Lately, I've been thinking about the periodic table of elements. I don't know why, but I find it really fascinating. I know "Au" is silver, "Ag" is gold, "U" is uranium, and "Pt" is platinum, but that's all I know. I wish I knew more. In my family, it's a common dinner-time conversation. We test each other on the elements, and what's sorted where, and I'm like, "Huh? What the heck does "K" or "Yb" mean?"
I've very recently figured out that "Zn" is zinc, and "Yb" is ytterbium, and "Xe" is Xenon. But what the heck is ytterbium and what is it used for? I'm perplexed.
Anyway, I've just had this obsession with the table of elements. There was a poster hung of in my science classroom, and she took it down because they were fixing the wall or something. I was sad. When I was bored, I would look at it and try to think of stuff that the letters might stand for. Like "Uuh" (I'm not kidding, "Uuh" is actually an element. It stands for Ununhexium. I find that kind of funny. Like, if you were in Science, learning about the elements, you could answer a question with "Uuh" and the teacher might think you were going "Ummmmmm?"
Well, I just needed to ramble about that.
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