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Sauce: https://brightside.me/creativity-art/what-chemical-elements-would-look-like-if-they-were-people-243260/
MementoMoriMotherFucker
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myfi
...Mercury is not the heaviest metal. It's not even in the top ten heaviest.
bruno9816
A lot of these illustrations are wrong. Do not upvote just because it is cute.
Jepalaudsadsin
I love this.
DrSirSexyLegs
#5 the thirst is real
DARSKA
Underrated comment
GutsTheStruggler
As a biology/biochem student, I'm very disappointed that this made into on to FP.
onlyhalfghost
as an ex-chem student, I agree.
noisette
Hmm... you could replace carbon by silica. Life finds a way.
Flyndaran
No. All life ever discovered is earth carbon based. Silicon is far less usable for making complex branched compounds than carbon.
PickleNos
Thanks to few atomes of Gold, firefighters can 'breathe' in the middle of a blaze. They transform CO(deadly at [0,2%] in the air ) in CO2.
WoopDeFrickenDoo
What kind of Marvel universe bullshit is this?
chitterflex
Am I the only one who finds this mildly racist? All the colored people smell bad, are not social or their color is contagious?
DownWithYouAll
gold does react to stuff doe, been a while since I was in school but.. lol
Adambean
Always upvote chemistry. Also periodic videos. :D
dagg3r
Damnit i saw hydrogen and thought this would go through all the elements
bezuer
TOO LATE! I would have LOVED those at school
PaintedSlate
If only this were less misleading, it might be used for education.
bezuer
See? I was so bored in class, I didn't even notice it's inaccurate
openthedoorgetontheflooreverybodydothedinosaur
oxygen is not the most reactive. flourine and caesium are. mercury is not the heaviest metal. We don't even know whether the heaviest has 1/
openthedoorgetontheflooreverybodydothedinosaur
the properties of a metal. Mercury is not the most dangerous. That'd go to one of the radioactive ones or caesium. 2/
openthedoorgetontheflooreverybodydothedinosaur
sulfur in crystalline form does not smell. things it reacts with smell. Gold and neon do react, just not often or at room temperature.
openthedoorgetontheflooreverybodydothedinosaur
and mercury is not the most fluid metal. It's only the most fluid metal at room temperature.
CrackedWalnut
on every level but physical, I am Argon.
LilithianPanel
I feel like Sodium was going to rape, stalk, molest, murder, and/or fan-girl at H2O.
Valaar
Potassium kind of does it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IirgtxuleBw
Zahnradfee
It just burns up in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bAhCHedVB4
Hybris51129
Hydrogen is more like a bunch of very small kids who can slip in between the bars of their playpen and get out.
ImSynnical
I'm thirsty, I need water.
hexmuch
What about silver :/
ThatGuyJayar
BobbyHeytch
Hydrogen is the smallest not the biggest atom. If elements are people co2 should be 3 dudes and still has no place on that podium. (1/2)
BobbyHeytch
Silver does not readily tarnish in air. Mercury is not the heaviest element, plutonium is. Probably the most dangerous too. This OP is fail.
onlyhalfghost
to be fair, plutonium isn't that dangerous unless you get about ten kilograms of it as a solid mass, which will only stay that way briefly.
Makecba
yeah, breath in a few grams of plutonium powder and then say that again
onlyhalfghost
breathe in a few drops of mercury and tell me it's less dangerous.
BobbyHeytch
Danger is a subjective term, but if you're looking at which element will straight up kill you, then it's either Arsenic or Polonium. (1/2)
onlyhalfghost
I dunno, iron or nitrogen can kill you pretty easily too, and arsenic isn't too fast about it. Polonium however I wouldn't go near.
BobbyHeytch
Not fast but it has a very low LD50 meaning even small amounts will absolutely take you out. (Maybe being slow actually makes it worse, idk)
BobbyHeytch
OP's list still takes an L
MagicalTimelord
Really could've used this in HS...
PianoMan2112
No, you couldn't - Remember when Bugs Bunny taught Clyde about the American Revolution, and he came home with a dunce hat?
AliyaJ
lordstinkynuts
The air one is wrong. Argon, not CO2, is the third
NoughtPointOneFour
CO2 isn't even an element.
Owlberightback
So, we are carbon based life. Is there any evidence of any other species/ life form of any type being anything but?
Flyndaran
In reality, no. Silicon is far less versatile, and has no gas form for life to encounter or use easily. Many other problems too. :(
Shistosomiasis
theoretically, silicone based life is possible based on its similar valence electrons as carbon.
Owlberightback
Thank you
PianoMan2112
Silicon - silicone-based life exists, usually in RHM posts.
Flyndaran
Silicone life might be possible but that's really leaning on carbon's branching ability interspersed with silicon atoms.
devilsmagicvagina
Element.ary
trojanmule
Looks to me like Gold is reacting to Sulfur's stench.
HolySchlamola
Good catch there.
3654798521
Francium and Water have an explosive reaction.
darkhavana0512
TemporalOnline
spratacuss
I was going to say that toooo lol
Baconthief1994
As a chemist and someone who can make a quick academic journal check, gold can react with sulfur. The comic still checks out
MaelstromVanguard
Pretty sure fluorine is more reactive than oxygen as well, and aren't there a number of things oxygen won't react with?
Baconthief1994
I'd say so. It's more electronegative and it can do stuff with some heavy noble gases
BanadecCamberbootch
All of the halogens are reactive as fuck, but in chemistry you literally can refer to reactivity as oxidation state. Oxygen gets around.
SomewhatOxygenated
Apropriate if you consider that sulfur reacts reasonably strongly with gold.
KingOfTheInterwebz
Then #2 is wrong
SomewhatOxygenated
True, you can get anything to react under sufficiently violent condition. Even helium can be made to react with protons to form HeH+
Mewrulez99
Heh
Techtronic
In what way?
johnnyallstar
Sufur corrodes gold. It's one of the few elements that will. Old gold that is tarnished is damaged by sulfur exposure.
MogseyInnit
Hydrogen is more like a small child on a sugar rush that clings onto any adult it touches
Chev8t8
hydrogen is more like an googol pairs of the same twins
AlexVP
That's more like fluorine. Also, the sodium shown in fluorine's image does have an electron to happily give away.
WagonFullOfPamcakes
Small sugar fiend child with a large fart cloud maybe? Idunno...
JNied
JanetVanDyne
And gets super pissed and throws a temper tantrum if they turn him into H+.
TheSaucyPineapple
*if they take his electron
JanetVanDyne
Thanks.
Pawntoast
How the fuck do you misinterpret hydrogen to be large!? It's the first and hence smallest element on the periodic table!
eddyfinnso
Because whoever made this was a fucking idiot. Hydrogen only takes up space because it's a gas.
LoveSexRock
Uh... all matter takes up space. That's a key factor in it being, well, matter.
doihavetobeclever
Large in diameter, not mass. Like a balloon.
DiedViaThrowPillow
I thought it was because it said "widespread in the universe" As in very common
lmgursLibertarian
Yeah no. It's electron orbitals are the largest as they have very little attraction to the nucleus
Shistosomiasis
because the illustrator heard 1 tiny info blurb on an element and made ass-umptions about its other characteristics
Helios92
Well the electron is furthest apart compared to any other element. Its a stretch but i get where the artist was coming from. Barely.
o11c
Except that everything else (other than helium or the next few as ions) have stuff in additional, outer orbitals.
Helios92
By stuff do you mean electrons? Can you rephrase that. Im confused. We are speaking elements. We start talking ions and everything changes.
IDontWannaSay
I think they meant since there's a lot of it it takes a lot of space. So its not representative of "an" atom :/
Helios92
Touché
Helios92
Still a stretch compared to the illustration.
IDontWannaSay
But yeah it's not the most faithful representation of Hydrogen itself :p
IDontWannaSay
I'm basing it on the text more than the illustration \o/
Manbehindthemadness
Mercury is not the heaviest...
HaRyunYang
I think he meant the heaviest stable transition metal
thereverseapachemaster
Thank you, I saw that and felt someone needed to fix that
caveswallow
Osmium or iridium is the densest element.
IAmACatgirlAMA
Hassium has a predicted density of almost twice that of Osmium. It just decays so fast nobody has been able to measure it...
TheAmazingBlahaj
AlCo94
I think op means the heaviest fluid metal, but I don't even know if that's true.
diregamer
GODDAMMIT I CAME HERE TO LAUGH AND NOW IM LIKE WELL NOW CURIOUSITY IS GETTING THE BEST OF ME AND NOW I GOTTA GO LEARN, SARAH DAMMIT.
Falanxzealot
Only at room temperature. There's a lot of temperature to experience, though. So it's garbage, mostly.
acme64
how long would the card need to be to explain all that, you're missing the point.
Falanxzealot
That mercury isn't even slightly the heaviest nor most dangerous metal? Nope, I'm not.
IAmACatgirlAMA
But at room temperature, Mercury is the only liquid metal! And if we're allowing liquid allyos, I'd say NaK is much more dangerous.
Flyndaran
"Room temperature". Gallium melts at 85.
Falanxzealot
Mercury is the only liquid *elemental* metal at room temperature. Gallium-indium eutectic melts at 15C.
PersonalDefenseWeapon
And also not the most dangerous.
TheDivineUsersub
Arsenic? idk, I never had much chemistry in school :x
openthedoorgetontheflooreverybodydothedinosaur
also not the most fluid, only the most fluid at room temperature
CuriouslyRecurringTemplatePattern
I'd take exposure to mercury over thallium
icameinlikeafeckingball
SuburbanMeerkat
Took me a moment to get this, but made me laugh. +1
Chev8t8
Arsenic, Radium, Uranium, Plutonium...
openthedoorgetontheflooreverybodydothedinosaur
You can actually substitute phosphorous with arsenic and sustain life. It's common belief you can't have life without phosphorous but 1/
openthedoorgetontheflooreverybodydothedinosaur
we've found some bacteria that sustain life using arsenic as a substitute. So long as you don't need bones you're fine
Strostkovy
I know it's simplified, but.. so... friggin.. wrong... (some are alright)
DanDanDaaaaannnnn
Non carbon based life http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/12/epic-discovery-nasa-discovers-new-non-dna-based-life-form-to-be-annouced-
MyUsernameHasTheBestWords
Yeah, that was disappointing. Expected chemistry humor, got kindergarden intro to elements.
GodOfTheBumbleBees
Some of them even contradict each other...
EscarFrazzle
My thoughts as well. Mercury is the most dangerous? I'd pick holding some mercury over enriched uranium any day.
TrillyElliot
Agreed, this post was a cringe-fest from start to finish.
usbcd36
CO2 being the "third" atmospheric gas, for one.
80percentlegs
Argon, correct?
Dornier
Yes!
Fleecemaster
Yeah, at around 1%, but CO2 is more important, which I guess is why it's included, again, it's not an element either though... :/
80percentlegs
Well to be fair, pure Oxygen and Nitrogen, for the most part, exist as diatomic molecules, correct?
Fleecemaster
Yeah, but they are still elemental. They don't have to be single atoms, eg elemental sulphur is S8, carbon can form large crystals (diamond)
barrettsmithbb
I agree these are too simplified and I think spreads more misconceptions than actual fact.
DemmyDemon
It's close enough for primary school, I think.
rookerrocks
Or someone who failed chem
Strostkovy
I agree, but it hurts.
skwint
You can't draw the smallest of all the elements as a big fat guy, and stuffing water into a bunch of elements is misleading at best.
321Nik
you see, it makes sense because hydrogen is not dense at all, so if u were gonna store it in a tank, it would have 2 be vry big tank.
skwint
2000 hydrogen molecules take up the same space as 2000 oxygen molecules, at the same pressure.
DemmyDemon
It's an illustration of the relative mass of Hydrogen contra other elements in the universe, and by that measure, Hydrogen is "big".
skwint
That's not how I read it, but so long as the primary school kids aren't confused by a giant hydrogen atom I guess it's close enough
JanetVanDyne
I thought the same. In my chemistry notes I always drew Hydrogen as tiny, Oxygen as a stealing electron ass, and Potassium as an explosive-
JanetVanDyne
Little shit. Gold was underappreciated, Chlorine and Sodium were best buddies that would het high together.
MyUsernameHasTheBestWords
"N is the main component of air" .... that's... that's it?
JanetVanDyne
I saw Nitrogen as a cold and distant guy, since the first time I heard of if it was when I saw someone freeze a rose with liquid N.
skwint
I think of hydrogen as boys, oxygen as the prettiest girl in the room, and carbon as a bisexual tart :)
AVoiceOfReason
Explain.
MyUsernameHasTheBestWords
They are great for elementary school / people who have never heard of elements. If you are actually into chemistry, it's just underwhelming.
GeorgePotompkin
Also, what would make mercury the most dangerous? It used to be used as a cure for syphilis. There are nastier elements then Hg.
ph1shstyx
Polonium is one element you just do not fuck with
GeorgePotompkin
I had to look up his name but Alexander Litvineko was poisoned with Polonium, messed him up pretty good.
CuriouslyRecurringTemplatePattern
Thallium is way more toxic
GeorgePotompkin
The one that bothered me is mercury, there are heavier elements by atomic mass and I believe osmium is the most dense element/metal.
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'...the most fluid metal and the heaviest'
AVoiceOfReason
Right. METAL, not ELEMENT. ("there are heavier elements by atomic mass"). They should have said there are heavier METALS. Sheesh.
Isorikk
Dense is by definition heavy. But to clarify, mercury is definitely not the heaviest metal.
AVoiceOfReason
The point I was making was that the picture said "metal" not "element" so I wanted to make it clear what the claim being made was.
AVoiceOfReason
In other words, if I claim the Titanic is the heaviest boat, you shouldn't say "Nah Jupiter is definitely heavier" even if Titanic (1)
whatdoesamangottadoforsomemacaroni
density isn't weight, density is how tightly packed they are, if something is dense it's usually heavy but they aren't the same thing
AVoiceOfReason
The picture claimed Mercury was the heaviest metal, not element. So Osmium is the only relevance here. Other heavier elements aren't.
GeorgePotompkin
Metals with a higher atomic mass than Hg is still technically heavier. Lead, Francium, even Uranium would fit what I said about elements.
AVoiceOfReason
Yeah, my point was that the picture claimed Mercury was the heaviest metal, not element. I get it's not, but still.
IAmACatgirlAMA
Mercury is neither the densest nor the heaviest of metals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements.
AVoiceOfReason
I know.
MrBananaBeak
More info pls
PianoMan2112
Water is H₂O - it's understood when typing H2O, but drawing has no excuse. H₂O=HHO; H2O=HOO.(Really it's not H₂O, it's HOH, but barely used)
cuddlefurnace
Pretty much everything about mercury is wrong aside from being fluid. :x It's not the most dangerous, definitely not the heaviest.
MASHaddict
The one about Oxygen, they should not have used the term inert gases. Nitrogen gas is definitely inert and nitrogen bonds with oxygen.
4Astaroth
One sauce for Aqua Regia which is mentioned by @Volt1ighter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_regia
jillaubs
Mercury is the only metal that is a liquid at ambient conditions. It's the heaviest stable transition metal. Danger is hard to assess, (1)
jillaubs
but seeing as alkali metals will explode upon contact with water, I'd consider them more dangerous to consume. (2)
matchboxrider
it's not really the alkali metals but the K and Na. and not explode but the heat ignites the H2 which appears through the reaction and (1)
matchboxrider
forms an exploding gas-mixture with O2. (2)
PianoMan2112
Bronze medal should go to argon, not carbon dioxide (see previous water rant regarding CO2 versus CO₂).
jillaubs
Fluorine is extremely reactive. If combined with NaCl, it would displace the Cl. Definitely poorly represented as a social pariah.
pantherluna
Gold does combine with some elements, Chlorine is one. Oxygen can form a compound with Xenon
cuddlefurnace
Well, aqua regia is practically nuking it with oxidants, so it's at least right in spirit... but yeah, chloroaurate ions are a thing
Volt1ighter
Also not completely unreactive. Aqua Regia
ISupportYourViews
Should I not be wearing my 18K gold chain in the pool? Seriously.
doodoopussy
You should not be wearing a gold chain period.
acme64
maybe he's italian?
Ragodofthesun
No, the chlorine can discolor the gold (and platinum too). It can also hurt the finish on gemstones.
jillaubs
Hydrogen's is probably the worst. It only takes up so much space because it's the most abundant element, it's also the smallest.
cuddlefurnace
If it's H+ it's the smallest, otherwise He would be the smallest. c:
jillaubs
True, I should've said lightest.
cuddlefurnace
Yeah, I got what you meant. x) I'm just being pedantic.
jimmyriba
Why is He smaller than H? (as elements, i.e. atoms, not molecules) Is it because it's heavier, and so more contracted?
cuddlefurnace
You're half right. Stronger +ve charge in the nucleus draws the electron shell in closer. This is a trend across the periodic table.
gtmiller
H has a smaller nucleus, but a larger radius. This is due to the incomplete orbital of H and ratio of nuclear mass to electrons.
cuddlefurnace
Atomic radii decrease as you move right, and increase as you move down (i.e. adding more shells offsets the increased charge)