#worst element bracket

Yes I manage this in google sheets it's easier than trying to figure anything else out.

Carbon vs Argon

What you said:

Carbon:

nothing really, i just think it’ll make organic chemists angry lmao

Organic Chemistry is hard :(

Carbon (my beloved) is the element that makes all life on this planet possible. And yet, organic chemistry 1 & 2 were such a struggle that I also have personal beef with carbon (my be-loathed).

overrated as fuck. does not deserve its own branch of chemistry i don't care how much of a building block of life it is.

I can't fucking take it. I see an image of a random object posted and then I see it, I fucking see it. "Oh that looks kinda like a carbon chain" it started as. That's funny, that's a cool reference. But I kept going, I'd see a honeycomb that looked like benzene, I'd see an animated hexagon that looked like benzene, I'd see a hat that looked like benzene. And every time I'd burst into an insane, breath deprived laugh staring at the image as the words ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ran through my head. It's torment, psychological torture, I am being conditioned to laugh maniacly any time I see a hexagon with lines in it. I can't fucking live like this... I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't! And don't get me fucking started on the words! I'll never hear the suffix “ane” again without thinking of carbon. Someone does something bad and I can't say anything other than "propilic." I could watch a man murder everyone I love and all I would be able to say is "talk about breaking chemical bonds" and laugh like a fucking insane person. And the word "organic" is ruined. The phrase "organic compound" is ruined. I can't live anymore. Organic Chemistry has destroyed my fucking life. I want to break my bonds with this plane of existence. MAKE IT STOP!

Argon:

A noble gas so it does nothing and not even one of the cool noble gas people know about. Name 1 thing Argon does. You can't!

Gold vs Bismuth

What you said:

Gold:

Fuels capitalism, soft weak-ass bitch metal for little bitches, mainly known for it's color. Measured in Karats????? Makes things expensive(bad) bad at making tools in minecraft

Bismuth:

it killed my grandfather (not joking! bad labour standards in a mine led to massive bismuth inhalation that caused his eventual death)

we got to have the winner of the main tourney in the worst element bracket, just to see if it is our favourite and worst

Hello everyone!!

As decided on that poll the other day, we're doing a mini bracket for the worst element. I'm not going to do another full 118 element bracket because it takes too long and I am always tired, so instead I'm opening submissions for a few days. Put in your most hated elements, and I'll pick 32 of them and make a mini bracket.

Submit your elements to the submission form here

I'll tag posts about this bracket with:

#periodic polls

#tournament polls

#worst element bracket

Does the person who wrote this know about how lightbulbs work? The stuff inside a lightbulb that isn't the wire has to be nonreactive, or your lightbulb explodes. And if you fill it with a vacuum, then it will implode instead if you just tap it. You know what is entirely unreactive, is cheap to produce, and is naturally as dense as air? Argon. But if the submitter is not happy with their "request" for one thing argon does being answered, well argon also barely conducts heat. This makes it useful for so many industrial applications. It also is used to date the ages of rocks and ice, as a preservative for many chemicals as well as types of wine, for detecting neutrinos which if you know anything about them you would know how impressive that is, and to create lasers. It is used to store important historical documents, like the American declaration of independence, or that same countries constitution, which regardless of how you feel about the country in question, it's still a job with a lot of significance. Liquid argon has been used to kill cancer, and has been banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. I do understand if it wins against (is worse than) carbon this round, because it is carbon, but if it does well in the tournament because it is useless and unknown, even though as you can see earlier is has so many uses, and most people would agree that it is better known than many of the other competitors. So don't vote argon.

keep the comments to the elements not the other people participating in the polls please

Francium vs Sulfur

What you said:

Francium:

It doesn't exist in nature, so it's automatically inferior to the others

France

Sulfur:

smells disgusting

It stinky

Stinky

It smells bad. It's such an awful element that it's synonymous with hell.

Xenon vs Bromine

What you said:

Xenon:

Okay so noble gasses don't react with stuff, right? They don't form compounds they just drift. And other chemicals do. Well XENON over here apparently wants to be a noble gas WHILE being implicated in some compounds like a GODDAMNED HYPOCRITE. It doesn't DO anything interesting except for lighting up with an electric current, and the colour isn't even photographable/printable. But NOOO it's going to go around and get into compounds. I'd whinge about Radon but at least IT does its job releasing radiation from people's countertops. XENON just sits around and is bad at being a noble gas. It sucks. I rest my case.

Bromine:

mercury is a better "liquid at room temperature" element. bromine trying to copy mercury and failing spectacularly. mercury is cool and shiny

It's the only element besides mercury to be liquid at room temperature and no one cares about it. Mercury has the entire spotlight and Bromine just sits there smelling bad.