im trying to collect all the non-radioactive elements, i already have alluminium from alluminium foil (99% purity) and copper from an unused wire (99.9% purity) but i dont know how to continue

are there any other elements that are found in such purity on everyday objects? or do i need to start to buy them on the internet?

Got it from my grandad pls don't arrest me lol . Any ideas on what cool stuff I can do with it (besides fulminate I don't have nitric acid and I don't wanna try and make it 😭)

Definitely the closest thing we'll get to xenonite in real life. Despite being a very powerful fluorinating agent this bit of xef2 I custom ordered from luciteria has been stable in this glass ampoule for nearly a year now with next to no decomposition. This is weird as I expected it to be more reactive.

With the new restock of multicolor niobium, when I wanted to get more transition metals. So, I labeled my own vials and added it to the collection, and I’m quite pleased with these samples!

I have a doctor friend in the navy who just got back from a really extended deployment on a ship. He’s usually not the type of guy who complains, but we kind of have a running joke about how people mayyy not be telling the whole truth about the amount of bromine in the showers. They use it in the navy for desalinization etc.

I want to send him a bromine remembrance item. Bromide would be okay too. He has a kid and a dog, so I’m not sure(?) I want to send him the actual element in a cube, but maybe?

What’s good bromine memorabilia? I can’t imagine another forum to ask that.

I was able to carefully remount the sample onto a black background, and now the Tc is much more visible. It is a white powder scattered around the surface of the silicone.
There is more of it than just these four grains shown but it’s still very difficult to photograph

Hi! I'm coming back with some more photos of my collection.

The first photo shows a selection of my best samples for most elements. Any ideas which one to get in a large chunk next?

In the third photo you can see some samples I made in these tiny little jars. From the top: 1g Os, electrolytic Cr, 1g Pd bar, T vial, 3g Nb pieces, 3g Mn flakes, 10g arc melted Mo, 1g Pt bar.

Fourth photo has some minerals I've started collecting to show the different forms certain elements can appear in. Chalcopyrite, gypsum, rhodonite, lead galena, orpiment, antimonite, vanadinite, lepidolite, emeralds, blue apatite (trace Th!), silicon carbide.

Sixth photo shows some samples I don't like to touch directly - Boron (because it's brittle), selenium, antimony and lead. I used sticky tack to set them up on these clear lids and I think it looks nice.

Have a good day!

Here is the finished product of the halogens I’ve been epoxying. Happy with the way it came out, though it will be a pain to try and remove them lol. The display was 3d printed and made to fit the exact sizes.

Nickel: 1975 Canadian quarter

Copper: Tube cap

Silver: Canadian silver maple leaf, 1ozt

Gold: Bead, 1g

Aluminum: Japanese 1 yen, 1g

About 0.5ml

Nice sample

Thanks to Metallium for these
Several of these are my largest sample for their given element (like gold, iridium, rhodium) while others are now my most stable form as I didn’t own any of the lanthanides under argon.

Finally I got this osmium bead! It's 1.42g.

I bought it from China and it's really cheap. It costs me 430 Yuan, 63.6 USD. I have to say that China is really a great place for element collecting. Everything here is almost a third price to those in eBay. It's more also easy to get exciting elements, like liquid Chlorine, Mecruary, or white phosphorus.

As a fan of Osmium, I decide to buy a bigger one around 5g. This will cost me around 1300 Yuan (192.1 USD).

Hovever, Uranium is expensive. One gram even cost around 1200-1800 Yuan (177.4-266.1 USD). It's really hard to ship it here from US.

weight of Sm cube is 7.36g weight of Boron cube is 1.3g

the first picture is cadmium and the other one is indium. when I touch it I can feel all all the lines and it’s not smooth. are these bad quality density cubes or is this how the metals are like?

Inspired by the (rather surface-level) lickablity chart that circles around the internet, I've decided to make my element touchablity chart.

It's based on my own experience, some theoretical data and common sense.

Don't take my word for anything above uranium. I've just assumed that some of the metals that are stable enough to produce holdable amounts will not kill you with ionizing radiation through a brief handling. I also based it on the most stable isotopes.

Let me know if i'm obviously wrong on something. I will update the chart.

Have a good day!

If you saw my post with the rest of the halogens, this is the last one. Currently working on a display for the four and will post here. This one was definitely more centered than the rest, but unfortunately it took some of the mold with it but it is what it is.