• Question: What is your favourite element of the periodic table?

    Asked by anon-226999 to William, Thibaut "Tibo", Harry, Georgia, Emily, Aimee on 13 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: William Wiseman

      William Wiseman answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      All of my work involves Zirconium (Zr) so I guess I have to say this is my favourite. Without that element, I probably wouldn’t have a job!

    • Photo: Aimee Egglestone

      Aimee Egglestone answered on 13 Nov 2019: last edited 13 Nov 2019 9:25 am

      As an Organic Chemist I should say Carbon since that’s what our work primarily focuses on, but in reality it’s Cobalt because it’s a really beautiful colour!

      Take a look!

    • Photo: Georgia Orton

      Georgia Orton answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      Iron is my favorite element. There is so much of it on earth that biology has found lots of uses for it, such as in haemoglobin to transport oxygen around your body.
      I worked with iron and sulfur containing molecules for four years… but sulfur is too stinky to be anyone’s favorite element.
      This is a picture of one of the iron containing things I made – the were quite nice orange/red colours: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_Bx5R8XoAAvg9e?format=jpg&name=4096×4096

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