What is the coolest element?

Plutonium. Pretty much all of the radioactive elements are cool. Plutonium is particularly awesome because it truly does glow in the dark. Plutonium's glow isn't due to its radioactivity, though.
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What is an interesting element?

Curium (Atomic number: 96)

Curium, named after the double Nobel laureate Marie Curie and her husband Pierre, was discovered in 1944 by a scientist called Glenn Seabourg (along with his colleagues). Curium is made by bombarding plutonium with helium ions and makes this list because its compounds glow in the dark.
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What is the most friendly element?

Oxygen is one of the few elements that exists as allotropes, which are different forms in the same physical state. Elemental oxygen is O.
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What is the most useless element?

Protactinium (formerly protoactinium) is a chemical element with the symbol Pa and atomic number 91.
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What is the most boring element?

This means, therefore, that the most boring element is going to be either a lanthanoid or actinoid.
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What element has no uses?

Nobelium has no uses outside research. Nobelium has no known biological role. It is toxic due to its radioactivity. Nobelium is made by bombarding curium with carbon in a device called a cyclotron.
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What is the rarest known element?

Astatine is the rarest element on Earth; only approximately 25 grams occur naturally on the planet at any given time. Its existence was predicted in the 1800s, but was finally discovered about 70 years later. Decades after its discovery, very little is known about astatine.
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What is the heaviest element?

There are 91 naturally occurring elements (but it depends on how you count them). The heaviest element that occurs in large quantity is uranium (atomic number 92).
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What is the best element Avatar?

Air is the element that would be the most useful, and the series itself proves that. It may be the most overlooked bending art, but there's just no doubt that airbending would be the best of the four you could choose for yourself. It's easy to see what's so appealing about the other three elements.
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Is fire the strongest element?

Fire — The most powerful element. Nothing can exist before the most brilliant flames. Fire is the symbol of the beginning and the end, the light source, and the soul. Flames are symbols of destructive power, embodying truth and knowledge.
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What is the strongest element power?

Congratulations, your elemental power is void! Void represents infinity, reason, and all of reality itself. As the rarest and most powerful elemental power in all of existence, void reflects your ability to see the truth of reality and your ability to understand all meanings.
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Is diamond an element?

The quick answer is: Diamond is a pure element, carbon; gold is a pure element, gold; and rust is a compound, Iron Oxide, of iron and Oxygen. Diamond is pure elemental carbon, compressed to its crystal form, under extreme heat and pressure deep within the Earth.
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What does krypton look like?

Krypton is a colorless, odorless gas that rarely reacts with other elements. A container full of krypton gas looks just like a container full of air.
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What do the elements taste like?

Edit: Also, for clarification, elements don't have a taste. Taste is a biological reaction to chemical interactions happening with an element, not a property of the element itself. So, like everything else in chemistry, the taste is decided by the electron configuration of the element.
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Why is gold your favorite element?

In many ways, gold is the perfect element. It is naturally beautiful, and it doesn't react with anything, making it perfectly safe to use. It is also solid in form unlike a lot of other elements that are gases or liquids.
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What is Krypton used for?

Krypton is used commercially as a filling gas for energy-saving fluorescent lights. It is also used in some flash lamps used for high-speed photography. Unlike the lighter gases in its group, it is reactive enough to form some chemical compounds.
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Is Platinum an element?

platinum (Pt), chemical element, the best known and most widely used of the six platinum metals of Groups 8–10, Periods 5 and 6, of the periodic table. A very heavy, precious, silver-white metal, platinum is soft and ductile and has a high melting point and good resistance to corrosion and chemical attack.
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What is the rarest thing on Earth?

Eucalyptus deglupta, commonly known as the rainbow eucalyptus, is the only Eucalyptus species found naturally in New Britain, New Guinea, Seram, Sulawesi and Mindanao. As the outer bark is shed annually, the inner greener bark is revealed, which then matures and turns purple, orange and maroon.
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Is Neon a rare element?

Although neon is the forth most abundant element in the universe, only 0.0018% in volume of the earth's atmosphere is neon. Neon is usually found in the form of a gas with molecules consisting of a single Neon atom. Neon is a rare gas that is found in the Earth's atmosphere at 1 part in 65,000.
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What is the 92 element?

Uranium - Element information, properties and uses | Periodic Table.
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What is a useless metal?

Within the standard 92 elements found in nature, most have at least some practical use, the most useless probably being Thulium, which is usually the butt of jokes on the subject, but still has some actual applications (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulium#Applications).
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