Look Smart Trivia: Oxides
4Oxygen + other elements = fun! Here are five examples of the chemical hijinks that ensue when The Big O bonds with one of its elemental peers. Be the first to name them all - either by their common names or their chemical names - and you’ll score a $5 Meh coupon that isn’t made of any elements because it doesn’t physically exist. Insert sign-off catchphrase here!
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- Cyndi Lauper - She’s So Unusual
- Aerosmith - Pump
- Black Flag - Damaged
- Men at Work - Cargo
- LL Cool J - Radio
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Hey, I’m here at a time for one of these!
@djslack Rust is iron oxide so I bet 2 is something else.
@djslack I would go with lead if I were you.
Per @sammydog01’s valuable input,
Thanks @sammydog01!
@djslack @sammydog01 Specifically, lead tetroxide?
@djslack @ruouttaurmind I’m just glad someone got some use out of all those chemistry classes I took.
@djslack @ruouttaurmind Looks like the pigment is a mixed valence compound so @djslack nailed it.
I’m not sure how #2 can be definitively identified…
Couldn’t there be more than one oxide that color?
Maybe not, I have no idea.
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@DennisG2014 I did not do this, but I bet if you photoshopped that black back to white and reverse searched the image you might find exactly what oxide it is.
@DennisG2014 Probably not a simple oxide. Rust is the closest.
@djslack @sammydog01 Pictures of lead oxide match the color (just googled lead oxide, didn’t do the PS + image search thing), but if you google ‘iron oxide’, it can also be the same shade (along with many others).
Again, I have no idea, just mitigating my boredom by being pedantic and wondering if it is possible to definitively identify the substance in #2 just by the color.
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@DennisG2014 @djslack @sammydog01 Not so much the color as the use…
@DennisG2014 @djslack Like I said rust (iron oxide) but that’s number 1. I think.
@DennisG2014 @djslack @JasonToon It looks like a pigment. Is it something else?
@DennisG2014 @djslack OK cuprous oxide is red too. But this is more orange.
edit: mercuric oxide can be orange too. Shit.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-colours-of-the-common-metallic-oxides-metals-in-the-activity-series-I-need-class-10th-standard-answer-and-not-involving-higher-concepts
@djslack @sammydog01 lol Well, I think it’s safe to say @djslack is the winner today, regardless.
@DennisG2014 @JasonToon @sammydog01 unless I’m wrong, in which case I should not win. Every red oxide powder like that seems to be often referred to as a pigment, so that’s the road I was on. I guess it could also be paprika, but pepper isn’t an element on anybody else’s periodic table but mine.
@DennisG2014 @djslack @JasonToon Mercuric oxide isn’t used as a pigment, probably because it would kill you.
@DennisG2014 @djslack @sammydog01
“just mitigating my boredom”
What, are you at work?
@phendrick I plead the 5th.
Sign-off catchphrase o’ the day -
“Rust never sleeps.”
If you want to go down a dark, technical rabbit hole, look up the correct chemical name for H20…
Yikes.
Apparently there are a lot of variations that are technically correct, like dihydrogen monoxide, but not much agreement on which one is the proper one to use, aside from just “water”.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially calls it “oxidane”, but they seem to be the only ones. lol
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