Most useful element.

eldorado99

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What, in your opinion, is the most useful element? (aside from the ones we need to live: oxygen, hydrogen, iron, carbon, etc.)
 

UNCjigga

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Why besides the ones you listed? What kinda dumb poll is this?? I would vote hydrogen, but since I can't I say Honda Element.
 

jagec

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If you discount all the elements we need to live, most of them have already been listed...

I guess uranium...since pretty much the entire s- and p-blocks are represented in the human metabolism, along with most of the metals.
 

spidey07

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Originally posted by: eldorado99
What, in your opinion, is the most useful element? (aside from the ones we need to live: oxygen, hydrogen, iron, carbon, etc.)

gee, why not discount the most useful elements.

How about nitrogen? Plants are a good thing.
;)
 

fredtam

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Can't think of a really useful one we don't need to live. What about a compound like C21H30O2?
 

gururu

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nitrogen and sulfur are just as important as carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. the most 'useful' IMO from a better-life standoint would be silicon.