Also: are the most conducive
- oxygen
- hydrogen
- nitrogen
- carbon
Lead’s gotta be up there in terms of net negative impact on us as a whole.
Definitely in the lead [whacky races cat wheezing laugh]
Lead is still used in god damn everything. Its unfortunate but it’s so cheap, and so useful, how could industry resist?. The res a good chance the pipes you have in your house and used by your city are lead, you shower pan likely had a lead sheet backing, lead is also use for tons of electrical connections. Even copper pipes are likely to be soldered together with lead. Lead is also used to heat treat steel parts, which is used in everything.
Neon
Most of the heavy metals (yes, that includes the radioactive ones)
Gold? I don’t think any life uses it for sustenance outside of technological and sociological applications.
Polonium is definitely near the top of the list.
As an counter example as something that you may not think of as therapeutically relevant, there are a whole class of Platinum based anti-cancer drugs.
Arsenic.
Source: I watched Evolution.
Arsenic helped a lot of people before divorce was common
Wait, how?
Did people give each other arsenic offerings as an expression of wanting to divorce like marriage bread is to marriage?
No I was making a lighthearted quip about poisoning one’s abusive husband
All the radioactive ones maybe?
I forgot almost immediately that I asked for worthless lol
My question is genuine though, I’m not biophysics expert, I know there are radioactive elements in our body, but are they worthless? Probably the least meaningful to sustaining life would be least reactive elements if that makes sence, but life is more about energy of chemical reactions between molecules, not individual elements
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Rubidium.