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Post by midgetmogget on May 22, 2006 12:45:20 GMT
...because we'd rather they'd had some than not post.
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Post by CRG on May 22, 2006 16:37:51 GMT
Hey, yeah, gold is an element! That's gold!
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Post by midgetmogget on May 23, 2006 9:41:05 GMT
Where did that come from?
Gold is a very unreactive element, which is why you find it as lumps in the ground [if you look very hard].
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Post by CRG on May 24, 2006 16:12:34 GMT
bubble's post, I couldn't be bothered to quote it.
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Post by midgetmogget on May 25, 2006 13:29:48 GMT
That makes sense.
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Post by StephiB on Jun 3, 2006 8:03:52 GMT
(Re)activity series of metals:
... actually, I can't be bothered to get my book from the other room. Au's last, though.
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Post by midgetmogget on Jun 6, 2006 10:58:28 GMT
I thought platinum was last - what is platinum's sign?
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Post by StephiB on Jun 7, 2006 7:36:31 GMT
Is it an element?
Ahh, Pt.
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Post by CRG on Jun 10, 2006 7:46:59 GMT
So it's the least reactive of all elements?
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Post by midgetmogget on Jun 12, 2006 10:16:34 GMT
That's what I meant...
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Post by CRG on Jun 12, 2006 16:38:21 GMT
Yeah but like, is it the ultimately completely least reactive?
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Post by midgetmogget on Jun 15, 2006 11:09:34 GMT
Ask the chemists. I don't do it any more. I don't know how they decide it, any more.
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Post by StephiB on Jun 28, 2006 8:23:35 GMT
I don't either, I only got told to copy the list.
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Post by mathfreak on Oct 8, 2006 14:47:01 GMT
It is the least reactive element as far as I know.
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Post by midgetmogget on Oct 18, 2006 9:52:31 GMT
Electronegativity comes into it somewhere... [strains to remember]
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