• Question: what compound would you make if you mixed all the elements together

    Asked by lukedenno to Jon, Cathal, Daphne, Darren, Katherine on 12 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by woooody.
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      Katherine Haxton answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I’m not sure. There are about 110 elements, some have only existed in a laboratory for a tiny fraction of a second so we couldn’t really use them. Others are radioactive and that makes it difficult to work with them so chemists don’t use them to make compounds.
      I’ve worked with compounds containing about 12 different elements which is pretty complicated in chemical terms.

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