• Question: What is your favourite element and why?

    Asked by SianConnell14 to Clare, Glafkos, Paul, Samantha on 10 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Paul Booker

      Paul Booker answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Technetium! It’s the first element in the periodic table without any stable isotopes, and has lots of medical uses! Also not many people have heard of it so it’s a good answer in Pointless.

    • Photo: Clare Devery

      Clare Devery answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      I’d say carbon. Because without carbon we wouldn’t have diamonds…and every girl loves diamonds!

    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Could I get away with saying Deuterium? I like its simplicity.

    • Photo: Samantha Terry

      Samantha Terry answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      mine is Indium, but only because I do a lot of work with its radioisotope In-111.

    • Photo: Glafkos Havariyoun

      Glafkos Havariyoun answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Molybdenum! That’s where Technetium comes from! We use it all the time in Nuclear Medicine to get Technetium.

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