Wednesday, March 14, 2012

It's Elementary

With the exception of oxygen, which element on the periodic table do you think has the greatest impact on our day to day  lives?  Explain your  answer.

15 comments:

Ryan Heilman said...

I think hydrogen has the next greatest impact on our daily lives. Hydrogen can be used for so many things, the most important being water. Without water we would all be dead within 72 hours. That may seem like a lot but it's only 3 days. Hydrogen simplist and one of the most important elements on the periodic table...... along with plutonium of course:)

Jolene T. said...

I think the Chlorine is another big element that we have in our daily lives.
Chlorine is mainly in water, such as pools, hotubs, and maily drinking water.
Chlorine helps fight of the germs that are in water, so they don't harm us.

Bethann B. said...

Oxygen is a very importanat element, but there is one other one that helps oxygen out. Hydrogen is especially important, mainly when it works with oxygen. If we didn't have any hydrogen in the world, we wouldn't have water. H2O is 2 hydrogen 1 oxygen, so it is essential to life. We need water to stay hydrated, to grow our food, to keep trees alive to give us our oxygen, and now, we even need it for power. Some sources of power come from water mills, so if we didn't need water to survive, then society might not have had made the leap in electricity. I bet some people can't even imagine a world without electricity!

Taylor C said...

Calcuim, If you drink milk it is in that. Also in cheese. It will keep you bones nice and strong!

Anonymous said...

Potassium is another element we use everyday. You need it to help your muscles grow, and for the normal nervous system.


Marissa

Joshua L said...

I think oxyge is the most useful and more important element because without it we would all be dead in about 180 seconds might seem like alot but it's three minutes. We would die quicker without oxygen then we would without water.

Anonymous said...

I would say hydrogen. It is one of the most abundent element in the universe. When combined with oxygen it forms water and I don't know about you, but i use water a lot in my day. You need water so that you don't get dehyrated and to wash out all the bad stuff iin your body.


Justin Miller :)

Daniel S. said...

I think Hydrogen has the most impact on our lives. Without it there wouldn't be any water and we would be dead in three days. It doesn't seem like a long time but without water it would feel a lot longer than what it really is.

Nicolee.(: said...

Inpacting our day to day lives, i honestly have no clue, but i think neon is inportant in our life today. Its the light that we see with, In los vagas its the light they all party too, and sight see with. Its a pretty cool element, If you really think sbout it. I dont know that much about elements exsept oxygen, only because thats what we breath. I only know about neon because im doing my progect on neon. Its not that inportant but we still live with it in our day to day life.(:

Anonymous said...

I think hydrogen has a huge impact on our lives. Hydrogen is in a lot of things we need to live with, like water. With out water you can't go swiming,you can't bathe,you also wouldn't have any water to drink. With out any hydrogen we wouldn't live.


Alyssa rosenberger

Emily A. said...

I think it depends on where you are in the world to know witch one has the mosts impact on your day to day life. If you live in Vegas then its probably neon because its in all the lights and everything there, but around here I'd say it's chlorine. People us that for every thing! Mostly pools, hot tubs, and other water things. Some people even use it to clean. Chlorine is used a lot, and I think it has the most impact on us, other than oxegyn.

Kelsey J. said...

I think that an important element on the periodic table is Chlorine. If we didnt have Chlorine we wouldnt be able to swim in clean water. We wouldnt have pools in the summertime or water parks or any hot tubs. The Chlorine kills harmful germs in the water so it doesnt harm us.

Anonymous said...

i think chlorine has the greatest impact on our daily lives. Chlorine helps are water get clean if we didnt have chlorine we couldnt going swimmijg or anything because are pools would be dirty:)


Gabe(:

Anonymous said...

chlorine because it kills germs in water and on land. you can use it on your hands like hand sanitizer.
another one would be gold beacuse it can not split anpart.

trenten b

Andrew W said...

I belive that silicon is the second most important because that without it we would not have computers, cell phones, and other electronics and we would be bored all the time