Meet The Chemiballs; The Active Actinides

Meet the Chemiballs; the Active Actinides

The actinides are famous for being very radioactive and generally not safe to be around. They contain a few elements that are very interesting and important. But also a whole lot of very obscure and boring elements (I didn't draw those).

They are one of the two rows awkwardly separated underneath the periodic table, the other being the Lanthanides (which I have not drawn any of yet, sorry).

Both of these make up the f orbital block (which is to say their valence electrons orbit in a very strange shape). The f block technically should be placed between the transition metals and alkali earth metals. But isn’t because that would make the table far too long to fit on the walls of chemistry classrooms.

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Meet the Chemiballs; the Active Actinides

Did you know that Uraniumball is not the only radioactive element people use to make energy or warcrimes? There's a whole buncha them!

so i return, fresh from the booping fields

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Meet the Chemiballs; the Noble Noble Gases

The noble gases were all (mostly) discovered by a Scottish man named Sir William Ramsay (Though, back in his day, it was more common to call them “rare gases”). He made the convention of ending all their names with -on, so you always know when something is a noble gas. (Unless it’s helium which is a noble gas but follows the metal naming convention, [or iron which ends in -on but is a metal. {Also, scientists seem to really like giving things -on names, like prion, codon, electron, etc. I will admit, it does sound cool. }]) So it’s not a perfect system.

The name “noble gasses” is a bit of an early 1900s joke. See, the noble gasses are too lazy to do anything and don’t like bonding with lesser peasant elements. The nobility is also lazy and don’t like associating with peasants. Of course, we live in an enlightened post-WWI world and no longer recognize barbaric concepts such as hieratical rule and rigid class structures. Also, the Queen is dead. But this is basically the equivalent of naming them “trust fund gasses”. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Meet the Chemiballs; the Noble Noble Gases

Are you procrastinating right now? What better way to do that than to read about the laziest elements, the Noble Gases!

Greetings fellow mad member of the science community! I hope you have been having a delightfully devilish day today! That's all! - @dr-malcom-practice

I did, yes! Thank you!

I spent the whole day studying calculus because my final is in two days! So, yes, a very devilish day, indeed. The devil has cursed me with endless horrid trials of implicit derivatives and integrals, not unlike that of Sisyphus! I'm slowly losing my mind!

Again!

Meet the Chemiballs; the Explosive Alkali Metals!

The alkali metals are the first group on the periodic table. Their whole thing is; they have some valence electrons, but would rather that not be the case. So they really like to pair up with electronegative elements, like oxygenball, who can take their electrons. Thus allowing the alkali metals to dissolve into solution as cute cation cats (deadbead dads).

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Meet the Chemiballs; the Explosive Alkali Metals!

Get ready for some s p i c y e l e m e n t s. The fun stuff, that EXPLODES. Sodium, POTASSIUM. Want to know how a BANANA can KILL YOU?

A old funny blog article with more EDUTAINING POWER regarding alkalimetalballs.

Meet the Chemiballs: the Postal Post Transition Metals

The post transition metals are pretty much what they say on the tin. No, these aren’t post-op transgender metals, they’re the metals that come after the transition metals on the periodic table!

Gallumball has a very low melting point (you can melt it with bodyheat), and molten gallumblob has similar properties to mercuryblob but isn't poisonous!

Tinball getting thanos snapped (tin metal likes to turn to dust when it gets too cold, a phenomenon known as tinpest)

I’ve thought long and hard about how to describe bismuth in a better way than the somewhat mad scientist Tom from Explosions&Fire. But I can’t, so I’m just gonna plagiarize quote him. 

“[Bismuth] has seen a bit of a revival lately as a bit of a ‘relatable icon element’ because it forms rainbows all the time, doesn’t like to be straight, and is incredibly dense. Personally, I’ve always thought of bismuth as lead for people who fear death.” -Tom

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Meet the Chemiballs: the Postal Post Transition Metals

Balls, jokes, and elements from a very specific subset of the periodic table! Learn about them! What's not to love?

here's an article I wrote years ago about the post transition metals (where the art is from)