A Guessing Contest...

[Celundyl]

You can make any amount of guesses per post...I would actually encourage posting multiple answers per post to cut down single-word posts (borderline spam).

NOTE: The XCash reward will be minimal, as I have nearly nothing to give. I'll set it at 5 at least, but if a windfall comes my way, I'll raise it. I know, 5 is less than the average poster's interest. If you don't want to participate, don't post. But above all, don't make stupid posts saying 'I won't participate for that little XCash'. Just go away if you fell that way.

So...the question.

What's my favorite chemical compound?

Please answer in the form like...

Compound - Scientific name - Common names/forms

Ex: H2O - Dihydrogen Monoxide - Water

And yes, my favorite chemical compound has a name and notable forms...

[biocreation7]

you actually expect people to answer THAT!?

[Celundyl]

I'm not forcing anyone to do so, and nobody forced you to come anyway. If you want to guess, guess. If not, quit spamming in my topic.

[Danielle]

Is it an ionic or covalent bond? Well my first guess is a common one:

NaCl - Sodium Chloride -Table Salt

[Diamond187]

NO2 - Nitrous Oxide - NOS

LiCl - Lithium Chloride - Lithium

Hg2SO4 - Mercureous Sulphate

I'm just wildly guessing weird chemicals here, you need to give us more information or this could go on forever.

[Danielle]

C6H12O6 glucose

[unicycler]

Danielle, you have to add sugar, I think.

[Danielle]

Bah. Everyone knows I mean glucose sugar.

[denacioust]

H2O - Dihydrogen Monoxide - Water

N2SO4- Don't have a clue!

[Diamond187]

How bout:

Hg2O - Mercuric Oxide

C2H4O - Acetone

C2H5OH - Acetic Acid - Vinegar (if 5% solution)

PbSO4 - Lead Sulphate - Blue water (it isn't actually called that, that's just what it looks like)

[Celundyl]

I'm just wildly guessing weird chemicals here, you need to give us more information or this could go on forever.
I think it should go on forever...mwahahahaha!!!

Or...maybe not.

Let's narrow it down a very significant amount...

It's an Oxide.

Every guess thus far has been wrong.

[fenix136]

CO2-carbon oxide (i think)

NH4NO3-Ammonium nitrate (i think its elplosive and it ends in oxygen so i put it in)

CaO-calcium oxide

MgO-Magnesium oxide

Cu2O-Cuprous Oxide

CuO-Cupric Oxide

FeO-Ferrous Oxide

Fe2O3-Ferric Oxide

MnO-Manganous oxide

MnO2-Manganese oxide

MoO3-Molybdenum trioxide

ZnO-Zinc oxide

gotta love google

[Diamond187]

MgO, bleh, that stuff smells absolutely horrible when dissovled.

[The First]

NH4NO3-Ammonium nitrate (i think its elplosive and it ends in oxygen so i put it in)

I may not be the best at chemistry. In fact, I no longer have chem, but wouldn't that cause the oxygen to keep burning? o.O

Anywho... *looks around*

[RandomGuess]

I Know, heres the molecular structure:
<p>CHOCLaTe
<p>It's what makes choclate, or what makes it taste the way it does or something like that.

[Stick_Master117]

H2O - Dihydrogen Monoxide - Water

[Celundyl]

Nothing right yet...I can't really give any other hints or it'll be as much of a dead giveaway as a will is. So...yeah. Keep naming oxides and you'll get it eventually. And try to refrain from repeating guesses, because it makes your socks look pretiosa formosaque. And I like misshapen socks.

[Diamond187]

Just so you know, it's actually more correct to say water is technically hydrogen hydroxide, not dihydrogen monoxide. But anyways...

CaO - Calcium Oxide
Na2O - Sodium Oxide
K2O - Potassium Oxide
KMnO4 - Potassium Permanganate (technically an oxide, but an awesome chemical, and it ends in oxygen)
CO - Carbon monoxide
CO2 - Carbon dioxide
O2 - Dioxygen - Oxygen gas
O3 - Trioxygen - Ozone
H2CO3 - Carbonic acid

[The First]

hydrogen hydroxide? o.O Tihi, that sounds so odd >_< No wonder it's called water [/badjoke]

[Celundyl]

...RespectMyAthority...That post was spam. Against the rules.

And...Outwar is against the rules, too. I'd suggest you remove the link.

My favorite chemical compound is solid at room temperature.

Nothing correct thus far...If there's a few more incorrect answers, I'll throw a quality that'll probably give it away...

[Diamond187]

Ag2O - Silver Oxide - Tarnish
SnO - Tin Oxide
Fe2O3 - Iron (III) Oxide - Rust

[MunkyButt]

H2SO4
Sulphuric acid

someone may have already said this i just dont feel like reding it all.

[XoOxLBZxOoX]

Does the name have oxide in it or is an oxide part of the composition? I'm assuming it's in the name because you said it is an oxide, plus that'd be a heck of a lot of compounds to guess from.

[XoOxLBZxOoX]

Well buddy, here is everything I could find. I'm sorry about the repeats (I'm sure there are a few) And knowing my luck I probably missed the one it is, haha. But I had an hour to kill before going to sleep so I thought "why not." So here it is...and I apologize to everyone else for taking up so much space. :shock:

Silicon Dioxide-SiO2
Arsenic (III) Oxide-As2O3
Chromium (VI) Oxide-CrO3
Tetraphosphorus Hexoxide-M4O6
Osmium Tetroxide-OsO4
Trilead tetroxide-Pb3O4
FRANKLINITE-(Zn,Mn2+,Fe2+)(Fe3+,Mn3+)2O4
GAHNITE-ZnAl2O4
HERCYNITE-FeAl2O4
JACOBSITE-Mn2+Fe3+2O4
MAGNETITE-FeFe3+2O4
SPINEL-MgAl2O4
ANATASE-TiO2
AURORITE-(Mn,Zn)Mn4+3O7.3H2O
BIRNESSITE-Na4Mn14O27.9H2O
BROOKITE-TiO2
BRUCITE-Mg(OH)2
CHALCOPHANITE-(Zn,Mn,Mg,Fe)Mn4+3O7.3H2O
CIANCIULLIITE-Mn(Mg,Mn)2Zn2(OH)10.2-4H2O
CORUNDUM-Al2O3
CRYPTOMELANE-K(Mn4+,Mn2+)8O16
CUPRITE-Cu2O
FEITKNECHTITE-Mn3+O(OH)
GOETHITE0-FeO(OH)
GROUTITE-Mn3+O(OH)
HAUSMANNITE-Mn2+Mn3+2O4
HEMATITE-Fe2O3
HETAEROLITE-ZnMn3+2O4
HYDROHETAEROLITE-Zn2Mn3+4O8.H2O
ILMENITE-FeTiO3
MANGANITE-Mn3+O(OH)
MANGANOSITE-MnO
PYROCHROITE-Mn(OH)2
PYROPHANITE-MnTiO3
ROMEITE-Ca2Sb2O6(OH,F,O)
RUTILE-TiO2
TODOROKITE-(Na,Ca,K)1-xMn4+6O12.3-4H2O
URANINITE-UO2
WOODRUFFITE-(Zn,Mn2+)Mn4+3O7.1-2H2O
ZINCITE-ZnO
Cu2O (Cuprite)
MgO (Periclase)
Al2O3 (Corundum)
SiO2 (Silica)
CO2-carbon oxid
NH4NO3-Ammonium nitrate
CaO-calcium oxide
MgO-Magnesium oxide
Cu2O-Cuprous Oxide
CuO-Cupric Oxide
FeO-Ferrous Oxide
Fe2O3-Ferric Oxide
MnO-Manganous oxide
MnO2-Manganese oxide
MoO3-Molybdenum trioxide
ZnO-Zinc oxide
NO2 - Nitrous Oxide
Hg2O - Mercuric Oxide
Ag2O - Silver Oxide
SnO - Tin Oxide
Fe2O3 - Iron (III) Oxide
Na2O - Sodium Oxide
K2O - Potassium Oxide
KMnO4 - Potassium Permanganate
CO - Carbon monoxide
CO2 - Carbon dioxide
O2 - Dioxygen - Oxygen gas
O3 - Trioxygen - Ozone
H2CO3 - Carbonic acid
Aeschynite (Rare Earth Yttrium Titanium Niobium Oxide Hydroxide)-(Y, Ca, Fe, Th)(Ti, Nb)2(O, OH)6
Anatase (Titanium Oxide)-TiO2
Bindheimite (Lead Antimony Oxide Hydroxide)-Pb2Sb2O6(O, OH)
Bixbyite (Manganese Iron Oxide) (Mn, Fe)2O3
Brookite (Titanium Oxide) TiO2
Chrysoberyl (Beryllium Aluminum Oxide) BeAl2O4
Columbite (Iron Manganese Niobium Tantalum Oxide) (Fe, Mn, Mg)(Nb, Ta)2O6
Corundum (Aluminum Oxide) Al2O3
Cuprite (Copper Oxide) Cu2O
Euxenite (Rare Earth Yttrium Niobium Tantalum Titanium Oxide) (Y, Ca, Er, La, Ce, U, Th)(Nb, Ta, Ti)2O6
Hausmannite (Manganese Oxide) (Mn+2)(Mn+3)2O 4
Hematite (Iron Oxide) Fe2O3
Ice (Hydrogen Oxide) H2O
Ilmenite (Iron Titanium Oxide) FeTiO3
Perovskite (Calcium Titanium Oxide) CaTiO3
Periclase (Magnesium Oxide) MgO
Pseudobrookite (Iron Titanium Oxide) Fe2TiO5
Betafite (Rare Earths Calcium Sodium Uranium Titanium Niobium Tantalum Oxide Hydroxide) (Ca, Na, U)2(Ti, Nb, Ta)2O6(OH, F)
Microlite (Calcium Sodium Tantalum Oxide Hydroxide Fluoride) (Ca, Na)2Ta2O6(O, OH, F)
Pyrochlore (Sodium Calcium Niobium Oxide Hydroxide Fluoride) (Ca, Na)2Nb2O6(O, OH, F)
Ramsdellite (Manganese Oxide) MnO2
Romanechite (Hydrated Barium Manganese Oxide) Ba(Mn+2, Mn+4)5O10-H2O
Cassiterite (Tin Oxide) SnO2
Plattnerite (Lead Oxide) PbO2
Pyrolusite (Manganese Oxide) (Mn+2)(Mn+3)2O 4
Rutile (Titanium Oxide) TiO2
Stishovite (Silicon Oxide) SiO2
Samarskite-(Y) (Rare Earth Yttrium Iron Titanium Oxide) (Y, Ce, U, Fe)3(Nb, Ta, Ti)5O16
Senarmontite (Antimony Oxide) Sb2O3
Chromite (Iron Chromium Oxide) FeCr2O4
Franklinite (Zinc Manganese Iron Oxide) (Zn, Fe, Mn)(Fe, Mn)2O4
Gahnite (Zinc Aluminum Oxide) ZnAl2O4
Magnesiochromite (Magnesium Chromium Oxide) FeCr2O4
Magnetite (Iron Oxide) Fe3O4
Spinel (Magnesium Aluminum Oxide) MgAl2O4
Taaffeite (Beryllium Magnesium Aluminum Oxide) BeMgAl4O8
Uraninite (Uranium Oxide) UO2
Valentinite (Antimony Oxide) Sb2O3
Zincite (Zinc Manganese Oxide) ZnO
Brucite (Magnesium Hydroxide) Mg(OH)2
Gibbsite (Aluminum Hydroxide) Al(OH)3
Goethite (Iron Oxide Hydroxide) FeO(OH)
Manganite (Manganese Oxide Hydroxide) MnO(OH)
Psilomelane (Barium Manganese Oxide Hydroxide) Ba(Mn+2)(Mn+4)8O16(OH)4
Stibiconite (Antimony Oxide Hydroxide) Sb3O6(OH)
Nitric Oxide NO2
Nitrogen Dioxide NO2

[Diamond187]

LOL

He copied my list. In the middle there. That's exactly my post.

[XoOxLBZxOoX]

Yeah, sorry diamond, didn't mean to be a kewl like that. Just thought I'd put in everything I could get, even if I reapeated it. Plus I figured that if you didn't win it it would be ok since they'ed be wrong. If I win I'll give you 1...what an offer, huh? :)

[The First]

Euxenite (Rare Earth Yttrium Niobium Tantalum Titanium Oxide) (Y, Ca, Er, La, Ce, U, Th)(Nb, Ta, Ti)2O6

Who on god's greenish earth made up "rare earth yttrium niobium tantalum titanium oxide"?! That's... a true sign of faaaaar too much time and apparently not enough to do.

[Celundyl]

CORUNDUM-Al2O3
That's it. You didn't give the compound name thing (Aluminum Oxide), but...doesn't matter.

Corundums are a 9 on Mohs Hardness Scale. Rubies, sapphires, and the industrial abrasive emery are all classified as corundum.

Rubies are red. Sapphires are pretty much every other color excluding red.

It's sweet stuff...So, XoOxLBZxOoX, 20 XCash is the best I can do now.

[The First]

Aren't sapphires... le bleu?

[Celundyl]

They don't have to be. I believe blue's most common, but there's all different colors.

"People generally think of sapphires as blue in color, although they are also colorless, pink, orange, green, golden, yellow, purple and black."
From http://www.gemhut.com/corund.htm (This website has awesome sapphire pictures...)

[Diamond187]

Uh, I thought Al2O3 was called bauxite?

Where'd corundum come from?

And, geological compounds!!1!!1!!???

As an inorganic chemistry student, I consider that cheating.

[XoOxLBZxOoX]

Hey, Thanks a lot, Celundyl. That's cool. That took a while but was kinda fun actually. And Diamond I'll give you 5 since I told you 'd give you some. Thanks again!

[Diamond187]

Alright, well I'll get my own "guess that chemical" going now, since I've become the beneficiary of this plethora of Xcash.

I've got 3 favourite chemicals:

1. This is my all time favorite. It's just an element, but I'm looking for a specific phase. If you can give me the temperature at which this occurs (assuming standard atmospheric pressure *hint*) I'll give you a bonus. And trust me, it's the coolest thing any of you will ever hear of.

2. It's my favorite organic chemical. It's a relatively simple molecule and is extremely volatile. It's used for cleaning glassware when water can't be used. Girls should be more familiar with it.

3. This beautiful chemical is my favorite ionic compound. It's horrible if you get it on clothing or even your skin. My friend's nail was brown for over a month because of this stuff. It'll oxidize almost anything in solution.

Try not to just spam chemicals, guess based on the properties, if nobody has a clue I'll give you more clues. I'll give Xcash for each answer, regardless of whether one person gets them all or 3 different people gets each one. If a fourth person answers the bonus question about temperature, they'll get the bonus. Good luck.

[Diamond187]

*bump*

lol

Not a single person even took a wild guess. I'm just bumping this once in case nobody saw it, and if nobody takes a guess, I'll let it die. And no, it doesn't count as a double post if the posts are over a week apart.

[leprachaun]

i got it!

CH 4-Methane-Fart

lol o plz let this b right!

[Diamond187]

1. What the hell question were you answering?

2. What the hell were you thinking?

3. Just a generic, what the hell?

[Diamond187]

Alright, I'm trying once more because I don't give up that easily.

There is a total of 1000 Xcash in prizes now. 300 for each question and 100 for the temperature. Although, I still don't think anybody will get this, especially since AB and Dark are gone. So, go ahead, try and prove me wrong.

[John Tennison]

For number two, and keep in mind I haven't even taken chemistry so I am pretty much guessing... I am going to say Potasium Nitrate. Just because it is extreemly volitile and reactions violently with water.

And three... Iodine?

[Diamond187]

Nope on both counts, keep guessing.

[Rambo]

For 2, I guess ammonia.

[ODDDLY]

Is 3 chlorine?

[Kain]

H2O - Hydrogen Oxide - Water
H2O2 - Also Hydrogen Oxide - Hydrogen Peroxide
And just for laughs...

H2S - Hydrogen Sulfide - Better known as the rotten-egg-smelling stink bomb

[Kain]

Diamond I am thinking that (alcohol) Isopropyl is #2 and #3 might be Iodine. #1 is still tricky, but when you mentioned that it was cool I was thinking along the lines of possibly Technetium.

[Diamond187]

So far Kain is the closest on #2 and the only one to hazard a guess on #1.

Since nobody is getting that close to any of them, I'll offer more in depth hints.

1. When I say cool, I mean cold. Think really frixxxin cold, and remember I'm looking for a state as well.

2. Girls should know this one because it's the primary component of most nail polish removers, but it'll remove most anything oil based really.

3. It's a powerful (and lab standard) oxidizer. That means it probably has oxygen in there somewhere (being an oxidizer doesn't really mean it's likely to have an oxygen, I'm just saying that as a hint). And since it's really the anion I'm after, I'll give you it's most common partner cation: potassium.

The next hints I give will be dead giveaways.

[Kain]

Ok well, if you're talking about nail polish remover chemicals that can also remove oil you have some choices. Trichlorithane (which as far as I know has been banned) Acetone (man this stuff makes your hands look wierd after a while of using it) or Ethyl Acetate when it's an acetone-free remover.

As for #1 if you're talking about a really cold Element then you must be thinking of Liquid Nirtogen. We used to throw this stuff down the hallway at the same place I worked at when I used the above chemicals as well. Its really cool to watch this stuff disappear as it flys down the hall.

[Diamond187]

Alrighty, Kain has number two, it was acetone.

As for number one, nope, but you're now on the right track. It's far cooler than liquid nitrogen.

[Kain]

Ok I had to really dig for this one.
Helium - He - Helium is a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas. It is present in dry air in a concentration of 5.24 ppm by volume. Used extensively in the welding industry as an inert shielding gas in arc welding. Used as a leak detector and as a carrier in gas chromatography.

(He), chemical element, inert gas of Group 0 (noble gases) of the periodic table. The second lightest element (only hydrogen being lighter), helium is a colourless, odourless, and tasteless gas that becomes liquid at -268.9° C (-452° F). Only under increased pressure (approximately 25 atmospheres) does helium solidify. Below 2.17 kelvins, the isotope helium-4 has unique properties: it becomes a superfluid (its viscosity nearly vanishes) and its thermal conductivity becomes more than 1,000 times greater than that of copper. In this state it is called helium II to distinguish it from normal liquid helium I. Chemically inert, helium does not form compounds, and its molecules consist of single atoms.

Helium gas (98.2 percent pure) is isolated from natural gas by liquefying the other components at low temperatures and under high pressures. Adsorption of other gases on cooled, activated
charcoal yields 99.995 percent pure helium. Helium is used as an inert-gas atmosphere for welding metals such as aluminum; in rocket propulsion (to pressurize fuel tanks, especially those for liquid hydrogen, because only helium is still a gas at liquid-hydrogen temperature); in meteorology (as a lifting gas for instrument-carrying balloons); in cryogenics (as a coolant because liquid helium is the coldest substance); and in high-pressure breathing operations (mixed with oxygen, as in scuba diving and caisson work, especially because of its low solubility in the blood-stream). Meteorites and rocks have been analyzed for helium content as a means of dating.

Atomic number 2

Atomic weight 4.0026

Melting point - none

Boiling point -268.9° C (-452° F)

Density (1 atm, 0 C) 0.1785 g/litre

Valence 0

Electronic configuration 2 or 1s2


The last one. Is it Silver Nitrate?

[Diamond187]

Well, you nailed the first one so you get the full 400. Re-read the clues for number 3, though. Silver Nitrate doesn't oxidize much of anything and it certainly doesn't start with potassium.

[John Tennison]

Well, because I'm nieve enough to think this might work:

I'll just shove the two words together and see what happened:

Potassium Oxide.

*knows nothing, nothing at all, about chemistry.*

[Kain]

Ok, I think the clues have helped me narrow this down. Especially the beautiful part.

Potassium Permanganate - used in many fireworks and I know from experiance this does stain skin and clothes brown! :P

Potassium Nitrate (also known as Saltpeter) used as a major component in gunpowder.

In case I'm wrong, here's a list of other guesses that I'm sure I would venture upon once I've gotten tired of looking through books and chemical websites. (I'm not far from that point)

Potassium bromide
Potassium carbonate
Potassium chlorate
Potassium chloride
Potassium chromate
Potassium dichromate
Potassium hydroxide
Potassium hydrogen carbonate
Potassium hydrogen tartrate
Potassium iodate(V),
Potassium iodide
Potassium monoxide
Potassium nitrite

Believe it or not I have gotten to work with many of the chemicals listed so far in this thread. However my experiance with most oxidizers is limited because while we had them at the company I was working for, it isn't wise to mess with some of them. Used improperly, some of them can suck all of the oxygen out of the entire building.

[John Tennison]

Potassium Nitrate is fun. :) Not when used in any dangerous or malicous way of course, but it's great for making little globs that are all smoky and such.

[Diamond187]

Potassium Permanganate

That's the one. Yahoo, it's all done, and Kain gets 1000Xcash total! To the rest of you, try harder next time.

[Kain]

My hat's off to you Diamond! Those were a real pain in the rear to figure out! Phew!

[FLASH-MX]

umm nitrous oxide?