Comments on: Top 10 Most Amazing Elements

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:35:59 +0000

I hate to burst anyone’s bubble but mixing chlorine and ammonia won’t do anything but produce a mixed dangerous gas from two already dangerous gases. Very few people would ever have a chance to mix the two, since very few people would ever have access to either gas.

It’s mixing a chlorine-containing LIQUID (such as bleach, which is not TOO overly toxic unless ingested) and an ammonia-based LIQUID (such as ammonium hydroxide or just plain old glass-cleaner, which is also not too overly toxic unless ingested) that has a very bad reaction (i.e. producing free chlorine gas which is EXTREMELY dangerous.)

By: joey

joey — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:28:30 +0000

dats duty

By: Skeeker

Skeeker — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:42:38 +0000

Regarding aluminium vs aluminum, my understanding is that the element was originally named aluminum and that it was the English who began misspelling/mispronouncing it. Apparently people had it in their heads that an element should have an “ium” on the end. So while you could legitimately complain about thousands of words that the Americans have messed up, this is not one of them. This is, in fact, one of only 2 instances I can think of where the British messed up a word and the Americans got it right.

By: Name

Name — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:04:12 +0000

carbon?

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:58:30 +0000

isn’t* made of cheese. ;]

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:54:49 +0000

Its spelt Aluminium, not Aluminum, I don’t care if the Webster’s dictionary re-wrote English to suit dumbass Americans, its wrong. Contrary to popular opinion, you can’t rename elements to suit your country’s failure to teach science correctly. I bet you still think we spontaneously generated into a garden, right? Hell, the only reason you idiots don’t still think the moon is made of cheese is because you claim to have been there (but haven’t been back in 50 years and can’t get back there using the same shuttle because….??).

By: Belinda Forbes

Belinda Forbes — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:03:47 +0000

You missed… I think it's Rubidium? The one that melts at body temperature. So you can store it as a solid, but as you hold it it turns to a liquid.

By: Marick

Marick — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:43:31 +0000

I thought the same thing. Carbon is something not to leave out. Carbon can create four covalent bonds allowing it to link to itself in order to create carbon chains of various lengths and configurations, or to connect to non-carbon atoms in order to form compounds with unique and specialized chemical properties.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:02:12 +0000

Al – Al-u-mi-n-i-um!!!!!

By: naiinaii

naiinaii — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:50:34 +0000

definitely an amusing list.