• Question: What is your least favorite element?

    Asked by izzy1607 to Claire, Kate, Matt, Rob, Sam on 21 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Sam Geen

      Sam Geen answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      Boron!

      Like bore-on?

      Yeah, OK, it’s not funny. Ah well.

    • Photo: Kate Husband

      Kate Husband answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      Maybe something like Mercury as it’s pretty poisonous.

    • Photo: Robert Woolfson

      Robert Woolfson answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      Sulphur. It stinks. It really stinks. It makes farts smell, even a few drop of some sulphur containing compounds (called thiols or mercaptans) can make people want to throw up. One of the guys I live with nearly had to evacuate a lab after someone spilled some by accident.

    • Photo: Claire Lee

      Claire Lee answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      Yeah I think I’m going to vote for sulphur too!

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