Most interesting, fascinating element of the periodic table?

I need to make a 1min stop animation for my ICT project on one element. At first I chose Uranium, but I don't want to do that anymore.

What do you think is the most interesting element of the periodic table?

Reply 1

Mally-xo

helium cause it does cool stuff to your voice :awesome:

you could include a little video of its effects!

Reply 2

Blutarsky

None of them are particularly interesting, I won't lie...

Carbon is pretty amazing though.

Helium.

Thorium. Do it. I did a 1500 word essay on its possible uses in nuclear power. It's awesome.

Reply 5

amsie/

I quite like mercury :erm:

But I still wouldn't go anywhere near it :tongue:

Reply 6

Chucklefiend

Radium perhaps? Marie Curie discovered its properties the hard way.

Reply 7

CJRyan

Carbon.

Basis of Organic Chemistry :awesome:

Reply 8

mrengineer

Carbon!
You can do organic chemistry, life, how it's made in a star, diamond, graphite, the fullerenes ect

Uranium is just as interesting if not more so. Nuclear reactors, Nuclear weapons, it being created in supernovas, it's decay pattern.

Silicon for it's use in electronics as it's a semi-conductor.

I'd enjoy having a project like that OP, have fun

Mercury

Hydrogen

Makes up 90% of the universe. We wouldn't be here without it, stars wouldn't exist etc.

Such a simple element but bloody useful.

Reply 11

kasiasunshine

Original post by mrengineer

I'd enjoy having a project like that OP, have fun

We had to do a treasure hunt, which consisted of 3 levels, a puzzle, an animation and a movie, and everyone did pirates/soldiers etc and I did mine on Chemistry. I did the puzzle on Carbon, animation on Oxygen and now I need to make the movie. I called the hunt ''Element Quest'' and the story behind is that a young chemist wants to get a Chemistry Snobel Prize (I couldn't do Nobel due to copyrights) and in order to get it, he needs to complete my ''Element Quest!''

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Original post by BPat

Hydrogen

Makes up 90% of the universe. We wouldn't be here without it, stars wouldn't exist etc.

Such a simple element but bloody useful.

Interesting, I googled it and it is very fascinating, indeed!
I mean I knew what Hydrogen does before, but more details

Reply 14

kasiasunshine

Original post by CJRyan

Carbon.

Basis of Organic Chemistry :awesome:

I did my puzzle on Carbon :wink:

Reply 15

RedCasino

Helium is the least interesting, it's basically inert, so not much you can do with it, besides getting a high-pitched voice.

Fluorine is the most fun, has the highest electro negativity, and very reactive to the point where you can get some weird combinations as they just latch on to each electron.

Reply 16

- Major -

Try
Helium - super fluid at close temperatures to 1-2 kelvin
Mercury - Pretty cool liquid metal
Hydrogen - Stars and forms any other element, simplest element and our universe is rich in it.
Carbon - Diamond, graphite, carbon based organisms...oragnic chemistry.
Well these are my favourite.