Can you name the 3-letter sequences which begin the names of two chemical elements?

Group	Elements
	Radium & Radon
	Ruthenium & Rutherfordium
	Silicon & Silver
	Ytterbium & Yttrium
Ytterbium & Yttrium
Ytterbium & Yttrium
Ytterbium & Yttrium
Ytterbium & Yttrium
Ytterbium & Yttrium

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Elements First Letters Quiz

by WyvernSabres

Created Apr 12, 2010 in Science
Featured May 22, 2010
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	LongSockSilver:	May 22nd, 2010 at 04:50 GMT	19 points
	Who knew unu?

	C squared:	May 22nd, 2010 at 05:00 GMT	7 points
	i got the unun group haha, i was like god dam they aint givin me that

	pkingd9:	May 22nd, 2010 at 05:02 GMT	-1 points
	I was just trying the common ones like tin, gol, and sil and I was surprised to get one!

	BrettCaudill:	May 22nd, 2010 at 05:59 GMT	30 points
	this was much harder than i thought it was going to be. i thought i knew my stuff, but there was one element i wasn't ready for: the element of surprise. :(

	Quinteh:	May 22nd, 2010 at 06:05 GMT	13 points
	I came in with only one and left with none. Unu it would be so difficult?

	quizzle:	May 22nd, 2010 at 06:57 GMT	50 points
	ytterbium, the kyrgyzstan of elements.

	Flick:	May 22nd, 2010 at 07:25 GMT	24 points
	The more you look at the answers, the more they look like firms of Lawyers.

	RetroGirl:	May 22nd, 2010 at 09:46 GMT	3 points
	Interesting and random challenge! I got 8 out of 9. I tried YTT almost as a joke. Imagine my surprise that it was an answer LOL

	squirrelkins:	May 22nd, 2010 at 10:44 GMT	0 points
	Very good quiz, was anyone else surprised that out of all those elements only 9 3 letter sequences are repeated?

	beforever:	May 22nd, 2010 at 12:27 GMT	2 points
	Ah, so glad to see something to TimeandTide's one in the geography section. I patiently await the one with three-letter combinations that END the element names (a la mine)... although, I strongly suspect the 'ium' answer will be a tad long.

	WyvernSabres:	May 22nd, 2010 at 13:33 GMT	2 points
	Thank you all for the positive feedback. To those puzzled or frustrated by the lack of credit for UNU, please read the archived comments to see the very valid reason why this was withdrawn from my original quiz.

	strags11:	May 22nd, 2010 at 13:37 GMT	2 points
	No Latin bonus love for "HYD", "PLU", or "ARG"? ;-)

	WyvernSabres:	May 22nd, 2010 at 13:43 GMT	3 points
	Incidentally, now this has been published and I can no longer edit it, please could the editor remove the phrase "or more" from the instruction I included originally? Because this could mislead people into thinking UNU is a still a valid (and required) answer.

Group	Elements
	Radium & Radon
	Ruthenium & Rutherfordium
	Silicon & Silver
	Ytterbium & Yttrium
Ytterbium & Yttrium
Ytterbium & Yttrium
Ytterbium & Yttrium
Ytterbium & Yttrium
Ytterbium & Yttrium

	Logic:	May 22nd, 2010 at 15:04 GMT	-1 points
	While it initially doesn't seem like a bad idea, I don't think it works really well here. I, and I'm sure many others too, just started guessing random elements. I'm not going to start trying to think of actual pairs of elements that work. It would be very challenging, but it seems to me it would make more since to type out the entirety of both element names.

	FatherSnitch:	May 22nd, 2010 at 16:52 GMT	2 points
	Nice quiz - I love the periodic table ones! Since Latin equivalents are offered as bonus answers, I think you also need to add FER (fermium and ferrum). :-)

	redsxfenway:	May 22nd, 2010 at 17:25 GMT	3 points
	I managed to get more bonuses than actual answers.

	miyomiyo1:	May 22nd, 2010 at 18:20 GMT	2 points
	I only got two of these (YTT and RAD) while actually thinking of both answers, the rest I got were from randomly guessing elements.

	monstro:	May 22nd, 2010 at 18:57 GMT	-1 points
	YTT was the only one I could actually think of. Got a few others by randomly typing in likely-sounding letter combos.

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	PlanetBoyPhil:	May 22nd, 2010 at 21:59 GMT	0 points
	For the bonus section, you should include "EKA" for another grouping: EKA-mercury, EKA-thallium, EKA-lead, EKA-bismuth, EKA-polonium, EKA-astatine and EKA-radon, which are the same as Copernicium, Ununtrium, Ununquadium, Ununpentium, Ununhexium, Ununseptium and Ununoctium, respectively.

	buzzboy:	May 23rd, 2010 at 03:01 GMT	0 points
	So I got all the secret answers...great....unuquadium FTW

	ktappe:	May 23rd, 2010 at 03:11 GMT	-3 points
	This was impossible.

	davidr:	May 23rd, 2010 at 10:10 GMT	3 points
	I don't understand why `unu' isn't a full answer. For the time being, ununtrium etc are the official names of those elements and it seems bizarre to have the quiz be the prefixes of exactly two elements, rather than `more than one element'. If it was very common to have multiple elements with the same prefix, it would make sense to require `exactly two' but, with unu- being the only prefix of more than two elements, it seems arbitrary to exclude it.

	WyvernSabres:	May 24th, 2010 at 02:36 GMT	0 points
	@davidr: UNU was a full answer when I wrote the quiz. Did you read the archived comments to see what happened next?

	achiever900:	May 24th, 2010 at 23:28 GMT	0 points
	Mann I so proud of myself b/c I actually got them all on the first try!!! The first!!! That's why it pays off to crack those books.

	sproutcm:	May 28th, 2010 at 06:10 GMT	3 points
	Actually, UNU is only a placeholder for elements that don't exist yet with formal names, because their existence is still too speculative. You'd also have to start counting other elements that don't exist yet too, like element 120 which would be 'unbinilium' and 121 would be 'unbiunium.' So are you saying we should include UNB and the dozens more trigrams this temporary system creates?

	daHOOK:	May 28th, 2010 at 17:38 GMT	0 points
	and here I thought this was looking for consecutive elements that start with the same letter.

	Accordion:	May 30th, 2010 at 09:41 GMT	0 points
	I got them all with 15 seconds to spare. Phew. I really like this quiz - but I did end up just singing Tom Lehrer's 'Element Song' to myself - that probably helped a lot...

	hickieboy:	Jul 30th, 2010 at 17:28 GMT	-2 points
	you're missing PRO for Protactinium (91) and Promethium (61)

	WyvernSabres:	Jul 31st, 2010 at 19:56 GMT	2 points
	@hickieboy: No, PRO was included right from the outset. It still works.

	Sporcla:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 14:56 GMT	2 points
	I can't believe I got as many bonus answers as real answers, maybe I should stick to quizzes purely in latin!

	cheesecake:	Sep 8th, 2010 at 18:44 GMT	0 points
	maybe the time could be a bit shorter

	iglew:	Mar 12th, 2012 at 01:51 GMT	1 point
	Time was just right for me. I came up with the last one with just 0:20 to spare.