Elements, given samples of their 'Uses' (*see instructions) Quiz

Can you pick the Elements, given samples of their 'Uses' (*see instructions)?

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*Elements are FOUND IN, used to PRODUCE or ENABLE, or are a COMPONENT OF the "uses" listed; whether naturally-ocurring, man-made, or as part of compounds.
Use may be based on gaseous, solid or liquid state. Some uses were from "older times".
Source: WebElements
Also try: Exploding Elements

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Elements in their Element Quiz

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Created May 21, 2012 in Science
Featured Sep 30, 2012
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	NS7:	Sep 30th, 2012 at 04:18 GMT		64 points
	this was really well done, thorough, educational, fun and entertaining. everything Sporcle is about. nice job

	Teary_Ennui:	Sep 30th, 2012 at 11:28 GMT		12 points
	Cue arguing over the 'I' in alumin(i)um in 3,2,1...

	Triffid:	Sep 30th, 2012 at 14:33 GMT		-1 points
	Lovely. I could have done with a bit more time though - I never studied any science and needed a bit more thinking time.

	franzfredric:	Sep 30th, 2012 at 14:37 GMT		5 points
	I got a few of these thanks to watching "Breaking Bad"

zalkon2004:

Sep 30th, 2012 at 15:58 GMT

6 points

Just want to second what @NS7 said. This is the type of quiz that represents some of the best of Sporcle.

	jobean82:	Sep 30th, 2012 at 17:44 GMT		2 points
	Please line up in order of how much beryllium it takes to kill you.

	sam2249:	Sep 30th, 2012 at 17:57 GMT		0 points
	Great quiz! Got 24 before time ran out. One extra minute would be perfect as it's very much a process of elimation quiz.

	ezois:	Sep 30th, 2012 at 18:15 GMT		-1 points
	Beryllium would probably kill me if I had to spell it.

	needapausebutton:	Sep 30th, 2012 at 19:22 GMT		1 point
	Thanks very much to Sporcle for publishing the quiz. I've requested of the administrators that another minute be added to up it to 8:00.

	ClintT13:	Oct 1st, 2012 at 01:21 GMT		-1 points
	The phrase "white-light producing flares" led me astray. Phosphorus can produce white light in flares (white phosphorus grenades were common in Vietnam), so I picked that instead of the correct answer. Oh well.

	dje:	Oct 1st, 2012 at 05:16 GMT		4 points
	@teary_ennui- glad i wasnt the only one who noticed "aluminium" rather than aluminum. i was curious as to why that was the case and yet sulfur was spelled the "american" way, rather than sulphur as the brits do. Interestingly enough, the IUPAC standardized spellings of the three elements that are different between the US and UK are aluminium, sulfur, and caesium (and not aluminum, sulphur and cesium), so the "standard" names are mixed from US and UK spellings!!

	nowthatsfunny:	Oct 2nd, 2012 at 12:01 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz, and this is being a little picky, but to say boron is used for nuclear reactor shielding is not exactly correct. The term "shielding" in the nuclear industry typically refers to protection from radiation. Boron is a great neutron absorber, and is used to control the nuclear reaction. The concentration of boron in a nuclear reactor is changed as fuel is burned up in order to sustain the reaction, and therefore it is not accounted for in designing shielding (also, boron provides little shielding of gamma and other types of radiation). Anyways, again, great quiz, and something minor that I probably would not have picked up on if I didn't work at a nuclear power plant.

	needapausebutton:	Oct 2nd, 2012 at 17:03 GMT		1 point
	@nowthatsfunny: Thanks for wanting to help improve the quiz. My source for that portion of the clue was Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D, who worked for the Department of Energy; under the "Uses" section for Boron: "Boron-10 is used as a control for nuclear reactors, to detect neutrons, and as a shield for nuclear radiation" as posted here: http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/a/boron.htm As with all of the elements included in the quiz, my goal was to provide a mixture of "more-well-known" uses as clues, and a few which were obviously more obscure -- in order to help distinguish between elements with some shared uses.

	TheBirdIsTheWord:	Oct 23rd, 2012 at 20:52 GMT		2 points
	Awesome quiz.

	needapausebutton:	Oct 23rd, 2012 at 22:01 GMT		1 point
	^ Thanks for the encouraging Word, Bird!

	Olly:	Nov 8th, 2012 at 10:02 GMT		2 points
	One of the best quizzes I've played on Sporcle. Well worthy of its prominent position in the 'Highest Rated Games' list.

	oxfordruse:	Nov 12th, 2012 at 20:26 GMT		3 points
	I can barely remember high school science, but I logged in specifically, for the first time in many moons, to congratulate you, needapausebutton, on an excellent quiz. To echo others, this is really what Sporcle is about: (i) there were enough clues that I felt I had a shot at guessing the answer; (ii) I had fun doing so; (iii) the difficulty was such that I felt rewarded when I guessed correctly; and, most importantly, (iv) the clues were descriptive enough that I LEARNED something along the way. I took more away from this quiz than I put in. To me, that's the epitome of what this great site's about. Many thanks :-)

	needapausebutton:	Nov 13th, 2012 at 16:34 GMT		3 points
	Thanks Olly and oxfordruse, but all credit goes to the elements, who fully cooperated in the development of the quiz by being so creative. ;)