Element

Elements and isotopes are blocks which serve as an essential part of chemistry in Minecraft.

Obtaining
An element can be broken instantly with any item, always dropping itself.

Elements and isotopes are primarily obtained by constructing them in the element constructor. This is done by moving the sliders or typing in numbers into the text inputs. The large display will show the selected numbers of particles arranged in an atomic structure, whether valid or not. If the atomic structure is a stable isotope, it can be taken out of the slot on the right side. A list of stable isotopes can be found below.

Several elements can also be obtained from a material reducer, which breaks down blocks into their component elements by percentage. This is the only way of obtaining the Unknown element; a mysterious element found in certain Minecraft blocks, such as soul sand and netherrack.

Because the element constructor and material reducer cannot be obtained in Survival without commands, and the world must have “Education Edition” enabled, the same is true for elements. $$, the “Education Edition” option also allows elements to be obtained directly via commands or Creative inventory.

Usage
Elements can be placed as decorative blocks, or used as ingredients in crafting, brewing, or lab table experiments. They can also be combined into compounds using the compound creator; see the compound page for a full list of available combinations.

Trivia

 * Element is the only block that by default uses a texture with a resolution greater than 16×16 (not counting animated blocks).
 * Many of the "stable" isotopes provided by the element constructor are radioactive in real life; for example, Technetium has no stable isotopes in real life, even though it has three stable isotopes in Minecraft.
 * If one block is considered to be equal to one meter cubed, and element blocks are considered to be composed of solely the element they are named after, then one block of osmium will have a mass of 22,590 kilograms, making it the heaviest real-world matter available in vanilla Minecraft. This is quite heavy.
 * Hassium, however, is predicted to have a density almost twice that of osmium, with a block clocking in at 40700 kg, which is very heavy indeed.
 * ??? is the only block or item with punctuation in the name.