Can you name the elements with 5 letters or fewer?

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5 Letters or Fewer Elements Quiz

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Created by: nixdabom -
Contributed: October 28th, 2009
Published: November 12th, 2009
Category: Science
Plays: 103,933

Tags: Letter Quizzes, Elements Quizzes, Chemistry Quizzes, length, fewer

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	egon14:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 04:47 GMT	5 points
	I love it!!!

	Sneuticles:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 05:13 GMT	13 points
	9/10. "Let's think exclusively of four- and five-letter words," said my brain.

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	JasonJP:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 07:22 GMT	2 points
	I like it! :)

	BSF5775:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 07:52 GMT	2 points
	just as i was about to type neon too..

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	seanslavin33:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 08:10 GMT	5 points
	wait, so I did take chemistry for a reason...Sporcle!

	BrettCaudill:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 08:29 GMT	17 points
	whenever i see "xenon" i think of "zenon: girl of the 21st century".

	BamaRainbow:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 08:59 GMT	3 points
	@Brett: How about "Xenon: Warrior Prince"?

	Yom:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 09:15 GMT	1 point
	Is this a tricky way to let us discover an alchemist secret recipe?

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	rockgolf:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 12:16 GMT	5 points
	Well, nixdabom, now you know why "this game has been locked and cannot be edited". See that is a good thing. Congrats.

	match:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 14:19 GMT	6 points
	wow, the periodic table sure does have a strong showing on Sporcle!

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	Dani:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 17:44 GMT	9 points
	Thank you, Tom Lehrer

	AEMC:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 20:03 GMT	13 points
	Oh dear. My mind repeated thought "wood". At one stage I even typed it.

	kagomeshuko:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 20:27 GMT	5 points
	I zinc this was a clever quiz!

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	chillysnow:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 22:38 GMT	4 points
	@jaymc: Response no.4 to the article in the page you cite has it right - "five letters or less" wouldn't be correct. It's because letters are individual, discrete, can't be subdivided and are not continuous, whereas the author's examples are (such as time, money, mpg etc.)

	Boomhauer:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 23:31 GMT	4 points
	Missed both the most guessed and the last guessed. I'm a sandwich of averageness.

	Catcher3M:	Nov 13th, 2009 at 01:26 GMT	3 points
	Woot! Got 'em all. Great quiz.

	zzz:	Nov 13th, 2009 at 02:38 GMT	13 points
	I tried fire, air, earth, and water, and none of them worked. The hell with this quiz. It's all 21st century and stuff.

	xander:	Nov 13th, 2009 at 06:02 GMT	18 points
	Great quiz, but it didn't occur to me to think of three letters. I was foiled by tin!

	FroznMbryo:	Nov 13th, 2009 at 20:05 GMT	6 points
	I got 9/10 by going through the alphabet in my head. Guess which one I missed?

	Holyaxe:	Nov 24th, 2009 at 20:52 GMT	3 points
	Argh! What is this? I can only write five or less char words now! -.-

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	nixdabom:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 19:44 GMT	-4 points
	Sorry. My friend wrote that.

	Kyonkichi93:	Jan 2nd, 2010 at 18:16 GMT	1 point
	8/10. I don't know how I forgot tin, though.

	Qrystal:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 13:40 GMT	2 points
	Guess the noble gases are above me... except Radon, which I know is a problem in basements in some parts of the world. So yeah, I missed Neon, Argon, Xenon... and somehow, Zinc, even though I went through the alplabet in my head to see if any came to mind that way.

	jcrow09:	Jan 22nd, 2010 at 23:31 GMT	0 points
	9/10. Forgot Lead.