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Can you name the abbreviations for the elements of the Periodic Table? Enter an abbreviation in the box below Correctly named abbreviations will show up in the table below Click any empty Element or Abbr. to answer for that location You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today TV Shows (U.S.) 31770 You Do Know Jack 30044 Russia's Borders 28368 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 16141 Commonest English Words 12367 Same Last Name 10339 And more...
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Element	Abbr.
Hydrogen
Helium
Lithium
Beryllium
Boron
Carbon
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Fluorine
Neon
Sodium
Magnesium
Aluminium
Silicon
Phosphorus
Sulfur
Chlorine
Argon
Potassium
Calcium
Scandium
Titanium
Vanadium
Chromium

Element	Abbr.
Manganese
Iron
Cobalt
Nickel
Copper
Zinc
Gallium
Germanium
Arsenic
Selenium
Bromine
Krypton
Rubidium
Strontium
Yttrium
Zirconium
Niobium
Molybdenum
Technetium
Ruthenium
Rhodium
Palladium
Silver
Cadmium

Element	Abbr.
Indium
Tin
Antimony
Tellurium
Iodine
Xenon
Cesium
Barium
Lanthanum
Cerium
Praseodymium
Neodymium
Promethium
Samarium
Europium
Gadolinium
Terbium
Dysprosium
Holmium
Erbium
Thulium
Ytterbium
Lutetium
Hafnium

Element	Abbr.
Tantalum
Tungsten
Rhenium
Osmium
Iridium
Platinum
Gold
Mercury
Thallium
Lead
Bismuth
Polonium
Astatine
Radon
Francium
Radium
Actinium
Thorium
Protactinium
Uranium
Neptunium
Plutonium
Americium
Curium

Element	Abbr.
Berkelium
Californium
Einsteinium
Fermium
Mendelevium
Nobelium
Lawrencium
Rutherfordium
Dubnium
Seaborgium
Bohrium
Hassium
Meitnerium
Darmstadtium
Roentgenium
Ununbium
Ununtrium
Ununquadium
Ununpentium
Ununhexium
Ununseptium
Ununoctium

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	zalagreensbury:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 08:20 GMT	3 points
	it's times like this where i wish i had taken chemistry instead of marine biology...34/118meh

	callaway17:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 08:27 GMT	40 points
	i'm not fast enough to get them all. i was on a roll, but ran out of time

	vogz:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 08:28 GMT	3 points
	ugh the only one i left out wass tungsten...knew the letter wasn't in the element...couldn't remember...ugh sooo frustrating!!! very possible to do though...time limit is definitely spot on

	Ecliptica:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 08:31 GMT	6 points
	Ahhhh, only one I missed was antimony. And the sick part was I just found that word in Boggle like ten minutes ago. Grrrrrr.

	yankeessuck8991:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 08:31 GMT	7 points
	101/118. never set foot near anything chem related ever. yay for quick fingers!

	let.it.go:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 08:50 GMT	5 points
	93/118. it's almost too fast to do if you get caught up on anything. i like it. more of these quizzes should be set up for imminent failure. encore!

	Shades703:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 08:57 GMT	5 points
	I would prefer just 20 more seconds, myself. I really didn't get that caught up... but I guess this is just one of those quizzes that forces you to actually know your stuff

	mokos:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 08:58 GMT	37 points
	55/118. I'd complain about the lack of time, but I'd get arrowed down. Oh, well. MORE TIME!!!!!

	MovieDynamic:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 08:59 GMT	19 points
	LOL, so much easier than the periodic table one.

	mattjvw:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 09:07 GMT	8 points
	17 seconds to spare. With a few exceptions (such as Antimony and Tungsten, that I was lucky enough to remember), it's pretty easy to guess

	maniacalclown:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 09:14 GMT	0 points
	1:37 to spare. Fun quiz!

	deej:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 09:35 GMT	4 points
	tungsten...need tungsten to live....TUNGSTEEEENNNNNNN

	sevorak:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 09:37 GMT	15 points
	Damn you Antimony!

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	springmom:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 09:42 GMT	4 points
	Needed just a little more time, like 30 seconds or so. Got 103 out of 118! If it hadn't been for the other periodic table quiz, I wouldn't have been able to do it. Thanks, Sporcle.

	mungar:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 09:58 GMT	3 points
	Damn, missed Antimony..... seems to be a theme lol

	Doug:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 10:01 GMT	3 points
	Dammmmmn, I was held up by Plutonium for nearly a whole minute and thought I was doomed to not complete the game in time. Then, at the end came a welcome surprise: the unun's. In 3 seconds I mindlessly BLASTED them off based on the spelling, and finished with 0:01 left. Excellent!

	Edge:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 10:03 GMT	-3 points
	Finished with 1:30 to spare, the only one I had to come back for was Protactinium. This might be a good quiz to allow a certain number of mistakes for, it's pretty simple otherwise.

	brianc:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 10:08 GMT	7 points
	finished with 5 seconds left. wouldn't mind having a little more time

	Jaspers:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 11:15 GMT	4 points
	Needed just seven more seconds...

	thriceratop:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 11:41 GMT	5 points
	more time...

	GeminiNL:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 12:01 GMT	2 points
	Too easy... got more than 1:00 to spare. And yes, it does help to know the stuff to get Antimony, Mercury, Tungsten and Tin.

	starsaphire:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 12:28 GMT	2 points
	112/118... not bad for a Lit major... :)

	phw:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 12:39 GMT	8 points
	So nice to see a test where everybody gets rubidium but only the true chem geeks know tin.

	Zalx:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 13:14 GMT	3 points
	defo a bit more time on this one. I'm no chemistry genius, but I know my stuff, but this quiz left almost no time for thinking, which seems a little unfair.

	Havok3595:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 13:25 GMT	1 point
	This is the first time I've run out of time, I was shocked by it. I wasn't going as fast as I could, only got 86.

	DeeJay:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 13:52 GMT	-1 points
	I think this one needs an extra 30 seconds. Not everyone can go that fast.

	xbOw00:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 14:19 GMT	2 points
	Finally a quiz I could get 100% on. I was pretty pleased with myself. :D

	Durinthal:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 14:59 GMT	3 points
	For not having done chemistry in six years, I was pleased to get everything. I had to skip tungsten the first time around, tricky thing.

	shel99:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 15:02 GMT	0 points
	Minute and a half to spare! ... much easier than the Periodic Table one. I have yet to score 100% on that one...

	RavenEleni:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 15:52 GMT	1 point
	awesome quiz, but mor time needed, i know almost all of these to hand, and i still ran out of time, just an extra twenty seconds or so would do for us slow typers!

	MLA:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 16:32 GMT	2 points
	Got all the real ones but ran out of time before figuring out the placeholders (unun...) No problems with stibium or wolfram.

	GPS:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 16:42 GMT	3 points
	Ran out of time or I would have gotten all but Antimony. I completely forgot that one. It was hard not to look at the periodic table hanging on my wall.

	OscilatingGibbon:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 16:53 GMT	4 points
	Like the SOWPODS quiz, if you know the answers to these then the time limit is fine. Otherwise it's just a case of "try every possible answer until you get it right".

	karinaedge:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 17:08 GMT	4 points
	i got 71. but ran out of time. boo.

	Craig R:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 17:15 GMT	2 points
	103 i don't know if i would have gotten the Unun's even with more time

	striker64:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 17:19 GMT	2 points
	106/118, didn't pay attention to the time and got stopped at Roentgenium. Forgot Tin, Antinomy, Tungsten, and LEAD (which I feel stupid about now). Totally forgot that the Unun-'s were 3 letters so I probably wouldn't have gotten them either. Agreed that there should be a wrong answers limit.

	Cuthbert_Twilley:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 17:39 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz. I too didn't look at the timer until I had 15 secs left. I couldn't remember Tin or Copper, but Antimony was easy for me: it was my element for a report in elementary school.

	Biohazard:	Mar 31st, 2009 at 17:40 GMT	1 point
	@raveneleni: Slow typers? There are 111 two letter answers and 7 three letter answers.