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I like how there is a Krypton gas. I wonder if that element was somewhat common on Krypton.
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Hmmm... Kryptonite, with a capital 'K', looks right to me. But maybe that's just because I've read so many comics? Naaaahhh... because everything is capitalized in the comics, as lowercase letters aren't used there. Oh, but I've read a few books based on the Superman comics, and Kryptonite was capitalized there. So I'll stick with the capital 'K', I think, and I hope Nancy (and others) won't mind!  Ann
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Nah, I don't mind. I was just going on the principal that other elements weren't capitalized...
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According to wikipedia... Kryptonite Kryptonite, when it is in the middle of a paragraph, is spelled 'kryptonite' or at least that is how they treated it. James
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Merriwether
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Originally posted by Classicalla:
It is somewhat common to capitalize the abbreviations - ie: Na for sodium, K for potassium, Ca for calcium, etc. Not "somewhat common." Incorrect otherwise. (Ask my former chemistry and general science students about losing points for getting it wrong.  ) Element abbreviations are always either a single capital letter (O, N, C, H) or a capital letter followed by a lowercase letter (Cl, Sn, Au, Br). Element names are not supposed to be capitalized (unless they are the first word of the sentence). As for colors, all pure sodium is silverish (as are most metals). And pure copper isn't green; the green patina is actually a copper compound called bronchanite . It is actually relatively uncommon for a pure element to come in different colors. There are a few. Phosphorus , which comes in white, red, and black is one of them. We don't capitalize "red phosphorus," though (or the other colors either).
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Carbon is another coming in black (coke) a silvery grey-black (graphite) and transparent (diamonds)
If I had to make a guess, any time a pure element can take on more than one crystaline or amorphous configuration that's going to change its appearance and probably color, possibly substantially.
and since I'm chattering about pure element colors: much to the surprise of many scientists who assumed that pure oxygen would be completely transparent: it actually has a pale blue tinge in liquid form.
The green patina copper takes on is often reffered to as verdigris. (Still considered a french word and hence italicized rather than a loaner word that wouldn't be. gotta love English.)
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Coal and graphite are actually the same form of carbon. Light reflects differently off chunks v. small pieces, basically. (There is a third form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, but it doesn't actually look very different from powdered graphite to the naked eye.) If I had to make a guess, any time a pure element can take on more than one crystalline or amorphous configuration that's going to change its appearance and probably color, possibly substantially. Absolutely. And that's exactly the case with carbon and phosphorus and a few others (like oxygen and sulfur). But most pure elements don't have multiple forms (aka allotropes ).
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