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Round 6 (Semi Finals) Matchup 2
Bismuth 83 (Bi) - Rainbows and right angles crystal structures. It's radioactive but its half life is longer than the estimated age of the universe. Often used to replace lead as a less toxic alternative.
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Sodium 11 (Na) - Don't put it in water. Do put it with some chlorine on your chips. Tasty.
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Elbaite (via Stan Celestian)
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NaCl
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My Chemical Romance hit song Sodium Sodium Sodium (Sodium Sodium Sodium Sodium Sodium Sodium Sodium Sodium Sodium)
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From pacemakers to neurostimulators, implantable medical devices rely on batteries to keep the heart on beat and dampen pain. But batteries eventually run low and require invasive surgeries to replace. To address these challenges, researchers in China devised an implantable battery that runs on oxygen in the body. The study, published March 27 in the journal Chem, shows in rats that the proof-of-concept design can deliver stable power and is compatible with the biological system.
"When you think about it, oxygen is the source of our life," says corresponding author Xizheng Liu, who specializes in energy materials and devices at Tianjin University of Technology. "If we can leverage the continuous supply of oxygen in the body, battery life won't be limited by the finite materials within conventional batteries."
Read more.
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Remember when that post went around by that user who had issues with feeling sick when their blood sodium was low and they felt physically ill from it so they would just sprinkle salt into their hand and lick it until they feel better? And it was reblogged by chronic illness/disability circles until it was picked up by nominally healthy people who were commenting that wow this made me feel so much better after feeling like shit constantly, which PROLLY meant they also had low sodium issues. But then health freaks and normies got ahold of it and were reblogging in embiggened letters "NO NO NO! THIS WILL LITERALLY KILL PEOPLE! AMERICA HAS AN EPIDEMIC OF HYPERTENSION DO NOT LISTEN TO OP THEY ARE SO STUPID"?
Anyway my Crohnsy, vasovagal syncopeic, hypotensive ass is out of Lays ☹️
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Behbeh
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namari the kinda person to be so bad at flirting and yet still woo someone
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Round 5 (Quarter Finals) Matchup 4
Sodium 11 (Na) - Don't put it in water. Do put it with some chlorine on your chips. Tasty.
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Phosphorus 15 (P) - Good in fertilizer, most widely known for being in matchsticks. Some forms will burn real fast and without any provocation.
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An example of an electrolysis apparatus, called an electrolysis cell or electrolytic cell, is shown in figure 12.25.
"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.
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Na, Sr, O with Ge, Se, Kr, Cl
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havent made a poll in a while and im just in the process of having to take Na supplements that taste disgusting, which ofc made me think of when i had to take K supplements so lets do a showdown
reblog for sample size pls! ✌🏻
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here's a fun rabbithole we just went down - we've just planted some agretti, also known as salsola soda, and Barrilla in Spanish - and also known in English as Saltwort
and it turns out that the word "soda" as in fizzy drinks comes from how they were originally fizzed using sodium carbonate (nowadays it's done using carbon dioxide)
and the element sodium was isolated from caustic soda in 1807 by Sir Humphrey Davy, and he named it sodium to indicate its relationship with the above plant, which was historically grown and burnt to produce soda ash, the alkali used in making glass and soap
agretti is also supposed to be delicious, a bit like spinach when cooked, and like a snappy seaweed when raw - anyway how cool is this
we'll report back on the flavour once it grows
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