⚛️ Elements
Heavier, denser, hotter: every element matchup so far.
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Which element has a higher melting point?
sulfur vs potassium
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- sulfur: 115 °C ✓
- potassium: 63.3 °C
sulfur: 52 °C apart
Potassium melts at just 63 °C, so a hot cup of tea could melt it, while sulfur needs 115 °C, above water's boiling point.
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Which is denser, titanium or arsenic?
titanium vs arsenic
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- titanium: 4.67 g/cm³
- arsenic: 5.73 g/cm³ ✓
arsenic: about 23% more
Despite titanium's strength, arsenic is actually a denser element.
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Which is denser, mercury or silver?
mercury vs silver
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- mercury: 13.6 g/cm³ ✓
- silver: 10.5 g/cm³
mercury: about 30% more
A silver coin will actually float on a pool of liquid mercury due to mercury's extreme density.
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Which is denser, iron or lead?
iron vs lead
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- iron: 7.87 g/cm³
- lead: 11.3 g/cm³ ✓
lead: about 44% more
Lead is famously heavy, having a significantly higher density than iron.
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Which element has a higher melting point?
nickel vs platinum
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- nickel: 1,450 °C
- platinum: 1,770 °C ✓
platinum: 313 °C apart
Platinum is denser, rarer, and has a higher melting point than nickel.
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Which is denser, solid aluminium or liquid bromine?
bromine vs aluminium
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- bromine: 4 g/cm³ ✓
- aluminium: 2.7 g/cm³
bromine: about 48% more
Liquid bromine is surprisingly heavy, noticeably denser than the light solid metal aluminium.
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Which is denser, copper or uranium?
copper vs uranium
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- copper: 8.94 g/cm³
- uranium: 19.1 g/cm³ ✓
uranium: about 2.1× as much
Uranium is one of the densest naturally occurring elements, over twice as dense as copper.
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Which is denser, liquid mercury or solid tin?
mercury vs tin
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- mercury: 13.6 g/cm³ ✓
- tin: 7.28 g/cm³
mercury: about 87% more
Solid tin would actually float on a pool of liquid mercury due to mercury's incredible density.
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Which metal is denser?
silver vs iron
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- silver: 10.5 g/cm³ ✓
- iron: 7.87 g/cm³
silver: about 33% more
Silver is about a third denser than iron: a silver bar weighs roughly 1.3 times an iron bar of the same size.
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Which has a higher melting point?
oxygen vs nitrogen
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- oxygen: -218 °C
- nitrogen: -210 °C ✓
nitrogen: 8.3 °C apart
Nitrogen melts at a slightly higher temperature (-210.1 °C) than oxygen (-218.3 °C).