You have fifteen minutes to name as many elements as you can.
You don't have to know where they go on the chart, but you do have to spell their names correctly.
Ready... GO!
(I got 40 in seven minutes before I gave up. I'm sure some of you out there can fill in the whole chart.)
P.S. What's with elements 112-118? Are they new? I don't remember ever learning them. And talk about unoriginal names.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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I only got 38, but five of those are in the actinide series, so you gotta give me a little credit there.
I'm interested to see how Clark and Melissa do at this.
I got 88.
Really, I was limited by the spelling requirement. 14/15 actinides, because I couldn't spell Berkelium, though I swear I tried it that way. I also got the first 36 before missing Rubidium.
As to elements 112-118, yes they are new. Anything after 92 is not found in nature, but is made in the lab. As long as we have scientists slamming stuff together, we'll continually be coming up with new elements. But, before it is given an official name we need a period of time to decide who really discovered it first and figure out who/where/what to name it after.
I remembered Einsteinium, and from there I got lucky with Curium and Bohrium, but was disappointed to discover that there was no Planckium.
And thanks to the Russians I remembered Polonium.
But I forgot about lead, so it's hit and miss.
I got Berkelium, Einsteinium, Californium, Thallium, Ytterbium, and Molybdenum. But I'm sure I missed a ton of "easy" ones.
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