Hai, what are your favorite elements?

Pick at most six. Here are mine: rhenium, tin, bismuth, caesium, thorium, beryllium.

-Aut

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Autymn D. C.
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As the universe expands a certain relation of element to element occurs, causing the relative masses element to element. And the best possible combination as the art is my choice.

I start with a little quanta of choice and the fifth element. And make a sequence.

Causing my little own chart of the nuclides. So six quanta can cause the set, a whole chartlet.

So Hydrogen and i forget five.

H1+E5 H1_E5-1c H1-E5-2c . . . ...nc

where c is an atomic mass unit

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Douglas Eagleson

Rhodium, copper, phosphorus, vanadium, manganese, silver.

Reply to
Madalch

Atomic numbers 123 to 128, I suppose ;-)

No, I'm being flippand: Osmium, Lanthanum, Freon, Hydrogen, Iron, and Lawrencium.

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WizWom

Nitro, Iron, Carbon, Rb, Neon, Germanium.

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boson boss

This proves that stupid questions do indeed exist.

Bill

-- Fermez le Bush--about two years to go.

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Salmon Egg

Muonium, positronium, protonium, antihydrogen, phlogiston, and polywater (even though it is a chemical compound and not simply an element - it outranks orgone in my list). I am also partial to electron holes.

Tom Davidson Richmond, VA

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tadchem

Where is this freon?

Reply to
Autymn D. C.

Lutetium.

Not only is the name cool, but like me, it is the heaviest of the rare earths.

Dangerous Bill

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Bill Penrose

Interesting choices. Mine:

Ag

Os

Ir

Pt

Au

(money metals)

I can't decide on a sixth; I read that Ho has "unusual magnetic properties" but can't seem to find details.

I also vaguely remember some claims that either Tc or As would make wonderfully light, strong steel alloys except for the minor half-life issue.

Just kidding. Favorite elements are those that I can eat (C, H, O, N). Traces don't count. ;>)

Mark L. Fergerson

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Alien8752

Technetium is an implausibly good corrosion inhibitor; you can keep normal steel in 50-micromolar pertechnetate solution for twenty years and it doesn't rust.

I like scandium, gallium, and most of the middle row of the transition elements, particularly the noble ones; every so often I check to see if anyone has made the Doc Smith superalloys analogous to steels but based on ruthenium and niobium rather than iron and vanadium, and if they have Doc Smith super-properties. I have samples of gallium, tantalum, molybdenum and diamond on my mantlepiece; scandium's a bit expensive and the rare earths aren't really quite air-stable enough for me to want to have lumps of them around the house.

I work in crystallography, where almost all the heavy metals turn up at some stage thanks to despairing 'soak the protein crystal in solutions of hexammineeverything and see if it binds' experiments, and almost all the light metals turn up for actual biological reasons, except scandium and gallium. Looking at an ion channel full of thallium makes it very clear why the stuff is so toxic.

Tom

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Thomas Womack

In article , Autymn D. C. writes

As an amateur gardener, I get three by reflex action: Nitrogen, Phosphorous, and Potassium. I guess I should add Hydrogen, Carbon, and Oxygen to get six. ObSF: the short-short $1.98, by Arthur Porges, in which a man earns a favour from a (very small) god, anything he likes up to the value of $1.98.

(I read it in the very good compilation: 100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories").

Spoiler 1 Spoiler 2 Spoiler 3 Spoiler 4 Spoiler 5 Spoiler 6 Spoiler 7 Spoiler 8 Spoiler 9 Spoiler 10 Spoiler 11 Spoiler 12 Spoiler 13 Spoiler 14 Spoiler 15 Spoiler 16 Spoiler 17 Spoiler 18 Spoiler 19 Spoiler 20 Spoiler 21 Spoiler 22 Spoiler 23 Spoiler 24 Spoiler 25 Spoiler 26 Spoiler 27 Spoiler 28 Spoiler 29 Spoiler 30 Spoiler 31 Spoiler 32 Spoiler 33 Spoiler 34

The last paragraph of the story is

The clipping itself, a mere filler, read: "At present prices, the value of the chemical elements which make up the human body is only $1.98."

Reply to
A.G.McDowell

my favourite are:

Osmium

Cesium

Uranium

Aurum

Francium

Radium

All have special properties... a good interface to share ideas.... any comment on these selections will be appreciated.

i and Autymn still await this "freon". what is it? thanx

Regards, Divij

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Divij Rao

Dear Divij Rao:

Fluorinated hydrocarbons. Take a light hydrocarbon you may know and substitute fluorine for one or more hydrogens.

David A. Smith

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N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc)

Fascinating; its 97 and 99 isotopes actually have usable halflives (1ky, 5810^5y). Know if anybody actually ever made anything using it? I recently discovered the old Bomarc ramjet engines were made with a Hafnium alloy.

Ah, yes, Leybyrdite and Dureum.

I suspect he picked them for his superalloys knowing they were so rare nobody'd be able to call him on their alleged properties for a very long time. ;>)

I have several samples of rare-earth "alloys" lying around; they're also known as "lighter flints".

Mark L. Fergerson

Reply to
Alien8752

Meant flourine - the "special" bit in freon and teflon and all sorts of fun things.

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WizWom

In sci.physics, WizWom

wrote >> >> > No, I'm being flippand: Osmium, Lanthanum, Freon, Hydrogen, Iron, and

That must be the special substance added to a grinding wheel while feeding it with grain; the results can then be combined with some other stuff to make bread...

:-)

As for fluorine being "fun"...apart from the small amount one might get in one's toothpaste and the aforementioned teflon and freon, and the extremely small traces in our atmosphere, I for one don't see myself wanting to even come close to things such as hydrofluoric acid...

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The Ghost In The Machine

  • "Pious Jews have a category of questions that can harmlessly be allowed to go without an answer until the Messiah comes. I suspect that this is one of them."

--Joseph C. Fineman

earle

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Earle Jones

In article , Earle Jones writes (actual message trimmed)

While I am sure the question was carefully considered, I believe that, as long as people are prepared to stake either their reputation or their money on a guess, the category described above contains no questions of finite length.

It's a bit like the connection between the last four digits of the telephone number of the Cirencester Abattoir and my date of birth. As far as I know, there wasn't one up to now, but if I tell you their sum is 2660 mod 10000 then I have created a connection: if you know one, you can work out the other.

(This being usenet, somebody out there is going to be googling for Abattoirs and for all I know coming up with a completely weird date of birth: FWIW, my source is the printed Thompson's directory for Swindon

2006-7. It so happens that Abattoir comes first in the list I looked at

- and I happen to like Cirencester).

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A.G.McDowell

Thank you for your thread. I seem to be the onely person who kens the overlidom of rhenium. If nobody can tell what "penmetallia" means-- HgCl, SnO~2, dvialuminia-stannia for exempl--then I will stay the onely.

Gd does, for magnetocaloric. Nd and Ho are expected to stick out magneticly, as they're in the middel of the f-block.

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Look at silver go!

Oddly, the CRC Handbook (2000) lists NdCo5 and PrCo5 as better magnets (B_r) than Nd2Fe14B, but the last time I checkd there was no commercial application for these newer cobaltides.

That is why I like bismuth:

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As for your elements, you can eat char but it may be carcinog=E8nic, and you can gulp the other gasses but what's the point? As for elements I can eat, I like S--great smell--and its thiomethether is what brininess in the sea truly comes from:
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Which should be "brimminess" however, as it's not brine.

The lanthanides are at=F2xic, as are the nobil d-block metals, even Hg I suspect. The nobiles only hold t=F2xic species as compound salts or chelates. Thus the media should distinguish between the properties of "metallium" and "metallium(N)".

-Aut

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Autymn D. C.

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