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Any help I could get on these is greatly appreciated. I have been searching on goggle for some time and I can't seem to find.
*I need the element for each question*
1.Almost all of this gas comes froms wells in the US
2.Given the code name "copper" by scientists working on the atomic bomb in WWII
3. A "button" of this is used to make a lightweight, portable x-ray machine
4. Third rarest element
5. Deficiency in diet can cause some of the same symptons as alcohlisim
6.Salts of this cause a blue flame, used in atomic clocks
7.compunds of this are used in photographic films
8. These two gases are used to produce the laser needed for today's holography
9. Used in electronics, banks, cake decorating, and jewlery
Any that you can help with are great :)
Re: Random element trivia questions I can't find the answer
Well, 1. is helium; 3 is Co-60; 6 is Cs; 7 is Ag; 8 CO2 is used in military lasers; 9 is Ag or Au -- the little silver balls on cakes (dragees) actually contain real Ag; some high class patisseries actually serve choclate cake with Au leaf on it; don't worry its non toxic u just shit it out. As for # 4; that depends on your purview; in the universe? on earth, on the earth's crust; does that include only 'natural' elements; do reported traces of Np and Pu in natural samples count? For what it's worth, crust samples contain no traces of most transuranic elements or krypton; bare traces of Tc, Pm, Po, At, Fr, Ra, Ac, Pa, Np, amd Pu given in that order, but for what reason I don't know; the last three for which calculated abundances are given are Ru, Rh, and Rn. [/sub]
Could #8 be a Helium/Neon laser? Thats my guess
Truth be told, I'm not sure about #4..i just read this off a sheet but I guess its probably the universe in which case I think i know.
Oh, thanks for the help so far :)
Have we checked everywhere in the universe yet?
there might be LOADS of rhenium in someone's basement on Beetleguese
Betelgeuse
Is that prenouced Bee-til-juice?
Yep; it is said that it represents Arabic Bayt al Jawzah 'house of the Twins' or Ibt al Jawzah 'arm-pit of the Twins' (Twins being a translation of the Greco-Roman Gemini, applied to both Gemini and Orion); in fact, the original phrase was Yad al Jawzah 'Hand of the Twins' but a mediaeval scribe misread the Arabic y as b (in Arabic they look alike) producing and unintelligible Bad Al Jawzah over which much ink and many hours of Arabic scholarship were lost. This situation is similar to the folk-etymologies of Antimony and Bismuth, both of which are probably miscopyings of Arabic uthmud/ithmud 'SbS' probably cognate with Egypt. stm 'kohl', Copt. sthem, Gk. stim(m)i or stibi, Lat. stibium (as the periodic chart shows, Bi has similar properties to Sb and the two were probably not distintinguished by early alchemists who, for the most part, were a rather undistinguished group), but once the error was made, we get endless speculations about distillation of SbS at the temple of Amon-Ra, about Sb salts used as (an)aphrodosiacs by monks, and white masses among Low Germans.