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fossilesque @mander.xyz

6d ago

Where is heart?!

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From XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2975
- https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2975:_Classical_Periodic_Table
Fun fact: did y'all know the Chinese Periodic Table, it has the type of elements built into the chemical symbols as the radical?
Like: 气 Air, 氵 Water, 石 Rock, 钅Metal
- 'Rockium' ? 'Airium'? How ridiculous!!!
  Look at western periodic table: lithium, hydrogen, helium...
  Mmmh OK then
  
  All proper names are just old/dead/foreign language for the thing.
  
  hahah
A mixture of mercury and bromine makes for a funny kind of water
- Funny "Haha" or funny "Uh Oh"?
  
  The latter. Mercury bromide is highly toxic (I'm pretty sure all mercury salts are highly toxic). Its also a solid, not a liquid.
  But mercury and bromine are the only two liquid elements at room temperature in their elemental form, which is why they're "water". One is silver, the other reddish brown and syrupy.
- Well, first it’s fire.
Everything changed when the fire elements attacked.
Needs some saddam
- It's not 9/11!
  
  Duuuudeee
  This comment scared the shit out of me...
  My wall-clock was broken, and I looked at my phone and said to my partner "it's not 9:11" and then five SECONDS later I got the notification from you "it's not 9/11".
  That is fucking weird...
  
  It's just 9:33
- I'm not sure how to feel about the fact that I can't look at an image anymore and not find some way to interpret the vague shapes as Saddam Hussein.
Is that a Captain Planet reference?
- Yee
  
  I posit heart would be carbon. Or the translanthanides
  
  Go Planet!
  
  Isn't it wind rather than air? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2V_Xlci20eM
is it just me or does it look like Susan Juan hiding spot?

edit: swipe to type let me down but it's funny so I'm keeping it
What about sub elements?
You have metal and earth, and then metalloids.
Elements with a lot of alpha or beta emissions are lighting.
- Some ~~Earth benders~~ Geologists can manipulate metal tho.
- What would be wood?
  
  Earth? Wood comes from trees and other plants that both grow from the earth, and decompose back into the earth.
  
  We're getting into minecraft chemistry here
  
  I tried to make a woodchuck rhyme out of that and have linguistically satiated myself
If "Fire" is supposed to represent radioactive elements, quite a few corrections would be necessary.
Other than that, nice concept.
Sulfer should be labeled "hell".
- Sulfur should be labeled Sulfur tbh 🜍
  
  It's called Sulfer because it makes chemists suffer.
fire ntion attack
Personally I think mercury is more of a 'wet earth' hybrid element.
- Toph metalbends mercury, so it's definitely earth.
Quicksilver and brom if I recall correctly.
Ok, where are the fucking magnets
also beryllium should be candy element.
Reminds me of "Elements" by LemonJelly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKMg2o4hOoo
Barracuda would probably be in Water.
classical elements refers to mechanical properties (solid, liquid, gaseous), it does not refer to chemical elements.

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