love the irony of Oxygen: it keeps us alive whilst slowly killing us. Bit like supporting Saints in some ways
Essruu Posted 14 January, 2013 Posted 14 January, 2013 I was going to tell you all a joke about Sodium Hydroxide, but... NaH.
Lighthouse Posted 14 January, 2013 Author Posted 14 January, 2013 I was going to tell you all a joke about Sodium Hydroxide, but... NaH. This thread is about elements. If you want to talk about compounds start your own thread FFS!
ecuk268 Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 Little Jim loved Chemistry But, alas he is no more For what he thought was H2O Was H2SO4
Window Cleaner Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 I was going to tell you all a joke about Sodium Hydroxide, but... NaH. NaOH to be exact. NaH would be sodium hydride.
sussexsaint Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 NaOH to be exact. NaH would be sodium hydride. Deuterium Hydroxide !
Whitey Grandad Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 Little Jim loved Chemistry But, alas he is no more For what he thought was H2O Was H2SO4 Johnny, finding life a bore, drank some H2SO4. Now he's neutralised, it's true, but he's full of CO2
Whitey Grandad Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 Deuterium Hydroxide ! That's 2 elements.
Frank's cousin Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 Francium - obviously although Ytterbium has an interesting spelling.
Window Cleaner Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 That's 2 elements. can't see what it has to do with Sodium Hydride either. Deuterium hydroxide would be what? heavy water ?
sussexsaint Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 That's 2 elements. It was meant to be DOH ! and thats three elements
Window Cleaner Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 It was meant to be DOH ! and thats three elements no it isn't deuterium is not an element, it's a neutroned hydrogen atom.
sussexsaint Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 no it isn't deuterium is not an element, it's a neutroned hydrogen atom. I know but I have seen it written as D(OH) before Think I still prefer carbon in retrospect - especially after seeing the lunchtime news
Minsk Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 Amazed this answer hasn't been given by now - The Fifth Element
SNSUN Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 Are you made of copper and tellurium? Because you're CuTe. Well I was going for Gold or Calcium, but in the end I plumped for Neon. I like Neon.
Antrimsaint Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 Lead. There i Said it. Is lead an element........?
Whitey Grandad Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 no it isn't deuterium is not an element, it's a neutroned hydrogen atom. Isn't it an isotope?
Whitey Grandad Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 can't see what it has to do with Sodium Hydride either. Deuterium hydroxide would be what? heavy water ? Yup, heavy water. Don't forget tritium. That makes tritiated water which is super-heavy.
Lighthouse Posted 15 January, 2013 Author Posted 15 January, 2013 Amazed this answer hasn't been given by now - The Fifth Element Sodium has better tits IMO.
badgerx16 Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 Sodium has better tits IMO. Surely that's silicon ?
Saint137 Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 Fond memories of Chemistry with Mr Mills @ WPBS. Got to play with proper dangerous stuff, whole year spent blowing things up/setting fire to stuff. Magnesium, sulphur, thermic lances, sodium in water, phosphorous, squeaky pops, hydrochloric acid burning through desks, filling sports bags with gas and exploding them, bloody marvellous. Complete H&S nightmare He would approve of this little experiment (FFWD to 3:40 if you're impatient) http://www.wimp.com/scientistnitrogen/ Overall, sodium in water for me, but only because we didn't get to play with that acid which dissolves glass - hydrofluoric?
Saint in Paradise Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 No 79 is my fav - I would love tons of it.
badgerx16 Posted 15 January, 2013 Posted 15 January, 2013 Aluminium - because knowing how to spell it differentiates between the free world and the yanks.
Halo Stickman Posted 16 January, 2013 Posted 16 January, 2013 (edited) Ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium, and ununoctium are stutterers’ fafavourites Edited 16 January, 2013 by Halo Stickman
Whitey Grandad Posted 16 January, 2013 Posted 16 January, 2013 I've always fancied unobtainium but never managed to get hold of any.
badgerx16 Posted 16 January, 2013 Posted 16 January, 2013 I've always fancied unobtainium but never managed to get hold of any. I hear there's a moon called Pandora that is full of it - all you have to do is knock a few trees down.
SOTONS EAST SIDE Posted 22 January, 2013 Posted 22 January, 2013 e: Strontium Symbol: Sr Atomic number: 38 Atomic weight: 87.62 Standard state: solid at 298 K Group in periodic table: 2 Group name: Alkaline earth metal Period in periodic table: 5 Block in periodic table: s-block Colour: silvery white Classification: Metallic
Window Cleaner Posted 22 January, 2013 Posted 22 January, 2013 e: Strontium Symbol: Sr Atomic number: 38 Atomic weight: 87.62 Standard state: solid at 298 K Group in periodic table: 2 Group name: Alkaline earth metal Period in periodic table: 5 Block in periodic table: s-block Colour: silvery white Classification: Metallic Strontium 90 used to be used to make watch hands glow in the dark, don't think that was very good for you though.
scotty Posted 22 January, 2013 Posted 22 January, 2013 Cu. But only if you say it out loud in a heavy scots accent.
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