#periodic table of elements

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4/06/24

Walked around campus finding all out exam venues... Found this beautiful stained glass periodic table

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FUN FACT: Rui's entire name can be spelled with elements of the periodic table. He is the only Project SEKAI character who's name you can do this with.

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Salt 🧂

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element cattos i love

used random number generator

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everyone is rude forever <3

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Throwback Thursday: Dmitri Mendeleev

This is Dmitri Mendeleev. He was a Russian chemist back in the 19th century. He was born in Siberia in 1834 to a Russian Orthodox priest and the daughter of a wealthy merchant. He was the youngest of 17 children of which only 14 survived to adulthood.

By the late 1850's he had gotten a master's in science. His claim to fame is that he was credited with creating the first version of the periodic table  of elements.

The best part is, he came up with it when he was writing  a textbook for his class in 1867. He found that if he arranged the elements by their atomic weight they exhibited an apparent periodicity of properties, elements with similar chemical properties either have similar atomic weights or the atomic weight increases regularly. Their atomic weights corresponded to their valencies and chemical properties and so much more. He even left spaces for where he predicted other elements should be (there were only 56 known at the time).

Now, why is a geologist talking about the periodic table of elements? Well, because chemistry is part of geology. It’s part of everything just like physics (which is unfortunate for me because those two classes nearly killed me in college). One of the biggest parts of my mineralogy course was to learn the chemical formulas of the most common minerals.

It's also important to know which elements are most likely to bond with each other to form minerals and we use the periodic table and chemistry for that (I will admit, this is not my strong spot. Chemistry nearly killed me in school).

Make sure to tune in tomorrow to learn more about March Madness semifinalist Jaekelopterus for Fossil Friday. Fossilize you later!

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Can you lick the chemistry?

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prog chemical element au

YES

Jon Anderson = Argon (18)

Chris Squire = Cæsium (55)

Rick Wakeman = Tungsten (74)

Steve Howe = Hydrogen (1)

Alan White = Aluminum (13)

Bill Bruford = Boron (5)

Tony Kaye = Potassium (19)

Trevor Rabin = Rubidium (37)

Trevor Horn = Thorium (90)

Geoff Downes = Germanium (32)

Patrick Moraz = Molybdenum (42)

Peter Banks = Phosphorus (15)

GENESIS

Peter Gabriel = Platinum (78)

Phil Collins = Cobalt (27)

Tony Banks = Terbium (65)

Mike Rutherford(ium) (104)

Steve Hackett = Vanadium (23)

RUSH

Geddy Lee = Gadolinium (64)

Alex Lifeson = Lithium (3)

Neil Peart = Neptunium (93)

ELP

Keith Emerson = Einsteinium (99)

Greg Lake = Lanthanum (57)

Carl Palmer = Chromium (24)

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Another Element Assortment!

Here is another handful of elements from my watercolor sketches!

Oxygen, who y'all WILL certainly see more of as time goes on whether y'all want to or not. Trust me.

Astatine, the rarest element present in the Earth's crust (and behaves like a METAL sometimes according to what studies have shown in super tiny samples??? Guys this is a halogen wtf???)

Tennessine, who holds a very special place in my heart :3 The element being officially named shortly before I started getting really into chemistry--and being named after the place I happen to be from no less!

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Table Salt

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Periodic table with particles of these same elements.

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FINALS

CARBON:

Forms the basis of all life

What diamonds, coal, and pencil lead are made of

Used to make graphene, one of the strongest materials (one atom of thickness is 200x stronger than steel)

SILICON:

Not to be confused with Silicone

Could potentially be used to make life instead of carbon

Used in a lot of electronics, hence the name of silicon valley

ARGON:

Has a distinctive purple glow

used in neon signs

often mistaken as a pirate's favorite element

POTASSIUM:

Found in high quantity in bananas

burning it produces a light purple or red flame

the first metal to be discovered by electrolysis

STRONTIUM:

Used in cancer treatment

Used in toothpaste

The most accurate atomic clock (to one second in the 200 million years) uses strontium atoms

FLOURINE:

the most receptive and most electronegative of all the chemical elements

oxygen, helium, neon, and argon are the only elements fluorine can't react with

the only element that can react with noble gases, specifically xenon, krypton, and radon

BISMUTH:

the most diamagnetic metal (meaning it gets repelled by magnets instead of attracted)

Known for its unique shape and colorful style

PROMETHIUM:

the last lanthanoid to be discovered

PLUTONIUM:

Named after the dwarf planet Pluto

Was once thought to have been discovered by Enrico Fermi along with element 93, but he was actually mistaken. He named it Hesperium.

An unnaturally poor conductor of electricity

Used to make atomic bombs, even more powerful than uranium

Known by some as the "forbidden gummy"

COBALT:

Turns a vibrant blue when heated to extreme temperatures

Named after kobolds, who are "mythical, death-dealing goblins" (not the lizard kobold)

One of only three elements that are ferromagnetic at room temperature

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HAIII making adoptables based on periodic elements, check them out here

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