Can you name the rejected elements?

created by Tahnan
  • Enter a rejected element in the box below
  • Correctly named rejected elements will show up below
  • Answers do not have to be guessed in order
  • Source: The Periodic Table of Rejected Elements
  • From the August 1999 Atlantic Monthly; created by Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz. Hat tip to Ellix's Disney Periodic table quiz.
  • Answers are all actual words (other than the six based on names) that sound like elements, like "aquarium" or "freon".
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1 - HTrademark for the sedative triazolam
2 - TdBoredom
3 - AcWhere Octavian defeated Marc Antony
4 - CxBrand of bleach since 1913
5 - MIdiot
6 - CtPackaging for eggs
7 - FlServed with spinach (like eggs)
8 - PTraffic cone or end zone marker
9 - BgIt borders France and Germany
10 - HxOreo-like cookie
11 - APain-easing opiate or narcotic
12 - PkFlat-faced Chinese lap dog
13 - SuOf an early Mesopotamian civilization
14 - VPolymer used to make records
15 - BsTurkish strait to the Black Sea
16 - LFlexible floor covering
17 - AsUtterly foolish
18 - CrToasted bread put in salads
19 - DmHallucinatory mental state
20 - AmArtificial sweetener
21 - AtDistaste for or aversion toward
22 - ChDistress caused by disappointment
23 - CaFrom the second-largest country, eh?
24 - TcIt's 1 on the Mohs scale of hardness
25 - GeA common flower
#/SymbolElementClue
26 - AnMolecule recognized by the immune system
27 - RpPillage, plunder
28 - PrThe Ivy League school in New Jersey
29 - BzAncient city on Element 15; now Istanbul
30 - CnProtein that can be turned into gelatin
31 - PzStyle, flair
32 - QtEveryday or commonplace
33 - GuChewy candy, often bear-shaped
34 - XLawless warrior princess
35 - SnAny one of wrath, greed, gluttony, etc.
36 - ViEye drop brand that ''gets the red out''
37 - Cd''Because You Loved Me'' singer (full name)
38 - ImBrand name for Loperamide (anti-diarrhea)
39 - Fg''Driving enjoyment'', in Volkswagen ads
40 - GbThe five ''criminal elements'' are named...
41 - Gv...after the Five Families at the center of...
42 - Bn...New York's organized crime since the...
43 - Cb...1930s, and named after their bosses...
44 - Lu...in the late '50s and early '60s.
45 - SaInstitution for chronically ill patients
46 - ApSpear-shaped green vegetable
47 - HePlayboy founder Hugh
48 - AeTragic Greek heroine, daughter of Oedipus
49 - GrRed syrup used to make a Tequila Sunrise
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