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[–] 77 points 11 months ago (1 child)
[–] 42 points 11 months ago (8 children)

A mixture of mercury and bromine makes for a funny kind of water

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Funny "Haha" or funny "Uh Oh"?

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  • [–] 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

    The latter. Mercury bromide is highly toxic (I'm pretty sure all mercury salts are highly toxic). Its also a solid, not a liquid.

    But mercury and bromine are the only two liquid elements at room temperature in their elemental form, which is why they're "water". One is silver, the other reddish brown and syrupy.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Fun fact: did y'all know the Chinese Periodic Table, it has the type of elements built into the chemical symbols as the radical?

    Like: 气 Air, 氵 Water, 石 Rock, 钅Metal

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago

    Everything changed when the fire elements attacked.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Duuuudeee

    This comment scared the shit out of me...

    My wall-clock was broken, and I looked at my phone and said to my partner "it's not 9:11" and then five SECONDS later I got the notification from you "it's not 9/11".

    That is fucking weird...

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Is that a Captain Planet reference?

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    What about sub elements?

    You have metal and earth, and then metalloids.

    Elements with a lot of alpha or beta emissions are lighting.

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    Earth? Wood comes from trees and other plants that both grow from the earth, and decompose back into the earth.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    They kept it off so captain planet won't come kick Trump's administration' ass. Just a guess.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    is it just me or does it look like Susan Juan hiding spot?

    edit: swipe to type let me down but it's funny so I'm keeping it

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    If "Fire" is supposed to represent radioactive elements, quite a few corrections would be necessary.
    Other than that, nice concept.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Personally I think mercury is more of a 'wet earth' hybrid element.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    fire ntion attack

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Sulfer should be labeled "hell".

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Barracuda would probably be in Water.

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  • classical elements refers to mechanical properties (solid, liquid, gaseous), it does not refer to chemical elements.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Reminds me of "Elements" by LemonJelly

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKMg2o4hOoo

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Ok, where are the fucking magnets

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    also beryllium should be candy element.

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