Reef Chemitry Puzzle #5

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Just one clue today:

1. There are more of me than all other elements in a reef tank combined.

What am I?

Good luck!
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Previous Reef Chemistry Puzzle:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/reef-chemistry-puzzle-4.1019199/

 

[Mr_Knightley]

Sodium chloride? Possibly h2O?

 

[findingsimple]

O ?

 

[Raul-7]

Hydrogen.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Answer later today...

As an aside, this element is also the most numerous element in a cooked turkey. lol

 

[Kraig]

Sulfur

 

[jda]

Chloride?

 

[dennis romano]

Hydrogen

 

[YOYOYOReefer]

Carbon

 

[Court_Appointed_Hypeman]

Answer later today...

As an aside, this element is also the most numerous element in a cooked turkey. lol

Ohhh its tryptophan!

Has to be H2O though, I would be shocked otherwise

 

[KenRexford]

I was guessing aiptasia

 

[Dobbs1101]

Sodium?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

And the answer is…

1. There are more of me than all other elements in a reef tank combined.

What am I?


The key word is element. Compounds such as water are not elements. Individual elements are those shown on the periodic table: hydrogen, helium, lithium, etc.

In a reef tank, hydrogen is by far the most abundant element by number. The “more of me” part of the question implies numbers of the element, not mass of the element. Oxygen would win by mass, dominating water (H2O) and calcium carbonate (CaCO3). But water and organisms are very strongly dominated by hydrogen numbers and it will win out by number in any ordinary reef tank.

Following up on my comment about the dominating element in a turkey, I could not find exact data for a turkey, but the human body is strongly dominated by hydrogen, and I expect a turkey is similar;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_the_human_body
Thanks for playing and Happy Reefing!

 

[Court_Appointed_Hypeman]

And the answer is…

1. There are more of me than all other elements in a reef tank combined.

What am I?


The key word is element. Compounds such as water are not elements. Individual elements are those shown on the periodic table: hydrogen, helium, lithium, etc.

In a reef tank, hydrogen is by far the most abundant element by number. The “more of me” part of the question implies numbers of the element, not mass of the element. Oxygen would win by mass, dominating water (H2O) and calcium carbonate (CaCO3). But water and organisms are very strongly dominated by hydrogen numbers and it will win out by number in any ordinary reef tank.

Following up on my comment about the dominating element in a turkey, I could not find exact data for a turkey, but the human body is strongly dominated by hydrogen, and I expect a turkey is similar;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_the_human_body
Thanks for playing and Happy Reefing!

Dangit! Ill have to take it more literally next time.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Dangit! Ill have to take it more literally next time.

lol

Happy Reefing!

 

[FUNGI]

According to a movie I watched, water is an element......
multi-pass......

 

[twentyleagues]

According to a movie I watched, water is an element......
multi-pass......

But so is love......

 

[gbroadbridge]

Just one clue today:

1. There are more of me than all other elements in a reef tank combined.

What am I?

Good luck!
'
Previous Reef Chemistry Puzzle:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/reef-chemistry-puzzle-4.1019199/

Hydrogen atoms

 

[Perthegallon]

Hydrogen atoms

came down to say that lol