#chemical elements

Obligatory Beach Episode with CHNOPS (Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, & Sulfur)!!

Some old drawings I did between high school and college

-some bacteria trading DNA plasmids like emails

-a walking atom bomb (his thought cloud is just a mushroom cloud lol)

-early versions of the space characters, plus the moisture probe!

-all my periodic table characters in one drawing

-the star Rigel wielding Orion’s sword and shield (I’m glad I stopped giving stars buff arms and legs)

The moisture probe is the guy on the upper left of the space characters drawing. He was a minor character I had for a while who was a space probe designed to seek out planets with warm, liquid water oceans

Gold/Aurum, Atomic no. 79, Au

Their special colour, inert and soft properties make it to be one of the important metals among human history, mainly for decoration and currency (still being a good investment today btw)

Its inertness is somehow due to special relativity and the poor shielding of the f orbital, leaving the s orbital more attracted into the nucleus, therefore making the valence electron less likely to be give away for reaction.

And for its special yellowish colour unlike other metals, is also due to the properties mentioned above, as this affected the energy gap of the electron to be smaller, gold is likely to absorb more light from the visible light spectrum (mainly blue), so the outcome reflection of light has less blue light to make it look silvery/white, making it more prone to yellow, and earn its "golden" legend.

All of the above is only from my memory and pls be noted that I maybe wrong (but it at least should be related)

To be, or not to be.

Two beautiful chemical ladies on the beach 💅❤️