# Are you in your element?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-your-element/575286>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 19, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-your-element/575286 "2011-03-19T21:16:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-your-element/575286/1 "2011-03-19T21:16:32Z")

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As a spinoff from [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=597451) about _Breaking Bad_, this thread asks you to let us know just what you’re made of.

Explanation: Breaking Bad is about a chemist gone drug dealer. The opening credits play on the table of elements: for instance, **Br** eaking **Ba** d (Bromine and Barium).

You don’t have to use your actual name. Mine is Argon and Potassium, for example, in no particular order.

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**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-your-element/575286/2 "2011-03-20T05:53:57Z")

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Playing the game to its logical conclusion, I am the star of Laying Pipe.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-your-element/575286/3 "2011-03-20T14:34:16Z")

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Another doomed **Th** read.

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**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-your-element/575286/4 "2011-03-20T15:13:17Z")

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I seem to be made of rhenium (Re) and Sulfur (S).

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-your-element/575286/5 "2011-03-20T16:28:14Z")

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As in, the first letter or two of our first name, and the first letter or two of our last name? I can’t make that work, unless you count deuterium as an element.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-your-element/575286/6 "2011-03-20T17:22:54Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> As in, the first letter or two of our first name, and the first letter or two of our last name? I can’t make that work, unless you count deuterium as an element.

Any letters w **o** rk.