Best ever elements for 2021

[mikem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuzki0ZpDo

A song I find almost (but not quite) as anoying as Agadoo and the Chicken Song 

Although, shouldn't we count that for carbon?

 

[Fulk]

Playing With Uranium
Duran Duran

 

[shotlighter]

The best one that I could have, is for the grill. It packed up a couple of days ago.

 

[crickleymal]

Or we could go really old school
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CnUGaH51IA

 

[Graigwen]

How about a spot of molybdenum -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFpcqCwMt-U&list=OLAK5uy_l9cJsHJEF2eFV1yJy8423-JbHe7QC8dvI

As a former molydenum prospector, I must admit I find that pretty terrible.

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[Pegasus]

As a former molydenum prospector,

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Where did you prospect for it and what's it used for?  Such an interesting job title 

 

[ChrisJC]

Where did you prospect for it and what's it used for?  Such an interesting job title 

https://youtu.be/Jnyomymp4Hs

Chris.

 

[grahams]

As a former molydenum prospector, I must admit I find that pretty terrible.

Well at least you have a piece of music. Think of all those bismuth, boron and antimony prospectors who have to do without

 

[Graigwen]

As a former molydenum prospector,

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Where did you prospect for it and what's it used for?  Such an interesting job title 

North Wales.

A fair bit of it is around, especially in some of the thin microgranites. We were really looking for it as an adjunct in porphyry copper deposits but the largest copper deposit we found had no significant molybdenum associated. I did find a lump of molybdenite the size of a childs fist at another site, but it was a one off never to be repeated. Usually we were just picking up enhanced Mo values in soil samples - nothing visible to the naked eye.

The main use is in steel alloys. Some pitons used to be made from chromoly steel.
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[ZombieCake]

Think of all those bismuth, boron and antimony prospectors

They were looking at Boron in rocket / jet fuels, a few dodgy side effects though.  Sooo, a slightly (OK very) tenuous link....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpcc43NV394

 

[pwhole]

I found a lump of Ferro-molybdenum up near Hazard Mine in Castleton once - it was black and sharp and spiky-looking, and I thought it was a meteorite as it was embedded in the ground. I became suspicious though when I also found some lumps of multi-coloured glassy slag nearby. Anyway I took it home and cleaned it up under the tap, which took ages and produced loads of dark blue 'ink'. Once it was shiny and silver my mate took it to a guy he knew at Outokumpo with a XRF meter and he told us what it was. I've still got it, but it's sort of yellowed and lost some of its lustre now, but it's very sharp-looking, like a piece of curved flint. At least it's not radioactive...

Anyway, I suspect it was related to the notorious paper-pulp 'soil improvement' episode caused by a less-than-scrupulous landowner.

 

[traff]

Has Neon in it........

https://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4

 

[grahams]

Here's a bit of sodium -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5y4g2Efa0w