Element suggestion: Iridium
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Hello!
I've been thinking, and I came up with an element suggestion that could be very useful.Iridium (IRDM): A dark grey metal. Iridium is a member of the Platinum group metals, and is incredibly durable and strong, it's melting point is at 2466 Celsius, and is incredibly corrosion and acid resistant. It is the second densest element known, and has thee 10th highest melting point.
So what's so good about Iridium, I hear you ask. Well, due to it's high corrosion resistance and melting point, the main global use of iridium is in spark plugs for engines. Obviously we already have engines, with metal spark plugs, so this would seem irrelevant.
My suggestion for Iridium is this, when a spark passes through Iridium, fire is created, which makes it useful in engines, but, to add to this suggestion, the fire produced from sparking iridium should be at thee same temperature as the iridium itself. This would make it very useful as a heating element as well.
Iridium should be acid resistant, and should be conductive, and hence we have an acid resistant, but meltable metal, this gives a more compact way to make electronics when ACID or CAUS (and lava to an extent) is present. To add to its use, Iridium could be given some semiconductor properties, eg. not conducting to metal or PSCN, but to NSCN (or whatever is best).
The third main property of iridium comes from its origin. Iridium is named after the goddess Iris, because of it's large colour range of its salts. Therefore I suggest that when Iridium is heated and comes into contact with oxygen, that Iridium should glow in different colours for a set amount of time (eg. When the life decreases from X to 0). This would provide a nice graphics effect, and would make for neat light shows.
In brief:
- High temperature and acid resistant conductor
- glowing colours in contact with oxygen when warmed
- Potential semi conductor
- Produces fire when sparked
Uses:
- conductor in extreme conditions
- electronics
- Glowing effect for logos, signs, buildings etc.
- Heating/cooling element
Thanks for reading, and suggestions/comment appreciated
Tommig -
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That was unnecessarily harsh.
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I think it's a great idea - I can see some good uses for it already :D
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@tommig (View Post)
IDK, I felt strange. Sorry! But yeah, there are a few ones here that should say "its" instead of "it's", guess I'm a grammar nazi now.
The light show idea is good, but wouldn't there be a problem with the fire's life? Maybe make it generate fire with low life? -
@boxmein (View Post)
I've now edited it, no more bad apostrophes.I can't see how the temperature of the Iridium could effect fire's life.
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I lol because I read a thread about two months ago that was flamed for asking for a similar element to be considered or even added, and yet the flaming on that thread was over two of the biggest components of this suggestion, the corrosive resistance and its color appearance.
Anyone have a good reason as to why this is any different from the one that was flamed, besides the fact that this one wasn't flamed? It still seems to me as though these both are stating near similar properties. -
Maybe it was the way he presented the idea? I've noticed that someone who makes a retarded thread with things like: "I wantz mor elements" or "Dis game needs GOLD NAO!!!!" tends to get flamed more than someone who presents their idea in a mature way. I dunno if the other suggestion was actually presented well or was a "GIMMEDISELEMENTNAO!!!! thread, but its a possibility.
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