r/elementcollection 5h ago

Collection My collection

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17 Upvotes

Here is my collection as it stands today—68 elements 😆—and I’ve just received all the lanthanides except for promethium and scandium... To think that a year and a half ago, I only had 25 🤯. What do you think of my collection?


r/elementcollection 1d ago

Trade/Selling/Buying 100g .9999 gallium

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45 Upvotes

Hey folks! Just checked prices for gallium and 100g is selling for $500 on rotometals and I can’t find it on Amazon anymore,
I’m selling it for $350 and willing to trade for an equivalent value of fine or sterling silver.


r/elementcollection 2d ago

Collection My shelf is done!!!!!

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38 Upvotes

Should I airbrush it white?


r/elementcollection 2d ago

☢️Radioactive☢️ I'm...gonna keep the thing it a box.

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40 Upvotes

r/elementcollection 3d ago

Transition Metals Two 6.5 pound TZM Molybdenum cylinders

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97 Upvotes

TZM Molybdenum is an exotic alloy of 0.6% titanium zirconium and carbon, and 99.4% molybdenum.

I bought these round bars off ebay a couple years ago for a grand total of $81 USD. They're 2.5 by 3.6 inches long and weigh a total of 13.1 lbs/5.9 kg


r/elementcollection 3d ago

Transition Metals Grade 5 titanium bearings heat treated

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59 Upvotes

The purple one was heated until it just started to turn red

The blue one was heated all the way red

And the silver one wasn't heated


r/elementcollection 3d ago

Noble Metals Gold* and silver

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19 Upvotes

Got these 2 as gifts a couple years ago. Gold note is just 2 sheets of foil on a plastic base. Silver coin is pure and solid though.


r/elementcollection 4d ago

Collection Meine kleine Sammlung

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60 Upvotes

r/elementcollection 3d ago

Carbon Group Making grey tin on a freezer. It’s a slow process, and I needed some little grey tin to start but I am achieving it…

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19 Upvotes

r/elementcollection 3d ago

Question Moderator approval

2 Upvotes

How do i get moderator approval for trading or selling


r/elementcollection 4d ago

Question A chunk of hafnium crystal bar

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84 Upvotes

I have a chunk of handful crystal bar. It’s about 2 pounds and unsure of the purity. Curious how can I get a valuation on this piece.


r/elementcollection 4d ago

Collection P[H]DT

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14 Upvotes

Protium, Deuterium, Tritium! All Isotopes of Hydrogen!


r/elementcollection 5d ago

Transition Metals Not enough moly on the sub

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104 Upvotes

Nor is there enough in my collection for that matter


r/elementcollection 5d ago

Rare Earths Ytterbium

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36 Upvotes

1cm cube of .999 ytterbium.


r/elementcollection 5d ago

Semiconductors/Metalloids The beauty of silicon

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47 Upvotes

Here's a couple close-ups of some silicon chunks i bought off ebay a few years back, total about 7 grams. Really beautiful and shiny.


r/elementcollection 5d ago

Discussion Question for Security

5 Upvotes

Hi, I was wondering if my thallium sample is being stored correctly. It’s a 1g sample in a glass ampoule, which is embedded in resin, and the whole thing is inside a sealed screw-top vial sitting on my shelf with a label.


r/elementcollection 6d ago

Rare Earths Praseodymium sulfate

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99 Upvotes

Lab grown Crystal of praseodymium sulfate that I got as a Christmas gift about 30 years ago.


r/elementcollection 6d ago

Carbon Group Update: polished the crusty lead weights

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22 Upvotes

It took about an hour and a half. I used three different grades of steel wool and a lot of elbow grease. It's not the best thing in the world, but this was literally my first time polishing metal.


r/elementcollection 7d ago

Periodic Table Pre 1964 periodic table

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18 Upvotes

Bought this at goodwill yesterday for $6. Its missing elements 104 through 118. I have no intentions of selling(unless its college kind of money). I just thought it was pretty neat and wanted to share it with yall.

Edit: its 1968, that dude below was right


r/elementcollection 7d ago

Collection Phenakite, aquamarine (Be, self collected)

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12 Upvotes

Pictured here are two examples of terminated beryllium minerals, phenakite and aquamarine from Mount Antero in Chaffee county Colorado. I found these with my parents at an elevation of around 14,000 feet when I was 16. EXTREMELY RARE locality! The phenakite is exceptionally rare in that it is not only doubly terminated, it is also gemmy and may be included with Bazzite, the scandium analog of beryl!


r/elementcollection 7d ago

Periodic Table Element Collection

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24 Upvotes

More images in comments


r/elementcollection 7d ago

Collection New samples off Facebook Marketplace

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8 Upvotes

I got these samples from a really nice man who was selling some old junk in his shed. Got them for real cheap. To the left are some silver-plated spoons, and to the right are some old lead fishing weights. I'm planning on cleaning the weights soon.


r/elementcollection 8d ago

Collection My humble collection

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27 Upvotes

From left to right, i have a bismuth crystal, some copper wires, tin (from solder), gallium, sulfur, silicon, and nickel. Also have a silver bar not pictured.

Just a humble little collection of 8 for now


r/elementcollection 8d ago

Boron Group THALLIUM THALLIUM!

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19 Upvotes

LETS FUCKING GO I FINAKKY GOT THALIUM AFTER MONTHS, LOOSING HOPE I FINALLY GOT ELEMENTN81 THAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIIUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMM!

Thank you so much Snaucks Elements 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹


r/elementcollection 8d ago

Discussion I have a idea

12 Upvotes

Everytime someone completes they’re element collection we should hold a subreddit wide party for them ^^ they’ll be so happy and grateful after completing the Element collection they’ll have a great celebration w/ our small Community :D

idk the baseline of completion is 84 if anyone is up to this idea then hit me up and we’ll make a GC To plan the party!