Whats Your Favourite Element On The Periodic Table, And Why?

[iamdarkyoshi]

Here's a table if you need one: https://www.ptable.com

 

You're allowed to pick a couple if you want.

 

My favourites are Bismuth and Silicon.

 

I like Silicon because I probably wouldn't be posting this otherwise. Its so useful in tech. Germanium transistors just had too many issues.

 

Silicon wafers are also really pretty:

 

My second favourite element has got to be Bismuth, for the simple fact that its also really pretty when it solidifies into crystals:

 

Whats your favourite element? Post below!

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

AMERICA f*** YEAH!

So um, yeah. Americium.

[Skanky Sylveon]

Hydrogen, since that's what I, and the rest of you are mostly made of.

[captain_to_fire]

Mostly elements found in biomacromolecules.

• Carbon
• Nitrogen
• Oxygen 
• Hydrogen
• Nitrogen (proteins and nucleotides)
• Sulfur (mostly in proteins) 

[Energycore]

I'm gonna go with Rubidium on this one because its instability represents the tension I am feeling right now as ether plummets but shows signs of coming back up.

[Energycore]

27 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

Sulfur (mostly in proteins) 

Yesterday I learned that hemoglobin has a very small number of Sulphur atoms, something like 7 of them on a multiple thousand atom molecule

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I like weird things so Mercury and Gallium come to mind due to being metals that are liquid at or near room temperature.  I also like Osmium for the density.

[iamdarkyoshi]

Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

I like weird things so Mercury and Gallium come to mind due to being metals that are liquid at or near room temperature.  I also like Osmium for the density.

The slight blue tint of osmium is also really cool

[LienusLateTips]

Arsenic, Mercury, Uranium, Thorium

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I think boron doesn't get enough attention.

[Skanky Sylveon]

 

9 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I like weird things so Mercury and Gallium come to mind due to being metals that are liquid at or near room temperature.  I also like Osmium for the density.

Gallium you say?

 

9 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

The slight blue tint of osmium is also really cool

 

I too love to live dangerously.

[Technomancer__]

silicon

i love computers! 

[marten.aap2.0]

Watermelonium ofcourse:

[8uhbbhu8]

Agreed with Bismuth

 

 

[iamdarkyoshi]

3 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

Unobtanium:

 

Isn't that what makes up most of the stuff linus reviews? I'm pretty sure a lot of it was used in that wallpaper oled TV

[1234vietnam]

nickel

sexy waterblocks

[Sir Asvald]

Mine is 

 

Spoiler

The element of Surprise! /s

 

Actually it's Silver and platunum.  

 

 

[themctipers]

al

 

aluminum unibody enclosure

 

 

[Sheck Exley]

First = Hydrogen, most abundant element in the universe.

Second  = Helium, inert and makes your voice sound like the chipmunks.

[Skanky Sylveon]

Polonium

In the oxygen group, it's highly radioactive, emitting alpha particles.

It's most stable isotope lasts only 138 days.

 

This element has been used in spacecraft due to the fact that it produces a huge amount of heat from radioactive decay.  Keeping said device from failing from the sheer cold in the vacuum of space.

It's also one of the most toxic elements on the planet, you need to only inhale a specs worth of dust to be fatally poisoned by it.

 

What's interesting is that one of the most dangerous elements known to man is in the Oxygen group.

You see, Radium is in the same group as Calcium, and Radium's most common form of cancer is bone cancer.

 

Our bodies are very dumb when it comes to identifying different elements from the same group, this is exactly why Lead is toxic, it's in the Carbon group.

I wonder if our bodies mistake Polonium as Oxygen?  If so, then a highly radioactive material would be dispersed throughout our blood very quickly.

That plus the element's highly radioactive property's would explain why it's so deadly.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Energycore said:

Yesterday I learned that hemoglobin has a very small number of Sulphur atoms, something like 7 of them on a multiple thousand atom molecule

*Haemoglobin please

When referring to the protien you can say heme protien as there are many important globulins in our bodies, foremost are Haemoglobin found in our red blood cells (erythrocytes if you want to sound like a smarty-pants fresher) and Myoglobin in our muscle cells (myocyte, but really no one cares about these names) for an extra energy boost. Heamoprotiens are most important in carrying oxygen. This is a very basic explanation and you can learn more about this later on.

My favourite element is of course the mighty Carbon.

 

4 hours ago, hey_yo_ said:

Mostly elements found in biomacromolecules.

• Carbon
• Nitrogen
• Oxygen 
• Hydrogen
• Nitrogen (proteins and nucleotides)
• Sulfur (mostly in proteins) 

You should definitely add Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Magnesium and Iron for a few other basic elements we need

[captain_to_fire]

1 minute ago, RorzNZ said:

You should definitely add Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Magnesium and Iron for a few other basic elements we need

Well yeah those are important as essential trace elements (except Sodium and Calcium) but I honed in specifically to biomarcomolecules which is part of that is my admiration to buffers and their importance more specifically the "Henderson-Hasselbach equation". 

[Guest]

Just now, hey_yo_ said:

Well yeah those are important as essential trace elements (except Sodium and Calcium) but I honed in specifically to biomarcomolecules which is part of that is my admiration to buffers and their importance more specifically the "Henderson-Hasselbach equation". 

Sodium and Calcium are very common. Especially Calcium. Or more so Sodium, I can't decide but its everywhere. Not so much in Biochem but you will see.

[captain_to_fire]

1 minute ago, RorzNZ said:

Sodium and Calcium are very common. Especially Calcium. Or more so Sodium, I can't decide but its everywhere. Not so much in Biochem but you will see.

I'm into biochem as that is my bachelor's degree. I detested inorganic chemistry as well as physical chemistry even though the latter is important. I don't even get why we need to study an isotope that doesn't exist in nature other than in books like the one below?

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

gold

 

preferably lots of it.  Bars, jewelry, doesn't matter really.