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Brain&Force
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Not exactly.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/89
[Edited on 26.3.2014 by Brain&Force]
At the end of the day, simulating atoms doesn't beat working with the real things...
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rskennymore
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Great, now I want a countertop made of tungsten.
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Texium
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I just looked up tungsten countertops, and unsurprisingly, they don't sell them anywhere. However, they do sell countertops in this beige color which
they call tungsten for no logical reason. (:
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Xenon1898
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What is the picture of?
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
-Albert Einstein
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Zephyr
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This is a picture from a Periodicvideos video about fluorine and is a picture of the ignition of fluorine with charcoal.
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Zyklon-A
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Fluorine reacting with carbon.
As seen in this video.
Ahh, Pinkhippo11 beat me to it.
[Edited on 31-3-2014 by Zyklonb]
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krfkeith
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Tantalum
It's exceedingly rare. According to Wikipedia, in the solar system, it is the rarest non-radioactive element, and second overall besides Uranium.
It has a beautiful blue/purple tinge to it.
It's one of the most refractory metals known.
It has utterly insane resistance to corrosion from almost any chemical you can imagine.
It can be anodized similar to Titanium and Niobium to form pretty, colorful oxide layers.
It has the only known indefinitely stable/naturally occurring nuclear isomer. Decay of Ta-180m has never been observed. In fact, Ta-180m is the rarest
isotope in the universe.
Tantalum is just all around awesome!
[Edited on 31-3-2014 by krfkeith]
[Edited on 31-3-2014 by krfkeith]
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Steam
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Mercury Is one of those elements that has always made me excited! 
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violet sin
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Ag, runners up Ni, Ta, Co.
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