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
From XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2975
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
A mixture of mercury and bromine makes for a funny kind of water
Everything changed when the fire elements attacked.
Is that a Captain Planet reference?
Yee
I posit heart would be carbon. Or the translanthanides
Go Planet!
What about sub elements?
You have metal and earth, and then metalloids.
Elements with a lot of alpha or beta emissions are lighting.
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What would be wood?
Earth? Wood comes from trees and other plants that both grow from the earth, and decompose back into the earth.
But they grow of air and water without significantly consuming the earth they grow in.
Yes, but the earth provides many nutrients required that cannot be obtained by air and water alone. That’s why farmers have to rotate crops often.
ah yes, the famous forest rotation
I tried to make a woodchuck rhyme out of that and have linguistically satiated myself
We’re getting into minecraft chemistry here
Quicksilver and brom if I recall correctly.
Ok, where are the fucking magnets
Sulfer should be labeled “hell”.
Sulfur should be labeled Sulfur tbh 🜍
It’s called Sulfer because it makes chemists suffer.
also beryllium should be candy element.
fire ntion attack
Personally I think mercury is more of a ‘wet earth’ hybrid element.
Toph metalbends mercury, so it’s definitely earth.
Barracuda would probably be in Water.
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