What is your favorite element? - Page 2

Sheriff Rhys Chatham · 07.03.2006, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by m^a(t)h

tungsten

rock the fuck on. Tungsten is the godfather of elements.
most likely the strongest.

Sonic Youth 37 · 07.03.2006, 12:52 PM

Magnesium

Rob Instigator · 07.03.2006, 12:55 PM

My favorite element is MERCURY

jon boy · 07.03.2006, 01:38 PM

yeah i like cesium and all the other ones that explode or catch fire a lot.

when i saw this thread i thought of that simpsons episode were the guy is having a dream about zinc.
'come back zinc'!

Hip Priest · 07.03.2006, 01:46 PM

Sulphur looks pretty, caesium is exciting, lead is properly called plumbum, ytterbium sounds like a Lovecraftian otherworld, neon looks good when you play with it, curium has the best name, but for all round bloody usefulness it simply has to be carbon:

Carbon is a remarkable element for many reasons. Its different forms include one of the softest (graphite) and one of the hardest (diamond) substances known. Moreover, it has a great affinity for bonding with other small atoms, including other carbon atoms, and its small size makes it capable of forming multiple bonds. Because of these properties, carbon is known to form nearly ten million different compounds, the large majority of all chemical compounds. Carbon compounds form the basis of all life on Earth and the carbon-nitrogen cycle provides some of the energy produced by the Sun and other stars. Moreover, carbon has the highest melting/sublimation point of all elements. At atmospheric pressure it has no actual melting point as its triple point is at 10 MPa (100 bar) so it sublimates above 4000 K. Thus it remains solid at higher temperatures than the highest melting point metals like tungsten or rhenium, regardless of its allotropic form.

Sheriff Rhys Chatham · 07.03.2006, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Hip Priest

Sulphur looks pretty, caesium is exciting, lead is properly called plumbum.

actaully its copper that was origonally called plumbum [latin]. Thats where the word plumber comes from.

Hip Priest · 07.03.2006, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Sheriff Rhys Chatham

actaully its copper that was origonally called plumbum [latin]. Thats where the word plumber comes from.

Well, you may be quite right, but the Latin name for lead is plumbum, and it's kind of a funny name either way. Our house still has some original lead piping, I'm rather proud to say, although it causes problems sometimes when work needs doing, as apparantly most tradesmen are terrified of working with lead. I have to ring up trade organisations and get a list of people registered as being prepared to work with lead. Tschh.

Sheriff Rhys Chatham · 07.03.2006, 02:04 PM

Thats prob. it then. Older piping, I read it in some book a while ago, So I could be wrong. I knew it dealt with plumbing though.

swimsuitissue · 07.03.2006, 04:40 PM

Titanium, Ti, 22

Inhuman · 07.03.2006, 07:26 PM

They all look so tasty. If I had to choose one I'd choose Hydrogen, one of the most common.

Tokolosh · 07.04.2006, 03:06 AM

Send Plutonium back to pluto, where it belongs!

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07.03.2006, 01:38 PM	#24
jon boy invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: psycho battery Posts: 12,161	yeah i like cesium and all the other ones that explode or catch fire a lot. when i saw this thread i thought of that simpsons episode were the guy is having a dream about zinc. 'come back zinc'!
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07.03.2006, 01:46 PM	#25
Hip Priest invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Birkenhead Posts: 9,397	Sulphur looks pretty, caesium is exciting, lead is properly called plumbum, ytterbium sounds like a Lovecraftian otherworld, neon looks good when you play with it, curium has the best name, but for all round bloody usefulness it simply has to be carbon: Carbon is a remarkable element for many reasons. Its different forms include one of the softest (graphite) and one of the hardest (diamond) substances known. Moreover, it has a great affinity for bonding with other small atoms, including other carbon atoms, and its small size makes it capable of forming multiple bonds. Because of these properties, carbon is known to form nearly ten million different compounds, the large majority of all chemical compounds. Carbon compounds form the basis of all life on Earth and the carbon-nitrogen cycle provides some of the energy produced by the Sun and other stars. Moreover, carbon has the highest melting/sublimation point of all elements. At atmospheric pressure it has no actual melting point as its triple point is at 10 MPa (100 bar) so it sublimates above 4000 K. Thus it remains solid at higher temperatures than the highest melting point metals like tungsten or rhenium, regardless of its allotropic form. __________________ Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. http://www.flickr.com/photos/outsidethecamp/
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