Can you name the three elements by the given first two letters of their names?

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Element Trio by Beginning Pair Quiz

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Created Mar 1, 2011 in Science
Featured Jul 27, 2011
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	Crawl:	Jul 27th, 2011 at 19:41 GMT	4 points
	I think "mercury" is tough because it doesn't even in "ium". I'm thinking "me...ium?" It was the second to last one I got.

	NathanW197:	Jul 27th, 2011 at 19:47 GMT	2 points
	It also has a different symbol than its letters, so if anyone is looking through a periodic table it won't jump out at them.

	Koltrane:	Jul 27th, 2011 at 19:55 GMT	2 points
	Great idea for a quiz! I imagine the trio that sparked the thought was the Th- group. I've always thought they sounded funny when said together.

	HelloPossum:	Jul 27th, 2011 at 20:12 GMT	3 points
	@ Crawl: did you try Meconium first? :-D

	monstro:	Jul 27th, 2011 at 20:30 GMT	5 points
	Thanks goodness for Tom Lehrer's song The Elements. "...and iodine, and thorium, and thulium, and thallium..."

	snowyowl2317:	Jul 27th, 2011 at 21:37 GMT	3 points
	@Crawl: I did the same thing! And for "Th-" I kept thinking of threonine. And I had to keep telling myself, no, that's an amino acid, not an element.

	leppyfresh:	Jul 27th, 2011 at 21:54 GMT	2 points
	Thanks for the the publish Sporcle!

	HelloPossum:	Jul 27th, 2011 at 23:05 GMT	2 points
	@snowyowl...I kept wanting to type threonine too!

	Areonis:	Jul 28th, 2011 at 15:06 GMT	3 points
	How did I manage to remember thulium and miss nitrogen? I'll never know.

	OracleLink:	Jul 28th, 2011 at 20:39 GMT	3 points
	Ah, Sporcle. The things you cause me to do, like remember Praseodymium and forget Copper...

	Emu:	Aug 6th, 2011 at 07:02 GMT	2 points
	Even as I was typing it, I was about 40% certain I was making up Rutherfordium. I picked a scientist starting with "Ru" at random (not that there are that many), and what do you know.