• Question: do you know the names of every element? adn whats your favourite?

    Asked by webuyanycardotcom to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 29 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by redcherries.
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      Tim Stephens answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      I can’t recite the elements like some of the pupils on here claim to be able to do. I think my favourite element is probably Oxygen, without which we’d not be able to breathe.

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      Tom Lister answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      I just use Google.

      Californium is my favourite, because it proves that chemists have such a lack of imagination that they couldn’t even think of a proper name (it’s not the only example). If it was a biologist, they would have called it something like ‘albus explodicus’

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