• Question: What is your favourite element? Also what is its chemical symbol?

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      Asked by chemicallum to Roy, Kate, Kieren, Nicola, Rowena on 14 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by , .
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        Kate Nicholson answered on 14 Mar 2014:

        Potassium K to match my initial and burns with a purple flame to match my favourite colour 😀

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        Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 14 Mar 2014:

        Mercury, Hg, one of only two liquid elements in the whole periodic table and the only metal liquid at room temperature. It was also the element that drove hatters mad when they breathed in its vapours!

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        Nicola Rogers answered on 15 Mar 2014:

        I like Iridium – Ir. You can make pretty fluorescent compoounds with Ir(III) ions, which can luminesce blue, green, yellow, orange, red and even in the near-IR range, if you change the ligands coordinated to the metal complex.

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        Roy Adkin answered on 18 Mar 2014:

        Osmium for me…densest metal…and it gets its name from the Latin for ‘stench’…it’s compounds absolutely stink!

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