What is your favorite element?

[ChiCity]

It's a cake. Yellow cake

“… don’t drop that”

 

[CoralB]

In Wisconsin you would understand lol
Can’t be a 7&7 with seagrams or southern comfort

I’m originally from Michigan , I have some family In Wisconsin. But I know what your saying .

 

[Chuk]

Hydrogen because this whole decarbonation thing will keep me employed for the foreseeable future. But my actual favorite is bromine chlorine’s cool little brother it has some neat water treatment properties.

 

[Christoph]

Astatine: An enigmatic and fascinating element with no stable isotopes that combines properties of metals and halogens. There is still much to discover regarding its chemistry.

It is the rarest naturally occuring element, only ~25 g exist on the planet. Still i was having the pleasure to work with it a few years ago:

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cplu.201900114

All the best,
Christoph

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

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

Fake News....

 

[Paul B]

I like # 36, Krypton. It is very cool but almost useless especially now that we don't use much fluorescent lights any more because there is some in there. Or so they say.

Besides if Superman is afraid of it, it must be powerful stuff.

And I like #21, Scandium. I used to date a Supermodel from Scandium. She was Italian and Scandinavian.

 

[bnord]

Upsidasium - Gidney and Floyd thought so too….

( for the 60 or older crowd, now name the TV show)

 

[taricha]

I think Nitrogen.
It's everywhere ~80% of air, yet also in high demand.
In one form - N2, it's almost entirely unreactive. But in nitric acid, it's so violent it can be a rocket fuel.
Figuring out how to split N2 at large scale (Haber-Bosch process) is one of science's greatest achievements. Gives us as much fertilizer as we want, and we want a whole lot. It's estimated 50% of the Nitrogen in our body went through the Haber-Bosch process in a factory somewhere.
That same process that unlocked reactive Nitrogen from inert N2 for fertilizer also made weapons and explosives built around N easier too.

 

[paintman]

Plutonium! What else would you use for a space modulator?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Takin’ care of Bismuth

That's sodium funny.....

Jay

 

[exnisstech]

Mercury for me. My grandfather had a jar when I was a kid. He would let me play with it and it was so cool how it would suck back together. No gloves or mask. Kids were a lot tougher back then

 

[Paul B]

My grandfather had a jar when I was a kid. He would let me play with it and it was so cool how it would suck back together. No gloves or mask. Kids were a lot tougher back then

I still have a jar of it and used to play with it in my hands like many of us did.

 

[CoralB]

Takin’ care of Bismuth

Your referring to the pepto bismol element ? . I know that one well lol !!!

That is funny !!!

 

[Aquaplumb]

Cu29 aka copper, Im a plumber in Aus so it’s only fitting I choose the element I use all day everyday.

 

[piranhaman00]

Helium for my Trimix

 

[StatelineReefer]

Phosphate. It's a fixation with me.

 

[piranhaman00]

So many non elements listed it’s a little scary

 

[SpSDrew]

Osmium if I had to pick from my periodic table on the wall. This was a project I did during Covid that honestly cost more than my reef tank.

 

[Miami Reef]

So many non elements listed it’s a little scary

Thank you! I thought I was the only one noticing. lol

@Randy Holmes-Farley I‘m ready for the next question! I’m having a lot of fun so far!

 

[taricha]

Osmium if I had to pick from my periodic table on the wall. This was a project I did during Covid that honestly cost more than my reef tank.

That's fantastic!