What's your favourite element of the periodic table(if you have one)?

[Hcube]

I said nearly this same thing way back in 2013...on page two of this thread

Yeah i noticed that too while reading through the pages, and at first i thought it was a repost ! very funny.

(and still Hg is not the best element )

[TheMoonRover]

Can I pick two? Lithium & Americium. Because I can spell my name with the chemical symbols.

[Feradose]

Gadolinium because firstly, GD.And making aluminium weak.

[ouion]

Helium, it makes airships float and a isotope of it called Helium-3 may provide a way for future space travel.

[ZedNova]

Americium, because Murica and radioactivity.

[Bill Phil]

I like Nitrogen! Its so under appreciated - even though it doesn't do much on its own, its necessary for life on Earth, its a key component of DNA, it appears in the fun volatile ammonia, it makes the very useful storable hypergolics, hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide, and the most efficient solid fuel APCP.

There's actually new solid fuel in development. It's better than APCP in terms of Isp. But it's not quite ready for massive use as of now.

[SpacePi]

Iron.

Many uses, abundant, and main component in steel, which is my favorite alloy.

[PB666]

Hydrogen, because it made the universe, and when the universe runs low of the stuff we are all doomed.

[Beowolf]

Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur are not amused by the metallic bias in this thread, and respectfully remind you what you are made of.

[Ethanadams]

I'm going to make a new element just to call it surprise

[NFUN]

I'm going to make a new element just to call it surprise

Nah, narrativium is better, unless you are a time monk.

[Endersmens]

I like carbon. I really like carbon.

[Cydonian Monk]

Cobalt, because 27. And blue.

[Endersmens]

because 27. 'nuff said.

[winged]

Hydrogen just to get better Isp

[Teutooni]

Hydrogen, obviously. Hydrogen + time => everything else. Has very nice energetic properties (fusion fuel, LH2/LOX, has a lot of interesting phases that are also very energetic). Atomic hydrogen reacts with almost any element, also forms one of the strongest chemcal bonds known with itself.

[livefree75]

Argon, because it's like me: inert.

[Hcube]

Argon, because it's like me: inert.

Weirdly contredicts your pseudo

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(are you french ? your username suggests that)

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[SuperFastJellyfish]

'Zinc is, by far, the best element. I also like Plutonium. It's just fun to say...Plutonium. How's your Plutonium? Good, thank you.'

I had this CD on in my car today, and heard this and had to post it.

[Rocketfeline]

Mercury, It basicly liquid metal. And its fun to watch a small bug die in a liquid metal.

[ghostbuzzer7]

Xenon One of the most interesting properties it has Element 54

[Spica]

I really am fascinated by Boron. It is most definitely not a boring element, as it can form all sorts of compounds and ions with VERY interesting shapes, due to three-center two-electron bonds.

The Boranes (Boron Hydrides) are especially interesting, given their shapes:

1. Diborane (B₂H₆) 2. Tetraborane (B₄H₁₀) 3. Pentaborane (B₅H₉) 4. Decaborane (B₁₀H₁₄) 5. The Dodecaborane Anion (B₁₂H₁₂^-2)

One of the strongest acids in the world, Carborane Acid, is also based on the dodecaborane cluster.

All of these compounds, and other Boron compounds also burn with a bright green flame, which is really cool.

Those reasons, along with many more, are why I am fascinated by Boron, and its chemistry.

I also have a sample of elemental boron in my element collection, its really interesting.

[Ethanadams]

Is it carbon hat makes a Bucky ball shape from

[LABHOUSE]

No one element has any use if there are no others, with that in mind; carbon.

[Xannari Ferrows]

Roughly 6.022141 • 10²³ Atoms of Silicon-28 weighs precisely a kilogram.