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What is your favorite element on the periodic table?

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What is your favorite element on the periodic table?
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RE: What is your favorite element on the periodic table?
July 7, 2016 at 7:05 pm
(July 7, 2016 at 5:37 pm)Spirian Wrote: [Image: honda-element-2016-images-207409.jpg]

Have one.
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RE: What is your favorite element on the periodic table?
July 7, 2016 at 7:06 pm
(July 7, 2016 at 12:05 pm)Alex K Wrote:
(July 7, 2016 at 11:49 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Im actually quite fond of oxygen.  It seems I can keep away for more than 2-3 minutes.

I still nominate Hydrogen.

1. It's the only one that is relatively easy to calculate
2. It was there first
3. It's a crucial component of Whisky

I thought helium was there with hydrogen.
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#33
RE: What is your favorite element on the periodic table?
July 7, 2016 at 7:07 pm
(July 7, 2016 at 4:30 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I also note that one of my favorite pastimes, nuking something from orbit, is not possible without uranium.

Plutonium will do.
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#34
RE: What is your favorite element on the periodic table?
July 7, 2016 at 7:09 pm
I'm sticking with the classics, none of this new fangled artificial crap, thank you
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RE: What is your favorite element on the periodic table?
July 7, 2016 at 7:32 pm
(July 7, 2016 at 4:58 pm)Mechaghostman2 Wrote:
(July 7, 2016 at 4:30 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I also note that one of my favorite pastimes, nuking something from orbit, is not possible without uranium.

It can be done with hydrogen as well as with plutonium. Quite possibly even thorium as well.

Pretty sure you still need fissionable material to make the fusionable stuff go boom.
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RE: What is your favorite element on the periodic table?
July 7, 2016 at 7:39 pm (This post was last modified: July 7, 2016 at 7:40 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Come to think of it, they're all pretty special.





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RE: What is your favorite element on the periodic table?
July 7, 2016 at 9:15 pm
There was a nuke made with U233 that was transmuted from thorium as I recall. Wasn't worth the hassle.
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#38
RE: What is your favorite element on the periodic table?
July 7, 2016 at 9:25 pm
No way I can choose just one. I've narrowed it down to four.

[Image: 05-boron-tile.png][Image: ununtrium.jpg][Image: 22925782516_fbcce7839b.jpg][Image: 054-XenonBW.png]


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RE: What is your favorite element on the periodic table?
July 7, 2016 at 9:33 pm
I'm rather fond of aluminum when pronounced as the British say it.
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RE: What is your favorite element on the periodic table?
July 7, 2016 at 10:42 pm (This post was last modified: July 7, 2016 at 10:43 pm by ignoramus.)
I personally love the rarest of them all!

It's called "mind-consciousness".

It's so rare that it's not even in the periodic table!
It only appears to those special people with an enlightened perception of reality!

Thank you LittleRik for this little nugget of wisdom.
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