#selenium
Discovered in 1817 by Jöns Jakob Berzelius and Johan Gottlieb Gahn, selenium was initially assumed to be a tellurium compound. When Berzelius reanalyzed his sample he ended up naming the new element for the Greek word selene, meaning moon, since it was so similar to tellurium, named for the Earth.
Selenium is the thirty fourth element, consisting of thirty four protons and electrons. A rare element, it is mostly found as impurities in various minerals, primarily as a replacement for sulfur.
On the periodic table, it is classified as a nonmetal. A nonmetal is typically highly volatile, with low elasticity, and good insulation for both heat and electricity. Despite the number of metals versus nonmetals, living organisms are composed almost entirely of nonmetals and nonmetals form more compounds than metals.
Like sulfur above it, selenium has many allotropes, some of which take cyclic, or ring-shaped forms. Selenium has six naturally occurring isotopes, only one of which is not stable.
Re-teaching myself Selenium because I keep forgetting because I never use it because I’m stuck using HP tools at work. It’s so much ball ache just getting it set up, but Java is a much nicer language than VB.
Gonna spend the weekend automating browser based games for practice. If anybody’s got any good ones let me know and I’ll return the favour by sending you my code so you can essentially bot the game… not that I’m condoning that.