What is your favorite element?

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Let’s have some fun!

What is your favorite element, and why?

I’ll start different threads in upcoming days on least favorites, as well as chemicals (as different than elements; phosphate is a chemical, P and O in phosphate are elements).

You might like gold or platinum for looks, helium for balloons, lawrencium if your name is Lawrence, etc.

So what’s your favorite element?

 

[ChiCity]

beskar…
the entire galaxy is searching for it.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Bromine or Mercury...both are incredible with awesome properties at room temperature and there are many other cool things about them although we don't want them in our tanks!

 

[olonmv]

The element of surprise.

 

[Pistondog]

Iridium. No terrestrial source. All must come from space via meteors.

 

[Sean Clark]

Americium.

 

[Nano sapiens]

Unobtanium

Actually, I think Neodymium is cool since it's alloys are used in high-strength magnets.

 

[HBtank]

Oxygen

 

[PeterEde]

the 5th Element

 

[Miami Reef]

Chlorine. It is pretty unstable, just like me.

It‘s also really good for soaking my powerheads...and giving my clothes bleach stains.

 

[Dan_P]

When first thinking about this question, I initially found no emotional attachment to any of them. They just are here doing what they are suppose to do. Then a happy memory popped up from the days in my basement chemistry lab growing transition metal salt crystals on a string. Copper sulphate could be my favorite for the blue color and shape of the crystal. Nickel chloride just for its color comes in second. And in third place, chromium just for the shear size of a the crystal I grew, a 1 lb, chrome alum octahedron.

 

[Nate Chalk]

I like sugar spice and everything nice.

 

[ReefAddict16]

Carbon because everything’s made of it.

 

[dstockwell]

Barium, if all else fails you barium.

 

[spsick]

I like positive ions. Too much negative ions floating around these days

 

[Fernthereefer]

Iodine,

Because...pretty colors in zoas.

 

[LisaMarie]

Carbon.....the common element of all known life.

 

[Allenh427]

Methamphetamine.. oh wait

 

[RedoubtReef]

H. Best option for moving off oil for fuel.

 

[vetteguy53081]

For the tank - Aminos

Me - Beer