Last week, members of the Chemical Rhetoric Group met via Zoom to do some coding and celebrate the elements. Of course we dressed up. Below you will see (clockwise):
-Me as boron: element number 5 (usually gray-ish in color, this metalloid produces bright green flames when set on fire).
-Megan Cullinan as mercury: element number 80 (a liquid, silvery metal that no one wants to get on the wrong side of)
-Melissa Parks as mercury, Freddie Mercury that is: element number 80 (remember that this firecracker of an element is highly toxic)
-Madison Krall as chlorine: element number 17 (this yellowish-green halogen gas combines easily with almost all other elements, including with . . .)
-Hotdog the cat as potassium: element number 19 (a soft, alkali metal that reacts vigorously with water)
-Ben Mann as sodium: element number 11 (a silvery-white, alkali metal, it is essential to all living things and makes up almost 3% of the Earth’s crust)
Thanks to Megan, our meeting’s soundtrack was Tom Lehrer’s The Elements: