Barium

Daniel Marano

Hello my name is Barium, but some call me Ba. I can be found in the sixth period of the second group on the periodic table. I am a member of the alkaline earth metal family. My atomic number is 56 and my average atomic weight is 137.33.

Like most other elements I enjoy bonding and becoming neutral. I would like a job in vacuum tubes scavenging for air, this is my god given talent and I have been scavenging for air ever since a was a little electron. Having only two valence electrons naturally there are many positions for me to fill. This made it very easy for me to get to where I am now. I was a big part of the first “high temperature” superconductor (YBCO), which was the first material to achieve superconductivity above the melting point of nitrogen. Also I am a big part in glass making, rat poison, fireworks, rubber making, a weighing agent in oil well drilling fluids, and it is used in television screens. One of my greatest talents is bonding with oxygen. We can bond at room temperature violently and non-violently. Some of my other pastimes include bonding to form barium sulfate and barium carbonate. Two of my best friends are oxygen and sulfate. We get along great and they say I am a friendly element and that I am pretty easy to bond with.

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