The Periodic Table (Chemical Elements)

[Conkzerton]

Potassium, K. I have a fondness for it since my friend taught me how he remembers its flame test colour (lilac, is apparently a slightly gay colour, therefore potassium is gay. His way not mine but it does stick in my brain)

And helium, because supercooled to a liquid it can FLOW UPHILL. And has no friction.
Chemistryyyyyyy

 

[Divine Miss Bee]

well, as a girl, i guess i'm supposed to answer carbon, for diamonds and such. but i find diamonds mostly uninteresting, so i'm gonna go with oxygen, because i enjoy breathing. also, i like that the sky is blue.

 

[pigsnoutman]

Wheres the support for Sulphur gone?
Sure it has an image problem from hanging about volcanoes and forming acid rain, but still?!
Anyway, sulphur is cool...

 

[linwolf]

Hg, mercury. Why, it's a metal that is liquid at room temperature.

 

[Boneasse]

Thorium. Had a web dev project that was a periodic table, and I made it so when you put the mouse of Thorium is switches to a picture of Thor.

That... is so awesome!

 

[Marowit]

Florine...all your electrons are belong to us

 

[Dahni]

Caesium. The explosion is so fucking cool when its dropped into water.

 

[KaiRai]

Einsteinium, because it is the most intelligent element (I joke you not, it is a real element!)

I'd say Tungsten, the toughest metal and not an alloy. Symbol is W.

 

[Boneasse]

Caesium. The explosion is so fucking cool when its dropped into water.

What, like this?

 

[lwm3398]

Helium. Here's why:

 

[A Raging Emo]

Neon. Just because it makes such awesome glowing colors.

Damn, you beat me to it!

Love the word, Neon, too.

 

[Souplex]

I like Tungsten. It's durable, conductive, heat resistant, and heavy.

 

[ike42]

H - Hydrogen

Hydrogen is my favorite. It burns, glows, fissions, fuses, and it is the most abundant element in the universe. Our world would not exist without it.

Besides, amateur fusion reactors are AMAZING! I'm thinking of building one myself! Deuterium FTW!

Spoiler: Amateur Fusor setup

Hydrogen does not fission, you would have to have more than one thing in the nucleus to do that. Generally the only fissionable atoms are at atomic number 90 or so and above.

 

[Dahni]

Caesium. The explosion is so fucking cool when its dropped into water.

What, like this?

yup. that exact video is the one we got shown in school!
on Braniac they put a bit into a bath full of water and it blew the bath apart.

 

[erto101]

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Well if you must...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy0m7jnyv6U

OT uhhm ... Helium? it's special ?

 

[hopeneverdies]

Gallium, it has identity issues. At room temperature it's a solid. Hold it, and it liquifies.

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[wolf thing]

uranium. i just like the sound.

 

[Kingshadow6]

Francium, if that stuff hits water, you and everything nearby are going to be a combination of burn marks on the ground and memories.

 

[craddoke]

Carbon should be on top of everyone's list - at least until we discover a life-form with a different chemical basis.

I would probably put hydrogen after that; it's just so unpretentious and useful - an elemental workhorse that doesn't need a bunch of protons to make itself feel important (i.e., its not compensating for anything). It kind of sneaks up on you, too - like everyone's sitting around yawning, "Oh, that's just hydrogen. He's nothing special - not like Uranium or those other superstars." And then POW!!! Combustion!

 

[darkonnis]

Einsteinium, its highly reactive, it doesnt exist under natural circumstance in any large quantity and so far as i am aware it has no purpose and there is no point to it. Sounds groovy to me!