• Question: whats you favourite element in the periodic table

    Asked by ginger to Anne, Arthur, Rose, Ruhina, Thomas on 15 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by egracey541, PurdiePie, Kdog112.
    • Photo: Ruhina Miller

      Ruhina Miller answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Silicon since it’s underrated and found in many useful products

    • Photo: Arthur Wilkinson

      Arthur Wilkinson answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Carbon. We’re all carbon-based lifeforms (sorry for the Star Trekism), although to echo Ruhina’s answer science fiction writers like proposing silicon based life forms (they appeared on Dr Who MANY years ago). Plus the Nobel prizes for Buckyballs and graphene show that there’s great science to be done on just the basic element, never mind the mindboggling number of compounds it forms.

    • Photo: Thomas Farrugia

      Thomas Farrugia answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      I’d say Oxygen – it’s pretty cool because we need it to keep going, although there are organisms that are poisoned by it! And there’s loads of it all over the place – be it trapped in rocks, or in our atmosphere.

      And apparently liquid oxygen makes for a pretty hardcore BBQ starter 😉

    • Photo: Rose Simnett

      Rose Simnett answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      Silicon because it’s the same in Spanish… Si :p

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