Can you name the elements whose symbols do not correspond with their names in English?

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Elements with Clever Aliases Quiz

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Created by: clavinfield -
Contributed: November 13th, 2009
Published: December 1st, 2009
Category: Science
Plays: 120,199

Tags: Chemistry Quizzes, Elements Quizzes, symbol

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	TheRegno:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:12 GMT	9 points
	Really Sodium is that low?

	Iridium:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:18 GMT	1 point
	Got all the rest easily. I spent a minute in a half wracking my brain for the last two answers. Really, now- I forgot Gold and Silver? Right after having to watch Rudolph, which contains a SONG about Gold and Silver? I feel really, really bad. D;

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	jimpoz:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 04:38 GMT	63 points
	natrium, kalium, ferrum, cuprum, argentum, stannum, stibium, wolfram, aurum, hydrargyrum, and plumbum.

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	shawnkay:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 05:09 GMT	46 points
	It's unfortunate when games like this are rated less than five. It couldn't have been executed any better.

	Prepostosaurus:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 05:24 GMT	5 points
	reading Metal Men comics as a kid gave me half of these right away. good quiz.

	fomalhaut:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 06:04 GMT	6 points
	I agree with shawnkay: excellent quiz!

	caramba:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 06:20 GMT	30 points
	@shawnkay - like I commented on one of your well-executed quizzes, some users rate the quiz on how well they scored, or how the quiz compared to their expectations of what they thought it would be, or whether or not it was on a subject that interests them (and some people are just jerks). Personally, it doesn't matter to me if a quiz gets all fives, a nice comment such as yours really makes up for a fistful of 1's. (I hope clavinfield agrees).

	SixFootFive:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 06:38 GMT	39 points
	@TheRegno Low sodium is a good thing. Sorry guys, couldn't resist.

	Photar:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 07:19 GMT	14 points
	Damn couldn't get my brain to figure out Antimony. I kept thinking "it's that stupid Sb one--what the hell is Sb? Tin? Is it Tin?" It's not Tin.

	silla68:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 09:20 GMT	2 points
	nice game

	janiac:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 09:40 GMT	10 points
	what was funny was that there was a banner at the top of my screen for tungsten wedding bands-first time an ad helped me out!!!

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	gushuss32:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 12:40 GMT	4 points
	in case i had forgotten since junior year of high school, it is now official that i am not good at science. or math. or anything. SIGH. ;)

	JasonJP:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 13:11 GMT	1 point
	Being able to do this doesn't make you good at science. Nice quiz!!!

	nymous:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 13:59 GMT	1 point
	The quiz would be even better if you also accepted the Latin, i.e. ferrum, argentum, aurum, etc.

	icing:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 14:02 GMT	2 points
	Interesting that so many of them are metals. Considering how badly I suck at chemistry, I was pretty happy that I got half of them. Good quiz :)

	westing1992:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 14:09 GMT	6 points
	icing: I think the reason so many are metals is because they were known and named before the rest of the elements.

	tijngommans:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 15:00 GMT	1 point
	i didn't get sodium cause we call it natrium in dutch, we also call kalium kalium and wolfram wolfram:p not fair!

	Moldemort:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 15:13 GMT	-2 points
	only didn't get antimony or tungsten because they're never in equations we do at school

	clavinfield:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 16:06 GMT	16 points
	@caramba All the positive responses in the comments and the fact I woke up this fine December morning to find out that Sporcle actually published one of my quizzes has already made my day! @shawnkay Thanks. And the rest of you Sporclers, thanks for playing!

	orangehawk42:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 16:58 GMT	3 points
	only missed antimony, kind of more obscure than rest

	ZeZapatiste:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 17:23 GMT	0 points
	I always thought that Sodium was said Natrium in English, when I just realized thanks to this quiz that it is named "sodium chloride" and "sodium sulfate" on the pots, which I use like... everyday !

	Chris156:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 18:20 GMT	3 points
	It's basically all those metals that have been known for thousands of years...and Antimony. What the hell even is antimony, anyway?

	fudo:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 18:44 GMT	-1 points
	Great quiz, but copper actually comes from cuprum. See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/copper#Etymology_1 .

	TheBB:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 18:49 GMT	1 point
	I got copper during my wild-guessing phase. I really thought "Cu" constituted "correspondence" in this case, but I guess not.

	tenta20:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 20:55 GMT	3 points
	How did I get "Antimony" but not "Lead"? Damn..............

	milkmeister:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 20:55 GMT	-4 points
	For elements related quiz fans, try this one out: http://www.sporcle.com/games/milkmeister/ElementsNamedAfterScientists

	Trixter:	Dec 3rd, 2009 at 01:47 GMT	4 points
	Strangely, antimony and tungsten were my first guesses, yet I missed Sodium. =/