Can you name the elements from the second sentence of their Wikipedia articles?

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It is also known as quicksilver or hydrargyrum, from 'hydr-' water and 'argyros' silver.
It is a nonmetal, chemically related to sulfur and tellurium, and rarely occurs in its elemental state in nature.
Elemental **** is a soft silvery-white metallic alkali metal that oxidizes rapidly in air and is very reactive with water.
A soft silvery metallic element, **** is a rare earth element of the lanthanide series and is found in the minerals gadolinite, monazite, and xenotime.
**** is a dense, soft, shiny metal and the most malleable and ductile metal known.
The lightest halogen, it is not found as a free element on Earth, but does occur in the interstellar medium, stars and planetary nebulae.
Its name derives from the Greek roots ὀξύς and -γενής, because at the time of naming, it was mistakenly thought that all acids required **** in their composition.
It is the lowest atomic number element without any stable isotopes; every form of it is radioactive.
It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas that heads the noble gas group in the periodic table.
It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity.
It is the 100th element in the periodic table and a member of the actinide series.
This transuranic element of the actinide series is located in the periodic table below the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was named after another continent.
The name is pronounced ****; from the Greek: ιώδης, meaning violet or purple.
It is an alkaline earth metal and the seventh most abundant element in the Earth's crust, where it constitutes about 2% by mass, and ninth in the known Universe as a whole.
Its name is derived from the Spanish term **** del Pinto, which is literally translated into 'little silver of the Pinto River.'
It is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, occurring naturally as the decay product of uranium.
**** is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, and is the densest natural element.
It was formerly known as eka-caesium and actinium K.
It is the first element in group 12 of the periodic table.
It has the chemical symbol Rh and atomic number 45.
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Element from Wikipedia's Second Sentence Quiz

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  • Created May 27, 2011 in Science
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