Showing posts with label atomic #. Show all posts
Showing posts with label atomic #. Show all posts

Friday, 30 March 2012

Hi My Name is Oxygen

Hey my name is oxygen, but my friends call me Oxy. You might not notice me much because I'm a colourless, odourless and tasteless gas. But i make up 21% of the Earth's atmosphere. I'm one of the 5 elements all life is based on, and people call me, "the Breath of Life".


This morning I weighed in at 16 a.m.u's but my weight tends to change a lot. 99.762% of the time I weigh the same as I did this morning but 0.038% of the time I weigh 17 amu and 0.2% of the time I weigh 18 amu. I have a total of 15 different types of weight ranging from 12-28 amu but none of those last very long except for those three I just listed. For instance once I went on this super intense weight loss program because I wanted to become a model (which did not work out, obviously) and I reached my goal of 12 amu which unfortunately only lasted about  580(30)×10−24 seconds.So now I work with my family the chalcogens but if you ever want to talk to just me and not the annoying sulfur or even worse selenium just simply ask for #8 (my atomic number) or just ask for O (my symbol).


Sometimes I don't feel complete. I wish I could be like neon, that element just seems so stable, so noble... But it's alright because I get along with practically every other element. And right now I'm with my buddy, Oxygen. People like to call us O2, we're also known as one of the 7 diatomic molecules. I'll rarely be found on my own, and together, we're pretty stable.


Here's a quick look at what happens when I try to hang out with other people.