Day by Dave by Dave Whamond for February 07, 2025

O,mg a bright flash

Ba Co N

This is a Si C K cartoon!

MgSO4 can help, Pass it along.

CaCl2 CaCl2 (salty laugh)

H2 uhoh.

This is periodically a good comic.

Elemental my dear Watson!

Well I learned more about Gallium than I ever wanted to know. Now I feel all scientific and stuff.

I always thought there was something artificial about Lady Gaga. Then I realized she’s not even organic. She’s one part lanthanum, one part dysprosium, and two parts gallium.

He He He!

Who’s up for a game of Scrabble?

If you are listing the elements of surprise, you can’t forget He Y!

Dave, you earned your Metals today.

rats, I’m here to late and all the good element jokes Ar

Gallium melts at 86 F / 30 C and isn’t toxic like mercury, so you can do some “melts in your hand, don’t put it in your mouth” demos with it, though I wear gloves when handling such stuff. I keep finding little jars of it in lab cupboards but I don’t really know why…

I remember our physics teacher in HS (late ’70’s) taking out a bottle of liquid mercury from his desk and pouring it out on the desktop, and playing with it by hand.

“Those were the days….”

I see hydroxide was late to the party.