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What is your favorite chemical element?

Posted - January 19, 2019
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  • arsenic
      January 19, 2019 7:35 PM MST
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  • 44603
    Dang...that was quick. Why, might I ask?
      January 19, 2019 7:36 PM MST
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  • in middle school we had to do a small project on one element, i picked arsenic and since then its been my fav. it just has a lot of cool applications, i was especially amazed that it can be used as poison to merk people but also in medicines? crazy how nature do dat
      January 19, 2019 7:42 PM MST
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  • 44603
    I had a cylinder of the gray, semi-metallic form to show my students. It was double sealed and they could not touch it.
      January 19, 2019 7:47 PM MST
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  • 976
    Einsteinium. 
      January 19, 2019 7:40 PM MST
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  • 44603
    How sweet. A glowing response.
      January 19, 2019 7:41 PM MST
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  • 53504

      What, no Asker's Pick for her, Professor?
    (You're slipping, dude.)

      January 19, 2019 11:13 PM MST
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  • 44603
    So are you. you  your
      January 20, 2019 7:47 AM MST
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  • 53504

      Where did I write either "you" or "your"?

      January 20, 2019 8:09 AM MST
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  • I used to like helium when I was a kid so I could sound like a chipmunk. Then my mom learned it kills brain cells or something so I wasn’t allowed to suck ballons anymore. That was sad. 
      January 19, 2019 7:40 PM MST
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  • 44603
    It is quite inert and does not kill brain cells.
      January 19, 2019 7:42 PM MST
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  • Really? My mom lied then :/ lol she did work at a place that sold medical gasses and such  for a while, maybe she just got sick of bringing us home tanks of helium. 
      January 19, 2019 7:46 PM MST
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  • 16763
    Sucking it straight out of the tank is dangerous. The pressure can make your lungs explode. You can also suffocate.

    The amount a balloon can hold won't hurt you.
      January 19, 2019 7:51 PM MST
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  • Never sucked it right out of the tank :) but we did get tanks to our house. 
      January 19, 2019 7:53 PM MST
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  • 44603
    Yes...it is a suffocating gas, as is any other than oxygen. Sucking any gas from a pressurized tank is always a hazard. And you are correct...a balloon full is a gas...
      January 19, 2019 7:55 PM MST
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  • 5835
    Helium is not suffocating. It won't absorb CO2. Nitrogen will absorb CO2 and you can fall asleep on a single breath.
      January 19, 2019 10:38 PM MST
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  • 16763
    Three minutes in a pure helium atmosphere devoid of oxygen will cause unconsciousness, ten minutes will kill you.
      January 20, 2019 5:38 AM MST
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  • 5835
    That's not because of the helium, only the lack of oxygen. A plastic bag over the face has the same effect.
      January 20, 2019 7:45 AM MST
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  • 44603
    I believe there is a word for that...suffocation.
      January 20, 2019 7:51 AM MST
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  • 16763
    It can be made to react, but any reaction involving helium is extremely endothermic and the compunds produced are unstable. I did see an experiment where they created helium tetrafluoride.
      January 19, 2019 7:56 PM MST
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  • 44603
    I haven't seen that one yet. Very unstable, I would imagine.
      January 19, 2019 8:00 PM MST
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  • 16763
    Extreme pressure and they had to hit it with some unthinkable number of eV. Formed a reddish haze that dissipated in seconds.
      January 19, 2019 8:05 PM MST
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  • 44603
    I guess we must ask the question...why? Or WTF?
      January 19, 2019 8:08 PM MST
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  • 16763
    Probably just to see if they could. Successful, if only briefly. Why do they create chemical elements that only exist for microseconds? Anything above 104?
      January 19, 2019 8:14 PM MST
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