Can you name the chemical elements with a one letter abbreviation?

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Single Letter Elements Quiz

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Published: May 11th, 2009
Category: Science
Plays: 143,423

Tags: Letter Quizzes, Elements Quizzes, Chemistry Quizzes, abbreviation, Periodic Table, single

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	MovieDynamic:	May 11th, 2009 at 04:38 GMT	43 points
	I think you should just be able to guess the letter (just kidding).

	mungar:	May 11th, 2009 at 04:42 GMT	-3 points
	Gaahhh... missed Phosphorus

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	debbiedoesnothin:	May 11th, 2009 at 04:48 GMT	13 points
	It's been 30 years since I took chemistry. And it shows in my score.

	montecarlo:	May 11th, 2009 at 04:55 GMT	4 points
	elementary my dear watson?

	golaswede:	May 11th, 2009 at 06:24 GMT	11 points
	Two clear bonus options are D for deuterium and T for tritium. :)

	Julian:	May 11th, 2009 at 06:58 GMT	42 points
	Those isotopes would take too heavy a toll on most users' chemistry knowledge . . . You dislike my pun? 2H his own . . .

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	Sausage:	May 11th, 2009 at 08:52 GMT	16 points
	@deepbite I hate to get all chemistry teacher on you but I think you're getting confused with ions. Deuterium and tritium do have regularly used isotopic symbols, although they are still hydrogen. Anyway, Julian deserves promoting for his dreadful puns.

adal:

May 11th, 2009 at 09:36 GMT

12 points

I remember my chemistry teacher put Diamond on a "name the symbol" test. About half the class fell for it and put D.

	gob126:	May 11th, 2009 at 11:05 GMT	10 points
	Deepbite, deuterium and tritium are certainly special isotopes. And he is saying as a bonus, not like they should be included outright. Also, I don't care much for calling this quiz one letter "abbreviations". They are symbols.

	johns:	May 11th, 2009 at 11:33 GMT	7 points
	13/14 Thank you, fluorine, for being so irregular and hard to spell.

	Tuj:	May 11th, 2009 at 12:35 GMT	1 point
	All except Phosphorus for me too. Good twist on the theme, and a challenging time limit.

	Isstvan:	May 11th, 2009 at 13:10 GMT	4 points
	I like that the answers appear in a random order, not alphabetically or by chemical number.

	sactoshc:	May 11th, 2009 at 13:11 GMT	3 points
	Good times! 11 of 14 the first time out...thank God for all that time I spent on Sporcle practicing the periodic table. I knew it would come in handy somehow.

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	deej:	May 11th, 2009 at 15:27 GMT	23 points
	this quiz was a real boron iodine technetium hydrogen

	davidr:	May 11th, 2009 at 15:36 GMT	14 points
	@DEEJ: If you're going to allow yourself technetium, you may as well use bismuth (Bi) instead of boron and iodine.

	HollywoodLeo:	May 11th, 2009 at 15:59 GMT	20 points
	Working with nuclear power for 8 years you'd think I would not miss Uranium. facepalm

	ODDO:	May 11th, 2009 at 16:23 GMT	9 points
	Oxygen! How did I miss Oxygen of all things!! Gah!!!

	checkmike:	May 11th, 2009 at 16:47 GMT	2 points
	Just took my last Chemistry final ever. I'm looking forward forgetting these

	OscilatingGibbon:	May 11th, 2009 at 18:00 GMT	1 point
	Excellent quiz! I love quizzes like this, you have to think about the whole periodic table to get them all.

	chambers:	May 11th, 2009 at 18:21 GMT	6 points
	duh! missed H but got Y

	konnie:	May 11th, 2009 at 18:53 GMT	2 points
	Nice quiz but for some reason I forgot how to spell phosphorus

	Biohazard:	May 11th, 2009 at 19:06 GMT	7 points
	Hehe...taking a pause to study the keyboard...

	Joe_Ball:	May 11th, 2009 at 19:19 GMT	10 points
	Or, Deej and davidr, fluorine uranium carbon potassium oxygen fluorine fluorine. :)

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	fr8train:	May 18th, 2009 at 00:32 GMT	3 points
	thank god for 10th grade chemistry

	BJack:	May 18th, 2009 at 01:33 GMT	12 points
	Well done Walton — I certainly haven't managed to get one hundred percenw yet. >__>

	Lucy Loo:	May 18th, 2009 at 11:37 GMT	1 point
	I got Yttrium just spelt it wrong :'(.

	Walton:	May 18th, 2009 at 14:48 GMT	-2 points
	oops. oxygen neon______hydrogen uranium neodymium rhenium deuterium______phosphorus erbium cerium nitrogen tritium! Happy now?

	BonesLover:	Jun 16th, 2009 at 20:53 GMT	0 points
	12/14 Ach, how could i forget tungsten and sulfur, i love playing with those in chem class!!

	UltimateXShadow:	Jul 9th, 2009 at 11:59 GMT	0 points
	Aww, man - I missed Iodine. Still, I got Tungsten.

	MorningBell411:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 01:20 GMT	2 points
	The thing with science quizzes is I don't know how to say a lot of stuff in English... Missed boron because of that.

	miyomiyo1:	Oct 16th, 2009 at 02:24 GMT	1 point
	Damn, phosphorus and fluorine are tricky little buggers to spell.

	daHOOK:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 04:12 GMT	-2 points
	In some countries, A is used instead of Ar for that element.

	VestriDeus:	Dec 5th, 2009 at 02:22 GMT	0 points
	to walton, "oxygen neon hydrogen uranium neodymium rhenium deuterium phosphorus erbium cerium nitrogen tungsten! :) Never knew I was 1337 in chemistry! (apologies for deuterium...but I couldn't write it without)" Deuterium is 2-H; it is an isotope of hydrogen, also known as heavy hydrogen or hydrogen-2...

	alexburlton:	Dec 11th, 2009 at 22:49 GMT	1 point
	damn tungsten, W?? -__-