Element by Symbol Quiz

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Element by Symbol Quiz

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Created Sep 1, 2009 in Science
Featured Sep 1, 2009
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	tannem:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 19:08 GMT	9 points
	That was way harder than I thought it would be... Great format for this quiz.

	justagirl:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 19:09 GMT	4 points
	Just curious why the element we are filling in has to jump around each time rather than going in order. I found that this slowed me down significantly as I would have to locate the element it was asking me to type each time.

	sub:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 19:10 GMT	0 points
	Ludacris once rapped about Ho.

	horseydeucey:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 19:16 GMT	-4 points
	Weren't they in different area codes? That Ludacris... he so crazy.

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	montecarlo:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 19:25 GMT	33 points
	i would say a good portion of the 4% that got them all owe their success to sporcle quizzes.

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	cmkeller:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 19:35 GMT	29 points
	@iamausername: Gee, that one's so obvious, almost as if a glowing sign was telling you what it is...

	peter_:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 19:35 GMT	0 points
	@janwillemvandijk I do the same thing with Sodium (Na). My first instinct is to type Natrium every time.

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	orzechowskid:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 19:47 GMT	4 points
	@just a girl: the currently selected element is displayed to the left of the little textbox you type answers into.

	Jono_:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 19:53 GMT	-1 points
	aaaaAAAAAghhhhh I realized with 20 seconds left that I had missed gold and silver, but couldn't get around to them in time! It's funny. You may think that you don't know many, but as time goes on, you remember more and more. Especially those damned Y ones.

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	Psycho:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 19:58 GMT	6 points
	@Jack: I got 118/118, no chemistry book or any cheating whatsoever.

	mjenks:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 19:58 GMT	5 points
	@ Jack: Or they had to memorize the periodic table in grad school.

	cmkeller:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 20:08 GMT	13 points
	@MattJ and Jack: Or most likely, they're (we're) Sporcle veterans who mastered the periodic table quiz.

	davidr:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 20:13 GMT	4 points
	@Jonathan: If you can find the symbol in the list, you can click on it to enter that specific element.

	DoctorRockter:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 20:13 GMT	17 points
	I owe everything to Sporcle.

	andrea:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 20:14 GMT	0 points
	@Jack, or we've just done the Sporcle periodic table quiz too many times.

	marpocky:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 20:20 GMT	2 points
	Got 117 in 7 minutes, then I sat there for another 5 trying to come up with Thallium.

	davidr:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 20:20 GMT	7 points
	@janwillemvandijk: No, because the only English name of the element is `silver'.

	Jono_:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 20:20 GMT	3 points
	ahh, cool. Didn't know that. Thanks for the tip david! :P

	LTH:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 20:26 GMT	-3 points
	112/118 all thanks to Sporcle

	ZeZapatiste:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 20:35 GMT	2 points
	Got 60. Some are hard to translate For example : Ba in French is Baryum, but is spelled Barium in English... Don't know why

	shel99:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 20:35 GMT	1 point
	I can NOT spell Rg. I knew it, but couldn't get it right in time. Fun variation on the first periodic table quiz! A little easier, but still hard!

	Kicking222:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 20:45 GMT	1 point
	Grrr, I wanted to hit 60, but got stuck at exactly half. Missed a few somewhat easier ones and got none of the hardest forty.

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	CSniker:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 21:07 GMT	-4 points
	looks at handy periodic table post-quiz Neodynium? Is my table wrong, or are there alternate spellings, or what? Personally I've never heard it pronounced with a distinct "m" sound, rather hearing nee-o-din-ee-um, not nee-o-die-mee-um.

	davidr:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 21:14 GMT	9 points
	@pdu: Because those are the Latin names. The quiz is in English.

	davidr:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 21:17 GMT	4 points
	@Cailen: Your table has a typo: it's neodyMium. `Neodynium' is a common error.

	ThurinEthir:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 21:31 GMT	3 points
	A nice "little" refresher before I start chem next week. Kind of surprised to see the last few elements (ununbium and the like) so rarely guessed.

	maniacalclown:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 21:37 GMT	1 point
	The spelling of Lutetium took me forever. And then I completely blanked on Sm and Pm. :

	Stimulus:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 21:37 GMT	5 points
	It's good that you can't type in any elements you want or else it would just be like the periodic table quiz

	thisisaname:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 21:43 GMT	5 points
	Nice quiz, Sporcle. A particularly nice (and easier) variation on the periodic table quiz, since the element symbol can usually remind one of the spelling of the element.

	geowiz85:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 22:03 GMT	5 points
	i underestimated how much harder typing these at random would be, after taking this (being a biochemistry major) i realized i remembered the elements more by their place on the table rather than by symbol.

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	HalfWelsh:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 22:23 GMT	-2 points
	Err... pretty sure it's NOT!!

	robschulz:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 22:28 GMT	-1 points
	Some other ones weren't accepted? I used "Wolfram" instead of "Tungsten" and it worked for me. Surely there must've been others. I missed Argon but got Berkelium. Go figure.

	Teo:	Sep 1st, 2009 at 22:29 GMT	5 points
	Huh...of the 114 I got, Oxygen wasn't one of them...