• Question: what is your favourite element on the periodic table?

    Asked by portugalftw to Vicki, Hywel, Emma, Alastair on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Alastair Sloan

      Alastair Sloan answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Good question. It would have to be Carbon – the building block of life

    • Photo: Vicki Stevenson

      Vicki Stevenson answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Can I have two?
      My first choice is oxygen because we’d die with out it.
      My second choice is ceasium because it makes a big bang!

    • Photo: Emma Carter

      Emma Carter answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I suppose Silicon because it’s been so essential for the development of computers and it’s the element I use in my work all the time.

    • Photo: Hywel Vaughan

      Hywel Vaughan answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Hmm, my answer is going to be really engineering-y here… Ti or Titanium.
      Titanium is an amazing element, and when alloyed with other elements creates a material that is amazingly strong and fantastically lightweight. It is an engineers dream to build things from Titanium!

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