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The Periodic Table of Comic Book Elements
Ender, Duke_of_URL brought this Periodic Table of Elements to our attention. Of course adamantium is missing, and chemical X doesn't belong in a table of the elements of the comic book universe, it's mostly a collection of golden age and later comics. Modern comics are sorely underrepresented, unfortunately.
Adamantium? =]
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
She's old enough to know better.
Of course adamantiam is missing, and chemical X doesn't belong in a table of the elements of the comic book universe...
You, Sir, are a geek.
Jordan Bettis
...SPOON!!!ium I mean, come on, its just common sense.
Slashdot hits home. It's scary.
Learn to Play Go
And once again, Slashdot scours the universe to find someone with way too much time on his hands. What could be behind such uncanny ability?
Calm down, it's *only* ones and zeroes.
What about thulium
All it says there is GLUG! sorry no comics yet for this element..
I wonder if I should rush out and make a thulium comic and take my place in history. Hm.
Probably not.
air and light and time and space
LOL Instead of doing research on important groundbreaking issues in Chemistry, the Wildcats of KYU are goofin off with comic books while "experimenting" with the chemicals around the lab. LOL
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Stuff that DOESN'T matter
How could it be a real, credible, table of comic book elements without the Adamantium? :)
...must have seen the
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HEll yeah! Very good Ideea with this Comic. I'll report it to the internetional meeting of comic book writers ;)
Looks like that server needs an injection of dontcrashium... :P
SIGFEH
Subject says it all.
<parody voice="redneck">Yep! That there is th' com-pleet tabul o' ell-e-munts! Figger'd out by th' fahnest minds in all Ken-tuckee!</parody>
I'm done with sigs. Sigs are lame.
Did you type that with your nose there, Mr. chrisd?
http://web.archive.org/web/20020124031915/http://w ww.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/
Enjoy the mirror!
I guess that when there is nothing else to post, stuff like this gets posted. Why don't you go and review all the stuff that I submitted and got rejected and post those instead :-)
This sig can be distributed under the LGPL license
Not that any spell checker would've caught that so easily, so y'all can slide this time.
More to the point, adamantium is an alloy. Scientifically speaking, that makes little sense, but who are we to argue with comic book science?
Raptor
"Procrastination is great. It gives me a lot more time to do things that I'm never going to do."
...when karma whores go bad
Sorry to geek everyone out, but I believe that 'adamantium' -- was actually a super-strong alloy, not an element. Sort of like steel isn't an element.
"But Aquaman, you cannot marry a woman without gills! You're from two different worlds!" -- Oh! I've wasted my life.
orihalcum(sp?) or was it oricalcum? the silly gold material that is highly sought after.
ah well. too much Slayers on the mind. esp. that silly Naga. and the other one. thingy. small boobies. dragon slave left and right every episode?
I have a Powerpuff Girls comic book at work!
Seems like it's a periodic table of REAL elements with references to where they are used in comics... not imaginary elements that exist in comics only.
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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here is a periodic table that IMHO is way cooler :-)
Explodium: The element that most bad guy armies make their crafts and mecha out of. It is cheap so they can make a million of them for every one good guy unit. The problem is that they have this property to explode in a colorful and violent way(which films incrediably well). The Zion(Gundam) and the Empire(Star Wars) invest heavly in this element and base entire fleets off the stuff.
In its native form this element is deposited on computers all over the internet, is largely harmless and considered fairly trivial. However the presence a web site known as "slashdot" causes this element to ionize and it is than attracted to this site. This ion permeates quickly through broad band and rapidly builds up at this site creating a large positive charge. Often small web sites linked to this "slashdot" will serve as an outlet to these ions and they will accumulate on the smaler site until it reaches critical mass. At this point the web site collapses under the weight and the rate at which the ion transfers slows down noticeably, eventually the process is complete the ions will slowly migrate back to "slashdot". Invariably this process will repeat its destructive cycle indefinitely.
I stole this Sig
1. Touch my 'nads
2. Feel guilty
I realized I, and my friends, were geeks when I heard chemistry jokes outside of school. Not just randomly, but at a party i'd held.
Incidently, they were:
A,U, Gimmie back my gold!
C-U later, copper.
(I know, and they're funnier when you've had a few beers.)
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The comic listing for silicon should be:
* Every comic book drawn by a man that has a female character(s)
If you've ever read Jim Balent's 'Catwoman'... I mean come on... How the fuck am I meant to believe she shimmies up buildings with the slightest of ease. I have trouble believing she walks upright without a back brace.
...this table is an index of comic-book references to real elements, not the other way around (thus adamantidium and chemical X are out, anyway), so instead I'll nitpick at an even geekier level...
- The PowerPuff girls are well-represented in comics - I own several issues, one of the latest of which includes a gallery of PPG images rendered by comic "names", such as John Byrne and Mike Mignola. So these books are certainly accepted as part of the comics "mainstream" (if such a thing exists), vs. an purely-for-marketing-purposes book assembled by anonymous hacks.
- lack of modern comics? the point wasn't to find every mention of a given element in every comic ever published - that would be a ridiculous task. this is an overview... with the most popular "elements" getting a wider cross-section of comics. Furthermore, older comics tended to try to include more science factoids in their pseudo-science (as the space-race made science genuinely relevant to pop culture) and referenced real elements more often.
OK, I'll shut up now.
Its elements of the periodic table found in comic books, not comic book elements. Sheesh, not even close, must be late at night for the editorial staff.
WhatMeWorry!
Okay, but they're still missing Kryptonite.
> Elements to our attention.
O my god, they are going to be *so* slashdotted, they'll never now what hit them.
hehehe
Slashdot the very best thing next to the e-bomb
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Because then I could sing:
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
There may be many others but they haven't been discarvard.
*fiddly piano bit*
dave
Illudium Phosdex, the Shaving Cream atom?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
5. It's actually a good road map as to where we got our misconceptions about certain elements.
4. It seems to be well laid out, from an information viewpoint.
3. It gets into the geeky "how far off base were the book's authors?" question. Cool for plotting science blunders, as well as when the writer knew what he was doing.
2. It gives background info about the comic where the element made its "guest appearance", including the fate of the book series, and the character.
1. It covers the REAL periodic table. 'Nuf said.
Upsidasium.
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"That trick never works."
"Presto..."
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"Modern comics are sorely underrepresented, unfortunately."
I guess elements stopped being cool&hip some time ago, it just doesn't appeal to the kids (and other people who read comic strips) of today...
There are 010 kinds of people. Those who understand octal, those who don't, and 06 other kinds of morons.
Umm, no, kryptonite is not a real element (you're thinking of krypton)
There are no tiger attacks in my area and it's all because this rock I'm holding keeps the tigers away.
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Only a few of The Metal Men survive. Platimun is a robo-hooker, Iron is a rusting construction worker, and Gold is in hiding because, well, he's gold and people want part of him! Dr. Will Magnus died ages ago, so none of them can be repaired if something goes wrong. Tin and Mercury have already died, and Lead is a living reactor shield in a closed-down nuclear power plant.
I've never completely trusted the intellect of anyone over the age of, say, 12 years old that reads comic books.
yep you get a lot of that. I'm convinced it must be some kind of aircushioning technology only available for superheroines.
I always liked this table which was published in The Atlantic back in 1999.
If intelligent life is too complex to evolve on its own, who designed God?
the rarest of all substances, unobtanium!
never drink kool-aid from a big vat
Itanium?
I'm not sure if you guys noticed, but the page contains only known elements, not the stuff from fantasy land. Hence, the blatant exclusion of adamantium and kryptonite.
RTFP!
"Max, come over here. French-Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone." - Dutch Schultz
has fallen for /.-itis... meaning not reading the article before posting it. its a list of elements that are real and mentioned in comics... not comic elements. so adamantium doesn't belong since it don't exsist.
Here is The Periodic Table of Rejected Elements including delirium, geranium, belgium and the criminal elements.
Particle man, particle man...
If you post it, they will read.
Go to the webelements page, where you'll learn that hydrogen caused the Hindenburg
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/ me dia/moov/volcano.mpg
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements
and how not to make an mpeg...
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements
Chemistry was cool in the 60s, these dudes need to step into the 21st century somehow.
If I remember correctly, adamantium isn't really an element, but a polymer. But, I could be wrong...
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing"
it might be kinda cool if he were to post all these comics in a giant wall sized table of elements.
.. so maybe he could employ his students or wotnot to provide something to fFit.
i see there are some holes
heck, he may even assemble such a thing, and sell it off. could probably fFetch a pretty geek-penny.
An incredibly heavy element that suddenly forms around web servers and weighs them down. Fortunately, it tends to evaporate after 48 hours.
Miko O'Sullivan
And thank you for playing --- Krypton was the planet.... kryptonite the element from the planet... man, I hate it when geeks get it wrong...
...we are from the government - we are here to help...
While I enjoyed this Periodic table, I found this one to be much better:
t ml
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/periodictable.h
If you don't cringe after reading Arsenic, there is something really wrong with you.
-When going for broke, go for Ithaca!
You want an index of real element references to comic books? That might be hard to come by.
Miko O'Sullivan
Actually Kryptonite is a greenish rock. So its probably a composite of various elements (Some radioactive apparently). If you've ever taken a geology class you'd know that the word Kryptonite was invented to sound like a type of geological substance. Kaolonite for instance is a common type of clay on earth. In fact Kaopectate is made from Kaolonite in case you were wondering what gave it its chalky flavor. :)
Anyhow, in summary, Kryptonite is always depicted as rock, common to Krypton, that has been blasted from the remains of the planet Krypton and somehow made its way to earth.
They should have it called the PARODIC table of elements...
When I saw the Slashdot artilce's title, I immediately thought of this one over at Absurd Notions.
I think it's a cool way to list links, and it works well for sorting web comics (based on how often they're updated).
> And thank you for playing --- Krypton was the
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> planet.... kryptonite the element from the
> planet
I think the previous poster's point was that kryptonite isn't a real element, while krypton is a real element. Krypton is element 36, in fact.
> man, I hate it when geeks get it wrong
Man, I hate it when geeks don't read. Because I have to grade their papers.
BTW - there *is* supposedly a page for krypton on the site, but it's hopelessly slashdotted at the moment:
http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/html/kry
-- Rick
What exactly is this doing in the 'Science' category? I believe this is supposed to be 'funny'. I'd rather be kicked in the teeth.
Elements don't have an inherent strength, carbon as graphite and carbon as diamond as an example. Part of the reason an alloy CAN be stronger than a common form of element is that atomic bond potentials can be optimized. More bonds, and more stable bonds - stronger material.
Hmm have to do some research on that, but I believe kryptonite came from their sun or something, not the actual planet (cause while they didn't have powers on their original planet they also wern't wollowing in pain their entire lives from the kryptonite. Like I said I'll have to look it up.
I realize my humor is subtle, but I didn't think I'd trick you into thinking I was stupid. ;)
Marvin the Martian's been looking for it. . .
What of the two alloys that make up most of the products shown in Popular Science: unobtainium and unaffordium? You know, those 11-ounce bicycles that cost $35,000?
Unobtainium - 0) A difficult to find and if found expensive element.1) Superman #1. 2) Real world, really, really hard to find sailboat, old car, vintage computer parts are made from Unobtainium.
In the Marvel Universe, Adamantium isn't an element. It's an alloy. This is the same reason you don't see "steel" on a periodic table of elements IRL.
The only base component of adamantium that I know of is the comic book element known as Vibranium (basically it has the ability to absorb sound/vibration).
Two notable figures in the MU using Adamantium:
Captain America: His shield.
Woverine: Short, Short, and Nasty's skeleton is coated in this.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
I think the previous poster's point was that kryptonite isn't a real element, while krypton is a real element. Krypton is element 36, in fact.
That's fine, but we're talking _Comic_Book_ elements here, NOT real stuff, so Kryptonite (the element SuperMan is afraid of) definately belongs on this periodic table.
And I _have_ always wondered how that race of superbeings got along on a planet made of the only thing in the universe that hurts them. But I've never forked out for the books, so WTF do I know....
Exceeding the recommended torque is not recommended.
of part aluminum, part titanium, and part magic...
And I'd love to get a tissue sample from the Iron Man: how does he remain flexible/mobile?
Exceeding the recommended torque is not recommended.
Pioneered the construction of space ships, submarines, and IIRC _lots_ of other things from this element (explodium) in the sixties. It's especially useful in electrical equipment of all kinds.
Exceeding the recommended torque is not recommended.
REAL or comic periodic table?
Which is it?
I've yet to see it, the mirror links
aren't working, either!
Exceeding the recommended torque is not recommended.
I may be remembering badly, but I think I recall mention that mithril is simply silver infused with magic. Therefore, it wouldn't get a listing separate from silver. Hey, maybe Silver Surfer was made of mithril, eh?
Virg
I believe the planet turned into kryptonite when it exploded. Sorta like uranium turning into plutonium. It wasn't made of the stuff when they were living on it.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
A few of them are comic themed (Kyrpton and Strontium) but there's a lot of other good ones there (Arsenic will give you the creeps).
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
And to think that all of this is due to comic books.....
...we are from the government - we are here to help...
...right here.
Like DUH... It's the periodic table of COMIC BOOK elements, not the table of neato text adventure elements!! Comics are all about the illustration!
Hmm... on second thought... an ANSI/text periodic table from text adventures like zork, hitchhikers guide and nethack or rogue might be interesting...
When I grow up, I want to have Christopher Walken hair.
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(look carefully -- I wonder what element *that* is... ;) ).
Kryptonite is not an element.
Remember superman 3 (I think) where they couldn't make kryptonite because they didn't know the final ingredient, and they used tar??
And it made superman all grumpy and shit??
And then he fixed the Eiffel tower??
If they had to mix several ingredients together (including tar), then Kryptonite is not an element. Well, unless alchemy is involved in the process.
I've overclocked my brain!!!
anti-matter equivalent of Explodium
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here's a periodic table of FUNK. how'U like daT?
I'm still sad that they didn't actually name element 114 Elerium.
Unaffordium is the old style of cantaffordium (like Wolfram and Tungsten). Unobtanium is virtually impossible to find - which is why you never see it on the Periodic Table. Cantaffordium can be found almost anywhere, but is far too expensive for the average CEO.
Rumor has it that the perfect girlfriend is at least partly composed of unobtainium and the common varieties of girlfriend contain varying degrees of cantaffordium.
I'm talking about the guy from the Black Sabbath song, who was turned to steel in a great magnetic field. I've always regarded this as a reference to an Iron Man from the comics, or at least the guy who had a cartoon on TV for a while there (contemporary with Captain America, Spiderman and Speed Racer). The Iron part was his flesh, not any suit, yet he remained motile. IIRC he had a red costume, possibly with white trim, but it's been a long time. If this is inconsistent with what Marvel is publishing now under the name, well, look what's happened to Batman & Robin's costumes over the years. OTOH the guy in the song may be totally unrelated, or possibly distorted by Ozbourne's drug consumption habits of the era.
Exceeding the recommended torque is not recommended.