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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.
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
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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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Looks like that server needs an injection of dontcrashium... :P
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Subject says it all.
Did you type that with your nose there, Mr. chrisd?
http://web.archive.org/web/20020124031915/http://w ww.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/
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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."
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.
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.
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
Does anyone else think of "Adam Ant" everytime they see this? I picture a nearly indestructable singer telling the bad guys what a goodie two shoes he is.
`Lex - Find Me Here: Text Appeal
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.)
`Lex - Find Me Here: Text Appeal
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.
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Okay, but they're still missing Kryptonite.
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.
Upsidasium.
"Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta this hat."
"That trick never works."
"Presto..."
144l. ph34r my 133t l3g4l 5k1lz!
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.
Here is The Periodic Table of Rejected Elements including delirium, geranium, belgium and the criminal elements.
According to the X-Men universe, Adamantium is not an element. Rather it's an alloy. Which is, of course, absurd, since a real alloy will not be stronger than the elements it's composed of. But hey, it's a comic book :)
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
While I enjoyed this Periodic table, I found this one to be much better:
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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!
carbon, in certain configurations, is FAR stronger than steel (diamond, buckminsterfullerine, etc).
/., I tend to auto-ignore what the editors here say *grin*))
(and i appologize for my previous post, my eyes usually glaze over the text as i click the links in the stories (after several years of reading
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
They should have it called the PARODIC table of elements...
In fact, alloys are frequntly stronger than the component metals. A mix of different types of metal atoms is a lumpier structure, and the atoms can't slide past each other as easily as they can in a pure metal. Thus, bronze is stronger than copper or tin, steel is stronger than iron or coal, and so on.
-aiabx
Just this guy, you know?
> And thank you for playing --- Krypton was the
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> planet.... kryptonite the element from the
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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
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.
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.
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
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Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
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."
...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.
....how does he remain flexible/mobile?
Regular exercise.
Some sort of iron-vibranium alloy. There are apparently three different forms of adamantium.. the one used in Captain America's shield, and "True Adamantium" which is apparently not quite as strong as the shield (Ultra, wolverine). Secondary Adamantium is pretty strong, but nowhere near as strong a Captain America's shield or True Adamantium.
I pulled out my 1985 "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe" from the closet to get all of this. Really geeky, I know.
Er, You don't mean Ironman, do you? or is there another superhero character I don't know of? I'm thinking of the (red/black/yellow colored) Marvel Comics character. As far as I recall, he was just a human, but had a disease or some sort of condition that required him to be under medical condition. He was a millionaire, so he had the Ironman suit made so that he could have some sort of mobility... so he fought the baddies... or am I on crack?
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