Building my own...

[LesMTS]

...periodic table. I want to start collecting elements.
Little vials, mounted on a rack (in order), with actual examples of each element in them. I've made a half-arsed start with some iron and some copper. Clearly a complete collection is entirely unrealistic but how far do you reckon I could feasibly get?

[Rhythm Junkie]

fairly far into it if you hasd some *ahem* help

[bikuki]

Even if you can get your hands on them, how would you store the radioactive ones? Also, aren't some of the most recent ones only developed in the lab for a few seconds?

[Witch]

at least oxygen will be easy to get

[LesMTS]

Even if you can get your hands on them, how would you store the radioactive ones? Also, aren't some of the most recent ones only developed in the lab for a few seconds?

Yeah, there will be plenty that are impossible to get and/or store. I'm fully accepting that.

I just bought some magnesium off e-bay.

[bikuki]

I'd be too tempted to just set fire to the magnesium, for shits and giggles.

[endless psych]

Get some tungsten out a lightbulb before supplies run out.

[LesMTS]

I'd be too tempted to just set fire to the magnesium, for shits and giggles.

Oh, there will be plenty of that going on when it arrives. I bought 25 grams, I only need a small sample for my collection.

[Zooropa]

I went on Youtube to find people setting fire to magnesium, and ended up watching a swearing Glaswegian parrot

[Shannow]

Camping shop i go into, got a block of magnesium abut the size of a matchbox with a bit of firesteel down the side, you shave bits off the block thn strike it, or just lob the whole thng in the fire and bask in your own personal sun for the next 10 minutes

[Semprini]

Be more fun if you use this periodic table.

[The Butcher]

Oh, there will be plenty of that going on when it arrives. I bought 25 grams, I only need a small sample for my collection.

i'd be too tempted to start destroying things with thermite reactions.


mmmm.

[XMachina]

Iran can help you out with uranium

[Pantgirl]

DOnt you have to store ones like SOdium and things down that side of the table under things like Oil? Make friends with someone working in the Science/Chem lab at a school/nick things from your work

[Hammer]

I reckon you'll get a good forty or fifty elements in.

Good luck with it.