elementsales.com/pl_element.ht Ever wanted to buy your very own five-gram ingot of lutetium? Neither have I! But apparently you can!

This site seems to sell pure samples of every stable element except fluorine (which is sold as a fluoride salt). It's quite an interesting thing!

And quite an expensive thing.

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seriously, quite expensive. They offer a 29 gram sample of copper for $19. This much copper is worth about $0.26 according to Wolfram Alpha's database. Even accounting for making it into a nice little rod like that, that's ridiculously overpriced.

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