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🥁 #EleCup21 Result 🥁
We are pleased to announce, after nearly 700 votes, you have declared #TeamUranium your #EleCup21 #Champion with a huge win of over 100 votes over #TeamCarbon !
Take your #Crown #TeamUranium you've earned it!
#Scicomm #RealtimeChem #Chemtwitter
It might not be in @MineralCup but it could be in the #EleCup22
Got any fun nitrogen facts that could make this element the winner ?_?
Elements not in #MinCup2021 - #nitrogen
This might be something of a surprise - after all, 78% of each breath is N2 gas, and nitrogen is an essential element for all life on Earth.
However, many nitrogen minerals are ephemeral. Let's take a look!
mindat.org/photo-567181.html
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ALT chanabayaite - a rare, amazing copper - nitrogen mineral. See below tweets for geological setting!
Element Cup retweeted
To soothe the absence of #MinCup for the next 11 months, check out:
#FatBearWeek at @KatmaiNPS
@CupGeomon
@dinocup2
#ExoplanetCup with @exo_cast
@ElementCup
@ForamWeek
We also recommend our friends at @SS_RockExchange for trading rocks with strangers around the world!
We know we've been quiet (it's the off season afterall!) but we encourage all our followers to check out this years @MineralCup which starts today!!!!!
Learn lots about cool #minerals, and maybe share some facts about the #elements that make them!
#MinCup2021 #RealTimeChem
It’s that most beautiful time of the year! A mix of 32 minerals (& groups!) from common to esoteric are competing, each with unique reasons to love it above all others.
But only one mineral can be crowned champion.
#MinCup2021 daily votes start September 1st.
ALT Blank bracket with the minerals Last check before I build the bracket, 2021 minerals IN SEED ORDER are: Quartz Sodalite Coffinite Carpathite Quetzalcoatlite Plagioclase Kyanite Muscovite Corundum Graphite Tourmaline Gold Pyroxene Cinnabar Opal Sulphur Serpentine Xenotime Calcite Fluorite Scheelite Yanomamite Chalcanthite Torbernite Saponite Zircon Palygorskite Kaolinite Ice Olivine Rhodochrosite Malachite
If you enjoyed #EleCup21 consider following and participating in @MineralCup, the cup we are based on!
They are updating their rules so maybe jump in an vote on which rules should stay, go, or be edited.
It’s time to update our rules for #MinCup2021!
We’ll vote on keeping, editing or discarding last year’s rule changes now that we’ve experienced what they’re like during #MinCup2020.
Do you have requests or suggestions for what we should do differently this year?
📢 #EleCup21 Announcment 📢
After nearly 8500 votes you declared #teamUranium your champion, who gets to take a break from next years competition. You also decided which #elements to eliminate.
We sent them off in the best way we knew how. (See ending)
#RealTimeChem #scicomm
Elements were eliminated based off lowest vote proportion in the first round.
Elements eliminated: #TeamThallium, #TeamXenon, #TeamBromine, #TeamZinc, #TeamGold, #TeamCaesium, #TeamLead, #TeamEuropium, #TeamYtterbium, #TeamThorium
#Bye
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Thanks to everyone who has voted in the polls to help make a better cup for next year! A final poll (in two parts, so we have 8 options). We would love to see how the distribution of backgrounds has changed since the beginning of the cup.
52%Geosciences
19%Physics
23%Chemistry/Molecular
6%Biology
64 votes • Final results📊Questions to improve the Element Cup experience for next year📊
Below there will be a series of poll questions for everyone to answer. Additionally, we would love any feedback you have to give on what YOU think would make a better cup!
Thanks to everyone who has voted in the polls to help make a better cup for next year! A final poll (in two parts, so we have 8 options). We would love to see how the distribution of backgrounds has changed since the beginning of the cup.
52%Geosciences
19%Physics
23%Chemistry/Molecular
6%Biology
64 votes • Final results Element Cup retweeted
The Verge: This alien-like metal may one day power your electronics.
theverge.com/2021/6/18/22537…
Bismuth is pretty, and nifty! @MineralCup @USGSMinerals @NMT_EES @mtugeomining
#Potential
Question 2. Do you think that the distribution of elements should remain the same? Or should there be more Lanthanides, Actinides, Metals (for example)? Feel free to comment, and/or suggest elements for next year.
67%Yes
33%No
49 votes • Final results
🥁 #EleCup21 Competition 🥁
So there you have it. Here is your complete #EleCup21 line up!
Join us @ 9am GMT tomorrow when the first round goes live!
We're going for a nap before the fun begins. 😴
#scicomm #scicom #teachertwitter #chemtwitter #SciCommChat
