Need some help here!

[Banshee7]

You do know wiki is authored by anyone who takes the time to write something, and by no means is accurate, right?

I not only guarantee these terms are in your text book, I would bet that your professor lectured about them. Not very often do teachers/professors ask you to write about stuff that has not been covered in class, or at least has some mention in the required reading.

I doubt your going to get a lot of help asking these types of questions online either, mostly because the people who know the answers studied hard by READING THEIR TEXT BOOKS to learn them.

Yes they are!  I wrote a term paper a while back using Wikipedia.  Being ym teacher had studied this topic before, she knew an awful lot, mostly from reading books.  Needless to say, I received an 85 on that paper.  She said that I would have scored better if my paper if it had contained solid information.

#S#

Banshee7

[1pLUs44]

You guys are right... I'll go to the store, pick up a 150$$ Chemistry text book on elements for 1 project... thanks! 

[Golfer]

To be fair to common sense if you knew it was a metal then that's a pretty significant clue as to the normal state.  There's only one metal that is a liquid in its normal state.

[1pLUs44]

No, the definition itself confused me.

I wasn't exactly sure what "Normal Phase" meant

First thing I said was "what the hell, elements have a phase??"

I agree, I shoulda looked into this more, but I was in a hurry as I got a lot of stuff to do tonight. I gotta finish up the last quarter of this, then get on to geometry. 

[dkff49]

Now I never took HS chemistry and only briefly looked at the table for that matter. I failed the test on the periodic table due to my laziness in my studiesthen (many years ago). Just a little history of me and chemistry here.

Now here is what I found in the chemistry.com site that you posted.

Date of Discovery: 1804
Discoverer: S. Tenant
Name Origin: From the Latin word iridis (rainbow)
Uses: tip gold pens, crucible and special containers
Obtained From: gravel deposits with platinum

now in there I see uses and I notice a special line there leading to the answer you were originally asking.


Obtained From: gravel deposits with platinum now not being an expert here I would say for it to found in gravel it would most likely be a solid

of course I could be wrong

[1pLUs44]

 

All of that is on my paper... Like I said, I had no clue what the "Normal Phase" was...

[Banshee7]

All of that is on my paper... Like I said, I had no clue what the "Normal Phase" was...

and how long have you been in school???

[1pLUs44]

Too long...  Chemistry is the only class I struggle with big time

I have one of those classes where it's impossible to pay attention the way it's layed out to be. The class average is below passing (but I'm passing!)

[vorticon]

All of that is on my paper... Like I said, I had no clue what the "Normal Phase" was...

so how do you figure out what that means? theres a lot of ways to do it...google can manage it.... have to ask the right question though.
i figure the problem here is not that you didnt know what it meant, it was not being able to find out for yourself. you definitely have access to more than enough resources.

[1pLUs44]

As to why I went here.

[vorticon]

and you can see how well that went.

[nirvana]

Holy cow fellas, you're beating a dead horse here.  Unless of course he procrastinated and never bothered to look at what was required or just never decided to ask the teacher, or a peer.

[AKHog]

Unless of course he procrastinated and never bothered to look at what was required or just never decided to ask the teacher, or a peer.

Isn't that exactly what happened?

[hubsonfire]

It's pretty obvious he never even looked until he got chastised for being lazy.

[1pLUs44]

I did look. You arent sitting right behind me looking at what I've done. After 3 nights of work, it's finished, and I'm not even sure if it's that well off.

If I wanted to REALLY not do anything, I'd put something like this:
"What's Iridium? How was it found? What year? Is it a solid? Could someone type up a fancy report atleast 7 pages long? Make pictures, upload them...." and what not.

I was just confused, and I'm really planning to pass this damn class!

Edit:
 

and you can see how well that went.

Yes, I got my answer.