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So I've been bored, and we've been assigned to pick and do a report on an element, so i decided to just do some looking around and i found this! Wismut_Kristall_und_1cm3_Wuerfel.jpgan artificially grown Bismuth Crystal, next to a cube of some bismuth metal!  

 

So i'm curious to know, whats all of your favorite elements? anything obscure you know about them?


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so it begins....Welcome to Illal


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so it begins....Welcome to Illal

BismuthoStructure!

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Coppers up there for me. Went to school in an area called the copper country (Keweenaw Peninsula). Named such for its raw copper ores running through the hills. Copper makes lots of nice blue and turquoise minerals. It also keeps my GPU cool.
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Neon.

 

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My favorite element is THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE!!  :nuke: 


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My favorite element is THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE!!  :nuke: 

 

Totally stole my response  :teehee:


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For science: Did you know that there are theroies (very reasonable ones) that would allow us to slow down time? Or vice verse, to speed it up? 

 

Imagine going to work just lasts a second and being at home lasts for years. 

 

There are some more theories that claim to eb able to go back in time but that would lock you forever in another dimension (Like this scene from Interstellar, just that you couldn't do anything) until you reach the time where you would go back, in the end you wouldn't notice anything but you could teleport, using the time dimension.

 

Another theory claims tha twe can actually go back in time and duplicate ourselves. Bad thing: we wouldn't notice. Upon swapping dimensions, your other "me" would go into the first dimension so you will never ever see yourself.

 

 

 

Now what could be the most effective engine? It surely converts alot of energy, right? And what is the least useable form of energy? Yes, heat. So the most effective engine would create a tremendous amount of heat, right? 

The simulated version doesn't. It cools down fuel to around -230°C and so is able to quickly switch between the states of the elemts: liquid, gas or solid. It acutally doesn't create a huge thrust, but it is able to store 50 times more fuel than in a liquid form. 

 

The stored variant would be some kind of mixture between gas and solid, you basically compress the particles soooo dense that it takes up less space than usual. 

bad sideeffect: it increases the weight. 

 

 

 

Just some theories and stuff I found across the world from scientists, teachers, internet, books and the like.

 

0% guarantee that it is correct what I have written :D


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For science: Did you know that there are theories (very reasonable ones) that would allow us to slow down time? Or vice verse, to speed it up? 

 

Imagine going to work just lasts a second and being at home lasts for years. 

 

There are some more theories that claim to be able to go back in time but that would lock you forever in another dimension (Like this scene from Interstellar, just that you couldn't do anything) until you reach the time where you would go back, in the end you wouldn't notice anything but you could teleport, using the time dimension.

 

Another theory claims that we can actually go back in time and duplicate ourselves. Bad thing: we wouldn't notice. Upon swapping dimensions, your other "me" would go into the first dimension so you will never ever see yourself.

 

I believe you are talking about relativity. Most of this time warp stuff relies on approaching the speed of light or astronomical (literally astronomical: black holes n stuff) levels of energy, often both.

 

Now what could be the most effective engine? It surely converts alot of energy, right? And what is the least useable form of energy? Yes, heat. So the most effective engine would create a tremendous amount of heat, right? 

The simulated version doesn't. It cools down fuel to around -230°C and so is able to quickly switch between the states of the elemts: liquid, gas or solid. It acutally doesn't create a huge thrust, but it is able to store 50 times more fuel than in a liquid form. 

 

The stored variant would be some kind of mixture between gas and solid, you basically compress the particles soooo dense that it takes up less space than usual. 

bad sideeffect: it increases the weight. 

 

I think this might be really interesting, but there is something lost in translation here so I'll just leave you one of these:

 

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-snip-

 

Yes it is about relativity and sorry, no sources, lost in time and mass :P


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Now what could be the most effective engine? It surely converts alot of energy, right? And what is the least useable form of energy? Yes, heat. So the most effective engine would create a tremendous amount of heat, right? 

The simulated version doesn't. It cools down fuel to around -230°C and so is able to quickly switch between the states of the elemts: liquid, gas or solid. It acutally doesn't create a huge thrust, but it is able to store 50 times more fuel than in a liquid form. 

 

The stored variant would be some kind of mixture between gas and solid, you basically compress the particles soooo dense that it takes up less space than usual. 

bad sideeffect: it increases the weight. 

 

A Carnot engine is theoretically the most efficient heat engine and its efficiency increases as the temperature of the hot source approaches infinity and the temperature of the cold sink approaches absolute zero, so I'm not sure where you're getting those figures from. You're referring to a substance's triple point btw but that's not exploited for mechanical work in any thermodynamic cycle that I'm aware of.

 

On topic, it's between carbon and fluorine for me. If you want somewhere to start with those regarding interesting facts, look into the properties of carbon's allotropes (e.g. diamond, nanotubes, graphene) or all the consequences of fluorine having the highest electronegativity like its ability to oxidize oxides like water or sand and make them catch on fire or its extremely strong C-F bonds that give unique properties to organofluorine compounds.


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GOLD, MOTHERfuzzy bunny!
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(J/K, silver is much more elegant, and can help you against the undead).
 


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Mine is carbon. Without it we wouldn't exist. But that's not the only reason. What I love about Carbon are its ALLOTROPES!

 

Diamond is cool but now my favourite is Graphene.

Obviously, ya'll might've heard about it, but I can't wait to see Graphene make it way into our lives.

 

For those dummies, follow these links to check out its limitless applications .

 

https://en.wikipedia...ons_of_graphene

 

http://gizmodo.com/5...es-for-graphene


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Bismuth...

 

 

Because I'm so damn edgy.


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Bismuth...

 

 

Because I'm so damn edgy.

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Silver is a pretty looking metal but is also useful as heck and easy to work with.
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Alexandrite, b!tches. I like it even more than amethyst.

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I simply cease to believe that something is OP just because it's OP.


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A Carnot engine is theoretically the most efficient heat engine and its efficiency increases as the temperature of the hot source approaches infinity and the temperature of the cold sink approaches absolute zero, so I'm not sure where you're getting those figures from. You're referring to a substance's triple point btw but that's not exploited for mechanical work in any thermodynamic cycle that I'm aware of.

 

On topic, it's between carbon and fluorine for me. If you want somewhere to start with those regarding interesting facts, look into the properties of carbon's allotropes (e.g. diamond, nanotubes, graphene) or all the consequences of fluorine having the highest electronegativity like its ability to oxidize oxides like water or sand and make them catch on fire or its extremely strong C-F bonds that give unique properties to organofluorine compounds.

isnt that the acid millions of times stronger than sulpheric and when splashed on flesh it explodes the flesh



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isnt that the acid millions of times stronger than sulpheric and when splashed on flesh it explodes the flesh


I'm guessing you're thinking of hydrofluoric acid? It's actually technically a weak acid and it doesn't explode flesh or anything, but it's still nasty as fuzzy bunny and can cause severe chemical burns as well as cardiac arrest if enough is absorbed through the skin.

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The engine of my car is supercharged and turbocharged !

 

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