• Question: Favourite element on the periodic table and why

    Asked by anon-199009 to Nana, Luisa, Alex on 7 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-198998.
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      Marialuisa Crosatti answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Since a study living things, I will say Carbon. Its properties allow for the existence of molecules that are essential for life to exist as it does on Earth

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      Alexander Allen answered on 10 Mar 2019:

      Can I give a few honourable mentions?

      Caesium is the most reactive metal on the left side of the periodic table – if it comes into contact with water it immediately explodes. Even a tiny grain could blast apart a sink.

      Fluorine is the most reactive element on the whole table. It will react with every other element very strongly (usually with flames or explosions) except for 2… maybe 3 but it’s debateable…

      Silicon is a material that behaves a bit like a metal and a bit like a non metal – it bonds just like carbon into lots of different molecules (it makes up glass, sand and computer chips). It’s one of the most fascinating elements for electronics.

      The winner has to be carbon… It wants to form 4 different bonds to make molecules, it’s light and really common… This allows it to make up all DNA and life on this planet… That’s very special

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