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Asked by 665nepk48 to Ed, Kerrianne, Nina, Oli, yoyehudi on 6 Nov 2017.
Question: what is your favourite element
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Nina Jordan answered on 6 Nov 2017:
I’ve never thought about this! No particular element comes to mind, they are all amazing.
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Yo Yehudi answered on 6 Nov 2017:
Mercury! It’s not every day you can find a metal that is liquid at room temperature, and better yet, it’s the surname of the best musician/singer of all time: Freddie Mercury! 😀
On a related note, another awesome metal is Gallium. It’s solid at room temperature, but it melts at temperatures that are a little bit higher – some people have made trick spoons out of gallium that melt when you try to stir your tea: http://gif-finder.com/gallium-spoon-melted-in-water/ -
Oli Wilson answered on 6 Nov 2017:
Ooh, I don’t know! Potassium’s pretty cool, with all the floating on water, burning with a purple flame stuff, but then you’ve got fluorine which is an absolute mentalist of an element (if you pour the gas onto iron wool it all just catches fire)… On a different level, I like elements like osmium and samarium because of their fun names, and antimony because its symbol (Sb) is just so completely, daftly different to its English name. I feel like I’m going to come up with a definitive answer at some point, and it might be none of these! It’ll probably come to me in the middle of the night…
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Ed Bracey answered on 6 Nov 2017:
Calcium!
It’s all up in your bones making them strong.
It’s all up in your cells making them work.
It’s all up in your brain cells, making them release messenger chemicals (neurotransmitters) that allow brain cells to communicate with each other.
Without calcium, the brain circuits that make you everything that you are wouldn’t work! -
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824nepk48 commented on :
great answer!