I know everyone has one...what's your favorite element on the periodic table and why?

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Iron! It has changed history, it's in the objects we use, and it carries oxygen throughout our body. It's pretty dang cool.

What a weird question but here I come: Carbon. Its capacity to form compounds of great complexity is infinite.

That would have to be strontium. Why... I don't even have a logical reason. I just really like the way it sounds, quite euphonic.

In my case it is (C), because it is everywhere, for me as an atheist, it is the definition of God.

Gallium! It's such a bizarre element and I've always been fascinated by the fact that it just melts in your hand

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