• Question: What is your favourite element

    Asked by Andy Hart to Arlene, Baljit, Jesus, MG, Michael on 7 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by Branden, Rubidium Hydroxide, DanielWinstanley.
    • Photo: Baljit Ghatora

      Baljit Ghatora answered on 7 Nov 2015:

      That is a tough question!!!! I am using a lot of fluorine at the moment in my research- an amazing element that has unique properties that make it useful in everyday items in some form or another (toothpaste, water) in my research I’m using it to modify medical materials…

    • Photo: Arlene McBroom

      Arlene McBroom answered on 7 Nov 2015:

      My favourite element has to be Nitrogen. I use liquid nitrogen a lot to cool down a lot of my lasers. This is great fun!

    • Photo: Jesus Calvo-Castro

      Jesus Calvo-Castro answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      I think I would go for sodium! I will always remember the first time I saw the explosive reaction between sodium and water

    • Photo: Maire Gorman

      Maire Gorman answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      Well. The unofficial title of my PhD is
      “Naughty & Nice, new linelists for Chromium Hydride and Manganese Hydride”.

      Chromium Hydride is horrific: discontinuities, non-physical answers…

      Manganese Hydride is lovely, easy to work with, converges, smooth continuous curves from computer simulations.

      So on this basis my favorite element is MANGANESE!

      Also Manganese compounds tend to be purple 🙂

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