Xenon rules. The rest drool.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Periodic_table_large.svg/1920px-Periodic_table_large.svg.png
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 April 2024 18:51 (two years ago)
helpful:
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Pretty hard to destroy an element, but Arsenic is kinda dud.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 27 April 2024 18:59 (two years ago)
I hope whoever discovered Molybdenum was proud of himself
― Josefa, Saturday, 27 April 2024 19:38 (two years ago)
Someone had some real nerve to name an element "Gd"
― H.P, Saturday, 27 April 2024 19:39 (two years ago)
The fab four: Yttrium, Ytterbium, Terbium, Erbium
― emil.y, Saturday, 27 April 2024 22:36 (two years ago)
Ytterby immortalised
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 27 April 2024 23:12 (two years ago)
Gd is gadolinium, which has been revolutionary in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because it shortens the spin-lattice relaxation time (transferring of the energy of a molecule's nuclear spin to neighboring molecules) in certain places in the body after it has been injected, resulting in brighter signal and highlighting lesions including inflammation and tumors
― Dan S, Saturday, 27 April 2024 23:29 (two years ago)
Always have time for some noble gases
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:00 (two years ago)
Also kind of presumptuous to call yourself "noble" tbh. Bet the other gases hate those blokes.
― H.P, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:02 (two years ago)
That was Hugo Erdmann
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:06 (two years ago)
Low reactivity is a desirable trait imho
agree with that
― Dan S, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:10 (two years ago)
but Carbon, Nitrogen, Hydrogen and Oxygen are the most important to life on Earth
― Dan S, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:16 (two years ago)
with Sodium, Magnesium, Calcium, Potassium, Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Chlorine not far behind
― Dan S, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:18 (two years ago)
I was shit at chemistry in school but always admired this guy who grew up in a town 100 miles down the road from mine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_T._Seaborg
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:21 (two years ago)
Helium slays close thread
― calstars, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:21 (two years ago)
helium does slay tbh
my dad was a research chemist; i had one of these (by my fervent request, not his prompting) hanging in my childhood room
needless to say i ended up majoring in history and have forgotten nearly everything about the table
― mookieproof, Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:26 (two years ago)
I'm on team xenon. How can an unreactive inert gas be an anaesthetic? Nobody knows.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 28 April 2024 00:27 (two years ago)
thulium
nice
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 April 2024 02:31 (two years ago)
it's maybe not a good idea to lick P
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 April 2024 02:32 (two years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyStjcP-ppw
look at this, it's a clickbait video about thulium
i'm not sure the headline is even right, wikipedia says it's only the _second_ rarest of the rare earth metals
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 April 2024 02:37 (two years ago)
shoutout heavy metals
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 April 2024 02:38 (two years ago)
s: cesiumd: desistium
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Sunday, 28 April 2024 02:40 (two years ago)
lanthanides or gtfo
― mookieproof, Sunday, 28 April 2024 02:51 (two years ago)