I’ve been looking for something that can prepare hydrofluoric acid from fluorite and sulfuric acid for some time, and I’ve finally found such a game.

The idea of the game is to collect every element on the periodic table to repair your ship. Compounds with several elements won’t work - only compounds that consist of a particular element are eligible.

And how do you do that? You have to react things with each other to make new compounds. And/or you use heat to do it. Or, you use electrolysis to separate elements (I like the electrolysis reaction where salt is separated into sodium and chlorine gas). Or you use your particle accelerator gun to make synthetic elements.

There are a bunch of reactions missing (you can’t mix pure sodium and fluorine to get NaF on the spot), but there are enough to get all the elements. I had a fun time with it.

  • Deconceptualist@leminal.space
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    1 month ago

    Compounds with several elements won’t work - only compounds that consist of a particular element are eligible.

    What? Don’t compounds have at least two elements by definition?

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      1 month ago

      Not O2. I consider that a compound, regardless of what the actual definition is.

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          My definition has some intrigue, which the official one lacks. You understand my meaning, yes?

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        I think the formal term is “simple substance (element)”, but that hardly rolls off the tongue, so I understand why you call it a compound for simplicity / colloquially. There isn’t a good word that refers to things like O2. Maybe we should invent one like Shakespeare? I propose “Monopound”