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Meet one of the periodic table’s lesser-known liquid metals — and beware some dangerous competition from a few felonious element collectors.
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12. Magnesium: White Light/White Heat
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Magnesium makes for quite a fireworks display, whether inside your body or out.
10. Neon: A Sign Of The Times
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Neon may no longer be “the new one,” but it might have a better claim to the name than any other element on the periodic table.
8. Oxygen: Take What You Can Get
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Element 8 brings us two different stories about a population that gets a little too swept up in the latest craze, happening to commit mass murder in the process.