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Fun Chemistry Facts II

ckitckton — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:57:46 +0000

DON’T EAT THAT!
The rarest naturally occurring element is Astatine, the rarest naturally occurring element. Estimated less than 30 grams in Earth’s entire crust at any given time. That’s about the weight of a slice of bread.

THIS I’D LIKE TO SEE!
Water can boil and freeze at the same time at its “triple point” (0.01°C at specific pressure).

THE OUTSIDER IN CHEMISTRY
The letter J is the only letter not to appear in the periodic table.

TRY PLAYING BALL WITH THAT!
Osmium is the densest naturally occurring element – a basketball-sized sphere would weigh about 1,700 pounds.

TWO GOLDEN EMPIRES
If all the Gold can be extracted from the world’s oceans, There would be nine pounds of Ag per person. That’s enough gold to fill almost two Empire State Buildings!

WHILE WERE ON THE SUBJECT
Copper- Cu and Gold- Au are the only two naturally colored metals. Most of the rest are silverish.

YOU ARE NOTHING! ALMOST
Everything contains almost entirely of empty space. If an atom were the size of the earth, the nucleus would be only a few city blocks.

I SMELL A STORM!
Lightning produces Ozone. This is what causes the clean, crisp smell before and after a thunderstorm.

Fun Chemistry Facts I

ckitckton — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:13:42 +0000

GOLD IS RARE
All the gold ever mined would fit into about 3 and a half Olympic sized swimming pools.

BUT NOT THE RAREST
Osmium on the other hand, is one of the rarest of metals. Less than one cubic meter has been extracted. That’s about the size of this chair

DIAMONDS AND PENCILS ARE EQUAL
Diamonds and graphite are both pure carbon. The only difference is how the atoms are arranged.

RADIOACTIVE FRUIT
They contain potassium-40, a naturally occurring radioactive isotope. However, you would have to eat 50 million bananas at once for a lethal dose of this radiation. Not possible!

OXYGEN BLUES
Although we can’t see Oxygen as a gas, it’s color is pale blue.

KING SIZED NUMBERS
About 10^80 atoms make up the universe. There are about 10^120 possible move in a chess game.

A COLD RECEPTION
Although we cannot cool anything to absolute zero, it would be like reaching light speed, we can get awfully close.

OLDER THAN DIRT
The Hydrogen atoms in our body and all around us were created shortly after the Big Bang, some 13.7 billion years ago. Does that make us older than dirt?

Fun Chemistry Facts Test

ckitckton — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:16:17 +0000