My Chemical Element Collection

[@jonathanironsavior1748]

You have a great collection here! My collection so far: Fluorine (Fluorite quartz), Silica (quartz crystals), Lead (Galena & Pyromorphite), Iron (Pyrite & Pure form), Yttrium, Vanadium, Praseodymium, Copper, Zinc (Hemimorphite & Pure), Strontium (Celestine), Selenium, Cobalt, Chromium, Indium, Ruthenium, Palladium, Rhodium, Osmium, Silver, Aluminium, Niobium, Samarium, Ytterbium, Dysprosium, Rhenium, Gold, Platinum, Thulium. Its good to know there are other people out there who love collecting elements and mineral specimens

[@perrygershin3946]

Thanks for the comment Jonathan. It looks like you have a very nice assortment of rare-earth elements among your collection. I don't have a formal education in chemistry (other than high school). I've always had an interest in it though and now that I'm retired I finally have time to pursue it as one of my hobbies.

[@garionprak7961]

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[@Berghiker]

How do you make magnesium metal?

[@geeder9086]

you take a magnet & grind it in a mortar & pestle with cesium

[@Berghiker]

@@geeder9086 Google is my best friend.

[@tonymontana7566]

Not bad only 2 years learning I could spend a life time and still would never learn

[@terranceborer7614]

Sexy beard!

[@ClownWhisper]

I hate to tell you but adding heat to potato starch does not get you carbon unless it burns all the way and reduces all the chemicals that make up the potato starch starch is not an element searches a compound. You said not too much he yes too much heat! What you have there is a mixture of oxides not carving you probably have perhaps some potassium oxide along with other random oxides and maybe a small amount of carbon. Simply turning potato starch black does not make it carbon makes it charred potato starch

[@ClownWhisper]

I mean your little collection is kind of cool but it has nothing to do with the elements if these are all compounds of some related and mostly unrelated materials I don't understand what you're doing here why not make Elemental metals like lithium it's not that hard to do