• Question: If you could be an element for one day, what element would you be and why?

    Asked by Jono to Daniel, Giovanna, Greg, Kelly, Lowri on 9 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by Boris The Meerkat.
    • Photo: Kelly Houton

      Kelly Houton answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Hi Jono,

      I would be the rare earth metal Dysprosium- did you know it comes from a Greek word meaning ‘hard to get’?

    • Photo: Giovanna Tancredi

      Giovanna Tancredi answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      mmm, I think I would be ununtrium- element 113- 🙂

      It’s a new element recently discovered (last January) and it reminds me that we have a lot to discover yet!

    • Photo: Lowri Evans

      Lowri Evans answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      Mercury because metallic liquid is so cool!

    • Photo: Greg Irving

      Greg Irving answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      Lead – because the greak name for lead, plumbum (Pb) always make me chuckle ! Plumbum!

    • Photo: Daniel Biggs

      Daniel Biggs answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      So many to choose – I think Helium, so I was lighter than air and to fly up into the outer atmosphere and have a little look at the blackness of space.

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