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BismuthIt normally looks like this:But under the right conditions, it can look like this:I recommend a google image search for “Bismuth Crystals” to see all the beautiful wackiness bismuth can produce.Some other interesting bismuth facts:Bismuth (bismuth-209, the most common isotope) is radioactive, but has one of the longest half-life ever measured. Its half-life is 1.9 x 10^19 years, or approximately a billion times longer than the universe has existed.Bismuth is the strongest natural diamagnetic metal known. Diamagnetic materials, when exposed to a magnetic field, create a repulsive field in response. So, with some strong magnets, you can make bismuth levitate.Bismuth has an unusually low toxicity for a heavy metal. Its periodic chart neighbors, polonium, antimony, and lead are all quite toxic, but bismuth is relatively harmless. Because of this, bismuth is being investigated as an alternative to lead for some applications.Most people have consumed some bismuth in their lives. Pepto-Bismol’s active ingredient is bismuth subsalicylate.(Thanks to Dave Garlfield, Nigel Arnot, Cricket Cole and Rys Lee for the suggestions.)

The traditional layout of the periodic table is something of an historical accident.It works, but there are arguably better presentations that more clearly display the patterns involved. For example:The problem is not whether there is “space” in the periodic table. Rather the problem is that atoms for elements beyond a certain point are so energetically unfavorable that they couldn’t exist long enough to be detected, at which point you have to ask if that means they can ever really exist at all.I’ll defer to experts where that boundary lies.Updates:As it turns out, there is a Wikipedia page for such things: Alternative periodic tables - Wikipedia (thank you Jonny Lavery).And someone used an AI system to find more: Recreation of the Periodic Table with an Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm (thank you, Elle Bacon).

You die™.Just getting the elements to their liquid states involves heating a few of them to thousands of degrees Celsius. Get close to that with a spoon and you will be horribly burned. You die.Add to that the fact that many of these elements are going to react explosively with each other, and you get blown up before you burn to death. You die.Add to that the fact that a few of these elements are going to spontaneously undergo rapid radioactive decay, releasing enormous amounts of energy and vaporizing you and the surrounding room before you get blown up. You die.Vaporized, blown to the winds, and burned for good measure.